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My operating system of choice is Fedora and I have it running on multiple computers. One of the computers has the partition containing the "home" directories encrypted, so I am required to enter a password every time the computer boots. It is common for this machine to boot to a blank screen.

LibreOffice 4 was finally released, and it is in many ways improved over the previous version 3. Unfortunately, it also introduces a bug that seriously affects me, and it may, or may not, affect you.

I wrote an add-on that adds color to source code and XML. Consider the subroutine shown below:

June 2010 I had surgery and was not able to mow my yard, so when a man named Steve Feasel offered to mow my yard for two months for $136, I thought that it was a good idea. Well, he took the money and was not seen again. I could dwell on the people that cheated me, but, sometimes it is much better to remember those that treated you well.

I felt like posting an example in OOo Basic (StarBasic) so I decided to create my own data type.

Although I know much more about StarBasic than I do about VB.NET, I am working a project in VB.NET. I decided that I wanted to provide edit controls in a ListView. The easy solution is to set the LabelEdit property to true and then in a double click handler (or similar), you add code like this:

I am very comfortable at a command line prompt and a simple text editor to produce code. Sure, I prefer to use a smart code editor that is context aware, but, when things fall apart, my simple text editor always comes through for me. On a Windows machine, I use TSE Pro for Windows (see http://www.semware.com/). Many years ago, I wrote an article comparing different programming editors for OS/2 (yea, that was a long time ago), and TSE Pro was my favorite. Well, I still use it; now if only there was a Linux version.

I installed a Logitech 2 MP HD Webcam Pro 9000 with Built-in Microphone. This works very well on my Fedora system. Unfortunately, sound did not work with skype.

Step 1:
Use System > Preferences > Sound to open the Sound Preferences dialog. Click on the Input tab and choose your input source. If I disconnect the Logitech Pro 9000 while Fedora is running, my input device changes from "Webcam Pro 9000 Analog Mono" to "Internal Audio Analog Stereo".

Step 2:

I decided to upgrade from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 the other day. I followed most of the usual recommendations

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq

I did experience a few difficulties. In fact, I have likely not found all of the little gotchas yet, but, this is what I know so far:

I usually try to install the 64-bit standard distribution of OpenOffice.org, as opposed to the Fedora built release. I totally ignored this and I had to uninstall and then re-install OOo before it would function. So, that was problem 1, and it was not really a surprise.

I wrote the book OpenOffice.org macros Explained. I created a second edition and a translation was finished in German; neither was published. Why? I am sure it was related to sales. My free documents are downloaded very often, but convincing people to part with money for a book is a bit more difficult. The end result was no second edition and no German edition.

There are all sorts of medical doctors in my family, which means that I am used to being referred to Doctors that match my personality and that treat me well. When I moved to Columbus Ohio, I was suddenly in new territory.