MicrosoftTM released OfficeTM 2007 Service Pack 2, which contains various improvements to the latest version of Office. Among them, one is particularly important: the capability to read OpenDocument Format, the same format used by default by OpenOffice.org, NovellTM OpenOffice (go-oo), and KOffice, which has been approved as ISO standard. This addition empowers you to choose which format to use, in order to be backwardly compatible, and at the same time make your document easier to share, independently from the platform the receiver of the document is working on. In addition, the format has been adopted or is under adoption in various countries, and further details can be found here. Edit…
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Bibliography made easy with Zotero
Collecting bibliographic information and keeping them in order might become a complicated task. However things are made simpler thanks to Zotero a Firefox 3.0 extension that allows references to be captured directly from scientific search engines, and to store them in a easily manageble database, together with attachment (for example the paper in PDF format), noted and abstracts. Zotero can export the references in Bibtex format, and integrates with Microsoft Word and OpenOffice Writer, to allow the references to be inserted in a straightforward manner. Moreover, the database and the attachments are indexed, and can be searched. The list of references can be organized in a multi-level library, and the…
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Installing Salome-Meca 2009 on OpenSUSE 11.1
Salome® is a very powerful open source integrated platform for numerical simulations, including an advanced computational code, called Code Aster®. My interest in Salome is due to its geometry generation capabilities, because it integrates a versatile CAD and a mesher, with automatic generation of hexahedral and tetrahedral meshes. The geometry generation is very useful also to create .stl files to use with tools like OpenFOAM® snappyHexMesh automatic mesh generator. Installing Salome from sources might be challenging, and packaging it for a specific distribution represents a lot of work. However, an alternative and easier way to install Salome on a Linux system is represented by the self-contained package Salome-Meca, which can…