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March 23, 2009

Word Press in Missoula Courtroom for Grace Trial

Filed under: FOSS, federal law, judiciary, montana law — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 7:48 am

justicescales.jpgThe law school and the journalism school are helping report on the U.S. Attorney’s prosecution of W.R. Grace and five officials for criminal offenses.

I understand but have not personally confirmed that U.S. District Judge Molloy gave permission (rare) for reporters inside the courtroom to keep their cell phones and/or laptops turned on so twittering may occur.

Here’s one news story among many describing the revolutionary coverage of this federal trial:

http://www.newwest.net/city/article/um_journalists_cover_wr_grace_trial_in_real_time/C8/L8/

Here’s a link to the blog itself:

http://blog.umt.edu/gracecase/

Still no Creative Commons license for the content, but change comes slow. This is still an amazing use of Word Press.

March 22, 2009

Half A Dozen Linux Lawyer Problems Solved

Filed under: FOSS, poverty law — Tags: , , , , , , — late_rabbit @ 7:43 pm

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1. Description. OpenOffice files unreadable from shell.

Solution. odt2txt unreadable_file | less

2. Description. File on remote server unreadable from local host.

Solution. mkdir /mnt/stuff
sudo sshfs user@userserver.no-ip.info:/home/user/Desktop/matters /mnt/stuff
cd /mnt/stuff
ls -l
fusermount -u /mnt/stuff

3. Description. eGroupWare calendar and contacts unreadable from local host.

Solution. ssh -L 4444:192.168.0.65:80 user@userserver.no-ip.info
firefox

http://localhost:4444

4. Description. Unable to read or write file.

Solution. sudo chmod 0777 unreadable_file

5. Description. Missing an executable.

Solution. sudo apt-get install missing_executable

6. Description. Need to reboot from shell.

Solution. sudo shutdown -r now.

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