Daily Archives: 14 October, 2006

Buying desktop PC. Suggestions?

I am planning on buying a desktop PC. Throw in your suggestions.
I want a moderately powerful system, with a fast processor and a large physical memory. I don’t do graphics, and I am not into games. The bulk of the heavy-duty work I would be doing on it will comprise running VMware, Matlab, hardware simulators [...]

antiword: Reading .doc (MSWORD) files on the Linux CLI.

What more can you possibly ask for? antiword speaks for itself. I think it is the most useful piece of software ever created.
You can’t write .doc documents with antiword. Why in the world would you ever want to do that, in your right mind? Use plain-text or, better yet, LyX. And while softwares like Abiword, [...]