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  1. Re:Spoiler by Chyeld · · Score: 1 · on The 10 Coolest Open Source Products of 2008

    Ice? ICE! This is ex-Ice...

    Sir, turn in your geek badge at the door. We will mail your belongings later.

  2. LaTeX and Google Docs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Investigating Online Office Suites

    Check out this page on integrating Google Docs and LaTeX:

    http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/research/googledocs.php

  3. I have built a system that may help by ptsefton · · Score: 1 · on Document Management and Version Control?

    The ICE project is a free software system that uses Subversion to manage document versions, and provides a little web server written in Python that watches a working copy for you. If you use a simple generic template it will also make nice XHTML versions of your documents. You can use Word or OpenOffice.org Writer to edit.

    Also makes PDF versions of individual documents, and you can use OpenOffice.org master documents to make book-length PDFs (even from Word files, with some caveats).

    It is described in this paper I wrote: http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00000697/

  4. I have built a system that may help by ptsefton · · Score: 1 · on Document Management and Version Control?

    The ICE project is a free software system that uses Subversion to manage document versions, and provides a little web server written in Python that watches a working copy for you. If you use a simple generic template it will also make nice XHTML versions of your documents. You can use Word or OpenOffice.org Writer to edit.

    Also makes PDF versions of individual documents, and you can use OpenOffice.org master documents to make book-length PDFs (even from Word files, with some caveats).

    It is described in this paper I wrote: http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00000697/

  5. Re:WiFi. The 3rd Internet by lazybeam · · Score: 1 · on Software To Stop Song Trading

    OK I haven't used it in a while, it's now 15MB every Monday and Friday, rolling over to a maximum of 50MB. (So effectively 30MB/week)

    clicky

    But most people don't live on campus, and so it's dialup to their crappy servers, it's much better to get Dodo "unlimited hours" for $10/month.

    I have been using ADSL for years, really only use the USQconnect if I need to (eg their wireless network - one of Australia's biggest mirror sites (mirror.aarnet.edu.au) is not counted in the quota - this is even faster than my 1.5Mbit ADSL.)

    Oh, and they are increasing fees (HECS) next year for new students, by 20%.

  6. Re:Need for training at early stages by lazybeam · · Score: 4, Informative · on Embarrassing Governments Into Adopting Open Source

    I know for a fact that UTas (University of Tasmania) offers a standard of CompSci and sylabus similar to most other Australian universities - and its all MS based, plus a little Java for programming. I think there's a short section on *nix but it's all microsoft.

    My uni's (USQ in Toowoomba Qld) IT department wants everyone to be using windows, but the Maths and Computing department is pretty much fully Linux. They have two undergraduate labs with only Linux, as well as many courses require the use of at least cygwin. This is a Good Thing. We do programming in GCC, G++ and Java. We had to write HTML using a text editor and networking software using Unix sockets...

    A lot of the lecturers even don't use the new system they spent millions on (PeopleSoft) - I can't blame them, it is a lot slower than the old in-house system, even with the new hardware.

    It would be good to see other companies get their products used; my mother works in a government department and they moved from Win 3.1 and Lotus Notes to a pretty much MS-only environment... (well of course they do have some specialised software)