Ken,

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All kidding aside...We have a great chapter...Thanks for the platform!

 

Sounds like Master Gates has you a bit puzzled!

 

I love OpenOffice. The only problem I've had is that it doesn't have a good flowcharting program like Visio. I've tried all the seperate flowcharting programs under Linux, and I believe they have a long way to go to catch Visio. Most people don't need this program, but In myfield it is absolutely imperative that I have a good flowcharting program.

 

I installed v2.2 and been using for a couple of hours...I LIKE IT! Similar looks to Ofc 2003 made it easy to get right to work, a test of the super "Search and Replace" worked better, Calc cells are easier to create/edit without so many bloat functions as Excel (for me), and a .pdf export though i won't use it that much. No email client but that's Ok, will prolly switch to Thunderbird 2 in a while. So I associated all my files with OO.

Thanks Rusty for pushing me over the edge
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Back in Washington

 

I see we are now back in the Washington Chapter with this thread. I need a map, more coffee an a cig.

Since I am here.....I feel the need to BASH M$..... I started out in 83 with putter and Windowz 3.0(?) Played with for about a week. Deleted it, went full DOS.

Next was Windowz 3.2(?) Did the same thing. On to Windowz 9.5, hate to say it, started using Windowz, on one putter.

Let's not forget ME, who could ever forget that crap!!! That was a big ripoff.....Back to 95 for me.

Now Win 98 & SE was not all that good, and I used it on all my putters. Got good with it too, just do a full 100% install once a year.

Windowz XP, well the current ver with sp2, has to be the best that M$ has come up with. Even with all the holes & plugs......

Pista......Just an other ME.....M$ going for the bucks. How many ver's? How many prices? With top being $400.

Now for you Guys & Gals that are running Pista and are doing well. Good for you. However, most people can't upgrade, there putters can't run it. So they need a new putter.

Top that off with, you need LOT'S and LOT'S of POWER to run it...Know why???? Because it's no longer you computer. It's now M$'s computer, they now OWN it. You paid them to own your computer!!! It's called M$'s DRM. and that is why you need all that power, so it can run the DRM that is the main part of Vista

Would you pay for a car or truck, that only the manufacture could use most of the time?????

 

Didn't you guys get the memo. We decided that we were going to move this thread all over the site on a daily basis just to keep you guys on your toes.

Just kidding.

 

I always wonder why it matters where a thread is moved

I mean I just subscribe to a bunch of threads and get notice when someone posts through my gmail. The thread takes you right there.

 

You've got that right! ME was a total waste of time and money. Glitchy SOB! I upgraded to XP Pro and never looked back! I have Media Center on my laptop and though I've never really used it for what it was intended, I haven't had any problems... yet (been two years).

 

I LOVED Windows ME. Cause I practically made a living off of helping keep that crap OS running for everyone around running it!

 

Here is a good read.

Woes Worsen For Windows Vista. April 5th 2007

www.playfuls.com/news_06857_Woes_Worsen_For_Windows_Vista.html

 

Well, the only part I don't get, and I do agree with alot of it, but the computers say Vista capable. As an adult I think that someone would do their research on hardware and software before spending that much money.

 

But this is a turn-key, throw-away society! Everybody wants IT to "run right out of the box", no matter what IT is, and when IT doesn't work anymore, we just throw IT away! Well, some of us do. Then there are those like me that still have their very first computer, no hard drive, no floppy drive, runs on Basic and you have to program it EVERY time you turn it on.

 

Yeah, I kept my first (Atari 800 runs on Basic) and my second (Compaq, runs on DOS and weighs 80 lbs) at my mothers. Wonder if they are still in the garage?

 

Well the Real computer buyers are not like us. Remember TRON, they are users. They just buy and use the thing. Now if it says it will run the New Pista, than it should run the OS.

M$ should have said it will only run this ver or that ver. They did not tell buyers that, so they need busted big time.

The last time I looked, just before Pista went on sale. Was something like 87% of the putters would not run it. And most of them would not run the basic home ver. very well.

I did a survey a few weeks ago for Dell. The survey was on using Linux and if I would buy a Dell system running a Linux OS. That tells me Dell see's the hand writing on the wall. They want to sell putters and know that M$ is screwing that up for them.

M$'s DRM is the BIG Fault in all of this. Most people do not know that M$ is requiring motherboard makers to install DRM chips on there motherboards.
Dell, Gateway anyone that wants to offer a M$ system, has to have the chips installed or you can't use M$ Pista.....

 

Do you remember what Distro of Linux it was? I'm very curious to know. I hope it wasn't Suse.