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Comment It was just too slow for me. (Score 0, Informative) 396

by Anonymous Coward (#25342947) Attached to: Open Office Plans To Party Like It's Version 3.0

I tried it back in 2004, and the thing that struck me most about it (besides the fact that it was free) was the speed. It took FOREVER to open and save. I was in a phase when I was trying to move over to as much open source software as possible to save money, but OpenOffice just ended up frustrating me. Also, I recall fighting against the program to do simple things in spreadsheets.

I use and love Gnumeric now for spreadsheets, but I resolved that I'd rather pay for MSOffice. It isn't perfect, but I was willing to pay.

I was always so confused about it too, because my initial exposure to open source taught me to expect this kind of software to, as a rule, always be leaner, smaller, cleaner and faster than "bloated" MS products, but I walked away from OO feeling IT was more bloated.
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Submission + - How to make a website using modern tools?

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Prolene writes: "Hello. I am trying to make website about the journal we are starting. The journal will be publishing latest researches regarding health and medicine. We cannot afford to hire professional services yet, so i have to come up with something. So far i have a domain name .com and officelive as my host. I am thinking about using a content management system to publish all the issues of the journal and index all the things in the articles. To achieve this i will be using: Client side scripting: Frontpage, Content management: Typo3. Is my approach correct? Will i be needing a database program as well? Any type of advise or suggestion or a comment will be very helpful. Thanks."
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Submission + - A World-First, New Form of On-Line Media Launched

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Howard Webster writes: "WWW.JONASMOORE.COM- WHAT IF THE BRITISH EMPIRE HAD NEVER ENDED? — THE REAL AMERICAN REVOLUTION GOES LIVE — A GROUNDBREAKING NEW FORM OF ON-LINE MEDIA IS CREATED — BOND ACTOR COLIN SALMON STARS London, UK, 27 April 2007. www.jonasmoore.com launches free previews of a groundbreaking, world-first trilogy of live action, second-generation graphic novels designed for iPod, media players and PCs starring British actor, Colin Salmon (Bond, AVP, Resident Evil). The trilogy creates an entire new genre of on-line, iPod, media player and fan generated content and marks a revolution in on-line media that blurs the boundaries between real and on-line life. The Many World's of Jonas Moore trilogy is set in a time where the British Empire has never ended and America is just a virtual world hosted on a vast global game network. Jonas Moore, a character personally created by the network's founder, is thrown into another game world where he discovers that the characters, creatures and monsters are all slaves to the gamers from the real world. Iraq, Osama Bin Laden, Hitler, Stalin, JFK, George W Bush, Robert Mugabe, North Korea, Iran, Nelson Mandela, Tony Blair, the UN and global warming are all just pre-programmed game characters and virtual scenarios from one of thousands and thousands of worlds that repeat endlessly as on-line games with different outcomes dictated by the skill of the gamers who log on from the outside world. Created by Howard Webster, www.jonasmooore.com combines a copyrighted digital comic book format, with 3D animation, live action digital photography, newsreel archive and an original music score. It invites fans to sample media and characters from www.jonasmoore.com to create their own second-generation graphic novel stories and contemporary political and fiction narratives. According to Jonas Moore creator, Howard Webster, "the second generation novel is a revolution in on-line content — its first story is subversive on so many levels. The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore is about a world addicted to on-line games and digital media. It is about a population willing to relinquish control of their lives for their next fix of entertainment run by huge media cartels and technology companies. The parallels today are obvious." Previews, press shots, story outlines and release dates are available at www.jonasmoore.com Previews & Photos available for download on www.jonasmoore.com More info at: www.factory-publishing.com www.howardwebsterphotography.com"

Feed Adobe open sources Flex (theregister.com)

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The Mozilla Public Licence is Adobe's Flexible friend

Flex, the Adobe tool for delivering Flash applications that mixes ActionScript and an XML page layout language, will be completely open source by the end of 2007, with much of the code available now.
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Submission + - Inside ReactOS

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Andareed writes: "Alex Ionescu, a lead developer of ReactOS (an open-source, source and binary compatible clone of Windows NT) recently gave a talk on the internals of ReactOS. In this talk, Ionescu also discusses how ReactOS is nearing complete kernel compatibility with Windows Server 2003. Interestingly, Ionescu hints that there are no plans for ReactOS once the kernel has been completed."

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