Gta-Klue - Slashdot User

Comment Re:PDFs... (Score 1) 125

by Gta-Klue on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @01:02PM (#23920027) Attached to: Multi-page PDF To Multi-page TIFF and Archiving?

I disagree as the storage difference between a 5 mb to 18gig pdf compared to a 250k to 1mb tiff is huge! Where I work we do PDF to TIFF conversion just for that reason. Due mainly to Sharepoint having a 8mb limit per document you can upload.

Microsoft-Novell Takes Open-Source to China 63

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday April 21, 2008 @01:11PM from the because-it-wasn't-already-there dept.

Bibek Paudel writes "In a move to tap the growing market of free and open source-softwares in developing economies, Microsoft and Novell have announced they were expanding their alliance into the Chinese market. Microsoft and Novell believe big enterprises in China are willing to pay to have the US firms keep hybrid systems updated and running and for assurances that there is permission to use patented software involved. The companies are marketing 'supported Linux' in which they take a fee to maintain software systems blending the open-source programs with Microsoft products such as Vista, Office, Excel and Outlook.The longtime US computer software rivals unveiled their alliance in late 2006, saying their engineers were 'building a bridge' between Microsoft's proprietary software and Novell programs based on the Linux operating system. Sunday was the first time the firms publicly targeted a specific country with their effort."

Journal Journal: Knoppix, Morphix and "ix" in general

Journal by Gta-Klue on Wednesday July 16, 2003 @06:09PM

Well, after a couple of months using Knoppix, I thought, WTF let's give Morphix a try. Just like Knoppix, it's a live CD. Boots fast, right into Gnome 2.2. Knoppix is KDE centric, while Morphix is more Gnome centric. Both detect hardware well, video is good... but..... Well with Knoppix it's a little easier to setup. I could d/l and install NVidia's latest drivers while with Morphix I couldn't even get it to compile a custom module .. :/ Oh well, live a

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