Help me apolyton, you are my only hope!

[BlackCat]

Then you've hired a bunch of morons.

Even the frigging linux geek support people in my department use Office.

OO sucks monkey balls.

Nah, I guess that your support people just don't know what they are doing - my geeks are pretty HC and have no problems with OO-nonstd formats.

Edit: this site sucks - how the hell do yuo esape < >?

[Asher]

Scroll up and you'll notice that I keep a fedora instance running in virtualbox.

Generally I don't do anything memory intensive in linux because I run all that **** remotely. Locally I just use it to edit and run gnuplot and stuff.

Yes, I saw this mentioned later. I read threads sequentially because I've not yet had time to write a random-post-order GreaseMonkey script.

[KrazyHorse]

[Asher]

Nah, I guess that your support people just don't know what they are doing - my geeks are pretty HC and have no problems with OO- formats.

My mechanic has no problem with OO-<nonstd> formats either, because he's ****ing stupid with computers.

[Q Classic]

I don't know why he would ask this question at a place where 90% of the people dislike him intensely. 95% if you only count the people who have a hope in hell of actually helping him.

I'm wondering who the remaining 5% would be.

[KrazyHorse]

I'd sooner help Pol Pot.

Not because I think Ben's worse than he was, but Pol Pot is older than I am and also there's the whole Asian connection thing going.

I have a different reason to help Pol Pot:

It has just occurred to me that killing 2 million people is probably a fairly reasonable response to problems with OpenOffice. I could prevent a genocide....

[Asher]

I'm wondering who the remaining 5% would be.

Some OpenOffice fanatic like Urban Ranger.

[KrazyHorse]

I'm wondering who the remaining 5% would be.

I was trying to be conservative.

[Asher]

Fun fact: OpenOffice's code is much older than MS Office's.

Dates back to 1984.

Fun fact 2: They didn't add WORD COUNT until recently. That's how awesome these guys are.

[Q Classic]

Nah, I guess that your support people just don't know what they are doing - my geeks are pretty HC and have no problems with OO-formats.

I don't have problems with OO formats.

http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/

Most everyone else won't either, soon.

http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2008/05/office-2007-to-gain-native-odf-support-early-next-year.ars

Given the option of OO and MS Office, as much of a booster of OSS as I am, I'm also in favor of better software, and MS Office is better on almost all counts.

[KrazyHorse]

[Q Classic]

Well, nobody here at this time seems to be willing to help him resolve the issue. Tragic.

Get crackin' on those three lost days!

[KrazyHorse]

Fun fact 2: They didn't add WORD COUNT until recently. That's how awesome these guys are.

Real men write a script to output the stream to a text file and use wc

[KrazyHorse]

At the same time, I will say that anybody who actually sends me something (or requests something) in Word format is a ****ing **** who should learn latex.

[Q Classic]

Fun fact: OpenOffice's code is much older than MS Office's.

Dates back to 1984.

Just means it's got history.

Fun fact 2: They didn't add WORD COUNT until recently. That's how awesome these guys are.

Word counts are hard. Hyphens, for instance, so confusing. Also, acronyms. Oh, and usually things have more than ten words.