Tag: OpenSource

Printing Google Doc with Comments in Page Margins

Posted on by David Wong

Google Doc documents support comments which is useful for collaborative editing of files with comments to each others. But when we print the document from Google Doc, the comments are not included. How to print the document with comments in page margins? In this post, we will introduce a method using the opensource and free
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Printing Comments in Page Margins in LibreOffice

Posted on by David Wong

“Comments” and “tracking changes” are nice features of the opensource LibreOffice software (and other Office software) to add comments and track changes in documents. OpenDocument ODT and MS Word DOCX/DOC file formats all support comments and change trackings. When we print the documents, how to print the comments in the page margins too in LibreOffice?
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Linux Kernel 4.19.70 Release

Posted on by Tony

This post summarizes new features, bugfixes and changes in Linux kernel release 4.19.70. Linux 4.19.70 Release contains 95 changes, patches or new features. In total, there are 101,521 lines of Linux source code changed/added in Linux 4.19.70 release compared to Linux 4.19 release. To view the source code of Linux 4.19.70 kernel release online, please
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Free VNC server software on Windows

Posted on by Eric Ma

RealVNC only gives free version to personal usage of their server software while it limits the functions. Could you suggest some good free VNC server software with full functions? TightVNC is an open-source software for VNC with servers and clients. You can download the server software for Windows from TightVNC download page: http://www.tightvnc.com/download.php The software
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Good open-source and free scanner software for Windows?

Posted on by Eric Ma

Any suggestions on good open-source and free scanner software for Windows? NAPS2 (Not Another PDF Scanner 2) is my favorite opensource scanner software on Windows: http://naps2.sourceforge.net/ Scan documents to PDF and other file types, as simply as possible. NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use. Scan your
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Hadoop MapReduce Tutorials

Posted on by Eric Ma

Here is a list of tutorials for learning how to write MapReduce programs on Hadoop, the opensource MapReduce implementation with HDFS. MapReduce Tutorials The official tutorial on Hadoop MapReduce framework: http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.0.4/mapred_tutorial.html. Yahoo! Hadoop Tutorial A comprehensive tutorial on Hadoop from Yahoo! Developer Network: http://developer.yahoo.com/hadoop/tutorial/. More about MapReduce To better understand the design behind MapReduce, it
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