Re: One hurdle left to switch

2007-02-07 Thread Paul Butler
2007 11:56:18 -0800 (PST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: One hurdle left to switch To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Tuesday, February 06, 2007 09:46:14 -0800

Re: One hurdle left to switch (drifting OT)

2007-02-07 Thread Robert Huff
Paul Butler writes: Phew! I just completed my US Federal return with HR Block's online Tax Cut using FreeBSD 6.2 and Firefox and it worked reasonably well. They are not 100% standards compliant but close enough. This is the 3rd consecutive year I've used them. No flash required.

One hurdle left to switch

2007-02-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
I'm chafing at the bit to get rid of Windows at home and move to FreeBSD. I've even got my wife convinced that she wouldn't have any more problems with KDE than she presently has with Windows. (Reality is she'd have less!) There's just one problem. I can use gnucash to do my finances, but

Re: One hurdle left to switch

2007-02-06 Thread eoghan
On 6 Feb 2007, at 16:04, Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm chafing at the bit to get rid of Windows at home and move to FreeBSD. I've even got my wife convinced that she wouldn't have any more problems with KDE than she presently has with Windows. (Reality is she'd have less!) There's just one

Re: One hurdle left to switch

2007-02-06 Thread N.J. Mann
On Tuesday, 6 February, 2007 at 10:04:17 -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm chafing at the bit to get rid of Windows at home and move to FreeBSD. I've even got my wife convinced that she wouldn't have any more problems with KDE than she presently has with Windows. (Reality is she'd have less!)

Re: One hurdle left to switch

2007-02-06 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I'm chafing at the bit to get rid of Windows at home and move to FreeBSD. I've even got my wife convinced that she wouldn't have any more problems with KDE than she presently has with Windows. (Reality is she'd have less!) There's just one problem. I can use gnucash to do my finances, but

Re: One hurdle left to switch

2007-02-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Philip Hallstrom wrote: I'm chafing at the bit to get rid of Windows at home and move to FreeBSD. I've even got my wife convinced that she wouldn't have any more problems with KDE than she presently has with Windows. (Reality is she'd have less!) There's just one problem. I can use gnucash

Re: One hurdle left to switch

2007-02-06 Thread youshi10
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Philip Hallstrom wrote: I'm chafing at the bit to get rid of Windows at home and move to FreeBSD. I've even got my wife convinced that she wouldn't have any more problems with KDE than she presently has with Windows. (Reality is she'd have less!)

Re: One hurdle left to switch

2007-02-06 Thread youshi10
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Philip Hallstrom wrote: I'm chafing at the bit to get rid of Windows at home and move to FreeBSD. I've even got my wife convinced that she wouldn't have any more problems with KDE than she presently has with

Re: ***SPAM*** Re: One hurdle left to switch

2007-02-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Tuesday, February 06, 2007 09:46:14 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, another thing. I've used HR Block's online tax accounting service, and although it's not the best interface, it's just as good as some copies of Turbotax that I've seen. You used it with FreeBSD? What browser? And

Re: One hurdle left to switch

2007-02-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Tuesday, February 06, 2007 16:22:34 + N.J. Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you searched in the ports? http://www.freebsd.org/ports/categories-grouped.html For example, what about finance/opentaxsolver which claims to be US tax prep software? Strange. I did a make search

Re: One hurdle left to switch

2007-02-06 Thread youshi10
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Tuesday, February 06, 2007 09:46:14 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, another thing. I've used HR Block's online tax accounting service, and although it's not the best interface, it's just as good as some copies of Turbotax that I've seen. You