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How To: Speed Up OpenOffice in Linux and Windows

Have you made the switch from Microsoft Office to Openoffice but are really annoyed with how long it takes to open even the smallest of documents? Well here is a quick hack that you can do to decrease the time that it takes for OpenOffice to launch. Step 1: Launch any Open Office application. In [...]

Evolution is Finally Useful

I have been using Evolution on and off for many years because of its ability to connect to Microsoft Exchange severs. But I typically will use it for a few weeks only to get pissed off because of random crashes or lockups and go back to using Outlook in a Virtual Machine. Even though Ubuntu 10.04 was released with [...]

pfSense Firewall

Over the past few months my company has been testing out a different firewall products to protect us from all you h4x0rs out there. Our old Watchguard Firebox is no longer supported so we needed to look elsewhere. We started by looking at a couple of commercial products and despite having a $5000 budget for a new [...]

Ha Ha Google

First Python Program

I have been off and on trying to learn Python for a few months now and yesterday I successfully finished my first real application. Unfortunately it was for work and I cannot post the source code for you all to tear a part. But it was an application displayed a menu that allowed the user [...]

Review: KDE 4.5 beta on my Asus netbook

I have an Asus 1005ha netbook running Ubuntu 10.04 and last night I decided to install the lasted beta version of KDE 4.5 from the Kubnutu Experimental PPA on it. The upgrade was very smooth but then again apt-get installs rarely fails or cause headaches. Here are the issues that I have come across. 1) [...]

View Oracle dbms_output with Python

After doing lots of searching on the Internet for how to get the dbms_output from an Oracle SQL query with Python I finally found something. import cx_Oracle conn = cx_Oracle.Connection("userid/password@tns") curs = conn.cursor() curs.callproc("dbms_output.enable") sqlCode = """ some long sql code with dbms_output """ curs.execute(sqlCode) statusVar = curs.var(cx_Oracle.NUMBER) lineVar = curs.var(cx_Oracle.STRING) [...]

Yesterday’s Delivery

They finally arrived, my pair of Raleigh Phish tickets; 4th row, center! Now I just need to find someone to go with me.

WordPress Upgrade

Last night I upgraded this blogs WordPress version to 3.0. I have to say that it was the easiest and fasted software upgrade that I have do in a long time. Kudos WordPress!!