Write a Firefox Extension that enables OpenOffice documents to be viewed in the browser, or edited if OOo is present on the system? (yes, this would be a lot of work)
Suddenly you have an alternative to the traditional recipe of using.Doc files and the free MS Word Viewer to distribute written documents.
Ask the Iraqis, I guess. If you aren't willing to go to such extremes, either infiltrate them or put forward a genuinely and observably superior alternative. The OSS movement needs to win people over, not fight them
Hmm. I'd prefer that they port Mozilla Thunderbird to PalmOS ! - then I can use the same mail client, and have the same inbox, on my desktop PC, my Mac Laptop and my PDA....
How can it be possible to get a cellular data service that's faster than a WiFi LAN?
Also, if this is for real, surely this has implications for the many planned city-wide wifi grids (Wi-Max, etc) and other mobile broadband solutions, as it could make them obsolete very quickly.
most of the time it's on random-jump mode but yes, usually
No display = no need to look at it. I sit it in the well under the hand-brake where I can find it without looking. My iPod proves far more of a distraction in the car so I don't tend to use it there.
I use an Mp3-CD player from HP in my car, it has no screen and it takes 750mb CDs with anything up to 200 songs on them
Works just fine... just write the CD with the file format *artist - album - track - name.mp3* and use the "next" button to move rapidly 20 songs up and down the line, listen to the first few seconds, then move on or back as appropriate to find the right song. It encourages commonsense file-naming conventions too !
It isn't our responsibility to fund the sites we visit. The web is essentially free, if people want to make a profit out of a site they ought to charge an entrance fee. There is no written contract between viewers and providers of the web that they are obliged to view adverts.
Providing content funded by advertising revenue is a dying business, webmasters need to face that. When the web began there was little if any advertising, perhaps we're heading back that way.
However, if you want to talk ethics, lets talk about advertising agencies that sell adverts for fraudulent products (iPod ponzi schemes, system tune-up software that doesn't work, adware removers that contain spyware, "your computer is proadcasting an IP address" popups). By blocking ads, FF users protect themselves from unscrupulous marketeers.
I'll shed no tears for a bankrupted ad-server
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Yes! Must have iTunes playlist sharing in an OSS music player (interestingly I note iTunes is now supported under CrossOver Office - obviously a lot of geeks use it)
Support for Jabber-over-Rendezvous as used in iChat to IM with other users on same subnet would be nice too.
Once you've got a fair mp3 collection and a USB/Firewire external drive case with a 40gb HDD in it, P2P becomes pointless... you get far better results from swapping mp3 collections with friends.
A Ford saloon car carrying a hard drive with 15,000 mp3 tracks in high-quality bitrate on it both has more bandwidth than most p2p systems and is undetectable to the RIAA....
Last night I installed Windows 2000 SP4 onto a machine (not mine) connected to an NTL (British ISP) Cable set-top-box by ethernet.
Windows came up, I chose a username, and it froze due to gaobot infection.
I hasten to add that normally I unplug modems but I was under the impression that Set top box Cable access uses NAT and is thus secured against this sort of thing... I'll be recommending a Motorola Surfboard and router to my friend !
This could be very useful. I carry various swipe-cards and keys for hy home, car, places of work, etc. I frequently find myself absentmindedly trying to open a lift door with a swipecard, opening house door with car alarm keyfob, etc
NEWSFLASH
It *is* the limited number of developers. Refer to the OSX porting pages on OOo site where they state that they are held back by a shortage of developers, and to the several press releases over the past few years where they appeal for OSX devs to join them
The OSX ports of OOo have always had difficulties due to the limited number of developers available. Since KDE and GNOME already run under OSX - parts of the former natively without X11 - could this be a porting short-cut to a fully functional OSX build?
That said, what's worse? 60mpg on high-sulphur diesel, or 25-35mpg on petrol/gasoline? As it happens, high sulphur fuel gets better performance and economy although engines designed for low-sulphur fuel only might not appreciate it as much.
Audi's A2 has a 3L model which is so named as it can do 100km on 3 litres of fuel - it's a 1.2 litre turbocharged 3-cylinder diesel. The Volkswagen Lupo is available with the same engine. Both are more substantially-built cars which feel safer than a Smart - although Mercedes-Daimler-Chrysler's marketing shows that the Smart may easily be as safe in an accident - refer to earlier posts with more detail.
The only real innovation of the 2-door Smart is that its an efficient Petrol car (overcoming a seeming aversion to Diesel in the US market) and is much easier to drive in tight spaces.
Looks like that marketing plan paid off after all. I always suspected Microsoft was wrong when they thought that capturing the media player market was significant to overall market-share.
SP2 was a nightmare for Wifi! Everything broke, initially. Some vendors still haven't updated their drivers for all products (Netgear MA101 yes I'm looking at you!)
I'm primarily a Windows user, but my iBook is the only machine I own which has never had wifi driver/compatibility/setup problems.
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Write a Firefox Extension that enables OpenOffice documents to be viewed in the browser, or edited if OOo is present on the system? (yes, this would be a lot of work)
.Doc files and the free MS Word Viewer to distribute written documents.
Suddenly you have an alternative to the traditional recipe of using
Well, on some level at least you got my point, that fighting people over policy just toughens their resolve.
Ask the Iraqis, I guess. If you aren't willing to go to such extremes, either infiltrate them or put forward a genuinely and observably superior alternative.
The OSS movement needs to win people over, not fight them
Hmm. I'd prefer that they port Mozilla Thunderbird to PalmOS ! - then I can use the same mail client, and have the same inbox, on my desktop PC, my Mac Laptop and my PDA....
How can it be possible to get a cellular data service that's faster than a WiFi LAN?
Also, if this is for real, surely this has implications for the many planned city-wide wifi grids (Wi-Max, etc) and other mobile broadband solutions, as it could make them obsolete very quickly.
most of the time it's on random-jump mode but yes, usually
No display = no need to look at it. I sit it in the well under the hand-brake where I can find it without looking. My iPod proves far more of a distraction in the car so I don't tend to use it there.
I use an Mp3-CD player from HP in my car, it has no screen and it takes 750mb CDs with anything up to 200 songs on them
Works just fine... just write the CD with the file format *artist - album - track - name.mp3* and use the "next" button to move rapidly 20 songs up and down the line, listen to the first few seconds, then move on or back as appropriate to find the right song. It encourages commonsense file-naming conventions too !
It isn't our responsibility to fund the sites we visit. The web is essentially free, if people want to make a profit out of a site they ought to charge an entrance fee. There is no written contract between viewers and providers of the web that they are obliged to view adverts.
Providing content funded by advertising revenue is a dying business, webmasters need to face that. When the web began there was little if any advertising, perhaps we're heading back that way.
However, if you want to talk ethics, lets talk about advertising agencies that sell adverts for fraudulent products (iPod ponzi schemes, system tune-up software that doesn't work, adware removers that contain spyware, "your computer is proadcasting an IP address" popups). By blocking ads, FF users protect themselves from unscrupulous marketeers.
I'll shed no tears for a bankrupted ad-server
Yes! Must have iTunes playlist sharing in an OSS music player (interestingly I note iTunes is now supported under CrossOver Office - obviously a lot of geeks use it)
Support for Jabber-over-Rendezvous as used in iChat to IM with other users on same subnet would be nice too.
Once you've got a fair mp3 collection and a USB/Firewire external drive case with a 40gb HDD in it, P2P becomes pointless... you get far better results from swapping mp3 collections with friends.
A Ford saloon car carrying a hard drive with 15,000 mp3 tracks in high-quality bitrate on it both has more bandwidth than most p2p systems and is undetectable to the RIAA....
On my experience last night - my other post in this topic - it isn't always enabled when you'd think it would be....
Last night I installed Windows 2000 SP4 onto a machine (not mine) connected to an NTL (British ISP) Cable set-top-box by ethernet.
Windows came up, I chose a username, and it froze due to gaobot infection.
I hasten to add that normally I unplug modems but I was under the impression that Set top box Cable access uses NAT and is thus secured against this sort of thing... I'll be recommending a Motorola Surfboard and router to my friend !
This could be very useful. I carry various swipe-cards and keys for hy home, car, places of work, etc. I frequently find myself absentmindedly trying to open a lift door with a swipecard, opening house door with car alarm keyfob, etc
This could save SO much time...
I'd love to know how the US Army squared the need for a good relationship with Turkey.. with arming the PKK along the Turkish-Iraqi border zone
Then they'll start using Skype-out to phone-spam people from a virtual (IP address) location instead of a fixed PSTN line.
I really suspect that phone-spammers will start to use the tricks of email spammers before long.
NEWSFLASH
It *is* the limited number of developers. Refer to the OSX porting pages on OOo site where they state that they are held back by a shortage of developers, and to the several press releases over the past few years where they appeal for OSX devs to join them
The OSX ports of OOo have always had difficulties due to the limited number of developers available. Since KDE and GNOME already run under OSX - parts of the former natively without X11 - could this be a porting short-cut to a fully functional OSX build?
probably cos they fuck over their customers
yeah, probably true
That said, what's worse? 60mpg on high-sulphur diesel, or 25-35mpg on petrol/gasoline? As it happens, high sulphur fuel gets better performance and economy although engines designed for low-sulphur fuel only might not appreciate it as much.
Audi's A2 has a 3L model which is so named as it can do 100km on 3 litres of fuel - it's a 1.2 litre turbocharged 3-cylinder diesel. The Volkswagen Lupo is available with the same engine. Both are more substantially-built cars which feel safer than a Smart - although Mercedes-Daimler-Chrysler's marketing shows that the Smart may easily be as safe in an accident - refer to earlier posts with more detail.
The only real innovation of the 2-door Smart is that its an efficient Petrol car (overcoming a seeming aversion to Diesel in the US market) and is much easier to drive in tight spaces.
Maybe that's why 6% of iPod users want to buy Macs. Nothing to do with iTunes, iPods and OSX, they just want to be free of pop-up ads.....
Interesting link, but it doesn't actually have anything to do with Macs, the Mac OS or illegal clones thereof......
Looks like that marketing plan paid off after all. I always suspected Microsoft was wrong when they thought that capturing the media player market was significant to overall market-share.
I'd say I've been proved wrong.
No! It's Privatisation!!!!
SP2 was a nightmare for Wifi! Everything broke, initially. Some vendors still haven't updated their drivers for all products (Netgear MA101 yes I'm looking at you!)
I'm primarily a Windows user, but my iBook is the only machine I own which has never had wifi driver/compatibility/setup problems.