SUSE Linux -- good alternation to Microsoft

I attended a seminar about Novell Work Group Tour yesterday.

After seeing all those demo, I feel that SUSE Linux can be considered as a very good alternation to the Microsoft product. It is worth to explore further…

As for their OpenOffice which is the equivalent of MSOffice, it also looks impressive.

To try it out, go to the http://download.novell.com

水至清则无鱼

“水至清则无鱼，人至察则无友” 意思： 水太清澈就没有鱼，人过分精明就没有朋友 做人不能太较真，这正是有人活得潇洒，有人活得太累的原因所在。

How to save Flash (SWF) file from web page onto your PC

Someone ever asked me a question on how to download the animation or cartoon game was created using Flash from the Web page onto his own hard drive.

The answer is that... it can be done regardless whether you are using Internet Explorer or Firefox as a browser even though the technique is not straight forward (because there is no option to save the flash file when you right-clicking the item).

Here is the method to save flash in IE browser...
- At IE, click Tools - Internet Options
- In the General Tab, click the "Settings" button available in the Temporary Internet Files group.
- Click "View Files" to open your Temporary Internet Files folder.
- Once you find the right flash file, right-click & choose Copy. Then paste the swf file in any other directory... Now, you are done.
- After that, you may go to that directory to do off-line viewing.

As for Firefox browser, these are the steps…
- Click Tools - Page Info.
- Click "Media" Tab and scroll down the list to locate the SWF file.
- Click the "Save As" button to save the file onto a directory on your hard disk.

Happiness

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on you.

Error about installing ‘Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage’

I attended a user’s problem today where the PC popped out an error about installing ‘Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage’ when he surfed the Internet using Internet Explorer.

It kept nagging the user even though he tried clicking the Cancel button to ignore the error.

To resolve the issue, I used the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility (ie windows uninstaller) to remove any references to the failed update package installation.

For details, u may refer to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301