Monthly Archives: October 2007
Live data in your OpenOffice.org Impress slideshow presentations
| October 31, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OpenOffice.org, Software you should try |
Are you presenting in conferences graphical charts and figures which continuously change and you have no time to update the slides? All you need is your OpenOffice.org Impress presentation and an active Internet connection to show your audience the live figures your team or your server assembles for you back at home. The data is…
Linux makers should have Windows users in mind
| October 25, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD |
When creating Linux software and when combining together Linux distributions, keep in mind the Windows user. Many if not all Linux fans would be happy to see their operating system adopted by all computer users in the world. But many tend to forget the very human nature and with this, the nature of a long-time…
Is selling used microsoft office software legal?
| October 21, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under Legalese |
Looking through my blog’s web statistics I noticed the other day a Google search result that brought someone to the “Get Legal. Get OpenOffice.org.” campaign page on my blog. This is the right answer I think for the question posed by this visitor to the Google search engine. The exact question was: “Is selling used…
Microsoft is telling you that your Windows XP worths nothing.
| October 21, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD, Software you should try |
Microsoft has listed 100 reasons to upgrade to Windows Vista and to leave Windows XP behind. Thanks Microsoft for the list. While reading the list, a Linux user will mark all those reasons and a few more others as “I already have that in my Linux installation“. …and after marking them all, he/she will add:…
Office suites comparison charts
| October 21, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under General, OpenOffice.org |
Looking for a list of office suites available on the market to include in the poll for my blog, I ran across this Office suites comparison charts page on Wikipedia. It’s quite a good place to compare software options when it comes to office suites and it also adds to the competition between the suites.…
Slashdot: Do OpenOffice Users Save In Microsoft Format?
| October 19, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD, OpenOffice.org |
A company executive from Quickoffice claims that OpenOffice.org users mostly save their documents in .DOC (Microsoft Office) file formats. Slashdot is wondering, is this true ? The Slashdot article is located here. The question remains and would be a good one to include in the next OpenOffice.org user survey. I personally save in ODF, the…
DesktopLinux.com: 13 reasons why Linux should be on your desktop
| October 18, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD, Software you should try |
Kim Brebach enumerates in an article in DesktopLinux.com 13 reasons why Linux should be on your desktop, I would add: even if you still have Windows installed. The reasons in short: Cost Resources Performance No bloatware Security Dual booting Installation Reinstalling the OS Keeping track of software Updating software More security No need to defrag…
Non Windows worlds – Linux stories part 1
| October 17, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD, Software you should try |
6 years ago, I was already tired of viruses, blank screens, blue screens, malware, spyware, the need to reinstall the operating system from time to time and all sorts of other Windows goodies which for a user born in the Microsoft era consume a lot of his daily time. I decided to investigate if there…
Suggest a topic
| October 14, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under Uncategorized |
A friend of mine gave me the idea of asking readers what topics they would like to see covered in this blog. The result is this page in which you are invited to build up a wish-list of topics you are interested in. I am also adding there some topics proposals which I intend to…
Happy Birthday OpenOffice.org!
| October 13, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OpenOffice.org |
PRESS RELEASE: OpenOffice.org community celebrates its 7th anniversary 104 million downloads of the open source productivity suite Today, the open source project OpenOffice.org celebrates its 7th birthday. Founded by Sun Microsystems on October 13th, 2000, continues to experience tremendous growth. The project recently counted 104 million downloads from its website, and downloads have been increasing…
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