Author Archives: Daniel

Viewing chm files

November 26, 2007 – 5:44 pm

What are *.chm files? A CHM file is a Microsloth Compressed HTML Help file in a proprietary format (how retarded… no, correct that… differently-abled) for online help files.
To view chm files in Ubuntu… one option is to install this gnome-flavoured reader:
sudo aptitude install gnochm
It works!
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Description: CHM file viewer for GNOME
Gnochm is a Compiled […]

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Our Voice

November 26, 2007 – 5:04 pm

Our Voice
MP Garth Turner has the lowdown on the lowly performance on our prime minister these past few days:
Over the weekend, our country emerged as the major stumbling block to a group of more than 50 nations deciding to do something serious about climate change. With PMSH leading the charge, we prevented the Commonwealth from […]

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Power Droid Has A Posse

November 26, 2007 – 4:53 pm

(via Diesel Sweeties)

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[Read This Book] Dispatches

November 26, 2007 – 9:11 am

Michael Herr’s trippy fascinating recollection of his time as a journalist during the Vietnam War - first published in the 1970s - is not about Iraq:
Conventional journalism could no more reveal this war than conventional firepower could win it, all it could do was take the most profound event of the American decade and turn […]

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Ubuntu Personal Package Archives 101

November 26, 2007 – 3:18 am

“Personal Package Archives 101 session: join Jordan Mantha (Laserjock) and Launchpad developer Celso Providelo (cprov) to learn the basics of using Launchpad’s PPA to build and host your own Ubuntu packages.”
Where: #ubuntu-classroom on Freenode.
When: 15.00 - 16.00 UTC Wednesday 28th November
(spotted in Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #67)

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