On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:08:48PM -0800, Gary L. Allen wrote: > As for my comment "if I can still do my job with it (Linux)," there is > an unfortunate use of programming on the corporate Intranet at Fluke > that is proprietary "Internet Explorer only" in behavior. I have gone
Usually, that's due to reliance on ActiveX viruses--uh, I mean "controls"--to perform Stupid Web Tricks (tm). You could get around it by running IE under CrossOver Office (my prefered solution), or running Windows 98 SE inside QEMU or VMWare. > lot of tables, active links to Excel files, and what have you. I tried > going back and forth between Word and OpenOffice 1.1.4- doggone it, > OpenOffice just isn't quite there yet. I had to spend too much time Again, I don't think this is a failure of Oo.o; it's a failure of MS to use open standards, and users relying on useless and non-standard functionality (e.g. refusing to format with styles instead of complex RTF markup) and overly-complex OLE. On those (thankfully rare) occasions when I can't escape Word or Excel, I get near-native performance out of Office 2000 under CrossOver, and it integrates pretty well with Gnome to boot. -- Find my Techno-Geek Journal at http://www.codegnome.org/geeklog/ _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
