In defense (was Re: what to do about Windows email worms)

[nullpointer at pobox.com (Dan Barrett)]

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On Wednesday 28 January 2004 11:16, Joshua Pollak wrote:
> Blah blah blah. This same dude was recently complaining that OO.org 1.1 
> wouldn't properly save his resume properly in Word format. OO.org is 
> great, but its not perfect.
> 
> However, Crossover Office truly is a fantastic product (I'm a beta 
> tester), and I can definitely recommend that if you can deal with some 
> graphical glitches.

Booooooo.  In my defense, there _are_ minor bugs in OO's output filters, but 
they don't offset OO's biggest features: it runs on *NIXes and it's free.  My 
bar is set pretty low as far as word processing features go.  More than 
eighty columns wide?  Bah.

> Yeah, I used Kapital and maintain some Gentoo ebuilds for it. Don't use 
> it unless you don't care about accurate balances. GNUCash I tried, it 
> has 300 million dependancies and I just got bored trying to compile it. 
> For taxes, I just use the web version of TurboTax. I know that might 
> not be the greatest for my privacy, but I get to use the platform of my 
> choice.

Bottom line: if you don't use bc and pipe-delimited flat files to track your 
finances, you are weak.


Kidding, m'kay?
d.
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