Life (and the OpenOffice.org site) is getting back to normal after the hectic activity of the OpenOffice.org 2.0 launch. The press release was well-covered by all the usual suspects. Some of the better journalists followed up with questions which had to be fielded rapidly. Some even published the email exchanges…

I should really upgrade to the OOo 2 final release on this Toshiba Tecra A2 laptop. I installed Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger – stupid name) on the laptop a couple of weeks back – almost problem-free. Unfortunately Ubuntu ship the Debian rework of OOo, which has some horrid icons and broken Java bits (e.g. the report writer in Base). However, alien -i *.rpm installs the ‘real’ OOo alongside. Now, if I could be bothered to work out /etc/alternatives (my Gentoo hacker upstairs is no help – he says it’s a horrible Debian thing).

Oh, and I also have to work out how to disable the infuriating ‘tap-to-click’ on the touchpad, which makes the touchpad pretty well useless (Option “MaxTapTime” “0″ doesn’t do it…)

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