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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. 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).

    --

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

  2. 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...