I had to use Zamzar today to convert a .pptx to a ppt and odp file. It worked well. I’m not sure I trust sending documents that contain personal or sensitive information out, but for something like a simple product presentation, I think it worked fine.
Upload the file, and then you can choose the type of conversion you want done, and then they e-mail you where to download the file after the conversion is done.
If you frequent here, bear with me for a bit as I implement a new theme. I decided it was time for a face-lift for the site. I decided to go with a little more modern look compared to my usual plain and drab. I think I still left it plain enough for my tastes, while at the same time giving it a bit more spunk. Let me know what you think if you care.
Update: I just noticed that commenting on posts doesn’t seem to be working. It works fine on pages. I’ll get it fixed when I get time.
While at OSCON, Andrew Harris gave a talk on teenagers involvement in Open Source. It was interesting to hear a 15 year old speak about what adults can do better to influence and help teens out with open source software. He started http://www.teensonlinux.org. Make sure you help promote the website. Here’s the session track from OSCON.
I played with OCS Inventory a few years ago, but it wasn’t very mature when I last touched it, so I kind of abandoned using it around the office. I was made known, however, on the CentOS mailing list that it integrates into GLPI’s tracking software. It’s now able to pull over the database of all kids of goodies for hosts hooked up with OCS. I’m excited now.
http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/
I’m in the middle of deploying a system at work. I’ll be typing up a new how-to guide in case anyone cares to use it. I’ll post it as soon as it’s complete, and also I’ll add it to the CentOS wiki. I’m concentrating on version 1.01 of OCS instead of 1.02, because I tried out 1.02 and wasn’t able to get it working well. Perhaps it’s my doing, but 1.01 works nicely, so I’ll stick to that.
