I received a brand new machine yesterday. It’s a 2.6 Ghz machine with 512MB ram, and currently that is the machine that I use to work on in the lab.
First thing I did is put Firefox on it, got Filezilla. Then I put Openoffice 2.0 beta on it. Installation was a snap. Finished in less than 2 minutes.
Firstly, interface…awesome work. More intuitive than 1.1, looks and feels like Microsoft Office (yeah, get people using Office to move to Word, for their own good)
But you can’t beat this feature… Go to Tools, Options, Load and Save -> MS Office, and enable check boxes for compatibility to save in MS Office formats.
Like conversion of Math Formulas converted to MathType (a.k.a Equation Editor). My professor asked me to type something up. And I did in OpenOffice.org, saved it as an .doc, and it opened perfectly, flawlessly in Word, with equations, diagrams made in OpenOffice draw open flawlessly in Word, Powerpoint etc.
I am just waiting for the Mac OS X port to become more active. Too bad I dunno much of C++/Java and also don’t have loads of time! Maybe later.
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ONE more system ?? What’s with you !?! And nice work on the reorganisation of the blog. (Minimalist is YOUR CSS ? I think i saw something with the same title on Alexkings.com)
Anyways, This was the first time i saw the rest of your site and congrats on hazaar projects !
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