Lately, the weather is not so good. It's too windy with too much rain on my area. Some of my people i know is not feeling well due to this condition. Most of them suffer from cold and some minor cough.
Human's biggest treasure is wealth, so keep your body healty :)
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
LibreOffice 4.0 is Approaching
It's new year and The Document Foundation is now shaping up to make ways for a new major release for their flagship product, LibreOffice 4.0. While it's not going to be released until next month, but they have just released their first RC 1 out of three RC scheduled before the final version gets shipped.
Since this is a major release, expect a number of new interesting features, such as Persona support in LibreOffice, meaning that you can use the same theme used in Mozilla Firefox. It also has improved support for docx ink annotations and export native RTF math expressions. You can also generate documents with different header and footer without having to create different page style as it used to be. Other components such as calc, impress, and draw are getting improved as well.
One big feature that has been requested by many people is better multimedia support in Impress and it's likely to happen in this release. You will find that attaching videos in your presentation will be easier and works better in LibreOffice 4.0.
More features can be seen in their Release notes found here https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0
Since this is a major release, expect a number of new interesting features, such as Persona support in LibreOffice, meaning that you can use the same theme used in Mozilla Firefox. It also has improved support for docx ink annotations and export native RTF math expressions. You can also generate documents with different header and footer without having to create different page style as it used to be. Other components such as calc, impress, and draw are getting improved as well.
One big feature that has been requested by many people is better multimedia support in Impress and it's likely to happen in this release. You will find that attaching videos in your presentation will be easier and works better in LibreOffice 4.0.
More features can be seen in their Release notes found here https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Native PDF Reader in Next Firefox Release
Firefox 18 has just been released, but Mozilla are working fast to publish their first Beta release for the upcoming Firefox 19. One of the key feature of Firefox 19 that has been expected by many people (including me) is the native PDF reader without any need to install PDF plugins by Adobe Reader.
This feature has been included, but disabled by default by the developer since it's still considered unstable (but can be enabled by modifying the about:config window). This time, the developer thinks it's ready for public use.
Another interesting features are the new experimental Remote Web Console which can connect to Firefox for Android and Firefox OS web applications and interact with them from within the desktop installation of Firefox and Browser Debugger for add-on and browser developers. They are still disabled by default for now and probably be enabled by Firefox 20 or even 21.
This feature has been included, but disabled by default by the developer since it's still considered unstable (but can be enabled by modifying the about:config window). This time, the developer thinks it's ready for public use.
Another interesting features are the new experimental Remote Web Console which can connect to Firefox for Android and Firefox OS web applications and interact with them from within the desktop installation of Firefox and Browser Debugger for add-on and browser developers. They are still disabled by default for now and probably be enabled by Firefox 20 or even 21.
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
TeamViewer 8 Beta for Linux
TeamViewer 8 has been released, but unfortunately, it's only released on Windows and Mac. Linux version is still stuck at version 7 and it's not yet compatible with the latest version on another platform.
My Windows machine on the office has been upgraded to version 8 and when i tried to connect to that machine from my Linux system which is still running version 7, it says that i should upgrade my TeamViewer installation to latest version. I have been using the tar.gz binary file to install TeamViewer, but TeamViewer 8 Beta for Linux is only provided on DEB and RPM format, so i had to rely on Binh's SlackBuild script on SBo project which converted from DEB to TGZ format.
The problem is that TeamViewer 8 has some path changes as well as service addon. Right now, we need to make sure that teamviewer daemon (teamviewerd) is started before we launch the main TeamViewer application. I have successfully modified the SlackBuild to work with TeamViewer 8 and i'm planning to push it to my SlackHacks repository, but first, i would like to ask for his permission first. When it's approved, you will see it on my SlackHacks soon enough :)
My Windows machine on the office has been upgraded to version 8 and when i tried to connect to that machine from my Linux system which is still running version 7, it says that i should upgrade my TeamViewer installation to latest version. I have been using the tar.gz binary file to install TeamViewer, but TeamViewer 8 Beta for Linux is only provided on DEB and RPM format, so i had to rely on Binh's SlackBuild script on SBo project which converted from DEB to TGZ format.
The problem is that TeamViewer 8 has some path changes as well as service addon. Right now, we need to make sure that teamviewer daemon (teamviewerd) is started before we launch the main TeamViewer application. I have successfully modified the SlackBuild to work with TeamViewer 8 and i'm planning to push it to my SlackHacks repository, but first, i would like to ask for his permission first. When it's approved, you will see it on my SlackHacks soon enough :)
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Mozilla Firefox 18 Released
Mozilla has released Mozilla Firefox 18, which is a new major release which has been developed for several weeks. What's interesting about this version? Here are some of them taken from the Release Notes:
- Faster JS compiler thanks to IonMonkey
- Preliminary support for WebRTC
- Improved tab switching performance
- Implementation of W3C Touch event
- Improve responsiveness for users behind a proxy
- New HTML Scaling Algorithm
Monday, January 07, 2013
First Working Day
Today is my first day working again in my office and it was already a hectic day. This week, a lot of my time will be spent on thesis presentation because there were a lot of students who have completed their work and is now ready to present their work.
Meanwhile, i also have to take care of my daughter's paper for her birth certificate, which i plan to do so in the next few days when i have some spare time in the morning. Let's hope that everything is working as i planned to.
I have also started to keep up to date with many news related to technology, Linux, Open Source, etc. My SlackHacks repository is also now updated and i have submitted updates to my packages in SBo project as well. Life must go on :)
Meanwhile, i also have to take care of my daughter's paper for her birth certificate, which i plan to do so in the next few days when i have some spare time in the morning. Let's hope that everything is working as i planned to.
I have also started to keep up to date with many news related to technology, Linux, Open Source, etc. My SlackHacks repository is also now updated and i have submitted updates to my packages in SBo project as well. Life must go on :)
Friday, January 04, 2013
Less Frequent Update
Lately, i'm not able to post daily on this blog due to my new role as a father to a baby girl. Me and my wife had to take care of the baby all day long, so i didn't have time to do other things.
With less spare time, i'm focusing on my baby girl, so pardon me for not updating this blog as often as it used to be
With less spare time, i'm focusing on my baby girl, so pardon me for not updating this blog as often as it used to be
Thursday, January 03, 2013
Happy New Year
I know it's a bit late about new year thing, but i just got a change to post it just now since since late December, i was busy with my new baby and i just got home last night. It was simply a new experience for me to become a father of a cute baby girl, whom we named Alysia Selena Tan. She was born at December 2012 at 7:27 AM in Panti Rapih hospital with caesar operation.
Since then, i spend all of my time to her, and didn't do anything else besides taking care of her and her mother. I read emails sometimes via my cellphone, since there wasn't any WiFI connection around the room. I had to go to first floor, but i prefer to stay in the room. Well, practically i'm out of date in terms of IT, Open Source, or any Linux news out there.
Last night was our first day staying at home along with our baby and it was amazing, even though we couldn't sleep. We still have long way to go, but this is a good start.
So i just want to say HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013 for all of my blog readers....
Best wishes
Willy and Family
Since then, i spend all of my time to her, and didn't do anything else besides taking care of her and her mother. I read emails sometimes via my cellphone, since there wasn't any WiFI connection around the room. I had to go to first floor, but i prefer to stay in the room. Well, practically i'm out of date in terms of IT, Open Source, or any Linux news out there.
Last night was our first day staying at home along with our baby and it was amazing, even though we couldn't sleep. We still have long way to go, but this is a good start.
So i just want to say HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013 for all of my blog readers....
Best wishes
Willy and Family
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Washing Bottles
I just washed all the bottles and baby equipments with my wife and then we put it on a big sterilizers and let it work for 35 minutes before we will take it and put it on our luggage.
As the expected day is approaching, many things should be considered and i have to make sure everything works under control. Some are still on progress and they are not done yet, but hopefully they can be finished by tomorrow.
As the expected day is approaching, many things should be considered and i have to make sure everything works under control. Some are still on progress and they are not done yet, but hopefully they can be finished by tomorrow.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Advanced Multi-Monitor Handling in KDE
According to Dan Vrátil and Alex Fiestas, KDE will have an advanced multi-monitor handling that should works without too much intervention. They are now working to collect all possibilities that could happened with multi-monitor environments.
The promising tool will land in KDE soon and if it's implemented, it will have the similar experience like in Windows environments (and probably even less complicated). In short, it will make working with multi-monitor so much easier.
Here's a video showing the current work
The promising tool will land in KDE soon and if it's implemented, it will have the similar experience like in Windows environments (and probably even less complicated). In short, it will make working with multi-monitor so much easier.
Here's a video showing the current work
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Monday, December 24, 2012
Time to Upgrade?
If you are PHP users and you like to follow the latest release of PHP, then you should know by now that PHP 5.5.0 will drop support for Windows XP and 2003. That means, the minimum version of Windows supported are Vista, 7, 8, and 2008.
I still have one desktop that are still XP-based that i used at my house. It has been working well for me and i never upgraded nor reinstall it ever since i installed for the first time. In short, XP works. But then i realized that XP will no longer be supported by Microsoft and so does major vendors soon since it's being too old (it has been 11 years since Microsoft released it on 2001).
Well, probably i will have to upgrade to Windows 7 someday, but we will see for the next 6 months to do so. By the end of next semester, we will see if upgrade is needed for me to keep working with Windows XP.
I still have one desktop that are still XP-based that i used at my house. It has been working well for me and i never upgraded nor reinstall it ever since i installed for the first time. In short, XP works. But then i realized that XP will no longer be supported by Microsoft and so does major vendors soon since it's being too old (it has been 11 years since Microsoft released it on 2001).
Well, probably i will have to upgrade to Windows 7 someday, but we will see for the next 6 months to do so. By the end of next semester, we will see if upgrade is needed for me to keep working with Windows XP.
Saturday, December 22, 2012
WiFI Problem Fixed
I wrote about WiFI problem few days ago and today, i'm happy to tell you that the problem has been resolved. I don't know what makes it malfuctioning, because the problem doesn't exist in my newer laptop.
The solution is simple, i just copied my wicd configuration files from mynew laptop to the old laptop and restart the wicd client. Voila... Both of my WiFI are now visible and i can connect to both of them now
The solution is simple, i just copied my wicd configuration files from mynew laptop to the old laptop and restart the wicd client. Voila... Both of my WiFI are now visible and i can connect to both of them now
Friday, December 21, 2012
Journey to Solo
I just came back from one day trip to Solo because my cousin's grand mother passed away few days ago. I went there with my mother and we left Jogja around 2.30 PM and we got there around 5 PM due to bad traffic jam that happened since we were in Jogja.
We stayed there for about 2 hours before we left and travelled back to Jogja. The trip to Jogja was much more smoother becuase there were no sand truck and only busses.
These few days, i lack of good sleep due to many things to do...
Now, most of my todos are done, i think i can get a better sleep tonight
We stayed there for about 2 hours before we left and travelled back to Jogja. The trip to Jogja was much more smoother becuase there were no sand truck and only busses.
These few days, i lack of good sleep due to many things to do...
Now, most of my todos are done, i think i can get a better sleep tonight
Last Working Day
Today is the last working day in my office as starting next Monday, it will be a Christmas and New Year holiday packed together so it will be a long holiday for me.
Even though it's my last working day, i'm still busy with other work and also i have lots to prepare for my first daughter. It will be a busy days for me in the end of this year :)
Even though it's my last working day, i'm still busy with other work and also i have lots to prepare for my first daughter. It will be a busy days for me in the end of this year :)
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