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Shifty dates in Microsoft Excel

 By Bob Mesibov Tutorials

Microsoft has used two different starting points on the calendar for calculating dates in different versions of their Excel spreadsheet program. Really. Microsoft explains the difference here. One version used 1 January 1900 for serial day numbering, the other used 1 January 1904. Of course, up to…

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It rains pretty regularly, in the shell

 By Bob Mesibov Tutorials

In a 2-article series here on The Linux Rain last May (part 1 and part2) I described how I used AWK to clean up rainfall data for my home town in Tasmania. The result was a file called rain3 with rainfall totals for each of the 36525 days from 1 January 1916 to 31 December 2015: In this article I…

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A script to find empty fields in a table

 By Bob Mesibov Tutorials

It's pretty easy to see which fields are empty in the tab-separated table demo (below). The 2nd and 4th field, Col2 and Col4, have no visible characters at all in the rows below the header line: That was simple, but what if the table is huge, with lots of fields and records? Eyeballing for fields…

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How to tidy copied PDF text with a CoPa script

 By Bob Mesibov Tutorials

The image below shows a small, demonstration PDF: When I highlight the text in the PDF, only the paragraphs and their internal spaces go to the X, or primary clipboard: When I middle-click-paste from the primary clipboard into a text editor, each line of text in the PDF appears on a new line,…

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Sorting numbers inside text strings

 By Bob Mesibov Tutorials

I have a script that compiles and sorts museum collection data. One of the data fields is for museum registration codes, and a plain sort doesn't understand that humans expect "KS.99", for example, to come before "KS.100": My script instead uses the magic "-V" option…

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Linux Surges to 2% Usage on Valve’s Steam Gaming Platform

Linux now powers 2% of Steam gamers, doubling its user count in three years. Arch remains the preferred game distro.

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Linux Mint and Framework Laptops Join Forces

Linux Mint partners with Framework Laptops, aiming for full compatibility with easy-to-upgrade, high-quality laptops for Linux users.

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How to Install VLC Media Player on Ubuntu and Others

This video demonstrates how to install VLC Media Player on Ubuntu and others. VLC (stands for "VideoLAN Client") is the world's number one open-source media player for Windows and Linux systems that is freely available for anyone to use.

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How to Install Fedora 41 Server with Screenshots

Fedora 41, the latest version of the Fedora operating system, was released on October 29, 2024. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the step-by-step process of installing Fedora 41 Server, ensuring a smooth setup for your server environment.

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How to Upgrade Fedora 40 to Fedora 41

The Fedora Project is excited to share that Fedora Linux 41 is now officially released and comes with GNOME 47 and KDE Plasma 6.2 for desktop systems, along with the Wayland graphics stack.

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Tokei: Quickly Count Different Metrics in Your Codebase

In this article we discuss the benefits of Tokei - a cross-platform tool, making it easy to install on Linux, Windows, and macOS.

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GNOME OS to Become a General-Purpose Linux Distro?

carbonOS's creator proposes turning GNOME OS into a daily-use distro for all, emphasizing a stock GNOME experience, Flatpak apps, and modern Linux technologies.

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 3rd, 2024

This week we got some cool news and releases, starting with Fedora Linux 41, Firefox 132, TUXEDO OS 4, and a new Raspberry Pi OS update, all bringing many exciting changes.

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OpenPaX: A New Open-Source Patch for Enhanced Linux Security

OpenPaX is an open-source kernel patch designed to enhance the security of Linux systems. Developed and hosted by Edera, OpenPaX offers an alternative to the original PaX patch, which is now distributed as part of grsecurity.

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Xfce 4.20 Pre1: The Road to Final Release Kicks Off

Xfce 4.20 Pre1 is now available! Download the tarballs, test for compatibility, and prepare for the final release on December 15th.

The post Xfce 4.20 Pre1: The Road to Final Release Kicks Off appeared first on Linux Today.

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Stuck for what to play this weekend? DayZ works really nicely on Linux now

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