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Quick and easy guide to upgrading your OpenOffice.org to 3.1 on Ubuntu Hardy, Intrepid, or Jaunty using the Scribblers PPA.

The Evolution RSS Plugin was causing Evolution to segfault and prevent it from restarting.

The OpenOffice.org Scribblers PPA has been updated to include OO.o 3.0.1 for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron users.

Ubuntu Hardy Heron reaches 8.04.2

Ubuntu’s numerous releases enjoy both life and death throughout the year. Now that it’s 2009, we look forward to six milestones for five different versions.

Huh!? luke@digglers is what you really picked for a hostname? You really wanted luke@skywalkers and this is how you change it.

Seeing that the probability of OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 being backported to Ubuntu Hardy Heron is low, I look into how to install it on my own.

After several years of running 400 servers with different versions of Red Hat and Fedora, Wikipedia finally changes over to an all Ubuntu setup.

I wanted to burn a dual-layered DVD with Brasero 0.7.1 and found it was unable to. With Ubuntu’s backports repository, we can make it happen with an update to 0.8.1.

Using a dark GTK theme sometimes causes OpenOffice.org 2.4.x applications to default to high contrast theme making them difficult to use. Here’s a workaround that forces OpenOffice.org to use an alternate GTK theme.