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Trail of Tears: MySQL, ODBC, & OpenOffice 1.0

Posted by Hemos on from the getting-it-all-working dept.

Joe Barr writes " I found a wonderful "how-to" piece called "OpenOffice.org 1.0, ODBC and MySQL," by John McCreesh. In the introduction, McCreesh writes about OpenOffice.org 1.0's "best kept secret" -- that secret being the fact that hidden away inside, completely unknown to most OpenOffice users, is a user-friendly front end for databases that is "a Microsoft Access (and more) equivalent." That may be so, but there is a very good reason why it's a secret: it's too damn hard getting OpenOffice and ODBC wired up correctly."

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  1. Secret? by k98sven · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes, it may be unknown to most users, but that doesn't mean it's hidden any more than most features in Office.

    Anyway, AFAIK a better (non-ODBC) MySQL driver for openoffice.org has been up there on their to-do list for quite some time.

    So why not scratch that itch instead?

  2. Re:Trail of Tears? by monadicIO · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm no troll, and have nothing against the native Americans, and have no intention of making light of their sufferings.
    However, why does everyone have to be sensitive to everything that might offend anyone?
    I find the political correctness thing is now as bad as censorship - there are no laws against saying things, but you'll be demonized for the rest of your life for having said them.
    I'm sure one day some PC guy will come along and ask us not to use C because controllers written in C were used in some bomber aircrafts (or something like that).

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    The law of excluded middle : Either I'm foo or I'm foobar

  3. Re:Uh, he's a Linuxworld columnist? by smillie · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I was doing coding one of the most difficult things to find was a newbie who was willing to let me watch them use my new program. I could learn a lot by watching someone do something "intuitive" and my code wouldn't behave as they expected. Each time I modified the user interface I had to find a new newbie because the old ones now had preconceived ideas on how it worked. The next problem was that one person wasn't a very large sample. As a normal geed I didn't have all that many friends to draw on.

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    Dyslexics Untie!

  4. TheJesusCandle steals someone's comment. Again. by pnot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've seen Amazon reviews pasted into /. for a +5 Informative, but I have to admire your sheer gall in pasting in a comment on the same thread from half an hour ago.

    Good idea, though. This being Slashdot, nobody checks for dupes ;-).

    Hmm, looks like this is a habit of yours. I'm continually amazed that people consider /. karma a sufficiently precious commodity to bother with this kind of thing...