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[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational software for math

2012-05-23 Thread Marc Paré


Le 2012-05-24 02:25, Joep L. Blom a écrit :


And Marc,
QNX was developed by Gordon Brown the genius engineer of DEC who
developed the real-time systems (QNX is a real-time OS) like DEC-Lab etc!
Oh, the good old times when programmers new what real-time programming
meant and rotating buffers were necessary to get speed and be really
efficient with memory! Current programmers have no idea how to use a
computer efficiently!!
(The rantings of an old man!)
Joep




Now now! Don't forget we used to rant a lot about our 16Mghz speedsters 
of computers, hand-held scanners ...


Marc


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[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational software for math

2012-05-23 Thread Marc Paré


Hi Simon,

Le 2012-05-24 02:08, Simon Cropper a écrit :



In the same year, I was introduced to a PC1
{http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Ibm_pc_5150.jpg/250px-Ibm_pc_5150.jpg}
with Ashton Tate's dbase II on it! Green letters on a nearly black
screen. I still have a pang of nostalgia when hearing the whir of the
hard drive as it takes 1-2 minutes to boot up. The start of the
serverless revolution!



Hey! I wrote my own accounting system using AtariST's DbMan (an Ashton 
Tate dBaseIII clone). It worked great! I still have an AtariSTE in a box 
with an old RLL 30 meg drive and 12 inch monitor. :-)


Cheers,

Marc


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational software for math

2012-05-23 Thread Joep L. Blom


On 24-05-12 07:50, Marc Paré wrote:

Hi Doug,

Le 2012-05-24 00:50, Doug a écrit :


Logo! I haven't heard that word in thirty years, at least! I'm surprised
it's still around. Never really got into it, but it seemed like fun,
at least from a distance. I started using BASIC, and then learned and
used Pascal. Not being (professionally) a programmer, I never
learned C.

--doug



OK, I'm dating myself here, but, I was taught at the very last year at
my university where "punch cards" were still being used, and I used to
chat on beasts that spewed paper instead of drawing on monitors, way
back in 1976. I studied FORTRAN in 1980 so that I could be with the
up-and-coming in-crowd on campus ... only to find out that they all
switched that year to COBOL, DOH!

Yup, Logo is still cool to play with. I used FMSLogo because it played
nicely with my computer lab of Mandriva Linux boxes. I even taught Logo
on ICON computers by Unisys Corp. that used QNX as its operating system.
QNX is what powers the new Blackberries from RIM! Finally, when the
ICONs were being replaced, I installed AtariGEM on them and used the
Atari version of Logo. It was a lot of fun! I was always accused of
having more fun than the kids!

Cheers,

Marc



And Marc,
QNX was developed by Gordon Brown the genius engineer of DEC who 
developed the real-time systems (QNX is a real-time OS) like DEC-Lab etc!
Oh, the good old times when programmers new what real-time programming 
meant and rotating buffers were necessary to get speed and be really 
efficient with memory! Current programmers have no idea how to use a 
computer efficiently!!

(The rantings of an old man!)
Joep


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[libreoffice-users] TeX output crashes LibreOffice

2012-05-23 Thread Sandy Harris

I have a document originally written with L-O but saved in Word (.doc)
format. Eight pages, no very complex formatting. One column, section
headings, endnotes, a couple of tables. Exporting a PDF or HTML works
fine.

Trying to export in TeX format crashes L-O every time. It goes to
work, there's a progress bar across the bottom of the screen. It goes
most of the way across then hangs. If I try to stop it, I get a "this
window is not responding" message. Saving in ODT format instead did
not help; the ODT file crashes it too. Changing the "backend" field in
the menu page that comes up when exporting does not seem to help
either.

There are obvious workarounds -- for example I can export plain text
and manually apply TeX tags or export RTF and use a command-line tool
to get to TeX -- but I'd sooner not have to do that.

This happens on two different machines, both Ubuntu. This one is
Xubuntu 12.04 with "LibreOffice 3.5.3.2 Build ID: 350m1(Build:2)" and
all available Xubuntu updates applied. It is a 3GHz dual core i3
machine with 8 gigs RAM and SSD disks so I don't think resource limits
are the problem. The other machine is less powerful and has less
up-to-date versions of everything.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational software for math

2012-05-23 Thread Simon Cropper

On 24/05/12 15:50, Marc Paré wrote:

I was taught at the very last year at my university where "punch cards"
were still being used, and I used to chat on beasts that spewed paper
instead of drawing on monitors, way back in 1976. I studied FORTRAN in
1980 so that I could be with the up-and-coming in-crowd on campus

Ah, memories... Standing in line because the reader did nor detect the
pencil marks properly. My first program - write a program that
calculated the distance between two points on earth using their latitude
and longitude.

In the same year, I was introduced to a PC1
{http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Ibm_pc_5150.jpg/250px-Ibm_pc_5150.jpg}
with Ashton Tate's dbase II on it! Green letters on a nearly black
screen. I still have a pang of nostalgia when hearing the whir of the
hard drive as it takes 1-2 minutes to boot up. The start of the
serverless revolution!

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