User: jpmcc   
Date: 2009-01-04 23:59:50+0000
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        <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id>
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        <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">&lt;p&gt;The last Windows computer in our 
house is very shortly going to be history &lt;img 
src=&quot;http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif&quot;
 alt=&quot;:-)&quot; class=&quot;wp-smiley&quot; /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I have been threatening my wife&amp;#8217;s PC for quite some time 
now, but there has been no real motivation to move until today&amp;#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.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;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 &lt;a title=&quot;Clam for Windows&quot; 
href=&quot;http://www.clamwin.com/&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;ClamWin&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This evening, I have installed &lt;a title=&quot;Thunderbird&quot; 
href=&quot;http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/thunderbird/&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Thunderbird&lt;/a&gt; on Helen&amp;#8217;s Windows 
PC and imported everything from her Outlook email client. The import was 
basically flawless and after changing a few settings she&amp;#8217;s now up and 
running with TB. (Interestingly, her first few comments were very positive: 
&amp;#8220;This looks nice&amp;#8221;, &amp;#8220;It&amp;#8217;s much 
faster&amp;#8221;, &amp;#8220;I like the address book layout&amp;#8221; and so 
forth.) I added &lt;a title=&quot;Lightning&quot; 
href=&quot;http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Lightning&lt;/a&gt; and connected her up to our 
caldav Calendar Server (&lt;a title=&quot;Cosmo Calendar Server&quot; 
href=&quot;http://chandlerproject.org/Developers/DownloadChandlerServer&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Cosmo&lt;/a&gt;) 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&amp;#8217;t 
support the Caldav standard) which is not the optimum interface to this 
calendar.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Helen was already using &lt;a title=&quot;Firefox&quot; 
href=&quot;http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Firefox&lt;/a&gt; most of the time but now 
I&amp;#8217;ve asked her to stop using IE altogether.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Helen also has &lt;a title=&quot;OpenOffice.org&quot; 
href=&quot;http://www.openoffice.org/&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;OpenOfice.org&lt;/a&gt; (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&amp;#8217;t that painful to 
be frank.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I think within a month, I will install &lt;a title=&quot;Ubuntu 
Desktop Edition&quot; href=&quot;http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Ubuntu 8.10&lt;/a&gt; as a dual boot for a short 
period just in case she finds there are things that don&amp;#8217;t work and 
then we&amp;#8217;ll turn off the 
&lt;em&gt;malware-that-pretends-to-be-an-OS&lt;/em&gt; Windows within a few 
weeks from then.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;She does use iTunes for her work and pleasure so I am thinking 
we&amp;#8217;ll need to have a VM (&lt;a title=&quot;VirtualBox&quot; 
href=&quot;http://www.virtualbox.org/&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;VirtualBox&lt;/a&gt;) 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&amp;#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&amp;#8217;d be grateful.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#8217;t think there is much else that will bite us though; 
she doesn&amp;#8217;t have any other proprietary apps I can see that are going 
to prove troublesome to replace.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As we go through this migration I&amp;#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.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --&gt;&lt;div 
class=&quot;social_bookmark&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tell Someone 
Else!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;social_img&quot; 
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+&lt;!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --&gt;</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 – Settings – Internet 
– 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>
-
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--- 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>

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+++ 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;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>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
+<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&#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" 
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+       <title>Alan Lord: Migrating from Windows</title>
+       
<link>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/04/migrating-from-windows/</link>
+       <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The last Windows computer in our house is 
very shortly going to be history &lt;img 
src=&quot;http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif&quot;
 alt=&quot;:-)&quot; class=&quot;wp-smiley&quot; /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I have been threatening my wife&amp;#8217;s PC for quite some time 
now, but there has been no real motivation to move until today&amp;#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.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;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 &lt;a title=&quot;Clam for Windows&quot; 
href=&quot;http://www.clamwin.com/&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;ClamWin&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This evening, I have installed &lt;a title=&quot;Thunderbird&quot; 
href=&quot;http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/thunderbird/&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Thunderbird&lt;/a&gt; on Helen&amp;#8217;s Windows 
PC and imported everything from her Outlook email client. The import was 
basically flawless and after changing a few settings she&amp;#8217;s now up and 
running with TB. (Interestingly, her first few comments were very positive: 
&amp;#8220;This looks nice&amp;#8221;, &amp;#8220;It&amp;#8217;s much 
faster&amp;#8221;, &amp;#8220;I like the address book layout&amp;#8221; and so 
forth.) I added &lt;a title=&quot;Lightning&quot; 
href=&quot;http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Lightning&lt;/a&gt; and connected her up to our 
caldav Calendar Server (&lt;a title=&quot;Cosmo Calendar Server&quot; 
href=&quot;http://chandlerproject.org/Developers/DownloadChandlerServer&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Cosmo&lt;/a&gt;) 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&amp;#8217;t 
support the Caldav standard) which is not the optimum interface to this 
calendar.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Helen was already using &lt;a title=&quot;Firefox&quot; 
href=&quot;http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Firefox&lt;/a&gt; most of the time but now 
I&amp;#8217;ve asked her to stop using IE altogether.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Helen also has &lt;a title=&quot;OpenOffice.org&quot; 
href=&quot;http://www.openoffice.org/&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;OpenOfice.org&lt;/a&gt; (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&amp;#8217;t that painful to 
be frank.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I think within a month, I will install &lt;a title=&quot;Ubuntu 
Desktop Edition&quot; href=&quot;http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Ubuntu 8.10&lt;/a&gt; as a dual boot for a short 
period just in case she finds there are things that don&amp;#8217;t work and 
then we&amp;#8217;ll turn off the 
&lt;em&gt;malware-that-pretends-to-be-an-OS&lt;/em&gt; Windows within a few 
weeks from then.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;She does use iTunes for her work and pleasure so I am thinking 
we&amp;#8217;ll need to have a VM (&lt;a title=&quot;VirtualBox&quot; 
href=&quot;http://www.virtualbox.org/&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;VirtualBox&lt;/a&gt;) 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&amp;#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&amp;#8217;d be grateful.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#8217;t think there is much else that will bite us though; 
she doesn&amp;#8217;t have any other proprietary apps I can see that are going 
to prove troublesome to replace.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As we go through this migration I&amp;#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.&lt;/p&gt;
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+       <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>&lt;p&gt;The last Windows computer in our house is very 
shortly going to be history &lt;img 
src=&quot;http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif&quot;
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+&lt;p&gt;I have been threatening my wife&amp;#8217;s PC for quite some time 
now, but there has been no real motivation to move until today&amp;#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.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;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 &lt;a title=&quot;Clam for Windows&quot; 
href=&quot;http://www.clamwin.com/&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;ClamWin&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This evening, I have installed &lt;a title=&quot;Thunderbird&quot; 
href=&quot;http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/thunderbird/&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Thunderbird&lt;/a&gt; on Helen&amp;#8217;s Windows 
PC and imported everything from her Outlook email client. The import was 
basically flawless and after changing a few settings she&amp;#8217;s now up and 
running with TB. (Interestingly, her first few comments were very positive: 
&amp;#8220;This looks nice&amp;#8221;, &amp;#8220;It&amp;#8217;s much 
faster&amp;#8221;, &amp;#8220;I like the address book layout&amp;#8221; and so 
forth.) I added &lt;a title=&quot;Lightning&quot; 
href=&quot;http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Lightning&lt;/a&gt; and connected her up to our 
caldav Calendar Server (&lt;a title=&quot;Cosmo Calendar Server&quot; 
href=&quot;http://chandlerproject.org/Developers/DownloadChandlerServer&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Cosmo&lt;/a&gt;) 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&amp;#8217;t 
support the Caldav standard) which is not the optimum interface to this 
calendar.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Helen was already using &lt;a title=&quot;Firefox&quot; 
href=&quot;http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Firefox&lt;/a&gt; most of the time but now 
I&amp;#8217;ve asked her to stop using IE altogether.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Helen also has &lt;a title=&quot;OpenOffice.org&quot; 
href=&quot;http://www.openoffice.org/&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;OpenOfice.org&lt;/a&gt; (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&amp;#8217;t that painful to 
be frank.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I think within a month, I will install &lt;a title=&quot;Ubuntu 
Desktop Edition&quot; href=&quot;http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Ubuntu 8.10&lt;/a&gt; as a dual boot for a short 
period just in case she finds there are things that don&amp;#8217;t work and 
then we&amp;#8217;ll turn off the 
&lt;em&gt;malware-that-pretends-to-be-an-OS&lt;/em&gt; Windows within a few 
weeks from then.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;She does use iTunes for her work and pleasure so I am thinking 
we&amp;#8217;ll need to have a VM (&lt;a title=&quot;VirtualBox&quot; 
href=&quot;http://www.virtualbox.org/&quot; 
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;VirtualBox&lt;/a&gt;) 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&amp;#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&amp;#8217;d be grateful.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#8217;t think there is much else that will bite us though; 
she doesn&amp;#8217;t have any other proprietary apps I can see that are going 
to prove troublesome to replace.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As we go through this migration I&amp;#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.&lt;/p&gt;
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+       <pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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+<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 @@
 &lt;p&gt;Other countries have taken this step already, increasing the 
necessity of adapting to remain competitive: &amp;#8220;100 million students in 
Brazil will have several years more experience using free software than 
students in the United States.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
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-       <title>Leif Lodahl: Extension: Sun Weblog Publisher</title>
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<guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-414870195544222007</guid>
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<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. 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 – Settings – Internet – Weblog. When you 
have writen our blogpost in writer,</description>
-       <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
-       <author>[email protected] (Leif Lodahl)</author>
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