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• The PS3 has finally been hacked. And it only took 3 years, 2 months, and 11 days…
• Go-OO is a faster and better version of Open Office? ORLY? Could be worth a shot… Update: It turns out the version of OO that ships with Ubuntu actually includes the Go-OO patches, so if you’re on Ubuntu you’ve been using Go-OO all along. Ubuntu FTW! Obsolete: Use LibreOffice instead.
• Nuclear fusion edges closer to the point where it can create more usable energy than it takes to sustain a reaction. Also, uses frickn’ laser beams of such power that they could boil 50 Olympic-sized swimming pools in a single second. Repect!
• What the hell do all these ROM codes mean? Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (U) [T-Fre.67_Skaiboy][o1].smc, anyone? Know thine GoodCodes. (BTW: Original region: USA, Translation (deprecated) into French by Skaiboy, Translation version 0.67, Rom is Overdump #1 (so has more data than required to play the game, so the game could be 3.3MB, but the cartridge has had all 4MB of it dumped)).
• 1001 Rules for my Unborn Son – I don’t agree with a bunch of them, but some are bang on the money.
• Are you defecient in Vitamin D? Probably. And probably so am I…
• Spray-on liquid glass is about to take off in a big, BIG way…
• Live longer through Calorie Restriction? Maybe.. This Times Online article by (2005 “Food And Drink Writer of the Year”) Giles Coren is a great read, and made me laugh out loud more than a few times
• The two prevalent (and opposing) economic theories; Free Market Economy (Friedrich von Hayek) Vs. Keynesian Economics i.e. government steered (John Maynard Keynes) as explained via the medium of rap. No, really. It’s actually a good laugh, and worth it for the moustaches alone, so if you learn anything – bonus!

Open Office 3.1 is out with much new goodness, and I don’t want to have to wait for it to make its way to the standard repositories or add any 3rd party repos to my sources.list plus the repo keys, so I’m just gonna go with the debs. Here’s how:

1.) Remove/Purge the current version of Open Office from your system however you see fit. Synaptic Package Manager would do it.

2.) Get yourself an appropriate Open Office 3.1 package in .deb format (i.e. for 64 Bit Linux I’ve grabbed the OOo_3.1.0_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz file from here)

2.) Extract the downloaded package somewhere and navigate to it in a bash terminal/console

3.) In the terminal, go into the DEBS sub-folder in wherever you extracted Open Office and run:

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

4.) Once that’s installed, go into the desktop-integration folder and run sudo dpkg -i *.deb again there to install the menu shortcuts.

Tap-tap. Job done.