On October 06, 2007 at 01:42AM Erich Dollansky wrote:
Why not use Google Docs?
And ask NSA in case you need a backup?
As well as potentially allowing your documents to be viewed by anyone
with the time and or knowledge to hack into your account.
No thanks, I certainly would not want
Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
do you really want the world to know what you are writing?
icantthinkofone wrote:
Frank Jahnke wrote:
Why not use Google Docs?
And ask NSA in case you need a backup?
Erich
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nobody intelligent (or completely not caring about it) use any of big
public mail/news/etc services.
as google gets stronger and stronger just means that for most people using
brain is too painful. but it's really worth of
do you really want the world to know what you are writing?
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 05:07:45PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
nobody intelligent (or completely not caring about it) use any of big
public mail/news/etc services.
There are two separate concerns here.
1. General Privacy: If you're concerned with your documents and
communications being
Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 05:07:45PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
nobody intelligent (or completely not caring about it) use any of big
public mail/news/etc services.
There are two separate concerns here.
1. General Privacy: If you're concerned with your documents
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:51:49PM -0500, icantthinkofone wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 09:34:41AM -0500, icantthinkofone wrote:
Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
do you really want the world to know what you are writing?
icantthinkofone wrote:
Frank Jahnke wrote:
Why not use Google Docs?
And ask NSA in case you need a backup?
Erich
Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mine are always heavy in equations and chemistry.
I had a five minute try of openoffice writer's equation editor, and my
first impression was that it renders equations very poorly. It seems
to do this even worse thant MS Word.
Since you seem to use the
Since you seem to use the equation feature quite intensively, maybe
you have any clue on making the equation editor perform better.
Sorry I can't really be of much help with OO.o equations.
What I do personally is a kludge, but it works well enough. For
documents that I create for read-only
On 10/5/07, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since you seem to use the equation feature quite intensively, maybe
you have any clue on making the equation editor perform better.
Sorry I can't really be of much help with OO.o equations.
What I do personally is a kludge, but it works
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:34:00PM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote:
On 10/5/07, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've given up on trying to find a BSD or Linux program that is good
enough for this purpose -- none really are. So I just use Word in a VM
and am done with it.
Have you
On 10/4/07, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:34:00PM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote:
On 10/5/07, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've given up on trying to find a BSD or Linux program that is good
enough for this purpose -- none really are. So I just
Word rather than try to teach them troff (or TeX). While they are all
i'm not top-flight scientist but i was able to learn latex...
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On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 20:13 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Word rather than try to teach them troff (or TeX). While they are all
i'm not top-flight scientist but i was able to learn latex...
That may be true, but trust me, the faculty with whom I work just would
not do it. No way, no how,
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 12:34 -0500, Andrew Gould wrote:
Have you tried LyX?
I'm aware of it, and will indeed try it one of these days, but that is
not the issue. I'm fine with troff -- I've used it for so many years
that I can get it to jump through hoops. Time has passed it by, though,
so
Frank Jahnke wrote:
what would be a good replacement(s) for most of it's functionality
(word processing and spreadsheets are what matter to me)
You really have to decide what you want to suite to do. Otherwise, your
problem is underspecified.
1) Collaboration (complex). If you
Hi,
do you really want the world to know what you are writing?
icantthinkofone wrote:
Frank Jahnke wrote:
Why not use Google Docs?
And ask NSA in case you need a backup?
Erich
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Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good
replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and
spreadsheets are what matter to me)
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On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:39:39 + Aryeh Friedman wrote:
Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good
editors/openoffice.org-2 does compile at 7-current amd64.
replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and
spreadsheets are what matter to me)
WBR
since when... tried it last week and nothing
On 10/4/07, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:39:39 + Aryeh Friedman wrote:
Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good
editors/openoffice.org-2 does compile at 7-current amd64.
Aryeh Friedman writes:
editors/openoffice.org-2 does compile at 7-current amd64.
since when... tried it last week and nothing
Don't know how it affects amd64, but I know patches have been
committed in the last calendar week. What would not build on i386
then just finished building
Please, don't top-post.
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 21:00:03 + Aryeh Friedman wrote:
On 10/4/07, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:39:39 + Aryeh Friedman wrote:
Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good
editors/openoffice.org-2
Aryeh Friedman wrote:
Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good
replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and
spreadsheets are what matter to me)
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On 10/4/07, Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good
replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and
spreadsheets are what matter to me)
abiword, gnumeric
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If you don't mind paying for software, I think you'll
find SoftMaker's Textmaker and Planmaker tools wholly satisfatory.
Their spreadsheets is fully compatible with Excel.
They make their products for FreeBSD.
Additionally, if you find quirks, they answer you (once I even saw one of
their guys
On 10/4/07, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please, don't top-post.
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 21:00:03 + Aryeh Friedman wrote:
On 10/4/07, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:39:39 + Aryeh Friedman wrote:
Open office does not compile on 7-current
Aryeh Friedman wrote:
Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good
replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and
spreadsheets are what matter to me)
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NetOpsCenter wrote:
I have a working Open office on a FreeBSD 4.11 box here that I use when
all else fails.
Is there a way to copy that and have it work on 7 CURRENT?
no -- huge library mismatches
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On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:00:10 -0400
Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NetOpsCenter wrote:
I have a working Open office on a FreeBSD 4.11 box here that I use
when all else fails.
Is there a way to copy that and have it work on 7 CURRENT?
no -- huge library mismatches
Why? Isn't
On 10/5/07, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:00:10 -0400
Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NetOpsCenter wrote:
I have a working Open office on a FreeBSD 4.11 box here that I use
when all else fails.
Is there a way to copy that and have it work on 7 CURRENT?
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 01:11:04 +0100
RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:00:10 -0400
Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NetOpsCenter wrote:
I have a working Open office on a FreeBSD 4.11 box here that I use
when all else fails.
Is there a way to copy that and
what would be a good replacement(s) for most of it's functionality
(word processing and spreadsheets are what matter to me)
You really have to decide what you want to suite to do. Otherwise, your
problem is underspecified.
1) Collaboration (complex). If you collaborate with colleagues who
On 10/5/07, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what would be a good replacement(s) for most of it's functionality
(word processing and spreadsheets are what matter to me)
You really have to decide what you want to suite to do. Otherwise, your
problem is underspecified.
1)
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 01:20 +, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
1) Collaboration (complex).
Read/write .doc, pdf and rtf mainly
2) Document creation.
WYSIWYG editing for the above including embedded graphics and equations
I also want to keep the learn curve as small as possible (I know
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