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Thursday, January 11th 2007, 3:45pm

Author: WorkingOnWise

RE: KOffice App Communicate

So should I take your answer to #2 to mean that the apps do not communicate as well with each other as they should, but this is being activley addressed? As for playing nice with the other kids.... I'm new to Linux so I'm not aware of many of the tools and solutions available. Is there a way to get word docs cleanly into KO? Maybe a command line tool to convert MSWord to rtf or html or xml, then pull that file format into KO. Frankly, I have always thought MSW is a bit overkill for most people, ...

Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 8:22pm

Author: WorkingOnWise

Change... for what purpose, and to what

Peter wrote that the min/max/restore must change. It is very Windows-like. Just because it is as such, why must it change? It is an efficient way to handle a windows, as is scrolling it up. Change for the sake of being different is often foolishness. Should we all wear shorts cuz Mr. Gates wears pants? Or not put Linux on a machine built for Windows? The attitude that Windows is evil, and all things like it must change it a harmful notion to Linux and the Open Source movement. Windows has many g...

Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 7:43pm

Author: WorkingOnWise

KOffice App Communicate

This is a kinda broad question, so I will explain it's reason first. I just switched to Kubuntu Linux from Windows XP and all the windows apps that a poweruser would typically have. In my migration, I have found suitable replacements for every task I need and want to do on my laptop, so I'm good there. There is one app that I cant replace, and thats OneNote 2007 and Outlook 2007. I LOVE that team, but I'm not even going to go thru the brain damage of getting an emulated xp running (via QEMU), or...

Monday, January 8th 2007, 12:00am

Author: WorkingOnWise

Aces in their places

Hi Everyone, I'm back into linux again after 4 years, and I'm Lovin todays Linux!! No Windows on my laptop at all, and everything works (no modem, but I don't use it antway). I didn't need to spend weeks learning shell commands, downloading and compiling libs and drivers, config files and all that fun stuff. I installed it (Ubuntu CE 6.1), manually set up my wifi card (took 30 minutes), downloaded everything I coule from the package repositories (took ever night...while i slept), fought a few ho...