XPDF is a suite of tools for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. These are sometimes referred to as ‘Acrobat’ files after the name of Adobe’s PDF software. To enable support for Foreign Languages including Chinese to view PDF Files you need to install the language support. Here are the instructions.
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Yearly Archives: 2007
Gip – IP calculator for GNOME desktop environment
Gip is an IP address calculator that integrates well with the GNOME desktop environment.Gip provides system administrators with tools for IP address based calculations. For example, an administrator who needs to find out which IP prefix length equals the IP netmask 255.255.240.0, just types in the mask and gets the prefix length presented. But many […]
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Load Applications Quicker in UBUNTU Using Preload
Preload is an adaptive read-ahead daemon. It monitors applications that users run, and by analyzing this data, predicts what applications users might run, and fetches those binaries and their dependencies into memory for faster startup times.
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Configure GMail in Evolution, Thunderbird or KMail
Many of us would like to use our GMail accounts in Evolution, and to a lesser degree Thunderbird and KMail. Here is a step by step guide on how to configure Evolution, Thunderbird and KMail to access you GMail account.
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