LinuxEd Stuff

The answer is, it’s not Thunderbird’s fault but rather it’s Outlook who generated winmail.dat.

Winmail.dat contains formatting information that only Outlook can decipher. And if the sender uses this mail client then his recipient is using something else, there’s a chance that winmail.dat will be the only attachment that the recipient will see.

Fear not!

For Thunderbird, there is an add-on for allowing it to decode metadata. This add-on is called, LookOut.

Yay! After installing LookOut on Thunderbird, you should be able to open/save the used to be missing attachments.

I’m beginning to study OpenSuse openSUSE and I would like to commit myself on learning more about it.

Once in a while I’ll insert ‘How-to’ in this blog. With this, let me begin with yast2.

To do system update using command line, type in:

yast2 –update

I needed a quick network diagram for a report and since I prefer FOSS for simple solutions, I used Dia.

Dia, as mentioned above, is a program to draw structured diagrams. It is gtk+ based and is inspired by MS Visio.

Diagrams like flowcharts, network and UML are included in its pre-defined menu thus making it suitable for the job.

Dia can be installed in Linux and Windows and its current version is 0.97.

For more info, go to http://live.gnome.org/Dia

Articles about Openfire and Lazarus are good to read. The latter is an IDE for rapid cross-platform development.

And there’s a 2.5-page of Q&A about Google Chrome.

From Bluepoint foundation:

Bluepoint Linux Users Elite (BLUE) in cooperation with the Commission on Information & Communications Technology-National Computer Center (CICT-NCC), University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), Ateneo de Manila University Department of Information Systems and Computer Science (DISCS), and Bluepoint Foundation will celebrate Software Freedom Day with the rest of the world on September 19, 2009 at the National Computer Center, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.

We kick-off at nine in the morning. Due to limited seating capacity, only the first 400 pre-registered attendees will be accommodated. Registration is FREE.