Innocent lives were lost in vain today. Terrorism is mindless evil, I agree. But have you ever considered the mindset of a terrorist?
Hundreds of children got orphaned in the quest for Saddam in Iraq. Here's a sample of what could be going through their minds...
"My innocent family was massacred by the US bombing. I heard the people of the US vote their leaders... and the same people couldn't prevent their leaders from doing this. Why shouldn't they be responsible for shattering my childhood? School, education, etc. isnt important for me. Revenge is."
That's the general reaction, here in India. Majority of PC's are sold by local assemblers, corporates being the only ones looking for branded ones. And these assemblers load all kinds of commercial software for free, not just the operating system (which is either Win98 or XP). Even if someone wants to buy a copy of some software or game, there's no option but to go for the pirated version, cosidering the difficulties in getting hold of a legal distributor (let alone paying for the copy).
Having said that, there IS a general Linux and FOSS awareness (most youngsters learn about it in technical courses), now that piracy laws are getting tougher. Not to mention the whole virus/worm/spyware headache that's been plaguing all Windoze-based net users. But when you have WinXP CDs circulating for re-installs all over the place, who'd want to go through the trouble of installing and getting used to Linux?
This is already possible in OpenOffice (with a small workaround) . Just unzip the.sxw file (yes, its a simple zipped archive), and edit the extracted "content.xml" file in your favorite text editor.
It contains all the document content along with XML formatting (kinda HTML-like). Also if you google for it, you'll probably find the XML schema (structure documentation) for it too.
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Innocent lives were lost in vain today. Terrorism is mindless evil, I agree. But have you ever considered the mindset of a terrorist?
Hundreds of children got orphaned in the quest for Saddam in Iraq. Here's a sample of what could be going through their minds...
"My innocent family was massacred by the US bombing. I heard the people of the US vote their leaders... and the same people couldn't prevent their leaders from doing this. Why shouldn't they be responsible for shattering my childhood? School, education, etc. isnt important for me. Revenge is."
>... FAR [rarlab.com] - one of the best file managers in the world
Oh is it? Looks more like a Norton Commander clone to me (think Midnight Commander, which is available freely for all platforms).
That's the general reaction, here in India. Majority of PC's are sold by local assemblers, corporates being the only ones looking for branded ones. And these assemblers load all kinds of commercial software for free, not just the operating system (which is either Win98 or XP). Even if someone wants to buy a copy of some software or game, there's no option but to go for the pirated version, cosidering the difficulties in getting hold of a legal distributor (let alone paying for the copy).
Having said that, there IS a general Linux and FOSS awareness (most youngsters learn about it in technical courses), now that piracy laws are getting tougher. Not to mention the whole virus/worm/spyware headache that's been plaguing all Windoze-based net users. But when you have WinXP CDs circulating for re-installs all over the place, who'd want to go through the trouble of installing and getting used to Linux?
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- TRADEMARK. spreadsheet application, a part of the MS Office suite. All occurences of this word are now the sole property of Microsoft. Oh wait...
Other revisions to follow: word, office, window, notepad, horn (don't ask)...This is already possible in OpenOffice (with a small workaround) . Just unzip the .sxw file (yes, its a simple zipped archive), and edit the extracted "content.xml" file in your favorite text editor.
It contains all the document content along with XML formatting (kinda HTML-like). Also if you google for it, you'll probably find the XML schema (structure documentation) for it too.