Change page orientation to landscape for a single page in OpenOffice
I recently have been asked this:
It’s actually quite simple.
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Selling a PSP on eBay is a copyright violation
Note to myself: Selling your old Sony PSP and writing that Firmware 1.50 is installed makes eBay delete your auction with “MC047 eBay Listing Violation: Copyright Violation – Unauthorized Item” reasoning the auction was selling “illegal copies/backups” or advertised to do so.
At least they keep auctions where people advertise their PSP having “the super duper” M33 firmware installed…
Bah! Well, what’s left for me is a shameless plug to the new auction…
Update 28/05/09: Unbelievable, the new auction which I carefully checked to not contain any freaking reference to anything copyright violating has also been removed… Also no clue why as I only received the typical standard “don’t sell illegal copies/backups” E-Mail. Contacted eBay support, let’s see…
It appears though that I am not alone. There are a couple of people having trouble selling their PSP on eBay. However in contrast to my case where I list the original unmodified 1.50 firmware, they had used rather problematic “wording” like “Pandora Battery” or “Custom Firmware/M33″ and alike.
Reply and solution 28/05/09: Great, I have received a polite and exact explaination from the eBay security team. The problem for eBay really was the installed 1.50 firmware on my PSP which is considered “open/hackable to circumvent technical protections” (like copy protection). They recommend installing the latest PSP firmware before selling first.
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Spam with creativity and just use HTML tables
Hilarious. Using a <table> to infect my eyes with even more Viagra. At least that way it is easier to understand than “V3ia6r4″.
They are past ASCII Viagra already, ain’t they?
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Crash against the wall
Almost two weeks ago I had a car accident on my way to a client. Despite driving with regular speed and considering myself a good driver, I managed to smash against a wall on the “Autobahn” with 120 km/h after experiencing the danger of “aquaplaning”.
In contrast to my car, I thankfully survived…
Yet everything is still aching and my brain had to reclaim it’s space in my head during the last week but appears to be operational again.
Drive carefully!
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FCKeditor rant
There are a couple of “Word like” onsite editors floating around but I need to rant about one stealing my time.
WordPress uses tinyMCE and it works well even while having it’s flaws, you get your work done, there are a couple of plugins to extend it to embed videos and all normal people need so you do not have to switch to the codeview as often.
Then there is the mess called FCKeditor (Best Quote: “the text editor for the internet”).
While it works after you are done installing it. It imposes a hell of design flaws onto you.
- Rather unpleasant configuration with endless options (most people just touch the original sources which just pains you on upgrades)
- It has issues with Word/PlainText and general formatting interoperability
- You simply can NOT use the browser paste menu… Only CTRL+<cmd> shortcuts are working
- Bad OOP architecture, mix of OOP and some crap I simply don’t understand (Yes, they work on it for future 3.0…)
- Hardcore to extend with any plugins/custom functionality, most of the features are not plugins themselfs
- Other stuff combines to bad handling of tag, visual/code switches, spellchecking… (stuff like YouTube embedding is hard to do etc.)
- The documentation only touches the first tidbit of what you actually need to know
Yes, I had to fix issues with it as it was used on a website I was asked to help on and I do not feel like contributing to the original project either as they ripoff people to buy their advanced Filebrowser for something that is designated as a FOSS project in the first place.
An onsite visual editor should end up being useful and allow editors to be productive with it.
Short, I can haz NOT FCKeditor and try to avoid it in your next project!
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