andreasma_at_LibreOffice

In the last days some authors from OOoAuthors discovered that there were some spam accounts on the site. They were able to get an account and put some content with links onto the site.
This leads to the question, if there is a product for the CMS of the site (Plone) to prevent this machine generated accounts and spam. And it is: qPloneCaptchas.
It is an product, that could be easily installed in a Plone-Site (e.g. version 3.1.6). I tried it in my buildout of Plone and it was a little bit complicated. I got a hint from an other Plone user and then it installed.
Now a new user had to read and write down the letters from the captcha. This should prevent machine generated accounts.

Since OpenOffice.org 3.0 rc4 is out, I worked with Marko on a Release Candidate for OpenOffice.org Portable 3.0. There are many things done now, but we have to find solutions for some issues. This may consume some time, so we are not sure, if we are able to get out a release in October. Finally we had to do some tests to make shure, that OOoPortable 3.0 works properly.

Today the RC3 of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is out. So I started the work for OpenOffice.org Portable 3.0 rc3 in collaboration with Marko. I hope we are able to finish this work at the end of this week.

In the last days I installed OpenSolaris 10 inside VirtualBox. The Host-OS is openSuSE 11.0-x64.

I run into some trouble with OpenSolaris10-2008.05 inside the virtual machine because the package update won't work. So I fetched a newer ISO of OpenSolaris and tried again. Now it works good.

Yesterday I installed OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC2 inside this virtual machine. First I I downloaded the package for Solaris from a mirror. Then I used the following command to extract the package:
gunzip -c OOo*.tar.gz | tar -xf -
(found in the installation guide).
Next I tried to install OpenOffice.org with the command described in the installation guide but that didn't work. Then I had a look inside the package directory and found a file "update". I used this executable inside a shell:
./update
This starts the installation process. First I was informed how many packages could be updated. Then I had to answer the question, which packages I want to update. I answered: "all" and everything went fine.

Parallel zu der Installation der freien Version von Solaris 10 auf VMWare habe ich in den letzten Tagen die Installation einer solchen VM mit der freien Version von VirtualBox getestet und bin sehr angetan davon. Die Installation war genau so einfach wie mit VMWare. Einzige Schwierigkeit lag in dem Einbinden des Kernelmoduls von VirtualBox, das ich zunächst mit modprobe gelöst habe.
Die virtuelle Solarisinstallation wartet nun auf OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC2 zum Test ;-)