Just tested this, myself. OpenOffice's.sxw file format isn't listed, so I choose "all files", and sure enough it opened. It looked funny, though! No crash. Hasn't hiccuped or blushed even at all, so far. The imported tools also seem solid, so far. (Of course this is on WinXP.)
Actually it is (just like MS Word) the "Insert" key. I just opened up both Abiword and MS Word to test them both. Interestingly enough, although "Insert" toggles in both, MS Help suggest I go to Tools/Options and use a checkbox to toggle overwrite (!), or double click on the "ovr" on the statusbar. Strange stuff.
Also, Abiword does load a lot faster, even with the Office Toolbar preloading for Word. I noticed also that the toolbar uses more RAM than Abiword.
Since not everyone in the world speaks the same language, AbiWord comes in many different languages. AbiWord is available in most common and many not-so-common languages.
Make sure your document contains none of those nasty spelling errors by using AbiWord's built-in spelling checker. Dictionaries exist for over 30 languages.
AbiWord supports right-to-left, left-to-right, and mixed-mode text. This means that in addition to supporting European languages, AbiWord supports languages like Hebrew and Arabic as well."
I believe that there is also some work being done on making Xen work on clusters.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xeno/
"This wide-ranging project has two main strands of work:
Development of the Xen virtual machine monitor,
a high-performance hypervisor for hosting multiple commodity operating
systems on a single x86-based server. This forms the core of each
Xenoserver node, providing the resource management, accounting and
auditing that we require. Xen finds numerous applications outside the
Xenoserver project. These inclue server consolidation and secure
computing platforms.
Development of the Xenoserver Open
Platform control software for managing networks of Xenoservers.
Our research includes distributed storage, server discovery, resource
management and authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA)
functions. This work finds relevance to Grid computing and to
globally distributed testbeds such as PlanetLab.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/
"We have a fully functional ports of Linux 2.4 and 2.6 running over Xen, and regularly use it for running demanding applications like MySQL, Apache and PostgreSQL. Any Linux distribution (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake) should run unmodified over the ported OS.
In addition to Linux, members of Xen's user community have contributed or are working on ports to other operating systems such as NetBSD (Christian Limpach), FreeBSD (Kip Macy) and Plan 9 (Ron Minnich). A port of Windows XP was developed for an earlier version of Xen, but is not available for release due to licence restrictions."
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/faq.html
"To achieve such high performance, Xen requires that OSes are ported to run on it. So far we have stable ports of Linux 2.4, Linux 2.6, and NetBSD. Ports of FreeBSD and Plan 9 are nearing completion."
Well actually what they taught us in CSIA is to pull the bios battery and wait for 10 seconds. When you reboot it uses default bios settings (with no password.) Then use your boot disk to wipe the security accounts manager(SAM) admin password field. If you have physical access, you pretty much own the boot process and admin privilidges of any win2k or winxp machine.
Note: if you blank the admin password, be aware that while you'll have "root" at login, you won't be able to decrypt files that where individually encrypted. You lost that when the original admin password went bye-bye.
"If I download the game and my hard drive crashes, can I reinstall it via Steam to a different hard drive?"
Yes: I want to move my Steam installation to a different disk or computer, how can I do this?
Note what they say:
To successfully move Steam over to the E: drive you have to move:
C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\
to
E:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\
Then you need to delete this file:
E:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\ClientRegistry.blob
So if your hard drive crashes, step one is problematic at best.
>>Patents protect the abstract concept of something.
>Patents do not protect abstract ideas. Direct infringement occurs when a patented invention is implemented, not when the idea of the invention is expressed, explained, described, or anything else like that.
So then patents protect the abstract concept of something from being reimplemented.
(This is precisely because it *is* the abstract idea and *not* an implementation that is protected.)
A copyright protects an original work in the tangible, fixed form in which it has been set down. It protects only the expression of the work, and not the idea underlying the work. Whereas a copyright protects an original work in the tangible fixed form in which it has been set down, a patent protects the creation of inventive concepts as well as their reduction to practice.
What if Sun bought Apple and AMD?
Imagine OSX running on top of Solaris on top of AMD w/Sparc technology embedded, at AMD prices? With Sun's hotswitching, and scalability.
While it used to be true that you couldn't kill linux, that was before the acendence of software patents. You can't compete with linux in a free market, but it would be possible to effectively make linux illegal.
- Free markets and capitalism are mutually exclusive over time. Free markets by definition abhor monopolies, whereas monopolies develop and thrieve under capitalism.
The most important part of the arguably most important question:
At the time it was widely theorized in the online press that Sun had purchased the expanded Unix licenses to help fund SCO's lawsuit against Sun's lifelong nemesis IBM and public attacks on Sun's part-time rival, GNU/Linux;
if what McNealy says is true, a lot of pundits owe him an apology.
Wasn't MS's Posix layer Cygwin? Isn't that GPL? So its not that its *better* so much as it is the very same thing? Or did you mean Interix? But isn't that Cygwin too?
1983: Novell introduces NetWare X and NetWare S
1985: Novell introduces Advanced NetWare 2.0
1987 Apr: Microsoft introduces OS/2 Lan Manager, an network operating system to compete with Novell's NetWare. It's a patched up rehash of IBM's old PCNet.
1988: Novell introduces Advanced NetWare 2.15.
1988 Oct: 3Com introduces the 3+Open network, based on Microsoft's Lan Manager (based on IBM's old PCNet). In 1990 a famous "shoot out" was held between 3+ and Novell NetWare. 3Com dropped out of the network software business in Dec 1990.
1992: Novell purchases Unix from AT&T
1993: Novell introduces NetWare 3.12 and NetWare 4.0. 4.0 introduces Novell Directory Services in place of the Bindery.
1994 February: Microsoft released Windows for Workgroups 3.11, adding networking to the product. The network, derived from IBM's primitive PCNet, is so totally piss poor people continue to buy Lantastic instead.
1994 October: IBM released OS/2 version 3.0, an operating system far superior to anything Microsoft had, or would have for years. IBM launched a major campaign to get software developed for it. Many major software houses signed up to port their applications, but nearly all had to drop OS/2 development when they read the NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) for the Windows95 development kit. If you were developing anything for OS/2, you could not participate in the Windows95 program. The NDA itself required total secrecy, so the reason everyone dropped OS/2 development was only rumored for years.
1994: Novell purchases WordPerfect and Quatro Pro.
1998 October: Novell introduces NetWare 5.0. NetWare gets great reviews, and Microsoft feels the heat, especially from comparisons between NetWare 5.0 (shipping, works great) and Windows NT 5.0 (very, very late; very, very buggy, not shipping yet), so renames Windows NT 5.0 to Windows 2000 to stop the 5.0 vs 5.0 comparisons.
2000 Jan: Novell introduces NetWare 5.1. Windows NT 5.0 still not shipping.
"Network Basic Input/Output System was designed for IBM by an organization named Sytek, Inc. It was created to provide an easy-to-use programming interface for connections between computers over a network. Microsoft began developing products for the MS-Net and LAN Manager (the predecessor to Windows NT) using the NetBIOS interface, anticipating the popularity of the standard. Ironically, the standard is only popular today because of Microsoft's implementation of it."
The quoted scripture was as much about the "do"s as the "don't"s. You display love. You display good deeds. You display compassion. You display forgiveness. Those thousand or tens of thousands who are "restraining themselves" are not, by that act alone, meeting the minimum requirements.
Unlike spelling Nazis (who really just waste our time,) those who, like yourself, draw a distinction in the subtle use of language are doing our group a service.
I would go farther than you, and suggest that if it is "effectively" trying to achieve a goal, it is "as though" it were *trying* to achieve a goal. My understanding is that would be like saying the gas molecule was "trying" to hit the wall in order to maintain konstant pressure. The molecule isn't "trying" to do any damn thing, and neither is evolution.
Its assembled from 20 Altix 512-processor machines, but its not your typical cluster architecture. Nasa considered and rejected building such a cluster because not all useful algorithms parallelize well.
One idea was to link thousands of dual-processor commodity servers into a sprawling cluster, but NASA quickly dismissed that approach. "We're trying to solve some of the toughest scientific problems in the world," says Jim Taft, task lead for the NAS Division's Terascale Applications Group. "We needed a system designed to efficiently execute the algorithms used in NASA's premier science codes, rather than one that would merely do well on artificial benchmarks."
This is revolutionary technology.
Brooks and his team instead pointed to Kalpana, an Intel® Itanium® 2-based, 512-processor SGI® Altix® 3000 system in use at NASA Ames since November 2003 and named to honor Kalpana Chalawa, a NASA scientist lost in the Columbia accident.. In less than six months, Taft says,
the Kalpana system - the first 512-processor Linux® system ever to operate under a single Linux kernel - had revolutionized the rate of scientific discovery at NASA for a number of disciplines.
1997? Oh come now. Its all about dynamic typing. In the next ten(?) years OSS and MS will both finally arrive at the peak of programming languages: VisualLisp.
Those who love a "doer" often say, "Do something, even if you do it wrong." That's a problem. Doing something really wrong is dangerous.
This post is especially ignorant with repect to Clinton in that Clinton had an amazing (historic, even) economic impact. Bush is also amazing and historic in his economic impact, but for creating deficits rather than balancing the budget.
Have you looked at the job creation numbers? Bush is the only president since before Hervert Hoover to have negative job growth numbers.
Please don't "strawman" the arguement. No one is saying Bush supporters are "stupid". There is a correlation between a disconnect with least some aspects of reality and political persuasion. Most of the media analysis I've seen indicates the prefered channel of information:
The analysis released Thursday also
correlated the misperceptions with the primary news source of the mistaken respondents. For example, 80 percent of those who said they relied on Fox News and 71 percent of those who said they relied on CBS believed at least one of the three misperceptions.
Slashdot Mirror
Just tested this, myself. OpenOffice's .sxw file format isn't listed, so I choose "all files", and sure enough it opened. It looked funny, though! No crash. Hasn't hiccuped or blushed even at all, so far. The imported tools also seem solid, so far. (Of course this is on WinXP.)
Actually it is (just like MS Word) the "Insert" key. I just opened up both Abiword and MS Word to test them both. Interestingly enough, although "Insert" toggles in both, MS Help suggest I go to Tools/Options and use a checkbox to toggle overwrite (!), or double click on the "ovr" on the statusbar. Strange stuff. Also, Abiword does load a lot faster, even with the Office Toolbar preloading for Word. I noticed also that the toolbar uses more RAM than Abiword.
"Internationalization
Since not everyone in the world speaks the same language, AbiWord comes in many different languages. AbiWord is available in most common and many not-so-common languages.
Make sure your document contains none of those nasty spelling errors by using AbiWord's built-in spelling checker. Dictionaries exist for over 30 languages.
AbiWord supports right-to-left, left-to-right, and mixed-mode text. This means that in addition to supporting European languages, AbiWord supports languages like Hebrew and Arabic as well."
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xeno/
"This wide-ranging project has two main strands of work:
- Development of the Xen virtual machine monitor,
a high-performance hypervisor for hosting multiple commodity operating
systems on a single x86-based server. This forms the core of each
Xenoserver node, providing the resource management, accounting and
auditing that we require. Xen finds numerous applications outside the
Xenoserver project. These inclue server consolidation and secure
computing platforms.
- Development of the Xenoserver Open
Platform control software for managing networks of Xenoservers.
Our research includes distributed storage, server discovery, resource
management and authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA)
functions. This work finds relevance to Grid computing and to
globally distributed testbeds such as PlanetLab.
An overview of the complete project is available as a Computer Lab Technical Report."http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/
q .html
"We have a fully functional ports of Linux 2.4 and 2.6 running over Xen, and regularly use it for running demanding applications like MySQL, Apache and PostgreSQL. Any Linux distribution (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake) should run unmodified over the ported OS.
In addition to Linux, members of Xen's user community have contributed or are working on ports to other operating systems such as NetBSD (Christian Limpach), FreeBSD (Kip Macy) and Plan 9 (Ron Minnich). A port of Windows XP was developed for an earlier version of Xen, but is not available for release due to licence restrictions."
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/fa
"To achieve such high performance, Xen requires that OSes are ported to run on it. So far we have stable ports of Linux 2.4, Linux 2.6, and NetBSD. Ports of FreeBSD and Plan 9 are nearing completion."
On second thought, I suppose we could stop our computers by dragging the start button to the trash...
Well yeah, but you want to "start" the "stop process". So pressing start as the prelude to begin stopping the computer isn't so bad as you suggest.
Now hovering a disk over the trash...that doesn't make any sense.
Well actually what they taught us in CSIA is to pull the bios battery and wait for 10 seconds. When you reboot it uses default bios settings (with no password.) Then use your boot disk to wipe the security accounts manager(SAM) admin password field. If you have physical access, you pretty much own the boot process and admin privilidges of any win2k or winxp machine.
Note: if you blank the admin password, be aware that while you'll have "root" at login, you won't be able to decrypt files that where individually encrypted. You lost that when the original admin password went bye-bye.
"Geeze, at least TRY and *read* the online docs"
>Patents do not protect abstract ideas. Direct infringement occurs when a patented invention is implemented, not when the idea of the invention is expressed, explained, described, or anything else like that.
So then patents protect the abstract concept of something from being reimplemented.
(This is precisely because it *is* the abstract idea and *not* an implementation that is protected.)
http://www.techtransfer.harvard.edu/SoftwareCvsP.
What if Sun bought Apple and AMD? Imagine OSX running on top of Solaris on top of AMD w/Sparc technology embedded, at AMD prices? With Sun's hotswitching, and scalability.
While it used to be true that you couldn't kill linux, that was before the acendence of software patents. You can't compete with linux in a free market, but it would be possible to effectively make linux illegal. - Free markets and capitalism are mutually exclusive over time. Free markets by definition abhor monopolies, whereas monopolies develop and thrieve under capitalism.
Wasn't MS's Posix layer Cygwin? Isn't that GPL? So its not that its *better* so much as it is the very same thing? Or did you mean Interix? But isn't that Cygwin too?
faith: Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.
unreasonable: Not governed by reason.
And logical proof is a type of reasoning. It seems as though you've proven to me that faith is unreasonable.
The quoted scripture was as much about the "do"s as the "don't"s. You display love. You display good deeds. You display compassion. You display forgiveness. Those thousand or tens of thousands who are "restraining themselves" are not, by that act alone, meeting the minimum requirements.
Unlike spelling Nazis (who really just waste our time,) those who, like yourself, draw a distinction in the subtle use of language are doing our group a service.
I would go farther than you, and suggest that if it is "effectively" trying to achieve a goal, it is "as though" it were *trying* to achieve a goal. My understanding is that would be like saying the gas molecule was "trying" to hit the wall in order to maintain konstant pressure. The molecule isn't "trying" to do any damn thing, and neither is evolution.
Papers, yes, but not (singular) paper. The need alledged was for a single source that would hold one's hand through the entire process.
"all be it"
This is revolutionary technology.
1997? Oh come now. Its all about dynamic typing. In the next ten(?) years OSS and MS will both finally arrive at the peak of programming languages: VisualLisp.
Those who love a "doer" often say, "Do something, even if you do it wrong." That's a problem. Doing something really wrong is dangerous.
This post is especially ignorant with repect to Clinton in that Clinton had an amazing (historic, even) economic impact. Bush is also amazing and historic in his economic impact, but for creating deficits rather than balancing the budget.
Have you looked at the job creation numbers? Bush is the only president since before Hervert Hoover to have negative job growth numbers.
You actually think WMD were discovered in Iraq? Do you watch Fox News? Not a troll. Its a real question.