Lodahl's blog

Now you can buy LibreOffice merchandise

2011-11-18T20:45:00.002+01:00

You can buy several merchandise products from the LibreOffice shop at libreoffice.spreadshirt.dk.

Silent installation - following up

2011-11-17T21:54:00.008+01:00

In my earlier post about administrative installation of LibreOffice i described how its possible to use the program ORCA to manipulate the msi-file by creating a new mst-file.Unfortunately this subject is not very well documented from the developers. if you are a developer and find that I am giving wrong or inaccurate information then please notify me ASAP.Lately I have investigated some more

Administrating LibreOffice

2011-05-25T19:44:00.003+02:00

Professional use of LibreOffice requires the ability to manage and control the installation from the IT department. I have written earlier on how to install LibreOffice silently http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2011/02/silent-installation-of-libreoffice-on.html .In many organizations restrictions is made enforcing that no data can or may be stored on the local hard drive, so all documents and other

Macroprogramming with Python

2011-03-15T20:16:00.004+01:00

I've been doing some investigations on how to do macroprograming with Python. I was so lucky to find a instant word counter from https://bitbucket.org/yawaramin/oo.o-live-word-count/overview and started to hack on it. Hacking other peoples code is a very good way to get into new areas of coding.I succeeded to improve the macro by adding a graphical progress bar.The code will of cause be added to

Open source is not always free (of charge)

2011-02-22T14:53:00.002+01:00

p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } The Document Foundation, the organization behind LibreOffice is asking for financial help to establish a foundation. The base capital must be at least € 50,000 - it is the requirements in Germany, where the foundation is to be established. The reason for establishing a solid foundation is that users, volunteers and commercial stakeholders most want to do business

Silent installation of LibreOffice on Windows

2011-02-15T20:52:00.008+01:00

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Wauw - what a day

2010-09-28T22:37:00.001+02:00

I must admit it wasn't just another day at the office. It was the first day with LibreOffice.I saw discussions on freenode about how to compile localized version. I saw Twitter run more than 800 tweets per hour and I have heard about Catalan hackers talk with Spanish journalists. The last thing - I have heard - doasn't happen every day.Most comments has been "YES - thats just what I have been

OpenOffice.org has been liberated

2010-09-28T09:44:00.003+02:00

OpenOffice.org Community announces The Document Foundation The community of volunteers developing and promoting OpenOffice.org sets up an independent Foundation to drive the further growth of the project The Internet, September 28, 2010 - The community of volunteers who develop and promote OpenOffice.org, the leading free office software, announce a major change in the project’s structure.

Important recommendations omitted

2010-06-08T13:03:00.001+02:00

Why was important recommendations from McKinsey omitted in the report 'A professional and well driven police' to the Parliament?From the report from McKinsey with the financial analyzes:The section 'Use of cheaper software':That in stead (of Microsoft Office) works with a scenario with a shift to OpenOffice.org or Star Office, as the product is called, when delivered from SUN (Oracle). By using a

A police report

2010-06-08T11:47:00.002+02:00

Last Friday the Minister of Justice revealed a report regarding the Danish police's finances. The background is that the police in Denmark has been spending much more money over the last many years, than they where allowed to in the budget.The report is analyzing many parts of the police, e.g., a very week HR division and so on and so forth.Of cause there is a chapter regarding software.

Chemestry formulas in OpenOffice.org

2010-03-25T23:22:00.003+01:00

With this extension you can insert chemical formulas directly in OpenOffice.org documents.Download it here: extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/chemestry

2D barcodes in OpenOffice.org

2010-02-20T19:56:00.003+01:00

This extension provides you with 2D barcodes directly inserted into your OpenOffice.org text document or spreadsheet.Select the text and click the button or click the button and type the text.You can get the extension here: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/2DBarcodeDo you have ideas about how to take advantage of 2D barcodes? Please comment!

Victory

2010-01-29T12:35:00.001+01:00

The Danish Parliament has decided to create a list of allowed standards. The standards MUST be implemented before end 2011.The decision includes two important things:ODF is on the list - OOXML is NOT!New standards MUST live up to certain criterias, among others it must be fully inter-operable with existing formats (formats already on the list). Microsoft is therefor responsible for

The Parliament said: ODF only

2009-11-25T19:47:00.002+01:00

Today the Danish Parliament said ODF only for public administration. The Minister of Science doesn't agree, so he will ask the Minister of Finance for advice. The Government is afraid that the decision will be too expensive.The MP's warns the Minister: If you don't do it, we will ask for a formal ballot in the Parliament and the Minister will then lose.http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&

Another municipallity chalenges Microsoft

2009-11-09T07:45:00.002+01:00

City of Roedovre (Rødovre) is the next municipality in Denmark to challenge Microsoft on expensive software licenses.From today, employees at the city hall will use OpenOffice.org in conjunction with their case- and document handling system.http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=da&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.business.dk%2Farticle%2F20091109%2Ftechmobil%2F91108011%2F&sl=da&tl=en&

100,000,000 downloads

2009-10-29T12:48:00.000+01:00

On October 28th. 2009, the one hundred millionth person clicked on the Download OpenOffice.org button since version 3.0 of the software was announced just over one year ago.www.openoffice.org

November 2009 Newsletter

2009-10-25T20:03:00.002+01:00

Newsletter November (Danish) is out: http://bit.ly/3H4Txw. Read about 100 mio. downloads and a nine year old girl. There is also something about OpenOffice.

Is Twitter dying?

2009-10-18T19:20:00.003+02:00

I am using Twitter.As many other active members of the communities, I'm using Twitter. I don't tweet much, but I feel it very useful to be able to follow activities in the communities.But are we getting too dependent on Twitter?YES!Twitter should not be a service but a protocol.When Twitter is ill, we are more and more aware of our dependency.

More Danish municipalities under way

2009-10-12T20:40:00.004+02:00

Just to let you know, we are experiencing a very important breakthrough in the municipalities right now.City of Gribskov has been using OpenOffice for a few years.City of Tønder has been using OpenOffice in schools for about a year.City of Lyngby-Taarbæk has decided to use OpenOffice in schools. According to the local newspaper this is only the first step towards a compete change from MS to

The mayor says: It is fully comparable with commercial systems!

2009-10-10T15:45:00.007+02:00

When OpenOffice became operational last Wednesday ,the mayor Rolf Aagaard-Svendsen (K) was happy with the prospect of reducing the cost of software. Rolf Aagaard-Svendsen said:There are many advantages to this. Among other things, it's free. The system is fully comparable with commercial systemsEnglish translation of newspaper article:http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=da&js=y&u=

Localization

2009-10-04T21:19:00.003+02:00

Localizing a complex application like OpenOffice.org is much more than just translating the user interface.The Danish community has for years been working on several strings: We must of cause keep up with translating the application. Right now we are in a working on translation of version 3.2. We have more than 73.000 strings at the moment. We would very much like to get the manuals from

Registration is open

2009-10-01T11:17:00.001+02:00

The registration for the annual OOoCon is now open http://conference.services.openoffice.org/index.php/ooocon/2009/schedConf/registration.

Yet another city

2009-09-29T15:38:00.003+02:00

Lyngby-Taarbaek switches to OpenOffice: Will prevent illegal downloadingAll students and teachers in Lyngby-Taarbaek Municipality is now offered free office suite OpenOffice. It may be the same, and students are not tempted to illegal downloads of Microsoft Office, says the CIO.Danish news (translated by Google): http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=da&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%

OpenOffice.org Newsletter is out (Danish)

2009-09-27T21:05:00.001+02:00

The Danish newsletter is published:http://issuu.com/lodahl/docs/2009oktober?viewMode=presentation

Extension help content

2009-09-26T22:26:00.003+02:00

I have created a few extensions over the last few years. Some of them even include help content to help the users. One problem is, that the XML syntax are rather dificult to figure out. Even a simple document with a few headers and some paragraphs are rather difficult to create. It would be rather nice if there where an export filter for xhp-files. I have head that such filter exists but I have

Android - part II

2009-09-19T23:31:00.003+02:00

I got my Android phone a few days ago; a HTC Hero from my regular tele provider: Telenor. They called me the day after I ordered it and said that I could pick it up the very next day.The first thing I did, was to upgrade the firmware. To do that I had to be connected to a PC through the sync software. That is unfortunately a Windows application? Fortunately a have a dual boot pc at my job with

Export to Freemind part III

2009-09-17T21:04:00.002+02:00

I just uploaded a new version of the Export Freemind extension. Now you can export any document with any headings. The mindmap structure will be based on the documents outline numbering (Tools - Outline numbering).If a level is missing (e.g. if Heading 1 - Heading 3 (no Heading 3) the missing level is replaced with a 'dummy' heading with a red color.New version available at http://

The Danish Competition Authority (report in English)

2009-09-16T15:39:00.002+02:00

The Danish Competition Authority Recommends a Continued Use of all Open Standards for Office Software in the Public Sectorhttp://www.ks.dk/index.php?id=28728&L=1

My experience with Android - part I

2009-09-14T20:08:00.001+02:00

I'm working together with a few other consultants on a joint project. Last week I was sitting in the office at customer and one of my co-workers said:Hey Leif! You are always bragging about being that open source freak. Are you aware that you are the one with the less open sourced mobile?I must admit that it was embarrassing. I - the open source freak - was using a traditional Nokia running

Export to Freemind Part II

2009-09-13T17:35:00.002+02:00

I have been working to improve the export to Freemind over the last few days.Here are the new features:Freemind structure is changed, so that top level is from document properties. I am using Title and Subject if available. Otherwise I just use the filename.If one or more levels are missing, I will substitute with dummy levels that will be colored red in Freemind. That is to keep the strict

Export from OpenOffice to Freemind

2009-09-10T23:23:00.004+02:00

I just launched a new extension that exports the structure of headings in a text document to Freemind 0.8 format.Quite nice if you need to get an overview of a large document.Please help me test it.http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/Freemind

Set data free!

2009-09-02T21:03:00.003+02:00

In the public administration we can find thousands of small pieces of data that are maintained with one or more specific purposes. What if others (public authorities or private enterprise) could benefit from these data?Why are these data not available to the public?Probably because of old fashioned thinking. Minds are like parachutes - they work best when they open.The National IT- and Tele

OpenOffice 3.1.1 released

2009-08-30T16:50:00.004+02:00

Today Monday will be the day of OpenOffice.org 3.1.1. This is a bug-fix version and there are no actual new features this time.Be aware of fraud websites that are offering OpenOffice.org for money. In best case you will be paying for something that is actually free - or worse - you (sorry, your computer) will get infected by virus or trojans.OpenOffice.org is free. You can download it from

The expert panel will be called in again

2009-08-28T13:15:00.003+02:00

After a few weeks of a rather hot debate on Danish Internet media regarding the final report from the National Authority of Competition, the decision was made this morning: The Parliament told the minister of IT and Technology to call in the expert panel again.The case is not yet closed!This is a very important victory for the open source community, because three reports has recommended dual

Wanted: Did you integrate OpenOffice in your business application?

2009-08-25T21:21:00.003+02:00

One of the most common oppositions we hear from IT professionals and business managers against shifting away from Microsoft Office is this:We cannot change away from MS because we are using MS Office in conjunction with this and that applicationHow difficult is it to integrate OpenOffice or ODF in an existing business application?Do any of you have actual experience doing it?How can we exchange

There is no shortage of reports

2009-07-18T22:07:00.001+02:00

The so called experts presented a few

Lorem Ipsum 1.6.0

2009-07-08T22:15:00.003+02:00

I have handed over the Lorem Ipsum extension to Magenta ApS. I am still the one working with it, so no change there.I have just uploaded a new version now with 22 languages: Turkish, Indonesian, Arab, Dutch (Netherlands), Dutch (Belgium), Portuguese, Russian, Hungarian, Japanese, Spanish, Czech, German, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Romanian, Norwegian bokmål, Italian, Polish, Swedish,

Norway: ODF is in - OOXML is out

2009-07-03T11:56:00.005+02:00

The Norwegian government has made a clear statement in a new catalog covering data standards of various purposes.Public enterprises should not use other file formats than ODF (version 1.1) and PDF as attachment at the exchange of documents by email. This rule will apply from 1. January 2011.The Danish government is still working on a similar decision. A report from the Danish competition

Municipality saves 1 million per year

2009-04-15T19:30:00.004+02:00

Michel van der Linden is head of IT in Municipality of Gribskov in Denmark. In this article he explains how the municipality changed from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice some years ago. Initially they saved about two million Danish Kroner and later one million per year.http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=da&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerworld.dk%2Fart%2F51087&sl=da&tl=enMichel will

One product that I dont want!

2009-03-14T19:31:00.004+01:00

Microsoft is suffering during the financial crisis. Of cause. Who isn't. But now Microsoft is again looking around for new markets to take over. I honestly thought it was a joke when I first saw that Microsoft is working on software for cars.I will turn in my drivers license if that happens. Just think about what will

Translating OpenOffice.org extensions

2009-03-03T14:32:00.003+01:00

One very important feature in OpenOffice.org is the ability to extend the functionality of the program with extensions. Most public extensions can be found in the official extension repository here: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/.It is very important for the community, that as many extensions as possible are localized or translated into as many languages as possible. There is a tool

Lorem Ipsum Generator now in italian

2009-03-01T12:50:00.001+01:00

Thanks to Maurizio Salzano the extension is now also localized into italian.http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/Lorem_ipsum_generator

Danish OpenOffice.org newsletter

2009-02-27T22:09:00.001+01:00

Danish OpenOffice.org newsletter is out: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2009Marts.pdf

(Domestic) OpenOffice.org conference in Denmark

2009-02-27T16:49:00.002+01:00

The organization OSL (http://www.osl.dk) is arranging this conference together with the Danish OpenOffice.org community.The conference will be on April 30th. at University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark.We will try to cover the story with two tracks, Business and Technical.Open Office - a real alternative Conference in Odense 30/4-09: Track 1: Business9.00 - 10.00 Arrival,

Sony's stupid piece of shit

2009-02-19T19:51:00.001+01:00

I just love this one:

Mona Lisa

2009-01-24T22:58:00.000+01:00

Pictures from Lotusphere 2009, Orlando

2009-01-24T22:49:00.003+01:00

My pictures from Lotusphere 2009 can soon be found here : http://picasaweb.google.dk/leiflodahl/Lotusphere2009Orlando#

IBM and OpenOffice.org

2009-01-21T15:25:00.003+01:00

I have been speaking to some of the guys working on getting Lotus Symphony launched and I must say I'm impressed. Just a little bit anyway. Symphony is still build on the old OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 but that is actually not the most important thing. The application has been enhanged dramatically and what you first find, is that extra pane to the right. The pane shows you tools that are relevant to

Thanks

2009-01-19T21:05:00.002+01:00

Thanks to all of you that has wished me happy birthday on my Facebook profile.

My first day af my first LotusPhere

2009-01-18T22:39:00.003+01:00

Ok. Here I am.LotusPhere 2009, Orlando, Florida!This is my first LotusPhere and the first day (Business Development Day) is almost over. My impresison?Perfect arrangement. Even considering that we are about one hour late and that the last slot is cancelled, I guess thats what to expect, when you gather all business partners on one spot. Transportation and logistics are perfect and the hotel

LotusPhere - Here I come

2009-01-15T19:54:00.002+01:00

I've been looking forward to my trip to Orlando, Florida for months.Tomorrow morning (early), I'll leave Copenhagen - going to Disney World and LotusPhere.What will be my scope ?First of all, I'll try to find as many sessions about Lotus Symphony as possible. I hope to see some examples with Lotus Symphony binded up with Lotus Notes as Composite. I really hope to see how to merge Notes data in

Sanders expert report is ready

2008-12-30T19:08:00.003+01:00

Helge Sander, Danish Minister of Science and Technology earlier this year asked an expert committee to look into the technical and legal implications of the introduction of two standards for documents in the government. The report is now ready.The committee consists ofProfessor dr. jur. Mads Bryde Andersen, University of Copenhagen (Chairman)Associate Professor Jens Hørlück, Aarhus UniversityIT

The market opportunity for OpenOffice.org integrations

2008-12-20T20:46:00.002+01:00

My friend Roberto Galoppini speaks about business opportunities in the market for migrating customers from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org. Roberto think that many of the technical difficulties that we are facing should be taken care of by Sun Microsystems. Robertos blogpost was even refered to by infoworld.com here: http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2008/12/

[Update]Tønder Municipality behind Free IT Software for all Schoolchildren

2008-12-16T19:44:00.003+01:00

12 December 2008PRESS RELEASETønder Municipality behind Free IT Software for all SchoolchildrenIn cooperation with the National Software Knowledge Centre under the National IT and Telecom Agency, USB sticks with free Open Source programs will be distributed to all schoolchildren on Wednesday....Tønder Taking the LeadMorten Kristoffer Hansen, Head of Section in the Knowledge Centre, is very

USB-stick with free software to students

2008-12-15T21:31:00.001+01:00

Municipal of Tønder (Denmark) hands out USB-stick with F/OSS software to all students and teachers.Danish:http://www.toender.dk/asp/news.asp?mnu=319&ID=2744&k=ntoClumsy English:http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.toender.dk%2Fasp%2Fnews.asp%3Fmnu%3D319%26ID%3D2744%26k%3Dnto&sl=da&tl=en&history_state0=

Extension: Sun Weblog Publisher

2008-12-08T20:29:00.004+01:00

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,

Extension: Lorem ipsum

2008-12-06T17:49:00.007+01:00

This free extension generates Lorem ipsum dummy text from www.lipsum.com. I made this one my self by the way.When you install this extension you will se another icon in the icon bar. Click the icon and you will see a dialog, where you can select how much Lorem Ipsum text you want. Select a number and select paragraph, words, bytes or list.You can also choose if your tex should begin with 'Lorem

SVG Import

2008-12-05T20:58:00.001+01:00

This is an absolute must have extension. SVG is a free format for scalable vector graphics. Vector graphics can be resized and rotation can be changed without loose of quality as you will experience with normal bitmaps. In the future, SVG is expected to be integrated in OpenOffice.org but until then this extension is what you need.SVG-Import: http://www.ipd.uka.de/~hauma/svg-importOpenClipart:

Extension: Template changer

2008-12-04T19:42:00.001+01:00

With this extension you wll see to new menu items in Files - Templates that makes it possible for you to change template for one document or for all documents in a specific folder. All styles in the document(s) will be replaced by styles from the newly loaded template.This extension is translated into several languages.Template Changer: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/

clker.com openoffice.org addon

2008-12-03T20:39:00.003+01:00

This extension is an example of how an extension to OpenOffice.org can make internet services available directly in OpenOffice.org. Clker.com is a website with free clip art. The site is funded by advertising. The service operates in the way that you register on the site and adding various clip art to your cart (you can also download them).Through this extension to OpenOffice.org, you can

Extension: mOOo

2008-12-02T23:14:00.003+01:00

It sounds like a cow and the logo is a cow. The name stands for Mobile OpenOffice.org and the project target is to create several individual applications for OpenOffice.org and mobile phones. The project is a school project.The first application from this project makes it possible for you to control your Impress presentation from your mobile phone using Bluetooth technology. So now you can walk

Extensions for OpenOffice.org

2008-12-02T22:57:00.003+01:00

One of the nice features in OpenOffice.org is the ability to develop and publish extensions. The extension philosophy has been very well implemented in other f/oss projects and who doesn't have a bunch of Firefox extensions installed already.The OpenOffice.org extension repository now consist of several hundred (perhaps thousand?) more or less nifty little things. In the monthly newsletter that I

2008-11-30T21:29:00.001+01:00

The monthly newsletter from the Danish community is out: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2008December.pdf

The Internet - not all success

2008-11-28T19:51:00.004+01:00

Over the last 10-15 years the Internet has become every ones daily tool.We use Facebook, twitter, we blog and search for news and knowledge. We can find a satellite overview of almost any place on earth, and even the star heaven can be browsed.Most of it is progress, compared two the times before InternetI've been involved with computers and IT for about two decades now. I remember when we first

Why not Lotus Symphony right away ?

2008-11-15T16:40:00.004+01:00

As I often advocate for OpenOffice.org in both private and business societies, I get questions about Lotus Symphony and Lotus Notes 8 from time to time. My advise to companies that are already using Lotus Notes is, to take Lotus Symphony serious as a future possibility. Right now I say: "Use Openoffice.org 3.0".The reason for not advocating Lotus Symphony at the present time is, that the

3.0 and all

2008-11-02T19:50:00.002+01:00

The third generation of OpenOffice.org was released last month. The release generated a lot of downloads from all over the world, and for the first time we could see that the servers gave up. Statistics for the first day was rather inaccurate but on the second day, we could see the Dansih version downloaded more than 13.000 times.Last week I participated in a TV program on Danish National

Sorry ......I'we been busy

2008-10-19T21:36:00.002+02:00

Sorry, it's been some time since I'we blogged. The reason is that I'we been busy QA'ing, releasing and talking about OpenOffice.org 3.0.Four (okay three and a half) release candidates through QA and the finally coordinate the final release. From distance this time. I was on vacation in Berlin, Germany at the time of release. So I might have sounded a little confused when a journalist called me

Danish newsletter out now

2008-09-28T19:51:00.001+02:00

The monthly overview in Danish are out now: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2008Oktober.pdf.

Congratulation Charles-H (and OpenOffice.org)

2008-09-25T20:06:00.004+02:00

Charles-H Schulz writes on his private blog:Yesterday I was honored to receive the “Lutèce d’Or” trophy on behalf of the OpenOffice.org Project from the hands of Mr Besson, Minister of the Prospective and Digital Technologies of the French Republic. There was a standing ovation, but this one was not so much dedicated to my humble person than it was to the OpenOffice.org project and its

Danish readers: Join group on Facebook

2008-09-22T21:56:00.003+02:00

Join the group Jeg bruger også OpenOffice.org on Facebook and let us count how many users we actually arehttp://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=40447480420

Everyday should be freedom day

2008-09-21T21:55:00.002+02:00

Yesterday I spoke at the Software Freedom Day at Copenhagen Business School. I spoke about my view of the expression Software Freedom. I also gave a brief demonstration of the new features in OpenOffice.org 3.0. The concentration was about the ability to open pdf files for editing in Draw and to save (or export) pdf files as hybrid.But also the new commenting feature (create a note) found some

Busy upcomming weeks ...

2008-09-18T20:20:00.004+02:00

This weekend I'l be speaking at Software Freedom Day in Copenhagen. It takes place on Saturday at Copenhagen Business School. I think I'll talk about my own pesonal view of the expression Software Freedom first.I'm sure I'll be able to find a few minutes talking about OpenOffice.org 3.0 from a users point of view.If you have the time and if you live in Copenhagen or sourounding areas, I'll

2008-09-16T22:46:00.002+02:00

I made a small update to my first (and so far only) openoffice.org Extension Lorem Ipsum Generator extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/Lorem_ipsum_generator.This small nifty extension shows as an extra icon in Writer. With a click, you can fetch a piece of true Lorem Ipsum text from www.lipsum.com.This time I added some error handling to prevent the macro to stop (and show the Basic IDE)

Who are 'they' ?

2008-09-14T15:48:00.005+02:00

I recently found a discussion on our Danish forum (http://www.oooforum.dk) about language tools. One of the participants wrote:It will be nice when they get automatic grammar checking implemented in OpenOffice.org.Yeah that's right. But who are 'they' ? Do we expect the OpenOffice.org development team to create a Danish language tool ? I hope not. Danish language tools must be developed by

Advise: before you switch to Linux

2008-09-12T16:58:00.004+02:00

I'm pretty sure that I will stick with Linux from now on. I have had some problems on the way, but now I feel quite comfortable with my 'new' computer.I'll give you a few advises before you decide to switch:Find out witch programs you actually use on your computer. Do it very accurate, for example by making notes about it every day for about two weeks. Then, put priority on the applications. How

Lotus Notes integration

2008-09-11T20:51:00.004+02:00

I've been working with system integration with Lotus Notes and Office for several years now and I have been looking forward to see how IBM Lotus would take advantage of Lotus Symphony and Lotus Notes. Both applications are build on the same Eclipse platform and I have talked to lots of customers about how IBM could take advantage of this.Here it is. And I hope that this is only the beginning.Bob

Networking sucks

2008-09-05T21:01:00.004+02:00

Can anyone explain this to me ?Every time I start using the internet from my Ubuntu Linux thing, my wife starts making funny noises.It's true. I checked the manual (spoke to my father-in-law !) She's alright.The Wireless network gets totally overloaded when I start my browser.Half the time my netcard is Idle, but the router is still working so hard that it makes my wife say §@$¤£~!When I decided

Episode 5: Finally success

2008-09-01T21:29:00.003+02:00

Finally I got the developer version of openOffice.org 3.0 installed. I useddpkg -i -–force-overwrite [path to install packages]/openoffice.org*.debThe desktop integration thing doesn't work (multiple errors) so I'll just add the applications to the menu manually.Thanks to all.

Linux: Episode 4

2008-08-31T19:55:00.003+02:00

I ust admit that most of this episode actually took place in the garden. It was 23 degrees Celsius and the sun was shining. Sorry, but I just had to do something in the garden.Nevertheless I tried some of the fine advice from you - the readers. Alexander Colorado suggested sudo dpkg -i folder/to/openoffice3.0/* but that didn't work. Result: -bash: ooobasis3.0-base_3.0.0-3_i386.deb: No such file

My Linux: Episode 3

2008-08-31T00:02:00.002+02:00

Am I tired ?Guess.I have spent all day trying to get my old e-mail store (inbox, folders, accounts, mail rules etc.) moved from my old Windows XP machine to Ubuntu Linux.I think I'we got all the extensions installed nowI created the POP3 account manuallyI managed to move the inbox and all local folders. The file structure is not exactly the same, so I spent about two hours figuring that outI

My life with Linux: Episode 2

2008-08-30T15:27:00.004+02:00

The wireless internet connection is very slow. I had some problems that the encryption code for my network was lost during restart. Somehow it seems to work now.Sound card works fine now. I just needed to turn it up. -I can even hear radio over the radio (despite the slow connection)My documents is transfered using an USB-stick with no problemsFirefox bookmarks transfered using the backup/restore

My new life with Linux.Episode 1

2008-08-29T22:09:00.002+02:00

Intallation went fine. It took no more than about 20 minutes to install the CD on my new (old) laptop.Wireless internet connection is up runningDanish keyboard is working fineSound card is not working (yet)Right now running update manager (107 updates).

Finally I got the guts: Linux

2008-08-29T20:52:00.002+02:00

I have been thinking about this for a long time. As an open source evangalist I should try to use something else than MS XP. Today I decided to try.I'm what you could call an advanced PC user today. I fele happy about Windows XP and I feel comfortable with it. My son has a laptop running Vista and I have made a decission: I will never allow Vista to install on my computer. It's just to much....

Generate Lorem Ipsum dummy text in OpenOffice.org

2008-08-24T12:19:00.006+02:00

Some time ago I made a new version of my Lorem Ipsum Generator extension for OpenOffice.org. You can find it here: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/Lorem_ipsum_generator.It's actually not rocket science. The extension calls a website that returns a piece of dummy text and puts it in you document. Lorem Ipsum text is a nice thing, if you are making a template or a document but

If you try to keep up with average, you will never get ahead

2008-08-07T21:07:00.003+02:00

Bob Sutor spoke on LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco yesterday.You can find the presentation on Bobs blog here: http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2446 .One of the issues Bob spoke about, was the problem that open source development has been trying to 'keep up' with Microsoft for about a decade. 'The open source community cannot continue to copy a ten year old operating system' he

Danish Open Office newsletter just around the corner ...

2008-07-28T22:21:00.001+02:00

You can read the pdf-version here: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2008August.pdfMost of the newsletter is about the upcomming 3.0 release.

Open Source Days conference

2008-07-23T11:14:00.001+02:00

Crop image in Draw and Impress (Danish)

2008-06-29T20:31:00.002+02:00

OpenOffice.org Newsletter in Danish

2008-06-26T20:39:00.002+02:00

The newsletter is on the streets now:Text edition: http://da.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=nyhedsbrev&msgNo=51PDF-Edition: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2008Juli.pdf

Squirrels

2008-06-22T17:49:00.003+02:00

For the last couple of months we have had two frequent visiters in the garden. We usually feed the birds during winther but this year we continued to feed them even during spring and summer. The squirrels heard about it and now they are sitting on the ground below the birds food supply every morning.This squirrel is a grey one. The other one is completly red.

Danish industry is looking for an alternative

2008-06-18T20:19:00.002+02:00

Most Danish companies are actually trying to find an alternative to MS Office at the moment. The reason is, that most companies are about to upgrade to MS Office 2007 and ask themselves:Why should I choose the moost expensive alternative?It's a very good question. FTZ Autoparts did it and they are telling the story in this article:http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.version2.

Experiments doing screencasts

2008-06-15T19:41:00.002+02:00

Over the last couple of weeks, I'we been experimenting with different ways of creating screencasts. It all began with a journalist that wanted me to something about the upcomming OpenOffice.org 3.0. The result can be seen here: http://www.version2.dk/artikel/7482 . It became very popular but personally I think it was pure quality. We made it with a program called BB Flashback Express from

Better late than ...

2008-06-11T21:08:00.003+02:00

On April 4th I wrote a letter to members of Parliament in Denmark (Folketinget): "Standards and free competition" (English translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//ft.dk/samling/20072/almdel/UVT/Bilag/129/545869.HTM&hl=da&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8). This was at the time where the Paliament was discussing with the Minister of Science whether The Danish Competition

OpenOffice.org 2.4 1 in Danish is released.

2008-06-10T13:47:00.002+02:00

This version is a so-called bug fix version which does not contain real news, but correct errors and shortcomings in version 2.4. The programme can be downloaded from the website http://da.openoffice.org.Release notes: http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.4.1rc2.html (English).This release contains a security update and we recommend all users to upgrade to this version.Version 2.4.1 is

Still no specification of OOXML

2008-06-10T08:09:00.002+02:00

Four national standards bodies appeal against approval of ISO/IEC DIS 29500http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1136This means that the specification will be further delayed until the appeals has been considered.

Cross reference in OpenOffice.org 3.0

2008-06-05T22:08:00.003+02:00

The upcoming version of OpenOffice.org contains various improvements. One of the long missing features is, to create cross references directly to headings without creating a bookmark first. All headings in the document are automatically created as targets.

OpenOffice.org in enterpise

2008-06-04T21:21:00.005+02:00

Symfoni Software held at the beginning of June its annual BRUKERFORUM. This year the event was held in Tallinn in Estonia, where around 65 of Symfoni Software's customers from Norway, Denmark and Sweden was together.I am working as project manager at Symfoni Software Copenhagen office , but I am also leader of the OpenOffice.org community in Denmark. I spoke at the conference about how and why

Official Danish complaint to ISO

2008-05-30T19:53:00.002+02:00

The organazation OSL (www.osl.dk) (Danish organazation of OpenSource vendors) has officially posted a complaint to ISO (and Danish Standards). The complaint is regarding the process in the Danish National Body.http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//www.computerworld.dk/art/46122%3Fa%3Drss%26i%3D0&hl=da&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie=ISO-8859-1

Danish OpenOffice.org Newsletter

2008-05-27T21:16:00.003+02:00

Danish OpenOffice.org Newsletter out now:Text version: http://da.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=nyhedsbrev&msgNo=49PDF version: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2008Juni.pdf

English update in the Danish thing

2008-05-27T19:57:00.001+02:00

This is easier than writing: http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7661