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LibreOffice Writer Power Tools: Conditional Text

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Wazi
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Conditional text in LibreOffice Writer refers to text that changes according to circumstances you set. Conditional text can both simplify the use of paragraph styles and offer a solution to one of the biggest challenges in technical documentation: how to single-source, or maintain, multiple copies of a document within the same file.

Single-sourcing files is routine in technical documentation. For example, you might want separate manuals or how-tos for average users, developers, and system administrators. Each section may use some of the same text, but go into details that are only of interest for one particular audience. Or you might want separate trainer and student guides, with trainers getting answers to quizzes and extra sections for instructions.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN: Windows 8.1 vs. Ubuntu 13.10

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Phoronix
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Last week on Phoronix there was the first Linux review of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti that also included results from other GeForce GTX 700 GPUs — including the TITAN — and earlier Kepler and Fermi GPUs while on the AMD side was a range of Radeon graphics card up to and including the AMD Radeon R9 290. For today’s Linux review to kick off a new week of benchmarking is a closer look at the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN when running Ubuntu Linux and comparing the OpenGL performance to Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64.

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Install Virtualbox 4.3 on Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora

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Silver Moon
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VirtualBox is a free virtualisation software for x86 based systems and is available for most of the popular OSes like linux, mac and windows. It runs on a host system and supports running other OSes as guest. It earlier belonged to Sun and now to Oracle.
At the time of this post, virtualbox 4.3.2 is the latest version and was released in Nov-2013. To learn about what is new in this version, check the Change Log.

Install virtualbox on Ubuntu from oracle repository

Oracle provides debian compatible repositories for installing virtualbox via apt command on debian/ubuntu based systems. So first we shall check the steps to install it like that.

Add the repository

Virtualbox provides repositories for various versions of ubuntu and debian. Pick up the correct repository from the list that matches your OS version.
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian saucy contrib
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian raring contrib
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian quantal contrib
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian precise contrib
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lucid contrib non-free
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian wheezy contrib
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian squeeze contrib non-free
For other Ubuntu derivates like Mint, Elementary OS etc, find out the ubuntu versions on which they are based and choose repository of the corresponding ubuntu version.
After selecting the correct repository, add it to the apt repository list with the apt-add-repository command.
$ sudo apt-add-repository ‘deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian saucy…

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Running Benchmarks On Other New Linux Games

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Phoronix
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If in recent Linux graphics card reviews and driver articles you have been wanting to see other Linux games benchmarked, you should definitely read this article…

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Little Devil: Electric Imp is an Internet of Things Wi-Fi PC-ON-AN-SD-CARD

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The Register
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The card micro that makes connecting projects to the cloud easy

Review  Most products’ origins are prosaic: an inventor or a suit spots a gap in the market and attempts to fill it. Other products, however, have rather more bizarre beginnings. A case in point: Electric Imp came about because co-founder Hugo Fiennes wanted to connect the lights in his new bathroom to the internet.…

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GCC 4.9 Compiler Supports IBM’s Super-Fast POWER8

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Phoronix
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While GCC 4.9 is now in a feature-freeze mode, the open-source compiler that will be introduced in 2014 has improved PowerPC support, including IBM’s POWER8 architecture…

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Eric Schmidt Writes a Guide for Switching from iPhone to Android

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The Verge
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Thinking about making the switch from from iPhone to Android? “Many” of Eric Schmidt’s friends are, he says — and so he wrote them a 900-word guide to walk them through the process. Google’s executive chairman took to Google+ today to share tips and best practices for abandoning Apple’s ecosystem in favor of Google’s. “Many of my iPhone friends are converting to Android,” Schmidt writes. “The latest high-end phones from Samsung (Galaxy S4), Motorola (Verizon Droid Ultra) and the Nexus 5 (for AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile) have better screens, are faster, and have a much more intuitive interface. They are a great Christmas present to an iPhone user!”

Schmidt’s guide tells Android newcomers how to add a Google account to their devices, find…

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Memory Makeover: DRAM Days Numbered as Japan Eyes MRAM

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CNET
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DRAM has been around a long, long time. Is MRAM the next big memory thing? [Read more]

 
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Freedreno ARM GPU Driver Keeps Hitting Milestones

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Phoronix
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The Freedreno open-source graphics driver project that’s a clean-room reverse-engineered implementation of the Qualcomm Adreno graphics core on the company’s ARM SoCs keeps reaching new milestones. While the driver is mostly just worked on by Rob Clark and without any support from Qualcomm, it’s quickly becoming the flagship open-source ARM graphics driver for the Linux desktop…

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Kano Kit Offers an Easier Way to Make a Low-Cost Rasperry Pi Computer

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The Verge
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Raspberry Pi provides an inexpensive way for aspiring computer scientists to start hacking, but its bare-bones offering can be intimidating to a newcomer. Kano is a forthcoming open-source computer kit designed to make coding as easy as assembling Legos. A Kickstarter for the project has attracted more than six times its $100,000 goal with 25 days left to go. It is expected to be available next summer for $99, though to preorder one now will cost you $119.

Among other projects, Kano can be used to build simple games, like Pong or Snake, or create music, sounds, and HD video. The kit runs a variation of Linux and includes visual coding software called Kano Blocks that outputs Python and Javascript. A Kano keyboard costs $49 more; you’ll…

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