RTF displays differently in different programs and depending on what program you used to create it. An RTF made with Word can look different in Wordpad. And RTF is much more limited than.doc or.odt.
But if I embed an Excel document inside my Word document and use external links to populate calculations, there is no way in the world OpenOffice will open this document. I don't see how ODF could help this.
ODF can help if MS ever supports saving as ODF well enough, because you can have.ods data in.odt files.
We have HTML standards per W3C. Can anyone name a site that actually conforms to W3C standards? Mine don't. So we end up with browsers that display these standard pages differently.
I am not a web developer, but the HTML I have written is all valid. I see "valid [X]HTML" buttons fairly often. Also, CSS is often a bigger problem than the HTML, due to IE having rather poor CSS support.
If ODF moves forward, what are the odds that we end up adding more vulnerabilities? As with HTML, IE and Mozilla trying to display non-W3C compliant documents have ended up with coding that allowed exploit. Let us hope ODF is explicit, refusing to display a non compliant document.
You can have a web page with completely valid HTML and CSS and still have exploits. Just as Javascript tends to be the most dangerous part of Web pages, the most dangerous thing in ODF is the ability to embed macros.
I know of options for a couple of these, although I don't know if they would fit your needs. Also, some of these are KDE apps and your list sounds like you use Gnome. I don't if use apps from both is a reasonable option for you, but anyway, here are some possibilities:
* Some kind of basic organization ala MS Project - Gnome Planner is currently at 0.14, Kplato is a more mature product
* Visio equivalent - Dia or Kivio (I have found Kivio to be good enough for my (minimal) needs)
* Scheduler - Evolution, Korganizer
Well, the Debian people are "rabid zealots", in a way - a good way. They care about freedom and they don't back down. If you, or anyone else, doesn't like that, you are free to use another distro. Debian's attitude towards freedom is one of the reasons I use Debian.
Also, this kind of thing is nothing new in Debian. For example, they had huge arguments over whether the Gnu Free Documentation License was free enough (They decided it wasn't, with the exception of GFDL documents that have no invariant sections).
You have it backwards. Mozilla is the one being unresonable here. Other open source projects have trademarks but they don't insist that Debian must use a different name because they have custom patches.
As a 24 year-old, I have to say that although I haven't played Wind Waker very much (I don't own a copy yet), I enjoy it a lot. On the other hand I also liked A Link to the Past, and I look forward to Twilight Princess. Serious can be good, but so can "kiddy" or "goofy". As far as Pride and Prejudice, from what I know of it, I would prefer Green Eggs and Ham (and it is just as good, if not better - within its field).
What the hell does the Tyrant have to do with Big Brother?
He can tell what you did in the past, what you are doing now, and what you may do in the future (unless you have a no-chamber). Sounds like Big Brother to me.:-/
Right. Evince. Like *that* doesn't leak memory like a sieve, on top of the huge amount it uses anyway. Poppler is getting better, but it's not quite there yet. Xpdf may be fugly as hell (it's a motif/lesstif app), but there really isn't any replacement for it yet.
Really? I have found Evince to be much better than Xpdf. I haven't noticed any memory issues (but I haven't looked), and it seems faster. The first time I tried it crashed so much it was unusable, but the next time I tried it (several versions later) it was fine.
"To the Fathers of Men of the three faithful houses rich reward was given. Eonwe came among them and taught them; and they were given wisdom and power and life more enduring than any others of mortal race have possessed. A land was made made for the Edain to dwell in, neither part of Middle-earth nor of Valinor..."
And then I suddenly thought: to Peter Jackson, dwarves appear to be figures of fun.
But in The Hobbit, it would be appropriate.
--
Chip the glasses and crack the plates!
Blunt the knives and bend the forks! That's what Bilbo Baggins hates--
Smash the bottles and burn the corks!
Bilbo found himself running round and round (as he thought) and calling: "Dori, Nori, Ori, Oin, Gloin, Fili, Kili, Bombur, Bifur, Bofur, Dwalin, Balin, Thorin Oakenshield," while people he could not see or feel were doing the same all round him (with an occasional "Bilbo!" thrown in).
The barrel scene that you mentioned, the arguing trolls, the introduction to Beorn, the concept of the Dwarves putting up with Bilbo, the concept of the Dwarves being silly enough to think they could steal back the treasure or kill Smaug - the whole story is silly (but very good).
I had never seen anything about dragons being Maia, but after looking around a little bit it seem they might be. In the Silmarillion it says they were created by Morgoth, but later Tolkien decided that Morgoth could not create anything of his own, so the idea of dragons being Maia came about. You learn something new every day.
Shelob was the last child of Ungoliant and in the Silmarillion it says that Ungoliant may have entered Arda from the darkness around it. Anyway, it does not make sense for Ungoliant to be a mere Maia, seeing as how she pretty much kicked Morgoth's ass. And she ate the light of the two trees without harm, while Morgoth was burned by the Silmarils.
And didn't the Valar fight Morgoth twice, once before the Elves awoke, and once at the end of the first age?
Balrogs are Maia, as are the wizards. Istari is the Elvish name for the wizards. There were five wizards, but two of them where blue wizards who are never mentioned in LOTR. It is not clear why there was one white wizard, one grey wizard, one brown wizard and *two* blue wizards.
As the Maia named Olorin, Gandalf quite possibly existed before the creation of the world itself.
Olorin definitely existed before the creation of the world. His incarnation called Gandalf was probably about two thousand years old at the end of the third age (the wizards first appeared about 1,000 years after the third age began).
To be precise, it is GTK's file dialog, and you can either type ctrl-l or just start typing. Why, yes, it is completely non-discoverable. Actually, I think that GTK 2.10 (used in Gnome 1.16) adds a button for this.
The widgets inside the browser window are XUL (back, forward, ok, cancel, etc.), but on Linux the Min/Max/Close buttons and the file selector are GTK.
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Maybe you look at Mozilla (SeaMonkey) again. Yes, if it crashes it takes mail/news with it, but I have always found Mozilla to be more stable than FF. With SeaMonkey 1.0, I have no trouble routinely having 30+ tabs open in one window. I start with ~20 tabs and go up from there. I can go up to 40-50 tabs in one to three windows (plus the mail/news window) with out running into trouble (my max is 100+, but I restarted SeaMonkey shortly after that). My avereage run time is probably 4-5 days and if I keep it down to ~30 tabs, I have gone for about two weeks.
This is with half a dozen extentions on Linux. In the Mozilla 1.6 days I found the Windows version to be somewhat less stable than the Linux version. Stablity on both platforms has gone up with each release, so although I haven't used SeaMonkey on Windows, I imagine it is not much less stable than the Linux version.
I recently paid ~$40 to see Steely Dan and Michael McDonald. That was to sit on the lawn, not in the seats, but I feel that it was a fair transaction. The seats where a lot more, and if that was all that was avalible, I don't know if I would have paid....I guess I would have, I needed to see them live.
Heck, it's probably not even in the same league as a low-end Dell box. Definitely not in the same league - it is much more exciting than a low-end Dell.
Maybe I hang around with normal people a bit too much Yes, I think that is the root of the problem here:-)
That reminds me, I discovered some additions to the "ctrl-l in open/save dialogs" tip. In the save dialog there is a box to type the filename, but to my surprise, you can also type a full path in that box. And in the open dialog you can just start typing a path and it will have the same effect as typing ctrl-l.
It seems like every time I find out something about Gnome/Nautilus, I like it more - or maybe hate it less.:-)
Well, I still don't like it, but I am getting used to it. In my head I still call it the Revolution. It's just like SeaMonkey (formerly Mozilla) and Vista (Longhorn). Internally, I still use the old name for them, but I generally use the official name when talking to other people. And when I do I am not particularly bothered by the name.
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Don't we already have this? Isn't it .RTF?
.doc or .odt.
.ods data in .odt files.
RTF displays differently in different programs and depending on what program you used to create it. An RTF made with Word can look different in Wordpad.
And RTF is much more limited than
But if I embed an Excel document inside my Word document and use external links to populate calculations, there is no way in the world OpenOffice will open this document. I don't see how ODF could help this.
ODF can help if MS ever supports saving as ODF well enough, because you can have
We have HTML standards per W3C. Can anyone name a site that actually conforms to W3C standards? Mine don't. So we end up with browsers that display these standard pages differently.
I am not a web developer, but the HTML I have written is all valid. I see "valid [X]HTML" buttons fairly often. Also, CSS is often a bigger problem than the HTML, due to IE having rather poor CSS support.
If ODF moves forward, what are the odds that we end up adding more vulnerabilities? As with HTML, IE and Mozilla trying to display non-W3C compliant documents have ended up with coding that allowed exploit. Let us hope ODF is explicit, refusing to display a non compliant document.
You can have a web page with completely valid HTML and CSS and still have exploits. Just as Javascript tends to be the most dangerous part of Web pages, the most dangerous thing in ODF is the ability to embed macros.
N = N* fp x ne x fl x fi x fc x fL
/darn slashdot's lack of <sub> and (some?/most?) html entities
I know of options for a couple of these, although I don't know if they would fit your needs. Also, some of these are KDE apps and your list sounds like you use Gnome. I don't if use apps from both is a reasonable option for you, but anyway, here are some possibilities:
* Some kind of basic organization ala MS Project - Gnome Planner is currently at 0.14, Kplato is a more mature product
* Visio equivalent - Dia or Kivio (I have found Kivio to be good enough for my (minimal) needs)
* Scheduler - Evolution, Korganizer
Well, the Debian people are "rabid zealots", in a way - a good way. They care about freedom and they don't back down. If you, or anyone else, doesn't like that, you are free to use another distro. Debian's attitude towards freedom is one of the reasons I use Debian.
Also, this kind of thing is nothing new in Debian. For example, they had huge arguments over whether the Gnu Free Documentation License was free enough (They decided it wasn't, with the exception of GFDL documents that have no invariant sections).
You have it backwards. Mozilla is the one being unresonable here. Other open source projects have trademarks but they don't insist that Debian must use a different name because they have custom patches.
18ms for the same roads that take me 20 miles to drive.
"It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs."
As a 24 year-old, I have to say that although I haven't played Wind Waker very much (I don't own a copy yet), I enjoy it a lot. On the other hand I also liked A Link to the Past, and I look forward to Twilight Princess. Serious can be good, but so can "kiddy" or "goofy". As far as Pride and Prejudice, from what I know of it, I would prefer Green Eggs and Ham (and it is just as good, if not better - within its field).
What the hell does the Tyrant have to do with Big Brother?
:-/
He can tell what you did in the past, what you are doing now, and what you may do in the future (unless you have a no-chamber).
Sounds like Big Brother to me.
Really? I have found Evince to be much better than Xpdf. I haven't noticed any memory issues (but I haven't looked), and it seems faster. The first time I tried it crashed so much it was unusable, but the next time I tried it (several versions later) it was fine.
"To the Fathers of Men of the three faithful houses rich reward was given. Eonwe came among them and taught them; and they were given wisdom and power and life more enduring than any others of mortal race have possessed. A land was made made for the Edain to dwell in, neither part of Middle-earth nor of Valinor..."
But in The Hobbit, it would be appropriate.
--
The barrel scene that you mentioned, the arguing trolls, the introduction to Beorn, the concept of the Dwarves putting up with Bilbo, the concept of the Dwarves being silly enough to think they could steal back the treasure or kill Smaug - the whole story is silly (but very good).
I had never seen anything about dragons being Maia, but after looking around a little bit it seem they might be. In the Silmarillion it says they were created by Morgoth, but later Tolkien decided that Morgoth could not create anything of his own, so the idea of dragons being Maia came about. You learn something new every day.
Shelob was the last child of Ungoliant and in the Silmarillion it says that Ungoliant may have entered Arda from the darkness around it. Anyway, it does not make sense for Ungoliant to be a mere Maia, seeing as how she pretty much kicked Morgoth's ass. And she ate the light of the two trees without harm, while Morgoth was burned by the Silmarils.
And didn't the Valar fight Morgoth twice, once before the Elves awoke, and once at the end of the first age?
Balrogs are Maia, as are the wizards. Istari is the Elvish name for the wizards. There were five wizards, but two of them where blue wizards who are never mentioned in LOTR. It is not clear why there was one white wizard, one grey wizard, one brown wizard and *two* blue wizards.
Some have speculated...
Some people aren't paying attention. Saruman and Radagast (and the other two wizards) are the same age as Gandalf, and they didn't have great rings.
As the Maia named Olorin, Gandalf quite possibly existed before the creation of the world itself.
Olorin definitely existed before the creation of the world. His incarnation called Gandalf was probably about two thousand years old at the end of the third age (the wizards first appeared about 1,000 years after the third age began).
To be precise, it is GTK's file dialog, and you can either type ctrl-l or just start typing. Why, yes, it is completely non-discoverable. Actually, I think that GTK 2.10 (used in Gnome 1.16) adds a button for this.
The widgets inside the browser window are XUL (back, forward, ok, cancel, etc.), but on Linux the Min/Max/Close buttons and the file selector are GTK.
Maybe you look at Mozilla (SeaMonkey) again. Yes, if it crashes it takes mail/news with it, but I have always found Mozilla to be more stable than FF. With SeaMonkey 1.0, I have no trouble routinely having 30+ tabs open in one window. I start with ~20 tabs and go up from there. I can go up to 40-50 tabs in one to three windows (plus the mail/news window) with out running into trouble (my max is 100+, but I restarted SeaMonkey shortly after that). My avereage run time is probably 4-5 days and if I keep it down to ~30 tabs, I have gone for about two weeks.
This is with half a dozen extentions on Linux. In the Mozilla 1.6 days I found the Windows version to be somewhat less stable than the Linux version. Stablity on both platforms has gone up with each release, so although I haven't used SeaMonkey on Windows, I imagine it is not much less stable than the Linux version.
bad blood between Sega and Nintendo
Which explains why Sega made Sonic Rush for the DS.
Oh, wait...
I recently paid ~$40 to see Steely Dan and Michael McDonald. That was to sit on the lawn, not in the seats, but I feel that it was a fair transaction.
The seats where a lot more, and if that was all that was avalible, I don't know if I would have paid....I guess I would have, I needed to see them live.
It was an awesome show.
Heck, it's probably not even in the same league as a low-end Dell box.
:-)
Definitely not in the same league - it is much more exciting than a low-end Dell.
Maybe I hang around with normal people a bit too much
Yes, I think that is the root of the problem here
to watch "Get Perpendicular"
That reminds me, I discovered some additions to the "ctrl-l in open/save dialogs" tip. In the save dialog there is a box to type the filename, but to my surprise, you can also type a full path in that box. And in the open dialog you can just start typing a path and it will have the same effect as typing ctrl-l.
:-)
It seems like every time I find out something about Gnome/Nautilus, I like it more - or maybe hate it less.
Well, I still don't like it, but I am getting used to it. In my head I still call it the Revolution. It's just like SeaMonkey (formerly Mozilla) and Vista (Longhorn). Internally, I still use the old name for them, but I generally use the official name when talking to other people. And when I do I am not particularly bothered by the name.
I am not sure, but Maintain seems like the kind of thing you are looking for: http://osuosl.org/projects/maintain/
Although, looking at it, it seems to be specific to dhcpd3 and djbdns...
Anyway, I thought I would just throw it out here for consideration.