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A fresh start to cdriga’s today using the great features WordPress has to offer. The main reason for this change was the lack of support for categories at Blogger (http://www.blogger.com), otherwise it’s a pretty good service.
My other blog (http://cdriga.blogspot.com) is no longer maintained.

Written by cdriga on April 6th, 2006 with no comments.
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First ECDL certification in Romania using OpenOffice.org

November 30th 2005: The Romanian national operator for ECDL announces that they have held the first ECDL Module 3 - Word Processing - examination using the OpenOffice.org office suite. This is a first time in Romania and it finally gives the ECDL certifications true vendor independence in this country and it also proves that […]

Written by cdriga on December 2nd, 2005 with no comments.
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Open standards for office documents

November 21st, 2005 - Microsoft Corporation has admitted for the first time that the public demand for open standards in office documents file format is huge. They also announced that they are going to submit their Office 12 XML file format for adoption as a standard. The news is great in the sense that they […]

Written by cdriga on November 28th, 2005 with no comments.
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SYNERGY - or - How to control two computers with a single keyboard and mouse

Since 1992 when I got my first home PC I dreamed of expanding my desktop on several monitors and also of controlling more than one computer from the same keyboard and mouse. Of course there are many solutions in this direction that have been created over the years, one better than another.
In this article I […]

Written by cdriga on November 7th, 2005 with 1 comment.
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kFacts (and figures)

The number of users who register a software application represents only a small fraction from the total number of people who download and install it. This is a fact.
NOW the figures: There are more than 65K (65000) registrations of the OpenOffice.org free office suite gathered in 9 days since the new version 2.0 […]

Written by cdriga on October 29th, 2005 with no comments.
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OpenOffice.org 2.0 - freedom reloaded

OpenOffice.org 2.0 Is Here
20 October, 2005
OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the productivity suite that individuals, governments, and corporations around the world have been expecting for the last two years. Easy to use and fluidly interoperable with every major office suite, OpenOffice.org 2.0 realises the potential of open source. Besides a powerful new database module and […]

Written by cdriga on October 20th, 2005 with no comments.
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Community

In April 2002 I discovered in a computer magazine an article describing an office suite application which was free and had all the main components we needed in our daily work in my newly created company. We were having a tough start on a market already full of competitors and we needed solutions to cut […]

Written by cdriga on October 14th, 2005 with no comments.
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OpenOffice.org Conference 2005

OpenOffice.org Conference 2005 (oocon) has gathered in the beautiful city of Koper - Capodistria, in Slovenia, hundreds of community members, developers and enthusiasts, together with companies which either support the development of this free office suite or which are interested in watching closely the community’s development.
Thanks to the Slovenian and Italian communities which have done […]

Written by cdriga on October 4th, 2005 with no comments.
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OOo Art Project

OOo Art Project
This is a relatively new Marketing sub-project which aims to take care of the graphics art needed by the OpenOffice.org project. One of the most interesting actions lately is the design of a new plash-screen for version 2.0 of OpenOffice.org.
We are simply overwhelmed by the response from the graphical artists and by the […]

Written by cdriga on December 14th, 2004 with no comments.
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Freedom of speach

Freedom of speach
One concern: in a country in which the freedom of the press has been taken, what happends when you give this freedom back ? Isn’t there the danger that after a long period of silence, the formerly oppressed press will abuse its regained rights to speak freely ? What regulates the so called […]

Written by cdriga on December 14th, 2004 with no comments.
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