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Archive for 2012

November 8th, 2012 by Niels Horn in |

Way back, in January 2006, I wrote an Excel macro in VBA on a quiet day to solve SuDoKu puzzles. At the time I thought it was flawless, as it solved each and every puzzle I entered.
Some time later, I published the macro on my site and challenged people to find puzzles that my macro [...]

February 14th, 2012 by Niels Horn in , |

Today version 3.5.0 of LibreOffice was released. The list of new features and fixes is impressive and can be found here.
As always, the updated SlackBuild script has been submitted to SlackBuilds.org and pre-built packages can be found on my site.

January 5th, 2012 by Niels Horn in , ,

FreeCAD and OpenCASCADE
Building a new version of FreeCAD and OpenCASCADE is always a lot of fun…
These two projects are constantly evolving, but almost never 'in sync'.
In December a new version of the OpenCASCADE library was released - 6.5.2. It solves several bugs and looked like a good reason to build a newer version of FreeCAD [...]