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Log: Planet run at Mon Jan 5 00:00:17 GMT 2009 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.1354&r2=1.1355 Delta lines: +37 -27 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-01-04 17:59:31+0000 1.1354 +++ atom.xml 2009-01-04 23:59:47+0000 1.1355 @@ -5,10 +5,41 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2009-01-04T18:00:22+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-05T00:00:33+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/">Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Migrating from Windows</title> + <link href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/"/> + <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=606</id> + <updated>2009-01-04T22:02:43+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>The last Windows computer in our house is very shortly going to be history <img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> +<p>I have been threatening my wife&#8217;s PC for quite some time now, but there has been no real motivation to move until today&#8230; Our bank called and told her a credit card has been fraudulently used in the last few days. Fortunately they appear to have correctly and swiftly identified the misuse and are dealing with the problem.</p> +<p>However, this experience has obviously caused my beloved (Helen) to start wondering how her details were captured in the first place. She is pretty scrupulous with the shredder, and this particular card is almost only ever used for on-line transactions; so her PC was a possible, if not likely, route for the thieves. The <a title="Clam for Windows" href="http://www.clamwin.com/" target="_blank">ClamWin</a> AV scan threw up a few nasty sounding files, including some IE.IFrame trojan thing, although they had all been quarantined already. But the fact that Windows is so vulnerable to attack and subsequent compromise when compared to Linux, this saga has just tipped the scales. We now have a good reason to start the final migration of the Lord household.</p> +<p>This evening, I have installed <a title="Thunderbird" href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/thunderbird/" target="_blank">Thunderbird</a> on Helen&#8217;s Windows PC and imported everything from her Outlook email client. The import was basically flawless and after changing a few settings she&#8217;s now up and running with TB. (Interestingly, her first few comments were very positive: &#8220;This looks nice&#8221;, &#8220;It&#8217;s much faster&#8221;, &#8220;I like the address book layout&#8221; and so forth.) I added <a title="Lightning" href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/" target="_blank">Lightning</a> and connected her up to our caldav Calendar Server (<a title="Cosmo Calendar Server" href="http://chandlerproject.org/Developers/DownloadChandlerServer" target="_blank">Cosmo</a>) which is an added bonus for Helen. We all use this for work, family and personal scheduling and Helen had been limited to using web access (simply because Outlook doesn&#8217;t support the Caldav standard) which is not the optimum interface to this calendar.</p> +<p>Helen was already using <a title="Firefox" href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/" target="_blank">Firefox</a> most of the time but now I&#8217;ve asked her to stop using IE altogether.</p> +<p>Helen also has <a title="OpenOffice.org" href="http://www.openoffice.org/" target="_blank">OpenOfice.org</a> (OOo) installed already but has not been using it much as the Windows defaults are [were] set for MSO 2003. This will probably be the area where there will be some new learning as she stops using MSO and starts using OOo but it isn&#8217;t that painful to be frank.</p> +<p>I think within a month, I will install <a title="Ubuntu Desktop Edition" href="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download" target="_blank">Ubuntu 8.10</a> as a dual boot for a short period just in case she finds there are things that don&#8217;t work and then we&#8217;ll turn off the <em>malware-that-pretends-to-be-an-OS</em> Windows within a few weeks from then.</p> +<p>She does use iTunes for her work and pleasure so I am thinking we&#8217;ll need to have a VM (<a title="VirtualBox" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/" target="_blank">VirtualBox</a>) running her copy of XP to support that, unless someone would like to offer advice on alternatives. She runs music therapy classes and her material is ripped onto her iPod using Apple&#8217;s lossless codec IIRC that iTunes seems to default to. Never having used it myself, nor do I own an iPod I am not the best source of advice on this one so if anyone can help here I&#8217;d be grateful.</p> +<p>I can&#8217;t think there is much else that will bite us though; she doesn&#8217;t have any other proprietary apps I can see that are going to prove troublesome to replace.</p> +<p>One thing that is really important in this story is this ability to run the main applications: Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice.org, on both Windows and Linux platforms. It will make the transition, for a non-technical user, much less painful than having to switch wholesale over to new apps and a new OS all at the same time. Thanks Mozilla and OOo.</p> +<p>As we go through this migration I&#8217;ll write a little more (I might even ask Helen to document her experiences and thoughts). Hopefully it will help others doing, or wanting to do, the same thing.</p> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/&title=Migrating+from+Windows" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/&title=Migrating+from+Windows" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to digg" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Technorati" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/&title=Migrating+from+Windows" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/&title=Migrating+from+Windows" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/google.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Google Bookmarks" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Google Bookmarks" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=Migrating+from+Windows&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to SlashDot" /></a></div> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></content> + <author> + <name>Alan Lord</name> + <uri>http://www.theopensourcerer.com</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">The Open Sourcerer » OpenOffice.org</title> + <subtitle type="html">The Magic of Open Source</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed/"/> + <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed/</id> + <updated>2009-01-05T00:00:33+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">Coolest Open Source Products of 2008</title> <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/949"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=949</id> @@ -139,7 +170,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-01-04T18:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-05T00:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -167,7 +198,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">The Magic of Open Source</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2008-12-24T00:00:32+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-05T00:00:33+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -243,7 +274,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2009-01-03T12:00:29+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-05T00:00:29+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -363,7 +394,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">The Magic of Open Source</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2008-12-24T00:00:32+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-05T00:00:33+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -467,7 +498,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-01-04T18:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-05T00:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -498,25 +529,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry> - <title type="html">Extension: Sun Weblog Publisher</title> - <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/12/extension-sun-weblog-publisher.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-414870195544222007</id> - <updated>2008-12-08T20:39:03+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">Extension: Sun Weblog publisherThis post is a actually writen in OpenOffice.org Writer and published directly on the blog. I'm using the Sun Weblog publisher.After installing the extension you must first register your blog account information. You can do that from the extension manager or you can find do it from Tools â Settings â Internet â Weblog. When you have writen our blogpost in writer,</content> - <author> - <name>Leif Lodahl</name> - <email>[email protected]</email> - <uri>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/search/label/OpenOffice.org</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Lodahl's blog</title> - <subtitle type="html">OpenOffice.org, open source software and open standards. These are the three things you can read about on my blog. I'll try to keep you updated on news and events in Denmark. -Okay, sometimes you can read something about Lotus Notes too</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/OpenOffice.org"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169</id> - <updated>2008-12-31T00:00:35+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: foafroll.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/foafroll.xml?r1=1.17&r2=1.18 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- foafroll.xml 2009-01-04 11:59:38+0000 1.17 +++ foafroll.xml 2009-01-04 23:59:47+0000 1.18 @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ <foaf:name>Italo Vignoli</foaf:name> <foaf:weblog> <foaf:Document rdf:about="http://www.italovignoli.org"> - <dc:title>My Blog</dc:title> + <dc:title>OOopinions</dc:title> <rdfs:seeAlso> <rss:channel rdf:about="http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2" /> </rdfs:seeAlso> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1361&r2=1.1362 Delta lines: +29 -17 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-01-04 17:59:31+0000 1.1361 +++ index.html 2009-01-04 23:59:47+0000 1.1362 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ <a href="http://cdriga.kfacts.com" title="cdriga's blog on IT &amp; Open Source World » OpenOffice.org">Christian Driga</a> <a href="http://cdriga.kfacts.com/category/open-source-world/openofficeorg/feed">(feed)</a><br /> <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/" title="Erwin's StarOffice Tango">Erwin Tenhumberg</a> <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss">(feed)</a><br /> <a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader">GullFOSS</a> <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast">(feed)</a><br /> -<a href="http://www.italovignoli.org" title="My Blog">Italo Vignoli</a> <a href="http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2">(feed)</a><br /> +<a href="http://www.italovignoli.org" title="OOopinions">Italo Vignoli</a> <a href="http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2">(feed)</a><br /> <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org" title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org">John McCreesh</a> <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed">(feed)</a><br /> <a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/search/label/OpenOffice.org" title="Lodahl's blog">Leif Lodahl</a> <a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/OpenOffice.org">(feed)</a><br /> <a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/" title="ooo-speak">Louis Suarez-Potts</a> <a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">(feed)</a><br /> @@ -37,8 +37,35 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 04, 2009 06:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 05, 2009 12:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<h2>January 04, 2009</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com" title="The Open Sourcerer » OpenOffice.org"> +Alan Lord</a> : +<a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/"> +Migrating from Windows</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>The last Windows computer in our house is very shortly going to be history <img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> +<p>I have been threatening my wife’s PC for quite some time now, but there has been no real motivation to move until today… Our bank called and told her a credit card has been fraudulently used in the last few days. Fortunately they appear to have correctly and swiftly identified the misuse and are dealing with the problem.</p> +<p>However, this experience has obviously caused my beloved (Helen) to start wondering how her details were captured in the first place. She is pretty scrupulous with the shredder, and this particular card is almost only ever used for on-line transactions; so her PC was a possible, if not likely, route for the thieves. The <a title="Clam for Windows" href="http://www.clamwin.com/" target="_blank">ClamWin</a> AV scan threw up a few nasty sounding files, including some IE.IFrame trojan thing, although they had all been quarantined already. But the fact that Windows is so vulnerable to attack and subsequent compromise when compared to Linux, this saga has just tipped the scales. We now have a good reason to start the final migration of the Lord household.</p> +<p>This evening, I have installed <a title="Thunderbird" href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/thunderbird/" target="_blank">Thunderbird</a> on Helen’s Windows PC and imported everything from her Outlook email client. The import was basically flawless and after changing a few settings she’s now up and running with TB. (Interestingly, her first few comments were very positive: “This looks nice”, “It’s much faster”, “I like the address book layout” and so forth.) I added <a title="Lightning" href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/" target="_blank">Lightning</a> and connected her up to our caldav Calendar Server (<a title="Cosmo Calendar Server" href="http://chandlerproject.org/Developers/DownloadChandlerServer" target="_blank">Cosmo</a>) which is an added bonus for Helen. We all use this for work, family and personal scheduling and Helen had been limited to using web access (simply because Outlook doesn’t support the Caldav standard) which is not the optimum interface to this calendar.</p> +<p>Helen was already using <a title="Firefox" href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/" target="_blank">Firefox</a> most of the time but now I’ve asked her to stop using IE altogether.</p> +<p>Helen also has <a title="OpenOffice.org" href="http://www.openoffice.org/" target="_blank">OpenOfice.org</a> (OOo) installed already but has not been using it much as the Windows defaults are [were] set for MSO 2003. This will probably be the area where there will be some new learning as she stops using MSO and starts using OOo but it isn’t that painful to be frank.</p> +<p>I think within a month, I will install <a title="Ubuntu Desktop Edition" href="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download" target="_blank">Ubuntu 8.10</a> as a dual boot for a short period just in case she finds there are things that don’t work and then we’ll turn off the <em>malware-that-pretends-to-be-an-OS</em> Windows within a few weeks from then.</p> +<p>She does use iTunes for her work and pleasure so I am thinking we’ll need to have a VM (<a title="VirtualBox" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/" target="_blank">VirtualBox</a>) running her copy of XP to support that, unless someone would like to offer advice on alternatives. She runs music therapy classes and her material is ripped onto her iPod using Apple’s lossless codec IIRC that iTunes seems to default to. Never having used it myself, nor do I own an iPod I am not the best source of advice on this one so if anyone can help here I’d be grateful.</p> +<p>I can’t think there is much else that will bite us though; she doesn’t have any other proprietary apps I can see that are going to prove troublesome to replace.</p> +<p>One thing that is really important in this story is this ability to run the main applications: Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice.org, on both Windows and Linux platforms. It will make the transition, for a non-technical user, much less painful than having to switch wholesale over to new apps and a new OS all at the same time. Thanks Mozilla and OOo.</p> +<p>As we go through this migration I’ll write a little more (I might even ask Helen to document her experiences and thoughts). Hopefully it will help others doing, or wanting to do, the same thing.</p> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/&title=Migrating+from+Windows" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/&title=Migrating+from+Windows" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to digg" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Technorati" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/&title=Migrating+from+Windows" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/&title=Migrating+from+Windows" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/google.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Google Bookmarks" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Google Bookmarks" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=Migrating+from+Windows&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to SlashDot" /></a></div> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/">by Alan Lord at January 04, 2009 10:02 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>January 02, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="http://www.solidoffice.com" title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> @@ -443,21 +470,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>December 08, 2008</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/search/label/OpenOffice.org" title="Lodahl's blog"> -Leif Lodahl</a> : -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/12/extension-sun-weblog-publisher.html"> -Extension: Sun Weblog Publisher</a> -</h3> -<p> -Extension: Sun Weblog publisherThis post is a actually writen in OpenOffice.org Writer and published directly on the blog. I'm using the Sun Weblog publisher.After installing the extension you must first register your blog account information. You can do that from the extension manager or you can find do it from Tools â Settings â Internet â Weblog. 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Fortunately they appear to have correctly and swiftly identified the misuse and are dealing with the problem.</p> +<p>However, this experience has obviously caused my beloved (Helen) to start wondering how her details were captured in the first place. She is pretty scrupulous with the shredder, and this particular card is almost only ever used for on-line transactions; so her PC was a possible, if not likely, route for the thieves. The <a title="Clam for Windows" href="http://www.clamwin.com/" target="_blank">ClamWin</a> AV scan threw up a few nasty sounding files, including some IE.IFrame trojan thing, although they had all been quarantined already. But the fact that Windows is so vulnerable to attack and subsequent compromise when compared to Linux, this saga has just tipped the scales. We now have a good reason to start the final migration of the Lord household.</p> +<p>This evening, I have installed <a title="Thunderbird" href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/thunderbird/" target="_blank">Thunderbird</a> on Helen&#8217;s Windows PC and imported everything from her Outlook email client. The import was basically flawless and after changing a few settings she&#8217;s now up and running with TB. (Interestingly, her first few comments were very positive: &#8220;This looks nice&#8221;, &#8220;It&#8217;s much faster&#8221;, &#8220;I like the address book layout&#8221; and so forth.) I added <a title="Lightning" href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/" target="_blank">Lightning</a> and connected her up to our caldav Calendar Server (<a title="Cosmo Calendar Server" href="http://chandlerproject.org/Developers/DownloadChandlerServer" target="_blank">Cosmo</a>) which is an added bonus for Helen. We all use this for work, family and personal scheduling and Helen had been limited to using web access (simply because Outlook doesn&#8217;t support the Caldav standard) which is not the optimum interface to this calendar.</p> +<p>Helen was already using <a title="Firefox" href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/" target="_blank">Firefox</a> most of the time but now I&#8217;ve asked her to stop using IE altogether.</p> +<p>Helen also has <a title="OpenOffice.org" href="http://www.openoffice.org/" target="_blank">OpenOfice.org</a> (OOo) installed already but has not been using it much as the Windows defaults are [were] set for MSO 2003. This will probably be the area where there will be some new learning as she stops using MSO and starts using OOo but it isn&#8217;t that painful to be frank.</p> +<p>I think within a month, I will install <a title="Ubuntu Desktop Edition" href="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download" target="_blank">Ubuntu 8.10</a> as a dual boot for a short period just in case she finds there are things that don&#8217;t work and then we&#8217;ll turn off the <em>malware-that-pretends-to-be-an-OS</em> Windows within a few weeks from then.</p> +<p>She does use iTunes for her work and pleasure so I am thinking we&#8217;ll need to have a VM (<a title="VirtualBox" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/" target="_blank">VirtualBox</a>) running her copy of XP to support that, unless someone would like to offer advice on alternatives. She runs music therapy classes and her material is ripped onto her iPod using Apple&#8217;s lossless codec IIRC that iTunes seems to default to. Never having used it myself, nor do I own an iPod I am not the best source of advice on this one so if anyone can help here I&#8217;d be grateful.</p> +<p>I can&#8217;t think there is much else that will bite us though; she doesn&#8217;t have any other proprietary apps I can see that are going to prove troublesome to replace.</p> +<p>One thing that is really important in this story is this ability to run the main applications: Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice.org, on both Windows and Linux platforms. It will make the transition, for a non-technical user, much less painful than having to switch wholesale over to new apps and a new OS all at the same time. Thanks Mozilla and OOo.</p> +<p>As we go through this migration I&#8217;ll write a little more (I might even ask Helen to document her experiences and thoughts). Hopefully it will help others doing, or wanting to do, the same thing.</p> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/&title=Migrating+from+Windows" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/&title=Migrating+from+Windows" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to digg" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Technorati" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/&title=Migrating+from+Windows" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/&title=Migrating+from+Windows" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/google.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Google Bookmarks" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Google Bookmarks" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=Migrating+from+Windows&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to SlashDot" /></a></div> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-01-04T22:02:43+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=949"> <title>Benjamin Horst: Coolest Open Source Products of 2008</title> <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/949</link> @@ -282,12 +300,5 @@ <p>Other countries have taken this step already, increasing the necessity of adapting to remain competitive: &#8220;100 million students in Brazil will have several years more experience using free software than students in the United States.&#8221;</p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-12-09T16:44:46+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-414870195544222007"> - <title>Leif Lodahl: Extension: Sun Weblog Publisher</title> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/12/extension-sun-weblog-publisher.html</link> - <content:encoded>Extension: Sun Weblog publisherThis post is a actually writen in OpenOffice.org Writer and published directly on the blog. I'm using the Sun Weblog publisher.After installing the extension you must first register your blog account information. You can do that from the extension manager or you can find do it from Tools â Settings â Internet â Weblog. When you have writen our blogpost in writer,</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-12-08T20:39:03+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.586&r2=1.587 Delta lines: +19 -8 -------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-01-02 05:59:32+0000 1.586 +++ rss20.xml 2009-01-04 23:59:47+0000 1.587 @@ -8,6 +8,25 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Alan Lord: Migrating from Windows</title> + <guid>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=606</guid> + <link>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/</link> + <description><p>The last Windows computer in our house is very shortly going to be history <img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> +<p>I have been threatening my wife&#8217;s PC for quite some time now, but there has been no real motivation to move until today&#8230; Our bank called and told her a credit card has been fraudulently used in the last few days. Fortunately they appear to have correctly and swiftly identified the misuse and are dealing with the problem.</p> +<p>However, this experience has obviously caused my beloved (Helen) to start wondering how her details were captured in the first place. She is pretty scrupulous with the shredder, and this particular card is almost only ever used for on-line transactions; so her PC was a possible, if not likely, route for the thieves. The <a title="Clam for Windows" href="http://www.clamwin.com/" target="_blank">ClamWin</a> AV scan threw up a few nasty sounding files, including some IE.IFrame trojan thing, although they had all been quarantined already. But the fact that Windows is so vulnerable to attack and subsequent compromise when compared to Linux, this saga has just tipped the scales. We now have a good reason to start the final migration of the Lord household.</p> +<p>This evening, I have installed <a title="Thunderbird" href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/thunderbird/" target="_blank">Thunderbird</a> on Helen&#8217;s Windows PC and imported everything from her Outlook email client. The import was basically flawless and after changing a few settings she&#8217;s now up and running with TB. (Interestingly, her first few comments were very positive: &#8220;This looks nice&#8221;, &#8220;It&#8217;s much faster&#8221;, &#8220;I like the address book layout&#8221; and so forth.) I added <a title="Lightning" href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/" target="_blank">Lightning</a> and connected her up to our caldav Calendar Server (<a title="Cosmo Calendar Server" href="http://chandlerproject.org/Developers/DownloadChandlerServer" target="_blank">Cosmo</a>) which is an added bonus for Helen. We all use this for work, family and personal scheduling and Helen had been limited to using web access (simply because Outlook doesn&#8217;t support the Caldav standard) which is not the optimum interface to this calendar.</p> +<p>Helen was already using <a title="Firefox" href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/" target="_blank">Firefox</a> most of the time but now I&#8217;ve asked her to stop using IE altogether.</p> +<p>Helen also has <a title="OpenOffice.org" href="http://www.openoffice.org/" target="_blank">OpenOfice.org</a> (OOo) installed already but has not been using it much as the Windows defaults are [were] set for MSO 2003. This will probably be the area where there will be some new learning as she stops using MSO and starts using OOo but it isn&#8217;t that painful to be frank.</p> +<p>I think within a month, I will install <a title="Ubuntu Desktop Edition" href="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download" target="_blank">Ubuntu 8.10</a> as a dual boot for a short period just in case she finds there are things that don&#8217;t work and then we&#8217;ll turn off the <em>malware-that-pretends-to-be-an-OS</em> Windows within a few weeks from then.</p> +<p>She does use iTunes for her work and pleasure so I am thinking we&#8217;ll need to have a VM (<a title="VirtualBox" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/" target="_blank">VirtualBox</a>) running her copy of XP to support that, unless someone would like to offer advice on alternatives. She runs music therapy classes and her material is ripped onto her iPod using Apple&#8217;s lossless codec IIRC that iTunes seems to default to. Never having used it myself, nor do I own an iPod I am not the best source of advice on this one so if anyone can help here I&#8217;d be grateful.</p> +<p>I can&#8217;t think there is much else that will bite us though; she doesn&#8217;t have any other proprietary apps I can see that are going to prove troublesome to replace.</p> +<p>One thing that is really important in this story is this ability to run the main applications: Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice.org, on both Windows and Linux platforms. It will make the transition, for a non-technical user, much less painful than having to switch wholesale over to new apps and a new OS all at the same time. Thanks Mozilla and OOo.</p> +<p>As we go through this migration I&#8217;ll write a little more (I might even ask Helen to document her experiences and thoughts). Hopefully it will help others doing, or wanting to do, the same thing.</p> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/&title=Migrating+from+Windows" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/&title=Migrating+from+Windows" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to digg" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Technorati" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/&title=Migrating+from+Windows" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/&title=Migrating+from+Windows" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/google.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Google Bookmarks" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Google Bookmarks" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=Migrating+from+Windows&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png" title="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'Migrating from Windows' to SlashDot" /></a></div> +<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></description> + <pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:02:43 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Benjamin Horst: Coolest Open Source Products of 2008</title> <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=949</guid> <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/949</link> @@ -269,14 +288,6 @@ <p>Other countries have taken this step already, increasing the necessity of adapting to remain competitive: &#8220;100 million students in Brazil will have several years more experience using free software than students in the United States.&#8221;</p></description> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:44:46 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Leif Lodahl: Extension: Sun Weblog Publisher</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-414870195544222007</guid> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/12/extension-sun-weblog-publisher.html</link> - <description>Extension: Sun Weblog publisherThis post is a actually writen in OpenOffice.org Writer and published directly on the blog. 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