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Free OpenOffice.org Training Videos

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-less-reason-not-to-switch dept.

Rollie Hawk writes "Having trouble converting your family and office mates into OpenOffice devotees? NewsForge (Owned by the same people that bring you Slashdot) can now help you convince the visual learners around you that they can do it. NewsForge is releasing a series of free video segments that demonstrate OpenOffice in action from installation to day-to-day use. According to the site, these clips will play on any browser on any operating system as long as Flash is available. One practical topic that should be particularly interesting to the would-be business converts is 'making a slide presentation in a hurry.'"

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  1. Re:Making a slide presentation in a hurry by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 3, Insightful
    > 1. Fire up PowerPoint on Windows PC.
    > 2. Quickly layout presentation using the unparalleled tools of PowerPoint.

    PowerPoint is nothing short of social malware.
    I wish I had a nickel for every PowerPoint presentation I've suffered through that was created to cover the fact that the speaker had nothing of value to say.

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    No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  2. MPEG4, please! by c0l0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are people (like me) who refuse to install Flash (well, at least until GPLFlash is done and does not ruthlessly crash my browser on load any more ;)) on their systems, so an alternative download for (non-interactive, if applicable) MPEG4-encoded, via a free codec like XViD, for example, versions of the files would be highly appreciated, methinks.

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    1. Re:MPEG4, please! by imsabbel · · Score: 2, Insightful

      If you are so aware of things (and got mpeg4 codecs to play videos), you are obviously not the target group of those videos.

      But they DO work nicely by just clicking on the link even in firefox (without the crap that embedded quicktime and wmv videos often pull), and thats the main point.
      You can just send the link to somebody and it WILL work...

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  3. You can't educate the willfully ignorant... by Hosiah · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Now, I'm not talking about the people who simply don't know Linux, but are willing to learn. But there is a sizable proportion of the users out there that I've learned to stop beating my head against a brick wall over. I call them "dittoheads" after the Rush Limbaugh term, because they caught an MS-sponsored meme early on and it lodged in their heads once and for all, preventing them from ever advancing in life. Expressions such as "Linux will never be viable on the desktop.", "Linux is too difficult to learn.", "Open Source isn't really free.", etc. join with "The Holocost never happened.", "We DID find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.", and "DRM is to protect the consumer." as some of history's greatest mind-stunting propaganda.

    I said it would be like this at the beginning of "The Information Age" (or at least when the public at large first heard of the term): I said that the information age would propegate fiction as easily as truth, and thus computers would not make us smarter as a people. Computers only magnify human intellect, and if that intellect is rotten, the rotteness gets magnified a thousand-fold.

    Anonymous cowards -> the line forms to the right.