Computing Trivia

Yes, you can run MS Office in WINE or even better in Vbox but what about software than can handle Word, Excel and Powerpoint files in Linux? They will suggest LibreOffice, a breakaway from OpenOffice or even OpenOffice. My experience with LibreOffice is not positive. Try opening a 100page+ document with a lot of tables, graphics, numbered paragraphs, references and so on and LibreOffice stammers badly then chokes. But since I fled from Windows for a good reason and returning sheepishly to that fold is not an option, I had to find an alternative. The promising alternative is WPS Office Suite for Linux .  It's Chinese but if you run a Debian dialect like I do (Mint Linux) then your search is over. There is a .deb file available. Simple download and double-click to launch the installer. When you run it the first time it shows the sign-in screen blow in Chinese. The information requested is (i) You name to be used as author name in documents you create, (ii) your initials, (iii...

If you are a Windows 7 user, it is likely you got very very frustrated with the apparently very very smart search interface that  excels  at frustrating  its user. Try finding a file in your computer that contains "recipe." For getting the right answer, I award you with a PhD specializing in Windows Search techniques. Just in case you are an ordinary human being like me who just can't get it, here's what I found. Type the following in the search box: content: "recipe" See below for a pictorial illustration. Oh, by the way, if your search term hs more than one word, suround them in quotes. So do not use this format :  content: wave guide Use this:   content: "wave guide"

My OS: Windows 7 Home Premuim 64bit Software Installed: NGINX 0.9.5 for Windows PHP: php-5.3.5-Win32-VC6-x86.zip MySQL: mysql-5.5.9-winx64.msi NGINX Installation Download from  http://nginx.org/en/download.html Unzip into C:\nginx Change the nginx.conf in C:\nginx\conf as per instructions at http://blog.siteroller.net/set-up-nginx-mysql-and-php-wemp-on-windows See my nginx.conf file  here . Note  that in this example, it is assumed that PHP is installed in C:\nginx\php (unzipped into this folder) and MySQl is installed in C:\Program Files\MySQL PHP Installation After downloading the zip version of PHP (V6, threadsafe, zip), unzip into C:\nginx\php\ Rename  php.ini-production  to  php.ini Make changes to this file as given in at  http://blog.siteroller.net/set-up-nginx-mysql-and-php-wemp-on-windows  but do not expect the line numbers given to match exactly. Activate the extensions  extension=php_...

A list of free or open source video production and publishing tools. Updates coloured orange : Tubecast  - Batch uploading of Youtube videos.  Download    VSCD   is Video Soft's free video editor . Quite descent. I have used it to create videos for my precious students. Adobe Flash Live Media Encoder (FLME)  - Live media streaming to popular Content Distribution Networks (CDN) such as Ustream and Kingdom Stream.  Download   OBS - Open Broadcaster Software   is a replacement for FMLE. It's rumoured to work better after you have figured out how to make it work. I don't like their brand icon though. It reminds me of a certain bad number. Deepburner  (free edition) - Deepburner is used to creating and copying DVDs and CDs.  Download Roxioburn  - Comes with Windows 7. Used to burn DVDs/CDs and also copy them.  LightWorks  - Video editing.  Download . DVDStyler  - DVD designer. DVDs are old school no...

The effort required to develop a complete teaching module is considerable. It is similar to writing a book. Unlike a book which is considered in university promotions for academic staff, a blog or web-based module will not count. Therefore, my strategy to add value to the e-content module that I will develop and to self-motivate is to design the module in such a way that it can be released in book format also. That means I will work with two structures but one content-set. The module, titled "Website Design, Construction and Management" will be divided into three sections: Design Construction and Management of web sites