Why not just use a non-wireless router and a couple powerline adapters in an apartment building. It might be slightly more expensive, but if you only need to hook up a couple computers it would likely be worth it. You'd also have the option of putting in a wireless repeater/range extender in a given room for guests et al.

*Chuckle* Ah, I got flamebaited.

Can't question Open Source on Slashdot, I guess.

It was actually a valid question I thought. I didn't realize OO/Libre Office was so broken that it couldn't understand VBA. I don't see how any IT Manager could convince Upper Management to switch over from MS Office to OO/Libre when VBA is broken out of the box.

It is an existing Document Set, that I copied from Vancouver to Vancouver (OO) --- So that I could open pre-existing Excel.xls workbooks to see how Calc would handle them.
With Further investigating, it appears Calc is attempting to Interpret code that isn't supposed to run --- Older versions of functions (backed up) before significant changes were made to the functions. So the interpreter is bailing cuz unused code has errors in it. As I stated the Script Editor was opening due to interpreter errors. When I would close the Script Editor, there is no way to manually re-open it.
"Edit Macros" - does not exist in the Tools Menu, or any of Tools' sub-menus.

The last time I used OO's Calc, 3-4 years ago, Calc couldn't even apply background colors to cells. SO I didn't proceed any further than that.

After deleting the "unused code/function" now Calc is choking on a simple Cells() query/assignment:

Public Function Toggle_Stat_Increase()
If (Cells(1, 1) = 1) Then
Cells(1, 1) = 0
Else
Cells(1, 1) = 1
End If
End Function

BASIC runtime error.
'1'
Type: com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException
Message: unsatisfied query for interface of type ooo.vba.excel.XWorksheet!

Useless. Calc can't even handle a simple VBA script using If/elseif.

If Cell.Row = pBegin(0) Then
'Do Something
Elseif count = 1 then
'Do Something
Elseif count > 2 then
'Do Something
End if

ERROR: BASIC Syntax Error. Expected: ,.

ALT+F11 doesn't open the Script Editor.
ALT+Q doesn't close the script Editor, when it opens Automatically when it can't understand valid VBA.

I can't actually find any way to manually open the Script Editor to access the code.

I don't see how this is remotely close to "ready for business".
Paying $100-$200 for an Office Suite only needs to save you 2-4 hours of time over the lifetime of it's license to make the purchase cost effective. I can certainly see losing far more time than that trying to troubleshoot problems that do NOT exist when using MS Office 2000, XP, or even 2003.

Prior to this most recent "Script Error", the Interpreter was claiming a completely working script's if/elseif blocks weren't closed.

I've often wondered if it was the fault of the publisher. Given that when an author is new, they likely don't have much choice in the fact that their book will be edited. Whereas after Jordan was a bestseller of 3-4+ books, it would seem to me that TOR stepped back and gave him the green light for whatever it was he wanted to do --- as it would sell.

The whole series is deserving of a quality editor.

Book a minute SF/F are pretty humorous, even for series that I have completely read, like Robin Hobb's Assassin Apprentice+. Jordan's books up to book 11 are 'summarized'. The Jordan Book-a-Minute summaries are combined in this slashdot post.

No, but I do expect it will be as secure or even more than their MS WebMatrix downloads:

Downloads are stored in a MD5 hashed folder that matches the MD5 hash of the zip/installer.
Attempts to modify the file will trigger a re-download, MS-WebMatrix wont use the modified file.
Attempts to MOVE the file to a new hashed foldername that matches the modified file... again will not be used, a new download will be required.

So even if a "Malware" writer attempted any of those things, the folders and image itself will likely be stored in a WindowsImageBackup folder, that even the MAIN Administrator does not have access to. Those security settings/ownership cannot be changed without going through MULTIPLE UAC prompts, and there will also likely be a background service that runs on a trigger when anything related to the saved image is attempted. Such a service will also not be owned by the current user, or Administrator, it will be a SYSTEM level (or higher) level service.

Really? Joomla? Of all the CMS's Joomla is probably the worst to try and do anything with.

Joomla has an absolutely obtuse file-structure.
Joomla's templating system is awkward at best, requiring mixing ?PHP echo's and logic all over the place. As opposed to a clean PHP implementation that might just use a variable e.g. [div class="body"][?PHP echo $contentBody;?][/div]

WIth Joomla's obtuse file-structure, even simple components are scattered among multiple root folders and subfolders - as necessitated by Joomla requirements.
Adding and updating content in Joomla, takes much longer than most other CMS's.

Trying to find Joomla content in the backend is a nightmare, with "Articles" and Modules scattered all over the place.
Joomla refuses to load a "page" unless it is linked to a menu item. To work around this failure you have to generate a non-published menu, just to create links to articles, so that you can use those links within your existing content.

Joomla has no clean view of your content, e.g. Tree layout (see Concrete5 or ProcessWire). Your content is scattered.
Joomla has Plugins, Modules, Components that are collectively known as Extensions... Except many uses of a module is solely so you can place content where you need it to go. "Custom HTML" --- so it is effectively a custom article. Yet it cannot be listed alongside your articles.

Joomla is a really bad joke, that somehow has become one of the most popular CMS's.
I can't wait until we stop using it, and needing to support it.

I usually run the alpha's and beta's, Opera 11.60 beta, and Opera Next 12.0 alpha/beta. Unless it's a particularly bad release - which gets an update fairly quickly --- Opera generally only crashes when I have hundred(s) of tabs open and it doesn't manage it's memory well enough. When Opera goes over 3+ Gigs of RAM - if it hasn't crashed yet then you are better off closing a few tabs and restarting. Seems to be the only way to reset it's memory use.

Other than that, it's fairly stable for the most part. There's much less rendering quirks than there used to be. And Opera has the most customizable interface of any browser... it may even be the most customizable application at all.

That may not be a "selling point" for most, but I've given up on Firefox. I have tried to switch many times in the past when I was disappointed in Opera's direction and stability at times, but Firefox had far too many limitations and far too many plugins/extensions needed for basic functionality. The last time was a few years back now (at least) and there was still no way for FF to put Tabs on the left/or right; as well almost every interface tweak required a plugin as opposed to adding a small JS snippet or just changing an option in the config.

And with Windows I have Total Commander, and CLI tools such as

agrep.exe, ansi2knr.exe, basename.exe, bc.exe, bison.exe, bunzip2.exe, bzip2.exe, bzip2recover.exe, cat.exe, chgrp.exe, chmod.exe, chown.exe, cksum.exe, cmp.exe, comm.exe, cp.exe, csplit.exe, cut.exe, dc.exe, dd.exe, descript.ion, df.exe, diff.exe, diff3.exe, dircolors.exe, dirname.exe, du.exe, egrep.exe, env.exe, expand.exe, expr.exe, factor.exe, fgrep.exe, flex.exe, fmt.exe, fold.exe, fsplit.exe, gawk.exe, gclip.exe, gCompress.exe, gDate.exe, gEcho.exe, gFind.exe, gplay.exe, grep.exe, gSort.exe, gUnzip.exe, gzip.exe, head.exe, id.exe, indent.exe, install.exe, join.exe, jwhois.exe, less.exe, lesskey.exe, libfl.a, libfl.lib, ln.exe, logname.exe, m4.exe, make.exe, makedepend.exe, makemsg.exe, man.exe, md5sum.exe, mkdir.exe, mkfifo.exe, mknod.exe, more.com, mv.exe, mvdir.exe, nl.exe, od.exe, paste.exe, patch.exe, pathchk.exe, pclip.exe, pr.exe, printenv.exe, printf.exe, ptx.exe, pwd.exe, recode.exe, rm.exe, rman.exe, rmdir.exe, sdiff.exe, sed.exe, seq.exe, sha1sum.exe, shar.exe, sleep.exe, split.exe, stego.exe, su.exe, sum.exe, sync.exe, tac.exe, tail.exe, tar.exe, tee.exe, test.exe, test2.md5, test2.txt, touch.exe, tr.exe, tsort.exe, uname.exe, unexpand.exe, uniq.exe, unrar.exe, unshar.exe, unzip.exe, uudecode.exe, uuencode.exe, wc.exe, wget.exe, wget.hlp, which.exe, whoami.exe, xargs.exe, yes.exe, zcat.exe, zip.exe, zsh.exe

Renamed a few that conflict with cmd.exe and native windows binary commands, e.g. gSort.exe

AutoHotkey, which in many cases is more wordy for the same task that a CLI tool would be, but much easier to read the "code" after the fact. As well AHK can interface with the windows object model (like WSH, VB or PowerShell can); interface with GUI elements and almost all CLI type commands are built in --- the ones that are missing then you just use them directly from AHK and pass the output back. The latest version AHK_L and the beta AHK 2.0 has a procedural object model (similiar to JS not C++).

Then there's all the SysInternal CLI and GUI Tools

accesschk.exe, AccessEnum.exe, ADExplorer.exe, ADInsight.exe, adrestore.exe, Autologon.exe, autoruns.exe, autorunsc.exe, Bginfo.exe, Cacheset.exe, Clockres.exe, Contig.exe, Coreinfo.exe, ctrl2cap.exe, Dbgview.exe, Desktops.exe, disk2vhd.exe, diskext.exe, Diskmon.exe, DiskView.exe, du.exe, efsdump.exe, FindLinks.exe, handle.exe, hex2dec.exe, junction.exe, ldmdump.exe, Listdlls.exe, livekd.exe, LoadOrd.exe, logonsessions.exe, movefile.exe, ntfsinfo.exe, pagedfrg.exe, pendmoves.exe, pipelist.exe, portmon.exe, procdump.exe, procexp.exe, Procmon.exe, PsExec.exe, psfile.exe, PsGetsid.exe, PsInfo.exe, pskill.exe, PsList.exe, PsLoggedon.exe, psloglist.exe, pspasswd.exe, PsService.exe, psshutdown.exe, pssuspend.exe, RAMMap.exe, RegDelNull.exe, regjump.exe, RootkitRevealer.exe, sdelete.exe, ShareEnum.exe, ShellRunas.exe, sigcheck.exe, streams.exe, strings.exe, sync.exe, Tcpvcon.exe, Tcpview.exe, vmmap.exe, Volumeid.exe, whois.exe, Winobj.exe, ZoomIt.exe

With Windows I have proper documentation instead of Man Pages that can't even be bothered to include an example of usage.

Everytime I deal with Linux and need to do text manipulation it's a complete PITA : Escaping spaces, escaping escapes, escaping escaped escapes...in regex.

Windows comes with dozens of complete (UNICODE) FONTS (even more with Office) - not "free" fonts that might have a small section of the ANSI charset.

For the server, linux is working great. For a desktop OS "FREE" is not a selling point.

There very well may be "decent" opensource applications out there, but they are few and far in-between. Most (not all) that I have attempted to use are buggy, lack documentation and tend to have a slower turn around in development. Paying money for software that works is well worth your time.

Try using the extra search options for a laugh. I don't recall which search terms I used now, but frequently if you try to filter your results by date/time the actual number of results don't make any sense. E.G. the number of results can and will increase when you filter by "within the last year" (or similiar) as opposed to no time filter at all.