oSLO Conference 🐧

oSLO is short for openSUSE + LibreOffice. The two projects are celebrating their 15ᵗʰ and 10ᵗʰ anniversary respectively in 2020.

openSUSE Board election 2019-2020 result

The openSUSE Board election 2019-2020 reached an end on the night of 31 January 23h59 CET after running for two weeks. 281 out of 500 eligible members voted in this election.

LibreOffice dark icons

Whether using dark themes in GNOME or KDE I am usually left with a not so pleasing toolbar in LibreOffice. I thought of changing that and to my surprise it was just a few clicks way.

Kopano: Unknown MAPI Error

If you're thrown an Unknown MAPI Error: MAPI_E_NOT_FOUND when logging with a newly created account on Kopano, it is mostly because the user does not have a store.

AFRINIC WHOIS database tampered?

AFRINIC CEO, Eddy Kayihura, informed the community that following allegations of fraudulent manipulation of the AFRINIC WHOIS database, the matter has been referred to the Central Criminal Investigation Division (CCID) of the Mauritius Police Force for further investigation.

An unnamed cyclone🌀

It is the first time that the Meteo Office has issued a "cyclone warning" for an unnamed cyclone. It is currently called Tropical Disturbance 'C'.

openSUSE Board election 2019-2020

This year's openSUSE Election Committee is composed of Ariez Vachha, Edwin Zakaria and myself. Ariez joined the committee for the first time, while Edwin and I have worked together on the previous openSUSE Board election.

Preps for the Developers Conference 2020...

The next Developers Conference, simply dubbed DevCon 2020, will be held on 2 - 4 April at the Caudan Arts Centre in Port-Louis, Mauritius. This time the conference theme is Comics, which I am pretty sure requires no further explanation as to what to expect.

Change the page margins for a single page in a LaTeX document

The simplest way I found of doing it is using the changepage package available from ctan.org. While the package provides several commands to adjust the page margins, text blocks or the entire page design, I find the below single line command extremely useful.