It is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems, including Ubuntu. LibreOffice 4.0.4 is available for immediate download from the download page.

Windows, Mac OS X users can use the download page to get the latest version. For Ubuntu user, it’s easier to upgrade or download it using its PPA repository and this brief tutorial is going to show you how to do it in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 and previous versions.

For more about this release, check out the release page. 

Below are some of the changes that were included in this release

• In SQL mode in Queries, Base crashes when a second SELECT followed by quotes is entered
• Crash Using Edit Contour dialog and then changing Configuration
• Missing Default button in Format -> Alignment dialog at Math
• Bad alternative hyphenation in Calc (but good in Writer)
• LibreOffice Writer crashes when browsing CMIS (Alfresco 4.2) folders with files larger than XGB

To install upgrade in Ubuntu, press Ctrl – Alt – T on your keyboard to open the terminal or console. When it’s opens, run the commands below to add its PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-

Next, run the commands below to update your systems’ repository and install upgrade LibreOffice.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

If you don’t already LibreOffice installed, run the commands below to install it.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libreoffice

That’s it

Enjoy ~!

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Before you stop syncing your system’s settings, you must first turn off syncing on each Windows 8 PC you have. To disable syncing PC settings in Windows 8, hover the mouse at the bottom right of your screen or press the Windows Key + C to show the Charms bar. When it opens, select Settings –> Change PC settings or More PC settings

Next, select ‘Sync your settings’

Then turn off ‘Sync settings on this PC’

When you’re done, click the Windows 8 PC settings page and delete your data.

That’s it!  Enjoy ~!

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This release adds support for HP LaserJet Enterprise MFP M725z, HP Officejet Pro 3620 Black and White e-All-in-One and Ubuntu 13.04 OS.

For more about this release, please check out the release page.

Below are some of the printers that have been added to the list of supported printers. HPLIP supports more than 2200 HP designed printers and new ones are being added regularly.

- HP LaserJet Enterprise MFP M725 series
- HP LaserJet Enterprise MFP M725dn
- HP LaserJet Enterprise MFP M725fw
- HP LaserJet Enterprise MFP M725z
- HP LaserJet Enterprise MFP M725z+
- HP Officejet Pro 3610 Black and White e-All-in-One
- HP Officejet Pro 3620 Black and White e-All-in-One

Besides supporting the above printers, this release also fixes issues with the driver that fails with message "ethernet cable is plugged in", fixes the problem with bottom margin is wasn’t printing on 8.5x13in paper size for DeskJet 2050 J510 device.

To install of update the driver in Ubuntu, press Ctrl – Alt – T on your keyboard to open the terminal or console, run the commands below to download the latest version.

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/hplip/hplip-3.13.5.run

Next, run the commands below to begin the installation.

sh hplip-3.13.5.run

Follow the wizard until the installation is complete. When prompted whether to overwrite or remove the existing drivers and re-install, choose to remove the existing HPLIP driver and reinstall the latest version.

For a step by step tutorial on this, please read this post.

Enjoy ~!

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So maybe my reason for switching was just to try something new because of all the good things I’ve read about Nginx. Now, if you don’t have any good reason for switching to Nginx webserver to run your blog, please don’t do it.

Before I started the process of switching to Nginx, I backed-up my web content and database files. Part One detailed the steps carefully. In Part One of this series, I created a backup of my WordPress content and its MySQL database. I then copy the data to an external Amazon Cloud Server because I wanted to completely rebuild the server.

In Part Two, I rebuilt the primary server, installed Nginx, PHP and MySQL database server, and then restored the web content and database file. You can read it here. In this this post (Part Three), I am going to detail the steps to verify and make sure WordPress will run on Nginx and PHP.

So, starting from where we left off in Part Two, we’re going to test if PHP is installed and ready. To do that, create a test file in the document root with the content below.

sudo vi /var/www/wordpress/test.php

Next, enter the content below into the file and save it.

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Next, open a web browser and browse there to test PHP. If you see the page below, then PHP is working.

yourdomain.com/test.php

You’ll also notice Nginx is functioning if you see the page below when you type localhost in your browser.

If these two services are functioning, all you have to do is extract WordPress content in the root directory. Our root directory is at this location: /var/www/wordpress

Next, open WordPress’ wp-config.php file and make sure the database name, user and password match what you created. When you’re don’t, open your browser and type localhost and WordPress will display its content.

That’s it! You’ve completely switched to Nginx webserver.

Enjoy~!

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If you’re new to Ubuntu and looking for an efficient way to manually update your machine, then continue below to learn how. I know this isn’t new and many Ubuntu users already know something about updating Ubuntu, however, some new users may find this useful.

You see, whenever Ubuntu run the update command, it downloads all pending software updates and security patches for software already installed on your machine. The newer software will replace the older ones and something their configuration files.

Something that few people know is that Software Updater command in Ubuntu only wants to update and upgrade packages by downloading their latest versions and dependencies to complete the installation. The updater doesn’t want to remove old and unused packages or dependencies automatically from your systems. If you want to remove them, you must specify it by including the autoremove switch or option to the command.

The autoremove option is used to remove packages that were automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for some programs that are no longer needed. It’s always good to remove unneeded packages from your system. It is also used to remove older system’s kernels that are no longer needed.

So, the most efficient way to manually update packages in Ubuntu is to update those software packages that need them as well as remove all unwanted dependencies from your system. To do that, you run the commands below.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade && sudo apt-get autoremove

That’s it! Run the commands above from the command console or terminal to efficiently update your machine.

Enjoy!

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This is Part Two of this series and I am going to describe in detail my personal experience switching from Apache Webserver to Nginx. Many people have said and written nice things about Nginx so I decided to give it a try.

Now, if you don’t have any good reason to switch, please don’t do it. Apache is great and will handle most websites, including WordPress. This tutorial can be applied to Ubuntu, CentOS and other Linux operating systems. Some of the commands might have to be changed to work with your OS.

If you’re ready, let’s get started. In Part One, I told you that I backed-up my website’s content as well as the database for it. In this post, I am going show you what I did after restoring the content to the primary server.

Work Began On The Primary Server

When the data were restored, I created an empty (blank) database matching the name of the previous one. To do that, I ran the commands below to sign into the MySQL Database Server.

mysql -u root –p

After signing in, created a new database by running the commands below

create database wpdatabase;

After creating the database, I created a WordPress database user that matches what’s in WordPress’ wp-config.php file.

create user wpuser;

Next, I grant all permission on the wpdatabase to the WordPress database user and set the password to use. This should match what you have in your wp-config.php file.

grant all on wpdatabase.* to 'wpuser'@'localhost' identified by 'password';

I exited MySQL Database. Next, I uploaded the backed-up database content into the empty WordPress database created by running the commands below.

mysql -u root -p wpdatabase < wpdatabase.sql

After that, I was done with the MySQL part of the process.

Working With The Web Content

After setting up and configuring the database I moved over to the website content. In Ubuntu, Nginx puts its configuration files in this location: /etc/nginx.

So I copied the default site in /etc/nginx/available-sites and created a new one called wordpress to match what I had before.

sudo cp /etc/nginx/sites-available/default /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress

Next, I opened the file with the vi command

sudo vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress

Then I replaced everything in it with the config below.

server {
listen 80;

root /var/www/wordpress;

index index.php index.html index.htm;

server_name liberiangeek.net;
location / {
 
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;

location = /50x.html {

root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}
location ~ \.php$ {

fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;

#fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;

fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;

fastcgi_index index.php;

include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.ht {

deny all;

}

}

Next, I removed Nginx’s default config file for the site.

sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

Then I extracted the web content to the /var/www/wordpress directory just like the way it was.

sudo tar -xvf webcontent.tar -C /var/www/wordpress

After that, I enabled the new site by running the commands below.

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/wordpress

After restarting MySQL, Nginx and PHP5-FPM and everything seems to work.

sudo service nginx restart
 
sudo service php5-fpm restart
 
sudo service mysql restart

This is just the basic config for Nginx. There are many more settings to choose from and in the last post of this series, I will post my complete config file. It has a lot more than what’s listed above. The above is just to get your site started.

For Ubuntu users, you may have to create the root location.

sudo mkdir -p /var/www/wordpress

Then give ownership to the webserver (Nginx).

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wordpress

Until then, enjoy!

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A more detailed release note can be found @ http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.0.7.html

Below are some of the changes that were added to this version:

• fixes track selection for PowerPC machines
• fixes important regression in decoding numerous audio file formats when encoding MP3 and AAC
• enables faster decoding on multi-core CPU
• fixes some security issues with ActiveX plugin for Internet Explorer

Ubuntu users can easily install it or upgrade using the below PPA repository. Windows and Mac users, can use the download link below to install it. Windows 8 users are highly encouraged to install VLC media player as Windows 8 lacks a better media player by default. So, if you’re using Windows 8 and not using VLC, then you’re probably doing it wrong when it comes to watching DVD moves or playing music.

Ubuntu users also need VLC if they’re going to be watching movies or listening to audio files. To install VLC in Ubuntu via its PPA, press Ctrl – Alt – T on your keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below to add its PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/vlc

Next, run the commands below to update your system and install VLC.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install vlc

An alternative PPA is also listed below. If the above doesn’t have the latest version, use the one below.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily

After installing it, go to Unity Dash and launch it.

Windows  and Mac users can use this link to download VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Enjoy!

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I still don’t know why I switched other than that Nginx is fast, stable and light on system’s resources when compared to Apache. I started with Apache and didn’t have any issue with hosting WordPress, so switching to Nginx was probably an adventure I just wanted to take.

If you don’t have any good reason why you should switch to Nginx, don’t do it. On the other hand, if you feel Nginx is going to serve you better than Apache, then jump onboard and let’s dive into it.

The first thing you must do before going any further is to backup your website’s database and content. This is true in all cases and it was the first thing I did. To backup your web content, run the commands  below.

sudo tar -cvf webcontent.tar /var/www/wordpress/

Next, run the commands below to backup your website’s database. You’ll be prompted for the root password of the database server.

sudo mysqldump -u root -p wpdatabase > wpdatabase.sql

You’ll want to change the name of the database and web directory to match your settings. After running the commands to backup your files, copy them to a safe location. In my case, I created a temporary Amazon EC2 Cloud Server, then moved the backed-up content there using scp commands. I did that because I had to rebuild my server. You don’t have to do this if your server is fine.

To limit down time, I installed Apache and MySQL Database Server on the Amazon EC2 Cloud server. Next I configured the environment like mine, then extracted the web content and uploaded the database. When everything seems to be working, I went over to my domain provider and re-pointed the DNS host IP to Amazon server. After a few hours, almost traffic were re-redirected to Amazon without users noticing.

Again, you don’t have to do all of that if you don’t intend to rebuild your server. When all web traffic were going to Amazon, I took down my original server, and started rebuilding. After few hours, it was don’t and the real work began.

Work Began On The New Server

The first thing I had to do was to install MySQL Server. To do that in Ubuntu run the commands below.

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Next, I installed Nginx Web Server.

sudo apt-get install nginx

Finally, I installed PHP5 with its components by running the commands below.

sudo apt-get install php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-xmlrpc php5-mysql php5-gd php5-fpm 

After installing the above packages, I created a new archive of the web content and database on the Amazon server. Then copy archives over to my primary server using the SCP commands below from my primary server.

scp richard@amazon_ip_address:/backup/webcontent.tar /root/wordpress/restore

I did the same for the database backup as well. The /root/wordpress/restore is a directory on my primary server.

Everything above happened on the first day. On day two, I began restoring the database, WordPress content and configuring Nginx.

I will continue with Day 2 in our next post.

Enjoy!

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If you’re new to Ubuntu, then Ubuntu Tweak! is one of many tools you’ll need to get started with managing your machine. Ubuntu is cool right out of the box, but there’re some changes, when applied can make Ubuntu even cooler.

These changes are not readily obvious especially if you’re new. So to make it easier for folks starting out with Ubuntu, tools like Ubuntu Tweak! were developed to help. These tools help make Ubuntu easier to manage.

In this this brief guide, I’ll show you how you to install the latest version of Ubuntu Tweak and use it to manage your system’s hidden settings. With this tool, you can change the windows control button position, adjust the mouse wheel action, change the system default fonts, install popular programs easily as well as remove old and unused files and folders on your machine.

To get press Ctrl – Alt – T on your keyboard to open the terminal When it opens, run the commands below to add its PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa 

Next, run the commands below to update your system and install Ubuntu Tweak

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

That’s it! Now go to Unity Dash and launch Ubuntu Tweak! When it opens, begin configuring your system’s settings

Enjoy!

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