On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 09:30, Tony Green wrote:
Quite the contry. I think showing how well (or badly) they do is vital
for people to be able to swap over. I know its a major consideration in
all of the corporate desktop migrations I have done.
I have windows on my laptop so I can knock up
quote who=Ken Foskey
Anyone that thinks they can break Open Office can forward a copy in
advance so that I can import and verify it. I wont hide the truth just
want a chance to look for known bugs first (eg drop case).
We have found a few Word-crashing files that Open Office will read quite
Ken,
Anyone that thinks they can break Open Office can forward a copy in
advance so that I can import and verify it. I wont hide the truth just
want a chance to look for known bugs first (eg drop case).
I don't know about OO, but I have a problem with Star Office. I have a
spreadsheet
Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Pia smith
Seriously, I think that would be quite helpful and educational for most
people, and good to see what is new in different fields, and what
direction diffferent distros are taking.
We definitely want to have distro install and use demos / lightning
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 15:34, Pia smith wrote:
Could also get a StarOffice/OpenOffice comparison.
Current release of Star office 5.2 is fairly long in the tooth.
Star Office 6.0 and Open Office 1.0 is pretty much exactly the same.
There are some minor differences to do with asian fonts that
Hi all,
Speaking of highly technical talks, I'll offer to redo the tutorial
I gave at Linux.conf.au back in February titled :
Introduction to Audio Digital Signal Processing on Linux
It takes a bit over 3 hours :-). Probably not something for a SLUG
meeting thoough.
Erik
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On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:10:00AM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote:
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 15:34, Pia smith wrote:
Could also get a StarOffice/OpenOffice comparison.
Current release of Star office 5.2 is fairly long in the tooth.
Star Office 6.0 and Open Office 1.0 is pretty much exactly the
I agree that a demo of Open Office at a meeting would be great :) If we
could do a versus demo of it against StarOffice even better :) Would be
interesting to pull in a windows box (gasp) to show how well documents
import but that could be just getting silly.
I'm not familiar with the
On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 09:23, Pia smith wrote:
I agree that a demo of Open Office at a meeting would be great :) If we
could do a versus demo of it against StarOffice even better :) Would be
interesting to pull in a windows box (gasp) to show how well documents
import but that could be
Pia
Would be interesting to pull in a windows box (gasp) to show how well
documents
import but that could be just getting silly.
No actually that is a great idea!
setup a linux server with samba and two workstations connected. one with
windows and office 2000 or office 97 and the other with
quote who=Erik de Castro Lopo
Introduction to Audio Digital Signal Processing on Linux
It takes a bit over 3 hours :-). Probably not something for a SLUG
meeting thoough.
Heh. Hopefully, that is what we're changing. No one wants to do really
introductory talks, because they think
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Pia smith wrote:
I agree that a demo of Open Office at a meeting would be great :) If we
could do a versus demo of it against StarOffice even better :) Would be
interesting to pull in a windows box (gasp) to show how well documents
import but that could be just
Can I suggest a talk/debate that really highlights differences in distros.
Get us some fanatics from different distros to do lightning
talks/comparisons, and then crack out the WWF boxing ring ;)
Seriously, I think that would be quite helpful and educational for most
people, and good to see what
quote who=Pia smith
Seriously, I think that would be quite helpful and educational for most
people, and good to see what is new in different fields, and what
direction diffferent distros are taking.
We definitely want to have distro install and use demos / lightning talks.
However, after
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 03:34:56PM +1000, Pia smith wrote:
Can I suggest a talk/debate that really highlights differences in distros.
Get us some fanatics from different distros to do lightning
talks/comparisons, and then crack out the WWF boxing ring ;)
Seriously, I think that would be
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:36:03PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Hi all,
Working on ideas for upcoming SLUG meetings, I'd like to guage how
many people have highly technical talk ideas [1] that they wouldn't
normally see as appropriate for a SLUG audience. Also interested in
*requests* for
quote who=Mary
I'd actually be interested in a talk of some kind about choosing and
understanding free software licensing, which is technical in some sense,
and possibly not interesting to the majority of SLUG members.
That's exactly the kind of thing I had in mind.
I'd consider doing
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 16:36, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Hi all,
Working on ideas for upcoming SLUG meetings, I'd like to guage how many
people have highly technical talk ideas [1] that they wouldn't normally see
as appropriate for a SLUG audience. Also interested in *requests* for highly
technical
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Working on ideas for upcoming SLUG meetings, I'd like to guage how many
people have highly technical talk ideas [1] that they wouldn't normally see
as appropriate for a SLUG audience. Also interested in *requests* for highly
technical talks, too.
I
quote who=Tony Green
System monitoring, performance monitoring and alerting (netsaint/cricket
etc)
I could give the talk (with some research) but I think it would be nice to
have some more 'sysadmin' type talks.
Cool; there's actually been an earlier offer for a talk on netsainty stuff
as
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:36:03PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Working on ideas for upcoming SLUG meetings, I'd like to guage how many
people have highly technical talk ideas [1] that they wouldn't normally see
as appropriate for a SLUG audience. Also interested in *requests* for highly
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 17:08, Daniel Stone wrote:
[1]: As any #slug member can tell you.
[2]: CALU: down the road but didn't know about it; LCA 2001: no money;
LCA 2002: had money but conflicted with school
2003 - Come on the SLUG luurve bus[3,4] to Perth
[3] Where the value
Why not a talk on iptables ?
A
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Hi all,
Working on ideas for upcoming SLUG
Alex Samad was once rumoured to have said:
Why not a talk on iptables ?
Been There, Done That.
Slides are at http://kitsumi.xware.cx/tech/
If people seriously want a more indepth talk about iptables, I might
be lured out into giving such a talk.
C.
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 08:26:41PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
Why not a talk on iptables ?
Since talk writes are notoriously awful at writing slides, I hereby
offer anyone who wants it, the mgp source to my Netfilter presentation I
did at LUV last year. Not a great deal has changed since then
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