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Upgrade To Leap 42.3

I upgradet my notebook to openSuSE Leap 42.3 with zypper dup and everything went well. It took only a relatively short time in comparison with an upgrade of MS Windows and I had not to restart my box several times.

The upgrade needed only some edits to the software repositories that I used for the notebook. Nearly all of them needed only a change of the version number in the URL Form 42.2 to 42.3. The LibreOffice Factory repository (needed especially for building) needed a different tweek. There is no sub-repo for 42.3 yet. This I had to change to the sub-repo ‚openSUSE_Factory‘ instead. That was all I had to do before I run the zypper dup command.

Really easy to update the Linux distribution. And I had not to reedit my user configuration etc. Everything works AS before.

Small Wireless Accesspoint Server

I added a new wireless network card to a small pc and updated it to the current OpenSuSE Leap 42.3 Linux. I want to use this box for showing people some free software at work. They should also be able to connect their devices via wireless net to the small pc and get their hands dirty by trying out the free software and e.g. edit some files or sites.

Because the wireless network card didn’t support the master mode I need a program that fix this problem. I found the program hostap, that I could install easily. I made some changes to the hostapd.conf file, e.g. set a proper name for the SSID and activated encryption with WPA2.

I had also to configure a DHCP-server and a DNS-server (and to install the appropriate packages for this services). I also made the ssh service available through the firewall. Thus I could reach the small pc via ssh login now. Finished for today.

Another Training Run

I used the dry wheather and went out for another run. It went better than one days ago, but it seemed I got a bit rusty this season. Will try a third one in some days to get the full round within an acceptable time slot.

Further Work On A Foundation Management Document

I worked further on my document about foundation management. I wrote some more sections of the German regulations for foundations. I used sources in German for this reason and wrote my script in German in the first instance.

Worked On A Documentation About Foundation Management

I worked through a lot of documents and judgments during the last weeks and wrote on a first chapter of an documentation about the management of a foundation. It took me a lot of my spare time but it was worth that investment. I hope that I could finish the last bits of that first chapter during the next week. I wrote the text using LaTex, an always interesting high-quality typesetting system, that is available as free software.

LibreOffice Templates

There are many user of LibreOffice that contribute their templates to the public under a free software license. The Document Foundation provides a website to host such LibreOffice templates. The site hosts 352 template projects now. You could search for this LibreOffice templates and download them from: https://extensions.libreoffice.org/templates

LibreOffice Online Homebrew

I compiled and run LibreOffice Online again, the version of LibreOffice that runs inside the browser with the option of collaborative editing.

Working With WordPress Theming

I currently looking into the theme development of WordPress. I already started with the work on a first version of a theme proposal for a local organisation in Duisburg. I’ll continue this work for the next weeks and it will consume a lot of my spare time.

Further Work With Theming

I worked a bit further on the WordPress theme for a local organisation and got some nice pictures for the header of the site. I cropped them a bit with Gimp and combined them together with the logo in a new banner. We have some great places in Duisburg, like the ‚Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord‘ (an former ironwork with a great light show) (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landschaftspark_Duisburg-Nord), Tiger and Turtle (a Magic Moutan / a walkable sculpture on top of a hill) (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_and_Turtle_%E2%80%93_Magic_Mountain) and the ‚Innenhafen‘ (a former part of the inner harbor) (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innenhafen_Duisburg).

It’s always easy and fun to work with free software tools on nice pictures 😉

Anleitung zum Erstellen von LibreOffice Extensions

Meine Freizeit in den letzten Wochen habe ich häufig dazu genutzt, eine Anleitung für das Erstellen von LibreOffice Extensions (Erweiterungen) zu schreiben. Eine erste Version dieser Anleitung, die zunächst die grundsätzliche Struktur und den Bau von Extensions behandelt, die weitere Inhalte LibreOffice hinzufügen, beispielsweise weitere Vorlagen oder AutoTexte (Textbausteine). Die Anleitung wird in den nächsten Wochen um weitere Abschnitte ergänzt werden. Sie können die erste Version von meiner Homepage hier herunterladen. Die Anleitung steht unter der Creative Commons Lizenz 4.0 ohne kommerzielle Nutzung.