AmiPro was the best WYSIWYG word processor there will ever be, at least it was when Samna owned it, by the time Lotus bought it, 'updated' it to look like other Lotus apps, and crammed it into their 'office suite', it was well and truly lobotomised.
So I agree, AmiPro as it appeared in Lotus SmartSuite was crap, but it wasn't that AmiPro started out that way, it was the morons at Lotus that turned it into crap.
I'm sure that same was true of Word before microsoft got their grubby little hands on it.
In my experience, educational institutions have no concept of security. Why should the student be punished for monumental stupidity on the part of the sysadmin?
When I was at university, every one taking the same subject had read-write permissions to each other's home directories, the same directories we used to submit our assignments. You only had to type 'cd..' and all was revealed. I never took advantage of this, but I still wonder if the sysadmin ever figured this out or if this remains the case to the present day.
Ok, I'll admit I shot myself in the foot and I am bleeding profusely from the wound.
I was trying to point out that there were workable alternatives to Kazaa, but I didn't have my facts right. All flames cheerfully received./me goes and hides in the corner with a supply of industrial size fire extinguishers, awaiting certain death.
OK, as an examble, if you are a windows user, slide on over to http://www.gnucleus.com/Gnucleus/
And before people start flaming me, this program accesses a different file sharing network to Kazaa, which is probably a good thing. No royalties to Sharman.
File sharing without self-inflicted spyware? Who would have thought?
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AmiPro was the best WYSIWYG word processor there will ever be, at least it was when Samna owned it, by the time Lotus bought it, 'updated' it to look like other Lotus apps, and crammed it into their 'office suite', it was well and truly lobotomised.
So I agree, AmiPro as it appeared in Lotus SmartSuite was crap, but it wasn't that AmiPro started out that way, it was the morons at Lotus that turned it into crap.
I'm sure that same was true of Word before microsoft got their grubby little hands on it.
In my experience, educational institutions have no concept of security. Why should the student be punished for monumental stupidity on the part of the sysadmin?
..' and all was revealed. I never took advantage of this, but I still wonder if the sysadmin ever figured this out or if this remains the case to the present day.
When I was at university, every one taking the same subject had read-write permissions to each other's home directories, the same directories we used to submit our assignments. You only had to type 'cd
LOL. By god Jim, I think we just invented extortionware ;-)
Ok, I'll admit I shot myself in the foot and I am bleeding profusely from the wound. I was trying to point out that there were workable alternatives to Kazaa, but I didn't have my facts right. All flames cheerfully received. /me goes and hides in the corner with a supply of industrial size fire extinguishers, awaiting certain death.
OK, as an examble, if you are a windows user, slide on over to http://www.gnucleus.com/Gnucleus/ And before people start flaming me, this program accesses a different file sharing network to Kazaa, which is probably a good thing. No royalties to Sharman. File sharing without self-inflicted spyware? Who would have thought?
Kazaa v's Kazaa lite, who cares? Don't you people know there are free, open source alternatives that access the same network?
You people are sheep.