There are loads of proprietary, binary software around. Some people even run OS/2 because they won’t port their software to something newer. FreeDOS is around and used in production. Alpha emulated x86 quite competently, and current x86 processors are actually Risc chips with an x86 translation unit.
Until most software is based on open standards and free components that can be trivially recompiled, all platforms will live much longer than people would like them to.
PostgreSQL has a wonderful wiki todo list. Just pick your task.
My pet peeves are on domains, localisation, derived relations, and integrity constraints.
No, they're made of iron that survives uncontrolled re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.
Something that never left cannot reenter.
Was not a Beech ðe first composite airplane?
use a virtualized server environment
And ðere goes I/O thru ðe drain.
Go for PostgreSQL-backed services whenever feasible. For example, ðere is a quite competent IMAP server called Archiveopteryx, you can run Mediawiki on PostgreSQL, as well as Zope and whatnot.
I used templates supplied by Create Space that were intended for MS Word. The documents were both several hundred pages and included illustrations. I used The Gimp to create front and back cover images and free fonts from Font Squirrel for the title fonts. OO worked
perfectly.
Sanity happens. Now, if the templates are badly done with complex direct formatting, and if you have to go back and forth with
the proprietary word processor several times, or if it is ‘Open’XML, then bad things happen.
Strangely enough, I've had better lucking importing huge documents ( > 400 pages ) into OO and formatting for print than in Word itself.
Not strange at all, if the original document used styles sanely instead of going for complex direct formatting.
When things really break is when one has to collaborate with people who resist to LibreOffice on some badly formatted document, and then you have to convert to
and back again several times.
You keep referring to The Proprietary Suite as if you're used to writing documents comparing it to open alternatives. "TPS Reports", if you will.
Sorry, I did not get your point. But yes, unfortunately I am often required to use it.
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