Word isn't even compatible with itself. Sure, it usually shows up mostly correct. But I've had experiences ranging from poor formating to error messages when opening the document (2000 to 2003 seems to be the worst).
At first I was kinda let down by the demo. The load time really wasn't that impressive compared to OpenOffice on my Pentium-M Edgy system. Then I came across something amazing....
Planner (spreadsheet program) can actually do excel style charting (read: crappy but easy for routine tasks) with half-decent trendlines and the ability to show the forula on the chart.
This basic functionality has been on my openoffice wishlist for years, I've filed requests for it with OO.o but got nothing. I've even tried to implement it myself but OO's code is kinda scary. Since then I started using gnuplot for plotting, but for basic stuff its kind of overkill.
If you have a spare U.S.B. flash drive, your PC can use it as extra main memory for a tiny speed boost.
Can anyone comment on this? Last time I checked flash memory (and USB, even 2.0) are S_L_O_W. Caching flash to system memory for faster access to the flash drive I could see, but this just doesn't make sense.
I've been using autopatcher as well. I install it on my desktop with Wine, then upload it to my Samba server. I have a line in my logon.bat for the Windows machines to add Autopatcher as a weekly job, and I keep autopatcher up to date.
What does all this add up to?
Ghetto rigged WSUS for Linux servers to Windows clients.
OK, its fairly obvious microsoft abuses its monopoly status but theres really nothing wrong with bundling a browser with the OS, except that they make it unremovable. Even then, not too terrible IMO.
Why can't we get into some real abuses? Like leveraging their monopoly on the desktop market to try to get into other markets (servers, portable media devices and formats, office suites, etc, etc) and their lack of compliance with standards in preference to their own undocumented formats. This is the real problem and is strengthening their stranglehold on the market. They really need to be sat down and told to play nicely with the rest of the software world.
Then theres the little problem that none of those are legitimate patents. Either they are blatently obvious, or prior work. I'm not quite sure when the first version control software came out but it certaintly was long before 7,131,112 was filed in 2000.
"We take responsibility for any and all damages that could possibly happen as a result of any bug in our products. For example, you can sue us into the ground because a kernel bug ate your multi-billion dollar document or allowed an intruder in who stole trade secrets. "
With love,
EvilRyry Enterprise Linux Systems, Inc.
Honestly, what do you expect. Any company will take pretty limited responsibility for their product, not just oracle. Even a small bug could be the death of the company. MS for example takes no responsibility for just about anything that could happen with their products.
Now that AMD and ATI are one company, I've extended my purchase boycott to include AMD like you have.
Intel provides me with an opensource solution, why don't you AMD?
ZFS has some really awesome features. Pooling, snapshots (no, not quite like LVM), RAID-Z, and native compression and soon encryption.
I'd love to see all this in Linux but I'm thinking even if it were GPLed there would be a lot of work to do to port it. And of course after its ported, the Linux devs would probably make a big stink about accepting it using lines like "a file system should only put files on a block device!" ZFS however is a different approach to storing files and in many ways much better.
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Word isn't even compatible with itself. Sure, it usually shows up mostly correct. But I've had experiences ranging from poor formating to error messages when opening the document (2000 to 2003 seems to be the worst).
At first I was kinda let down by the demo. The load time really wasn't that impressive compared to OpenOffice on my Pentium-M Edgy system. Then I came across something amazing....
Planner (spreadsheet program) can actually do excel style charting (read: crappy but easy for routine tasks) with half-decent trendlines and the ability to show the forula on the chart.
This basic functionality has been on my openoffice wishlist for years, I've filed requests for it with OO.o but got nothing. I've even tried to implement it myself but OO's code is kinda scary. Since then I started using gnuplot for plotting, but for basic stuff its kind of overkill.
Can anyone comment on this? Last time I checked flash memory (and USB, even 2.0) are S_L_O_W. Caching flash to system memory for faster access to the flash drive I could see, but this just doesn't make sense.
I've been using autopatcher as well. I install it on my desktop with Wine, then upload it to my Samba server. I have a line in my logon.bat for the Windows machines to add Autopatcher as a weekly job, and I keep autopatcher up to date.
What does all this add up to?
Ghetto rigged WSUS for Linux servers to Windows clients.
This coming right on the heels of the news that OpenOffice will be getting VBA support soon, how convenient!
You have a very accurate username!
OK, its fairly obvious microsoft abuses its monopoly status but theres really nothing wrong with bundling a browser with the OS, except that they make it unremovable. Even then, not too terrible IMO.
Why can't we get into some real abuses? Like leveraging their monopoly on the desktop market to try to get into other markets (servers, portable media devices and formats, office suites, etc, etc) and their lack of compliance with standards in preference to their own undocumented formats. This is the real problem and is strengthening their stranglehold on the market. They really need to be sat down and told to play nicely with the rest of the software world.
Then theres the little problem that none of those are legitimate patents. Either they are blatently obvious, or prior work.
I'm not quite sure when the first version control software came out but it certaintly was long before 7,131,112 was filed in 2000.
What? Everyone knows Microsoft doesn't have a soul.
I gotta believe these executables need to be signed or something. I can't believe they'd leave the back door wide open like that.
If not though, does it run Linux?
Lets just leave all those old tires on the bottom of the river and let them clean the river instead.
How 'bout we all just speak English and forget about all those weird letters.
(It was a joke... well sort of)
"We take responsibility for any and all damages that could possibly happen as a result of any bug in our products. For example, you can sue us into the ground because a kernel bug ate your multi-billion dollar document or allowed an intruder in who stole trade secrets. " With love, EvilRyry Enterprise Linux Systems, Inc. Honestly, what do you expect. Any company will take pretty limited responsibility for their product, not just oracle. Even a small bug could be the death of the company. MS for example takes no responsibility for just about anything that could happen with their products.
And the PS3 and Wii uses what for graphics exactly? Wait... wait... its on the tip of my tongue...
Now that AMD and ATI are one company, I've extended my purchase boycott to include AMD like you have. Intel provides me with an opensource solution, why don't you AMD?
A native Linux port!
ZFS has some really awesome features. Pooling, snapshots (no, not quite like LVM), RAID-Z, and native compression and soon encryption.
I'd love to see all this in Linux but I'm thinking even if it were GPLed there would be a lot of work to do to port it. And of course after its ported, the Linux devs would probably make a big stink about accepting it using lines like "a file system should only put files on a block device!" ZFS however is a different approach to storing files and in many ways much better.