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From time to time, I review books. The reviews are listed below, and in general are also carried on the HantsLUG website.

Title:

Beginning OpenOffice 3

Author:

Andy Chanelle

Publisher:

Apress

ISBN:

978-1-4302-1590-5

Published:

Dec 2008

“Beginning OpenOffice 3” is a guide to Sun's open-source replacement for Microsoft Office and AppleWorks. Starting with a short history of the project and its development, the reader has the layout of the book and its typographical conventions described – very handy for novices unused to reading technical books.

Title:

Mac for Linux Geeks

Author:

Tony Steidler-Dennison

Publisher:

Apress

ISBN:

978-1-4302-1650-6

Published:

Dec 2008

My rating:

6 out of 10

"Mac for Linux Geeks" is something of a mixed bag. The aim of this book is to show Linux users - in particular, experienced hackers who use Linux on a daily basis - the benefits of moving to Mac OS X.

Wow, just over a year since I last posted one of these things. Nothing particularly interesting in this one, apart from a link to one of the better WTF articles I've seen: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Whats-in-a-Name.aspx . Oh, and I got married!

General notes on fixes for annoying problems.

Firefox issue with Torbutton:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/241602

To use packages from old Debian repositories, add the appropriate lines to /etc/apt/sources.list, e.g.

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-security/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-volatile/ etch/volatile main contrib non-free

and update the package manager, ignoring the fact that the release files are expired:

aptitude -o 'Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false' update