While I am often not in my right mind, some of us are unlucky enough to live in places in the UK where broadband is unavailable! Downloading Windows updates via dialup is not fun and sadly it has got to the stage where there are too many updates of too great a size for us poor broadband deprived people to download!
Rumour has is that Microsoft produce a CD of updates that can be ordered... one day I may even find how to order it on the mess that is the MS website
The only other thing I have to say is that considering what Novell seem to be trying to do with Linux on the desktop, I bet they really regret selling Wordperfect to Corel
I use LaTeX + a library of templates I've build up over the years for most of my work now, but if I had to use a wordprocessor then I'd rather fork out some cash for WordPerfect than suffer with MS Office or OOo
For those of us that produce non-trivial documents OOo can just about give MS Word a run for it's money (With the wind in the right direction and a running start) but neither OOo or Word approach the functionality that I used to enjoy when I was still using WPWin 8
Reveal Codes is one feature that is very very useful, OOo and Word have no equivalent for this. Wordperfect actually handles styles gracefully and has decent outlining facilities (Although Lotus WordPros are better)!
The only word I can use to describe both MS Word and OOo's TOC generation facilities is primitive!
Don't get me wrong, OOo is a very useful product, I like being able to open Word files in it and I'd probably use it for a letter to my gran, but for producing long, complicated documents it is just a pain in the ass and has a long way to go!
This is just my opinion of course, but hey I have loud music and beer so I'm happy even if people want to disagree!
Would you care to give some examples as to how PostgreSQL is harder to administer than MySQL? Having used both, I would say they are both fairly easy to administer.
If you want something that can be really nasty to administer, use Oracle or DB2
As far as I am concerned, it's all about selecting the right tool for the job. My last project needed subqueries and enforced relational integrity and at the time MySQL couldn't handle this, PostgreSQL could!
Unfortunately for MySQL that means that I'm unlikely to consider it for another project, unless it can offer something that I need that PostgreSQL can't (Hasn't happened yet)
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Thanks for that, you're right... It's very nice
If you don't have a Palm then you could always run it under the Simulator
You made me laugh so much, I snorted beer out through my nose... what a waste of good beer!
That would be Advanced Interactive eXecutive link
If you're going to expand a TLA (Three Letter Acronym), at least get it right
Ok so I'm lazy too! I must confess I haven't tried looking for it for a while... tend to be using FreeBSD more for my desktop needs these days!
Anyway, thanks for the info!
Rumour has is that Microsoft produce a CD of updates that can be ordered... one day I may even find how to order it on the mess that is the MS website
The only other thing I have to say is that considering what Novell seem to be trying to do with Linux on the desktop, I bet they really regret selling Wordperfect to Corel
I use LaTeX + a library of templates I've build up over the years for most of my work now, but if I had to use a wordprocessor then I'd rather fork out some cash for WordPerfect than suffer with MS Office or OOo
For those of us that produce non-trivial documents OOo can just about give MS Word a run for it's money (With the wind in the right direction and a running start) but neither OOo or Word approach the functionality that I used to enjoy when I was still using WPWin 8
Reveal Codes is one feature that is very very useful, OOo and Word have no equivalent for this. Wordperfect actually handles styles gracefully and has decent outlining facilities (Although Lotus WordPros are better)!
The only word I can use to describe both MS Word and OOo's TOC generation facilities is primitive!
Don't get me wrong, OOo is a very useful product, I like being able to open Word files in it and I'd probably use it for a letter to my gran, but for producing long, complicated documents it is just a pain in the ass and has a long way to go!
This is just my opinion of course, but hey I have loud music and beer so I'm happy even if people want to disagree!
Would you care to give some examples as to how PostgreSQL is harder to administer than MySQL? Having used both, I would say they are both fairly easy to administer.
If you want something that can be really nasty to administer, use Oracle or DB2
As far as I am concerned, it's all about selecting the right tool for the job. My last project needed subqueries and enforced relational integrity and at the time MySQL couldn't handle this, PostgreSQL could!
Unfortunately for MySQL that means that I'm unlikely to consider it for another project, unless it can offer something that I need that PostgreSQL can't (Hasn't happened yet)
If you have no idea why this is funny, watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail and all will be revealed!