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[-Jrabbit]

Much better input today.
Now we're getting somewhere.

[Agathon]

The first thing I did with mine was password protect it.

[Asher]

If you used WEP, it's a bit like blocking your door with a toothpick.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Agathon
Make sure that you get high speed wireless, although most laptops come with that. I set up a wireless network at home. For all you know, I could be posting this from my lavatory!!!

It's very doubtful that your hardcore porn takes up more than 11 Mbps...

[Method]

Asher, you're so clueless!

[Whaleboy]

That's only your perception Ben. Just because a program has less features than another doesn't mean it is inferior, especially if 99% of the users never use these features. Meanwhile, everybody can use a PDF converter.

But it's a POS. The *only* thing that would cause you to choose OOo over MSO is the price... as a product MSO is far superior... speed, usability, features, compatibility, stablity, appearance... the works. OOo's PDF thing is horrible anyway, the files it creates are enormous... if you need that kind of thing you'd shell out on Adobe Acrobat, if you don't you distribute documents in .doc or .html.

Sorry, not familiar with any of these.

Walkers and Golden Wonder are companies that make crisps (British for potato chips).

Cheese+Onion & Salt+Vinegar are flavours of crisps.

[MarkG]

am i the only who find the smiling girl kind of ironic?

[Agathon]

If you used WEP, it's a bit like blocking your door with a toothpick.

Yes, I did read the instructions before I set it up, and I did not use WEP. But who cares what you think anyway....

[Asher]

Which kind of protection did you use then?

[Agathon]

WPA I think.

[Asher]

Good on you, chap!

[Agathon]

It wasn't the super WPA, but the regular old password protection one. It'll do to keep out the casual snooper, but I don't keep anything of worth on my computer apart from my Poly password.

But let's face it – someone could steal it and post all sorts of crazy **** and no-one would notice.

[Az]

But it's a POS. The *only* thing that would cause you to choose OOo over MSO is the price... as a product MSO is far superior... speed, usability, features, compatibility, stablity, appearance... the works. OOo's PDF thing is horrible anyway, the files it creates are enormous... if you need that kind of thing you'd shell out on Adobe Acrobat, if you don't you distribute documents in .doc or .html.

While OpenOrfice is indeed a work in a progress, the progress they seem to be making is awesome. Check out OOo 1.9+ (2.0 beta).

[Asher]

Little known fact: the codebase for OpenOffice actually dates from the mid-1980s. People seem to be under the impression that it's an upstart office suite by open source programmers.

It was a piece of **** office suite by some no-name Germany company in the 80s. Sun Microsystems bought them out, and opensourced it because it was FUBARed and a waste of money to fund.

So now you have a horribly designed, antiquated codebase that is bloaty, slow, and buggy.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Zopperoni
Yea, but the Apple one has no wifi capability. to Apple's functionality

All of them have Airports now AFAIK.

Still they are a bit expensive.