Libre Office - tick
You say, "or abandon both entirely in favour of something like LibreOffice."
What an excellent suggestion!
Posts by Diana Artemis
10 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Apr 2008
Google spikes old MS file formats
US gov requests for Google user data grow 29%
Internet Explorer 8 still not mingling well with 2,000 highly-visited sites
Wednesday 3rd March 2010 12:02 GMT
Er... Who's in step?
You say, "Microsoft confessed yesterday that over 2,000 well-known websites still remained incompatible with Internet Explorer 8"
Shouldn't that be "Microsoft confessed yesterday that Internet Explorer 8 still remains incompatible with over 2,000 well-known websites."?
MS needs to conform with web standards, not vice-versa.
Mozilla man sends Firefoxers to Microsoft Bing
Samsung N120
Wednesday 17th June 2009 21:08 GMT 
XP???
El Reg says, "If you can live with the price, relatively fragile hard drive and Windows then the Samsung NC10 is, without doubt, one of the best netbooks currently available."
I've been running a full install of Ubuntu 8.04 on my terrific NC10 since I got it. And as I bought it - brand new - for £280, fully a 100 quid cheaper than the N120 price you cite, I don't think this over-priced, Windows-only offering from Samsung comes anywhere near the NC10, or the GNU/Linux-toting alternatives from Asus, etc.
Back to the drawing board, Samsung.
If they can break the law, why can't we?
Sunday 24th May 2009 13:03 GMT 
Good article
Congratulations to John Ozimek on a temperate, thoughtful and shapely piece of journalism. A joy to read, and full of good sense. We need this sort of intelligent writing, when so much written and broadcast journalism is currently playing to the gallery, and getting dangerously overheated.
For security's sake! Send your kid to hacker camp
Friday 24th April 2009 04:36 GMT
GNU/Linux in schools
Educating kids in schools that use only proprietary software will prevent many talented young people from really understanding IT. Schools should give children and young people access to software that they can study, investigate, modify and improve. GNU/Linux is really their (and our) only hope - it makes early educational experience with real systems possible.
Creative climbs down over home brew Vista drivers
Friday 4th April 2008 07:38 GMT
Creative sees the point of FOSS???
Creative say
"The huge task of developing driver updates to accommodate the many changes in the Vista operating system and the extensive testing required, including the lengthy Vista certification requirements for audio, makes it very difficult for Creative to develop updates for all past products."
Mmm... Clearly the business model is creaking! Does this mean they are going to GPL3 their drivers, and let the community help??? They might even recommend to M$ that it should GPL Vista!
Friday 4th April 2008 07:38 GMT
Creative sees the point of FOSS???
Creative say
"The huge task of developing driver updates to accommodate the many changes in the Vista operating system and the extensive testing required, including the lengthy Vista certification requirements for audio, makes it very difficult for Creative to develop updates for all past products."
Mmm... does this mean they are going to adopt FOSS methods, and GPL their drivers???
Biting the hand that feeds IT
