Little howto migration to Libreoffice/Openoffice (source : limux) Step 1: - install oo on all computers of the large organisation - MS Office still default now, each and every employee can open, edit ODFs and PDFs
Step 2: (at different speed for each subgroup) - train people - convert templates - avoid use of incompatible macros, convert old macros-loaden excel stuff progressively - set ODF as default format for all work documents - keep MS office for some special cases intricate macros, special plugins. Very small percentage of users.
Step 3: - remove MS office on all but the special cases workstations
Little howto migration to Libreoffice/Openoffice (source : limux) Step 1: - install oo on all computers of the large organisation - MS Office still default now, each and every employee can open, edit ODFs and PDFs
Step 2: (at different speed for each subgroup) - train people - convert templates - avoid use of incompatible macros, convert old macros-loaden excel stuff progressively - set ODF as default format for all work documents - keep MSoffice for some special cases intricate macros, special plugins. Very small percentage of users.
Step 3: - remove MS office on all but the special cases workstations
>>In my company, we did have a pilot project which aimed at switching from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice. The results were... disastrous. Some reasons: >>- Support Personnel had to be trained to be proficient in solving OpenOffice issues experienced by users; >>.....
Limux projects explain how they tackled all of these issues.
Both camps stay on their licensing scheme, refusing to include the other one. The GPL has a clear advantage of requiring contribution back to the community => profit for humanity The BSD likes have the clear advantage of mixing with any code base, dev work is clearly slower due to less contributions back.
The LGPL (like LO) is a very good and clever compromise, it's GPL (with all advantages) but you can mix with proprietary/BSD components !
The US gov. should stop it's phantasm of "cyberwar", and downed power grids... Hey guys, nobody wants to put in the effort to down your power grid. It does not give any country an advantage, except the US themselves. Fact.
>> High enough, perhaps, to make it not economically feasible for use in kids' balloons?
Not at all. A balloon needs a very low quantity, while a MRI needs the equivalent of perhaps many tens of thousands of balloons. (in liquid form)
If the price rise, the huge buying power of 100 000 overpriced balloons will surpass the buying power of 10 MRI labs, and the labs will close. And that's free market.
This will give IPv4 globally perhaps two days. No point in that ! ISPs will run so fast to reserve that space it will be consumed (not used) in seconds. And also, even if a govt agency decides to release addr space they partially use, it could take years for that decision....
>> No. I have seen no evidence that the one-time release of a small amount of radioactivity into the ocean
small amounts ? ocean ?
We don't speak about the same event. In the 2011 fukushima disaster, big quantities of dust went in the athmosphere, and go worldwide. Any particle in your lungs is a potential lung cancer. For the ocean, you probably never eat fish, do you ? and you probably never heard the term "food chain"
>> They had systems in place for a loss of power event. The problem was they didn't anticipate the length of time the loss of power event would continue
They didn't want to anticipate long power losses, so they pick the cheap option. Anyway, there is evidence that the reactors were badly damaged before the power loss They didn't want to anticipate faults directly under the complex (and there can be unknown faults everywhere !) so they just took the most economic option of ignoring strong earthquakes They didn't want to anticipate tsunamis, so they just build a ridiculous but cheap protecting wall.
and the list goes on.
Take risks, be "cheap" when possible, but give a false illusion o security. It's just the way the whole industry works
The critical problem is the power of the disruptions in the machine, which will be strong enough to destroy the machine quickly. These disruptions can't be avoided and are a flaw of tokamaks which is becoming a problem at this scale.
The wall being made of beryllium will also be a problem, together with the tritium in the chamber will make this thing extremely dangerous. If this thing releases materials after damage due to disruptions, we will not really be able to clean the mess.
The real question is : which manufacturers will disable the GSM part (still keeping GPS in sync) when not in an emergency ? If this does not happen, tracking each and ever car in the country is trivial, for govt., ISPs/telcos, as well as for simple individuals (as has been demonstrated by researchers years ago) Also, which car manufacturers will log the route ? (a lot of precedents already !)
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>> blablabla ... Id rather use microsoft. With them you got a billion dollar company with the tech and manpower to back their products ... blablabla
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHT
I think you didn't test it.
Works better for me, at work and at home.
Little howto migration to Libreoffice/Openoffice (source : limux)
Step 1:
- install oo on all computers of the large organisation
- MS Office still default
now, each and every employee can open, edit ODFs and PDFs
Step 2: (at different speed for each subgroup)
- train people
- convert templates
- avoid use of incompatible macros, convert old macros-loaden excel stuff progressively
- set ODF as default format for all work documents
- keep MS office for some special cases intricate macros, special plugins. Very small percentage of users.
Step 3:
- remove MS office on all but the special cases workstations
Little howto migration to Libreoffice/Openoffice (source : limux)
Step 1:
- install oo on all computers of the large organisation
- MS Office still default
now, each and every employee can open, edit ODFs and PDFs
Step 2: (at different speed for each subgroup)
- train people
- convert templates
- avoid use of incompatible macros, convert old macros-loaden excel stuff progressively
- set ODF as default format for all work documents
- keep MSoffice for some special cases intricate macros, special plugins. Very small percentage of users.
Step 3:
- remove MS office on all but the special cases workstations
Simple.
>>In my company, we did have a pilot project which aimed at switching from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice. The results were... disastrous. Some reasons:
>>- Support Personnel had to be trained to be proficient in solving OpenOffice issues experienced by users;
>>.....
Limux projects explain how they tackled all of these issues.
Have a look :
http://media.ccc.de/browse/conferences/eh2010/EH2010-3784-de-limux.html
http://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/dms/Home/Stadtverwaltung/Direktorium/Strategische-IT-Projekte/LiMux/Dokumente/2012_Juli_London20120709.pdf
>> But some parts of open office are frankly beta quality and should never be included in a finished release.
You used the obsolete openoffice. Found your problem. Use Libreoffice.
None.
I use Linux.
99% of the time
>> On the plus side, the ribbon got me to finally learn the Windows hotkeys
On the good side, it made a lot of people switch to libreoffice.
When all you have is a Balmer, all problems are solved by using MS products.
The licence ?
The user base ?
Both camps stay on their licensing scheme, refusing to include the other one.
The GPL has a clear advantage of requiring contribution back to the community => profit for humanity
The BSD likes have the clear advantage of mixing with any code base, dev work is clearly slower due to less contributions back.
The LGPL (like LO) is a very good and clever compromise, it's GPL (with all advantages) but you can mix with proprietary/BSD components !
The US gov. should stop it's phantasm of "cyberwar", and downed power grids...
Hey guys, nobody wants to put in the effort to down your power grid. It does not give any country an advantage, except the US themselves. Fact.
Perhaps, in some years, people will organize themselves in towns and create community-made non-profit ISP's. this already exists in some places...
Yep. US only problem. Don't care.
>> High enough, perhaps, to make it not economically feasible for use in kids' balloons?
Not at all.
A balloon needs a very low quantity, while a MRI needs the equivalent of perhaps many tens of thousands of balloons. (in liquid form)
If the price rise, the huge buying power of 100 000 overpriced balloons will surpass the buying power of 10 MRI labs, and the labs will close.
And that's free market.
NAT and other ip sharing schemes is dead.
Now everybody (within ipv6) will be able to communicate directly
Deal with it.
Yeah, selling reserved numbers, what a great ides. ;)
I'll patent PI
This will give IPv4 globally perhaps two days. No point in that !
ISPs will run so fast to reserve that space it will be consumed (not used) in seconds.
And also, even if a govt agency decides to release addr space they partially use, it could take years for that decision....
I think there was news some time ago that ipads were certified by FAA as replacements of plane manuals. Why not use them as MP3 players ?
>> unwritten Terms and Conditions
There is no such thing.
>> No. I have seen no evidence that the one-time release of a small amount of radioactivity into the ocean
small amounts ?
ocean ?
We don't speak about the same event.
In the 2011 fukushima disaster, big quantities of dust went in the athmosphere, and go worldwide. Any particle in your lungs is a potential lung cancer.
For the ocean, you probably never eat fish, do you ? and you probably never heard the term "food chain"
>> They had systems in place for a loss of power event. The problem was they didn't anticipate the length of time the loss of power event would continue
They didn't want to anticipate long power losses, so they pick the cheap option. Anyway, there is evidence that the reactors were badly damaged before the power loss
They didn't want to anticipate faults directly under the complex (and there can be unknown faults everywhere !) so they just took the most economic option of ignoring strong earthquakes
They didn't want to anticipate tsunamis, so they just build a ridiculous but cheap protecting wall.
and the list goes on.
Take risks, be "cheap" when possible, but give a false illusion o security. It's just the way the whole industry works
The critical problem is the power of the disruptions in the machine, which will be strong enough to destroy the machine quickly.
These disruptions can't be avoided and are a flaw of tokamaks which is becoming a problem at this scale.
The wall being made of beryllium will also be a problem, together with the tritium in the chamber will make this thing extremely dangerous. If this thing releases materials after damage due to disruptions, we will not really be able to clean the mess.
The real question is : which manufacturers will disable the GSM part (still keeping GPS in sync) when not in an emergency ?
If this does not happen, tracking each and ever car in the country is trivial, for govt., ISPs/telcos, as well as for simple individuals (as has been demonstrated by researchers years ago)
Also, which car manufacturers will log the route ? (a lot of precedents already !)
I hope people will review these systems !
Some strange people should really stop dreaming about all that "cyber war" BS....