Re:"Single" user license.
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StarOffice 6.0
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....they can't open and have it look just like what I have on my machine
Then please do yourself a favour and send a PDF. It will never look the same on your clients machine when sent as.doc, because they have most probably different templates, different printers etc.
PDF is the only way to preserve layout 100%.
Well, I started working on adding the ability to rotate EPS figures to OpenOffice. You can't do it in MS Office (at least in Office 97, which is the last one I've used).
Of course you can't rotate EPS in MS-Office - you can't even import them.
That's what SO is really good at - importing/exporting EPS.
And one reason why I'm gonna buy it RSN.
That's actually hard to describe, though I even had a usability-class during my higher education;-) Seriously, though, it was
- fast
- consistent
- but not to the point where it becomes insane
(like OS/2)
- more things (like the antialias fonts, that made the desktop and wordprocessor look like a piece of paper - so crisp, so clear.)
Will I be able to purchase a word processor for it?
Actually, yes. There is TechWriter Pro. I used to use this a lot, but nowadays, the RISC-PC (my Acorn machine) is at my parents house, and I don't get to use it too often.
Theres the ROX-Filer project, but it's no real replacement. There is, till today, no GUI out there that can compete with RISC-OS in
Speed
Usability
Intuitivity
ah-well. Those were the times....
BTW: porting GNU-software over was not easy, last time I looked, because RISC-OS is not a POSIX-system, in no way. Coupled with the fact that is also more or less, CLI/Shell-less, and had a weird directory-separator (. - dot) made it pretty hard to port the usual tool-chain over to it.
...also head researchers work on this same subject.
IIRC, they came up with a solution that envolved creating a "cult" around these sites. Sounds strange, but once you figure out that religions live longer than any other socio-economic community, it makes sense. Well, kind of.
Wait for Dot-NET Server. It will have to work headless, or it will not work with blade-servers. If your budget is Zero, though, I suggest "other" Operating Systems, that have had no problems running headless for years ;-)
From what I know, the version of XP that actually can do this will not be avaiable to the general public, but only to OEMs and people who bug microsoft long enough for it.
If you intend running this, go and ask MSFT for a BIG discount for being a "beta-customer" or so.
Besides: most mentions on Google seem to refer to XP Embedded rather than "plain" XP.
IMHO it is *easier* to integrate Visio-Drawings into a StarOffice document, because StarOffice supports EPS ! One of several reasons why I like StarOffice is that instead of useless and annoying fluff like animated paperclips and "I think you are writing a letter"-shit, they implmenented support for fileformats like EPS.
That's what I call software for professional use !
BTW: Thanks for reminding me of this, importing Visio drawings as WMF or JPG into Word was really pissing me off !
Hehe.
Do we work at the same company ?
;-)
Our intranet-pages are IE-only and totally overengineered. Nobody really looks at them.
And I doubt you can index them with a normal "google-bot" - there are no "links" in the
www-sense because most things come out of a database...
Just bullshit. And an immense waste of time and money.
Everybody who has worked in a business for 2 days knows that there is no room for democracy in any company. At least not in the form of a parlamentaric democracy - the thought alone is ridiculous.
Microsoft is no execption, I guess.
Microsoft has been lobbying, spin-doctoring, strong-arming and what-not the public and politicians for year. Now, another player has entered the field - I guess they need to get used to it.
If they didn't know they had no real "friends" out there, I guess they know it now.
a lot of governments consider using OpenSource in different areas.
Microsoft fears, that once a government (especially Germany, which is a very large IT-market) "falls" to
Linux et.al., others might soon follow.
And they know that people don't return very often to Windoze. Governments even less so.
Uh.
But I didn't think of migrating to 3.0 on the production box anyway.
As it works under VMware, extensive test can be made
very easy.
I didn't know the syntax had been changed - I just thought the code had been, well, "improved";-)
Especially for people who don't want to migrate.
I've setup a firewall with bridging and no IPs on OpenBSD 2.9.
Now, I could migrate to 3.0 and don't change anything on the underlying code for the custom GUI.
Not that PF is bad - you just can't do everything together;-)
I guess, if you absolutely need Office(TM) in your office, then go and install a TS or Citrix-Box and use rdpclient or ica-client to access it.
For everybody else, StarOffice is just enough.
I don't think a significant number of people would buy it - Microsoft doesn't either, and it would hurt their OS-business anyway.
So, unless a significant number of (home and corporate) desktops (>5 %) change OS in the near
future, there's no point in even thinking about it.
It even makes sense, from a business point of view (economies of scale etc.), I just don't like Windows or the way it works.
Hello... ?
I thought School is about education.
At least, here in Germany it is (or was, last time
I went to school some years ago).
"Valuable Training" ?
So, your "High School" in USA is basically a state-funded training-academy for "The Industry" ?
Geez - and I thought You were against too much
state-influence and subsidies;-)
cheers,
Rainer
Not likely. At least not on the server
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C# To Crush Java?
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Witness also the latest cracks in the friendship
between SAP and Microsoft wether or not, they'll
support.Net
That should be relatively painless.
What I'd like to see is a quote from MS where they allege to be able to even undercut the current setup and still make a profit.
How are those hosters doing that migrated to W2K (mentioned in those monthly Netcraft reports) ?
Can it be done ?
XP has "headless"-support
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MS DOS: A Eulogy
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There's a KB-article about this shitty piece
of clipart where a monkeybar is shown in the
background and a african-american couple in the
foreground.
Searching for "monkey" would yield the couple as a
result...
Fortunately, there's a hotfix for that...
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Then please do yourself a favour and send a PDF. .doc, because they have most probably different templates, different printers etc.
It will never look the same on your clients machine when sent as
PDF is the only way to preserve layout 100%.
Of course you can't rotate EPS in MS-Office - you can't even import them.
That's what SO is really good at - importing/exporting EPS.
And one reason why I'm gonna buy it RSN.
Rainer
That's actually hard to describe, though I even had ;-)
;-)
a usability-class during my higher education
Seriously, though, it was
- fast
- consistent
- but not to the point where it becomes insane
(like OS/2)
- more things (like the antialias fonts, that made the desktop and wordprocessor look like a piece of paper - so crisp, so clear.)
I dunno - it's just that I miss it a lot
Actually, yes.
There is TechWriter Pro. I used to use this a lot, but nowadays, the RISC-PC (my Acorn machine) is at my parents house, and I don't get to use it too often.
Theres the ROX-Filer project, but it's no real replacement. There is, till today, no GUI out there that can compete with RISC-OS in
- Speed
- Usability
- Intuitivity
ah-well. Those were the times....BTW: porting GNU-software over was not easy, last time I looked, because RISC-OS is not a POSIX-system, in no way. Coupled with the fact that is also more or less, CLI/Shell-less, and had a weird directory-separator (. - dot) made it pretty hard to port the usual tool-chain over to it.
...also head researchers work on this same subject.
IIRC, they came up with a solution that envolved
creating a "cult" around these sites.
Sounds strange, but once you figure out that religions live longer than any other socio-economic community, it makes sense.
Well, kind of.
Wait for Dot-NET Server.
It will have to work headless, or it will not work with blade-servers.
If your budget is Zero, though, I suggest "other" Operating Systems, that have had no problems running headless for years
;-)
Install a proxy.
Or ask your employer.
I'm afraid, in the business world, there's no place for the truth.
The only thing that counts (for a 'traded company) is next quarter's results.
Of course, everybody is entitled to his own "opinion".
Everybody has a price.
shouldn't trust anything or any newssource blindly.
Perhaps, I'll stop reading slashdot for some days because I think it is all BS now, but I'll return.
So will other readers, and you and myself will return to other publications who reported bullshit in the past.
BTW: Doesn't "HP and Compaq" merger sound like an April-Fool's joke ? But it's real...
the commercial version of PGP (8.x something) defaults to 2048-bit keys.
What a coincidence.
If you intend running this, go and ask MSFT for a BIG discount for being a "beta-customer" or so.
Besides: most mentions on Google seem to refer to XP Embedded rather than "plain" XP.
cheers,
Rainer
Well,
IMHO it is *easier* to integrate Visio-Drawings
into a StarOffice document, because StarOffice
supports EPS !
One of several reasons why I like StarOffice is that instead of useless and annoying fluff like animated paperclips and "I think you are writing a letter"-shit, they implmenented support for fileformats like EPS.
That's what I call software for professional use !
BTW: Thanks for reminding me of this, importing Visio drawings as WMF or JPG into Word was really pissing me off !
cheers,
Rainer
It's a beginning ;-)
Walmart.com runs with IIS on Linux...
Hehe.
Do we work at the same company ?
;-)
Our intranet-pages are IE-only and totally overengineered. Nobody really looks at them.
And I doubt you can index them with a normal "google-bot" - there are no "links" in the
www-sense because most things come out of a database...
Just bullshit. And an immense waste of time and money.
cheers,
Rainer
Everybody who has worked in a business for 2 days knows that there is no room for democracy in any company. At least not in the form of a parlamentaric democracy - the thought alone is ridiculous.
Microsoft is no execption, I guess.
Microsoft has been lobbying, spin-doctoring, strong-arming and what-not the public and politicians for year. Now, another player has entered the field - I guess they need to get used to it.
If they didn't know they had no real "friends" out there, I guess they know it now.
cheers,
Rainer
a lot of governments consider using OpenSource in different areas.
Microsoft fears, that once a government (especially Germany, which is a very large IT-market) "falls" to
Linux et.al., others might soon follow.
And they know that people don't return very often to Windoze. Governments even less so.
cheers,
Rainer
Uh. ;-)
But I didn't think of migrating to 3.0 on the production box anyway.
As it works under VMware, extensive test can be made
very easy.
I didn't know the syntax had been changed - I just thought the code had been, well, "improved"
cheers,
Rainer
I've setup a firewall with bridging and no IPs on OpenBSD 2.9. Now, I could migrate to 3.0 and don't change anything on the underlying code for the custom GUI.
Not that PF is bad - you just can't do everything together ;-)
cheers,
Rainer
I guess, if you absolutely need Office(TM) in your office, then go and install a TS or Citrix-Box and use rdpclient or ica-client to access it.
For everybody else, StarOffice is just enough.
I don't think a significant number of people would buy it - Microsoft doesn't either, and it would hurt their OS-business anyway.
So, unless a significant number of (home and corporate) desktops (>5 %) change OS in the near
future, there's no point in even thinking about it.
It even makes sense, from a business point of view (economies of scale etc.), I just don't like Windows or the way it works.
If I had the cash, I'd buy a MAC !
Hello ... ?
;-)
I thought School is about education.
At least, here in Germany it is (or was, last time
I went to school some years ago).
"Valuable Training" ?
So, your "High School" in USA is basically a state-funded training-academy for "The Industry" ?
Geez - and I thought You were against too much
state-influence and subsidies
cheers,
Rainer
Witness also the .Net
;-)
latest cracks in the friendship
between SAP and Microsoft wether or not, they'll
support
Big things are coming
What I'd like to see is a quote from MS where they allege to be able to even undercut the current setup and still make a profit.
How are those hosters doing that migrated to W2K (mentioned in those monthly Netcraft reports) ?
Can it be done ?
According to various articles on the net, MS will ship a version of XP that can run without a gfx-card.
IIRC, they have extended vt100 for that...
So, the cmd-line will be around for some time.
There's a KB-article about this shitty piece
of clipart where a monkeybar is shown in the
background and a african-american couple in the
foreground.
Searching for "monkey" would yield the couple as a
result...
Fortunately, there's a hotfix for that...