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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
You've probably already noticed that if you try to copy a table from Firefox and paste into an Excel spreadsheet, using the classic methods the table formatting is not preserved, and the data from the table is copied into one cell from the Excel spreadsheet.
The solution is to paste the ...
Posted in Internet, Microsoft Office, Software, Windows | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Desktop effects in Ubuntu 8.10 can be used without Compiz, by enabling compositing in Metacity - the Gnome's default window manager.
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There are more ways to enable compositing in Metacity, but first you need to disable Compiz if you are using it. The fastest way is to ...
Posted in Linux, Ubuntu | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Here is a simple script to get the exchange rates from www.bnro.ro/nbrfxrates.xml
#!/bin/bash
# clear the screen
clear
# display an info message
echo "+------------------------------+"
echo "| BNR exchange |"
echo "+------------------------------+"
# check for parameters
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
echo "Usage: $0 eur ...
Posted in Linux, Programming | 2 Comments »
Friday, January 18th, 2008
In case the sound events are not working in Pidgin you can use this solution:
From the main menu select Tools -> Preferences (or just press the keyboard shortcut CTRL+p).
From Preferences window select the Sounds tab.
At the Sound method section, for Method select the Command option.
In the Sound command field type:
aplay ...
Posted in Linux, Software | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
The files on a Linux system can have reading permissions, writing permissions, executing (running) permissions or no permissions for the user that owns that files, groups of users or the rest - users who does not own that files and they are not members of any group.
The usual file types ...
Posted in Linux | 1 Comment »
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