Thunderbird is one of the few open source multiplatform mail clients I really like. I would be more than willing to make a periodic financial contribution. I know there are more users who feel the same about Thunderbird.
The small Thinkpad P50 with a Xeon will launch in November 2015. The P70 in December. However I'm really curious if it has new crapware installed on it.
Moving form office to office, I've found that LibreOffice does better than MS Office at properly importing office documents from various versions of MS Office. YMMV.
Yes, I totally agree that importing is rarely a problem. However LibreOffice fails in many aspects. our publishing house made the switch to LibreOffice early this year after basic testing.
For a simple example that Writer is not fit for businesses: it cannot properly handle even basic tasks such as working with templates. Without an add-on it is not possible to change the template. Yes that's right. Only documents that are created based on templates are coupled to that template. The available add-on (templatechanger ) to change this is only available for the latest version via a user that added it to a bug report (many thanks for that btw) and only works with Writer. For Calc changing templates is simply not
Another function that is sorely lacking as an editor has been in MS Office since version XP, around ~2001 I think. If you receive a document from a freelancer it often has the wrong styles in it or only a few. To change this quickly in MS Office you load the tempalte you want. Select the style that is wrong, click select all instances followed by a double click on the style you want. This way you can quickly fix documents.
I find the default colors of LO's panel dreadful. There are better colors available though, such as
http://extensions.libreoffice....
Why are these not used or given as an option?
If you save a file on a NAS and select Tools/Share Document so more people can simultaneously work in it, often the formatting of the file changes randomly between saves. Old formatting often re-appears.
Calc cannot properly handle conditional formatting. This morning I created a Calc document with a cell that could have one of three colors based on the content of three other columns. I then copied the formatting to more cells in the column. After saving the document only the first cell formatting is kept, the formatting in the other column cells is lost.
For our publishing house LO mostly suffices, but there are many ways in which it has to improve for other business to even consider it.
Yep, this plus the fact that almost everyone uses the same (simple) passwords across multiple cloud services and the NSA have access to that as well. Who needs to crack encryption if you have the keys?
For people that played these games it must be pretty sentimental. I didn't play these games, but the hours I spent playing Crystal Castle on my Atari 520ST are still very alive. Thanks to whoever wrote it and please consider open sourcing this game. It has been away way too long.
I think the game I played most on my Atari 512ST and 1040ST was Chrystal Castles. There is still some version out there on the web, but the gameplay and graphics is less beautiful than I remember
Some sites "sniff" for browser type, and iceweasel is not detected as Firefox (wsj.com, google docs). This is easily fixed by going to about:config, searching for useragent, and changing "iceweasel" to "firefox".
All firefox extensions that I know of work with iceweasel.
I know the reasons that Debian had to change the name to Iceweasel, but it seems quite silly that it can't identify itself as Firefox to sites. It's beneficial for Firefox to score as high as possible at Netcraft.
I find the new control panel of Vista really terrible. Although many people didn't like the one of XP, I think that one at least diminished the clutter.
After years of ignorance and trolls Microsoft has clearly defined Linux as its biggest threat. Now the company is back on earth again. It is has obviously looked at the markets Linux is in and tries to outperform the in every market.
These markets would be
- webservers: big market, Microsoft can grow here, but Apache/php runs worse on Windows than on Linux. IIS is not popular with everybody and has a bad security record. People that want to run Apache try Linux, like it and use it for other stuff as well. This is bad for Microsoft, because that's too many people getting to know Linux.
- (intranet) fileservers: big market, Microsoft can grow here, but has essentially everything already to claim this market.
- the desktop: Microsoft is by far and large the heavyweight in this market, but since Apple and Linux are catching up really fast now, it wants as little people as possible to be comfortable with Linux/Mac. For that the above two markets have to be claimed.
For a long time Linux outperformed Windows regarding the Apache/PHP-combination. Not any longer though.
> GPL3 does not remove any freedom from the developer. The developer either chooses it or not.
This only applies to developers already contributing to a project, not for potentially new developers who like the software but not the license.
> GPL3 does not remove any freedom from the user. The user is not subject to the GPL in any version. You are only subject to it if you modify the source code AND distribute it.
In my opinion this is a very short sighted view. If the development of an application is slowing because there are less developers contributing to it, not only Microsoft Windows and Apple, but many other proprietary projects will advance faster and thus be more attractive to new users. Everybody wants to use the slickest and easiest to use applications that give you all the latest and greatest computers have to offer (exceptions aside for users that care for stability). In the end this might reduce choice and therefore your freedom to choose from as a user.
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No buying of OS X is required.
Everybody who wants to view the source of a (L)GPL-derived project that is 'commercialized (sold, traded etc), has the right to view the changed sources. So it's not only the buyers who have the right to view the source.
Look at the legal history of the Netfilter code and you'll grasp the (L)GPL.
You may find Sun had made Gnome total unusable. I don't agree with you. The integration and simplicity of the user interface is beautiful - perhaps even on par with Apple.
"I'm having trouble understanding all this. Hopefully, one day, one of these two corporations can explain it to me, preferably in a nice, simplified language with all the unnecessary words removed."
> "Of course RF activity changes during 'significant > world events'."
You suggest that RF waves change after the event has happened. The story claims that RF waves change even before the event has happened. Which is a different story.
You are really mistaken. Homo Sapiens has evolved to endure - although that seems strange today. The German/American biologist Bernd Heinrich at the University of Vermont is also known as the Marathon Man.
In a book called Racing the Antelope (HarperCollins, 2001)
Heinrich sets forth why the figure of homo sapiens is particulary well suited for long distance running. Quote: "He does so himself: for a long time he held the U.S. record at the 100 mile (160 kilometer), which took him 12 h 27 s."
It's actually quite simple: Less people that use less power.
Not many people seem to grasp that a population 1/6th we have now on earth, would not have the problems we have now. Combined with less powerconsumption and a different consumption pattern would be far more effective than anything else we can come up with.
-Pat
(BTW you're right, English is not my native language)
If they put in a black box, they might as well put in a GPS system that adjusts the speed of your car to comply with regulations. No more speed tickets...
Privoxy works great out of the box. I installed it on several computers, even at work. However for non-techies it's a pain to adapt, even when using the HTML front-end. A clear front-end would be really helpfull and kick Webwasher out of the water.
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Thunderbird is one of the few open source multiplatform mail clients I really like. I would be more than willing to make a periodic financial contribution. I know there are more users who feel the same about Thunderbird.
The P50 will launch in November, the P70 in December.
The small Thinkpad P50 with a Xeon will launch in November 2015. The P70 in December. However I'm really curious if it has new crapware installed on it.
Moving form office to office, I've found that LibreOffice does better than MS Office at properly importing office documents from various versions of MS Office. YMMV.
Yes, I totally agree that importing is rarely a problem. However LibreOffice fails in many aspects. our publishing house made the switch to LibreOffice early this year after basic testing.
For a simple example that Writer is not fit for businesses: it cannot properly handle even basic tasks such as working with templates. Without an add-on it is not possible to change the template. Yes that's right. Only documents that are created based on templates are coupled to that template. The available add-on (templatechanger ) to change this is only available for the latest version via a user that added it to a bug report (many thanks for that btw) and only works with Writer. For Calc changing templates is simply not
Another function that is sorely lacking as an editor has been in MS Office since version XP, around ~2001 I think. If you receive a document from a freelancer it often has the wrong styles in it or only a few. To change this quickly in MS Office you load the tempalte you want. Select the style that is wrong, click select all instances followed by a double click on the style you want. This way you can quickly fix documents.
I find the default colors of LO's panel dreadful. There are better colors available though, such as http://extensions.libreoffice.... Why are these not used or given as an option?
If you save a file on a NAS and select Tools/Share Document so more people can simultaneously work in it, often the formatting of the file changes randomly between saves. Old formatting often re-appears.
Calc cannot properly handle conditional formatting. This morning I created a Calc document with a cell that could have one of three colors based on the content of three other columns. I then copied the formatting to more cells in the column. After saving the document only the first cell formatting is kept, the formatting in the other column cells is lost.
For our publishing house LO mostly suffices, but there are many ways in which it has to improve for other business to even consider it.
Yep, this plus the fact that almost everyone uses the same (simple) passwords across multiple cloud services and the NSA have access to that as well. Who needs to crack encryption if you have the keys?
TomTom bought Tele Atlas. It's Nokia that bought Navteq.
For people that played these games it must be pretty sentimental. I didn't play these games, but the hours I spent playing Crystal Castle on my Atari 520ST are still very alive. Thanks to whoever wrote it and please consider open sourcing this game. It has been away way too long.
Sun could have tripple-licensed the ZFS code under both CDDL and GPL v2 and v3.
They didn't do that. So obviously Sun choose to make ZFS incompatible with Linux.
I think the game I played most on my Atari 512ST and 1040ST was Chrystal Castles. There is still some version out there on the web, but the gameplay and graphics is less beautiful than I remember
Wikipedia explains why: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Castles. I would really like to see this game being ported to the here and now on all major platforms.
Some sites "sniff" for browser type, and iceweasel is not detected as Firefox (wsj.com, google docs). This is easily fixed by going to about:config, searching for useragent, and changing "iceweasel" to "firefox". All firefox extensions that I know of work with iceweasel.
I know the reasons that Debian had to change the name to Iceweasel, but it seems quite silly that it can't identify itself as Firefox to sites. It's beneficial for Firefox to score as high as possible at Netcraft.
I find the new control panel of Vista really terrible. Although many people didn't like the one of XP, I think that one at least diminished the clutter.
After years of ignorance and trolls Microsoft has clearly defined Linux as its biggest threat. Now the company is back on earth again. It is has obviously looked at the markets Linux is in and tries to outperform the in every market.
These markets would be - webservers: big market, Microsoft can grow here, but Apache/php runs worse on Windows than on Linux. IIS is not popular with everybody and has a bad security record. People that want to run Apache try Linux, like it and use it for other stuff as well. This is bad for Microsoft, because that's too many people getting to know Linux.
- (intranet) fileservers: big market, Microsoft can grow here, but has essentially everything already to claim this market.
- the desktop: Microsoft is by far and large the heavyweight in this market, but since Apple and Linux are catching up really fast now, it wants as little people as possible to be comfortable with Linux/Mac. For that the above two markets have to be claimed.
For a long time Linux outperformed Windows regarding the Apache/PHP-combination. Not any longer though.
> GPL3 does not remove any freedom from the developer. The developer either chooses it or not. This only applies to developers already contributing to a project, not for potentially new developers who like the software but not the license. > GPL3 does not remove any freedom from the user. The user is not subject to the GPL in any version. You are only subject to it if you modify the source code AND distribute it. In my opinion this is a very short sighted view. If the development of an application is slowing because there are less developers contributing to it, not only Microsoft Windows and Apple, but many other proprietary projects will advance faster and thus be more attractive to new users. Everybody wants to use the slickest and easiest to use applications that give you all the latest and greatest computers have to offer (exceptions aside for users that care for stability). In the end this might reduce choice and therefore your freedom to choose from as a user.
I'm not so sure it wouldn't work. It has been done already with Blender 3D, see http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Au g/2538.html
Everybody who wants to view the source of a (L)GPL-derived project that is 'commercialized (sold, traded etc), has the right to view the changed sources. So it's not only the buyers who have the right to view the source.
Look at the legal history of the Netfilter code and you'll grasp the (L)GPL.
There already is imgSeek (GPL):
http://imgseek.python-hosting.com/
You may find Sun had made Gnome total unusable. I don't agree with you. The integration and simplicity of the user interface is beautiful - perhaps even on par with Apple.
A check is on its way ...
> "Of course RF activity changes during 'significant > world events'."
You suggest that RF waves change after the event has happened. The story claims that RF waves change even before the event has happened. Which is a different story.
In a book called Racing the Antelope (HarperCollins, 2001) Heinrich sets forth why the figure of homo sapiens is particulary well suited for long distance running. Quote: "He does so himself: for a long time he held the U.S. record at the 100 mile (160 kilometer), which took him 12 h 27 s."
Source (dutch text, but has a partly english video linked): http://noorderlicht.vpro.nl/wetenschap/index.shtml ?3626936+2848322+3855404+4264907/
Not many people seem to grasp that a population 1/6th we have now on earth, would not have the problems we have now. Combined with less powerconsumption and a different consumption pattern would be far more effective than anything else we can come up with.
-Pat
(BTW you're right, English is not my native language)
Why not?
Privoxy works great out of the box. I installed it on several computers, even at work. However for non-techies it's a pain to adapt, even when using the HTML front-end. A clear front-end would be really helpfull and kick Webwasher out of the water.
I wonder why prefbar isn't added to the Mozilla Suite, since it's really usefull.
No, punctuation!