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If you are running a Drupal multi-site installation, and the sequence tables are shared, then here's an admonition: take real care of the changed prefix for each shared database. Cross check on the sequence tables if you ever had to rename the database or just the unshared tables. For instance, [dbprefix_dbname] becomes [dbprefixnew_dbname] The first thing you have to do is go check the sequence table and change the values manually on the new sequence table entries corresponding to the database appropriately.

Nothing new in Openoffice crashing on your Linux installation. It does, most of the times :P But for the users who rely on SCIM (Stanadard Chinese Input Method) for Input in their regional language, Openoffice is completely unusable as of now on Ubuntu. It never takes off from the splash screen that appears. Turns out that Openoffice.org doesn't like the GTK_IM_MODULE set to scim. There is a work around, though. But not so convenient one.

Found this on a forum. Very useful in converting Tiffs to PDF. tiff2ps -h 8.5 -w 11 *.tif > tiffs.ps ps2pdfwr -g7920x6120 tiffs.ps OR $ for f in *.tiff; do convert [options] $f $f.ps; done $ convert *.ps merged.ps $ ps2pdf merged.pdf For the first method, you'll need Ghostscript Utilities installed. For the second, you'll need imagemagick installed.