I’m reporting my impression on Open Office 3.0. It is very much meh…
I’m recording here problems with upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex.
I’ve tested OOHanzi in Open Office 3 and have good news to report:
OOHanzi will work with Open Office 3 without modification.
There was a bug in Open Office 2.x which affected only people using compiz. If compiz was running, all dialog boxes which were created by the Java virtual machine running in Open Office would [...]
For instance, the texts at asianclassics.org are encoded in the TibetanMachineWeb font. This font relies on some arcane encoding to produce the proper stacks of consonants, etc. Because of this, the texts offered by that site cannot be used as-is if any kind of sensible information processing is going to be performed on [...]
I’ve just started using VirtualBox. I quickly ran into a problem though. I quickly found that scim prevents VirtualBox from registering the “Host Key” (the right control key by default) which is used to prompt VirtualBox to stop grabbing the keyboard input. I’ve googled for solutions but all of them were either [...]
Change Log
20080628:
Updated for OOHanzi 0.5.
Added support for marking up words that are present in DDB.
OOHanzi is now fully installable in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron).
20080302:
Updated for OOHanzi 0.3: the only new functionality is the addition of an “About…” menu item.
200802??:
Added some code to make things a bit more user friendly when a JRE is not properly [...]
Edit: I should preface this by first saying that I think there are plenty of backup solutions for Linux. It is just that the set of features I want does not seem to be widely available yet. If a piece of software is great at encryption, then it does not have continuous backups [...]
I’ve started using Hardy Heron in its beta incarnation. Right now, it is not possible to use my repository to install OOHanzi on Hardy. The interface to install Open Office extensions has changed very slightly but that causes installation of my extensions to fail. A few notes:
If you upgrade to Hardy form [...]
I’m giving up on DjVu. It used to be that the size advantages more than made up for all the other disadvantages but PDF has evolved and gotten better at compressing images (by using more advanced compression algorithms), disk space is not the issue it used to be years ago and PDF is just better supported.
Change Log
20080302:
Updated for OOHanzi 0.3: the only new functionality is the addition of an “About…” menu item.
200802??:
Added some code to make things a bit more user friendly when a JRE is not properly installed.
Modified the way web browsers are launched.
Changed the nomenclature of menus and some functions.
General fixes to improve stability in Windows.
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