For those that complain about documents not looking the same in OO as in Microsoft Word because of the fonts, please think out of the box and consider that you don't have the exact same fonts available. The same happens with Microsoft Word if someone uses a special font you dont have in your system. Complaining about this is like complaining that water is wet or fire burns. I mean, isn't it obvious? You are replacing software, not a stinking china tea set. Now, having vented my anger, please look at
http://avi.alkalay.net/software/msfonts/
for a solution. Hint, just get Microsoft fontpack.
One more thing, Microsoft supplies free viewers for Word, Excel and Powerpoint. They even run inside Wine. Google for them. I run OO with Windows 2000 and have these viewers installed, plus the fonts. What can i say? It works.
No, suicide is not more common in Sweden than in other industrialized countries we could mention. Look at the World Health Organization website for statistics on that. What you mention was spread by the "traditional" (being kind here) american right when the more liberal swedish social(istic) model was being used as an example by some political quadrants for their policies. Suicide being a tabu at the time, Sweden was one of the first countries to keep track of the suicide rate and publish results. Obviously these awful meaning people were bound to manipulate this to their own gain, and another myth was born.
Sorry to tell you that is more or less a myth. The well known Swedish Erotica company was not swedish. Many countries have much bigger porn industries than Sweden - USA is probably on the top. There is also an huge movement to eliminate and/or criminalize pornography, both producing it and transmiting it. The reason being, according at least to the mostly left and feminist movements behind the move, that exploits women and is a form of sexual harassment. Most hotels are even stopping to transmit adult movies in their pay channels, being finger pointed as they are by these movements, some local governments and some media.
Easy. They will go for RedHat and SuSe. They aren't less stable than Slackware, but they are "official" (whatever that is) by the rule of the marketplace. So, they are very popular and better yet, they target enterprises and have enterprise quality support behind them. Yes mate, SuSe included, either you know a "single good damn reason" or not.
In my company we use RedHat for all our servers, and we subscribe to RedHat network. If we had to change to some other distribution, SuSe would be next in line. Linux is Linux, after all. Thousands of businesses around the world exist that think alike, and Oracle knows that. As such it's easy for them to decide. Their market is the "enterprise" market (i don't see anyone keeping their recipes in an Oracle database) so they will support a couple top "enterprise" level distributions used by these companies.
Probably not quite as you say, but you get to be more discriminating, as in - less prone to give your money to the first guy with a lousy product. You know, mortgage, kids and such have that effect on people. Nowadays the marketing buzz is all on targeting younger consumers, the ones not earning much, if any, spending they parents money, and consequentely less attached to it. Getting them addicted. And for that they rely on people on that same age limit to influence them. Not much different from the age limit they put in most reality shows and such. It is not because they have more and better ideas and people over 30 have less and worse. It is because they know (in theory at least) the crap they want to buy and use.
Try XnView at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/ . It looks like AcdSee for Windows, but it is available for tons of platforms, Linux included. Oh, and it is free for personal or non profit use, as Irfanview. My only gripe with it is that it seems to consume memory like crazy when in thumbnail mode. But it is as good as it gets.
Right on. That is why i use an old Pentium 120Mhz Compaq laptop. With two pcmcia nics and a 3GB disk, it works as a NAT router, firewall and a small fileserver for non-sensitive stuff only. The lcd screen is always off, and the disk even spins down when not in use - using noflushd (google is your friend), btw./Pedro
That one is sad to know. I have been looking like crazy for a way to do it with openssh, chroot scp, and give public access to it. I need some secure ftp access, and that seemed the ideal.
A pity that DV has only 720x480 pixels for NTSC, and 720x576 for PAL. Not to mention that those images are compressed with MPEG1, or MPEG2 in the case of those "it's easy to part a fool from it's money" MicroMV models from Sony, like the DCR-IP7. But if it is good enough for you, who am i to disagree?
No way, my friend. I may complain about the noise of PC's, and go to great length (moneywise that is) to cut the noise on my home machine, but high end workstations are even worse. Silicon Graphics Octane/Octane 2/Indigo 2, Sun Ultra10/Ultra60/Blades, IBM RS/6000 six full years of model numbers, Digital Alphas PWS XXX, you name it. They all are noisy like hell. It was one of the main reasons designers didn't like them, they were always complaining. And they were right, but their software only run well there. I always told them: decisions decisions decisions, pick one.
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That is a great idea. I have been meaning to try it out. Thanks for the reminder.:)
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Yes, let's throw some brute force into the matter, like Microsoft always does. "Its slow? Not our fault. Upgrade." Sure. And i am also sure my laptop will be pretty pleased with the new Duron. To imagine i can even fry sausages with the heat it will generate... yummy! Oh and the delightful sound of the cooling will be a nice touch onto the background silence.:)
... but whatever you say it doesn't change the big picture. Sure it doesn't run in the kernel, sure it takes more time to load because it is not preloaded - though NS6 can be, and sure it will be slower because that or any other reason under the sun. I am aware of all that. But the performance difference is huge. The interface is slower doing its work, i can even see sometimes the redrawing happening. Some pages are slower to render, i have never seen it render that much faster than IE btw. But even if i can deal with that, there is something i can't deal with. Loading Mozilla RC1 or NS6 with my favourite set of pages plus a Visual Traceroute java applet eats up memory like it was mana. The same pages in IE5.01 eat 29MB ram according to Windows 2000 task manager. When i left Mozilla running it was into 68MB. So, to reply to your comments, interesting as they may be, i will use the words from Galileo - "And yet it moves".
/Pedro
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And without the speed of IE too. Honestly, Mozilla (and Netscape 6 for that matter), really redefine the concept of slow and bloated.
Try http://www.mochasoft.dk/ . At 250 US$ for a unlimited company license, it is as free. Hope you can afford that. A very good product if i ever used one. Much better then that crap that IBM gives us called Client Access. Talk about bloated. With friends like them who needs enemies.:)
I never said for instance that CIA gets all the praise. You really do seem to misread a lot and apply some creative liberty when quoting, so i wont try to do what time didn't for a good old pro like you. Just let me expand on my original post. As people who have some knowledge of how the information agency business works are aware, information agencies justify their existence in peace time based in three key points. First is that in the secret world they live in its hard to tell success from failure. Example in hand, we will never know if this CIA warning about China really made a difference. Second, is that failure can and probably will be attributed to an erroneous analysis to exact information given by the agency to the governments. And third is that the agencies could have given the right warnings if they had enough money. These three key points combined can be used to cut by the root any rational analysis to the activities of an information agency, thereby allowing all failures to be transformed in a justification for more money and faster expansion. This has been proved right since before the first world war, more exactly since 1909, date of the creation of the first information agency (in Great Britain, by the way).
That is probably because they haven't been getting much right, then. And they are getting more money and a reshuffling, so in a strange devious you end up proving my point. Pity about me being modded down, and you, that misread my post, modded up. What an unfair world this one is.;-)
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http://avi.alkalay.net/software/msfonts/
for a solution. Hint, just get Microsoft fontpack.
One more thing, Microsoft supplies free viewers for Word, Excel and Powerpoint. They even run inside Wine. Google for them. I run OO with Windows 2000 and have these viewers installed, plus the fonts. What can i say? It works.
Been there, done that.
/Pedro
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In my company we use RedHat for all our servers, and we subscribe to RedHat network. If we had to change to some other distribution, SuSe would be next in line. Linux is Linux, after all. Thousands of businesses around the world exist that think alike, and Oracle knows that. As such it's easy for them to decide. Their market is the "enterprise" market (i don't see anyone keeping their recipes in an Oracle database) so they will support a couple top "enterprise" level distributions used by these companies.
Let me guess. Previously known as French World Dialup. /Pedro
Right on. That is why i use an old Pentium 120Mhz Compaq laptop. With two pcmcia nics and a 3GB disk, it works as a NAT router, firewall and a small fileserver for non-sensitive stuff only. The lcd screen is always off, and the disk even spins down when not in use - using noflushd (google is your friend), btw. /Pedro
That one is sad to know. I have been looking like crazy for a way to do it with openssh, chroot scp, and give public access to it. I need some secure ftp access, and that seemed the ideal.
/Pedro
A pity that DV has only 720x480 pixels for NTSC, and 720x576 for PAL. Not to mention that those images are compressed with MPEG1, or MPEG2 in the case of those "it's easy to part a fool from it's money" MicroMV models from Sony, like the DCR-IP7.
But if it is good enough for you, who am i to disagree?
/Pedro
No way, my friend. I may complain about the noise of PC's, and go to great length (moneywise that is) to cut the noise on my home machine, but high end workstations are even worse. Silicon Graphics Octane/Octane 2/Indigo 2, Sun Ultra10/Ultra60/Blades, IBM RS/6000 six full years of model numbers, Digital Alphas PWS XXX, you name it. They all are noisy like hell. It was one of the main reasons designers didn't like them, they were always complaining. And they were right, but their software only run well there. I always told them: decisions decisions decisions, pick one.
/Pedro
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There's your line of code.
/Pedro
That is a great idea. I have been meaning to try it out. Thanks for the reminder. :)
/Pedro
Yes, let's throw some brute force into the matter, like Microsoft always does. "Its slow? Not our fault. Upgrade." Sure. And i am also sure my laptop will be pretty pleased with the new Duron. To imagine i can even fry sausages with the heat it will generate ... yummy! Oh and the delightful sound of the cooling will be a nice touch onto the background silence. :)
/Pedro
... but whatever you say it doesn't change the big picture. Sure it doesn't run in the kernel, sure it takes more time to load because it is not preloaded - though NS6 can be, and sure it will be slower because that or any other reason under the sun. I am aware of all that. But the performance difference is huge. The interface is slower doing its work, i can even see sometimes the redrawing happening. Some pages are slower to render, i have never seen it render that much faster than IE btw. But even if i can deal with that, there is something i can't deal with. Loading Mozilla RC1 or NS6 with my favourite set of pages plus a Visual Traceroute java applet eats up memory like it was mana. The same pages in IE5.01 eat 29MB ram according to Windows 2000 task manager. When i left Mozilla running it was into 68MB. So, to reply to your comments, interesting as they may be, i will use the words from Galileo - "And yet it moves".
/Pedro
And without the speed of IE too. Honestly, Mozilla (and Netscape 6 for that matter), really redefine the concept of slow and bloated.
/Pedro
Try http://www.mochasoft.dk/ . At 250 US$ for a unlimited company license, it is as free. Hope you can afford that. A very good product if i ever used one. Much better then that crap that IBM gives us called Client Access. Talk about bloated. With friends like them who needs enemies. :)
/Pedro
I never said for instance that CIA gets all the praise. You really do seem to misread a lot and apply some creative liberty when quoting, so i wont try to do what time didn't for a good old pro like you. Just let me expand on my original post. As people who have some knowledge of how the information agency business works are aware, information agencies justify their existence in peace time based in three key points. First is that in the secret world they live in its hard to tell success from failure. Example in hand, we will never know if this CIA warning about China really made a difference. Second, is that failure can and probably will be attributed to an erroneous analysis to exact information given by the agency to the governments. And third is that the agencies could have given the right warnings if they had enough money. These three key points combined can be used to cut by the root any rational analysis to the activities of an information agency, thereby allowing all failures to be transformed in a justification for more money and faster expansion. This has been proved right since before the first world war, more exactly since 1909, date of the creation of the first information agency (in Great Britain, by the way).
/Pedro
That is probably because they haven't been getting much right, then. And they are getting more money and a reshuffling, so in a strange devious you end up proving my point. Pity about me being modded down, and you, that misread my post, modded up. What an unfair world this one is. ;-)
/Pedro