Howdy, Martin, I live in Sunter, which is adjacent to Ancol, and yes, the traffic is a nightmare for many. I got a house about 8 min. away from my school, so I've got it easier than most. But it isn't much fun to drive around JKT. It's rainy season now, and although the toll road(s) are good, and cheap, they can't handle the traffic when it rains. Still substantial flooding in many districts. The quality of life, as I have been told, had deteroriated a lot over the years - smog, polluted waterways, encroachment by homeless, and corruption that washes it all as "part of our culture." But the people are generally quite friendly, even in this big city; I lived in the jungle up in Sumatera for 4 years as a school principal, before JKT, and that was different.
I'll continue to save your e-mails for recall when I get closer to using Red Hat. I'm not that sophisticated to re-partititon by hard drive into two operating systems, etc. -- the dirt and dust make it hard to maintain one hard drive without tinkering with it! Have fun on your travels - it sounds as if you have skills that take you to interesting places! If you come to Indonesia, perchance, let me know and I'll do what I can to help you enjoy your stay. Cheers and best wishes, Bruce --- Martin Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Bruce > > I was in Jakarta from 89 to 92 working on a bridge > management project > with Bina Marga. Much IT work in progress at that > time already, coupled > with the civil engineering side of things. Many of > the project team > (15 expats, Australian Aid project) had kids at JIS > and BIS so I got to > know them fairly well. Guess things have changed > quite a bit since then > - and not only in the schools! > > Are you living N or S and is the traffic still as > bad as ever? > > As Fridrich also mentioned, you could try the > developer snapshot of OOo > 2.0 as it has WP read built in now. It is a 99M > download and is changing > about once every week or so! > > It is worth getting the writerperfect system up and > running under 1.1.4 > though, although if you are going with RHEL with its > ximian-ooo you may > not need it? I tried to convert a number of > documents from WP6, 8 and 9 > to OOo and must say the text boxes etc. (ie the > tricky stuff) did not > come across well. I thought the easiest way for > these docs was to use > WP9 or 10 (under Windows) to open them and then save > as a doc file > (Word 97/XP) which then imported very nicely into > OOo. I guess ymmv > depending on the type of documents you have. For my > wife Writerperfect > was functioning ok on the previous installation of > SuSE and I just need > to get it running on the new 9.2 installation. That > should wean her then > totally off Windows. I got pdfKreator and pdftk > working last night and > am very happy with those tools, particularly when > used with the > extendedPDF macro for OOo. > > ok, better get back to it, enjoy your 32deg. I am > hoping to go back down > to Tanzania for a week or so in March which will be > warmer but then will > probably go to China for a month in April which will > definitely not be > warm - although better than now! > > regards > Martin > > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:49:44-0800(PST) Bruce Hoffman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Pagi, Pak Martin! > > > > Did you work at JIS? I am at a school in N JKT, > > Jubilee School, advising them on a wide array of > > educational issues and standards - my school wants > to > > present itself as a "local school with > international > > standards" (... a long way to go!) JIS is > probably > > way ahead of most others schools here... but then, > > again, if embassies and MNCs are your source of > > revenue, you can do a lot! > > > > Jubnilee will move into a new building in July, > when > > Red Hat will be introduced. I'm not able to try > the > > software fixes yet for importing WP files, but I > am > > saving all the emails from the [wp-dev] group so I > can > > try it then. > > > > Best wishes to you, up there in snow country. It's > 32 > > degrees here! > > > > Bruce > > --- Martin Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Bruce > > > > > > Selamat pagi from Switzerland! > > > > > > I actually wanted to mention to you that the OOo > > > 1.9XX snapshots > > > currently have a built in WP filter for reading > - no > > > other program > > > needed! But for those of us still with OOo1.1.4, > > > Writerperfect is super > > > - albeit a little trickier to get going under > Linux > > > than Windows (having > > > spent 3 hours last night in the attempt.... ;-) > ) > > > > > > Thanks to all the guys working on Writerperfect > etc. > > > > > > > > > I also wanted to ask if you are at JIS > > > Pattimura/Cilandak? Small world > > > eh? > > > > > > greetings > > > Martin > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:31:30 -0800 (PST) > > > Bruce Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, Richard, > > > > > > > > No, I don't mind... I work at a large national > > > school > > > > in Jakarta, Indonesia. I mastered WordPerfect > > > while > > > > working with schools in Flordia, because the > State > > > of > > > > Florida had adopted WP state-wide back in the > > > 1980s. I > > > > do sinverely appreciate the work of those > > > dedicated > > > > programmers who can make WP files available in > > > Linux! > > > > Best wishes > > > > Bruce Hoffman > > > > --- Richard June <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Tuesday 15 February 2005 00:24, Bruce > Hoffman > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > Thanks to all who have made this possible. > I'm > > > > > just a > > > > > > school teacher whose school is moving to > > > Linux, > > > > > and > > > > > > who has all his importatn documents in > > > > > WordPerfect. > > > > > if you don't mind me being nosy, where is > your > > > > > school? > > > > > > -- > > > Martin Fox, system operator > > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ITECO Engineering Limited > > > LPIC-1; registered as #324626 with > > > the Linux counter www.counter.li.org > > > > > > This mail was sent through the ITECO AG SuSE > Linux > > > Mail Server 10:00am > > > up 165 days, 20:16, 0 users, load average: > 0.00, > > > 0.03, 0.12 > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? 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