Posts by revdjenk 123 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jan 2010
I was never in the Mac world, but began my computer life with the Color Computer. I used a paint program called "CoCoMax" which had been inspired by Atkinson's' MacPaint. I also enjoyed GeoWorks Ensemble which also was heavily influenced by Aatkinson's total graphical UI vision!
Rest, now, Bill and may your family find comfort in our good thoughts and prayers.
In the late 80's, I found two Model M keyboards in a Goodwill in San Rafael CA. Both had silver labels attached to the bottom, with "Industrial Light and Magic" imprinted on them. I wish I had kept them, but after 9 moves (one out of the US) it was hard to justify moving them, especially after switching to laptops.
Yes, LibreOffice will sometimes mess the formatting on decades old docs. I still blame Office as it was the 'standard,' yet no one could use/see its code to write new apps to approximate Office close enough to avoid any problems. As LO has matured, it has gotten better at Office docs, but not completely.
Secondly, I've been able to open decades old Office docs with LO while Office 365 refuses. (e.g., with Word 6.0 docs I have.)
For old print material, I capture them with my phone's camera, and either open the text image in Gimagereader or use Google Keep to convert the text to digital. For the most part, you will lose formatting, but you have the new editable text.
Oh, distro-hopped from 2006-2008, and have used Mint since then!
With LibreOffice I can open msword docs going back into the late 90's. (I started using Star Office in 1999, BTW) Most of the default LIbreOffice fonts are matched to the character spacings/kerning/etc. to the ms ones, so that is rarely an issue. One can also install ms fonts to assist, when needed.
Ages ago, when I tried this, the stumbling block was the tax software's dependency on MS' browser.
I sent emails to the specific program I wanted to use, reminding them that they used Linux on their servers. Since I knew they were aware of Linux, I was hoping they'd develop future programs for it.
I just gave up, and switched to OLT, On-Line Tax (olt.com) and have been quite happy.
Went to a computer shop close-out sale with a friend who was looking for a certain old model computer. He found it ... but the proprietor said to get this great low price, we had to take 10 CRT monitors along with it. For my friend, the price, it was a deal even with the need to dispose of the monitors later.
I took them off his hands, however.
I lined our back deck railing with the monitors ... you see, my wife had been begging for a screened in porch!
I've seen many articles about people who have viable rental vehicle agreements lose the vehicle when it was taken back by a major rental car company. This has happened even to people who have bought former rental vehicles ... just one day, gone, and the rental agency claims proper actions and/or ownership!
Now, I've worked for a major credit union in the department that dealt with past due accounts, and have done repossessions myself. While it didn't happen to me, I had associates who had guns pointed at them for attempting to repossess vehicles. So I see the potential life preserving nature of this Ford capability, as well as its ease in recovery of a loan agencies property
However, I also know that communication between loan and credit departments is not always smooth and accurate, much less between a loan agency and the automaker itself!
Worked for a large retail chain which had tape backup for its system.
It was the task of every closing shift to copy the day's business to tape, remove the tape and store it, and replace it with a new tape.
That was fine, until it was noticed that the last backup tape had no data on it! whoops
Lot's of busy keystrokes the following day!
Um ... the MSOffice formats ARE propietary! Were you around for the switch from Office 95 to Office 97?
Do you realize now the work that must be done by other software companies to bring the MS formats into their programs?
The Open Document Format (odf) is truly non-propietary.
I've used LibreOffice and its predecessors since 1999.
The Mrs. and I have been through seven different OS's (she is definitely the trooper!)
Color Computer Color Basic (OS/9 very briefly)
DOS
Windows 1.03 (would almost equate this with 10, the basic colors, non-overlapped windows)
GEOS Ensemble
Windows 3.1 - Vista
Linux - various, but primarily PCLinuxOS for 2 years and LinuxMint for 10
Chromebook
I dual boot LinuxMint and win10 at my office computer. Twice a year, I update windows, in case it gets used, to keep it safe. Just completed that task on Monday. It took from 11am - 6pm! Three reboots!
Once that was done, rebooted into Mint and noticed update available, including kernel update. Took less than 15 minutes, and I kept working! No restarts required!
Traveled western US with some friends, one a guy from Sweden. He made us stop every 15-20 minutes driving across Kansas. He would take a picture. We kept asking, "Why are you taking a picture of 'nothing?'" (To us, the expanse of cornfields going off to infinity was nothing.) He just kept mumbling, "They won't believe how huge it is!"
Weren't all these add-ons like Paint, WMP, Internet Explorer,etc. meant to kill off some competing application and/or to give impression of the completeness of the OS by including it into windows?
Are these features being taken out now to fill out the Windows Store with more applications?
First, if you read the article, you need a poorly secured server running Redis.
Second, from Redis' own site:
"Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker."
So, it isn't Linux!
"The same effect is true on Windows, Linux and Mac."
Yes, Chrome is running hot and heavy on my laptop running LinuxMint (which had win8 installed for about 10 minutes). However, there is no way to test Edge. So, until MS makes it available for more than one OS, we will never know if this test is because of internal code benefit. (MS has been known to do this! http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepaper.pdf)
I can't help you on virtualbox, except point to a youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t5kECk_U_Q
I'm running Remix on Linux Mint (following simple directions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/remix/remix-os/remix-os-installation-rooting-t3293769).
My problem isn't getting it to run, but actually using it. It is familiar enough, but just enough different, that some actions seem exasperating.
Don't get me wrong! Remix is extraordinary in getting Android working in multiple, resizable windows. I was having trouble scrolling within the windows, getting app screen icons to open the app, having my gmail account suddenly being no longer associated with Remix after 20 minutes of operation.
@phuzz
"Look at the work they did allowing the SAMBA devs access to all the SMB/CIFS documentation even while Ballmer was still in charge."
December 20th 2007. Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba.
Microsoft was required to make this information available to competitors as part of the European Commission March 24th 2004 Decision in the antitrust lawsuit, after losing their appeal against that decision on September 17th 2007.
https://www.samba.org/samba/PFIF/
That's why they "allowed" access to the documentation!
@Jeff Lewis
Again, as the OP said, one has to be searching for wifi devices, and someone else on that network has that brief moment to inject themselves into the other phone. And the damage? Reboot!
Microsoft has "rebooted" many relationships with partners and written out third-party vendors by adding their own apps and extensions. They spent much time and resources on giving their own programs the inside track, and slowed or restricted others from these same connections.
They did all this instead of writing in better security, interoperability and using established standards.
I ran win8 long enough on my machine to get to a setting on the "charms" bar to make a change so I could install Linux.
To get to that point, I had to accept the EULA, even though I never intended to use win8.
See the problem there?
[Oh, and I am one of many who don't have to struggle with Patch Tuesdays. Mine are delivered when necessary and needed, and I apply them, and continue on with my productivity.]
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