I actually experienced something like this myself. My gf was working on her graduation report and while googling, she found a powerpoint file on the Dutch Microsoft site. It was about their partner strategy, i.e. who would manage their partners and in what way. I mailed it to the director of my division, who found it rather interesting. Some days later, it was gone from the MS site.
The tool Xwrits may be of use for people interested in this item
Let me second that; Xwrits is a great tool! I use it like this: xwrits typetime=15 breaktime=1 ready-picture=$HOME/bin/xwrits/continue.gif warning-picture=$HOME/bin/xwrits/pause.gif rest-picture=$HOME/bin/xwrits/pause.gif +top +mouse after=2 &
Typetime and breaktime speak for itself; it pops up after every 15 mins of work (subtracting time you're not mousing or typing) and then displays the warning picture for 1 minute. For continue and pause pictures, I have a plain red and green GIF, because I think the original gifs look funny.
But for a filemanager? If you're going to insist on a GUI for that, please don't complain about bloat.
When I'm working with a colleague behind my PC, I often fire up GNOME Commander (not Nautilus, because I found it to be lacking). This looks more like their Windows boxes and they can more easily follow what I'm doing.
Also, sometimes you want to eyeball a directory tree. You could use tree for this, but it's not as handy.
Tablecells larger than 1 page, for instance. I have had a couple of those. And this is a bug that won't be solved for at least another year since it has to do with limitations of the table model that OOo.org uses.
And sometimes, during in/export, stuff changes; it's not the same document anymore. That's of course logical, but not handy when you have to edit an existing document and then someone else has to edit it after you've done your share of work.
My solution is to use Crossover Office; works like a charm, for only $55. And the corporation paid for the Office license, so that's covered as well.
So with all the cost savings they're getting by deploying linux, does it mean they'll pass that along to their customers?
Yes, because customers gain confidence that Linux is a viable platform. They're all (al least where I live) running HP-UX, AIX, NT or sometimes Solaris, and now the salespeople can tell them, Sure run Linux, we use it internally too.
I think it's really useful that it asks for confirmation when closing the window with multiple tabs open. When developing, I usually have multiple tabs open, one of them the system itself, one with screenshots, one with the issue tracker etc. and it's a pain when accidentally I close that stuff.
Show me server admins who run GUI right on servers.
There are commercial UNIX applications which need an X server for installation or running. Oracle is one of them, and I assume there will be others as well.
Not sure if there is a freeware utility to munge NTFS partitions.
Yes there is, ntfsresize is part of the Linux NTFS Project. They even provide a statically linked binary, so you can just reboot with knoppix or similar, download the binary and save it on the ramdisk, resize and install with your favourite OS! However, ntfsresize can't defrag the data on your drive, so you first need administrator privs on the Windows box and defrag the drive.
No filter is perfect, and neither is OO's Word filter. I don't know about you people, but I just do not want to waste my own/coworker's/client's time time with an imperfect filter.
I tried OO, but people get irritated (at least) when I send them a fscked file. And since my company has a site-wide license for Office and I'm running RH Linux on an intel, for $55 I just bought Codeweaver's Crossover Office and be done with it.
Cross Office will run it on linux, though the speed is that of OO
Have you actually tried this? I'm running RH9 here on a 2Ghz intel and CXOffice starts Word 2000 in 3 seconds, while OO's writer starts in 17 (read this: SEVENTEEN) seconds.
I can confirm this. I'm working at a global Fortune-500 company and they buy local firms, and then they move all development to India. The "social plan" is: move to India or bye-bye.
IMHO comparing the markup qualities of HTML and PDF is just plain silly.
If I print something in HTML, Mozilla or IE, lots of times the markup is fscked. And don't even think about pagenumbering etc. OTOH any PDF prints like a charm.
I have a Dell Latitude CSx which is very noisy, because of the harddisk (an IBM Travelstar DARA-212000 12Gb thingy). Anyone has any tips as on how to make a laptop drive less noisy?
I tried to run hdparm with the -M parameter (acoustic management) but that doesn't work. I sometimes run it with -S 1 so it shuts down after 5 seconds of disk inactivity but my gf still complains when I work in the living room...
A year ago, I got myself a Kinesis Contoured keyboard. It took me two weeks and a couple of hours of TuxTyping to get used to it, but since then it's great. I've never had any real RSI, but the Kinesis makes you sit more comfortable. You sit with straight arms; horizontally as well as in a straight angle.
500 cds may not hurt their purse strings, but 100 x 500 will.
Where do you get 100 customers in New Zealand who give a flying fsck about the company not printing Linux CD's?
I don't want to be negative, but there are just not enough people who care about this to make an impact. OTOH I would certainly refuse to do business with them anymore, if the facts are like we assume here.
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I actually experienced something like this myself. My gf was working on her graduation report and while googling, she found a powerpoint file on the Dutch Microsoft site. It was about their partner strategy, i.e. who would manage their partners and in what way. I mailed it to the director of my division, who found it rather interesting. Some days later, it was gone from the MS site.
xwrits typetime=15 breaktime=1 ready-picture=$HOME/bin/xwrits/continue.gif warning-picture=$HOME/bin/xwrits/pause.gif rest-picture=$HOME/bin/xwrits/pause.gif +top +mouse after=2 &
Typetime and breaktime speak for itself; it pops up after every 15 mins of work (subtracting time you're not mousing or typing) and then displays the warning picture for 1 minute. For continue and pause pictures, I have a plain red and green GIF, because I think the original gifs look funny.
Also, sometimes you want to eyeball a directory tree. You could use tree for this, but it's not as handy.
Well, I never had a problem with the compiler, but I DID have them with a library.
And sometimes, during in/export, stuff changes; it's not the same document anymore. That's of course logical, but not handy when you have to edit an existing document and then someone else has to edit it after you've done your share of work.
My solution is to use Crossover Office; works like a charm, for only $55. And the corporation paid for the Office license, so that's covered as well.
I think it's really useful that it asks for confirmation when closing the window with multiple tabs open. When developing, I usually have multiple tabs open, one of them the system itself, one with screenshots, one with the issue tracker etc. and it's a pain when accidentally I close that stuff.
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The sig is funny!
I tried OO, but people get irritated (at least) when I send them a fscked file. And since my company has a site-wide license for Office and I'm running RH Linux on an intel, for $55 I just bought Codeweaver's Crossover Office and be done with it.
Search for the [SCO] marker :)
If I print something in HTML, Mozilla or IE, lots of times the markup is fscked. And don't even think about pagenumbering etc. OTOH any PDF prints like a charm.
Does it come with a warranty? If so, I'll order 100 pieces. :)
I tried to run hdparm with the -M parameter (acoustic management) but that doesn't work. I sometimes run it with -S 1 so it shuts down after 5 seconds of disk inactivity but my gf still complains when I work in the living room...
A year ago, I got myself a Kinesis Contoured keyboard. It took me two weeks and a couple of hours of TuxTyping to get used to it, but since then it's great. I've never had any real RSI, but the Kinesis makes you sit more comfortable. You sit with straight arms; horizontally as well as in a straight angle.
It's quite expensive, though. :-/
I don't want to be negative, but there are just not enough people who care about this to make an impact. OTOH I would certainly refuse to do business with them anymore, if the facts are like we assume here.