On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Vincent Diepeveen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not sure what environment you guys are working, > but the average IQ100 office personnel is a lot more clumsy than > you guys can imagine. > > In general of course if someone sucks in everything, he or she still can go > work > for a bank. > > Though nowadays i shouldn't say that too loud either it seems :) > > Bad paid and simple work. Not so long ago i saw 'em still use at one > bank OS-2 from IBM as client :) Bank employees use what they're told to use. No exceptions. Most posters here are so far away from normal world that they have no clue > about 99.99% of workfloor. > Define normal in terms of business. Ford used to announce an executive firing by chopping up the poor sods furniture. Is that normal? Mistake 1 they make is retry the same thing 100 times. Those posting here > for sure will > try each time something else until they figure it out. > > At best you can say that open source is progressing. It's far from usable. > Then we had some workable x-windows type GUI, suddenly it was kicked out > and replaced by > big crap called x.org. Eating huge RAM and ugly slow. Doesn't even run > well at a tad older machines > with a bit less RAM. I hope you're distinguishing between x.org and the windowing manager. So in order to run open-office latest versions, you also need an expensive > new machine. That's another > weird phenomena. No. Please stop. A processor like a Celeron 600 will run OpenOffice easily on Fedora/Mandrake/Ubuntu. The same processor will run wonderfully using something lightweight like XFCE. It was a little slow, but I used to run OpenOffice 2 on a 266Mhz IBM laptop. Not recommended for XP and Office. > > > Vincent > > -- MORE CORE AVAILABLE, BUT NOT FOR YOU
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