]]> http://www.linuxscrew.com/2008/12/23/christmas%e2%80%a6-linux%e2%80%a6-wallpapers%e2%80%a6/feed/ 12 http://www.linuxscrew.com/2008/12/15/open-docx-documents-in-linux-openoffice/ http://www.linuxscrew.com/2008/12/15/open-docx-documents-in-linux-openoffice/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:13:23 +0000 artiomix http://www.linuxscrew.com/?p=623 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/.

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!

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.

Thanks to twickline.

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:

1. Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install mencoder
mencoder infile.wmv -ofps 23.976 -ovc lavc -oac copy -o outfile.avi

2. Fedora:

sudo yum install mencoder
mencoder infile.wmv -ofps 23.976 -ovc lavc -oac copy -o outfile.avi


* Fri Mar 03 2006 Tomas Mraz - 4.3p2-4
- allow access if audit is not compiled in kernel (#183243)

* Sat Feb 25 2006 Tomas Mraz – 4.3p2-3
- enable the subprocess in chroot to send messages to system log
- sshd should prevent login if audit call fails

* Wed Feb 22 2006 Tomas Mraz – 4.3p2-2
- print error from scp if not remote (patch by Bjorn Augustsson #178923)

…

* Sat Oct 30 1999 Damien Miller
- Back to old binary names

* Fri Oct 29 1999 Damien Miller
- Use autoconf
- New binary names

* Thu Oct 28 1999 Damien Miller
- Initial RPMification, based on Jan “Yenya” Kasprzak’s spec.

To look through whole output it would be useful to use more or less commands:
rpm -q --changelog /path/to/package.rpm | less

Similar command is available also in Debian: dpkg-parsechangelog. It reads and parses the changelog of an unpacked Debian source tree and outputs the information in it to standard output in a machine-readable form.

Please note: it’s not a full list of suggested distros at the screen.

Spreading a workload across multiple processors, coupled with various software recovery techniques, provides a highly available environment and enhances overall RAS (Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability) of the environment. Benefits include faster recovery from unplanned outages, as well as minimal effects of planned outages on the end user.To get the most out of this article, you should be familiar with Linux and basic networking, and you should have Apache servers already configured. Our examples are based on standard SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10) installations, but savvy users of other distributions should be able to adapt the methods shown here.

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