Comment Re:So, can I get the server side software? (Score 2, Informative) 82
We are working on making a downloadable "server component" available. Until we do, you'll indeed have to trust us to keep our servers online.
Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 82
All the technicalities are ofcourse hidden for the normal user. You just click "open" on the webpage, edit the document, and press save.
Comment Re:Flash buttons for login and register? (Score 2, Informative) 82
Haha, blame the design people. Apparently they really care about how a tittle piece of text looks :) I'll kill the flash off as soon as possible, but we were on a deadline.
Comment Re:Waste of time (Score 1) 82
Creating a new document creates... well.. an empty blank document! You can edit it with abiword, and then after a save it is non-blank :)
Comment Re:Slashvertisement! (Score 2, Informative) 82
No, MS Word does now allow collaborative editing of Word documents (they do for spreadsheets and presentations).
Comment Re:It's a locked in EXTERNAL web site, no thanks. (Score 3, Insightful) 82
Yes. for sure in a commercial form. If I were the only one to decide, I'd open source all of it right now, but we'll see how that turns out.
Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 82
What would be even better, is that we offer a self-hosted version. In an ideal world, I'd open source all of abicollab.net right now, but we need to have an business plan discussion first before we decide to do that :)
Comment Not just HTML-ized docs (Score 1) 1
Actually, you can create permalinks to a document in any format you like, such as PDF, .docx, .odf, rtf, html, or other formats. As soon as you make an edit, all permalinks will be automatically be updated with the latest document contents, thus removing the need to "export" in a particular format yourself.
Submission + - AbiCollab takes on Google Docs and Zoho Writer 1
msevior writes: Just released today, the Free Software AbiWord Word Processor, employed by the One Laptop Per Child project, tightly integrates with the new http://abicollab.net website to enable easy real-time collaborative editing of documents. The http://abicollab.net website also enables documents to be stored online, allows format conversion on the fly, stores the history of the docs in svn, provides direct links to HTML-ized docs that update as you save them and allows easy sharing of docs amongst friends and groups.
All in all, new competition for Google Docs and Zoho Writer but one that employs a real Word Processor rather than an app in a browser.
All in all, new competition for Google Docs and Zoho Writer but one that employs a real Word Processor rather than an app in a browser.
Vista's Security Rendered Completely Useless 415
scribbles89 sends in a story that originally ran in SearchSecurity; it sounds like it could be a game-changer. "While this may seem like any standard security hole, other researchers say that the work is a major breakthrough and there is very little that Microsoft can do to fix the problems. These attacks work differently than other security exploits, as they aren't based on any new Windows vulnerabilities, but instead take advantage of the way Microsoft chose to guard Vista's fundamental architecture. According to Dino Dai Zovi..., 'the genius of this is that it's completely reusable. They have attacks that let them load chosen content to a chosen location with chosen permissions. That's completely game over.'" Update: 08/08 14:23 GMT by KD : Changed the link, as the story first linked had been lifted without attribution.
Comment Re:Realtime, VxWorks, Dolla Dolla Bill Yall (Score 1) 89
RTLinuxFree does this. The default scheduler is kinda lame (at least last time I hacked on it), but you can for example replace them with my DMI and EDFI schedulers to get all the fancy features you describe, and more.
