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OpenOffice project celebrates 100 million downloads since version 3.0

Just over one year after the release of OpenOffice 3.0, OpenOffice.org (OOo) project developer Joost Andrae has announced that the free office suite has been downloaded more than one hundred million times since the launch of version 3.0. Read full story here

Yes, it still sucks, unlucky OO. It is still slow, not user friendly, not compatible with MS Office. But this is not what I am about.

It has nice batch processing features which no competitors have. About them I want to tell today.

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Once I heard weird story. A man was playing some web MMRPG game. Most of these games prohibit multiplayer and you know why Game site checks this by setting cookie to browser and when you logout and login with another char it tracks this.

What was the solution ? Most simple one, he installed all versions of browser he found on the Internet(IE,FF,Chrome,Safari, etc). That was weird, but it worked.

I want to tell about much simplier way of doing thia based on Mozilla Firefox profiles.

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Once I faced with task to download some area of Google maps…  At first I tried to glue some downloaded google maps images together manually, but gave up very soon. After googling on the Internet, I found this video:

http://www.wipeout44.com/video/misc/google_maps_large.asp

how to downloan google map. I got the point.

Inspired by this, I decided to dive in GMap API… By using some sample I wrote simple script, that handles most part of this process automatically.. You just need to select intrested region, zoom, map type and wait

Method used is the same as in video, it loads selected region in one big viewport and after it is loaded, converts it into Canvas, which can be saved as .PNG image.

Feel free to try it:

Grab Google Map Region

File server auditing is a must have process for all companies that
rely on file servers to store their critical data and applications.
Malicious and accidental modifications to files, permissions, file
sharing settings can severely impact your organization.

(C) Somewhere on the Internet.

I can not disagree with it I have no such goals, file audit is just another line of protection from users, who like to yell “WHERE IS MY LITTLE AND VERY IMPORTANT FILE ???”. In this article I will tell how I setup file audit on linux file server.

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Once I had to write some code in OpenOffice BASIC, and found out how difficult is to get information on this. I wanted a book, like a handbook on all these language and API  stuff, and I did not find it. So I decided to make my own CHM file, which is based on OpenOffice wiki. Now I can take it while offline and it is still useful

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