“execute built-in macros without warning” https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6186 why copy bad concepts aka mistakes? why repeat mistakes? NO MACRO LANG JAVASCRIPT BS SHALL BE EMBEDDABLE IN ANY FORMAT, NOT IN WORD.DOC NOT IN WRITER.ODT NOT FILE.PDF! UNLESS U ACTUALLY GET PAID BY […]
someone asked the question, so here is the gif: why “insert below” below won’t work is unkown and strange X-D
r-click the field: uncheck checkbox “Protect”
short story: phase it out So it finally happened, Oracle wants to cash in on it’s $7.4 Billion investment it made in 2009. The non-Open-Source non-GPL non-Free-Software-coffee has officially gone sour. One can just pray, that this will be a […]
the task at hand ought to be a simple one… the user has a data table of some sort (a Excel sheet). and wants only unique data sets (no duplicates) in a certain column theoretically Libre Calc can do that, […]
All SmartPhones are spies! that’s why Merkel keeps the Nokia from 1995 (even if that device is spied on as well, because it can not end2end encrypt sms or phone calls (*FAIL*! X-D)) Putin does not have a mobile phone […]
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “be careful what you reveal to your friend” (the internet) https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode5/ “where it has gone from defending America to controlling it” data google tries to collect from users: (it is probably only the tip of […]
man made madness: Of course: this madness operates – just as tax avoidance – completely within the legal frameworks of countries with politicians that are open to “donations” (it is called CORRUPTION -> corrupt laws to profit the few). Of […]
First of: Love Libre Office! Use it on daily basis 🙂 Absolutely fantastic job! THANKS ALL INVOLVED! Tested with: To install an extension, follow these steps: Download an extension and save it anywhere on your computer. current as of writing […]
https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM the 4 free software freedom rules: freedom 0: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose. (computers start counting with 0, that’s why it is freedom 0) freedom 1: The freedom to study how […]
two neat tools to preview fonts hostnamectl; # tested with Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-18-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 su – root apt update apt install font-manager creditz: https://manned.org/font-manager/0194121f apt install font-manager gnome-font-viewer creditz: https://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/ Adding new […]
what IT can learn from nature: (src) mostly US users affected. Big Business: Big Companies and Big Money can afford Big Staff to maintain and secure their products, but they also provide Big Infrastructure (AWS, Office) and thus a single […]
look at this superb piece of Open Source software: … that is actually USED BY PEOPLE (like this one to write this article). unlike windows it comes with: life-time FREE UPDATES (!!!!!!!!!) a simple no f*****ing tiles design it comes […]
this was tested on/true for: version 6.1.3.2 page setup: Landscape Queerformat / Portrait Hochformat Howto change OpenOffice LibreOffice Writer Word US inch to metric system – Einheiten inch auf Centimeter Millimeter ändern: US: system inches, feet and yards or ounces, […]
Thanks! thanks to all the contributors of open source soft- and hardware and people that share their knowledge online for free 🙂 i hope/think that better technology could possibly also change humans to the better… freely sharing information surely does […]
as you can see here every single day – spammers attach password encrypted word.doc to a mail and try to infect systems to extract ransome. This raises the question: How to handle this threat? Virus scanners are not enough anymore. […]
not a day passes by that spammers/crackers/evil money addicted people try to infect your system with an word.doc attached to some mail from “police” “government” “paypal” “facebook” “google” “apple” or whatever. here is the latest scam that: a password encrypted […]
updating LibreOffice (former OpenOffice) works like this: 1. remove the old version 2. download latest version https://www.libreoffice.org/ 3. install the new version RedHat Fedora CentOS7: rpm based distributions: yum remove libreoffice*; # uninstall current version wget http://mirror1.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/tdf/libreoffice/stable/6.0.2/rpm/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.0.2_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz; # download tar […]
Dear Mr Lamb, thanks for your work and commitment to GNU Debian Linux (right on Mr Stallmann :). i read most of https://www.debian.org/vote/2017/platforms/lamby and i could/would like to contribute to the Debian Website/Wiki all things web-realted. I love Debian – […]
If you install from repository you might getting version 4.4.X if you want the latest you have to do some manual work: Tested on Debian8.7: Linux debian 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1+deb8u2 (2017-03-07) i686 GNU/Linux [cc lang=”bash” escaped=”true” width=”600″] su; […]
unfortunately i think this needs some skills 😀 fire up the terminal. [cc lang=”bash” escaped=”true” width=”600″] dpkg -l|grep libreoffice; # search for all installed packages with that name # you will have to compile your own list and run something […]