Not only does OpenOffice have a dedicated development and support team (the StarDivision guys), it's actually notably difficult for outside contributors to get patches in at all. (Even Ximian has problems getting patches in.) Like Mozilla was under Netscape, they went open source to get the advantages of the bazaar... then run it like a cathedral.
Bill Thompson has been a technology moron with the BBC for a while now - read his past columns. He has an obsession with regulation in general, particularly governmental control of the Internet; this is part of that.
Probably because OOo's arse is ridiculously fat. Let me guess, the machine was 64MB? In my experience, 64MB equals thrasharama (the app's working set is around 100MB), 128MB is when you can do at least a bit of work, 192MB is happy. Throw as much memory at it as you can.
They're already ridiculously popular in the UK. Remember that in Europe, the land of GSM, mobile phones are pretty much given away with breakfast cereal. Everyone I know wants a cameraphone for their next phone.
Of course the real purpose of a cameraphone is to get too drunk to know what you're doing but not too drunk to do it and send pictures of your tits to vague acquaintances, leading to tremendous embarrassment in the morning.
Oh, you bastard. I just tried this. And promptly had to stifle laughing out loud at work.
(You get the 'dead Wilbur' icon and a message that asks if you are crazy.)
The resulting 274KB file (from an 80x100 LiveJournal icon GIF) didn't crash IE. Unfortunately, the conversion didn't actually work. But I think the 'save as HTML' dialogue itself is certainly a fine Easter egg:-)
The web site for TAOUP is actually banned by the web-censor software SurfControl! We have had this inflicted on us at work. I wonder if ESR would like to have words with them about libel...
Why the hell should I trust this company, particularly when Verisign buy all successful competitors - as they did for digital certificates?
Most importantly: there is no natural reason for the cost.
Now, if there was an easy way to pay me one penny to receive each email, with free channels set up on a case-by-case basis... that would work wonderfully. All we need then is a workable mechanism for single-penny transactions to be workable for almost everyone...
Mozilla finally - finally! - has a marketing project. It's be an uphill battle - to say the least - but it's a tremendous win over the active anti-marketing they had previously...
The only reason to pick ClearQuest over Bugzilla is if you really want that insanely expensive integration with other Rational products. Been there, suffered that.
Just implement Bugzilla in parallel, make it essential then presume its existence in official documentation.
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Not only does OpenOffice have a dedicated development and support team (the StarDivision guys), it's actually notably difficult for outside contributors to get patches in at all. (Even Ximian has problems getting patches in.) Like Mozilla was under Netscape, they went open source to get the advantages of the bazaar ... then run it like a cathedral.
No, SCO is Gandhi in reverse: First, Linux kiddies fought SCO. Then, Linux kiddies laughed at SCO. Then, Linux kiddies ignored SCO. Then, SCO lost.
"Venerable"? I guess we're talking about three whole years in Internet time ;-)
(I keep it there for the BBC. I swear.)
Bill Thompson has been a technology moron with the BBC for a while now - read his past columns. He has an obsession with regulation in general, particularly governmental control of the Internet; this is part of that.
He's a marketer for Microsoft Germany. Check his bio.
I always thought the canonical Linux porting hack would be to a coffee cup.
Probably because OOo's arse is ridiculously fat. Let me guess, the machine was 64MB? In my experience, 64MB equals thrasharama (the app's working set is around 100MB), 128MB is when you can do at least a bit of work, 192MB is happy. Throw as much memory at it as you can.
It's a first-world country, so I thought it would be comparable on that level.
Of course the real purpose of a cameraphone is to get too drunk to know what you're doing but not too drunk to do it and send pictures of your tits to vague acquaintances, leading to tremendous embarrassment in the morning.
It's obvious, then, that the real ethical problem is that people insist on feeding children.
Yes, I was wondering why you were putting up so many opinion pieces - quiet Christmas? :-)
Dunno about elsewhere in the UK, but in London there's a few pubs and so on with free WiFi. Oddly enough they tend to get tables full of BOFHs.
Mozilla in 32 meg technically starts. But they recommend 64 meg minimum for good reason. Its arse is a certain size.
Oh, you bastard. I just tried this. And promptly had to stifle laughing out loud at work.
(You get the 'dead Wilbur' icon and a message that asks if you are crazy.)
The resulting 274KB file (from an 80x100 LiveJournal icon GIF) didn't crash IE. Unfortunately, the conversion didn't actually work. But I think the 'save as HTML' dialogue itself is certainly a fine Easter egg :-)
The web site for TAOUP is actually banned by the web-censor software SurfControl! We have had this inflicted on us at work. I wonder if ESR would like to have words with them about libel ...
OOo 1.0 and 1.1 for Linux both work wonderfully on FreeBSD with linux_base-7 installed. I use the Linux binary on my FreeBSD box at home.
Micropayments still suck.
Why the hell should I trust this company, particularly when Verisign buy all successful competitors - as they did for digital certificates?
Most importantly: there is no natural reason for the cost.
Now, if there was an easy way to pay me one penny to receive each email, with free channels set up on a case-by-case basis ... that would work wonderfully. All we need then is a workable mechanism for single-penny transactions to be workable for almost everyone ...
It is.
What this ignores is that the cost of living is much lower in Australia, so AUD$1 in Australia feels like USD$1 in the US.
Mozilla finally - finally! - has a marketing project. It's be an uphill battle - to say the least - but it's a tremendous win over the active anti-marketing they had previously ...
Just implement Bugzilla in parallel, make it essential then presume its existence in official documentation.
Microsoft Services For Unix uses a bucketload of OpenBSD code.
Out of Perforce, you mean. (They have FAR more sense than to use SourceSafe themselves.)
Ah, no, it was coined by makali, in a LiveJournal reply to said post.