We have tested an online video editor, that is available on YouTube. It is named One True Media by SpotMixer. “One True Media, simply powerful video creation. Robust, fast and easy video editing. Combine and clip video and photos. Edit as little or as much as you want with professio…” is the description from SpotMixer. However, the upload feature does not work – and simply left us off with a message to try again. We can not recommend this.

Many popular operating systems, such as FreeBSD and Ubuntu, are available for download in the form of an image, that can be downloaded from the homepage or local FTP mirror. The image can be used to prepare an installation medium, such as a compact disc (CD) or USB stick, from which the operating system can be installed.

The image can also be read by a virtual server host, such as the popular VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), and used to install and boot one or more virtual server guest instances of the operating system. The image can be read from a virtual CD drive, so there is no need to prepare a physical CD.

This following command will prepare an Ubuntu installation CD on a FreeBSD operating system. The CD can be used to boot the Ubuntu install process on a desktop computer.

burncd -e -v data ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso fixate

Read more about preparing CDs on a FreeBSD operating system in the FreeBSD handbook.

LibreOffice has a feature, that can export to PDF.

However, we experienced, that there seems to a problem with export of a picture to PDF. On a Ubuntu 11.04 operating system, we opened LibreOffice Writer, wrote a line of tekst, inserted a JPEG picture from a file and pressed the icon for export to PDF. The picture is not rendered correct. It looks like it is disturbed, distorted or otherwise crashed.

In order to fix this, we click “File” and “Export as PDF…”. A dialog appears. Under the “General” tab, we locate the “Images” section. “Lossless compression” is selected. However, as the picture is lost using this setting, we select “JPEG compression” with a quality of 95% instead and click “Export”. Now, we can export text and picture to PDF using the icon for export to PDF.

A quick search for bug reports shows, that the programmers of LibreOffice reject, that this is an error in LibreOffice. However, the programmers of LibreOffice and OpenOffice has a history of rejecting obvious errors.

When opening a LibreOffice or OpenOffice document, that is stored on a Network File System (NFS), LibreOffice and OpenOffice is known to crash due to a problem in LibreOffice and OpenOffice. The problem has to do with locking of files. Locking of files prevent users from working in the same document. Unfortunately, there is no solution yet because the programmers of LibreOffice and OpenOffice believes, that the problem is not in LibreOffice nor OpenOffice.

However, the following procedure will make it possible for LibreOffice to open, read, write and work on documents, that is stored on a NFS.

On a Ubuntu 11.04 operating system, we ensure, that any crashed instances of LibreOffice is killed, backup the LibreOffice launch script, open it for editing, search for “# adjust” and remote the conditional section, which has to do with file locking.

sudo ps aux | grep soffice
sudo cp /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice-backup
sudo nano -w /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice

We can now use LibreOffice on a Network File System.

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