Still packaged like that but you could go and change it. It just makes their testing etc easier. I've found it works just fine now
A lot of the reason for slowness in older versions was the spam handling etc - they've improved th configuration and it works pretty smoothly now.
Presume you've filed a bug with a sample spreadsheet? Do it ASAP and you'll find that someone will probably take it up and fix it, even if it takes a while. The beauty is that it helps everyone else too...
You're complaining about it being "stripped down" and "extremely resource hungry" at the same time.
Most of the features missing in the open source version are the multi-server features, and proprietary app integration (Outlook etc). The actual application features are fantastic.
It's heavy if you try and run it for a single user on a slow machine, which I did for a while. Now we run it on our middle-of-the-range server for our company email and it works a treat. There have been significant performance improvements too.
I bought a Fujitsu Siemens laptop for my wife. It came with Vista. (It has Fedora too now). Out of the box, Windows as it was installed has no control panel to adjust the sensitivity of the touch pad, and it's infuriatingly difficult to use as a result (keeps on jumping elsewhere when you're typing etc). Out of the box, Vista had a non-native resolution for the screen (1024x768 instead of 1440x900). (Fedora got it right straight away.) So this stuff happens with Windows laptops too but they have a lower barrier to entry as the currently accepted OS. These issues can and should be fixed and if done consistently would help Linux's image a lot.
And therefore in their minds it gives Ubuntu as a community an advantage over the other distros.
Of course, the basic response is that to make a distro genuine free software the software used to produced it should be free as well...
If you want to dump exchange, though, go with Scalix. The Community Edition is free for 25 users, though when you get above that it's not cheap. Still, it does everything Exchange does, runs on Linux, provides an excellent web client, full integration with Outlook via a plug-in, and full integration with Evolution via a plug-in. Or rather go with Zimbra. The Community Edition is free for any number of users - it's real free software. And all the rest is true of it as well...
Plus it seems you can use lightning to access your shared calendars in Zimbra
Appleseed looks really interesting. I'm concerned about how to convince others of the importance of not being locked in to closed networks. MugShot is also pretty interesting - not distributed, but free software, and can link stuff from facebook, myspace etc into your mugshot page...
Zimbra has just released Zimbra Desktop which allows you to take things offline while still using the same interface.
Alternatively you can use IMAP for mail which does the same thing - the obstacle is of course taking calendars offilne which requires some kind of CalDAV support for resynching, but that is being worked on in Zimbra so hopefully soon it will be possible too
You're right in many ways and this discussion is going round in circles. Lightning 0.3.1 is nowhere near what you need yet, but that doesn't mean nothing is being done about it. Lightning 0.5 which is soon to be released has a lot more integration facilities that will help - thinks like handling meeting invitations etc. And with Sun and others contributing developers there's reason to hope it'll get better and better. The reason Exchange support is always tricky in these open source apps is because it uses proprietary APIs
In it Gerard Schroeder argues that those 6 days were periods of time measured from the point of time around the Big Bang, and that they just happen to expand to billions of years when viewed from our time-frame. You may or may not buy his argument, but its interesting.
Something else that is interesting is that from before science ever questioned a literal six-day creation (from our point of view) that Jewish scholars were interpreting them as not being literal 24-hour periods as well (not because they were making excuses but because that was what they saw as the natural interpretation of the text)
It's quite clear that the original genealogies in the Old Testament were available to both authors. Matthew was clearly highlighting particular ancestors not including an exhaustive list. The words used for 'begat' (in the old English translations) don't necessarily mean direct father-son but can mean descendant. There are arguments that the one list is Mary's lineage as well, which give this fact mean... no inherent contradiction
I've tried doing this in svn - unfortunately OpenOffice.org changes random class strings in the XML on each save, so it doesn't work as well as expected.
You can do version comparisons graphically through OpenOffice.org though - TortoiseSVN contains some scripts to do this - using the change review mechanism, and I've found this very useful
Perhaps "intention" isn't the right word to be using here.
Intention is precisely the right word that describes what they are trying to do as they are claiming to be able to *predict* an individuals course of action *before* it happens.
I'd rather see it as they're reading a *decision* that is made in the brain. That decision could of course be changed; who knows what the device would read if someone decided in advance to change their decision when the actual numbers appeared?
That's curious as AFAIU this contains code directly from OOo that has been cut down to be included in the converter, so its strange if it behaves differently to OOo dealing with Office files
The alternative is to use your new job offer to negotiate a comparable salary from your current employer. That way you keep the job and the stable image, and you get the benefits
This is a really significant part of the debate that everyone else has missed - many people in Cambodia could only use a computer in Khmer; only OpenOffice.org is in Khmer, not Microsoft Office. See the KhmerOS link above - they're doing a fantastic project
Or you could Get Democracy - open source, downloads to your machine, supports YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, and more...
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Here in South Africa, they gave up on blacklisting phones (they now 'greylist' them instead, which means they do nothing) because it just meant all the stolen phones got exported to the rest of Africa... which I presume reduced the market for second-hand phones for those whose phones had been stolen...
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How many? Just the number will do :-)
If you weren't the user that's fine, just encouraging people to report issues where they can.
As someone else said, feature improvement takes longer... but then link to the issues here and persuade people to vote for them :-)
Still packaged like that but you could go and change it. It just makes their testing etc easier. I've found it works just fine now A lot of the reason for slowness in older versions was the spam handling etc - they've improved th configuration and it works pretty smoothly now.
You've filed a bug? Or checked if one exists and voted for it? I sure hope so :-)
Presume you've filed a bug with a sample spreadsheet? Do it ASAP and you'll find that someone will probably take it up and fix it, even if it takes a while. The beauty is that it helps everyone else too...
You're complaining about it being "stripped down" and "extremely resource hungry" at the same time. Most of the features missing in the open source version are the multi-server features, and proprietary app integration (Outlook etc). The actual application features are fantastic. It's heavy if you try and run it for a single user on a slow machine, which I did for a while. Now we run it on our middle-of-the-range server for our company email and it works a treat. There have been significant performance improvements too.
I bought a Fujitsu Siemens laptop for my wife. It came with Vista. (It has Fedora too now).
Out of the box, Windows as it was installed has no control panel to adjust the sensitivity of the touch pad, and it's infuriatingly difficult to use as a result (keeps on jumping elsewhere when you're typing etc).
Out of the box, Vista had a non-native resolution for the screen (1024x768 instead of 1440x900). (Fedora got it right straight away.)
So this stuff happens with Windows laptops too but they have a lower barrier to entry as the currently accepted OS.
These issues can and should be fixed and if done consistently would help Linux's image a lot.
And therefore in their minds it gives Ubuntu as a community an advantage over the other distros. Of course, the basic response is that to make a distro genuine free software the software used to produced it should be free as well...
Appleseed looks really interesting. I'm concerned about how to convince others of the importance of not being locked in to closed networks. MugShot is also pretty interesting - not distributed, but free software, and can link stuff from facebook, myspace etc into your mugshot page...
CalDAV support is being written in svn at the moment so may be in the next major release
Zimbra has just released Zimbra Desktop which allows you to take things offline while still using the same interface. Alternatively you can use IMAP for mail which does the same thing - the obstacle is of course taking calendars offilne which requires some kind of CalDAV support for resynching, but that is being worked on in Zimbra so hopefully soon it will be possible too
There are plans underway to do that - search for XULRunner and see what Benjamin Smedberg has been up to
You're right in many ways and this discussion is going round in circles.
Lightning 0.3.1 is nowhere near what you need yet, but that doesn't mean nothing is being done about it. Lightning 0.5 which is soon to be released has a lot more integration facilities that will help - thinks like handling meeting invitations etc. And with Sun and others contributing developers there's reason to hope it'll get better and better.
The reason Exchange support is always tricky in these open source apps is because it uses proprietary APIs
Calling it a fork is extreme - it's a branch. All changes are merged back into upstream as and when possible. And Sun and Novell have agreed to work on VBA compatibility together, merging this code and extending it: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/sun_and_novell _work_together
More info here:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/VBA
See for example this article: http://www.tothesource.org/5_16_2006/5_16_2006.htm with more details here: http://www.geraldschroeder.com/age.html
In it Gerard Schroeder argues that those 6 days were periods of time measured from the point of time around the Big Bang, and that they just happen to expand to billions of years when viewed from our time-frame. You may or may not buy his argument, but its interesting.
Something else that is interesting is that from before science ever questioned a literal six-day creation (from our point of view) that Jewish scholars were interpreting them as not being literal 24-hour periods as well (not because they were making excuses but because that was what they saw as the natural interpretation of the text)
It's quite clear that the original genealogies in the Old Testament were available to both authors. Matthew was clearly highlighting particular ancestors not including an exhaustive list. The words used for 'begat' (in the old English translations) don't necessarily mean direct father-son but can mean descendant. There are arguments that the one list is Mary's lineage as well, which give this fact mean... no inherent contradiction
I've tried doing this in svn - unfortunately OpenOffice.org changes random class strings in the XML on each save, so it doesn't work as well as expected.
You can do version comparisons graphically through OpenOffice.org though - TortoiseSVN contains some scripts to do this - using the change review mechanism, and I've found this very useful
Intention is precisely the right word that describes what they are trying to do as they are claiming to be able to *predict* an individuals course of action *before* it happens.
I'd rather see it as they're reading a *decision* that is made in the brain. That decision could of course be changed; who knows what the device would read if someone decided in advance to change their decision when the actual numbers appeared?
That's curious as AFAIU this contains code directly from OOo that has been cut down to be included in the converter, so its strange if it behaves differently to OOo dealing with Office files
The alternative is to use your new job offer to negotiate a comparable salary from your current employer. That way you keep the job and the stable image, and you get the benefits
This is a really significant part of the debate that everyone else has missed - many people in Cambodia could only use a computer in Khmer; only OpenOffice.org is in Khmer, not Microsoft Office. See the KhmerOS link above - they're doing a fantastic project
Google Talk is not SIP based, it uses Jabber with the (being standardised) Jingle extension for transferring the streaming audio for talking...
Or you could Get Democracy - open source, downloads to your machine, supports YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, and more...
Here in South Africa, they gave up on blacklisting phones (they now 'greylist' them instead, which means they do nothing) because it just meant all the stolen phones got exported to the rest of Africa ... which I presume reduced the market for second-hand phones for those whose phones had been stolen ...