Sort of, it looks like you can mount Windows drives/directories into cygwin. By default your C: drive should be under/cygdrive/c, after which you can do as you propose.
Greg@DFZMRL51 ~ $ cd "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Greg/My Documents"
Greg@DFZMRL51/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Greg/My Documents $ ls | grep "My " My BZFlag Files My Downloads My Music My PSP8 Files My Pictures My Skype Pictures My Videos My eBooks Pocket_PC My Documents
Outlook 2001 was a Mac-only release. I wonder if Microsoft made some changes in porting the app over to the Mac. On Windows there was Outlook 2000, XP (2002) and 2003. So the last version you used is at least two versions out of date, plus ported to the Mac.
Also replying to your grandparent post, while iCal is open, I'm not aware of any standards organization that adopted it as a standard. Other calendar applications (including Sunbird) are supporting it, but I'm disappointed to see a non-XML format becoming the de-facto standard.
All that said, I use Outlook 2003 at work because I have to, and my wife likes it at home, but I'm on the lookout for an open-source calendaring (sp) app that I can use at home (don't want to spend the ). Sunbird is cool but still a bit buggy.
Yeah I understand they have them, but as I stated not for the comparable screen size. You have to go to at least a 20" LCD to get 1600x1200, and 23" to get more than that. Some 19" CRT's can do 1920x1440, for way less money.
Yes, CRT's do fade slightly over time, and LCD's do lose pixels over time. My point was that it shouldn't fade appreciably over 5 years time, unless you have your contrast (not brightness) set too high.
And yes at home I have 2 Sony G400's which are 19" CRT's and were $700 a piece a few years ago when I bought them. I am personally willing to deal with the size and weight issues of a CRT (which haven't been moved since I first set them up) to get the benefits of higher contrast ratios (especially in a proper viewing environment), much higher resolution, better response time, etc. That's just my preference (I'm pretty anal about video), there are certainly advantages to LCD's in other areas and they have gotten better just very recently, but LCD's still aren't quite up to the same level. Maybe in a few more years they will be.
If your CRT's are fading out in 5 years then you don't have the contrast set properly (and likely other settings as well). No wonder you have such a negative outlook on CRT's - you probably don't know what they're capable of when properly set up. You do point out the fact that CRT's are more likely to have geometry errors, but you're dead wrong on color reproduction accuracy. You mentioned a $200 19" CRT however which obviously are not the best of the breed, and I would rather have a $450 LCD than a $200 CRT, but I'd rather have a $450 CRT over both of them. Also as I mentioned in a lower post, LCD's just don't go to the same resolutions. I run 19" CRT's at 1792x1344, where 19" LCD's only run at 1280x1024 - far too low for my tastes.
You're 100% right about the color purity. That is one of the 2 main reasons I don't use LCD's, and the other reason that I haven't seen mentioned in this thread yet is that for a comparable size LCD they don't run anywhere near the resolution of a good CRT. I can't find a 17" or 19" LCD that runs anything higher than 1280x1024. That low of a resolution is ridiculous for me. I run at work dual 17" Sony CRT's at 1600x1200, and at home I have dual 19" Sony CRT's that I run at 1792x1344 - that's a lot of desktop space that LCD's just can't match.
Took me all of about 45 seconds to find a 512mb MP3 player for less than $100 ($85 in fact). Free shipping too. Also USB flash drive and voice recorder.
I was really just playing devil's advocate, but it's not that hard to find a current cracked copy of just about any Microsoft product. I have most versions of Office myself with service packs that work fine, but since I'm now using OOo I don't have any installed.
As far as the mom and pop argument, if they don't know how to find and install bootlegged updates then how did it get installed in the first place? I just think that saying 'microsoft changed yadda yadda so you can't get updates anymore' is a bogus argument, anybody who was motivated to pirate in the first place will find a way around it again.
The way I do it is I don't "use" the information the bank gives me - everything is already entered. I know what all my recurring bills are going to be as well as my paycheck at least a month out, and as I pay things like electric I schedule the bill to be paid on or a day before the due date, so basically I'm always working in the future. Then when the transactions move into the past they should be reconciled with the bank's data within a week or so. If not then either my data is wrong or somebody didn't cash the check I gave them (annoying).
The automatic updates are built into XP SP2, which you can download from download.microsoft.com, as well as the.NET Framework and other "Recommended Updates". Fact is you can download anything you can get on Windows Update with Firefox or other browsers and manually install it.
Truly poor folks might buy a used car instead of a new one, saving the tax money.
This must vary state by state; here in PA you pay the regular 6% sales tax when you buy a used car, even from a private party. You basically tell the notary/auto tag place what the sale price was (so you can fudge it a bit) and they collect the tax amount and send it into the state.
Apple's desktops and towers, on the other hand, are much quieter than any x86 machine I've ever seen.
Then you must not have seen many x86 machines, especially recently. The great thing about x86 is the number of options. Last month I built a sub-$400 2GHz machine w/ 512MB and a combo CDRW/DVD drive and 80 gig HD. It's definitely loud. But I could spend another $30 on quiet fans and it would be nearly silent. But on that machine I don't care so I'll save the $30. I also recently built an Athlon 64 Shuttle that was suprisingly quiet, even after some CPU stress tests the fans didn't need to kick up the speed. Our graphic designer's dual processor G5 is no quieter than that Shuttle, but it's about 6 times larger.
As another post mentioned, you can build literally silent PCs with absolutely no fans whatsoever - case, CPU or power supply. If that's what you want. Or you can build a quiet PC or a loud one.
You've gotta be kidding me. This "problem" was invented in the first place. Mars has roughly the same surface area of land as does Earth (since Earth is mostly covered by water), and we're worried about maybe a few dozen 150 pound spacecraft littering the landscape?
A) The chances of a person living on Mars even coming across a crashed spaceship have to be impossibly small (without trying to do any math, but come on let's be realistic).
B) It would seem real easy to me to just clean it up if it even were ever a problem (if it got to the point it was a problem, we'd have a lot of people and a lot of equipment up there - maybe the crashed stuff could even be re-used as raw materials)
There has to be time better spent dealing with real issues. In fact, why am I even bothering to type this? I'm out...
I've completely switched to OOo at home and haven't had any real problems, and use it a lot at work in conjunction with OOo.
My most complex Excel sheet converted easily and I only had to change of couple of functions where the OOo arguments were slightly different than Excel's. Also the file size in that particular Excel document was over 2MB but the OOo native file size was 94k (they use an XML format and then zip compress it - that's why some people claim OOo to be "slower").
I didn't even think about PPT's until I needed to open one on my laptop for a presentation. To my suprise it opened right up in OOo and I played the slideshow with no trouble.
Another thing to consider is that OOo can natively save PDF documents from any spreadsheet or document.
The issue with macros has been blown a bit out of proportion with some of the above posts. It is true that MS Office is very powerful with scripting, but honestly it's more of a small business solution to do some basic automation cheaply. Mid and large size companies typically have dedicated systems to perform such tasks / calculations. As far as interoperability with other companies, I haven't seen any kind of complexity in an Office document that came from another company as a public document that would cause any kind of issue with OOo.
To address the user issue, most secretaries and PHB's don't know MS Office well enough to even notice a difference. OOo has the same formatting toolbars that do the same thing. For the MS Office "experts", they should be savvy enough to learn OOo.
All of that said, please do be sure to spend the time and learn it yourself before you do the presentation on it.
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I guess you weren't aware that Bush was involved in an illegal abortion back in the '70's after he knocked up some girl. Seems a bit hypocritical to run as a pro-life candidate, don't you think? If that link doesn't convince you, just google it and you will find plenty more...
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Ships with every Windows post 2000, I think.
XP Pro only, not on XP Home:
There's a "In Soviet Russia..." joke in there somewhere.
Outlook 2001 was a Mac-only release. I wonder if Microsoft made some changes in porting the app over to the Mac. On Windows there was Outlook 2000, XP (2002) and 2003. So the last version you used is at least two versions out of date, plus ported to the Mac.
Also replying to your grandparent post, while iCal is open, I'm not aware of any standards organization that adopted it as a standard. Other calendar applications (including Sunbird) are supporting it, but I'm disappointed to see a non-XML format becoming the de-facto standard.
All that said, I use Outlook 2003 at work because I have to, and my wife likes it at home, but I'm on the lookout for an open-source calendaring (sp) app that I can use at home (don't want to spend the ). Sunbird is cool but still a bit buggy.
Yeah I understand they have them, but as I stated not for the comparable screen size. You have to go to at least a 20" LCD to get 1600x1200, and 23" to get more than that. Some 19" CRT's can do 1920x1440, for way less money.
Yes, CRT's do fade slightly over time, and LCD's do lose pixels over time. My point was that it shouldn't fade appreciably over 5 years time, unless you have your contrast (not brightness) set too high.
And yes at home I have 2 Sony G400's which are 19" CRT's and were $700 a piece a few years ago when I bought them. I am personally willing to deal with the size and weight issues of a CRT (which haven't been moved since I first set them up) to get the benefits of higher contrast ratios (especially in a proper viewing environment), much higher resolution, better response time, etc. That's just my preference (I'm pretty anal about video), there are certainly advantages to LCD's in other areas and they have gotten better just very recently, but LCD's still aren't quite up to the same level. Maybe in a few more years they will be.
If your CRT's are fading out in 5 years then you don't have the contrast set properly (and likely other settings as well). No wonder you have such a negative outlook on CRT's - you probably don't know what they're capable of when properly set up. You do point out the fact that CRT's are more likely to have geometry errors, but you're dead wrong on color reproduction accuracy. You mentioned a $200 19" CRT however which obviously are not the best of the breed, and I would rather have a $450 LCD than a $200 CRT, but I'd rather have a $450 CRT over both of them. Also as I mentioned in a lower post, LCD's just don't go to the same resolutions. I run 19" CRT's at 1792x1344, where 19" LCD's only run at 1280x1024 - far too low for my tastes.
You're 100% right about the color purity. That is one of the 2 main reasons I don't use LCD's, and the other reason that I haven't seen mentioned in this thread yet is that for a comparable size LCD they don't run anywhere near the resolution of a good CRT. I can't find a 17" or 19" LCD that runs anything higher than 1280x1024. That low of a resolution is ridiculous for me. I run at work dual 17" Sony CRT's at 1600x1200, and at home I have dual 19" Sony CRT's that I run at 1792x1344 - that's a lot of desktop space that LCD's just can't match.
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Took me all of about 45 seconds to find a 512mb MP3 player for less than $100 ($85 in fact). Free shipping too. Also USB flash drive and voice recorder.
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You're pretty funny, Anonymous Coward; that's the kind of contribution that makes /. such a wonderful place.
Can you just re-create the templates you need in Writer using its tables instead of importing them from Word?
I was really just playing devil's advocate, but it's not that hard to find a current cracked copy of just about any Microsoft product. I have most versions of Office myself with service packs that work fine, but since I'm now using OOo I don't have any installed. As far as the mom and pop argument, if they don't know how to find and install bootlegged updates then how did it get installed in the first place? I just think that saying 'microsoft changed yadda yadda so you can't get updates anymore' is a bogus argument, anybody who was motivated to pirate in the first place will find a way around it again.
How long do you think it'll be until the update is cracked?
The way I do it is I don't "use" the information the bank gives me - everything is already entered. I know what all my recurring bills are going to be as well as my paycheck at least a month out, and as I pay things like electric I schedule the bill to be paid on or a day before the due date, so basically I'm always working in the future. Then when the transactions move into the past they should be reconciled with the bank's data within a week or so. If not then either my data is wrong or somebody didn't cash the check I gave them (annoying).
The automatic updates are built into XP SP2, which you can download from download.microsoft.com, as well as the .NET Framework and other "Recommended Updates". Fact is you can download anything you can get on Windows Update with Firefox or other browsers and manually install it.
This must vary state by state; here in PA you pay the regular 6% sales tax when you buy a used car, even from a private party. You basically tell the notary/auto tag place what the sale price was (so you can fudge it a bit) and they collect the tax amount and send it into the state.
As another post mentioned, you can build literally silent PCs with absolutely no fans whatsoever - case, CPU or power supply. If that's what you want. Or you can build a quiet PC or a loud one.
You've gotta be kidding me. This "problem" was invented in the first place. Mars has roughly the same surface area of land as does Earth (since Earth is mostly covered by water), and we're worried about maybe a few dozen 150 pound spacecraft littering the landscape?
A) The chances of a person living on Mars even coming across a crashed spaceship have to be impossibly small (without trying to do any math, but come on let's be realistic).
B) It would seem real easy to me to just clean it up if it even were ever a problem (if it got to the point it was a problem, we'd have a lot of people and a lot of equipment up there - maybe the crashed stuff could even be re-used as raw materials)
There has to be time better spent dealing with real issues. In fact, why am I even bothering to type this? I'm out...
Hey I guess it worked, you got "insightful". Let's see if I can try...
Did Netcraft confirm it yet?
In Soviet Russia operating systems buy the Air Force!
I've completely switched to OOo at home and haven't had any real problems, and use it a lot at work in conjunction with OOo.
My most complex Excel sheet converted easily and I only had to change of couple of functions where the OOo arguments were slightly different than Excel's. Also the file size in that particular Excel document was over 2MB but the OOo native file size was 94k (they use an XML format and then zip compress it - that's why some people claim OOo to be "slower").
I didn't even think about PPT's until I needed to open one on my laptop for a presentation. To my suprise it opened right up in OOo and I played the slideshow with no trouble.
Another thing to consider is that OOo can natively save PDF documents from any spreadsheet or document.
The issue with macros has been blown a bit out of proportion with some of the above posts. It is true that MS Office is very powerful with scripting, but honestly it's more of a small business solution to do some basic automation cheaply. Mid and large size companies typically have dedicated systems to perform such tasks / calculations. As far as interoperability with other companies, I haven't seen any kind of complexity in an Office document that came from another company as a public document that would cause any kind of issue with OOo.
To address the user issue, most secretaries and PHB's don't know MS Office well enough to even notice a difference. OOo has the same formatting toolbars that do the same thing. For the MS Office "experts", they should be savvy enough to learn OOo.
All of that said, please do be sure to spend the time and learn it yourself before you do the presentation on it.
I think http://www.google.com/ie is for the IE sidebar as posted above, PDA's use http://www.google.com/palm or http://www.google.com/wml
I guess you weren't aware that Bush was involved in an illegal abortion back in the '70's after he knocked up some girl. Seems a bit hypocritical to run as a pro-life candidate, don't you think? If that link doesn't convince you, just google it and you will find plenty more...