Re: Open Office on the Mac

2008-12-30 Thread Devlin Daley
> My wife runs into a lot of crashes with open office 3 on her mac. > Any one else having issues like this? I haven't had any issues at all with OOo 3. I'm running Leopard. I'm definitely not what anyone would consider a heavy user of "office" software though. -- Devlin /* PLUG: http://plug.org,

Re: Open Office on the Mac

2008-12-30 Thread Stephen Shaw
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Devlin Daley wrote: >>> I grabbed two files I had lying around and got these numbers: >>> odt | pdf | hybrid pdf >>> 12K 32K 40K >>> 16K 68K 80K >>> >>> -- Devlin >> >> Not bad. Thanks for putting that to the test. It looks like in those >> cases there's

Re: openSUSE 11.1 release party

2008-12-30 Thread Stephen Shaw
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Brandon Stout wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Brandon Stout wrote: > >> Now that we've had the party (sorry I missed it), does anyone >> happen to have a spare OpenSuse 11.1 retail dvd they are willing

Re: Scariness in PKI

2008-12-30 Thread Brad Midgley
Mike http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/ Got slashdotted today. Interesting. What do you all think? finally, a workaround for the 5 clicks required to get firefox to accept a self-signed cert :) Brad /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/ma

Scariness in PKI

2008-12-30 Thread Mike Lovell
http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/ Got slashdotted today. Interesting. What do you all think? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Wanted: Ethernet AUI adapters

2008-12-30 Thread Scott Edwards
If you have any Ethernet AUI adapters that you'd like to give away, please let me know. I'd like to experiment with them with some older equipment I have. I live near the Ogden area, but I occasionally travel as far south as Salt Lake, Provo and even Nephi. Thanks, Scott /* PLUG: http://plug.

Re: ETMG-17" Sun CRT

2008-12-30 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 16:59 -0700, Tim Morris wrote: > I haven't posted much on the list over the years I've lurked, and I'm > not sure what the current feeling is toward posting equipment offers > on the list. My apologies in advance. You want to give away computer equipment and you're afraid we

ETMG-Dell PowerEdge 2300

2008-12-30 Thread Tim Morris
EveryThing Must Go - II I have a Dell PowerEdge 2300: 450 MHz Pentium III Proc (possibly dual proc) 1 GB RAM (ECC SDRAM) 2 10/100 NICs Floppy & CD-ROM 8GB and 4GB SCSI Ultra2-LVD Drives (DBAN'd - no OS) I have a Dell PowerEdge 2300: 450 MHz Pentium III Proc (possibly dual proc) 2 GB RAM (ECC SDRA

Re: Open Office on the Mac

2008-12-30 Thread Devlin Daley
>> I grabbed two files I had lying around and got these numbers: >> odt | pdf | hybrid pdf >> 12K 32K 40K >> 16K 68K 80K >> >> -- Devlin > > Not bad. Thanks for putting that to the test. It looks like in those > cases there's about 4k of shared data, assuming the pdf embedded OOo is > sti

Re: Open Office on the Mac

2008-12-30 Thread Brandon Stout
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Devlin Daley wrote: > I haven't run it through its paces enough to get a detailed number. > All the files I've dealt with so far are pretty small. > > I grabbed two files I had lying around and got these numbers: > odt | pdf | hybrid pdf > 12K 32K

ETMG-17" Sun CRT

2008-12-30 Thread Tim Morris
EveryThing Must Go There comes a time in every tech's life when it's time to clean house. My time has come. I haven't posted much on the list over the years I've lurked, and I'm not sure what the current feeling is toward posting equipment offers on the list. My apologies in advance. I have a 17"

Re: Open Office on the Mac

2008-12-30 Thread Hans Fugal
Russel Caldwell wrote: > How well does Open Office work on the Mac? > > Russ Caldwell > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ I used neooffice for a long time, it did the job but I was never very

Re: Open Office on the Mac

2008-12-30 Thread Hans Fugal
Russel Caldwell wrote: > How well does Open Office work on the Mac? > > Russ Caldwell > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ I used neooffice for a long time, it did the job but I was never very

Re: Open Office on the Mac

2008-12-30 Thread James Lance
On Dec 29, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Russel Caldwell wrote: How well does Open Office work on the Mac? Russ Caldwell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */ You might want to take a look at Lotus Symphony. IBM j

Re: Open Office on the Mac

2008-12-30 Thread Michael L Torrie
Gary Thornock wrote: > --- On Mon, 12/29/08, Russel Caldwell wrote: >> How well does Open Office work on the Mac? > > Either reasonably well or not at all, depending on what kind of Mac you have. > (Open Office 3 hasn't been released for the older PPC Macs yet.) >From what I understand 3.0.0rc

Re: Open Office on the Mac

2008-12-30 Thread Devlin Daley
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Brandon Stout wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Devlin Daley wrote: > >> I've installed the PDF export plugins, which allow me to export >> documents as PDF with the open document format of the document stuffed >> in the meta-data portio

Re: Open Office on the Mac

2008-12-30 Thread Gary Thornock
--- On Mon, 12/29/08, Russel Caldwell wrote: > How well does Open Office work on the Mac? Either reasonably well or not at all, depending on what kind of Mac you have. (Open Office 3 hasn't been released for the older PPC Macs yet.) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscr