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IT-Tactics: OpenOffice and LibreOffice starts slow

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Approaches to long-term IT-solutions. OpenOffice and LibreOffice starts slow. Sometimes there can be even annoying problems with Open Source software. A few days ago I got annoyed by OpenOffice starting slow. Then I decided to switch to LibreOffice and first thought it helped. Then a day after it was slow again. Finally I found out that it starts slow whenever I have the VPN connection open (using SonicWall NetExtender). Sudo tcpdump -nnl -i any -s 1536 dst port 53. Locale configuration on Ubuntu. Wow, y...

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IT-Tactics: Recommended Reads

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Approaches to long-term IT-solutions. Core articles from this blog:. The IDE and the libraries. A few Linux-related videos. The Open Source idea. Why companies do not use Linux on the desktop. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Java vs .net/C#. The author: Martin Wildam. Software Development, Consulting, Project Management. Thunderbird and the Outlook Global Address book. Ubuntu 10.04 with docking station. Why companies do not use Linux on the desktop. Get reliable local IP address in Java 6. Web vs Thick client.

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IT-Tactics: Bronze age of IT

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Approaches to long-term IT-solutions. Bronze age of IT. There is a big myth around: IT exists for such a long time now and there are so many companies and software pieces around that quite everything can be done. I hear this often by customers who sometimes believe it is just a matter of price to solve every IT problem nowadays. And it's either the IT consultants and some vendors that tell this. The sad truth is: We are still in bronze age of IT. But the most sad thing. IT project costs explosion. Ubuntu...

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IT-Tactics: Normal.dot in OpenOffice or LibreOffice

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Approaches to long-term IT-solutions. Normal.dot in OpenOffice or LibreOffice. However, most people are just used to just firing up MS Word or if they are on Windows with Open Office they miss the nice template folder and to create a new document from a template within Open Office for me is definitely too many clicks away (3 clicks and 2 double-clicks). To Create a Default Template. Create a document and the content and formatting styles that you want. Choose File - Templates - Save. Normal.dot in Op...

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IT-Tactics: IT Dependencies

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Approaches to long-term IT-solutions. Finally at the end of the meeting after the others left, I asked the project manager at the company what the real reason is that they want to replace that program. The answer was: They want to get rid of dependency of that piece of individual software development and dependency of a particular person. They want to use a standard software. While this sounds quite reasonable, I want to clear-up potential misunderstandings:. Or services shutting down. To reduce dependen...

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IT-Tactics: Reinventing the wheel

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Approaches to long-term IT-solutions. There are three kind of developers when it comes to library use:. Those who extensively use existing stuff. To avoid reinventing the wheel,. Those who do code the stuff on their own. And try to reduce as many of the external dependencies as possible and. Those who do the easy stuff on their own and only for big topics. Like PDF or MS Office file handling etc) they use existing libraries. For example I was using ini4j. And here it comes to a related topic:. Sometimes ...

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IT-Tactics: Priceless Developers

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Approaches to long-term IT-solutions. When I get contacted by headhunters they are usually searching either for a developer or for a consultant. And there is an interesting observation which I do see confirmed when I read forums or talk to friends:. Companies are willing to pay much more for a consultant than for a developer. I am both - developer and consultant - and I can tell you: The best consultant cannot solve the issues that have been introduced by bad programming and software design mistakes.

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IT-Tactics: Default Paper Size in Open Office

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Approaches to long-term IT-solutions. Default Paper Size in Open Office. Under Linux (or at least under Gnome or Ubuntu) we already had the issue with default paper size in Firefox. Now on my older Ubuntu 10.04 workstation where I have not yet upgraded from Open Office to LibreOffice my wife has a permanent problem with wrong default paper size when using Open Office. Finally I gave up finding the problem and started to google. After a while I found a blog entry at " Starry Hope. Here the important part:.

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IT-Tactics: Outlook 2010 Meeting requests

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Approaches to long-term IT-solutions. Outlook 2010 Meeting requests. It's been months now that I (have to) deal more intensively with Windows world now. Although you might know that I prefer my Ubuntu desktop over Windows I am not one of the "fan boys" ignoring people's or business needs. Honestly, nobody can accuse me of being ignorant on any of both worlds. And honestly, I cannot recommend anybody to go with Microsoft and Windows as a long-term strategy. Even Outlook learned to use that format! They re...

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IT-Tactics: Dropbox Icon missing in Ubuntu

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Approaches to long-term IT-solutions. Dropbox Icon missing in Ubuntu. On Ubuntu 12.04 as well as 14.04. With recent versions of compiz, dropbox or whatever other module the Dropbox icon may be missing. In the upper right corner (system tray) after login. This is in general just an annoyance because Dropbox is still running. However, I found several forum and blog posts mentioning that. Sudo apt-get install libappindicator1. Solves the issue or. Sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox. Thunderbird and the O...