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Linux and OpenOffice save Microsoft Presentation
EvilGrinUK writes "A presentation about Shared Source (SSI) by the head of Microsoft Ukraine was almost ruined when the Windows machine (a Tablet PC) linked to the projector developed problems. The solution was to adopt OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 and ALT Linux Compact 2.3, which was already running on the presenter's laptop (an IBM Thinkpad). Here's a picture."
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<speech>
<voice>Nelson Muntz</voice>
<voiceArtist>Nancy Cartwright</voiceArtist>
<text>Ha-Ha!</text>
</speech>
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The irony is delicious!
It looks like Open Office didn't open the presentation properly. Look at all of those crazy symbols.
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Let's just hope they [MSFT] don't get all miffy about it, eh?
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...and at the same time embarassed Microsoft. Maybe now the mighty Goliath can be slain!
How many Slashdotters now have to change their shorts?
--bitter
Be careful, Microsoft might think this counts as a Shared Source Initiative.
That was the case... now 4 mins later the /. effect looms :-)
Well, they do have that big technology-partnership with Sun. Perhaps their new Sun alliance is focused on their need for a stable office suite.
[MSFT-Tablet]"Damn, I am crapping out."
[lin-laptop]"I can save the day."
[MSFT-Tablet]"I will never be saved by riff-raff the likes of you. You are open source and therefore evil. I was created using millions of dollars in r&d capitol. You were made from donations, and other open source contributors, and are therefore an inferior product."
[lin-laptop]"Yeah, but I can do something you can't right now."
[MSFT-Tablet]"What's that?"
[lin-laptop]"Run your presentation."
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
I, great strong Linux, shall conquer the world, and all shall run KDE (for Gnome is evil and the tool of despots and deviants).
I have spoken.
Apparently, the Slashdot editors think our comments are so stupid that we HAVE to be bots. Sorry, Taco, we really are that stupid. At least I am. No wait. I mean, my posts are. I mean, I'm not a bot. I'm sure I'm smarter than a bot, even though I keep typing the captcha thing wrong. Maybe it's an IQ test, like a minimum height requirement on a Roller Coaster. I got it on my third try. What I'm trying to say is... uh, I forgot.
Dammit IQ Captcha, what are you trying to tell me!?!?!?
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Did someone say using Linux is more expensive?
Get the facts M$
I was working at an almost all MS office as a bookkeeper. Most of the accounting was done with Exel, good backups were kept, and the server had UPS. Still, one day a major spreadsheet got corrupted, as did all it's back ups. All the office was in freak out mode, except for me, I downloaded and installed Open Office (I think it was ver 1.0.1) and opened the corrupted spreadsheet. Cut the data out, pasted it into a new Excel spreadsheet and saved the day!
Ironically I was spoken to about installing non approved software...
We are the Borg...
This is like going on a porn site and complaining that they show a lot of chicks making out and no dudes. It's not what we're here for.
They're just demonstrating their superior error handling.
OO.o doesn't always open .ppt documents fine; my physics lecture notes are always PowerPoint presentations, but OpenOffice.org can sometimes misinterpret the symbols. Nothing's worse than studying for an exam and wondering why the derivative of airplane over star equals hand.
Someone actually used Coral Cache in a direct image link from a slashdot story?!?
... dogs and cats living together ... mass hysteria...
World... ending... pigs flying
(-1: Silly)
o/~ Join us now and share the software
OO.o doesn't always open .ppt documents fine; my physics lecture notes are always PowerPoint presentations, but OpenOffice.org can sometimes misinterpret the symbols. Nothing's worse than studying for an exam and wondering why the derivative of airplane over star equals hand.
Maybe you need to turn off the improbability drive of your laptop.
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Then I guess it wont help to tell you that the next week on our quarterly conference call I received the quarterly champion award complete with glass trophy. Find a job where the boss is an old fortran guru.
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
n/t
Lumping Paris Hilton and George Bush together like that insults her intelligence.
just a simple hardware substitution in the middle of a presentation.
They teach you that on the first day of MCSE training. Always blame the hardware.
Nice try, but the last time I clicked on a link with "collegechix" in the url, I was distracted at work for an hour.
Here's one for you: Bill Gates is pretty famous.
:)
You were asking for famebates, right?
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score YOU -1, sometimes being three steps ahead means being one step behind
Thank you Dave Raggett
Always mangled? Oh, I dunno, some prefer 'simplified', i.e. -- I always get a chuckle out of the classic "Gettysburg Address Reduced to Powerpoint".
http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/
[Note - you really must refer back to the original plain old 'dull' text version as you view this in order to refresh your memory of the terse, amazingly lucid text, and extract maximum value.]
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