Journal Journal: Death of news
Keeping a Slashdot story; http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/12/0616245/The-Internet-Is-Killing-Local-News-Says-the-FCC
Comment MS formats as a last resort (Score 1) 620
Let's see, OpenOffice on every computer I have (NeoOffice on my MacBook Pro) and I save in ODF. Only when somebody HAS to have the document in MS format do I ever do a save as. And that file goes out and off my HD just as fast as I can send it. If it comes back in, it gets converted to an ODF format, worked on, then saved as ODF. A few folks actually are thankful I can send them in ODF or PDF rather than any MS Office format. Saving to an MS Office format by default in an ODF capable office suite is stupid and kills the whole point of going with an alternative to the proprietary MS Office formats. Talk about setting the ODF adoption back.
Unisys Smoking Hot Demo at Linux World Boston 178
This year's LinuxWorld Boston started off with a bang...and a fair amount of smoke. Unisys apparently had a few problems launching their first demo, as our own Robin "Roblimo" Miller reports over at Newsforge (also owned by VA Software). From the article: "Less than an hour after the show floor opened at the 2006 edition of the Boston LinuxWorld Expo today, fire alarms went off and a plume of smoke arose from the server cabinet in the Unisys display. "I knew we had a magician scheduled," said one rattled Unisys employee,"but this isn't what I expected." Indeed, this was an unexpected event. It was a real fire -- or at least a considerable smolder, complete with firemen, evacuation orders (soon rescinded), and other hoopla. Photos and a video clip included."
Journal Journal: First thoughts
Mostly just trying this out for the first time. Found the article about this site interesting and wanted to keep the url.
Recommended PHP reading list:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-read/
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