2) Less than perfect conversion of word documents into and out of OpenOffice.
word is a defacto standard, people see word compatability as essential since thats what is most commonly used.
As long as word format import and export is less than perfect Openoffice is always going to be on the losing side.
you obviously haven't seen how "perfectly" word works with files created on different versions... OOo Writer is far better than ms-word at importing ms-word docs...
why ever not 3.0??? If you're going to have all the nice X.org compositing in it, then it will require X.org not xfree86 and anyway, in all probality, will break a lot of older apps. 2.10 will only serve to confuse the general public... make a fresh start... dump a lot of the old baggage... go on, you know it'll make sense.
who says I post from work??? I'm in the UK, not US and my evenings correspond with your worktimes. Anyway, slashdot is not on the "whitelist". To get a site added to the whitelist is not trivial, it has to be either work related, or of major general benefit to the rest of those at work.
yippee... a contest I stand a chance of winning!!! seriously, I started my new job today and my workspace is rather sparse compared to those... but give it a week...
they're making the changes to restart the copyright clock... ie. get some 20 odd years back from us. It allows them to whop a big "copyright 2004" notice all over it.
"The good news is they went after the RIAA, who has lots of money and lawyers. Expect a quick defeat and patent invalidation."
Oh poot... Now I'm confused and don't know who I'm supposed to be cheering on here... the patent owners biting back on the RIAA, or RIAA in the battle to invalidate a patent on a basic function... aarrgghhh!!!
does everything that runs on Linux have to come with the source and an oss license??? I bought and paid for Textmaker for Linux and also Opera for Linux, both closed source programs. This Sybase move now means that I can download and play with a serious database. It's a smart move because it means that I will be gaining skills in programming for that database engine, skills which are seriously marketable.
no, that excludes launch, that's some $40,000 extra... and for getting a package into space it's incredibly cheap. Remember, you haven't got the economics of scale working in your favour here, you're making very short production runs and you must use components and assembly techniques that will survive the rigours of launch to orbit and also exposure to space. So you'll need access to some testing chambers and a vibration table
hey, it keeps the activists, axe-grinders, trolls etc. in their own section where they can have fun to their hearts content... meanwhile, I can enjoy relative peace and use my mod points where I want...
To put it mildly, nobody forced you to read this topic... so shut it...;)
"Frankly I don't see what the problem is with postal voting. "
Did you even read the linked article about the problems happening in the UK??? The problem, is that those with a vested interest and clout in the ethnic minorities in some UK towns were going round collecting all the postal ballot forms for their area and forcing, by threats, those people that the votes really belonged to to sign the ballots on handover leaving the actual ballot section blank for the local leader to fill in and send off. Also, a large number of those weren't able to even read the ballot form so didn't even know what they'd signed and handed over was for a ballot.
At first glance I thought that a Russian had finally managed to read one of those holiday books and make sense of it... you know, those with titles like "The Bourne Identity", "The Omega Sanction"...
"See Munich, Germany, where Linux is being implemented for political reasons and not TCO/ROI. "
Precisely, so that they have control over their own data and can do upgrades to their own schedule, not at the behest of a corporation... plus it keeps the money in their own economy, where it keeps going round and is able to be taxed (and therefore recovered) at both local and national level... in the long term, the ROI/TCO argument will be moot, as they won't have been forced to upgrade several times over the next few years... notice how those Microsoft ROI/TCO arguments are only done over a very short period and always figure in the cost of switching??? that's because they don't want you to factor windows over the long term with all the costs of upgrades being forced upon the user.
I think he's nicked a session on his dad's computer while it was still logged in to slashdot... either that, or he's hacked and hijacked that account after a lucky guess at the password.
are you sure it's not a microphone attached to the exhaust coupled to a hidden box and speaker under the dashboard that's making that throaty roar to put back in the sound that's been hushed out by all the soundproofing???
if you're on dialup, Gentoo sucks... the only way to install it is to use a reference cd set, and then you're limited in how up to date you want the various components to be... same with a binay distro, they suck if you're on dialup... but at least with the old redhat, I could get hold of cds burnt by firms such as cheeplinux which had the contents of the update directories as of the night before ordering them.
I downloaded some 150 mb of updates for Suse 9.1 last night and I'd have been most dischuffed on dialup, which is why I would look forward to a binary diff method of doing updates so that those on dialup would be able to stay up to date easily, and Microsofties couldn't point out how Xp has a binary diff update system...
Binary updates are not a good fit for Gentoo! Not only because most people don't use the binary packages, but because in order to generate the diff, the server must know the exact contents of the file on your system, as well as the exact contents of the updated file.""
No, those "binary" diffs for Gentoo would be done against the sources used for the previous version of the gentoo "package", which would then be used to download the diff so that the gentoo computer could then construct new sources to build against. It would require gentoo computers to keep the sources rather than discard them to save space.
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I don't have a "tab" key on this ordinary compaq keyboard... it's got two symbols on it, a pair of vertical lines with arrows going to them, one from the left and one from the right... no "tab" key though.
onward and upwards... in little steps... currently Linux on laptops is like a toddler cruising via the furniture, unsure about letting go and striking out. Ah well, at least I now know it's worth bothering to dump mandy 10 off and stick susy 9.1 on. I had been contemplating wiping it completely of XP home edition, getting rid of that hidden restore partition and putting Gentoo on.
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just think of it as a very slow dead cat bounce...
you obviously haven't seen how "perfectly" word works with files created on different versions... OOo Writer is far better than ms-word at importing ms-word docs...
why ever not 3.0??? If you're going to have all the nice X.org compositing in it, then it will require X.org not xfree86 and anyway, in all probality, will break a lot of older apps. 2.10 will only serve to confuse the general public... make a fresh start... dump a lot of the old baggage... go on, you know it'll make sense.
And the basic default string is:
I'd like to see Mozilla family broken down properly so we can find out those konqueror browsers not sending the OS string.
who says I post from work??? I'm in the UK, not US and my evenings correspond with your worktimes. Anyway, slashdot is not on the "whitelist". To get a site added to the whitelist is not trivial, it has to be either work related, or of major general benefit to the rest of those at work.
yippee... a contest I stand a chance of winning!!! seriously, I started my new job today and my workspace is rather sparse compared to those... but give it a week...
every time they make editorial/artistic changes they get to reset the copyright clock. Mere cleaning up wouldn't have let them do this.
they're making the changes to restart the copyright clock... ie. get some 20 odd years back from us. It allows them to whop a big "copyright 2004" notice all over it.
Oh poot... Now I'm confused and don't know who I'm supposed to be cheering on here... the patent owners biting back on the RIAA, or RIAA in the battle to invalidate a patent on a basic function... aarrgghhh!!!
does everything that runs on Linux have to come with the source and an oss license???
I bought and paid for Textmaker for Linux and also Opera for Linux, both closed source programs. This Sybase move now means that I can download and play with a serious database. It's a smart move because it means that I will be gaining skills in programming for that database engine, skills which are seriously marketable.
no, that excludes launch, that's some $40,000 extra... and for getting a package into space it's incredibly cheap. Remember, you haven't got the economics of scale working in your favour here, you're making very short production runs and you must use components and assembly techniques that will survive the rigours of launch to orbit and also exposure to space. So you'll need access to some testing chambers and a vibration table
To put it mildly, nobody forced you to read this topic... so shut it... ;)
Did you even read the linked article about the problems happening in the UK??? The problem, is that those with a vested interest and clout in the ethnic minorities in some UK towns were going round collecting all the postal ballot forms for their area and forcing, by threats, those people that the votes really belonged to to sign the ballots on handover leaving the actual ballot section blank for the local leader to fill in and send off. Also, a large number of those weren't able to even read the ballot form so didn't even know what they'd signed and handed over was for a ballot.
if it had really been removed in the interests of national security, then there'd have been no message telling you that it had been removed.
At first glance I thought that a Russian had finally managed to read one of those holiday books and make sense of it... you know, those with titles like "The Bourne Identity", "The Omega Sanction"...
Precisely, so that they have control over their own data and can do upgrades to their own schedule, not at the behest of a corporation... plus it keeps the money in their own economy, where it keeps going round and is able to be taxed (and therefore recovered) at both local and national level... in the long term, the ROI/TCO argument will be moot, as they won't have been forced to upgrade several times over the next few years... notice how those Microsoft ROI/TCO arguments are only done over a very short period and always figure in the cost of switching??? that's because they don't want you to factor windows over the long term with all the costs of upgrades being forced upon the user.
I think he's nicked a session on his dad's computer while it was still logged in to slashdot... either that, or he's hacked and hijacked that account after a lucky guess at the password.
are you sure it's not a microphone attached to the exhaust coupled to a hidden box and speaker under the dashboard that's making that throaty roar to put back in the sound that's been hushed out by all the soundproofing???
I downloaded some 150 mb of updates for Suse 9.1 last night and I'd have been most dischuffed on dialup, which is why I would look forward to a binary diff method of doing updates so that those on dialup would be able to stay up to date easily, and Microsofties couldn't point out how Xp has a binary diff update system...
No, those "binary" diffs for Gentoo would be done against the sources used for the previous version of the gentoo "package", which would then be used to download the diff so that the gentoo computer could then construct new sources to build against. It would require gentoo computers to keep the sources rather than discard them to save space.
Nah... perhaps Bridget Jones 2, Edge of Reason... apparently, the "pirates" are offering $10 million to anyone who can get it to them first
I don't have a "tab" key on this ordinary compaq keyboard... it's got two symbols on it, a pair of vertical lines with arrows going to them, one from the left and one from the right... no "tab" key though.
your redirect doesn't work... I get the following error
/~davyd/gnome-2-8/ was not found on this server."
"Not Found
The requested URL
onward and upwards... in little steps... currently Linux on laptops is like a toddler cruising via the furniture, unsure about letting go and striking out. Ah well, at least I now know it's worth bothering to dump mandy 10 off and stick susy 9.1 on. I had been contemplating wiping it completely of XP home edition, getting rid of that hidden restore partition and putting Gentoo on.
have you got the SIS graphics working properly in 3D yet or are you, like me, still stuck in VESA 1024x768 mode???