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Created: 18 May 2014

When I write in Italian using LibreOffice on a computer that's not mine I usually struggle with hyphenation. Every time I have to recap how to enable the Italian language, so I've decided to write this post for future reference.

First of all, I have to download the Italian extension here: extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center.
Click on "Italian dictionary, thesaurus, hyphenation patterns" and download the file "dict-it.oxt". OpenOffice and LibreOffice extensions share the common .oxt extension.

Then I have to install the extension in LibreOffice. I have to go to Tools -> Extension Manager, click on Add, then select the dict-it.oxt file and open it. It's worth restarting LibreOffice to let it know of the new extension.

If hyphenation still does not work, I have to right click on the document, choose Paragraph -> Text flow and make sure that Hyphenation's flag "Automatically" is checked.

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Created: 17 May 2014

Recently I've bought a refurbished lenovo thinkpad x201 online and I've installed the new Ubuntu 14.04 on it. These are my finding on how to customize it for my personal taste.

If you have a Thinkpad and want to know its hardware and install Linux with more insight, make sure to read thinkwiki.org. This is a volunteered site with useful suggestions about all the Lenovo family.

First of all I suggest to limit the speed of the CPU before incurring in overheating and an unexpected (and very quick) forced shutdown. To limit the CPU I found very practical the use of the cpu scaling indicator which can be installed by:

$ apt-get install indicator-cpufreq
$ indicator-cpufreq &

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Created: 05 May 2013

Samsung CLX-3305 is a multifunction printer with an embedded scanner. While the printer component is perfectly managed by Ubuntu, the scanner doesn't get automatically recognized. This is due to a missing piece of configuration in the /etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf file which is the configuration file of the SANE backend able to support Samsung scanners (despite the name suggesting Xerox multifunction printers).

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Created: 22 November 2012

One of the first source of information for a Linux network administrator is the tcpdump command. If you need it, you already know it, so I'll not dive into its details. Mikrotik RouterOS on the other hand offers a very similar sniffing tool but without the flexibility of the Linux shell: /tools sniffer. How to have the same flexibility on Mikrotik? Easy: join the best from both worlds by streaming.