I run MS Office on Linux (through crossover office). It still ran better than OpenOffice (installed through Ximian redcarpet).
I hope this new version of OpenOffice is more stable and faster.
Abiword doesn't have a decent feature set (tables?), headers and footers are a pain, and even moving abiword files from linux to windows causes problems.
Gnumeric kicks ass though. I use that over Excel most of the time.
This is the program I use for scanning. Built a boot cd with a cdrw and floppy emulation using the dos version of f-prot. With the right drivers you could probably even get it to scan NTFS partitions. Update the definitions when needed. Works great. Just requires to boot from the CD.
Open source philosophy does not work in all cases as the author of the article seems to think. Open source is great but there is a place for it and it should not apply in the case of professional photography.
I completely agree with jokerghost. Those prints are the only viable way the photographer is making a living. If they were to give them away they are just throwing money away and no one would have professional photography.
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No matter how much spyware you remove the computer there will always be an endless number of bugs in the users to keep you busy.
I run MS Office on Linux (through crossover office). It still ran better than OpenOffice (installed through Ximian redcarpet).
I hope this new version of OpenOffice is more stable and faster.
Abiword doesn't have a decent feature set (tables?), headers and footers are a pain, and even moving abiword files from linux to windows causes problems.
Gnumeric kicks ass though. I use that over Excel most of the time.
I agree that POV-Ray is a really awesome rendering tool. But for some types of work GUI's can be faster to use and more convenient.
There is a nice GUI frontend for the POV-Ray rendering engine called Moray.
Find it here: http://www.stmuc.com/moray/
Moray is shareware and costs about $70 american to register.
This is the program I use for scanning. Built a boot cd with a cdrw and floppy emulation using the dos version of f-prot. With the right drivers you could probably even get it to scan NTFS partitions. Update the definitions when needed. Works great. Just requires to boot from the CD.
Open source philosophy does not work in all cases as the author of the article seems to think. Open source is great but there is a place for it and it should not apply in the case of professional photography. I completely agree with jokerghost. Those prints are the only viable way the photographer is making a living. If they were to give them away they are just throwing money away and no one would have professional photography.
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