One of the things OOo 2 brings us is lower barriers to entry to their developer pool. Someone with great ideas like yours has the power to actually make those changes with their very own two hands. Starting now.
StarOffice 5.2 morphed into OpenOffice. The new StarOffice is but OpenOffice plus seasoning (additional file I/O formats, more bugfixes etc) and pricetag.
If you want a truly different office suite, try KOffice.
...that the page breaks are a well-known flaw in MS-Office. You can often demo it using the very same copy of MS-Word... just format up a document with one printer set as the default, then print it to another printer (same sized paper and all). Any seriously sized document without a lot of manual page breaks in it is going to break in different places.
Two things are happening in that area. First off, the 51st buyers are starting to pile up to the point where they're a significant market of their own. Second off, the main FOSS apps these days are well and truly into IJW territory.
Perhaps more importantly when competing against Win32 rather than OS X, they're firmly in IJKW territory. Yes, a Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert is half the price of a decent Linux tech, but they do need to be there at least 3 times as often.
It's worth avoiding Win32 for the savings in downtime alone. Until the Mac Mini, the cost decisions were easy. Now if Apple (or anyone) will release a reliable PowerPC box of any size for 2/3 the price of a Mac Mini, I will cheerfully sell them in place of x86 white boxes. Won't run Win32, won't run x86 cracks (which represent at least 95% of the, cough, market), where's the catch?
What you're seeing in Kansas is two competing beliefs or faiths, Atheism and Christianity. That's the heart of the matter.
Atheism must be founded on something like evolution is it is to be taken seriously (hence Richard Dawkins' famous comment on the matter). Christianity (and in principle also Judiasm and Islam) must be founded on creation if the core deity is to have any authority. Anything else is temporary and will sooner or later devolve to one alternative or the other.
Atheism is so entrenched in science (in its "Materialism" persona) that postulating any alternative causes swift excommunication for heresy, just ask (for example, there are many others) Richard Sternberg about that one.
To blindly replace Atheistic assumptions with Christian assumptions would be exactly as wrong, but that's not what's being asked for. Nor are they, if you read the wording carefully, asking to teach alternatives to Neodarwinism. They are asking to be able to teach that alternatives exist.
Of course, for the moment at least, the publicity being fanned by the controversy is doing just that anyway.
Hopefully, the end result is that the Materialistic blinkers will be at least loosened so that science can get on with its job of investigating observations - all observations, not just the ones that happen to be politically correct today. Otherwise, just like a blocked-up kettle, the end result will be a destructive overshoot.
Shouldn't be too hard. If you do, please add a "cut the crap" checkbox to strip out all of the manual tweaking. Kind of like Plain Text for LaTex but maybe leave in things like bold, italic, lists. I'd love to have a way to suck up an MS-Word document, smash it through a strainer and return it relatively pure and holy without the zillion little overlapping and often conflicting little manual tweaks that tend to make getting it to look right so difficult.
...allows for a network (roughly translates to cores) of up to 8 CPUs nattering amongst each other with their high-speed serial buss. This implies that four-core and eight-core chips will not be very hard for them to do. Can't say the same for Intel.
What I guess is holding AMD back is the yield. More cores == more transistors == much lower yields. If they can do a multi "core" design on only-just-separate chips, it should be a winner unless joining them up inside the package proves irksome.
...a PDP-11, a 68000 and a Z-80 tucked away in the microcode.
True story. The early PDP-11/73 chips actually did that. The microcode for the '73 was so efficient that they had heaps of microcode space left, and used it. You could run the world's fastest 68000 or Z80 (by a very wide margin) if you didn't like being a PDP-11. I imagine that a very embarrassed Motorola and Zilog might have had something to do with DEC's prompt removal of the extra microcode from the second and successive batches.
...is write something subtle directly to the in-memory cache of the index page's contents and lock it there, so no tripwire-like services get triggered.
I was thinking of some text the same colour as the background which says "Hacked on [date] at [time] by [handle]" and then 48 hours later (at about 1AM their time) after everyone's had a good chance to get a copy into their browser cache, changing it to "<font color="#ff74c2" size="+3"><b><blink><span background="#00eaff"> " plus all of the above and closing tags.
...since they outlaw contestants under 18yo. D'oh?
more styrofoam, and packing straps
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I've seen trucks loaded with stacks of styrofoam panels running up and down Tonkin Highway. They put another, thinner pannel on each end, some cardboard corner pieces, and then hold the stack together with plastic packing straps.
And 90% of the time, the company can live with a halfway secured box for an hour uptime on the Internet so the Sales guys can demo your product.
Not.
I've had several peers put unpatched XP machines on the 'net to pick up patches, only to have the machines cracked within seconds or minutes.
One guy was still starting Windows Update (as in, click-click, wait for window) when the DSL router's TXD and RXD lights went nutso. His machine had been found, cracked and given spam to send within about 15 seconds of being plugged into the 'net. Goodnight, Gracie.
I have never had this happen to a Linux box, nor heard of it happening.
Not to mention licenses for all of this...
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...since mention of Ghost implies that he's stuck with MS technology, he's now got the added burden of tracking licenses.
See answer to parent poster. Short story: automated installs make installing from scratch easy and reliable, far less work than maintaining a flock of images and far more flexible.
What is this "ghost boot"? Why do your machines all have removable media? It's a security risk, y'know? PXE->TFTP->DrakX+KickStart and let the machine do the work for you. That's what they're for.
That sounds like too much hard work
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Why not just have one semi-retired DHCP/TFTP/FTP server sitting in a corner with a CAT5 cable hanging out?
Anything you plug into that and boot gets KickStarted through an install. Come back later to find it showing the new root password and a short list of questions about what it should be running. Answer questions, watch it shut down, drop it in its new home and fire it up.
Use URPMI, apt or whatever to keep the packages up to date so your installs are automatically fresh/secure and you only need do anything drastic to your installer box about annually.
Images, my ass. Too inflexible. We've got all of this fabulous technology for dynamically automating stuff, why not use it? Then you don't need every machine to be hardwarily identical, and you don't need to keep (a) separate clean machine(s) running to do the updates on.
If you need to image several distinct types of machine and it's too hard to do with a short list of questions, add a network card and a different coloured cable for each. Red cable makes a server, orange cable makes a desktop, green cable makes a laptop and so on.
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One of the things OOo 2 brings us is lower barriers to entry to their developer pool. Someone with great ideas like yours has the power to actually make those changes with their very own two hands. Starting now.
StarOffice 5.2 morphed into OpenOffice. The new StarOffice is but OpenOffice plus seasoning (additional file I/O formats, more bugfixes etc) and pricetag.
If you want a truly different office suite, try KOffice.
...that the page breaks are a well-known flaw in MS-Office. You can often demo it using the very same copy of MS-Word... just format up a document with one printer set as the default, then print it to another printer (same sized paper and all). Any seriously sized document without a lot of manual page breaks in it is going to break in different places.
OpenOffice doesn't do that.
...specifically, when Microsoft implodes, if not before.
I think it's well over 12% now and accelerating.
Two things are happening in that area. First off, the 51st buyers are starting to pile up to the point where they're a significant market of their own. Second off, the main FOSS apps these days are well and truly into IJW territory.
Perhaps more importantly when competing against Win32 rather than OS X, they're firmly in IJKW territory. Yes, a Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert is half the price of a decent Linux tech, but they do need to be there at least 3 times as often.
It's worth avoiding Win32 for the savings in downtime alone. Until the Mac Mini, the cost decisions were easy. Now if Apple (or anyone) will release a reliable PowerPC box of any size for 2/3 the price of a Mac Mini, I will cheerfully sell them in place of x86 white boxes. Won't run Win32, won't run x86 cracks (which represent at least 95% of the, cough, market), where's the catch?
...and see how much fun it is when you can't get rid of that ^%$#$^# dog because the constant animations are chewing up all of your bandwidth.
What you're seeing in Kansas is two competing beliefs or faiths, Atheism and Christianity. That's the heart of the matter.
Atheism must be founded on something like evolution is it is to be taken seriously (hence Richard Dawkins' famous comment on the matter). Christianity (and in principle also Judiasm and Islam) must be founded on creation if the core deity is to have any authority. Anything else is temporary and will sooner or later devolve to one alternative or the other.
Atheism is so entrenched in science (in its "Materialism" persona) that postulating any alternative causes swift excommunication for heresy, just ask (for example, there are many others) Richard Sternberg about that one.
To blindly replace Atheistic assumptions with Christian assumptions would be exactly as wrong, but that's not what's being asked for. Nor are they, if you read the wording carefully, asking to teach alternatives to Neodarwinism. They are asking to be able to teach that alternatives exist.
Of course, for the moment at least, the publicity being fanned by the controversy is doing just that anyway.
Hopefully, the end result is that the Materialistic blinkers will be at least loosened so that science can get on with its job of investigating observations - all observations, not just the ones that happen to be politically correct today. Otherwise, just like a blocked-up kettle, the end result will be a destructive overshoot.
...definitely not trivial to implement usefully.
Shouldn't be too hard. If you do, please add a "cut the crap" checkbox to strip out all of the manual tweaking. Kind of like Plain Text for LaTex but maybe leave in things like bold, italic, lists. I'd love to have a way to suck up an MS-Word document, smash it through a strainer and return it relatively pure and holy without the zillion little overlapping and often conflicting little manual tweaks that tend to make getting it to look right so difficult.
...first we find dinosaur meat (well, marrow and stuff) and now vegetarian dinosaurs. Is there a connection? (-:
Silence is the sound of one brain imploding.
...Windows user. (-:
...allows for a network (roughly translates to cores) of up to 8 CPUs nattering amongst each other with their high-speed serial buss. This implies that four-core and eight-core chips will not be very hard for them to do. Can't say the same for Intel.
What I guess is holding AMD back is the yield. More cores == more transistors == much lower yields. If they can do a multi "core" design on only-just-separate chips, it should be a winner unless joining them up inside the package proves irksome.
...a PDP-11, a 68000 and a Z-80 tucked away in the microcode.
True story. The early PDP-11/73 chips actually did that. The microcode for the '73 was so efficient that they had heaps of microcode space left, and used it. You could run the world's fastest 68000 or Z80 (by a very wide margin) if you didn't like being a PDP-11. I imagine that a very embarrassed Motorola and Zilog might have had something to do with DEC's prompt removal of the extra microcode from the second and successive batches.
...several tens of kilotonnes, turnaround time in minutes, no exhaust, can't seem to find a price anywhere, not even in Manticoran Dollars.
Sigh.
...is write something subtle directly to the in-memory cache of the index page's contents and lock it there, so no tripwire-like services get triggered.
I was thinking of some text the same colour as the background which says "Hacked on [date] at [time] by [handle]" and then 48 hours later (at about 1AM their time) after everyone's had a good chance to get a copy into their browser cache, changing it to "<font color="#ff74c2" size="+3"><b><blink><span background="#00eaff"> " plus all of the above and closing tags.
...since they outlaw contestants under 18yo. D'oh?
...is that it's trivial to set up the $200 XboX to run a webserver which is both more secure and more flexible than IIS6.
I've had several peers put unpatched XP machines on the 'net to pick up patches, only to have the machines cracked within seconds or minutes.
One guy was still starting Windows Update (as in, click-click, wait for window) when the DSL router's TXD and RXD lights went nutso. His machine had been found, cracked and given spam to send within about 15 seconds of being plugged into the 'net. Goodnight, Gracie.
I have never had this happen to a Linux box, nor heard of it happening.
...since mention of Ghost implies that he's stuck with MS technology, he's now got the added burden of tracking licenses.
See answer to parent poster. Short story: automated installs make installing from scratch easy and reliable, far less work than maintaining a flock of images and far more flexible.
What is this "ghost boot"? Why do your machines all have removable media? It's a security risk, y'know? PXE->TFTP->DrakX+KickStart and let the machine do the work for you. That's what they're for.
Why not just have one semi-retired DHCP/TFTP/FTP server sitting in a corner with a CAT5 cable hanging out?
Anything you plug into that and boot gets KickStarted through an install. Come back later to find it showing the new root password and a short list of questions about what it should be running. Answer questions, watch it shut down, drop it in its new home and fire it up.
Use URPMI, apt or whatever to keep the packages up to date so your installs are automatically fresh/secure and you only need do anything drastic to your installer box about annually.
Images, my ass. Too inflexible. We've got all of this fabulous technology for dynamically automating stuff, why not use it? Then you don't need every machine to be hardwarily identical, and you don't need to keep (a) separate clean machine(s) running to do the updates on.
If you need to image several distinct types of machine and it's too hard to do with a short list of questions, add a network card and a different coloured cable for each. Red cable makes a server, orange cable makes a desktop, green cable makes a laptop and so on.
...as quite a wrench to him.
To something, anything, it matters not...