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Well, as for now it is not a problem anymore to open Microsoft Office 2007 .docx documents in any Linux distribution coming with OpenOffice suit. It may be Ubuntu (Feisty, Gutsy, Interpid whatever), almost any version of Fedora/RedHat/Centos, *SUSE, Mandriva and of course Debian (as per my personal opinion it’s the best one).
What is .docx actually? It’s Microsoft’s file format representing word processor documents and named OpenXML (as an attempt to create open and free international standard). Today .docx is default format for Microsoft’s word processor Word.
There are myriads of online converters between OpenXML and OpenOffice formats including .docx, .xlsx, .odt and many etc but sometimes it’s much more better to just open received .docx file in Linux offline (if there is temporarily no Internet connection or for security/private reasons etc).
So, just download the following package to certain directory like /usr/src, here are the commands to do it:
1. cd /usr/src
2. sudo wget http://blog.mypapit.net/imej/odf_filter.tar.bz2
The next step is to unpack the contents of the archive (.tar.bz2 is definitely well compressed file) and copy 3 files to OpenOffice’s system directories:
3. sudo tar -xvjf odf_filter.tar.bz2
4. sudo cp OdfConverter /usr/lib/openoffice/program/
5. sudo cp MOOXTypeDetection.xcu /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Types/
6. sudo cp MOOXFilter_cpp.xcu /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/
As you can see from picture below now it’s possible to natively open .docx files in openoffice under Linux. Of course such “native” support may imply some artefacts in opened files due to file formats incompatibility so it’s also a good option to ask your friends to convert .docs into .pdf before sending you 
P.S. Thanks to guys from mypapit.
P.S. Here are several online converters .doc(x) <-> .odf <-> .pdf:
1. ZAMZAR (possibly the best converter), 2. http://docx-converter.com/.
As we know Nagios is extremely popular open source network monitoring system. It watches hosts across the local area network (LAN) and/or across the Internet, services that you can specify, alerting you when things go bad. The following step-by-step guide written by Novel people (actually by Rainer Brunold) for sure would help if you plan to deploy Nagios monitoring system with Novel SUSE Linux. At least it helped me
I don’t want to write here a full documentation about Nagios, I prefer to give you a basic installation guide so you can set it up very easy and play with it yourself. The installation guide will show you how to install Nagios as well as some interesting extensions and how they integrate into each other. During this installation you will make many modifications to the installation that will help to understand how it works, how you can integrate systems and different services. I will also provide some articles about monitoring special services where I describe what they do and what configuration changes are needed. All together should give you a very good overview and documentation on how you can enhance the Nagios installation yourself.
The rest of the article is here. Respect to the author!
Adobe Photoshop (or simply Photoshop), is a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems. Currently it’s market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. Unfortunately it’s available for M$ Windows and Apple OS X users only. Thanks to heaven (and Wine’s developers of course) there is Wine allowing to execute M$ Windows applications (from simple executables to M$ Office and Adobe Photoshop) in Linux. The following instructions will help you to run Photoshop with you favorite Linux like Ubuntu Feisty / Gutsy, Fedora, Debian or OpenSUSE (actually it’s no matter what distribution you use).
1. Install wine (in Ubuntu just execute sudo aptitude install wine, Fedora users may run sudo yum install wine).
2. Configure “Wine Is Not an Emulator”:
$ winecfg
When ~/.wine directory is created configuration tool will start and you can set up a virtual desktop with the graphics tabs.
3. Install Photoshop cs2
First of all mount your Photoshop installation CD with the option -o unhide. This will prevent problems with hidden files during the installation.
$ sudo mount -t iso9660 -o unhide /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0
Then proceed with installation (rather trivial procedure)
$ cd /media/cdrom0
$ wine setup
After this Photoshop setup should start without any errors. Just complete it like you’re in M$ Windows (predatory OS definitely). In case the installation is finished and wasn’t crashed you can start desired image editor.
4. Run Photoshop
$ cd /home/tom/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Adobe/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS2
~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS2$ wine photoshop.exe
This would show several errors like these ones:
err:shell:HCR_GetFolderAttributes HCR_GetFolderAttributes should be called for simple PIDL's only!
err:shell:HCR_GetFolderAttributes HCR_GetFolderAttributes should be called for simple PIDL's only!
But they shouldn’t disturb Photoshop’s normal running (see screenshot below).
There is alternative solution – USE GIMP! As for me, I prefer alternative solution. 
Actually this tip is applicable to any Linux distribution mencoder can be run at (like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Suse and even Slackware )
MEncoder is a free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool released under the GNU General Public License. It is a close sibling to MPlayer and can convert all the formats that MPlayer understands into a variety of compressed and uncompressed formats using different codecs
Here is the fastest way to perform wmv to avi conversion:
- Ubuntu:
- Fedora:
sudo apt-get install mencoder
mencoder infile.wmv -ofps 23.976 -ovc lavc -oac copy -o outfile.avi
sudo yum install mencoder
mencoder infile.wmv -ofps 23.976 -ovc lavc -oac copy -o outfile.avi
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