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Archive for March 11th, 2007

11 Mar

Preserving our documentation for posterity

Recently, I received a diagram created in Microsoft Visio I wanted to examine and possibly edit. It turns out that OpenOffice.org Draw does not have an import module for the proprietary (and apparantly undocumented) .vsd format, nor can I find another FOSS product that does. This is one of the reasons to keep a Windows [...]

11 Mar

The smoke clears after the DST spring-ahead…

… and we’ll see if any news develops. Either: nothing will happen and news media will point at IT for once again crying Y2K wolf, despite a lot of sysadmins sleepless nights last week and this weekend. Or some major system will fail and the media will conclude IT isn’t taking their role seriously enough. [...]

11 Mar

MerriLUG: GNU Privacy Guard and PGP

Matt Brodeur will reprise his popular GPG/PGP presentation at the Merrimack Valley Linux User Group meeting tonight. In addition, we’ll try for a keysigning event. Details here.

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