cdriga's blog on IT & Open Source

Noting here for the record 2 links to pages describing how to install and configure Adobe Acrobat Reader and Microsoft office under Ubuntu Linux: Install Adobe Reader in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal – Canonical maintains this package and you can install it if you enable the Partner repositories. How To Easily Install Microsoft Office 2007…

Some years ago when you wanted to host your own blog you had a lot of work to do if you wanted to personalize it, make it more interactive, not to mention what you had to do when you wanted to promote it, all these aside from the actual writing. It was almost impossible to escape…

Exploring the new Google Plus service (Google+) these days. While still in testing phase, the service seems promising both as a virtual place for having fun and to hangout with your buddies, but especially as a tool for business. The internet and social media especially have challenged businesses to become more personal in their relationship with the general public and also with the clients. While in the already classical social media sites like Facebook one had to separate business accounts from personal accounts, Google brings in a new approach – separating personal from business in one single account. I am summarizing below my findings from the first two days of testing this service which I find very promising…

At some point I needed for testing purposes to run various live Linux distributions prior to deciding which one to install on a certain computer. Reasons for that can be various – starting from the testing how it performs (my reason) on various computers/hardware prior to installing a certain distribution and ending to having certain…