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Slashback: StarOffice, Antennae, Handiness

Slashback with more on paying royalties for Web standards, Sun's newest office suite, securing your 802.11 network starting with the antenna(e), and another glove.

Fewer excuses for the "memos and shopping lists" crowd. Sean Lamb writes: "Now that everyone's done slashdotting Sun's servers, I've posted an Out-Of-Box-Experience review of StarOffice 6.0 beta over at Linux Orbit."

Some things just want to be Free. Bruce Perens writes: "HP has made a public statement supporting royalty-free web standards and urging the community to write W3C with their opinion. "

A document on Perens' web site outlines Hewlett-Packard's response to the ongoing discussion of allowing technologies into W3C standards which could require patents on the so-called Reasonable and Non-Discrimatory (RAND) basis. That document reads in part:

"Agreement on royalty-free standards does not end this discussion. The licensing of patents embedded in standards must be compatible with the GPL license that is applied to the Linux operating system kernel, the MIT-derived license that is applied to the Apache web server, and a number of other software licenses. Because of the many thousands of copyright holders who have already contributed to existing products under those licenses, those software licenses can not be changed - the patent licensing mandated by W3C standards must accommodate them."
I hope other companies benefiting from software like Apache, Linux, and any other software which could be hurt by royalty-based standards make similar statements.

Wardrivers, begone. Moshe Barr may have laid out how to share a network connection with the neighborhood, but what about when you don't want to or can't afford to? trevmar writes: "BYTE.com has just published an article I wrote about WLAN antennas -- how they work and how to choose them. Hopefully I have put in all the stuff you will need to know whether you are setting up a community freenet, or just want to make your own home network harder to hack. If you are hardware inclined, I also describe some low cost hardware, and an access point that can be pulled apart very easily and resoldered at will ..."

Need an integrated keyboard here ... Adrian writes "Forget the guys with the glove from Berkeley, check out these guys -- they have a great product that interfaces with 3D Max for realtime animation generation that is on the market and won best of SIGGRAPH a couple of years back -http://www.didjiglove.com.au" While that's nice, I'd rather not forget the Berkeley guys just yet, since their seems like a more generalized concept.

143 comments

  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

    1. Re:fp by l00ny_bstrd · · Score: -1

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    2. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Sucking on ass is in general a bad idea, as it is likely to result in feces in your mouth. Human feces are highly toxic and can cause serious sickness or even death if ingested.

    3. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Then why are there all those sites on the internet that I read that tell me about how cool and sexy it is to eat another man's feces. Especially if he's eaten some nasty shit himself?

    4. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The people who made those sites are either ignorant or they are trying to kill people by encouraging them to eat feces.

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  3. Hello there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have first post, and you don't. bitches

  4. WTC Truth! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    The WTC attacks were a the result of a malevolent force unleashed on the world by Satan. Namely, the Jews!!!

    The organization in charge of the Zionist conspiracy is Mossad. They faked evidence and paid off people to make it look like the attacks were done by Arabs!

    4000 Jews were told to stay home Sept. 11.

    Obviously the Jews want America and Islam to destroy each other so they can rule the ashes!!!

    See proof here
    !!!

    1. Re:WTC Truth! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      But Jerry Falwell said it was God's revenge for liberals/pro-choicers/queers/and the like. Wait a minute, those ARE all Jews.

  5. FIRST JEWISH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am a jew!

  6. WTF?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Slashdot is archiving -1 posts. wtf?!

    Note to moderators: Only a cock gobbling fag would moderate this down.

    1. Re:WTF?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      note to AC: All moderators are cock gobbling fags and at least half try to molest little boys on a regular basis.

  7. hahaha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Some moderator admitted that they were a cock gobbling fag... Too bad we'll never know who it was...

    1. Re:hahaha by BiffJerky · · Score: -1, Troll

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    2. Re:hahaha by ElDuque · · Score: 1

      Slashdotting is not the verb there, the verb is "to be" contracted with "everyone"

      "Slashdotting" is a participle or gerund or something.

      I am so smart.

    3. Re:hahaha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thats not what I was pointing out... I was merely indicating the fact that "slashdotting" was used in the sense of an "activity", etc.

      Take your "smarts" and go fuck off.

    4. Re:hahaha by HyperbolicParabaloid · · Score: 1

      no and yes.
      Slashdotting is a gerund: a noun used as a verb.
      the 's in everyone's is also a verb.
      This sentence is positively overflowing with parts of speach!

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  8. My Thoughts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Two weeks ago I told you about the atrocious murders of four young White men and women in Wichita, Kansas, last month by two Blacks. Two of my reasons for telling you about these murders were, first, the fact that the controlled news media in America had imposed a total blackout, outside the Wichita area, on the news of these atrocious crimes; and second, the fact that the Whites who were murdered didn't resist the Blacks who murdered them, and I wanted to draw a lesson from this failure to resist.
    Well, another two weeks have passed, and the national Jewish news media have maintained their total blackout on the murders -- and during this time I have learned a few more details about the crimes which accentuate both points I made two weeks ago. What I told you in my earlier broadcast was that two Black brothers, 20-year-old Jonathan Carr and 23-year-old Reginald Carr, invaded a White home in Wichita on the evening of December 14, kidnapped the three White men and two White women in the home, all of them in their 20s, forced them to withdraw money from several ATM machines, then drove to a snow-covered soccer field on the outskirts of Wichita. There the Blacks raped the two White women, then told all five of the Whites to kneel in the snow and shot them in the back of the head, one at a time. After that the two Blacks returned to the Whites' home, burglarized it, and killed a pet dog they found there: a small, gray terrier.

    One of the young White women they shot in the head didn't die however. She regained consciousness, ran naked and bleeding through the snow for a mile, and summoned police, who arrested the Blacks a few hours later. That's what the Jewish media bosses decided we didn't need to hear about, and they clamped a complete blackout on the story on December 15. In eager collaboration with the Jewish media, local authorities -- local politicians -- also imposed an embargo on all news about the affair. The local female district attorney, Nola Foulston, repeatedly asserted that race was not a factor, and that the rapes and murders would not be treated as "hate crimes."

    What I have learned recently is that after the two Blacks drove the five Whites to the soccer field, they not only forced the White women to strip and then raped them, but they also forced all of the Whites to put on a sex show for the amusement of the Blacks. On that snowy soccer field they forced the White men to engage in homosexual acts; they forced the White women to have sex with each other; and they forced the White men to have sex with the White women before shooting all of them. After the Blacks forced the Whites to kneel naked in the snow and shot them in the back of the head, they deliberately ran over them with one of the vehicles they were driving. This additional information was leaked from the grand jury which heard the evidence in the case, despite the official news embargo.

    Furthermore, three days earlier the same two Blacks murdered another White woman, Ann Walenta, a cellist in the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, while she was sitting in her car outside her home. And four days before that, on December 7, they kidnapped, robbed, and pistol-whipped a White man, 23-year-old Andrew Schreiber, the manager of a Wichita convenience store.

    Nothing racial about any of that, right? And certainly nothing that the White public should be told about, right? I mean, it's certainly not as newsworthy as the dragging death of a Black ex-convict in Jasper, Texas, in 1998 by three White ex-convicts, is it? I mean, the Jasper killing was given top billing by all of the controlled news media in America -- and in Europe as well -- for two years, and the racial angle was emphasized over and over and over again: hardened White racists drag innocent Black man to death. So obviously the murders and rapes of five White people in Wichita by a couple of underprivileged and misguided Black youths doesn't need any news coverage. Enough news already about interracial crime, right? No need to exacerbate racial tensions, right?

    Well, that's one of the points I wanted to accentuate. The other point is the total lack of resistance of the White victims. It now seems that the two Blacks were armed only with a .380 caliber semiautomatic pistol. All of the killings were done with that same gun, and the police are still looking for it. Now, you certainly can be killed with a .380, especially if you're shot in the back of the head at close range, but it's not much of a man-stopper. It's a pretty anemic caliber, and it's only used because it's small and can be carried concealed easily. It's a ladies' gun. And yet three able-bodied White men let two Blacks armed only with a .380 pistol force them to stand and watch their women being raped and degraded and even to participate in the degradation themselves. And then they knelt obediently in the snow and let themselves and their women be slaughtered, one at a time.

    That's really embarrassing. One expects more of a White man. This sort of sheep-like behavior reminds me of a scene in one of my novels, Hunter, in which a group of White office workers kneel obediently on the floor and let a Black with a straight razor go down the line and slit their throats, one at a time. In my novel the Whites submit because they have been conditioned by the Jewish mass media not to resist Blacks. They have been conditioned to regard any resistance to Blacks as "racist." When I wrote Hunter 12 years ago, I was concerned that perhaps I was getting a bit ahead of myself, and that to portray Whites as so strongly conditioned by the Jewish media that they would meekly let themselves be butchered by Blacks would not be credible to my readers. I asked myself, will most Americans believe that Jewish media propaganda can have that strong an effect on people? Well, I worried about it at the time, but I left the scene in the book, and what happened in Wichita last month suggests that I really wasn't getting too far ahead of myself after all. That's a real shame.

    Now let's talk about Jewish media propaganda for a while. Is it fair of me to describe it as deliberate, calculated psychological conditioning designed to demoralize White people -- and to emasculate White men in particular? Am I imagining things in believing that the mass media are slanted deliberately by the people who control them, with the aim of weakening White people and softening them up for the slaughter? Do I believe such things only because I don't like Jews and am therefore too ready to attribute bad motives to them?

    Some listeners think that is the case. Some people suggest to me that the attitudes portrayed by the Jews in the entertainment they produce for White people simply reflects their prejudices, but that there's no purpose behind it to corrupt or weaken us. Nearly all Jews are liberals, they tell me, and so it is natural that they produce films and television shows that portray liberal attitudes. And I suppose, following that line of reasoning, that the way in which they cover the news for us also is simply an unconscious reflection of Jewish likes and dislikes, with no ulterior motives behind it.

    Other listeners suggest to me that I am putting the cart before the horse to blame Jewish media propaganda for changing public attitudes and opinions. What the Jews put into their Hollywood films and television programming is simply a reflection of life in America, they tell me. Americans have become more liberal, they tell me, and the Jews of Hollywood and Madison Avenue simply are following that trend, not leading it. After all, they say, the Jews are businessmen, and they're just giving the American people what they want. And the same thing applies to the news. If the American public really wanted to know what happened in Wichita last month, then the Jewish media bosses certainly would have told them. But Americans don't want to hear that kind of news, they tell me. That sort of news has a racist flavor to it, and it makes Americans uncomfortable. That's the only reason the Wichita story wasn't covered; Americans didn't want to hear about it. On the other hand, they were interested in the Jasper, Texas, dragging story. Americans felt that sort of story needed to be told in order to help fight racism. That's why the Jewish media told it . . . and told it . . . and told it.

    Anyway, that's what some people tell me in order to explain why the Jewish media do what they do: why they suppress some news and exaggerate other news. Personally, I don't believe it. I believe that the Jewish media lead the trends instead of following them. I believe that the Jewish media bosses have a propaganda agenda. I believe that they use their control of the news and entertainment media in a calculated way to shape public attitudes and influence public behavior in America deliberately in order to achieve goals of their own. And I believe that those Jewish goals are inimical to our people.

    But you know, you should decide that for yourself. You shouldn't just take my word for it. Yesterday a new Jewish film premiered. The name is Save the Last Dance. The film was made jointly by Paramount Pictures and MTV Films, both of which are subsidiaries of the Viacom Corporation. The Viacom Corporation is run by -- and largely owned by -- Jewish media boss Sumner Redstone, who was known to his parents as Murray Rothstein. And Redstone also acquired CBS recently, making him one of the top three media bosses in America -- all three of them Jews, of course. Redstone has staffed his media empire with Jews from top to bottom. He has put in a Jewess, Sherry Lansing, as president of Paramount Pictures, for example. And Viacom's MTV division, which specializes in interracial entertainment for trendy young White people, is well represented by the executive there who has handled the Save the Last Dance project, David Gale. Gale, a Jew, is senior vice-president of MTV Films.

    Save the Last Dance is a film aimed at 13- to 17-year-old White girls. Its message to these teenaged White girls is that sex with Black boys is "cool." Very briefly, the story line is this: Sara is a White high school girl who lives in a very White small town in Illinois with her mother. Sara loves to dance, and her ambition is to become a ballet dancer. Then Sara's mother is killed in an accident, and Sara moves to Chicago to live with her father. In Chicago she attends a mostly Black high school, meets a Black boy who is into hip hop, and the two of them are drawn together by their shared interest in dancing -- although their dance styles are as different as . . . black and white. And so, of course, they end up in bed together, despite the objections of Sara's "racist" father.

    I might not have mentioned this film to you if it were simply another piece of the race-mixing filth the Jews of Hollywood have been churning out during the last few years. All of this filth has the same aim, but with most of it the people who don't want to see the truth about what the Jews are up to could argue that it is simply typically low-grade Hollywood entertainment which uses interracial sex for spice, for titillation, but that there's no evil motive behind it, no intent to encourage interracial sex.

    Well, they can't argue that about Save the Last Dance. This is a film which is aimed squarely at teenaged White girls, by far the most impressionable and susceptible segment of the White population, and its intent is to make them more receptive to the idea of interracial sex. All sorts of advertising promotions have been launched for this film, and they're all aimed at teenaged White girls. If you want to know what's on the minds of the people who made this film, go to their very own web site, savethelastdance.com, and read what they say. Clearly, encouraging interracial sex was the thing most on their minds. The film's Jewish producer, Robert Cort, discusses his motivation with his co-producer, David Madden. They say that they and others at Paramount wanted to produce a film about:

    interracial romance and the social impact created by such a subject. We felt a movie could explore what those obstacles were for people involved in such relationships, particularly young people in high school.
    So the Jews at Paramount Pictures turned to a Black director who has a fixation on interracial sex, Thomas Carter. According to the movie's official web site, savethelastdance.com, Carter:

    had been looking for a story about interracial relationships that he could bring to the screen. Carter says the film positively reinforces the possibilities for people to love and understand each other, even when they are from different backgrounds and races.
    Well, that's just a small sampling. Look at some of the film clips from Save the Last Dance that you can view free on the Internet. Look at some of the promotions that are so obviously intended to persuade teenaged White girls to see the film and to imitate Sara's behavior. The clear message of the film to these teenaged White viewers is, "Go thou now and do likewise."

    The last thing I want to do is put more money into Sumner Redstone's pockets, but I recommend that you see the film for yourself, so that it will stick in your mind and you still will remember it when the time for the cleansing of America comes.

    I don't want to give you the impression that there's something special about Redstone or the other Jews at Viacom. Some Jewish media push interracial sex more blatantly than others, but they're all behind it: all of the Jewish newspapers and magazines from the New York Times and Newsweek magazine on down, all of the Jewish film and television producers, all of the Jewish advertising agencies. It's not just a Redstone thing or a Viacom thing or a Paramount Pictures thing; it's a Jewish thing.

    I'll give you another example. The Miramax division of Disney also has a new film promoting sex between teenaged White girls and Black boys. The name of the Disney film is O. Although it hasn't been released yet, there's plenty of information available about it. It's been finished for more than a year, but the release has been postponed several times, reportedly because the Jewish bosses at Miramax, Bob and Harvey Weinstein, were nervous about some of the sex and violence in the film. There's a horrific scene in the film where the Black "hero" brutally rapes his pretty, blonde, teenaged girlfriend.

    The Weinstein brothers are very close to both Al Gore and Hillary and Bill Clinton, and it has been rumored that they were concerned that controversy over the film might hurt Gore's chances in the recent presidential election. Perhaps Michael Eisner, the Jewish boss of Disney, Miramax's parent company, was worried too. And maybe the film's Jewish executive producer, Michael Levy, also expressed concern. Unless there's another postponement, however, O finally should be released sometime in the first half of this year. You should see that one too, in order to steel yourself for the hard and bloody things we will need to do in the future.

    And really, that's what this is all about. As important as it is for White Americans to be informed about the criminality of Blacks and the hatred that Blacks have for us, as important as it is for us to be informed about atrocities such as those in Wichita last month, what is far more important is that we understand the systematic and deliberate distortion and suppression of the news by the Jewish bosses of the news media. The Wichita rapes and murders are more important as evidence of Jewish intent than of Black criminality.

    And as important as it is for decent White Americans to be aware of the sort of destructive filth coming out of Hollywood which is targeting our children, what is far more important is for us to understand the systematic nature of this destructive filth, to understand that there is a purpose behind it, and to understand what that purpose is and whose purpose it is.

    On these broadcasts I believe it's fair to say that I try harder than anything else to make myself clear. I try to state things as simply and unambiguously as I can. I try to find the most compelling evidence I can and to present it accurately and in a way that makes its meaning easy to grasp. Whenever I can, I use evidence that listeners can check for themselves if I tell them where to look. Certainly, that's true of the things of which I've spoken on this broadcast: both the Wichita rapes and murders and the Jewish films promoting miscegenation. And I try to draw my conclusions from the evidence in a way that makes those conclusions unavoidable for any reasonable listener. The principal conclusion I have drawn in this broadcast is that the Jews who dominate our news and entertainment media are not simply businessmen trying to maximize their profits, like any other businessmen. They are men who also have a political, social, cultural, and racial agenda. They report the news selectively in order to advance their agenda, and they produce entertainment for the public designed to advance their agenda. Among other things on their agenda are the moral disarmament of the White public, the destruction of any sense of White identity or White pride, the inculcation of a sense of White guilt, and the paralysis of our will to resist the total Jewish domination of our society, the paralysis of our will to survive.

    Now, that's a strong conclusion to draw just from the evidence I've presented in this broadcast. But I've presented corroborating evidence in more than two hundred other broadcasts. The selective reporting of the news in a way designed to make Whites feel guilty and the production of Hollywood films that attempt to persuade teenaged White girls that they should look favorably on sex with Blacks fit in perfectly with the Jews' support for open borders, the Jews' tireless work for "diversity" and multiculturalism, the Jews' advocacy of more and more "hate crime" legislation, the Jews' campaign against the Second Amendment, the Jews' efforts to censor the Internet and obtain legislation against "speech crime." Look at Jewish motives and activities in the light of history. Look at the way in which America has changed demographically, culturally, and morally during the past half-century under the impact of Jewish propaganda and Jewish policies. These changes did not come about by accident. They are the result of design.

    The biggest and most important single factor in the Jewish campaign against White America is the Jewish control of the mass media of news and entertainment. Most Jews, of course, are not media bosses. Most Jews are not in a position to plan the selective reporting of the news or produce films designed to encourage interracial sex, the way Sumner Redstone and Michael Eisner and the Weinstein brothers are. But all of them -- or nearly all of them -- support the same things these Jewish leaders do. What is happening to America is not simply the consequence of having a small number of powerful and evil Jews in the media. It is happening as a consequence of having six million Jews in America. A small number of them control our mass media. The rest provide the Jewish tribal infrastructure which makes that control possible.

    Again I say to you: don't just take my word for it. Think about it for yourself. Check the evidence for yourself. Draw your own conclusions. But don't just continue sitting on your hands and ignore what is being done to your country, to your civilization, and to your race.

    © 2000 National Vanguard Books Box 330 Hillsboro WV 24946 USA

  9. Anti-Islam "bigotry" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, the general opinion seems to be that hatred of Islamic people is not an acceptable reaction. Whenever someone suggests that it might be in our interests to deport or imprison Islamic Americans, they are labelled as 'bigots' and 'racists', and are modded down as 'trolls'. But the problem with this argument is that Islam is not a skin color or gender; it is a set of idealogies, and it is one which motivated others to kill innocent women and children. Another idealogy which caused people to kill was Naziism. It is perfectly clear that everyone who follows the violent, evil teachings of Islam must be imprisoned or at the very least deported before they bring down the USA from within!

    1. Re:Anti-Islam "bigotry" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Like Christianity with the Crusades?

  10. What We Can Do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    One of the more common responses I receive from listeners goes something like this: "OK, you've convinced us that we have some very serious problems, but you never tell us what we should do about these problems."
    Two weeks ago I spoke in general terms about the sort of White world we want to have in the future, and again I received many letters along the line, "I agree with your vision of the future, but you didn't tell us how to get from here to there."

    But, of course, I have often talked with you about what we must do. Sometimes, I should admit, what I tell you is very general. Two weeks ago, for example, I told you that the new, White world we want can only rise out of hard and bloody struggle. That's not very specific. But in other broadcasts I have been specific. I have talked specifically about some of the things we must do to get from here to there.

    I think that the people who complain that I never give solutions to the problems I present are looking at the world a little differently than I am. When they say, "Tell us how to get from here to there," what they really want me to tell them is a safe, easy, and painless way to get from here to there: a quick and sure way. And, of course, I cannot tell them that, because there is no such way. We have gotten ourselves into a really bad mess, and it inevitably will cost us an enormous amount of blood and suffering to recover from it -- if we are able to recover at all. I don't talk much about the specifics of the blood and suffering because, for one thing, that will come a bit later, and we don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves.

    For another thing, in these soft and comfortable times, most people just can't cope with really hard concepts. I had a letter a couple of days ago from a listener who said that he agreed with most of my broadcast, but that I was too "extreme" in talking about remedies. He thought that my suggestion that welfare mothers should be sterilized was horrible -- "over the top" was the expression he used -- and that it certainly would turn off people who otherwise would be receptive to my vision of the future.

    Well, all I can say to that is that if he finds the thought of sterilizing welfare mothers to be "over the top," he'll have a hard time coping with the terrible reality which lies ahead of us. He's like one of those gentle and civilized folks who appreciates the bacon he eats with his breakfast but can't bear to think about the bloody details of how the bacon got from the pig happily rooting in the farmyard to his plate. Sterilizing welfare mothers will be one of the kinder and gentler things we will be obliged to do.

    Anyway, there's not much point in debating such remedies now, because we're not yet in a position to implement them, and we don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves. We need merely to understand that our struggle will be long and difficult and will involve many things so far "over the top" that they would cause our more comfortable and civilized listeners to swoon if we got into the details now.

    The specific remedies that we want to talk about in detail are the things that we actually can do -- or begin doing -- now. And the thing that I have spoken about over and over again is communication. Nothing else that we try to do has any chance of getting us from here to there unless we first have acquired the ability to communicate effectively with our people. He who controls the means of communication with the public controls the future.

    And as I have said at least 50 times in these broadcasts, that is why the Jews, as soon as they began arriving in he United States in the 1890s, began establishing themselves in our mass media. They didn't buy up farmland. They didn't try to get a monopoly in the railroad or steamship business. They didn't try to build a strong position for themselves in the munitions industry or in kitchen appliances. Instead they began buying up our big-city newspapers. By the beginning of the last century they owned the New York Times. They acquired the Washington Post at a bankruptcy sale during the Great Depression. As soon as the motion picture business began showing its products in theatres, the Jews swarmed into Hollywood and elbowed out all of the Gentiles except Walt Disney; they had to wait until he died to take over the Walt Disney Company. In the 1920s they began taking over the radio broadcasting industry. When commercial television came on the scene at the end of the Second World War, they controlled it from the beginning.

    None of this was an accident. From the beginning they knew what they were doing. They understood that in order to control and corrupt and exploit our society, they must first control the channels of communication. It was as instinctive as a tick finding its way from the tall grass onto a passing dog and burrowing in. It is why they are working so strenuously now to censor the Internet and to persuade the government to enact legislation against "speech crime." In America they still are playing a double game, with some Jews pretending to be supporters of the First Amendment while other Jews are busy persuading the lemmings that the First Amendment ought to be abolished, but in every country where "speech crime" legislation has been enacted since the Second World War, the Jews are solidly in favor of that legislation and are the most active agitators for the prosecution of "speech criminals," the suppression of banned books, the rigid censorship of the Internet, and every other means to keep dissidents from challenging the Jews' control of the flow of information to the public.

    So again, our very specific plan for getting from here to the kind of White world we want is to break the grip of our people's enemies on the flow of information and ideas and to develop our own media for communicating with the people. That may sound prosaic. It may sound dull because it doesn't involve marching in the streets or shooting, but it is absolutely necessary. By itself, of course, it is not enough. But it is the first step. We must be able to inform our people, we must be able to motivate our people, we must be able eventually to move our people -- but first we must be able to communicate effectively with them. Without effective and continuing communication, nothing else is possible. And, difficult as it is to fight the lies of the Jews when they already have such a grip on the minds of the lemmings through their media control, it is possible for us also to communicate. By directing our efforts toward the two or three per cent of our people who still are able to think for themselves rather than toward the lemmings, we are beginning to make a small difference. Through these radio broadcasts and our books and the music we distribute to young people, we are informing people and influencing their thinking, and the Jews hate it.

    Let me give you a very specific example of why it is so important to be able to communicate with the people. It's also an example of the enormous power of the communications media to influence the perceptions -- and therefore the attitudes and opinions and behavior -- of the public, for good or for evil. Just two weeks ago I heard a very brief snippet of news on the CNN Headline News program that I watch for at least ten minutes every day. The news announcer mentioned that the second quadruple murder in just eight days had taken place in Wichita, Kansas, and that the police had two suspects in custody. And that was it: no details and no pictures. I thought that certainly there would be details and pictures on later news reports. But in the following days there was no further mention of the quadruple murders in Wichita. And, as I said, I watch the CNN Headline News by satellite every day -- in fact, often twice a day: once in the morning and once in the evening.

    Now, cynic that I am, that sort of behavior by the Jewish news media always makes me suspicious: especially the fact that there were no pictures, no faces of victims or murderers, on the most widely watched television news program in the country. Two quadruple murders in a week in a Midwestern town the size of Wichita, and CNN has nothing to say about it? That's equivalent to two massacres of 40 people each in Chicago in a week.

    You know what I thought? I was immediately suspicious that there must be something Politically Incorrect about those murders, some racial angle, perhaps, that the Jewish media bosses had decided we didn't need to be told about. So I asked some of my people to see what they could find out from Wichita-area news sources. And within a couple of days I had a stack of news reports on my desk from the local newspaper, the Wichita Eagle, and I also had photographs of the victims and of the murderers. And then I understood why the Jewish media bosses in New York had decided to keep Americans outside the area right around Wichita from knowing about the murders, why they had decided to keep telling us, over and over and over again, about the latest dispute over dimpled ballots in Florida, rather than telling us about the terrible things that happened on a cold night in Wichita just a few days ago -- not just terrible, but also terribly important.

    So I'll tell you what happened. On the evening of December 14 five young people -- three men and two women -- were together in a Wichita house. One of the young women, Suzanne Muller, was a Wichita State University student. Two of the people in the house were high school teachers; they were 26-year-old Jason Befort and his 25-year-old fiancée. The other two young men, Bradley Heyka and Aaron Sander, were friends of Befort and shared the house with him. Sander, 29 years old, was preparing to become a priest. He and Suzanne Muller were dating. All five of the young people in the house that evening were clean-cut, clean-living, all-American types.

    At about 11:00 PM two Black males suddenly showed up at the door with a pistol and forced their way into the house. They led all five of the Whites out of the house and drove them away in two vehicles. One of the vehicles was Jason Befort's new pickup. The Blacks drove them around for several hours, stopping at several automatic teller machines, where they forced the Whites to withdraw money. At about 2:00 AM Friday the Blacks drove to a snow- covered soccer field outside Wichita. There the Blacks made the White women undress, and then both Blacks took turns raping the two White women. When they had finished, they made all five Whites kneel in the snow in a line, then went down the line and shot each of them in the back of the head.

    After that the two Blacks drove back to the house where Befort, Heyke, and Sander had lived and ransacked it, stealing television sets, a VCR, and other personal belongings of the victims. Before they left they killed Befort's pet dog.

    One of their victims was not dead, however. Befort's 25-year-old fiancée regained consciousness shortly after the Blacks drove away from the soccer field. Despite having been shot in the back of the head, she ran naked through the snow in the sub- freezing night for a mile, until she found a house where a White couple lived who let her in when she pounded on the door and cried for help. She was able to describe the Black rapists and killers and their vehicle to the police, and both were arrested a few hours later. The two are brothers, and both have long criminal records. They are typical lowlife Blacks, one with dreadlocks and the other with his hair in corn rows. One was released from jail just a few days before the killings.

    That's the story that the media bosses decided didn't merit national coverage. And it wasn't just CNN that killed the story. I spoke to several people who watch the news regularly on other networks, and no one had heard about the Wichita murders. I'm not surprised. That's just the way it is with Black-on-White crime, no matter how atrocious. The media bosses simply don't want any information going out to the White public that might cause any of us to question the wisdom or the rightness of the continued multiculturalizing of America, or that might cause any of us to realize that we're under attack and need to think about protecting ourselves.

    Well, there's at least one other aspect of this tragedy in Wichita that deserves our attention. All of the victims were able-bodied White people, three young men and two young women. None was a cripple. One of the young men, Jason Befort, the high school teacher, also was a basketball coach. And yet none of them put up any resistance. They let two Blacks lead all five of them out of their house and drive away with them. The three White men stood and watched while the two Blacks took turns raping their women. They all knelt obediently in the snow and let themselves be shot in the back of the head, one at a time. Why?

    It's true that they all were Christians. It's true that the priest who conducted the funeral Mass for Jason Befort made a point of telling everyone at the funeral that they should not seek vengeance but instead should forgive the killers. But, you know, Christians didn't used to be such pansies. And it is a shameful fact that many of our young men today who are not especially religious also are not very manly. It's not just the Christians who have let themselves be persuaded that not only is it wrong to defend yourself, but that it's especially wicked to defend yourself against a non- White. To refuse to give a Black anything he demands is tantamount to racism. Really, there's a substantial portion of the White population in America who really would have mixed feelings about defending themselves against a Black intruder in their homes. They would stand by and watch a Black rape a wife, a daughter, or a sister before they would shoot the Black.

    That sort of moral depravity is not all the result of Christian preaching. Most of it comes from the Jewish media, from Hollywood films and television entertainment programs which condition susceptible elements of the public not to be hostile to Blacks, not to resist Blacks, not to defend themselves against Blacks. In Wichita, where the media bosses couldn't conceal the rapes and murders which took place there two weeks ago, Whites flooded into Wichita gun stores to purchase firearms for home protection. The Jewish media bosses don't want White people in other parts of the country doing the same thing. They don't want Whites deciding to protect themselves. They don't want their media conditioning undone by reality. That's why they suppress news that doesn't serve their purpose.

    And that's why it's essential for us to be able to stymie their efforts at suppression of the news. We can't do much for the lemmings at this time, of course. The only information they receive comes from network television. They never look for information elsewhere. They don't want to know anything else. But there are three or four or five million White people in America who still are able to think for themselves and who do want to understand what's happening. We're reaching a growing number of these perceptive people every week. After we have reached and informed and motivated enough of them, we'll be able to begin reaching the lemmings. But we must do things a step at a time. We must build our ability to communicate with our people.

    I'll give you another example of the way we already are able to communicate effectively with those of our people able to think for themselves, in addition to exposing the suppression of news about Black-on-White crime. One of the Jews' most important and powerful assets is their "Holocaust" story. Not only do they use it to extort tens of billions of dollars in so-called "reparations" from the Gentile world for wrongs they claim were done to them sixty years ago, but they use it to shield themselves from criticism or scrutiny. If I criticize their control of our news and entertainment media, for example, then I am just like one of those awful Nazis who shoved six million innocent Jews into "gas ovens" during the Second World War. That's why most people are afraid of being accused of being anti-Jewish. They are afraid of the "Holocaust" story.

    The Jews understand this, of course, and so they protect their "Holocaust" story jealously. That's why the "Holocaust" is not subject to examination. If, for example, some scholar, some historical researcher, comes along and says, "I wonder whether it was exactly six million Jews who were shoved into gas ovens. Perhaps it was only five million. Perhaps not every Jew who died perished in a gas oven. Perhaps some of them died in other ways. I think I'll investigate the matter and find out exactly what the details were." Anyone who says that is attacked as a "Holocaust denier." They never accuse him of being a "Holocaust examiner" or a "Holocaust scholar." They always call him a "Holocaust denier." They portray him as some sort of nut-case flat-earth theorist who believes that no Jews died during the war, that there were no concentration camps, that there was no persecution of Jews, that there was no "Holocaust." That's what's implied by the label "Holocaust denier." And it's a fraudulent label, a crooked label.

    Virtually no one believes that no Jews were killed during the Second World War. But plenty of people who have looked into the matter understand that things didn't happen quite the way the Jews and their collaborators say they happened. But if such a knowledgeable person begins talking about what he knows, then he is discredited by all of the media under Jewish control as a "Holocaust denier." The lemmings believe the accusation without question. But perceptive people can see that it is a fraudulent accusation. They can see that there is a big difference between questioning the details of the "Holocaust" and denying that any Jews at all were killed or persecuted.

    And that's exactly why I talk so often about the "Holocaust" in my broadcasts. It's an easy and convincing illustration of the basic crookedness of the Jewish media bosses. Once a perceptive person sees the way in which the Jewish media fraudulently use the term "Holocaust denier," he is much better able to understand and believe my assertion that the suppression of the news about what happened in Wichita two weeks ago was no fluke. It was deliberate and malevolent. The news was suppressed because the Jews want to keep the White public morally disarmed so that they can more easily destroy us.

    Five years ago I had a hard time getting people -- even intelligent and perceptive people -- to understand that. Today there are hundreds of thousands of people in America who understand that, and the number is growing every week, and an important reason why this understanding is growing is that my ability to communicate with the public has grown.

    So if you ask me, "How do we get from here to there? Tell us what we can actually do about our problems," then my answer is, we can continue building our ability to communicate effectively with people of good will who are able to think for themselves. And then one day we will be able to communicate with the lemmings too. And when we are able to do that, we will be able to do everything else that must be done. That's what I'm doing. And as for what you can do: you can help me. I do need your support.

    © 2000 National Vanguard Books Box 330 Hillsboro WV 24946 USA

  11. Wireless Antennas by Spootnik · · Score: 4, Troll

    Now the major problem is the FCC Certs that we must acquire for our antennas. Most of the manufactures will help get the FCC Cert for the Linksys AP, but, when they do it raises the cost by 75-125%. This Cert is mandatory for installation by the end users, due to the current FCC Part 15B rules. As a professional you may have forgotten about this effect. We and several other manufactures are working on getting the FCC to expand the "Certified Components" rule that was made for computer to cover the wLAN antennas. Till they do, the cost isn't going down much.

    The antennas you are thinking about are Directional. The antennas needed for access points are omni-directional. We have tried to use small yagis and other semi-directional antennas to only moderate success. The only true good results have been from using GOOD omni-directional antennas. Also, the RP-SMA wont fit on most APs, but, I'm sure we can get the RP-TNC on them cheaper, its a matter of demand. The omni antenna set for the Linksys is a new product, if demand goes up, we can lower prices, if demand stays where it is, the prices stay where they are.

    That cute little yagi that Telex makes will make a great client antenna for indoors...

    Now, we have been able to acquire a contract with MaxRad to make antennas for us with RP-TNC connectors, FCC Cert, up to 5dbi that will screw onto the back of the access point. This will make a nicer and **cheaper** antenna, but it will not be as good as the dual 6 and 8 sets, but it will make an acceptable "consumer" grade antenna. Don't think we don't evolve, the main reason we started making the Linksys config is due to consumer demand. The Linksys specials are only about 3 weeks old, it takes a little time to get the certs shoved through the FCC! For now, whoever needs a legal antenna set for end user install, we have the commercial grade Linksys antenna sets.

    We have been making commercial grade antenna kits and wLAN hardware for some time now. Soon, the 802.11 standard for 5.8ghz will hit the streets, This is going to put most of the consumer gear @ 2.4ghz and the commercial gear @ 5.8ghz, which will have the effect of causing the 2.4ghz antenna prices to go way down.

    Another problem is that no matter how cheep we get these antennas, they are always going to be a niche market. Economy of scale isn't going to hit till over 100/week antennas are made, which is an amount almost = to the production of the linksys WAP11.

    As a professional, you posted links to antenna sites with antennas ment only for instlation by professionals. You really need to warn people about the FCC issues with this, as most dont even know the diffrence. Big fines await the unknowledgeable...

    1. Re:Wireless Antennas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Staroffice beta crashes without error at the end of the install and I get a segmentation violation when running ./soffice on debian unstable. Anyone else have this problem?

    2. Re:Wireless Antennas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      It ran flawlessly for me on debian unstable.

      Try blaming Microsoft.

    3. Re:Wireless Antennas by cyborg_monkey · · Score: -1

      do shut your pie hole.

    4. Re:Wireless Antennas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Or move to canada and do as you please, play "stupid" and avoid all hassels...2 weeks later start back up again using "illegal" equipment :)

    5. Re:Wireless Antennas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      CY80R6 M0NK3Y YUO ARE LAME! please bite my ass.

    6. Re:Wireless Antennas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      stop spreading rediculous rumors. everyone knows that linux never crashes.

    7. Re:Wireless Antennas by SoftwareJanitor · · Score: 2

      So far it has worked on Mandrake 7.1, Mandrake 7.2, Mandrake 8.0 and Red Hat 7.1. I will be installing it on SuSE 7.2 as well, but I expect it will work...

    8. Re:Wireless Antennas by trevmar · · Score: 4, Interesting

      My tutorial was meant as just that - a tutorial. I did not resort to scare-mongering, and I did explain FCC issues.

      You are talking about the licensing situation facing a manufacturer, and the regulations apply differently to those marketing and selling WLAN antennas and those installing them.

      There are thousands of people out there buying WLAN antennas, even on Ebay, without any knowledge of what they are doing. I am trying to increase that knowledge-base so that their actions can be based on real information, rather than merely a raw specification.

      My aim was to let people know what the technical issues are, and what advantages WLAN antennas can bring.

      I did not cover only directional antennas. In addition to theoretical discussions on omnis, I linked to a high gain, non directional, horizontally polarized slotted waveguide omni antenna.

      Please tell me more about the "big fines" which await the unwary public. My research did not uncover any such problems. I would love some pointers to case histories that would allow me to decide whether or not I need to issue corrections and disclaimers to correct what I have written.

      Trevor G Marshall, PhD
      Contributing Editor, BYTE.com

    9. Re:Wireless Antennas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Spootnik, interested to hear your comments about the FCC certification needed for antennae. Would be interested to see more about that. We have also been making commercial grade antennae (see http://www.aerialscience.com ). There haven't been any such regulatory problems in Australasia.

      Regarding access points, you can use sectorial antennae for access points, not just omnis. That way you can connect more clients. We're getting 10dB (12 dBi) from our omni and 16dB from a 120 sectorial and 25dB from a 450mm solid dish. The thing to watch out for with many yagi or co-linear omnis is that they aren't actually omni-directional. We don't use that technology so the omnis are omni-directional.

      Cheers, Don Anderson

    10. Re:Wireless Antennas by sigwinch · · Score: 3, Informative
      Please tell me more about the "big fines" which await the unwary public. My research did not uncover any such problems.
      If you transmit radiation in violation of goverment regulations, you can be fined, and if the radiation interferes with other equipment you can be liable for all losses suffered as well as punitive damages. If you interfere with something like a telephone microwave link or a radar, the losses can easily run into the millions of dollars *per hour*. If the interference is willful or reckless, you can even be sent to prison. If the interference is to medical equipment, you stand a good chance of being charged with murder (a lot of medical equipment is RF sensitive, and hospitals use a lot of wireless telemetry which might not be life critical but you won't be able to convince a jury of that).

      Your advice regarding disassembling a piece of equipment, removing its integral antenna, and soldering on an SMA connector is poor. The engineer who designs such a piece of equipment is free to choose any impedance for the antenna and RF power amplifier. (Note for Slashdot audience: When the antenna is removable, it is conventional to use the standard 50 ohm impedance. There are numerous catalogs full of 50 ohm connectors, cables, filters, pads, amplifiers, detectors, etc. There's nothing magic about 50 ohms, it's a pure convenience issue. Like using RJ45s for Ethernet.) The design process is often easier, and the resulting circuit cheaper, if the engineer uses an electrically-convenient impedance instead of being a slave to 50 ohms. Your 50 ohm cable stands a good chance of creating an unacceptable VSWR (voltage standing wave ratio, a measure of the power being reflected back into the amplifier). This can destroy the amplifier or cause distortion, and distortion will get the FCC chasing you. At the very least, I'd cut the RF section off of one and hook it up to a good RF network analyzer and make sure the impedance is 50 ohms. (Network analyzers cost on the order of $1,000/month to rent, or $20k+ to buy, so this isn't a casual thing.)

      It gets worse: when integral antennas are used, the engineer may design the amplifier to only work correctly when that antenna is connected. Since the antenna is permanently soldered to the amplifier, the engineer doesn't need to make the amplifier as robust, which saves money and design time. When a load with the wrong impedance is connected, such an amplifier can oscillate wildly at pretty much any frequency. A 2.4GHz amplifier could easily oscillate at any frequency from a few megahertz to 10GHz. In fact it is eminently possible for the oscillation to occur only during key up/down and quiet down at full power, so it might seem to work while spewing all sorts of RF garbage before and after the transmission slot. This sort of thing makes the FCC *very unhappy* and will earn you a visit from some rather humorless government inspectors.

      It gets even worse: you are soldering a cable to a board that was not intended to have such a cable. The board may very well (in fact, probably does for cheap commodity equipment) have an electronic noise problem. The board itself is only a few inches wide, and thus is an inefficient antenna, but several feet of extra cable can make a good dipole and cause the noise to radiate. If I was building a couple of these for my personal use I wouldn't worry too much, but if I was doing it for commercial purposes I'd definitely recertify the board + new cable combination (which costs thousands of dollars).

      I would recommend a course of study in practical radio circuit design, and a thorough review of government RF regulations, before you give further advice about soldering random cables to random undocumented wideband amplifiers.

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      Kuro5hin.org: where the good times never end. ;-)

    11. Re:Wireless Antennas by trevmar · · Score: 1

      Sir,
      Anybody using equipment operating in the 2.4 GHz ISM band, even a hospital, has to be prepared to accept any interference that comes along. Its the law.

      (This information is in the second paragraph of my article)

      Have a great weekend,
      Trevor Marshall

  12. Everybody HATES THE JEWS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    It's a known fact: everybody hates the Jews.


    And with good reason! The jews are loathsome, scheming, and filthy creatures motivated by the desire to make a buck and bring down their betters (the White Race).

  13. Information on 802.11 by Ashcrow · · Score: 1

    Where can I find good information and specs on 802.11?

    1. Re:Information on 802.11 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Up my ass and around the corner cock gobbler.

    2. Re:Information on 802.11 by Phork · · Score: 1

      good specs on 802.11, well, 802.11 is the name of the spec, ieee802.11, but IIRC the standard will cost an arm and a leg from IEEE, but many universities have standards in the libraries.

      --
      -- free as in swatantryam - not soujanyam.
    3. Re:Information on 802.11 by Freddy+Lumbago · · Score: 5, Informative

      The IEEE is making all the 802 standards available for free on their web site. Have a look at http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/ for details.

    4. Re:Information on 802.11 by xof · · Score: 1

      I've put some links on http://users.skynet.be/chricat/BT.html

  14. Full of crap! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm from Wichita and I remember when this happened, this account about racism is full of crap. These two men are psychopaths. They engaged in these actions because they have no sense of good within them. They are very evil and as such forced people to do such perverted things.
    Secondly the reason people did these things when a small caliber hand gun was threatened against them is because they didn't know exactly what kind of gun it was or how powerful it was. The people attacked were not knowledgeable in all aspects of firearms as you appear to be.

    Additionally the majority of people in Wichita are white. If you randomly pick some apartment and kidnap the people there you are most likely going to get white people. But there is always the chance you might find people of some other ancestry. There was no evidence these were racially motivated killings.

  15. Other gloves and input devices by hansk · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are several on the market now. Check here for some:

    Motion Capture Hardware

    Or how about a whole bodysuit:

    Body Suit

    1. Re:Other gloves and input devices by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are there any solutions for whole-body motion capture that an individual can afford/use?

      Maybe US$1000

      Or maybe a studio to rent out with all the equipment?

  16. Link tag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Try closing the link tag. Thanks.

  17. Hey Muslim pigs! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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    1. Re:Hey Muslim pigs! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Considering the B-2 relies on stealth, I'd say that if the enemy could read that, the B-2 would be the one who was fucked.

    2. Re:Hey Muslim pigs! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      You are both Niggers in my book.

  18. A customer favorite ... Cranberry Trail Mix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Trader Joe's Cranberry Trail Mix is a colorful and lively mix that combines dried cranberries with golden raisins, sunflower seeds, whole almonds, pepitas (shelled pumpkin seeds) and cashew pieces. It has a subtle nutty flavor, with the sweetness of golden raisins and the tang of cranberries. All of the nuts are raw. This mix is sodium free, and it's made for us with no artificial colors or flavors.

    1. Re:A customer favorite ... Cranberry Trail Mix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      my nuts were raw, so i punched your mother in the mouth and knocked out all her teeth. they're fine now.

  19. lwn talking rebellion by Greyfox · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The guys over at lwn.net were talking out and out rebellion in this weeks issue and cited Xfree86 as historical precidence. We have several open web servers. We have several open web browsers. That's all we need. Just keep the pressure on the sites you browse to support open standards and vote with your feet if they don't, no matter how easy it is to just dual boot back to Windows or fire up Wine. We don't have to be dragged along if the W3C people sell out.

    --

    I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?

  20. Niggers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Hey, they acted like Niggers. They are Niggers.

    Ngger Niger Niggr

    Dr. White writes that in the recent report from Science Weekly, Dr. Brooks found some chimps to be smarter than Negroes.The full report will be published in December. Also a genetic link between Negro genes and idleness.

    Then I remembered a show which I had seen on television. Last summer watched a PBS program about Koko the gorilla using sign language and so on, and among other things, they said this ape had an IQ of 85. The first thing that came to mind was the average American black IQ as mentioned in Charles Murray's The Bell Curve. Surely I couldn't have been the only one to take note, but I figured that if anyone complained, the newsmedia wouldn't respond because it would be just too damned embarrassing to publicize if the nignogs demanded that this segment be edited out.

    1. Re:Niggers by SIGFPE · · Score: -1, Troll

      If you think an ape had an IQ of 85 then you must have an IQ lower than that.

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      -- SIGFPE
  21. hahaha by cr@ckwhore · · Score: 1

    Fewer excuses for the "memos and shopping lists" crowd. Sean Lamb writes: "Now that everyone's done slashdotting Sun's servers, I've posted an of StarOffice 6.0 beta over at Linux Orbit."

    hahaha... allow me to translate...

    Now that everyone's done slashdotting [verb] Sun's servers, now go slashdot these other servers.

    What was this guy thinking of?!?!?

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    Skiers and Riders -- http://www.snowjournal.com
  22. StarOffice features by JoshuaDFranklin · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think not all features are available in all the platforms. I downloaded the Windows version and the Toolbar Configuration that he mentioned doesn't function.

    Also, for those asking about the difference between StarOffice and OpenOffice, the former comes with a big clip-art gallery, for example. But, it's also 30% of that 100MB download...that's why OpenOffice downloads are so much smaller.

    1. Re:StarOffice features by RennieScum · · Score: 1
      I"m about to evaluate this myself at work. While I don't use -much- of Orfice, I use Excel and there's a -lot- of Outlock going on where I w*rk. So I was very excited to see a review of the new Staroffice beta...

      Since I don't use the Microsoft suite all that often, if at all these days, I really don't know what features are included there that are missing from StarOffice. However, I have found one feature in StarOffice that I have never seen in any Microsoft Office version (it may be there now, but I haven't seen it yet; remember, I don't use MS-Office).

      Ugh. I was hoping to find out if it had any sort of CRM (contact relatoinship mgmt) so I can quit diagnosing lookOut! problems and go back to completeing tasks...

      I'll carve out some time this weekend (I do want a good spreadsheet/data format). Any reports of integrated email/contact databases? I'm about at my wits end with MicroSoft TCO.

      --
      ...Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all of its students.
  23. Very interesting antenna concept... by John+Miles · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So a vertical monopole antenna with an omnidirectional planar radiation pattern is now considered a dipole, huh?

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    Dahlmann tightly grips the knife, which he may have no idea how to use, and steps out into the plain.
    1. Re:Very interesting antenna concept... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      my verticle monopole antenna radiates only unidirectionally, up your ass.

    2. Re:Very interesting antenna concept... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      KE5FX de VA3CSG.... mere mortals will never understand radio terminology.

      In the meantime, let's just call it a super duper fancy antenna.

    3. Re:Very interesting antenna concept... by n6mod · · Score: 1

      KE5FX de N6MOD...

      Yeah, calling that antenna design a "Coaxial Dipole" seems to be common in "wireless" (as opposed to "radio") circles.

      On the other hand, you can make them simply by partially stripping the coax and pulling the braid back over the jacket. ;)

      73

      --
      You have violated Robot's Rules of Order and will be asked to leave the future immediately.
    4. Re:Very interesting antenna concept... by plcurechax · · Score: 2
      Agreed. Applying lots of fancy stuff like NEC output of Smith charts to cover up the calling a end fed vertical a dipole.


      If you don't know it yourself, make it too complex for anyone else to understand.

    5. Re:Very interesting antenna concept... by kju · · Score: 2

      ke5fx de do1kju / kg6icx... :-)

      Yepp, the vertical mistaken as a dipole was the first thing i was to wonder about too. Doesn't gives that much impression about the accuracy of the rest of the article.

    6. Re:Very interesting antenna concept... by trevmar · · Score: 1

      N6MOD,
      Yes, I did get my training decades ago, when "wireless" was all the rage :)

      The interesting thing is that the coaxial "Balun", "Sleeve", "Dipole" (whatever) is shorter than a free space quarter wave. It has been trimmed 30% to account for the velocity factor in the teflon coax. But it is also air-spaced from the coax sheath, by about 1 coax radius. I am guessing that some engineer didn't quite get his/her calculations right on that one, but haven't bothered to chase it up yet...

      At least when you peel back the braid you have it close to the sheath dielectric. Which is what? Polyethylene? Velocity factor? Goodness, nothing is simple these days...

      Trevor Marshall
      ex VK5ZTM

    7. Re:Very interesting antenna concept... by n8ur · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It's hard to be certain from just the picture, but it looks like the antenna has a 1/4 wave coaxial sleeve. The terminology may not be technically accurate (since IIRC the sleeve is for decoupling rather than radiation), but I've often heard of such antennas referred to as "vertical dipoles."

      So, he may not be too far off the mark in using the "dipole" shorthand.

    8. Re:Very interesting antenna concept... by trevmar · · Score: 2, Informative

      (I already left a message in the thread above, describing the construction of the sleeve)

      There is no dispute that a vertical monopole over a horizontal infinite ground should be described as a monopole. The radiation pattern consists of that from the monopole added to that from the reflection of the monopole in the ground plane.

      If the ground plane is reduced to several 1/4 wave radials then it is still a ground plane, although the current distribution in the radials will be different from that in the infinite ground. We still have a monopole

      As the radials are folded downwards to become a sleeve, additional currents flow in the coax sheath. When the radials are flush with the sheath the velocity factor of the sheath comes into play in deciding the distribution of those currents.

      So, do we have a dipole with a novel feed, or do we have a monopole with a coaxial balun, but without a groundplane?

      Hmmm...

      Trevor
      ex VK5ZTM

    9. Re:Very interesting antenna concept... by n6mod · · Score: 1

      Yes, I did get my training decades ago, when "wireless" was all the rage :) Sorry OM, that's not quite what I meant. I was referring to the last 5-10 years or so, "wireless" suddenly became a buzzword for really new radio stuff, like Wireless LANs and Wireless Phones (as opposed to cordless phones). The interesting thing is that the coaxial "Balun", "Sleeve", "Dipole" (whatever) is shorter than a free space quarter wave. It has been trimmed 30% to account for the velocity factor in the teflon coax. But it is also air-spaced from the coax sheath, by about 1 coax radius. I am guessing that some engineer didn't quite get his/her calculations right on that one, but haven't bothered to chase it up yet... I've noticed that, and they are indeed shorter than a quarter wave in practice. When I made them out of coax, I'd always just hook it up to a network analyser, and trim it until the dip in the SWR curve was at the right frequency. 73 de N6MOD

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  24. RABBIT RAPE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hemos and JonKatz made their way into the lab where the animal experiments were conducted. A cute, fuzzy rabbit had caught their eye...

    The evil duo quickly subdued the little lab rabbit. They strapped the now helpless animal's head to the sex table with hot leather. JonKatz had the urge, and removed his pants, which were now buldging. After slipping off his briefs, JonKatz tightly fastened the leather straps and was ready to begin.......

    JonKatz began to "grease up". Shoving endless amounts of vaseline and baby oil all around the rabbit's ass, he slid his purple head firmly into the rabbit's tight asshole. Even though the rabbit was slightly unconscious, screams of pain were constanly being emmited. Hemos reached for the chain whip and smacked the rabbit's soft nose until its face was soaked with blood. Now, with the rabbits head drooped over the edge of the table, JonKatz continued his sex hunt. His now tingling cock was pushed deeper and deeper through the thick layers of skin which covered the bowel tract. Five, six, seven, then finally all eight and 3/4 inches were plunged deep within the animal's love canal.

    JonKatz's manhood tingled with every slight movement of the now half alive rabbit. He began rhythmically sliding in and out, moaning with pleasure on every thrust. JonKatz worked himself into a hot orgasm. The blood, now coming steadily out of the rabbit's ass with every thrust of JonKatz's pelvis, could be heard dripping on the floor. JonKatz's rate increased and with a final push, he spurted creamy white love gel far up into the rabbit's bleeding ass.

    The blood and cum mixed together on the floor, which had now accumulated a large puddle. Unknown to JonKatz, the semen had acted as a powerful enemma for the rabbit and out ushered the contents of its intestine. The stool was loose and soft. It fell to the ground with a soft thud and broke into small pieces. The obnoxious smell caught JonKatz's attention, and no sooner had he fallen to the ground and began licking the large puddle of blood, sperm, and stool. Exited at JonKatz's enthusiasm, Hemos dropped to his knees and also began to slurp the foul mixture.

    After cleaning the floor with their tongues, JonKatz and Hemos checked on the battered lab rabbit. It was barely able to hold its head up, as it had lost control of most of its motor fuctions. Feeling no pity for this sexually mistreated animal, they unstrapped it and tossed it across the room, only to make a loud and deep thud against the wall. Its blood soaked fur left spatters of red stains everywhere it touched. Hemos reached for his chain whip, while JonKatz grabbed a pair of rusty hedge clippers (one of the many torture devices carried around for "convenience"). They made their way over to the rabbit. The rabbit was struggling for every last bit of air it could, just gasping and wheezing.

    "Awwwww. Poor little thing," Hemos maniacally laughed. He raised his arm and thrust the cold metal whip down, exposing the rabbit's bloody flesh. He kept whacking and whacking at the furry bag of blood. Then, when Hemos stopped to catch his breath, JonKatz stepped over with his rusty hedge clippers. He knelt over the rabbit who was knocking loudly on death's door. JonKatz took a quick glance at the clippers, grinned, and then thrust them deep into the body of the rabbit, obviously hitting many arteries. As the blood squirted into JonKatz's face he moved the clippers around in hopes to find a thick bone to crunch. "Aha! The femur!" he yelled out with excitement. JonKatz wedged the clippers against the bone. He opened them wide......then closed down on them with all his might. The bone could be heard deep inside the rabbit, being mutilated. Death had glazed the bunny's eyes.

    The rabbit lay dead, a bloody mess on the floor. Its bodily fluids freely surged across the tiled floor. Then with a look of extreme satisfaction, both JonKatz and Hemos lit up some smokes, gathered their belongings and quietly left the hospital grounds, knowing with confidence that they would strike again, somewhere, soon.

    1. Re:RABBIT RAPE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      that was a mean thing for them to do :(

    2. Re:RABBIT RAPE by sales_worldwide · · Score: -1

      I didn't know they were into rabbits. Hmm, you learn something every day on slashdot.

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  25. important announcement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    http://christianityupdate.god.com

    It has been brought to His attention that there is a serious flaw in some versions of the Bible which, under some circumstances, could allow the Lord's name to be taken in vain, or in extreme cases could allow a sinner to enter the Kingdom of God. Whilst current exploits are purely theoretical, He recommends all Christians update their Bibles as soon as possible. Old Testament users should upgrade to at least NT (New Testament) immediately, then should apply the forthcoming patch 2ndcoming.exe. Alternatively, the new BibleXP is unaffected by the flaw.

    SYMPTOMS
    When you modify the Pearly Gates database permissions the Gods permission group may be inadvertently removed from the pages. This leaves all Heavenly account without the ability to manage many Holy resources such as the angel quotas and entry of the faithful into The Kingdom of God.

    Or, the Pearly Gate database may have been decreased to zero bytes in size or corrupted, which generates the following error message:
    St. Peter has no database record for this human. Or, the utilities that work with the database may not work without a God account. The database does not appear in Paradise Monitor or BibleNT Diagnostics, but it does appear in the Heaven tool in Control Panel.

    CAUSE
    The default permission is Everyone with Full Control. This may have been removed to provide additional security, and individual accounts such as Cherub may have been added. The Everyone group that was removed also includes the default God account; removing the Everyone group without adding a God account as an individual account renders the Pearly Gate database inaccessible.

    RESOLUTION
    To resolve this issue, create a God account eith Full Control permissions to the scroll that contains the database. Then, verify that the new God account has permission to see and modify the database. Finally, establish the database, ensuring that enough space is allocated to account for all souls:
    1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Heavenly Explorer.
    2. Expand My Heaven in the left pane by clicking the cross sign (+), and then click the scroll with the database. Typically, this is the system scroll unless you specified otherwise during Biblical Setup.
    NOTE: The database (Pearly~1.sys) is a hidden universal system file. To view these files, click Scroll Options on the Tools menu, click the View tab, click to clear the Hide protected Heaven management files (Recommended) check box, click Yes when you are prompted to verify the change, and then click OK. You may want to reselect this check box when you are done with this procedure for scroll protection purposes.
    3. On the File menu, click Properties. Click the Security tab to view the current permissions.
    4. Click Add, click God, and then click Add.
    5. Click OK.
    6. Click to select the Full Control check box, which will fill in the other boxes. Click OK.
    7. Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click Heaven.
    8. On the Advanced tab, click Performance Options. In the Omniscience section, note the Pearly Gates database size value, and then click Change.
    9. Open the scroll that contains the database. This scroll now has the God account set to Full Control permissions, allowing this change to be made. Type the size of the database in the Initial Size and Maximum Size boxes. Typically, allow 1Mb per soul, and double the number of souls you initially expect. Click Set. On the bottom of the screen, make sure that the Maximum Registry Size value is at least two times the size of the current registry size.
    10. Click OK. Close any running visitations or miracles, then restart the universe.


    MORE INFORMATION
    For additional information about database settings, click the article number below to view the article in the My God Knowledge Base:
    Q242447 Changes to Database Settings Are Not Retained. The Domain Lords global group is automatically added as a member of the local Gods group. Therefore, Domain Lords members have the necessary rights to access the database. Some devils and demons may have these rights by default.

    The following My God Knowledge Base article describes the effect of removing God from the permissions:
    Q225745 Gods Can Remove Themselves from the Permissions

    Additional query words: bibleNTgodloss
    Keywords : kbenv kberrmsg
    Issue type : kbprb
    Technology : kbbiblesearch kbbibleNTsearch kbbibleAdv kbbibleXP kbbibleXPSearch
  26. Hello by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please bite my ass now.

  27. SVG not patent free by Tachys · · Score: 3, Informative

    From this page it seems both Apple and Kodak claim to have patents covering SVG.

    1. Re:SVG not patent free by izzertaq · · Score: 1

      The Apple patent in question is arguably stupid, but it's not required to write a standard-compliant implementation of SVG 1.0.

    2. Re:SVG not patent free by FooManChuYouMoo · · Score: 1
      From this page [w3.org] it seems both Apple and Kodak claim to have patents covering SVG.


      If two companies claim to have a pantent on the same technology, I see no better reason for it to be pantent-free.
    3. Re:SVG not patent free by Lars+Arvestad · · Score: 2
      Anyone knows what they are actually patenting here? I cannot understand what it could be. OK, I don't know the SVG standard, but how to describe vector graphics on a 2D surface has been well understood for a very long time know, hasn't it? And to simply agree on a standard for putting these technologies into an XML format should not require any fancy patentable stuff, one would think?

      --
      Reality or nothing.
    4. Re:SVG not patent free by Simon+Brooke · · Score: 2
      From this page [w3.org] it seems both Apple and Kodak claim to have patents covering SVG.

      See my analysis of these patents. Quick summary: both these patents are bare-faced attempts to claim techniques which were at the time of their filing long established and well understood techniques in broad general use. If W3C had had the courage to face down these patent claims in court, they would have collapsed.

      --
      I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
  28. The XML doesn't work that way by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Informative

    The author of the StarOffice article is a bit off base about how the XML works. Basically, the document consists of SEVERAL XML documents, images, and fonts all packed into a JAR file (a ZIP file with a maifest file). After you extract these files, you then find that each of these XML documents contains so much info that it makes them nearly impossible to be read by humans! (No VI or EMACS, sorry)

    The upshot of this is that KOffice or some other suite could support these documents very easily. On top of that, the compression makes these files tremendously small. I took a 700K Word document (500 pages!) and converted it to a 100K StarOffice file. Now if that isn't cool, I dunno what is!

    You can find more info at http://xml.openoffice.org/.

    1. Re:The XML doesn't work that way by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 2, Interesting

      <i>I took a 700K Word document (500 pages!) and
      converted it to a 100K StarOffice file. Now if that isn't cool, I dunno what is!</i>

      MS products, take your 10 word sentance and add an extra 50 lines with crap like this (From 1 sentance email sent to me today!):

      @font-face { font-family: Tahoma; } P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent:
      FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } DIV.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;
      (... I'm hiding the extra 47 lines hidden from your virgin eyes :)

      --
      "Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
    2. Re:The XML doesn't work that way by jazman_777 · · Score: 0, Troll
      After you extract these files, you then find that each of these XML documents contains so much info that it makes them nearly impossible to be read by humans! (No VI or EMACS, sorry)


      You must be a Vi luser, because Emacs can handle _anthing_! Whoops, wrong thread, I'm looking for the Vi vs. Emacs flamefest, can anyone help me out?

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    3. Re:The XML doesn't work that way by AKAImBatman · · Score: 1

      Whoops, wrong thread, I'm looking for the Vi vs. Emacs flamefest, can anyone help me out?

      You can take it here: /dev/null

      On a more serious note, the problem is that the data isn't for human consumption, not that VI or EMACS can't load the files.

    4. Re:The XML doesn't work that way by On+Lawn · · Score: 3, Funny

      Don't forget the random memory dumps that MS Word just *adds*. If the user was using win9x then you can read previous revisions, passwords, what they were browsing at the time, etc...

      If they are on an NT base, it just pads with 0's.

    5. Re:The XML doesn't work that way by Matts · · Score: 3, Informative

      I also wrote an article on the XML format for XML.com which you can find here.

      It was written before they did the whole Zip thing (though I do mention the zipping in the article), but some of the pointers should still be valid for anyone looking to be able to read the format.

      --

      Matt. Want XML + Apache + Stylesheets? Get AxKit.
    6. Re:The XML doesn't work that way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      On StarOffice, XML in ZIP:
      (No VI or EMACS, sorry)

      Actually, (X)Emacs has an 'archive' mode that allows you to open and edit ZIP files. It's very convenient for editing and debugging the new StarOffice XML file format.

  29. 802.11 APs by YetAnotherDave · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just a tip for anyone planning to use 802.11
    DO NOT use Intel's APs
    they are crap

    to keep two operational we've had to buy 4, with one off for warranty pretty much always.
    Buy Cisco!

    1. Re:802.11 APs by LinuxHam · · Score: 1

      DO NOT use Intel's APs.. they are crap

      I bought an Addtron AP and PC Card in February because of the well publicized Linux support. I was getting dropouts literally about 18 feet away in my condo. But my condo is small, and the card worked fine at the office.. until the end of March. I gave my father-in-law an in-house demo of the setup at his place, and it never worked since. I returned the AP thinking it was dead and swapped it for a Linksys wireless cable/dsl/wireless. Card still didn't work. A friend gave me some Orinoco silver cards, and nirvana at last (once 2.4.5 was released). Popped in the Addtron card, and oddly enough it too now works fine under Linux. The card indicates it has lost the signal, but where pings die under Windows, they kick, scratch and bite their way through under Linux.

      "All Addtron all the time" - no workie.. you don't have to buy that crap now. Most anything works nowadays.

      Orinoco Silver and Linksys Wireless/Cable/DSL router - Three of us are using this exact config very happily. I bought the AP well ahead of the cable modem, so I have a tight Linux firewall in front of it.. oddly I have caught some non-NAT'ed packets coming out of the front side of the Linksys, but no major problems otherwise.

      --
      Intelligent Life on Earth
    2. Re:802.11 APs by mydigitalself · · Score: 1

      i've been running a low-key brand AP, enterasys. they don't sell direct to the public, but if you can get your hands on one it would be well worth your while.

  30. Offtopic? Wait a minute! by ainsoph · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    While it may be offtopic, it sure is informative, not to mention it made me hungry. Isnt that what a good advert is sopposed to do?

  31. I'm Jewish too by SaxMaster · · Score: -1, Troll

    And I'm gonna use my vast money and power to hunt you down, Mr. AC, and I'm gonna DESTROY your pathetic racist ass. Suck my balls.

    --
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  32. boy that was some great review by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "I downloaded software, I installed it, then I copied some stuff from the press release and posted it here. They also say it saves in Word format but I didn't try it"

    1. Re:boy that was some great review by Ghoser777 · · Score: 2, Offtopic

      Yeah, and I have tested this drug called a "placebo," and it seems to cure all my illnesses! I haven't actually tried the drug on anything except for the common cold, but I guess I can infer that it will work great on expelling all types of crap from my system. Therefore I conclude the placebo drug will cure all diseases.

      F-bacher

      --
      James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
  33. Louis Armstrong, Jazz pioneer, dead at 71 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Louis Armstrong, trumpet player and Jazz pioneer, died yesterday morning in his Los Angeles home. He was 71. Armstrong's last performance was at James Madison University's Convocation Center on March 24, 2001, where he played to a standing room only 5,000. Armstrong was helped off the stage by his wife of 20 years, and he later told a reporter for the campus newspaper "I don't know how much longer I can do this. This may be one of my last shows." His final song was his biggest hit, Hello Dolly! He is survived by his wife, 3 children and 6 grandchildren.

    1. Re:Louis Armstrong, Jazz pioneer, dead at 71 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Uh, didn't he die in 1971?

  34. Re: StarOffice segfault by sodergren · · Score: 1

    Try chmod go+rx /home.
    That fixed this problem for me.

  35. Installation problems with SO6beta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    I can't get it to install AT ALL. Period. Folks at the Staroffice Linux support site seem to be having the same problems I am, and some others.

    Do you suppose this is why they call it beta? I'm eagerly awaiting the day that the installer will run on my box.

  36. lalalala by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    Return of SUperTROLL@!!!@!

    http://techienews.net

  37. Fuck yeah. by Fecal+Troll+Matter · · Score: -1

    http://poopsex.com

    1. Re:Fuck yeah. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I went to that site and it made me cum in my pants. You owe me a new pair of tighty whities.

  38. And my favorite StarOffice 6.0 feature so far? by phraktyl · · Score: 1

    No more ``Start'' button!

    Seriously, it really killed me to finally get rid of all of the MS software in the house, only to load an otherwise excellent office suite (SO 5.2) and get that whole Start thing back...

    --
    Karma: Marginal (mostly due to the border around the website)
    1. Re:And my favorite StarOffice 6.0 feature so far? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's a rather superficial criticism of the problems of Microsoft's offering, if all you can do is flame the 'start button'.

      Which, agreed, is something that can be objected to. But it's pretty minor compared to some things.

  39. Bruce Perens can't even BRING himself to say BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "The licensing of patents embedded in standards must be compatible with the GPL license that is applied to the Linux operating system kernel, the MIT-derived license that is applied to the Apache web server, and a number of other software licenses."

    Note how BP can't even SAY BSD.

  40. ***** URGENT! MOD PARENT DOWN! ***** by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Spootnik is a troll, as can clearly be seen in his posting history.

  41. What the HELL? Stop modding this faggot up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that faggot 'spootnik' is a troll... you don't want him to get a +1 bonus do you?

    1. Re:What the HELL? Stop modding this faggot up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You're just making shit up. Shut the fuck up, nimrod.

  42. Spootnik is a troll, please mod down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He has trolled before... Don't let him gain karma!

  43. Hey, how could you leave this one out? by c0rtez · · Score: 1

    The ultimate in 3d control!# the POWER GLOVE!@#

    hehehe

  44. legality of wardriving? by Barbarian · · Score: 2

    So, is it legal to war drive and sniff packets off of a network?

    I ask because up here in Alberta, it's common for oil and petrochemical companies to hire spies to take pictures of competitors facilities from public roads, to get an idea of what technology they may be deploying and what strategies they may be using. I wonder if it's legal to have people sniff corporate wireless LAN's from the road too, and report back to their client.

  45. Does Star Office No Longer Suck? by RatBastard · · Score: 1

    I purchased Star Office 5.0 for Windows and removed it from my sustyem two weeks after I installed it. I have never before seen such a badly thought out environment in which to attempt to get any work done.

    --
    Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
    1. Re:Does Star Office No Longer Suck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It only sucks about half as much.

      That integrated desktop stuff is gone. It uses up a lot less memory and is faster. Still not as fast as abiword. Even emacs starts up faster, and I have an evil .emacs file.

      I advise getting a recent build from openoffice.org rather than the StarOffice beta.

    2. Re:Does Star Office No Longer Suck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      As of the 6.0 beta, StarOffice no longer sucks. Officially. There *is* one nitpick I have with StarOffice: e-mail support (as in Outlook). There is no *StarMail* application for e-mail (or, better yet, Usenet newsgroup support, which Outlook sorely lacks). If StarOffice can add e-mail and newsgroup support without breaking the rest of the suite, even die-hard Office users like me could switch with little pain.

    3. Re:Does Star Office No Longer Suck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "I purchased Star Office 5.0 for Windows and removed it from my sustyem two weeks after I installed it. "

      So did I. I installed Star Office 6.0 Beta on my test machine and love it. I've even moved it to my real machine. Cant say many downloads, especially betas get that sort of treatment. GET IT. YOU WON'T REGRET IT. Then tell all your friends and don't forget to mention the price and forced upgrade policies of office XP.

      Oh and for outlook, use weboutlook. Ask your admin where the weboutlook site is. Weboutlook is slower than outlook in some respects, but better in others. One of which is the nested view of email messages. It looks like a good news reader so you can follow threads. Outlook gives me that stupid ass gray bar sort method. Weboutlook actually nests. what a concept. Oh and it runs in IE without zapping 92% of your system resources.

      Cheers. (Thanks Sun)

  46. I helLp Peepull by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How to Configure Internet Explorer to Use a Proxy Server

    The information in this article applies to:

    Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 2.0, 3.0, 3.01, 3.02, 4.0, 4.01, 4.01 Service Pack 1, 4.01 Service Pack 2, 5 for Windows 95
    Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 2.0, 3.0, 3.01, 3.02, 4.0, 4.01, 4.01 Service Pack 1, 4.01 Service Pack 2, 5 for Windows NT 4.0
    Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 2.1, 3.0, 3.01, 3.02a, 3.03, 3.03 Service Pack 1, 4.0, 4.01, 5 for Windows 3.1
    the operating system: Microsoft Windows 98
    Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.01 Service Pack 2, 5 for Windows 98

    SUMMARY
    You can configure Microsoft Internet Explorer to use a proxy server to connect to the Internet. A proxy server acts as a security barrier between your internal network and the Internet, keeping others on the Internet from being able to obtain access to information that is located on your internal network. This article describes how to configure Internet Explorer to use a proxy server over a Local Area Network (LAN) connection and lists the proxies that Internet Explorer supports.

    IMPORTANT: The procedures that are described in this article may require information about your proxy server that can only be provided by your system administrator. Because of this, you may need to contact your system administrator before you proceed.

    MORE INFORMATION
    To configure Internet Explorer to use a proxy over a LAN connection, use the procedure in the appropriate section.

    Internet Explorer 5
    Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click Internet.

    Click the Connections tab, click LAN Settings, and then click to select the Use Proxy Server check box.

    In the Address box, type the appropriate proxy server information, and use the following format:
    http://

    Click Advanced, and then type the appropriate proxy settings in the Servers area. Use the following syntax for the proxy settings:
    http://:
    where is the Web address of the proxy server, and is the port number that is assigned to the proxy server. For example, if the proxy server's address is "proxy.example.microsoft.com" and the port number is 80, the setting in the Proxy Server box should appear like this:
    http://proxy.example.microsoft.com:80
    IMPORTANT: If you use a backslash (\) instead of a slash (/) in the proxy server's address, the settings disappear from the Proxy Server box and Internet Explorer does not find the proxy server.

    If you are using the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your proxy server, make sure not to type leading zeros. For example, use 130.25.0.1 instead of 130.025.000.001.

    If you do not know the Web address or port number of the proxy server, contact your network administrator. Also, if there are any Web servers on the local network for which you want to bypass the proxy, type the appropriate host names in the Don't Use Proxy For These Addresses box. For example, if you do not want to use the proxy server to obtain access to the "example.com" Web server on your LAN, type example.com in the Don't Use Proxy For These Addresses box.

    Internet Explorer 4.0, 4.01 for Windows 95 and Windows NT
    Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click Internet.

    Click the Connection tab, and then click to select the Access the Internet using a proxy server check box.

    Click Advanced, and then type the appropriate proxy settings in the Servers area. Use the following syntax for the proxy settings
    http://:
    where is the Web address of the proxy server, and is the port number that is assigned to the proxy server. For example, if the proxy server's address is "proxy.example.microsoft.com" and the port number is 80, the setting in the Proxy Server box should look like this:
    http://proxy.example.microsoft.com:80
    IMPORTANT: If you use a backslash (\) instead of a slash (/) in the proxy server's address, the settings disappear from the Proxy Server box and Internet Explorer does not find the proxy server.

    If you are using the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your proxy server, make sure that you do not type leading zeros. For example, use 130.25.0.1 instead of 130.025.000.001.

    If you do not know the Web address or port number of the proxy server, contact your network administrator. Also, if there are any Web servers on the local network for which you want to bypass the proxy, type the appropriate host names in the Don't Use Proxy For These Addresses box. For example, if you do not want to use the proxy server to access the "example.com" Web server on your LAN, type example.com in the Don't Use Proxy For These Addresses box.

    Internet Explorer 4.0 for Windows 3.1
    In Internet Explorer, click Internet Options on the View menu.

    Click the Connection tab.

    Click Advanced, and then type the appropriate proxy settings in the Servers area. Use the following syntax for the proxy settings
    http://:
    where is the Web address of the proxy server, and is the port number that is assigned to the proxy server. For example, if the proxy server's address is "proxy.example.microsoft.com" and the port number is 80, the setting in the Proxy Server box should look like this:
    http://proxy.example.microsoft.com:80
    IMPORTANT: If you use a backslash (\) instead of a slash (/) in the proxy server's address, the settings disappear from the Proxy Server box and Internet Explorer does not find the proxy server.

    If you are using the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your proxy server, make sure not to type leading zeros. For example, use 130.25.0.1 instead of 130.025.000.001.

    If you do not know the Web address or port number of the proxy server, contact your network administrator. Also, if there are any Web servers on the local network for which you want to bypass the proxy, type the appropriate host names in the Don't Use Proxy For These Addresses box. For example, if you do not want to use the proxy server to access the "example.com" Web server on your LAN, type example.com in the Don't Use Proxy For These Addresses box.

    Internet Explorer 3.0
    Click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, point to Internet Tools, and then click Get On The Internet to start the Internet Connection Wizard.

    Click Next, click Manual, and then click Next to start the Internet Setup Wizard.

    Click Next, click Connect Using My Local Area Network, click Next, and then follow the instructions in the remainder of the Internet Setup Wizard. Make sure to click to select the Use Proxy Server check box when it appears and type the appropriate proxy settings in the Proxy Server box. Use the following syntax for the proxy settings
    http://:
    where is the Web address of the proxy server, and is the port number that is assigned to the proxy server. For example, if the proxy server's address is "proxy.example.microsoft.com" and the port number is 80, the setting in the Proxy Server box should look like this:
    http://proxy.example.microsoft.com:80
    IMPORTANT: If you use a backslash (\) instead of a slash (/) in the proxy server's address, the settings disappear from the Proxy Server box, and Internet Explorer does not find the proxy server.

    If you are using the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your proxy server, make sure not to type leading zeros. For example, use 130.25.0.1 instead of 130.025.000.001.

    If you do not know the Web address or port number of the proxy server, contact your network administrator. Also, if there are any Web servers on the local network for which you want to bypass the proxy, type the appropriate host names in the Don't Use Proxy For These Addresses box. For example, if you do not want to use the proxy server to access the "example.com" Web server on your LAN, type example.com in the Don't Use Proxy For These Addresses box.

    Internet Explorer 2.0
    If you have already run the Internet Setup Wizard, skip to step 2. If you have not run the Internet Setup Wizard, click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, point to Internet Tools, and then click Internet Setup Wizard. Follow the instructions in the Internet Setup Wizard, selecting the Direct LAN Connection option when you are prompted.

    Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click Internet.

    Click the Advanced tab, and then click to select the Use Proxy Server check box.

    In the Proxy Server box, type the appropriate proxy settings. Use the following syntax
    http://:
    where is the Web address of the proxy server and is the port number assigned to the proxy server. For example, if the proxy server's address is "proxy.example.microsoft.com" and the port number is 80, the setting in the Proxy Server box should look like this:
    http://proxy.example.microsoft.com:80
    IMPORTANT: If you use a backslash (\) instead of a slash (/) in the proxy server's address, the settings disappear from the Proxy Server box and Internet Explorer does not find the proxy server.

    If you do not know the Web address or port number of the proxy server, contact your network administrator.

    If you are using the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the proxy server, make sure not to type leading zeros. For example, use 130.25.0.1 instead of 130.025.000.001.

    If there are any Web servers on the local network for which you want to bypass the proxy, type the appropriate host names in the Bypass Proxy On box. For example, if you do not want to use the proxy server to access the "example.com" Web server on your LAN, type example.com in the Bypass Proxy On box.

    Click OK.

    Note that Internet Explorer 2.0 does not support different proxies for different Web types. For example, you cannot configure a different proxy for File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Web sites and Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) Web sites. However, Internet Explorer 3.0 does support different proxies for different Web types.
    Proxies Supported by Internet Explorer 3.0
    Internet Explorer 3.0 supports the following proxy servers:
    Socks V4
    CERN-compliant proxies
    HTTP 1.1 Proxy Authentication with CERN-compliant proxies
    SSL Tunneling with CERN-compliant proxies
    Specialized FTP proxy support, including TIS Gauntlet and WinGate
    Additional query words: proxy explorer

  47. Eat cock in hell you fucking SLAGS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    zippity doodle zippity dingle

    well, I for one disagree. Discrimination is wrong, colonics are good, and you can take your daughter to work.

  48. StarOffice installation Q by Dominic_Mazzoni · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I tried to install StarOffice as root on my RedHat 7.1 system, and all hell broke loose. I couldn't launch StarOffice from any user account at all. I uninstalled it and installed it in my user account, and this time it worked fine. But now only I can use it.

    * Anyone know why it failed as root?
    * Anyone know how I could make it run the user configuration part of the setup, so other users on my computer can use StarOffice?

    I'd love to hear other StarOffice tips and tricks, too...

    1. Re:StarOffice installation Q by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I believe that when you run that setup script or whatever it is, just give it an argument of /net. That will install it so anyone can use it. When someone uses it for the first time it will still make them go through a dialog and put about 2 MB in their home directory, but at least anyone can use it.

      There is no reason for /net not to be the default; I think that the developers are still living in a windows world.

    2. Re:StarOffice installation Q by lactose99 · · Score: 1

      If its anything like SO 5.2 (sorry, I haven't had a chance to play with 6.0beta yet), if you run the installer as root with the /net option, then you can do a "network install". This install will be available to all users on the machine, you do the /net install first, and then re-run the installer as the user in question.

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    3. Re:StarOffice installation Q by GooberToo · · Score: 1

      Good info. Thanks. Of course, it wouldn't hurt for them to simply ask the user during installation either: "Multiple users will be using Star Office?" and react accordingly.

    4. Re:StarOffice installation Q by jdoff · · Score: 1

      Actually, the Sun install guide says that it's -net instead of /net. I'm not sure whether it makes a difference, though.

    5. Re:StarOffice installation Q by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      First of all every time i go to creat an account this thing tells me that it exists, and i am sure that 1 of the 50 or so i tried would work.

      however, all u have to do after you install as root is to make the dir. accessisable rwx to the users you want to be able to use it. You can do this by chaing the group or adding --7 in the permissions. this should allow u to execute from other user accounts. there may be a little set up script that runs the first time to create dirs. in the users home. I am not 100% sure of this though.

      Good luck.

    6. Re:StarOffice installation Q by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Fist of all, every time I go to create an account it fails tried about 20 names. (1 should have workd) I am not a coward just failing to sign up for an accoutn.

      However, All you should have to do after you have installed SO as root, is to all the users u want to be able to access the application to have wrx permissions on the dir. you can do this with a chgrp or a chmod. if you do a chmod it is --7 or o+wrx. I added it to my path vars too. (just makes life easier).

      Good luck
      Matt

  49. I dont get this at all. HP is one of the AUTHORS by nyet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    From this, i see:

    This Version:
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-patent-policy-20010 81 6/
    Latest Version:
    http://www.w3.org/TR/patent-policy/
    Editor:
    Daniel J. Weitzner, W3C/MIT, djweitzner@w3.org
    Authors:
    Michele Herman, Microsoft, micheleh@microsoft.com
    Scott Peterson, Hewlett-Packard, scott_k_peterson@hp.com
    Tony Piotrowski, Philips, tony.piotrowski@philips.com
    Barry Rein, Pennie & Edmonds (for W3C), barry@pennie.com
    Daniel Weitzner, W3C/MIT, djweitzner@w3.org
    Helene Plotka Workman, Apple Computer, plotka@apple.com

    What gives?

  50. Simple explanation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Spootnik's mommy sucks his cock every night, then after he cums and passes out, she uses his /. account to post useful information.

  51. ***** GOATSE.CX! MOD PARENT DOWN! ***** by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Parent post trick you into goatse.cx Please mod down accordingly.

  52. Re:I dont get this at all. HP is one of the AUTHOR by Jack+Hughes · · Score: 3, Informative
    Read the Perens article mentioned in the story.

    To summarise, the names of the committee are on the report. It doesn't, HP/Perens say, that the individual committee members agree with the report. The take is that Peterson was opposed to the idea....

  53. Ascension makes great motion trackers.. by Myself · · Score: 2

    Ascension Technologies makes the Flock of Birds and related products, motion trackers based on a pulsed magnetic field. They're very accurate and quick to respond. I have no idea what they cost, I've just been on the user end of a Flock and loved it. :)

  54. Proposals to threaten to fork the standards base by Simon+Brooke · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Responding to the RAND proposal I drew up this analysis and proposal in which I suggest we prepare to launch an alternative standards body; since I circulated it I've learned that Bernhard Rosenkraenzer (Bero) was working on a similar proposal. Linux Weekly News has a front page editorial making the same suggestion.

    This is possible and practical and we should prepare to do it. However, to have three Internet standards bodies would be a bad thing. What we should really seek to achieve is a situation where:

    • Either
      • W3C commits to not incorporating any proprietary technologies into standards, and
      • W3C opens up its membership to ordinary peoplr, with a subscription for individual members of not more than US $50 per annum
    • or
      • W3C winds up and IETF resumes the role of setting Web standards, and
      • IETF commits to not incorporating any proprietary technologies into standards.

    So long as W3C remains a rich corporations club this sort of proposal will come bach again and again. It is, after all, in the rich corporations' interest.

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  55. star office by jilles · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have been reading very positive reviews about SO during the past few days. So, I decided to give it a try myself. Here's an overview of my experiences.

    Let me start by saying that it looks promising, despite some obvious flaws which I will detail below.

    Installation

    I installed it on windows 2000. The installer looks pretty and userfriendly and seems to be doing what it is supposed to be doing in a straightforward way. I haven't tried the uninstall yet (duh) but I trust that will be equally good.

    Compatibility with office

    I normally use framemaker to write my papers but occasionally I have to deliver word documents. Star office certainly supports word better than framemaker. However, I found that it had some trouble with the word documents I had. All of these documents are rather complex and they use tables, crossreferences, images and paragraph styles. I was impressed that the document was successfully imported. However, there were a few errors that though easy to correct would have lead to visible errors if I had just printed them without looking at them. I had a similar experience with my powerpoint documents. Near perfect but not entirely perfect. Conclusion: you will need to revise imported non trivial office documents to make sure everything is the way as intended.

    User interface

    From the point of view of features most of it seems to be there and functioning. However, it is far from pretty. One of the key features of office is that it offers a polished userinterface. Obviously MS has a few graphical designers who know what they are doing. I can't say the same about SO it all looks rather primitive when compared to office (far better than framemaker though :-).

    In addition to the look and feel I found some of the dialogs a bit confusing. Some buttons don't have tooltips and there are slight inconsistencies, especially in the more advanced dialogs.

    Features

    After having played with star writer a bit I would say that I would actually prefer it over word and may even consider to use it as a replacement for framemaker in the future. As mentioned before, I use stuff like crossreferences and paragraph styles quite heavily. The prime reason I am using framemaker rather than word is because word is designed for stupid users and tends to "improve" the deisgn of your document on the fly which is a PITA if you do know what you are doing. Aside from that it's handling of graphics is really bad and you are at a constant risk of seriously messing up the layout of your document. Star office doesn't seem to suffer from these flaws and in addition has a build in literature references database!!!! That last feature (once I figure out how to use it because the GUI is a mess) might pull me over. Also I like the fact that everything is stored as XML and I am looking forward to any add on utilities that rely on this.

    So in conclusion, star office looks very promising. I have only looked at star writer and compared it to word 2000. Word 2000 arguably is more polished and user friendly. In terms of features the two suits can compete even though star writer is lacking some of the popular word features (e.g. grammar checking). However, it also has features that either work better than or are not even present in word (e.g. the bibliography tool).

    It looks like I am going to give it a try but it also looks like I won't be recommending as an alternative to office to less advanced users. If you know what you are doing and are equally annoyed with word as I am you might actually like it (otherwise I recommend you take a look at framemaker). It is not the office killer it is advertised to be but it certainly looks like you could use it for most of the stuff you would MS office for, especially when handling more complex documents. It's biggest problem is the user interface which just doesn't have the same quality as MS office.

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    Jilles
    1. Re:star office by tristan+f. · · Score: -1

      Jackass,

      'Greetings' goes at the beginning of the letter, not the end. Just wanted to let you know how we do things here in the civilized world.

      Hello,
      tristan

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    2. Re:star office by xZAQx · · Score: 1

      I used Soffice 5.2 for quite some time and was pretty happy with it. Although, like you, I feel that it is hella-ugly. At any rate, the best thing about 5.2 was how EASILY it synced with my palm. Actually, ALL the PIM features of 5.2 were excellent, and IMHO, exceeded microslop in every regard. So I downloaded 6.0 last night, and where the hell is all the PIM stuff? I don't want just a damn text editor, that's why God made emacs (or vi or pico or whatever). I Want An Office Suite. Where is the "Suite" part?

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    3. Re:star office by BranMan · · Score: 2

      >I normally use framemaker to write my papers but
      >occasionally I have to deliver word documents.
      >Star office certainly supports word better than
      >framemaker. However, I found that it had some
      >trouble with the word documents I had. All of
      >these documents are rather complex and they use
      >tables, crossreferences, images and paragraph
      >styles. I was impressed that the document was
      >successfully imported. However, there were a few
      >errors that though easy to correct would have
      >lead to visible errors if I had just printed
      >them without looking at them. I had a similar
      >experience with my powerpoint documents.
      >Near perfect but not entirely perfect.
      >Conclusion: you will need to revise imported non
      >trivial office documents to make sure
      >everything is the way as intended.

      Have you thought about submitting a copy of your documents (if possible) to the StarOffice folks so they can see and correct the errors you found? With better examples of errors I'm sure they can find and fix more of the import/export bugs.

  56. Editors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Michael, Timothy, Cliff... It sounds like Slashdot is putting together a boy band.

    1. Re:Editors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Ya this place is a real sausage fest, they could try and actually get a female editor, but i think taco is scared of women.

  57. LOL! Touch� by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    LOL! Add "Rob" and "Jeff"

    Gay as a day in May. The slahsdot "boys in the band".

  58. Re:I dont get this at all. HP is one of the AUTHOR by nyet · · Score: 2

    HP's policy regarding RAND may have been mis-interpreted by the public and the press, because the name of an HP attorney appears on the Patent Policy Framework draft. Of the participants in the W3C Patent Policy Working Group, HP has been the most vigorous proponent of the importance of avoiding patent encumbrances on W3C Recommendations.

    EEEP sorry. My bad :) You are, of course, correct.

    Feel free to moderate me down, I jumped the gun.. don't worry I have karma to burn.

  59. Screenshots by Jim+Hall · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's only slightly offtopic... OpenOffice 638c (latest build) is probably pretty close to StarOffice 6beta.

    The other day, I downloaded OpenOffice build 638C for Linux and for Windows. I use Red Hat Linux (7.1) at home, and I already use StarOffice (5.2) for my regular office needs. It works great. I think my main complaint with OpenOffice is the silly desktop. Other than that, I consider it a fully functional office suite that can replace my MS Office needs anytime.

    I didn't see any cool OpenOffice screenshots, so I made my own of the text document program. I didn't do any (yet?) of the spreadsheet program, or presentation software. These were really captured for the benefit of my brother, but I'm posting them here so that others can see them.

  60. Re:Bruce Perens can't even BRING himself to say BS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Bruce Perens can't even bring himself to orgasm, let alone saying BSD. He's a eunuch.

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  61. Re:StarOffice installation - Multiuser by Steve+Hamlin · · Score: 2, Informative

    Install it with the -net option. This installs the program in a central place and allows for multiuser use (even across a network) (~200MB).

    Then run setup as each user you want to be able to use SO (see install guide). This will install a local SO directory in the user's $HOME, with config filers, etc. (~2 MB)

    Now each user can run SO with their own settings, without installing all ~200MB in each user's $HOME

  62. File Conversion by nion · · Score: 1
    I took a 700K Word document (500 pages!) and converted it to a 100K StarOffice file. Now if that isn't cool, I dunno what is!

    How about taking a 2M Windows .bmp file and converting it to a >100k .jpg file? And people wonder why they need 40G of space nowadays to install 2k and XP. ;)

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    1. Re:File Conversion by yesthatguy · · Score: 1

      Well, that's because JPG is a compression format, while BMPs are exact data, with a color specified for each pixel. (There are multiple color depths for bitmaps, so one could make it much larger or mush smaller, and with correspondingly many shades and tints.)

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    2. Re:File Conversion by DickBreath · · Score: 2

      that's because JPG is a compression format, while BMPs are exact data

      Jpeg is a lossy format. Macintosh PICTs take a lot less space, but don't loose anything. Undoubtedly this can be said of other formats. Doesn't PNG have a lossless compressed format? Why can't MS use a lossless compressed format as Apple has done for many years now? I think the original MS criticism stands.

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  63. StarOffice vs. FrameMaker by dara · · Score: 1

    Wow this is the first comparison I have seen between StarOffice and FrameMaker, thanks. FrameMaker is being pushed where I work and I am still resisting. This mainly due to the need to do a lot of DSP flowcharts and FrameMaker doesn't even have connector objects (even PowerPoint has them). I end up using PowerPoint with embedded Visio objects and doing the rest in Word and
    Excel. I've been playing with OpenOffice at home for a while now and what I'm really impressed with, which no one has mentioned that I've seen so far, is the drawing tools are WAY better than Office or FrameMaker. Multiple glue points per object side, zoom to 3000%, lots of control, but reasonably easy to use.

    Another big plus for StarOffice if I understand correctly is that it can link objects with relative links and not just absolute links (as with Office 97 anyway). I want to have a directory with links from drawing and spreadsheet files to text files (I'm sick of embedding) and then copy it to a shared server where someone else may look at it. Office 97 forces all links to be absolute so unless you copy your files to the same directory path on a different computer, you can't do it. I read somewhere that StarOffice can do this, but I haven't tried it yet.

    As far as all the smaller faster office programs people have been comparing to StarOffice (Koffice, Abiword, Gnumeric, Hancom Office, etc.), I've tried a lot of them and I'd much rather wait a few more seconds on startup and actually find the tool I need than discover it hasn't been implemented yet. I also wouldn't consider investing any more time in an office programs that wasn't at least cross-platform with Windows and Linux (StarOffice, Abiword, Hancom Office yes, Koffice, Gnumeric no). Then there is the likelihood that StarOffice is more likely to be accepted at a company than any other Office alternative (save for FrameMaker which is quite expensive btw).

    Submit those bug reports!

    1. Re:StarOffice vs. FrameMaker by jilles · · Score: 2

      I simply use visio to do drawings in framemaker. Works fairly well. I actually like framemaker a lot. It's a complex application with a lot of features which at the very least are non-trivial. However, once you get into it it seems like the people who built it anticipated what you really need.

      Object linking and embedding supports both types of links you are talking about (even though it defaults to embed rather than link). On windows star office just uses the windows infrastructure so it is not different from ms office in that respect.

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      Jilles
  64. Star Offices BASIC macro language by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Anyone know any good tuts, mans, or other documentation on this BASIC language.
    I know that in playing with it it seems highly developed from an OO p.o.v. (a BASIC o.o. pov that is) and the coolest thing is that the IDE actually shows a CALL STACK. I've never seen that in VB. COOL!
    But unfortunately deciphering this version of BASIC from within the Star Office IDE would take me months. I need to reduce the learning curve. Any help is appreciated.

  65. Bullcrap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    Perens says "We must be accommodated". Why must we be accommodated? We chose the GPL, and we live with the consequences. It's not up to independents to live with the consequences for us.


    Not that I'm in favor of patented W3C standards - quite the opposite - but to claim that the W3C "must" accommodate every open-source license out there is childish and wrong.

  66. The licenses have an important difference by mikey504 · · Score: 1

    I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I think the sticking point for Mr. Perens is the source code disclosure which the GPL and similar licenses would require (and which the FreeBSD license, AFAIK, does not).

    I'm not clear on how we get from "you have to pay for it" to "we won't let you open source your implementation of it", though. But maybe it is not unreasonable to expect that kind of requirement from the owners of proprietary protocols and formats. Then you might be left unable to write an Apache module to support the new standard. Pretty scary territory, if you ask me.

  67. Re:Proposals to threaten to fork the standards bas by hta · · Score: 2

    Note that the IETF policy is RAND, not RF.
    The reason for that is that under RF, it's MUCH too easy to see essential work blocked by claiming a patent and refusing RF status.
    It is much harder to appear reasonable and refuse RAND.