of course WE have the choice, but most of corporate America is so clueless they don't realize it, and collectively lock themselves into using M$ tripe.
Yes, there have been plenty of audits. None that have effected me, but I've read about them...
> If you have existing odbc sources defined in windows, you can access them
or with unixODBC in Linux. I had never touched unixODBC before, but there's a HOWTO PDF (I don't remember the URL, but it was in LinuxToday last week) that explained the process. I had OpenOffice.org talking to my Postgres database in minutes! (And the Howto was for mysql!)
> You get everything MS Access gives you except for the ability to create custom forms.
BZZT. File | AutoPilot | Form...
ok, it might not be quite as complete as Access (maybe it is, I don't know how they compare), but it's there! I know you can write events for DB updates from StarBasic, and they can supposedly access form widgets, so it probably has all the functionality of Access. No reports though, that I'm aware of -- Access may lead there.
> I really wish people would cover that aspect more in their reviews.
Agree 100%.
Really, OpenOffice.org is SOOO close to being The MS Office Killer it's not even funny. It just needs 1) more end user documentation, especially for the macro language (which is quite powerful), 2) maybe a reports system like Access has, 3) fixes for a few little bugs that have been mentioned here and elsewhere.
All this should be done in a few months. Combine OOo for most uses and LaTeX for books and technical writings, and there will be absolutely no reason whatsoever to pay for MS Office.
As people continue to see the light and increasingly prefer Free Software, and want to keep their data in a more open system, projects like this should skyrocket in use, and people that know them well should be more valuable.
well, I've inadvertently gotten the sun on my videotapes before, and it hasn't seemed to damage it.
More interestingly, I actually DID take a video of the February 26, 1998 eclipse from Venezuela. It turned out far better than any of our still shots! I got a pretty good zoom in on the sun during totality (I didn't point it directly at the sun during partial phases, so it may not apply to you).
I'm OK with capping "unlimited" cable IF it's a reasonable cap that only the VERY biggest (ab)users will surpass. I want to be able to download a few ISOs a month, plus all my normal web browsing, and not have to worry about passing the cap. 10GB/month seems appropriate. If someone is using more than that, they're doing something funky, if not illegal, and deserve to pay more.
I don't even download ISOs much personally -- I just want to BE ABLE TO.
Last time I tried KOffice (1.1.1 under KDE 2.2.2) it left some stability to be desired -- I found several ways to crash it.
However, I hear 1.2 (2.0?) will be MUCH better, so I'm looking forward to trying it w/KDE 3.
Does KOffice scripting work now? Like, can you write a perl or python script to access spreadsheets, etc? I hear that was the goal but don't know the status. Thanks!
I once went on a safari through the Venezuelan Llanos. We took boats on various tributaries of the Orinoco, and those rivers weren't exactly the cleanest around. Pretty much everything you can think of lives in there.
But we had a guide that, when he was thirsty, simply dipped a cup into the river and drank it. He probably never gets sick!
well I just got through it with (gag) Netscape 4.79.
Hmm if it works in Galeon but not Mozilla it probably has nothing to do with Gecko. But it DID hang BOTH times I tried it with Moz, roughly at the same spot (no pun intended).
And for me it suggested Spokane and Anchorage. They both sound good to me.
You're being paranoid.:) I have nothing to do with the site, I just saw it in a link list yesterday and thought it was kind of cool. Except that it doesn't work for me.:(
I haven't upgraded to 7.3 yet (will do today if I can manage to get the ISOs) but for all previous versions, the upgrade has been nearly perfect. No worries.
I was also in Puerto Rico a few years ago and actually liked the sound of the things. And yeah, I have one of those souvenir t-shirts.:) I was told they only lived in PR, so I was also surprised to see this.
But isn't the noise exaggerated a bit? They wren't THAT loud. I don't even remember hearing them inside the house. Granted, I was in town (Bayamon, a suburb of San Juan). It's probably worse in the jungle.
Also, insects. Are there really so few insects in Hawaii that some frogs will endanger the birds by eating their food supply? Seems like more ways of getting rid of bugs is a GOOD thing.
PR certainly has agriculture and tourism, so any long term threat to Hawaii seems unlikely.
Maybe I spoke too soon! Here's a PDF that seems to document it. At least the API. You're expected to know BASIC, but that can be picked up from the examples, and there are also a lot of samples under OpenOffice.org1.0/share/basic/
Link to The API Project -- at the bottom of the page is a link to the programmers tutorial PDF and an online reference guide.
It's pretty good, although the documentation could be better.
Could be better? I've been searching for it, and the ONLY thing I've been able to find in it at all is a blurb in the help about writing a Calc function with the Basic IDE!
Nothing whatsoever about the language, or what it can do, or the object structure of the documents.
I'd like to find this stuff out so I can dig into it.
Anyone know how it compares with Microsoft's VBA? The IDE looks OK on the surface -- it has color syntax highlighting, breakpoints, and watches! But some docs are more than a little necessary.
Might check into that for calendering. Yeah, it's web based, but that works OK, and as an added bonus you don't need to be on your network to get to it!
Good grief moderators. When will you figure out that posting the text of a story in a comment is NOT informative? It's redundant at best, and a copyright violation at worst. Please quit encouraging this!
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of course WE have the choice, but most of corporate America is so clueless they don't realize it, and collectively lock themselves into using M$ tripe.
Yes, there have been plenty of audits. None that have effected me, but I've read about them...
> If you have existing odbc sources defined in windows, you can access them
or with unixODBC in Linux. I had never touched unixODBC before, but there's a HOWTO PDF (I don't remember the URL, but it was in LinuxToday last week) that explained the process. I had OpenOffice.org talking to my Postgres database in minutes! (And the Howto was for mysql!)
> You get everything MS Access gives you except for the ability to create custom forms.
BZZT. File | AutoPilot | Form...
ok, it might not be quite as complete as Access (maybe it is, I don't know how they compare), but it's there! I know you can write events for DB updates from StarBasic, and they can supposedly access form widgets, so it probably has all the functionality of Access. No reports though, that I'm aware of -- Access may lead there.
> I really wish people would cover that aspect more in their reviews.
Agree 100%.
Really, OpenOffice.org is SOOO close to being The MS Office Killer it's not even funny. It just needs 1) more end user documentation, especially for the macro language (which is quite powerful), 2) maybe a reports system like Access has, 3) fixes for a few little bugs that have been mentioned here and elsewhere.
All this should be done in a few months. Combine OOo for most uses and LaTeX for books and technical writings, and there will be absolutely no reason whatsoever to pay for MS Office.
and sending the BSA cronies to do audits without warrants isn't as bad as quartering troops in our homes?
odd. I just recompiled everything and:
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a mod_perl/1.27 PHP/4.2.1
Tested most of my sites and everything seems to work just fine, including PHP sites that use PostgreSQL.
well it takes a bit longer when you have mod_perl, php, and mod_gzip to compile into it. Heading off to do that now....
speaking of "last mile", is anyone familliar with New Visual (OTC:NVEI)?
They claim to be developing a last mile solution that uses regular copper wire that's already installed.
I have a fair amount of their stock, which seems pretty undervalued if anything they're saying is halfway true.
http://www.newvisual.com
Any thoughts?
...like GNU Enterprise.
As people continue to see the light and increasingly prefer Free Software, and want to keep their data in a more open system, projects like this should skyrocket in use, and people that know them well should be more valuable.
well, I've inadvertently gotten the sun on my videotapes before, and it hasn't seemed to damage it.
More interestingly, I actually DID take a video of the February 26, 1998 eclipse from Venezuela. It turned out far better than any of our still shots! I got a pretty good zoom in on the sun during totality (I didn't point it directly at the sun during partial phases, so it may not apply to you).
In fact, here are a couple shots taken from my video with a Snappy:
The Diamond Ring Effect and the elipsed sun with planets (Venus and Jupiter IIRC).
I'm OK with capping "unlimited" cable IF it's a reasonable cap that only the VERY biggest (ab)users will surpass. I want to be able to download a few ISOs a month, plus all my normal web browsing, and not have to worry about passing the cap. 10GB/month seems appropriate. If someone is using more than that, they're doing something funky, if not illegal, and deserve to pay more.
I don't even download ISOs much personally -- I just want to BE ABLE TO.
Last time I tried KOffice (1.1.1 under KDE 2.2.2) it left some stability to be desired -- I found several ways to crash it.
However, I hear 1.2 (2.0?) will be MUCH better, so I'm looking forward to trying it w/KDE 3.
Does KOffice scripting work now? Like, can you write a perl or python script to access spreadsheets, etc? I hear that was the goal but don't know the status. Thanks!
Looks good, if a bit dated. The last release was in September???
That's almost certainly true.
I once went on a safari through the Venezuelan Llanos. We took boats on various tributaries of the Orinoco, and those rivers weren't exactly the cleanest around. Pretty much everything you can think of lives in there.
But we had a guide that, when he was thirsty, simply dipped a cup into the river and drank it. He probably never gets sick!
Hey we should plan some big party only for those with 3 digit Slashdot UIDs. That would really rub it in. :D
well I just got through it with (gag) Netscape 4.79.
Hmm if it works in Galeon but not Mozilla it probably has nothing to do with Gecko. But it DID hang BOTH times I tried it with Moz, roughly at the same spot (no pun intended).
And for me it suggested Spokane and Anchorage. They both sound good to me.
You're being paranoid. :) I have nothing to do with the site, I just saw it in a link list yesterday and thought it was kind of cool. Except that it doesn't work for me. :(
I just came across a cool looking site FindYourSpot.com that asks you a lot of questions and supposedly recommends a good place for you to live.
Mozilla (even RC2, I just tried it) hangs when you're almost done answering the questions on the third page.
Konqueror 3 seems to have a problem with the Next button -- it just clears the radio buttons and returns the same (first) page.
Amusingly, i got through the whole thing with Links!!!! But due to the lack of Alt tags, I couldn't figure out where to go once I got through it.
I'm not sure if I can bring myself to fire up Netscape 4.79. Aaaaugh, the pain of even THINKING of using that peice of junk again!
> As far as Mr. Mitchel evaluating ICC, he probably can't due to fears of copyright or patent infringement.
That seems pretty unlikely. For patents, if gcc were to step on an icc patent, it would do so whether or not he used ICC.
For copyrights, I don't think he'd even potentially be liable unless he saw the ICC source code. And Intel keeps the source secret, right?
IANAL of course.
I haven't upgraded to 7.3 yet (will do today if I can manage to get the ISOs) but for all previous versions, the upgrade has been nearly perfect. No worries.
Especially since this one story in this topic is announcing the end of the particular item that the topic portrays. Sheeesh!
I was also in Puerto Rico a few years ago and actually liked the sound of the things. And yeah, I have one of those souvenir t-shirts. :) I was told they only lived in PR, so I was also surprised to see this.
But isn't the noise exaggerated a bit? They wren't THAT loud. I don't even remember hearing them inside the house. Granted, I was in town (Bayamon, a suburb of San Juan). It's probably worse in the jungle.
Also, insects. Are there really so few insects in Hawaii that some frogs will endanger the birds by eating their food supply? Seems like more ways of getting rid of bugs is a GOOD thing.
PR certainly has agriculture and tourism, so any long term threat to Hawaii seems unlikely.
Maybe I spoke too soon! Here's a PDF that seems to document it. At least the API. You're expected to know BASIC, but that can be picked up from the examples, and there are also a lot of samples under OpenOffice.org1.0/share/basic/
Link to The API Project -- at the bottom of the page is a link to the programmers tutorial PDF and an online reference guide.
Have fun!
It's pretty good, although the documentation could be better.
Could be better? I've been searching for it, and the ONLY thing I've been able to find in it at all is a blurb in the help about writing a Calc function with the Basic IDE!
Nothing whatsoever about the language, or what it can do, or the object structure of the documents.
I'd like to find this stuff out so I can dig into it.
Anyone know how it compares with Microsoft's VBA? The IDE looks OK on the surface -- it has color syntax highlighting, breakpoints, and watches! But some docs are more than a little necessary.
Might check into that for calendering. Yeah, it's web based, but that works OK, and as an added bonus you don't need to be on your network to get to it!
:)
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Mozilla would probably fit the bill for e-mail. And with Mozilla you also go to PHP Groupware. So it's *kind of* integrated.
I don't really see the point in having all that embedded in the office suite anyway.
Good grief moderators. When will you figure out that posting the text of a story in a comment is NOT informative? It's redundant at best, and a copyright violation at worst. Please quit encouraging this!
(I don't normally post this kind of thing so bare with me this time...)
That's the most intelligent piece of political commentary I've ever seen on the Net. Send it to 5!
Especially: The law should be simple, and understandable by all. Is that not the truth?