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Miklos Vajna
Personal blog · vmiklos.hu/blogprogrammingsystems
Miklos Vajna writes What is Miklos hacking, a personal blog at vmiklos.hu about programming and systems. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Miklos Vajna's blog covers Microsoft Office file formats (DOC, OOXML), git sparse checkouts, and LibreOffice improvements. Commenters link to posts from it as references.
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In practice there are assorted binary or encoded lumps. More fun: you know what happens if you save a .DOC in Office 2007/2010/2013? Any features past 2003 are saved as a lump of OOXML! http://vmiklos.hu/blog/doctok.html#comment-header
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on “Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (2008)”Submitted Export larger pages from LibreOffice Draw using PDF 1.6 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionActually, you can, with sparse checkouts. They've been in since git 1.7, if I remember correctly. It's not very user friendly yet, and you do retain the entire path from the repository root. See for example here: http://vmiklos.hu/blog/sparse-checkout-example-in-git-1-7
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on “Apache considered harmful”> I still haven't found a way to sign a pdf with a smartcard on Linux yet, which is literally the only reason I still need Windows <nerdsnipe>oooooooo, Interesting™</nerdsnipe> I toyed around with smart cards a little while back after discovering a reader in an old laptop's PCMCIA slot (yes, I said old, shhh :P). A truly fascinating and horrendously broken/fragmented ecosystem. Taking a look around, apparently Libre…
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on “DOS Subsystem for Linux”OOXML doesn't exist. There is only the different formats put out by the four versions of MS Office that claim to do a format of that name. None of which are quite the version in any of the specs. You are in a twisty maze of OOXML variants, all somewhat bug-compatible. (Oh, and they broke DOC in the process too. You know what happens when you save a DOC from a later version of MS Office? OOXML embedded in the DOC . A…
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on “LibreOffice 5.2 “fresh” Released, for Windows, Mac OS and GNU/Linux”MS Office support has been coming a long way over the last few releases - some massive improvements in this release and 4.1. You can see come examples of what's been fixed in this version here - http://vmiklos.hu/blog/lo-41-ooxml-improvements.html (and there's a link there to what was fixed in the last version). If you are having issues with it on work documents, you could really help out in having them fixed by try…
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on “LibreOffice 4.1 New Features and Fixes”