Dienstag April 26, 2005

First OpenSolaris User Group Meeting - Have fun!
I just read Claire's mentioning of the first OpenSolaris user group meeting in Santa Clara. I remember the first OpenOffice.org contributor Bay Area meeting at Jupiter's in Berkeley and the first one in Hamburg. It was very interesting, and I enjoyed it a lot. Have fun!!!
( Apr 26 2005, 10:10:07 PM CEST ) Permalink

StarOffice, the Java Desktop System and Sun Ray's at the City of Marghera
"The City of Marghera, Venice Municipality (Italy) -- The City of Marghera (Venice municipality), in cooperation with Sun Microsystems Italy, realized an IT laboratory for Marghera citizens, the Internet Center "Marghera digitale". The IT infrastructure, designed and implemented by Sun Microsystems Italy, includes more than 30 Sun Ray(TM) clients, three servers and a software environment with StarOffice(TM) software & the Sun Java Desktop System."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 26 2005, 02:47:07 PM CEST ) Permalink

StarOffice at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
"Deployments of Sun's Grid technology announced in 2004 spanned industries ranging from government to financial services to education. Notable wins included the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), the Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Leicester, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, University of Nottingham, and several others.

Sun and INL teamed on a solution that includes more than 230 Sun Fire V20z servers powered by AMD Opteron processors, and more than 12 Terabytes of Sun StorEdge(TM) 6320 storage, the Solaris 10 operating system, Sun Java(TM) Enterprise System and Java development software, Sun Grid Engine Enterprise Edition, Sun's StarOffice(TM) 7.0 office productivity platform, as well as advanced on-site training and support from Sun's Services division. The cluster's full-throttle computing power ranks the INL datacenter as one of the world's top supercomputing sites."

The full article can be found here.
( Apr 26 2005, 02:38:32 PM CEST ) Permalink

Just switch! - Handling long documents in StarOffice
Today I want to talk about a feature that has been in the StarOffice software for a while. I think it is still a pretty cool feature. Unfortunately, not everybody knows how to use it. That's what I want to fix today! ;-)

First I activate the Navigator tool ...



... and the Styles and Formatting tool by clicking on the toolbar icons:



Then I type some text and start to assign the styles "Heading 1" and "Heading 2":



Next, I switch to the "Content View", so that the Navigator shows me the outline of the content instead of the document elements:



This is what the "Content View" looks like:



Now, I continue to assign the styles:



In order to make the whole thing more interesting I want to add numbering. Thus, I go to "Tools - Outline Numbering ..." ...



... and define the numbering style under "Number" for "Heading 1" ...



... and "Heading 2":



After that, the document looks like this:



Now, I can use the Navigator tool to move paragraphs around. I just have to click on a heading and drag it to the new location. A line indicates where I will insert the paragraph.



After changing the order of a few paragraphs, the document looks like this:



Even though the Navigator tool is not new in StarOffice 8, it is still very useful for handling long documents. According to different office suite reviews/comparisons for StarOffice 7 and older versions, handling long documents is something that StarOffice particularly does well.
( Apr 26 2005, 11:58:25 AM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

"Web Browser Standards, 2005"
"To cut to the chase, you can read about the Internet Explorer box model bug, the Internet Explorer's poor support of PNG (Portable Network Graphics), Internet Explorer's Problems with HTTP, HTML and MIME, and the consequences of poor support of W3C standards by Microsoft's Internet Explorer."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 26 2005, 07:50:33 AM CEST ) Permalink

"Java 6 'Mustang' New Desktop Features Announced"
"# Full support for Firefox
As opposed to simply supporting Mozilla, as is the case now."


The full article can be found here.
( Apr 26 2005, 07:46:42 AM CEST ) Permalink

"Hacking Firefox"
"In general, there are two types of overlays. One is a directly specified overlay that you put in your extension. These are used to keep your code modular or to reuse in multiple places in the extension. The second type is something that you want to appear in the Firefox default application, perhaps to carry out a particular function of your extension. For example, you might want to add a menu item to the Tools menu to launch your extension. In a sense, in that case, you are adding to the default UI for Firefox."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 26 2005, 07:44:43 AM CEST ) Permalink

"Microsoft discloses some IE 7 plans"
"Glitches in IE's standards support mean that developers currently have to code separately for IE and for browsers that hew more closely to the standards. IE enjoys about 90 percent browser market share despite losing some points to the Mozilla Foundation's open-source browser FireFox.

Last month, Microsoft was reported to have been planning better PNG and CSS support, but Wilson's blog entry is the first public word to developers that the next version of IE--pegged as a security-focused release--would feature these improvements."

The full article can be found here.
( Apr 26 2005, 07:43:12 AM CEST ) Permalink

"Site Inspector 4 Combines Mozilla Firefox and IE"
"Created by Paessler and formerly known as IE Booster, Site Inspector 4 is a web development tool that allows users to easily see how pages look in both the Gecko and Microsoft Internet Explorer rendering engines."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 26 2005, 07:41:55 AM CEST ) Permalink

"Mozilla Cleaner Tool Available"
"Search Engine Journal has an article about Mozilla Cleaner, a Windows XP tool for deleting personal data stored by Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird and the Mozilla Application Suite."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 26 2005, 07:38:23 AM CEST ) Permalink

"Indian language fonts soon on PCs: Maran"
"IN a bid to enhance penetration of computers and Internet in the country, the Government is planning to make it mandatory for original equipment manufacturers (OEM) to load fonts in 23 Indian languages onto the computers sold in the country."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 26 2005, 07:37:19 AM CEST ) Permalink