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Triggering Mail Merges to Go to the Next Record in OpenOffice.org

Contributed by solveig on February 25, 2007 under OpenOffice

Ever wonder how to trigger your mail merges to go to the next record, on the same sheet of paper? This tech-recipe covers the important but simple way to make that work.

Creating Databases the Quick, Easy Way With OpenOffice.org

Contributed by solveig on under OpenOffice

Create a database with two quick approaches using Base, the database tool in OpenOffice.org, the free Microsoft Office compatible office suite. This is the first in a series of articles that describe how to create a database; then how to create mail merges.

Making Labels with Openoffice.org Templates

Contributed by rossendryv on December 27, 2006 under OpenOffice

Using the right tools can save you time and money. Templates make life easier when you use them for letters, documents, brochures, etc. but they really make life easier when you use them for labels. The spacing for your label documents has to be extraordinarily precise to make sure that the text is printed exactly where it needs to be. This Howto will help you use Openoffice.org templates to create great looking labels.

Generate passwords with openssl

Contributed by Michilimackinac on March 12, 2006 under OpenSSL

You can generate some good (high entropy) passwords using this method.

JES COStemplates mail quotas greater than 4GB

Contributed by qmchenry on November 7, 2005 under UNIX software

Sun’s Java Enterprise System mail facilities have the capacity to provision users based on predefined classes of service (COS) which specify the types of services a user assigned to that COS can use, their mailbox size quota, number of message quota, and per message size quota. However, because the mailQuota attribute is stored as a 32-bit integer, the maximum value is 4,294,967,295 bytes (4GB). This recipe describes a way around this limit.

CVS: set CVSROOT environment variable

Contributed by wolf359 on September 4, 2005 under UNIX software

This is a simple tip that will save tons of time when working with CVS. Since multiple CVS repositories can exist on the same system, CVS needs to know which one you want to use when you run the cvs program.

CVS: Create a new project

Contributed by wolf359 on under UNIX software

In CVS, a project is a collection of files and possibly directory trees of files. A project can represent the source code for a programming project, the set of configuration files for a specific server, or the chapter of a book. This describes how to make a new project in an existing CVS repository.

CVS: create a repository

Contributed by wolf359 on under UNIX software

CVS (concurrent version systems) is an essential tool for system administrators, programmers, authors, or anyone else who has to maintain a collection of text files that change over time. CVS is a version control system that keeps track of changes to sets of files. It all starts with a repository and this is how to make one.

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