Monthly Archives: February 2007

usb unmount script for sun rays

By stotti | Published: February 26, 2007
as promised here comes part two of the usb scripts for sun ray ultrathin-clients. this is yet simpler but fancier than the mount script because it uses zenity to display the result of the unmounting operation. [CODE] #!/bin/bash ################################################################################### # Sun Ray USB UnMount Script – /opt/SUNWut/bin/utusbumount.sh [...]
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microsoft office opendocument plugin available

By stotti | Published: February 19, 2007
by the way, the odf plugin for ms office i referred to a few days ago is available for download. quoting the mentioned site: The StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology Preview, a plug-in for Microsoft Word 2003 that allows users of Microsoft Word 2003 to read, edit and save import to the OpenDocument Format (ODF) is now [...]
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usb mount script for sun rays

By stotti | Published: February 12, 2007
as you all know the sun ray ultrathin-clients support several types of devices connected to them, including serial and parallel devices, usb mass storage, pdas and so on. for a full list see the sun ray admin guide, chapter four. now when a usb mass storage device gets plugged in, the sun ray services mount [...]
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the machine is us/ing us – web 2.0 in 4,5 minutes

By stotti | Published: February 11, 2007
how do we define the web and ourselves using it? professor michael wesch of kansas state university tries to visualize the ideas and concepts of web 2.0 in a very well done video. while the message itself does not suprise me that much it is the video transcription that impresses me. [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE[/video] the blog of ksu’s digital [...]
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odf plugin for microsoft office along the way

By stotti | Published: February 7, 2007
hah, how great is that?! according to a press release sun just announced the release of an opendocument (odf) plugin for microsoft word based on staroffice or openoffice respectively in a few days. odf-plugins for all other microsoft office programs are expected to be released in april 2007. thanks to erwin for pointing this out.
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