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How to remove margin border and select default document file format on OpenOffice.org Writer

Just follow the steps to make yourself comfortable using OpenOffice Lots of people who have moved to OpenOffice don’t like the margin border on OpenOffice.org Writer it can be remove. Go to: Tools → Options. In the options menu choose from left OpenOffice.org → Appearance and then uncheck “ Text boundaries ” option from right menu. That's it, the margin border will be off. If you like to change the default OpenOffice.org document file format, for example, to save document files with Microsoft Office format ( .doc ), go to Tools → Options → ( from left menu choose ) Load/Save → General . Now, from right menu, at Default file format section → Always save as, choose Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP, or other default format according to your needs. Feedbacks : We appreciate your feedbacks and suggestions about our website bala@techgyaan.org Check out Bala's Google+ profile . Follow @techgyaan

What's new in Ubuntu 9.04?

U buntu Linux 9.04 has been released and available for download ( jump to download link ). Ubuntu Linux is a community-based Linux distribution. The latest release of Ubuntu brings the best open source technologies together on one platform, with the benefit of free updates for 18 months. Also announced were the simultaneous releases of Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition and Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix ( UNR ). From the website: Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition delivers a range of feature enhancements to improve the user experience. Shorter boot speeds, some as short as 25 seconds, ensure faster access to a full computing environment on most desktop, laptop and netbook models. Enhanced suspend-and-resume features also give users more time between charges along with immediate access after hibernation. Intelligent switching between Wi-Fi and 3G environments has been broadened to support more wireless devices and 3G cards, resulting in a smoother experience for most users. What's new in Ubuntu 9.0...

How to configure Transparent Squid Proxy on Linux

Transparent proxy concept is one of the nice concept with which we can avoid configuring clients for proxy. And it is not much hard to implement also. The basic steps are as follows in Fedora 8 to configure that as a firewall router with a transparent proxy. 1. Install fedora with web server feature enabled and go to its sub items and make sure Squid 2.6 is selected. 2. Take the terminal window and edit the file squid.conf file using the command vi /etc/sysconfig/squid.conf 3. Find out the following lines in squid.conf file and remove ‘#’ from the beginning of files and edit those lines as follows http_access allow all cache_mem 8 MB cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/var/cache 100 16 256 http_port 192.168.10.1:3128 transparent # Assumes that 192.168.10.1 is the ip addresses of your LAN Ethernet interface always_direct allow all 4. Save the file & exit ( by pressing ‘Esc’ + ‘:wq’ ) 5. To enable routing, edit the ‘sysctl.conf’ file as follows vi /etc/sysctl.conf net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 ...

Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" Beta Released

Checkout New Features from Ubuntu 9.04 beta Release   New style for notifications and notification preferences Boot performance Linux kernel 2.6.28 Ext4 filesystem support Cloud computing Turn-key mail servers Testing wanted Suspend/resume testing Hotkey testing Kerneloops Get it while it's hot. ISOs and torrents are available at: • http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/9.04/  (Ubuntu Desktop and Server) • http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/edubuntu/9.04/  (Ubuntu Education Edition) • http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/kubuntu/9.04/  (Kubuntu) • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/9.04/beta/  (Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Ubuntu MID) • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/9.04/beta/  (Xubuntu) • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/9.04/beta/  (UbuntuStudio) • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/9.04/beta/  (Mythbuntu) • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/9.04/beta (Ubuntu ARM)

How to fix "Error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3"

Installing libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron (amd64) I ran into a problem trying to install Websphere Commerce Professional 5.6.1 on Ubuntu it kept complaining about a missing library: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory So I started searching the net, and after quite a while I came across someone that had a similar problem when trying to do this under the amd64 arch. There doesn’t seem to be a native amd64 libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 library available, and apparently building the library fails, so how can we get around this? Well after finding this post on the Ubuntu forums that seems to work for me too! So you can just 1. Download the .deb 2. Install the .deb overriding the arch sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-24_i386.deb 3. BUT, this is generally not a good idea as someone pointed out to me, it works for this situation but you run the risk of overwriting ...