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September 4, 2008  11:54 AM

Script Word and OpenOffice documents to pdf



Posted by: Xjlittle
autoit, automate, centos, gui, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, microsoft work, Open Office, openoffice, pscp, putty, scp, script, scripting, word

I ran into a situation a couple of weeks ago where it would be convenient to script Word and OpenOffice documents into pdf format. One of my jobs here is to create the network and email...

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September 1, 2008  9:34 PM

Ubuntuserver is unbelievably stupid



Posted by: Xjlittle
centos, grub, gui, headless, inittab, lilo, Linux, ssh, ubuntu, ubuntuserver, ubuntuserver upgrade, zimbra

Yes you read the title right. Ubunutserver is unbelievably stupid. Ok let's take it from the top. I had Ubuntuserver 7.0.4 installed as my WebDAV secure server, my son's baseball team's website, samba and so on. I run this server headless and without a gui. Note here that the normal install...

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August 29, 2008  3:35 PM

Script repetitious tasks in a GUI with AutoIT



Posted by: Xjlittle
autoit, automate, gui, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, script, scripting, windows

Do you find yourself wanting to script repetitious tasks in a GUI? Wish there was a way to automate it? There is now. Unlike shell scripting where many tasks can be automated this is generally more difficult in a GUI. You have mouse clicks and keyboard entries to make in a GUI.

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