Archive for November, 2009
Office Compatibility
OpenOffice or Microsoft Office. Use either. It’s like OS X vs. Linux… whatever tool that is best for the job right?
Here’s how you can make the two play a little nicer…
OpenOffice
- Already reads and writes .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx (admittedly the .pptx support isn’t near as developed as the previous two formats mentioned, from my experiences at least)
- Download and install the following: Excel Viewer, Word Viewer, and PowerPoint Viewer 2007
- Download and install the following: Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats
Users with older versions of Microsoft Office Products, including Word 2000/2002/2003, Excel 2000/2002/2003, PowerPoint 2000/2002/2003)
- Make sure your office products are updated with the latest service packs if any are available (check Microsoft Update)
- Download and install the following: Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats
- Download and install the following: Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office
Users of Microsoft Office 2007
- Download and install the following: Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office
Posted by Karl Herrick on November 20th, 2009 in Apple, OpenOffice, Microsoft, Linux | No Comments »
Renaming MP3s in Bash
It seems like this comes up every now and again, but I end up forgetting how to do it. So, I will post the example here, where it will live forever on the intarwebs.
While there are a ton of ways to script this, using Bash, cut, ls, find, grep, sed, awk, perl, etc… In this particular instance, I find myself with a directory of about fifty files, each named in the following manner…
- 01 Song Title.mp3
- 02 Another Song Title.mp3
- 02 Same Number Song Title.mp3
- 03 Author - Title.mp3
Bash and cut to the rescue. The following code provides for each file in the current directory to have the number stripped off of the front, even it has spaces in the filename.
SAVEIFS=$IFS
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
for f in *; do
mv "$f" "$(echo $f | cut -c 4-)"
done
IFS=$SAVEIFS
Posted by Karl Herrick on November 17th, 2009 in Bash | No Comments »
The calendar has moved
So, I moved my calendars off of Apache/WebDAV and onto Google Calendar. Have I lost some control? Yes. Have I gained a huge amount of convenience. Definitely.
Google don’t fail me now!
Posted by Karl Herrick on November 1st, 2009 in Google, Linux | No Comments »