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Friday, October 21, 2005

OpenOffice.org 2.0 released 

# posted by Damon @ 10/21/2005 05:30:00 AM

It's free, generally works with MS, can save files as .pdf, and makes sense. For example, to change the size of paper you are working on: '/format/page' not '/file/page setup.' Great office suite in Linux, but worth a look if you're on Windows too, given the above advantages.

Here's a short notice from PC World


Here are the Bittorrent links

11 comments

damon if you really want to get fancy about typesetting use WinEdt and MikteX.

example: to write the fraction 1/2 so that the 1 is over the 2 the command is $\frac{1}{2}$

and if you want a space anywhere: \vspace{0.5in}

simple eh? none of this auto format crap

By  ron, at Friday, October 21, 2005 9:01:00 AM  

I've never heard of either of those, I hope you're joking. I have not tried Latex, but from what I've heard it's the best program for technical documents but it is supposedly hard to learn, so maybe I should start playing with it so I can use if for my thesis.

By the way I didn't say anything about fancy typesetting, but I use OOo exclusively and generally submit assignments in pdf unless doc is asked for and so far I've aced them all, so apparently no problems.

By  Damon, at Friday, October 21, 2005 9:37:00 AM  

yea, start fucking with LaTex now, its more of a typsetting mini-OS than a program.

MikTex is a program package that includes all the style files and packages. also buy the book, LaTex by leslie lamport, about 30$ new.

oh, email me for the crack for WinEdt if you like. winedt and miketex are made to work together although you dont need either to do latex documents.

have fun:
\sigma=\frac{12 \eta_{\mbox{\tiny{eff}}} \phi }{P_a\delta^2} \omega

By  ron, at Friday, October 21, 2005 10:00:00 AM  

thanks for fixing the window size.




i have nothing intelligent to add on the topic of the post. not even if i wanted to.

By  josh, at Friday, October 21, 2005 11:02:00 AM  

I looked around a bit at LaTeX, no thank you. I really can't see the big advantage to be gained while climbing that learning curve. Yes equations in OOo are just as big a pain as in Word, but I'm not doing that too often.

By  Damon, at Friday, October 21, 2005 11:33:00 AM  

i'm telling you that its worth it. I have tons of templates and examples. its not as bad as youthink

By  ron, at Friday, October 21, 2005 11:55:00 AM  

lawsuits definately do more damage. computers only suck as much as you use them. never go online, problem solved

By  ron, at Friday, October 21, 2005 3:57:00 PM  

Well, ron, I have to question that logic. Surely, computers are used for very significant things in your life without you ever touching a computer being that much of society's workplace, as well as government, depends on them. I know what a computer won't do. It won't get you recompensation for losing a limb in the workplace or having a heart attack because of a negligently-made drug. What you fail to admit and understand is that a lawsuit is a valid and civilized remedy that will assist you to gain what is just when you've been wronged and to pay when you're the wrong-doer. Or are "wronged" and "just" terms too non-empirical to justify even a secular legal system?

By  Daddy, at Friday, October 21, 2005 4:28:00 PM  

my computer gives me blow jobs. you?

let me tell you that was a tough program to download. let me tell youlots of viruses

By  ron, at Saturday, October 22, 2005 4:18:00 AM  

We were comparing options for typing good looking reports, how is that "greedy" and why draw comparisons between hackers and lawyers, shut the fuck up! Not everyone has something relevant to say to each topic.

By  Damon, at Saturday, October 22, 2005 1:37:00 PM  

they settle right next to the republicans

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Sunday, October 23, 2005 10:42:00 AM  

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