Hmm, my tone was somewhat negative, but that sounds really great! There are some forces going on here in the company I work to go over to OOo. And yeah, the PDF export is an excellent feature which most MS Office users would love as well. Some do it with printer drivers, websites etc.
in particular OpenOffice.org is a good-enough drop in replacement for MS-Office
I saw the headline of this story and immediately thought, someone's going to mention OOo as a replacement.
Have you tried, in a genuine office environment, received an MS Word document, edited it with OOo, exported it back and sent it to your coworker/manager/client?
Of course not. Because the im/export functionality of MS Office documents in OOo is nice, but not perfect. And that's why it's useless. So a looong time ago, I shelled out $55 (now only $40) for crossover office. Never looked back.
When you're taping the movie and the bastard with the night goggles spots you, just point your laser pen at him. The goggles will intensify the laser beam a THOUSAND TIMES leaving nothing but stinking, smoking holes where once his eyes were located...
I personally saved the company about $100,000. The company spent over half a million $ arguing about it and treating us all like idiots.[...] It is just further proof that competent, smart, skilled employees are not welcome in the workplace.
If you were the perfect employee and you were truly competent, smart and skilled, you could have convinced management that you actually saved them $100,000. This is obviously not the case.
I'm not trying to troll or insult anyone, it's just that I know some brilliant people who for the love of their live just can't work someplace for more than two years. At that time, everyone's fed up with their attitude.
I second this. I used to get 5-6 hrs sleep per day, until I realized I never really felt OK (same complaints: sore eyes, not feeling fit, constant light headache, etc). I'm not really disciplined and I have difficulty actually going to sleep, so 2 hours before the ideal bedtime I started taking Melatonin.
It's not one of those sleeping pills, it's to stabilize your day/night rhythm. I used it for a couple of weeks and now I've gotten into a routine which gets me a full 8 hours of sleep every night. I feel MUCH better now.
That comment above kinda irritates me. It probably paints 99% of slashdot like a mindless drone because they don't countersue the RIAA. But luckily, you're not living in a bubble and you're that 1% that does put a bait on a P2P server and sues them, right? Well, if you're so goddamn brave, post the results here on slashdot will you? Until then, STFU.
Well I don't know about you, but I have a job and a house that I need to take care of, and my gf needs my *ahem* devoted attention every now and then. There is barely time for friends and family and some good ole' Linux. So of course, I could spend every minute of free time to some stupid lawsuit. Because I find this plain stupid to waste my time on. IMHO, of course.
record your own song and give it a clever name like 'Timberlake's Justified'. Stick it up and wait for the RIAA to come along and snag it. Then sue/countersue them.
It's OK to act cool on slashdot, but in the real world, where I live, this is just dumb. Don't get in the way of the big corps. At the very least, it'll cause a hassle which you don't want. Just get other people to download for you and then use scp/ftp/whatever, or rip CDs or something.
You could submit a bug report, it might get fixed fairly quickly, or at least in the next major release.
Have you ever actually logged a bug against OOo? I've done so, and exactly one year and two months later someone cared to look at it. It was supposedly fixed, but then QA found out it still wasn't fixed.
I thought I'd do my share by logging a bug, but this completely ruins any fun there is in logging a bug.
It's not as black-and-white as you paint. Although I don't agree with the stated reasons of the war, it's better than the almost ten years of economic blockage of almost anything. It rendered Iraq from a nice going nation into poverty. So, what is bad about this guy helping them up?
When my gf did her report for graduation on the market approach of a large bank in our friendly European country, she googled and found a presentation on the national Microsoft website. It was about how they categorized their partners into levels and how to treat them, i.e. which advantages they get.
Of course, it was noted that the small partners get almost nothing, so this was slightly sensitive material. A few days later it couldn't be found anymore on that URL.
and show off how much cash you're making at your nice geek job.
Heh. I was talking to the gf of one of my colleagues and when talking about how they met eachother, she actually said something like yeah, it's IT so he makes a LOT of money, as if she thought herself pretty smart for picking him.
[...] you shouldn't have to buy an entirely different distribution of the OS just to change a few parameter settings
For me, that's just too broad. I want Mozilla to never get swapped out, but I don't care about sshd or other daemons that I've got running, but don't use interactively all the time. A big switch is not enough for me. For others, it might be enough.
While that would have been circuit-board-guy's right, I don't think it would have helped anything
You've got modded +4 and rightly so. People tend to forget that a police officer is a human being, just trying to do his job. And more so, everyone (including yourself) is paying these people and everyone is voting to get their actions/directions set in a democratic way.
But when they ask questions or want to give you a speeding ticket, people get mad! WTF!! Most of those guys are there to make the country a little safer and then people tell them to fuck off?!
I'm doing a project and of course we're not working on an ICBM here (that's the next project), but on a publishing system. But people are so freaking damned lazy when it comes to passwords so the passwords of ALL the servers (development, database, source control) is set to the client's name with a "1" (one) instead of an "i". And it's ONE account we got from the UNIX guys, so everyone knows that password.
I told the project manager, hey look doesn't this need to be changed? Everyone, including the other big player in the market, can walk in and grab the code. Manuals included.
It should be a globally settable thing by the admin, at runtime, but not something you have to set on a per-application, per-run basis - that gets tedious
Well, most user couldn't be bothered but the creator of a distribution will probably be interested. I'd imagine it could be some sort of wrapper, just like rlwrap, (providing readline capabilities to any program by passing the program as a parameter to rlwrap).
I analysed the Snort source during my study. It has been some time ago, so I don't know how much of the core code has changed. If anyone's interested, look here and go to chapter 8. Snort ROCKS!
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Hrmph. I don't think that if the system would become available, it would be without some form of authentication.
Your shell account can also be hacked. But that doesn't stop people from using Screen, now does it?
Instead of laughing about how noone will use this, try to come up with how you could make it secure and usable instead.
But where does it get that metadata from? The user? Because if that's the case, then it's an illusion from the start.
Hmm, my tone was somewhat negative, but that sounds really great! There are some forces going on here in the company I work to go over to OOo. And yeah, the PDF export is an excellent feature which most MS Office users would love as well. Some do it with printer drivers, websites etc.
I saw the headline of this story and immediately thought, someone's going to mention OOo as a replacement.
Have you tried, in a genuine office environment, received an MS Word document, edited it with OOo, exported it back and sent it to your coworker/manager/client?
Of course not. Because the im/export functionality of MS Office documents in OOo is nice, but not perfect. And that's why it's useless. So a looong time ago, I shelled out $55 (now only $40) for crossover office. Never looked back.
It was a joke, bitch!
Dooooooooh... you made me think about a disclaimer in my sig. "If you don't get it, don't reply". Or something.
BUUWAHAHAHAHAHA!
We just read their mail too. It seems you need the penis enlargement that is commonly referred to in other threads here.
If you were the perfect employee and you were truly competent, smart and skilled, you could have convinced management that you actually saved them $100,000. This is obviously not the case.
I'm not trying to troll or insult anyone, it's just that I know some brilliant people who for the love of their live just can't work someplace for more than two years. At that time, everyone's fed up with their attitude.
I second this. I used to get 5-6 hrs sleep per day, until I realized I never really felt OK (same complaints: sore eyes, not feeling fit, constant light headache, etc). I'm not really disciplined and I have difficulty actually going to sleep, so 2 hours before the ideal bedtime I started taking Melatonin.
It's not one of those sleeping pills, it's to stabilize your day/night rhythm. I used it for a couple of weeks and now I've gotten into a routine which gets me a full 8 hours of sleep every night. I feel MUCH better now.
That comment above kinda irritates me. It probably paints 99% of slashdot like a mindless drone because they don't countersue the RIAA. But luckily, you're not living in a bubble and you're that 1% that does put a bait on a P2P server and sues them, right? Well, if you're so goddamn brave, post the results here on slashdot will you? Until then, STFU.
Well I don't know about you, but I have a job and a house that I need to take care of, and my gf needs my *ahem* devoted attention every now and then. There is barely time for friends and family and some good ole' Linux. So of course, I could spend every minute of free time to some stupid lawsuit. Because I find this plain stupid to waste my time on. IMHO, of course.
It's OK to act cool on slashdot, but in the real world, where I live, this is just dumb. Don't get in the way of the big corps. At the very least, it'll cause a hassle which you don't want. Just get other people to download for you and then use scp/ftp/whatever, or rip CDs or something.
Have you ever actually logged a bug against OOo? I've done so, and exactly one year and two months later someone cared to look at it. It was supposedly fixed, but then QA found out it still wasn't fixed.
I thought I'd do my share by logging a bug, but this completely ruins any fun there is in logging a bug.
It's not as black-and-white as you paint. Although I don't agree with the stated reasons of the war, it's better than the almost ten years of economic blockage of almost anything. It rendered Iraq from a nice going nation into poverty. So, what is bad about this guy helping them up?
Todo:
[...]
Put bullet in head
In the neighbourhood where I lived as a student, others would kindly remind you of this todo...
Just install some random distro and then install/run a lightweight window manager; I use XFCE but there are better examples.
If you like RedHat, there are RPMs for XFCE here. Installation is a breeze that way. Start with startxfce instead of your regular startx.
Of course, it was noted that the small partners get almost nothing, so this was slightly sensitive material. A few days later it couldn't be found anymore on that URL.
Heh. I was talking to the gf of one of my colleagues and when talking about how they met eachother, she actually said something like yeah, it's IT so he makes a LOT of money, as if she thought herself pretty smart for picking him.
Talking about cool calculation....
For me, that's just too broad. I want Mozilla to never get swapped out, but I don't care about sshd or other daemons that I've got running, but don't use interactively all the time. A big switch is not enough for me. For others, it might be enough.
You've got modded +4 and rightly so. People tend to forget that a police officer is a human being, just trying to do his job. And more so, everyone (including yourself) is paying these people and everyone is voting to get their actions/directions set in a democratic way.
But when they ask questions or want to give you a speeding ticket, people get mad! WTF!! Most of those guys are there to make the country a little safer and then people tell them to fuck off?!
Unbelievable IMHO.
I told the project manager, hey look doesn't this need to be changed? Everyone, including the other big player in the market, can walk in and grab the code. Manuals included.
But they just don't care. "It's a low risk".
Well, most user couldn't be bothered but the creator of a distribution will probably be interested. I'd imagine it could be some sort of wrapper, just like rlwrap, (providing readline capabilities to any program by passing the program as a parameter to rlwrap).
Actually, this should also be a command-line utility. That way, it'll be available for all applications.