The OOo filters are often even more reliable than Microsoft's own filters
It must look like I'm trolling, because I've said this many times before: OOo filters are not 100%. This means you can't use them when you're doing roundtrip editing i.e. you edit, your client/colleague does some more, goto 10.
It's improving, but slowly. I logged a couple of OOo filter bugs in IssueZilla in april this year. One is delayed at least 1 to 2 years because of architectural limits. An other is being started on as I write this, more than half a year after logging. Priorities, I guess.
And yes, the Microsoft filters screw up sometimes, but funny enough people just accept that. But when OOo screws up, they get irritated...
If you are also looking for an "ergonomic" keyboard, check out the Kinesis keyboards.
They have bizarre looks (they appear in the Men In Black movie), but they feel great, use your thumbs for enter, space etc. and are fully programmable, so I switched Caps Lock and Escape, because I'm a vi user. And it doesn't have a numeric part, so it's quite small, which leaves your pointing device easily within reach.
You bastard. You forgot to mention to put quotes around it. I looked up that sentence at a client and now they want my balls because the first zillion results returned pr0n sites.
...has long since given up on making good, secure code, and rather coding whatever keeps his/her salary.
I know what you mean, but projects differ. Where one application doesn't need every security risk nailed down, there are others where it's more important.
I might just read this book out of sheer interest, and I know teamleader/manager will definitely appreciate it when I can make a smart security-related suggestion while discussing one project or another.
*yawns* This is old stuff. I have a book here called "Shadow Run" from Fasa and it's all explained right here. I'm getting sick and tired of this site.
I have a Logitech Trackman Wheel (obviously also a trackball), but I also use a regular Logitech mouse. During the day, I switch between them as well as use the mouse left every now and then.
I found out that only just replacing a mouse with a trackball doesn't help. I have to switch regularly. And of course, all the usual stuff like doing sports and weights and all.
So what if the guy wanted someone else to do the legwork.
I think it's pretty rude to ask around whether someone else can do the legwork. I sometimes hung around on IRC on #linux, and you'd be amazed. I thought it was pretty cool of me to give information, but people sometimes almost asked 'Hey I don't feel like doing this. Please can you spend your time because I don't feel like spending my own'.
I'm using Gnome for no apparent reason and I really would like something like KDesktop. Instant sharing, that's useful when developing with people on other physical locations and using other platforms.
If you want the Internet to remain free, then stop supporting Microsoft protocols.
You probably mean: if you don't want to be able to interoperate with the rest of the world, stop supporting Microsoft protocols.
Some of us want to use Linux/BSD/whatever but would REALLY like to be able to read/write Microsoft protocols or file formats, because of their work, clients or what else.
The best solution IMHO would be for the open source world to offer flawless read/write filters, so those 'closed' protocols suddenly become open. It's what Microsoft did when they wanted Excel to gain marketshare from Lotus 1-2-3, see also this article by Joel Spolsky.
When you are a small minority, it doesn't help to 'just say no'. You'll be alone in your nay-saying.
It's now split. There's IFS, which is 'shrink-wrapped', and there's CM SDK (=Content Management Software Development Kit). That last one is basically a bunch of Java classes which form the interface to IFS. So for example, it's quite easy to create a 'listener' which does something when documents are created/changed/deleted. But you can do everything that's possible in IFS itself, like creating users and documents etc.
It would be pretty cool if the GNOME guys created an interface for this, too. That way, everyone could build (webbased?) systems that do stuff (send e-mail?) when documents appear, get changed or what else.
I'm sorry if you heard this before, but CodeWeavers sells a product called Crossoveroffice, which is basically a specialized Wine version to run a quick/stable MS Office. Costs $55 and works like a charm.
While I agree that Bochs is very nice, the installation is hard, the interface is very oldfashioned and most importantly, it's barely workable because it's so damned slow.
I've had to patch and put up to date almost a dozen systems in my free time these weeks.
Not me. I might patch my parent's system, but that's really it. The rest can take their PC back to where they bought it and just pay for the service. Shops here ask 20,- for installing SP4 and the patch. Not bad for them considering the massive influx of people complaining about their system.
It'll be quite a sight when someone hacks it and takes command. Imagine a 80-year-old Japanese lady running at 80 mph through Tokio, all the while randomly kicking through people.
different 'generations' of proprietary software have at least as much incompatibility with each other as proprietary vs Free software [...] major OSS server side projects (Samba immediately springs to mind) have fantastic interoperability
Yeah that's true. Samba got it just right; flawless interoperability (in my limited experience). On the other hand, OpenOffice is not there yet. I have the feeling that flawless interoperability is the key. Joel Spolsky talks about this in a somewhat different way, but he says that MS-DOS and Windows got off because both offered almost flawless interoperability with their predecessors (respectively CP/M and, for windows, DOS).
The vast majority of businesses have simply fallen for the lie^Hne that "you never got fired for buying Microsoft software"
No, businesses just want to do business. That is, without any additional hassles that come outside of their business.
And if you don't use standard software (read: MS Windows, MS Office), you get less interoperability and thus additional hassles. It's not just Microsoft's software, it's also the case for other software like, Autodesk's AutoCAD. Most of the time, filters from alternative software don't cut it.
Note that I'm a fulltime (home and at work) Linux-user, this is just an observation.
$ sqlplus name/pwd@db
SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Aug 21 10:46:12 2003
Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.3.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, Real Application Clusters, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options
JServer Release 9.2.0.3.0 - Production
SQL> create sequence spacerocks_seq;
Sequence created.
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What I haven't seen here are messages about Yahoo porting its messenger to a couple of Unix flavours. One of the developers even maintains a nice FAQ! The current version (1.0) works like a charm, with RPM and deb packages available. The next version 1.1 will probably support webcams.
I don't know, but so as not to irritate too much people, I bought Crossover Office. If they get too much irritated, people start blathering and before you know it, some idiot demands that this 'Linux thing' is not allowed on company hardware.
I fully agree, but you know what the funny thing is: when Word versions get it mixed up, people somehow accept the fact like a beaten dog. But when my OO makes one tiny mistake, they act like 'Oh it's him again with his crazy software'...
Ha! That's nothing! Oracle changed their logo sometime ago, too. It was the work of a commission with an enormous budget and after many, many manmonths the result was that the 'A' was mirrored.
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It must look like I'm trolling, because I've said this many times before: OOo filters are not 100%. This means you can't use them when you're doing roundtrip editing i.e. you edit, your client/colleague does some more, goto 10.
It's improving, but slowly. I logged a couple of OOo filter bugs in IssueZilla in april this year. One is delayed at least 1 to 2 years because of architectural limits. An other is being started on as I write this, more than half a year after logging. Priorities, I guess.
And yes, the Microsoft filters screw up sometimes, but funny enough people just accept that. But when OOo screws up, they get irritated...
They have bizarre looks (they appear in the Men In Black movie), but they feel great, use your thumbs for enter, space etc. and are fully programmable, so I switched Caps Lock and Escape, because I'm a vi user. And it doesn't have a numeric part, so it's quite small, which leaves your pointing device easily within reach.
You bastard. You forgot to mention to put quotes around it. I looked up that sentence at a client and now they want my balls because the first zillion results returned pr0n sites.
I know what you mean, but projects differ. Where one application doesn't need every security risk nailed down, there are others where it's more important.
I might just read this book out of sheer interest, and I know teamleader/manager will definitely appreciate it when I can make a smart security-related suggestion while discussing one project or another.
*yawns* This is old stuff. I have a book here called "Shadow Run" from Fasa and it's all explained right here. I'm getting sick and tired of this site.
Let me second this. I know people from Europe which moved. This is just one company, there are lots of them that will accept 'foreigners'.
I have a Logitech Trackman Wheel (obviously also a trackball), but I also use a regular Logitech mouse. During the day, I switch between them as well as use the mouse left every now and then.
I found out that only just replacing a mouse with a trackball doesn't help. I have to switch regularly. And of course, all the usual stuff like doing sports and weights and all.
I think it's pretty rude to ask around whether someone else can do the legwork. I sometimes hung around on IRC on #linux, and you'd be amazed. I thought it was pretty cool of me to give information, but people sometimes almost asked 'Hey I don't feel like doing this. Please can you spend your time because I don't feel like spending my own'.
I'm using Gnome for no apparent reason and I really would like something like KDesktop. Instant sharing, that's useful when developing with people on other physical locations and using other platforms.
A fully integrated VNC Server and viewer would be nice. The standard vncviewer feels clunky. KDE is ahead of this.
You probably mean: if you don't want to be able to interoperate with the rest of the world, stop supporting Microsoft protocols.
Some of us want to use Linux/BSD/whatever but would REALLY like to be able to read/write Microsoft protocols or file formats, because of their work, clients or what else.
The best solution IMHO would be for the open source world to offer flawless read/write filters, so those 'closed' protocols suddenly become open. It's what Microsoft did when they wanted Excel to gain marketshare from Lotus 1-2-3, see also this article by Joel Spolsky.
When you are a small minority, it doesn't help to 'just say no'. You'll be alone in your nay-saying.
*counts* That must mean 14 years in college!!?! For God's sake man, get that degree and get a job!
It would be pretty cool if the GNOME guys created an interface for this, too. That way, everyone could build (webbased?) systems that do stuff (send e-mail?) when documents appear, get changed or what else.
Some stuff is getting there, but not everything.
And if you don't use standard software (read: MS Windows, MS Office), you get less interoperability and thus additional hassles. It's not just Microsoft's software, it's also the case for other software like, Autodesk's AutoCAD. Most of the time, filters from alternative software don't cut it.
Note that I'm a fulltime (home and at work) Linux-user, this is just an observation.
What I haven't seen here are messages about Yahoo porting its messenger to a couple of Unix flavours. One of the developers even maintains a nice FAQ! The current version (1.0) works like a charm, with RPM and deb packages available. The next version 1.1 will probably support webcams.
I don't know, but so as not to irritate too much people, I bought Crossover Office. If they get too much irritated, people start blathering and before you know it, some idiot demands that this 'Linux thing' is not allowed on company hardware.