I’ve just finished reading the last edition of The Ecologist magazine, which is now continuing as a website only. From time to time the magazine hit the spot with a piece of solid investigative journalism. However, most months I skimmed through it out of a sense of duty rather than out of enjoyment. It invariably [...]

The download counter at OpenOffice.org is showing that downloads of OpenOffice.org from the OpenOffice.org download page have passed the ten million mark (the counter was reset when OpenOffice,org 3.1 was launched on 7th May).
That’s a lot of happy users!

Well, I got my wet weekend, so I’m writing this on my Eee PC 701 with Ubuntu replaced by Eeebuntu,  a derivative of Ubuntu specially tailored for Eees. So how much of an improvement is it?

Feature
Ubuntu
Eeebuntu

WiFi
OK
OK

Webcam
OK
OK

Microphone
OK
OK

On/off switch
OK
OK

Closing the lid
OK
OK

Fn F1
Suspend
OK
OK

Fn F2
Wifi
No
Partial

Fn F3/F4
Brightness
OK
OK

Fn F5
LCD/Monitor
OK
OK

Fn F6
Task Manager
No
OK

Fn F7
Audio Mute
No
No

Fn F8/F9
Audio Volume
No
OK

Fn F2 is a bit of an [...]

Eebuntu gets a rave review in El Reg:
If you have an Eee PC, this is certainly the version of Ubuntu to go for.
Well, if we get a wet weekend, I suppose I’ll have to give it a try, although Ubuntu 9.04 is serving me well just now.

There’s an interesting conversation going on just now on one of the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project mailing lists. When you start up OpenOffice.org, you can either go straight to an application like Writer, or else go to the Start Screen (that’s it below). While that’s all very well and good, it is a little … err [...]

When I was taking some screenshots to illustrate the new features page for OpenOffice.org 3.1, I discovered a bug in the way that Chart handles missing values in certain circumstances. After a bit of testing, I convinced myself it was a genuine bug, and created a simple test Calc file to show the problem. I [...]