http://www.ossblogger.com Open Source Software for Idiots. You don't have to be a Geek to use Free Software. Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:38:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At last... I found 2 other people who are interested in Linux in Kota Kinabalu. And I straightaway create a KK LUG today. Hope to have more people from KK joining in and be a Linux evangelist. I know it is a long journey ahead, but still, it needs to start ... http://www.ossblogger.com/2008/07/28/at-last-kk-lug-is-materialize/ After 1 week in exclusive Ubuntu... When pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete did not show me task manager. After some time, I discovered that I could customize how my notebook will react when I did it in Ubuntu... Waiting for daily schedule of antivirus update at 8.45am every morning. And get used to it. Running Spybot ... http://www.ossblogger.com/2008/07/17/10-things-i-missed-or-didnt-in-windows/ After 3 years of dual-booting (Windows-Xandros, Windows-PCLinuxOS, Windows-UbuntuME), I migrated fully to Ubuntu yesterday. I did it because a day before yesterday, my Windows XP was infected with some Trojan Horse and malware after downloading some files from the net. They disturbed my Windows Explorer - my desktop environment kept ... http://www.ossblogger.com/2008/07/11/i-converted-to-ubuntu/ It's free. Get away from your Internet Explorer 7 and MS Office Suite. There is nothing for you to loose. You even gain something by involving yourself in the projects to the community by testing and submitting bugs to the development teams. I have been using both  - FF and OO - ... http://www.ossblogger.com/2008/05/24/firefox-and-open-office-30-download-and-get-involve/ I came across SmartExp, one of the new electronic medical records (EMR) management software, which runs on Windows. I decided to look into it further, and notice that Mike, the developer works alone in this quite new project. I decided to give him a hand on bug tracking, after installing, and ... http://www.ossblogger.com/2008/05/22/smartexp-open-source-electronic-medical-records-emr-management/ For Windows user, you can use Gas Mileage Tracker Software (a freeware) to be used with your PC. Another handy tool for Palm OS user. Track your fuel expenses with this handy program. With pFuel, you could track your fuel mileage spending of your car (or cars) on the go. I ... http://www.ossblogger.com/2008/04/17/pfuel-fuel-mileage-tracker-for-palm-os/ I felt some relief after securing my Ubuntu PC at home for my son from the exposure of porn at early age with OpenDNS. To get the PC to serve me on educating him on letters, numbers, colors, shapes, sizes and almost anything that he could get from Disney Channel, ... http://www.ossblogger.com/2008/04/16/gcompris-free-education-software-for-your-child/ The only way that you will know how important and FTP client for your computer is when you started your own website & blog. I personally knew FireFTP when I started mount-kinabalu-borneo.com, where I called Exabytes support on how to transfer my newly made HTML file to the server. It was ... http://www.ossblogger.com/2008/04/15/fireftp-the-free-ftp-client-for-mozilla-firefox/ If you think that your default Windows Notepad sucks, I would agree with you. You may want to upgrade to one of the best free and open source notepad program - which even have its own thong - Notepad++. It was the era of Windows Notepad when I started to hand ... http://www.ossblogger.com/2008/04/14/notepad-if-you-think-your-default-m-windows-notepad-sucks/ Cyber porn and adult stuff - are some of the materials on the internet that are easily available for us. Just type anything in Google search box. You will be surprised on how many thousand pages of content that Google could gives you. I was not bothered to look for ... http://www.ossblogger.com/2008/04/13/opendns-block-adult-site-for-your-kids-browsing-experience/