News: About Fedora 24 Alpha.

I used Fedora 24 Alpha because is a great operating system.
First I will share some links with more info about Fedora 24 Alpha.

If you want to read about the release schedule for Fedora 24, then take a look at Fedora 24 - Releases Schedule.
What is Alpha a release?
A release contains all the features of Fedora editions in a form that anyone can help test.
Where you can get it?
You can read and download this release from here.
...now about testing the new Fedora 24.
You can make one Live DVD /CD or just use one virtual machine software like Virtual Box.
The Virtual Box software from Oracle it is an x86 virtualization software not just for Linux distro but also for any operating system. You find many tutorials about how to do that.

So, I install the new Fedora 24 Alpha and I test it. 
First, the team makes a great job with this features:
- not many packages ;
- the speed of my VirtualBox is good with virtual Hyper-V, enabled 3D - Acceleration and 64 Mb on video was under 1 min to see the first screen and almost 2 min to start the GUI install on a hard disk with my old Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU 2117U has 1.80GHz;
- the design starts with a beautiful wallpaper; 
- the installation GUI is simple;
- the size on disk to make the first update I used is 15Gb - is too much for me;
- the initial size of the installation comes with ~6Gb;
- the last Virtual Box version 5.0.18 r106667 come with full network settings so you can use the internet to update Fedora packages and use the browser.
I don't use this distro with Live DVD or install on my HDD but you can do that...
I want to make this article more complex but is enough for now ...

Regards. 

 

Tested the Libre Office software.

Today I tested Libre Office suite. The last version is 5.1.2.2 and has many features.
I like to used because I can export my work under Microsoft Office and also to open document.
You can download it from libreoffice official page.
This software can be used with many ope systems, like:

• Linux x64 (deb)
• Linux x64 (rpm)
• Linux x86 (deb)
• Linux x86 (rpm)
• Mac OS X x86_64 (10.8 or newer required)
• Windows
• Windows x86_64 (Vista or newer required) 

You have LibreOffice come with Impress, Calc , Writer, Math and Draw to deal with any type of issue.  I don't like for example the way to rename the macro. You need to go to : Tools -Macros -Organize Macros -LibreOffice Basic.. the Organizer button and finally double click to the name of the macros , rename and close. I think this come from permisions of the macros.
Also You can deal with macros what do you want. For example in this example I delete some fields from one document - one matrix make from A3 to B10.

  Dim myDoc As Object
  Dim mySheet As Object
  Dim myCell As Object
  Dim myRange As Object
  Dim myFlags As Long
 
  myDoc = ThisComponent
  mySheet = myDoc.Sheets(0) ' Refers to Sheet1 as in 0, 1, 2 etc
  myRange = mySheet.getCellRangeByName("A3:B10")
 
  myFlags = com.sun.star.sheet.CellFlags.VALUE + _
      com.sun.star.sheet.CellFlags.DATETIME + _
      com.sun.star.sheet.CellFlags.STRING + _
      com.sun.star.sheet.CellFlags.ANNOTATION + _
      com.sun.star.sheet.CellFlags.FORMULA + _
      com.sun.star.sheet.CellFlags.HARDATTR + _
      com.sun.star.sheet.CellFlags.STYLES + _
      com.sun.star.sheet.CellFlags.OBJECTS + _
      com.sun.star.sheet.CellFlags.EDITATTR
 
  myRange.clearContents(myFlags)

This is a simple type of macro using LibreOffice Basic language. You can also use Python , BeanShell, JavaScript.
So if you like this software and you want to survive this software, you can make a donation of at least 5 USD.

LibreOffice is Free Software and is made available free of charge. Your donation, which is purely optional, supports our worldwide community.If you like the software, please consider a donation.

Today ...

I wrote about one game to another blog here.
My concern for today is about that blogspot and how to improve it.
Maybe will need to make some changes because I have just one subscriber :) .
I will try to make more good  for subscribers or maybe to promote over internet.
Also I don't waht to delete the blogspot because has some great posts.

If you have some ideas to improve that blog just comment bellow.
Thank you. Regards.

News: The skin display.

I don't like to post about hardware, but this news is great. I hope will see soon into the market.
The news comes from the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Engineering developed a mechanical flexible and stretchable "e-skin" film through the use of an organic light-emitting diode display.
The total thickness of the devices, including the substrate and encapsulation layer, is 3 microns, or three-thousandths of a millimeter.
You can read the full article.

Google celebrate Safer Internet Day 2016 with one great gift.

All you have to do is check your secure account.
After that will see this message: To help celebrate Safer Internet Day 2016, we added 2 GB of free Drive storage to your Google account because you completed the Security Checkup.

News: Copy and CudaDrive will be discontinued.

Today I got one questionable mail survey about cloud services and I think about the cloud and prices.
Now I saw one news about Copy and CudaDrive after my Dropbox take some space.
The news it's come from Copy and CudaDrive and will be closed.
This is the message from the official website: copy.

Copy and CudaDrive services will be discontinued. We are announcing today that the Copy and CudaDrive services will be discontinued on May 1, 2016. Copy and CudaDrive have provided easy-to-use cloud file services and sharing functionality to millions of users the past 4+ years. However, as our business focus has shifted, we had to make the difficult decision to discontinue the Copy and CudaDrive services and allocate those resources elsewhere. For more information on this decision, please view the blog post from Rod Mathews our VP & GM, Storage Business.

News: jQuery 3.0 Beta Released.

The team member of jQuery Core - Timmy Willison told us in a blog post about Query 3.0 Beta Released. Developers with jQuery 3.0 alpha had experimented with methods like an inline-display-none-remover (.show()) and inline-display-none-adder (.hide()) and removing inline display:none did not always show the element. Fix the custom selectors like :visible make is up to 17 times faster now. Link jQuery with :

https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.0.0-beta1.js

https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.0.0-beta1.min.js

...or get the beta version from npm:

npm install jquery@3.0.0-beta1

Paul Baliker - sculptor of nature’s.

Paul Baliker has been sculpting wood and bronze for 35 years, working out of his studio in the Hammock, where he also maintains a gallery.

I like this:

 

News: Tutorials with node.js and jpm.

Dear friends,
... today I started a new series of tutorials.
The subject from this is firefox add-ons with node.js.
Into this tutorial, we can see the first steps to make one unsigned default addon.
I used Windows OS, but also you can install under Linux OS easy node.js.
Most of Linux users can know how to do it.
The first tutorial is here.
Thank you. Best regards.

 

News: OpenBSD and Nightly Mozilla Firefox security.

W^X ("Write XOR Execute"; spoken as W xor X[1]) is the name of a security feature present in the OpenBSD operating system. It is a memory protection policy whereby every page in a process' address space is either writable or executable, but not both simultaneously. from wikipedia.

The new Nightly Mozilla Firefox comes with enabled the security feature W^X.
Also will be it available to other versions of its web browser once they are upgraded to version 46.
The implementation of W^X makes all Just in Time ( named JIT) code page working with the browser.
This will need to write to pages, a function needs to be called to explicitly make the page writable. Also, that will remove the execute flag at the same time. The good thing is the permissions for memory pages which allows the compiler to patch code without performance overhead.