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Clipart for OpenOffice Draw
The closest to Visio in Linux is OpenOffice Draw. This is, going by the convention that a diagram tool is an integral part of an office or productivity suite. I have myself done two comprehensive SRS...
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Open Office 2007 files in Linux
Occasionally (or often), when one sends you Office 2007 files (docx, xlsx, pptx) and you are using OpenOffice, you wonder how to open it? I can suggest, my tried and tested solution on OpenOffice, on...
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Fennec – Firefox for mobiles
We love Firefox on our desktops and now there is Firefox for our mobiles – called Fennec. Fennec is a web browser for mobiles (phones, PDAs and small screen tablets) released by Mozilla. As of this...
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Online storage for Linux
I was looking for an online storage: Which can work on Linux (on my Fedora 9 laptop) Using which backing up files is quick – as easy as drag-n-drop or copy-n-paste (else I will be lazy to back up) Free...
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Chromified Firefox
In a half an hour attempt to make Firefox look like Google Chrome with some similar functionality, I achieved the following: The Chromification was achieved with Firefox 3.0.2 (on my Fedora 9 laptop)...
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Fedora X
How things change while on the move! I had been hitting the Fedora site constantly for the Fedora 10 download – last at around 20:30 hrs IST from a client’s office. While driving back, about 30 mins...
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Firefox 3.5 (Final) on Fedora 11
Firefox 3.5, the final release, has made its debut and is ready for download from here. Typically (and unfortunately) it may take about a day or two for Firefox 3.5 final to appear in the Fedora 11...
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Drupal Views: Hide or display alternate text for 0 (zero) comments
I have been playing with Drupal Views extensively for the last three months for a Website project. Whenever I overcome a hurdle with Views, I end up realizing how powerful and flexible is the Views...
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MySQL GUI Tools (Query Browser, Administrator) for Fedora 13
In Fedora Linux, the mysql-gui-tools package provides the graphical (or GUI) clients to query and administer a MySQL database – useful alternatives to the command line client. While I’m very...
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Authenticate osTicket against Zimbra LDAP
osTicket is a free online helpdesk/support ticket system. Zimbra Open Source Edition is a free groupware product which offers E-mail, Calendar, Tasks and Chat. Recently for a client I had setup these...
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I am Mufflerman: Powered by OpenCV and PHP Facedetect
Sometime back I worked on a project which required face detection in the photos uploaded by the user. Yesterday I read about our honorable prime minister Modi ji and BJP are setting selfie booths. This...
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Use SSH Tunnel to access an Intranet Web Server behind a Firewall
You have SSH (Secure Shell) access to an intranet server running a web application in your office. Sitting remotely, you can modify the web scripts on the command line. Once done, to see the results,...
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Connect and query Cloudera Impala using PHP ODBC on CentOS 7
Cloudera Impala is a SQL query engine for Hadoop. Impala is supposed to be better suited for real-time SQL queries, compared to MapReduce-based, batch processing software like Hive or Pig. The former...
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