I've been trying to use StarOffice 6.0 beta for creating my resume, so I can send it out as a.doc file. And it's crap! I would create the resume in StarOffice, save it to disk in a Word document and load it in MS Word using Wine. The results were so bad, I abandoned the idea immediately as I had absolutely no trust in SO's ability to handle Word docs. Instead I simply ran Word under Wine to create the document. Even then SO won't load the file created by Word without screwing up the import.
You would think that people that produce StarOffice, OpenOffice and koffice would make sure that they had input and output filters for MS files that worked 100%. But that just my opinion.
It's about time! I have gdkxft working to give me anit-aliased menus and icons in GTK apps, and it makes a huge difference. Unfortunately the text that is rendered by Mozilla (actually I'm using Galeon) isn't AA-ed, and I wish it was!!! That's probably why I use Opera as much as possible.
But what is the demo? What's on it? What does it do? There's no point bitching about MS giving a free demo away. I can't believe anyone would bitch. Whey shouldn't they? I mean, AOL gives away enough CDs to fill the moon! I don't get why people are complaining about this.
I agree; a web browser is for browsing! But on the other hand, by using a browser, you negate the need for bloated desktop environments and window managers like KDE and Gnome.
I'm not convinced that Hancom Linux is the best choice here. Personally I'd take a small KDE distribution of some kind, and use StarOffice or OpenOffice. Heck, you could even try KOffice, if you really wanted to. It doesn't support Microsoft documents, but ignoring that, it's fairly usable and quick(ish). Though, kspread does crash often while doing a search.
I briefly tried the beta version of Hancom Office (look on the Arstechnica forums for the link), but I uninstalled it after about 2 minutes as it was shockingly slow and horrible to use. Still it was a beta version, and hopefully in the near future, they'll improve the performance a great deal.
Personally I lean towards Mandrake, as it has vast support for applications through the Mandrake Cooker, and it's simple and swift to install.
Why is this marked as "Troll"? The guy is just giving his opinion. I guess if he'd said he hated the xbox but loved the PS2 then he would have been marked 'INTERESTING' or 'INFORMATIVE'.
Did anyone else notice how well those posts were written? No "teh", no "ur", no using the number eight to represent the sound of "ate" and no "all your base are belong to us" comments?
They work on DCs bought before Oct 2000, which mine wasn't. So I was very pissed off when I found this out, as I would love to have bought the MGS and GT2 games to play on my DC. Oh well:(
Does it matter which camp they come from? Shouldn't you decide based upon their experience, skills and personality? I'm going to create a new concept - codism. Like racism, but it depends on whether you code open or closed source software. I think you read it here first.
Thank god for that - it was a terrible show. Bad characters, bad script and dreadful storyline. And just to make things worse, I caught part 1 of the XFiles season finale, and I thought that was bad too. Flame away, but I'm serious.
In England, two kids of 8 and 9 kidnapped and brutally murdered a child of 2, by stoning him to death with bricks.
They've been in jail since then, and are now up for parole, whereupon they'll be released into the world under new identies.
Try the bastards as adults because they committed an adult crime.
I'm not apologising for my comments, but I'm sick of how screwed up the world is. You break a law, you suffer the punishment. If you are treated badly during this time that is a different matter entirely. Why is there such leniency on this site for people who break computer based laws? A law is a law - I live by them so why shouldn't you?
(It's monday morning and I'm tired and pissed off)
I can't remember the exact phrasing or technical terms, but OS/2 has (had) only one keyboard (help me here) stream, so if an app blocked the stream, you couldn't regain control through the keyboard.
I believe NT has multiple input streams, which for me was a major advantage over OS/2. I could be cynical and say that Microsoft designed OS/2 to only have one stream to somehow "cripple" OS/2, but I won't!;)
Having an interest in techie stuff has no direct link to how good you are at your job. I know people who have no interest in the tech world outside of their job, but they are excellent engineers. I'm not saying they're the best programmers, designers or whatever, but they have the best attitude and the better communication skills.
Communication is my one big nit-pick with the techie world. I don't find that my job grows me as a person, but that's just my opinion. I digress.....
I have to agree with you - Episode I was crap. I'm in no hurry for Episode II. I wonder if there will be the same kind of craze as its release approaches.
No it isn't. This might be my own stupid fault for using Hotmail, but I have a hotmail account that I haven't give out to anyone or any site. But still I get SPAM.
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Isn't it a shame that more companies don't develop their Windows games using SDL? Then they could probably port them to Linux a lot easier.
I've been trying to use StarOffice 6.0 beta for creating my resume, so I can send it out as a .doc file. And it's crap! I would create the resume in StarOffice, save it to disk in a Word document and load it in MS Word using Wine. The results were so bad, I abandoned the idea immediately as I had absolutely no trust in SO's ability to handle Word docs. Instead I simply ran Word under Wine to create the document. Even then SO won't load the file created by Word without screwing up the import.
You would think that people that produce StarOffice, OpenOffice and koffice would make sure that they had input and output filters for MS files that worked 100%. But that just my opinion.
It's about time! I have gdkxft working to give me anit-aliased menus and icons in GTK apps, and it makes a huge difference. Unfortunately the text that is rendered by Mozilla (actually I'm using Galeon) isn't AA-ed, and I wish it was!!! That's probably why I use Opera as much as possible.
But what is the demo? What's on it? What does it do? There's no point bitching about MS giving a free demo away. I can't believe anyone would bitch. Whey shouldn't they? I mean, AOL gives away enough CDs to fill the moon! I don't get why people are complaining about this.
You know, I really hate the Gtk toolkit; I find it so clumsy to look at, and so clunky.
I agree; a web browser is for browsing! But on the other hand, by using a browser, you negate the need for bloated desktop environments and window managers like KDE and Gnome.
Outsourcing?
Java? I don't think so! I haven't seen a single Java app that doesn't reduce my P3-700 & 256Mb to a P-120!
I'm not convinced that Hancom Linux is the best choice here. Personally I'd take a small KDE distribution of some kind, and use StarOffice or OpenOffice. Heck, you could even try KOffice, if you really wanted to. It doesn't support Microsoft documents, but ignoring that, it's fairly usable and quick(ish). Though, kspread does crash often while doing a search.
I briefly tried the beta version of Hancom Office (look on the Arstechnica forums for the link), but I uninstalled it after about 2 minutes as it was shockingly slow and horrible to use. Still it was a beta version, and hopefully in the near future, they'll improve the performance a great deal.
Personally I lean towards Mandrake, as it has vast support for applications through the Mandrake Cooker, and it's simple and swift to install.
Although I'm just about to try the latest versions of Redmond Linux and Elx Linux.
I currently have Mandrake 8.1 running StarOffice 6 beta, using Truetype fonts, and it looks fantastic!
Why is this marked as "Troll"? The guy is just giving his opinion. I guess if he'd said he hated the xbox but loved the PS2 then he would have been marked 'INTERESTING' or 'INFORMATIVE'.
Did anyone else notice how well those posts were written? No "teh", no "ur", no using the number eight to represent the sound of "ate" and no "all your base are belong to us" comments?
They work on DCs bought before Oct 2000, which mine wasn't. So I was very pissed off when I found this out, as I would love to have bought the MGS and GT2 games to play on my DC. Oh well :(
I can think of a Tom Clancy novel, but I can't remember the title.
I don't understand - is this the whole @home network, or just a small part of it?
Does it matter which camp they come from? Shouldn't you decide based upon their experience, skills and personality? I'm going to create a new concept - codism. Like racism, but it depends on whether you code open or closed source software. I think you read it here first.
"normal" software? Tut tut; you mean closed source software. Stop being codist .
Thank god for that - it was a terrible show. Bad characters, bad script and dreadful storyline. And just to make things worse, I caught part 1 of the XFiles season finale, and I thought that was bad too. Flame away, but I'm serious.
Ho, ho, ho. Thanks for the intelligent comment. Made it all worthwhile for me.
In England, two kids of 8 and 9 kidnapped and brutally murdered a child of 2, by stoning him to death with bricks.
They've been in jail since then, and are now up for parole, whereupon they'll be released into the world under new identies.
Try the bastards as adults because they committed an adult crime.
I'm not apologising for my comments, but I'm sick of how screwed up the world is. You break a law, you suffer the punishment. If you are treated badly during this time that is a different matter entirely. Why is there such leniency on this site for people who break computer based laws? A law is a law - I live by them so why shouldn't you?
(It's monday morning and I'm tired and pissed off)
I haven't, because it's wrong.
I can't remember the exact phrasing or technical terms, but OS/2 has (had) only one keyboard (help me here) stream, so if an app blocked the stream, you couldn't regain control through the keyboard.
;)
I believe NT has multiple input streams, which for me was a major advantage over OS/2. I could be cynical and say that Microsoft designed OS/2 to only have one stream to somehow "cripple" OS/2, but I won't!
Get those games ported, drop the price and just maybe! Ok, so it won't happen - it was a nice thought!
Having an interest in techie stuff has no direct link to how good you are at your job. I know people who have no interest in the tech world outside of their job, but they are excellent engineers. I'm not saying they're the best programmers, designers or whatever, but they have the best attitude and the better communication skills. Communication is my one big nit-pick with the techie world. I don't find that my job grows me as a person, but that's just my opinion. I digress.....
I have to agree with you - Episode I was crap. I'm in no hurry for Episode II. I wonder if there will be the same kind of craze as its release approaches.
No it isn't. This might be my own stupid fault for using Hotmail, but I have a hotmail account that I haven't give out to anyone or any site. But still I get SPAM.