The odfconverter-1.0.0-2.oxt file works only with Windows, and the odf-converter-1.0.0-5.i586.rpm file works only on SUSE® Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux, and openSUSE. On both platforms, the OpenXML Translator works only with the latest Novell® edition of OpenOffice.org.
Well, it's a start. Shame it's not available for OpenOffice.org on any other distro.
there is a few applications on sourceforge than convert ooxml to odt format and vise versa.
Links, please? I searched sf.net for ooxml and found nothing of the sort.
You might be sick of the developers trying to catch up with Microsoft, but more than 90% of of my customer base uses their office file formats. My livelihood depends on being able to read the files they send me.
The response I usually get with that approach -- if I get a response at all -- is "I've upped my version, up yours!"
Most users aren't interested in anything but the shortest path to getting their work done. Having to select a different file type than the default every time they save is beyond the effort they're willing to put forth. We who don't use the de facto standard are the oddballs, we are the ones who have to adapt, we are the ones who NEED A SOLUTION THAT CAN OPEN OOXML.
I don't care what bells and whistles are added, what shiny new GUI paint is applied, how much faster the app runs, etc, etc, etc. Office 2007 is on the street, and we are going to be hit with a barrage of OOXML files that can't be opened by anybody who's not running Microsoft. Any contender in this space needs to address this problem, and right now.
I've started getting OOXML documents from my colleagues, and I'm loathe to shell out for Office 2007 or fiddle with the converter plugin for earlier versions of MS Office (which I still occassionally have to run in a VMware Windows instance due to crazy formatting or macros). I switched to Linux right around the time of the Windows ME debacle, and I have no intention of switching back. I have used OpenOffice successfully since then, and for the most part it's been fine. Now I'm faced with having to bring up VMware every time someone sends me an OOXML document. Is there any hope for us OOo users? Last I heard, an OOXML converter is months away -- and it's entirely likely the first few releases will be barely usable.
Be careful what you ask for. If your job can be done remotely from the comfort of your home/a beach/a coffee shop, then it can also be done from third world countries by folks who are willing to work for much less than you are.
Alice wants Bob to buy Pirates of the Caribbean from her. Bob will only buy Pirates of the Caribbean if he can descramble the CSS-encrypted VOB - video object - on his DVD player. Otherwise, the disc is only useful to Bob as a drinks-coaster. So Alice has to provide Bob - the attacker - with the key, the cipher and the ciphertext.
Hardware support is going to be an issue for anyone that chooses to run Oracle Linux. Hardware vendors certify only certain OS makes and models on their boxes, and so far I haven't seen Oracle Linux on the certified lists. It's no fun fighting with your vendor for support and being told you have to install a supported OS before they'll acknowledge that the error you're seeing is caused by their hardware and not the OS that you chose to run.
Oracle might think they're onto something here, but I doubt it's going to catch on until they either A) sell their own hardware and support the entire stack from top to bottom, or B) get their OS certified by most or all of the major hardware vendors -- including card manufacturers like QLogic, EMC, Emulex, and Intel, who like the box vendors, only certify to certain OSes.
"Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with." ('Atlas Shrugged' 1957)
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I think the H1-B program will soon be irrelevent. It hastened the inevitable, but the fact of the matter is that any job that can be offshored for more profit, will be. It started happening to our manufacturing industry 30 years ago, and it's been happening to our high tech industries ever since other nations with cheaper labor built up enough infrustructure to support it.
The only advice I can think of for someone choosing a career today is to find something that cannot be offshored.
Why not write a letter to your credit card company stating that you no longer authorize any charges from the vendor? If they make it that much of a PITA for you to cancel the service, make it a PITA for them with chargebacks.
You shouldn't vent your frustrations by damaging things, living or otherwise. It's not good for your mental health and it's not an effective way of expressing anger, in fact it tends to make it worse.
Can you cite any studies that back this up? Some of the best "anger therapy" I've ever experienced was beating on a 70 pound punching bag until I was exhausted. A close second to that was knocking down some walls in my house in preparation for a remodel. There's the famous printer scene in Office Space, clearly these guys are getting some payoff from what they're doing.
I'd never do this to any living thing or to property that wasn't mine, but from my own experience, beating the crap out of something is sometimes the best way to vent.
A virtual machine can't tell anything about the state of the host it runs on other than what's exposed to it? Isn't this kinda like saying that if you use an oscilloscope to monitor bit flips on the bus, the OS can't detect it? How is this news?
Last time I wrote a letter to my representative (snail mail, but typed -- my handwriting is horrible), I got back a form letter about a totally unrelated issue. Clearly they hadn't taken the time to read my letter, and I suspect it's because there wasn't a check enclosed with it. They really don't care, and they really are in the pockets of the bribers.
...Unless you have tens of thousands of dollars to make a bribe ("campaign contribution"). That's how it works these days. Better to contact your favorite online casinos and let them pay the bribe for you.
...but this little gem will always be a reminder of where he originally came from:
AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS
By William Henry Gates III
February 3, 1976
An Open Letter to Hobbyists
To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software courses, books and software itself. Without good software and an owner who understands programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will quality software be written for the hobby market?
Almost a year ago, Paul Allen and myself, expecting the hobby market to expand, hired Monte Davidoff and developed Altair BASIC. Though the initial work took only two months, the three of us have spent most of the last year documenting, improving and adding features to BASIC. Now we have 4K, 8K, EXTENDED, ROM and DISK BASIC. The value of the computer time we have used exceeds $40,000.
The feedback we have gotten from the hundreds of people who say they are using BASIC has all been positive. Two surprising things are apparent, however, 1) Most of these "users" never bought BASIC (less than 10% of all Altair owners have bought BASIC), and 2) The amount of royalties we have received from sales to hobbyists makes the time spent on Altair BASIC worth less than $2 an hour.
Why is this? As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?
Is this fair? One thing you don't do by stealing software is get back at MITS for some problem you may have had. MITS doesn't make money selling software. The royalty paid to us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software. We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft.
What about the guys who re-sell Altair BASIC, aren't they making money on hobby software? Yes, but those who have been reported to us may lose in the end. They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
I would appreciate letters from any one who wants to pay up, or has a suggestion or comment. Just write to me at 1180 Alvarado SE, #114, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87108. Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software.
Hah. This is just the latest in a long slide since they went public. In ten years, I predict we will be bashing Google just as much as we currently do Microsoft.
I haven't RTFA, so this might have been addressed and I'm not aware. Seems to me that the reason staff costs are included in TCO studies is that different systems require different amounts of manpower to maintain. So while your guy might be able to handle 32 Gentoo boxes, you'll need more or less staff than that to handle the same number of Windows, Solaris, or other platforms. You can't just throw out the costs of staff unless it requires an equal amount of manpower to manage each of the platforms in the study.
It's shit like this that keeps me thinking that the Libertarians are on to something. I mean really, why the hell do we do DST in the first place? More to the point, why do we pay our congresscritters to *legislate* it??? This is not an area where the government needs to be involved, period.
I wouldn't encourage the next generation to study anything that can possibly be moved offshore, because sooner or later, it will be. This definitely includes CS, but probably extends to just about any sort of office/information work. Stick to hands-on, local professions or expect to compete with equally-skilled people willing to work in their country for a tenth of USA living wages.
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These projects are all odf converters, mostly MS Office plugins. They do not make it possible to open OOXML in anything other than MS Office.
Well, it's a start. Shame it's not available for OpenOffice.org on any other distro.
Links, please? I searched sf.net for ooxml and found nothing of the sort.
You might be sick of the developers trying to catch up with Microsoft, but more than 90% of of my customer base uses their office file formats. My livelihood depends on being able to read the files they send me.
The response I usually get with that approach -- if I get a response at all -- is "I've upped my version, up yours!"
Most users aren't interested in anything but the shortest path to getting their work done. Having to select a different file type than the default every time they save is beyond the effort they're willing to put forth. We who don't use the de facto standard are the oddballs, we are the ones who have to adapt, we are the ones who NEED A SOLUTION THAT CAN OPEN OOXML.
I don't care what bells and whistles are added, what shiny new GUI paint is applied, how much faster the app runs, etc, etc, etc. Office 2007 is on the street, and we are going to be hit with a barrage of OOXML files that can't be opened by anybody who's not running Microsoft. Any contender in this space needs to address this problem, and right now.
I've started getting OOXML documents from my colleagues, and I'm loathe to shell out for Office 2007 or fiddle with the converter plugin for earlier versions of MS Office (which I still occassionally have to run in a VMware Windows instance due to crazy formatting or macros). I switched to Linux right around the time of the Windows ME debacle, and I have no intention of switching back. I have used OpenOffice successfully since then, and for the most part it's been fine. Now I'm faced with having to bring up VMware every time someone sends me an OOXML document. Is there any hope for us OOo users? Last I heard, an OOXML converter is months away -- and it's entirely likely the first few releases will be barely usable.
Be careful what you ask for. If your job can be done remotely from the comfort of your home/a beach/a coffee shop, then it can also be done from third world countries by folks who are willing to work for much less than you are.
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Hardware support is going to be an issue for anyone that chooses to run Oracle Linux. Hardware vendors certify only certain OS makes and models on their boxes, and so far I haven't seen Oracle Linux on the certified lists. It's no fun fighting with your vendor for support and being told you have to install a supported OS before they'll acknowledge that the error you're seeing is caused by their hardware and not the OS that you chose to run.
Oracle might think they're onto something here, but I doubt it's going to catch on until they either A) sell their own hardware and support the entire stack from top to bottom, or B) get their OS certified by most or all of the major hardware vendors -- including card manufacturers like QLogic, EMC, Emulex, and Intel, who like the box vendors, only certify to certain OSes.
"Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with." ('Atlas Shrugged' 1957)
I think the H1-B program will soon be irrelevent. It hastened the inevitable, but the fact of the matter is that any job that can be offshored for more profit, will be. It started happening to our manufacturing industry 30 years ago, and it's been happening to our high tech industries ever since other nations with cheaper labor built up enough infrustructure to support it.
The only advice I can think of for someone choosing a career today is to find something that cannot be offshored.
Why not write a letter to your credit card company stating that you no longer authorize any charges from the vendor? If they make it that much of a PITA for you to cancel the service, make it a PITA for them with chargebacks.
Can you cite any studies that back this up? Some of the best "anger therapy" I've ever experienced was beating on a 70 pound punching bag until I was exhausted. A close second to that was knocking down some walls in my house in preparation for a remodel. There's the famous printer scene in Office Space, clearly these guys are getting some payoff from what they're doing.
I'd never do this to any living thing or to property that wasn't mine, but from my own experience, beating the crap out of something is sometimes the best way to vent.
A virtual machine can't tell anything about the state of the host it runs on other than what's exposed to it? Isn't this kinda like saying that if you use an oscilloscope to monitor bit flips on the bus, the OS can't detect it? How is this news?
Last time I wrote a letter to my representative (snail mail, but typed -- my handwriting is horrible), I got back a form letter about a totally unrelated issue. Clearly they hadn't taken the time to read my letter, and I suspect it's because there wasn't a check enclosed with it. They really don't care, and they really are in the pockets of the bribers.
Yeah, but how many rods to the hogshead do the cars get?
...Unless you have tens of thousands of dollars to make a bribe ("campaign contribution"). That's how it works these days. Better to contact your favorite online casinos and let them pay the bribe for you.
Hah. This is just the latest in a long slide since they went public. In ten years, I predict we will be bashing Google just as much as we currently do Microsoft.
Gartner Group was reported to be five years away from becoming a credible news source for the IT industry.
I haven't RTFA, so this might have been addressed and I'm not aware. Seems to me that the reason staff costs are included in TCO studies is that different systems require different amounts of manpower to maintain. So while your guy might be able to handle 32 Gentoo boxes, you'll need more or less staff than that to handle the same number of Windows, Solaris, or other platforms. You can't just throw out the costs of staff unless it requires an equal amount of manpower to manage each of the platforms in the study.
If I can view/hear/play/use it, I can copy it. DRM is a waste of time and money.
It's shit like this that keeps me thinking that the Libertarians are on to something. I mean really, why the hell do we do DST in the first place? More to the point, why do we pay our congresscritters to *legislate* it??? This is not an area where the government needs to be involved, period.
I wouldn't encourage the next generation to study anything that can possibly be moved offshore, because sooner or later, it will be. This definitely includes CS, but probably extends to just about any sort of office/information work. Stick to hands-on, local professions or expect to compete with equally-skilled people willing to work in their country for a tenth of USA living wages.