It’s possible to run Internet Explorer on Linux (you know, that unsafe inferior webbrowser from Microsoft that the majority of internet users choose to use). In fact it’s very easy thanks to the wonderful IEs4Linux script.
The script will download and install IE5.01, IE5.5 and IE6. I tried it on my Ubuntu machine and it works […]
Here’s a little trick to help you debug your Java programs. When an Exception occurs and it’s not caught somewhere, you get a stacktrace to help you locate the problem. When you do catch an Exception you can still call printStackTrace() on it. But what if you just like to see the call stack? Just […]
More than a month ago OpenOffice 2.0.3 was released, with a bunch of notable improvements. Dapper Drake, the latest release from the Ubuntu Linux distro still contains version 2.0.2. Since it contains new features it will probably have to wait for the next release to be included. Updated packages can be added to a distribution […]
Summary of the original Dutch article.
This article describes how to edit a musical score, export it, convert it to a vector based image format, edit it and import it in an openoffice writer document, all using open source progams that are available for Ubuntu. I wrote it because I spent half a day figuring out […]