OpenOffice saved me MUCHO time today over Excel
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OpenOffice Bloated?
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I had a user with a corrupt Excel spreadsheet. She wanted me to dig up a tape backup from March to restore. Instead I opened it in OpenOffice, and saved it back to Excel format, and voila, it mirculously opened in Excel again. So, in this instance, at least, OOo was much faster.:)
egroupware.org is a good solution, I've been using it for over a year now (and phpgroupware from which it was forked for a year before that). It has many advanced capabilities, but can be kept simple. It's easy as cake to install on Debian, too.
But, you CAN go to war with a country and remove their government. We proved that. Nations throught history have proved that. It is, in fact, what War is all about.
No principle to violate there.
In many cases, it could be found to be morally imperative to do just that. Do you think Hitler should have been left to continue with the extermination of the Jews? If you can agree that he should have been removed. Then there is no longer argument on the principle, just at what point it becomes imperative.
Re:how many people actually _like_ windows?
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Pepping Up Windows
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It's stable. It has gone BSOD on me a few times, and that was because I had a bad HP print driver that was bringing it down. I never feel a need to reboot it because its "getting sluggish". The programs that crash on my PC most frequently are Mozilla Firefox followed by Microsoft Outlook. In fact, I prefer when Outlook Crashes. It just restarts and repairs itself and I pick up where I left off. When FF crashes, I usually lose 10-20 tabs that I was looking at and will never recover.
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Figaro's Password manager(http://fpm.sourceforge.net/) is an encrypted password storage solution that can store many passwords, and you could use one password to store it.
It only runs on Linux.
However, you could use NX (http://www.nomachine.com/ to give users remote access to it.
I'd count yourself lucky. I'd never seen tornadoes in Indianapolis, either, until last year, when a couple came through and did some pretty big damage on the south side.
As soon as Windows has a way to keep everything up to date as easily as
'apt-get update'
let me know, and I might consider it for low maintenance workstations. I can prety much guarantee that I spend a lot less time admin'ing my wife and kids Linux workstations than I'd do if they were windows.
I'm using the Debian NX server, and haven't had any luck 'suspending' my session. It won't let me send a close to the window locally. The only way I can close it is to logout of the session, or Xkill it. When I xkill it, it won't pick up the previous session. Do you have any more info on this 'suspend' feature ??
Ummmm...............
Can't I use Xchat or BitchX.
Am I as a close Libertarian to be denied the chance to learn more, because I refuse to run Microsoft Windows, and use mirc ?
I'd think on Slashdot, people would be a bit more enlightened than to associate irc with one client.:(
Why is every Debian thread getting hijacked by Gentoo users ??? Are you jealous ?? I'm getting sick of it..... SICK I SAY.......:)
Re:Lotus Notes client for Linux?
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Moving To Linux
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Those versions are for the Server. There are no native Lotus notes clients for Linux.
Lotus Notes does however, run fairly stably under Wine. I've been running it under Wine for the last year and a half.
Also, If the server is running the newest version of Domino, iNotes is supposed to be compatible with Mozilla now, I believe (if all you need is messaging/calendaring).
Have you checked out apt-listbugs ?
When using apt-listbugs, you know what issues you may have 99% of the time before actually installing the programs, and can say,"no, I don't want to take a chance of that bug fsck'ing up my system." You can pin the old version, and go about your merry way until the bug is fixed, and you unpin it and proceed.
Using apt-listbugs, I've really only had two issues in the past year when updating programs, and one of those was because I didn't pay attention to the bug notice. The other one was in a minor app I used often (krdc), but there were other alternatives (vncviewer), so it wasn't a showstopper by any means.
Hey, you ought to try using Bowie's software before slamming his design ideas. I love the looks and simplicity of his pogo launcher.
Bowie doesn't just blow smoke, he has real software and very firm opinions and convictions. If you don't agree with his opinions that is fine, but don't slam him for them, and make like he's someone who does nothing for the community.
I've installed Debian off Knoppix on about 10 pc's over the past year. I initially ran into the problem above.
Then I stroked my sources and apt preferences correctly, that would iron out. I've since been running Debian unstable on 3 systems for the last 4 months without a hitch, all installed with Knoppix.
I could never get all my hardware working correctly with a straight Debian install (without kernel recompiles and other mucking about). But having installed with Knoppix, its just WORKED !!
And all that is on 2000 or XP. It get's a lot worse when you have to set them up on 98.
Personally, in a Linux only printing environment, CUPS seems to work very nicely. Set it up quickly through the GUI on one computer, and CUPS on your other Linux systems automagically picks it up. Its when you start sharing the printers with Windoze that it becomes a bit of a pain.
Slashdot Mirror
All you need is: http://www.us.debian.org/ It's a beautiful thing.
I had a user with a corrupt Excel spreadsheet. She wanted me to dig up a tape backup from March to restore. Instead I opened it in OpenOffice, and saved it back to Excel format, and voila, it mirculously opened in Excel again. So, in this instance, at least, OOo was much faster. :)
egroupware.org is a good solution, I've been using it for over a year now (and phpgroupware from which it was forked for a year before that). It has many advanced capabilities, but can be kept simple. It's easy as cake to install on Debian, too.
But, you CAN go to war with a country and remove their government. We proved that. Nations throught history have proved that. It is, in fact, what War is all about. No principle to violate there. In many cases, it could be found to be morally imperative to do just that. Do you think Hitler should have been left to continue with the extermination of the Jews? If you can agree that he should have been removed. Then there is no longer argument on the principle, just at what point it becomes imperative.
# It's stable. It has gone BSOD on me a few times, and that was because I had a bad HP print driver that was bringing it down. I never feel a need to reboot it because its "getting sluggish". The programs that crash on my PC most frequently are Mozilla Firefox followed by Microsoft Outlook. In fact, I prefer when Outlook Crashes. It just restarts and repairs itself and I pick up where I left off. When FF crashes, I usually lose 10-20 tabs that I was looking at and will never recover. #
Figaro's Password manager(http://fpm.sourceforge.net/) is an encrypted password storage solution that can store many passwords, and you could use one password to store it. It only runs on Linux. However, you could use NX (http://www.nomachine.com/ to give users remote access to it.
I'd count yourself lucky. I'd never seen tornadoes in Indianapolis, either, until last year, when a couple came through and did some pretty big damage on the south side.
As soon as Windows has a way to keep everything up to date as easily as 'apt-get update' let me know, and I might consider it for low maintenance workstations. I can prety much guarantee that I spend a lot less time admin'ing my wife and kids Linux workstations than I'd do if they were windows.
"Jetsons cars that hoover and fly." YES ! Exactly what I've been thinking we need-- cars to do our housework !
I don't know if it's exactly what you are looking for, but I use it for similar things.
Well, I'm still not having much luck with it.... and I DO have xmessage on the server machine. My scroll wheel works just fine, though ;) hehe
Sex ?? What with the vast world of online pr0n, I have no need to leave my computer for sex...... ;)
I'm using the Debian NX server, and haven't had any luck 'suspending' my session. It won't let me send a close to the window locally. The only way I can close it is to logout of the session, or Xkill it. When I xkill it, it won't pick up the previous session. Do you have any more info on this 'suspend' feature ??
Yawn..... Nothing to see here... Move along.....
Ummmm............... Can't I use Xchat or BitchX. Am I as a close Libertarian to be denied the chance to learn more, because I refuse to run Microsoft Windows, and use mirc ? I'd think on Slashdot, people would be a bit more enlightened than to associate irc with one client. :(
Why is every Debian thread getting hijacked by Gentoo users ??? Are you jealous ?? I'm getting sick of it..... SICK I SAY....... :)
Those versions are for the Server. There are no native Lotus notes clients for Linux. Lotus Notes does however, run fairly stably under Wine. I've been running it under Wine for the last year and a half. Also, If the server is running the newest version of Domino, iNotes is supposed to be compatible with Mozilla now, I believe (if all you need is messaging/calendaring).
Have you checked out apt-listbugs ? When using apt-listbugs, you know what issues you may have 99% of the time before actually installing the programs, and can say ,"no, I don't want to take a chance of that bug fsck'ing up my system." You can pin the old version, and go about your merry way until the bug is fixed, and you unpin it and proceed.
Using apt-listbugs, I've really only had two issues in the past year when updating programs, and one of those was because I didn't pay attention to the bug notice. The other one was in a minor app I used often (krdc), but there were other alternatives (vncviewer), so it wasn't a showstopper by any means.
Actually a lot of us in rural Indiana have DSL now, thank you very much :P
That's my favorite, also. In fact, it's the only Heinlein I keep on my "main" bookshelf.
If you wanna look at it like that, they should call it "the Kobe", instead of PhatBot.
Bowie doesn't just blow smoke, he has real software and very firm opinions and convictions. If you don't agree with his opinions that is fine, but don't slam him for them, and make like he's someone who does nothing for the community.
Then I stroked my sources and apt preferences correctly, that would iron out. I've since been running Debian unstable on 3 systems for the last 4 months without a hitch, all installed with Knoppix.
I could never get all my hardware working correctly with a straight Debian install (without kernel recompiles and other mucking about). But having installed with Knoppix, its just WORKED !!
And all that is on 2000 or XP. It get's a lot worse when you have to set them up on 98. Personally, in a Linux only printing environment, CUPS seems to work very nicely. Set it up quickly through the GUI on one computer, and CUPS on your other Linux systems automagically picks it up. Its when you start sharing the printers with Windoze that it becomes a bit of a pain.
Ya know the old saying:
"Scientists are like assholes, everyone's got one."
That was how it went, wasn't it ?