Well, I've decided that today is officially Micro$oft Sucks day! I went to reinstall the copy of MS Office XP for Students and Teachers that work and registered fine two days ago. After reinstalling Windows XP due to registry issues, Office no longer would activate via the Internet and when I called MS to activate over the phone they wouldn't let me as it was activated on another computer! Yeah, mine! So when my friend had problems with her computer and needed to open Word files before she could get MS Office, I suggested OpenOffice.org. Seeing as I was having the same issue a couple weeks later I took my own advice. It is very similar to MS Office so it doesn't take a lot of getting used to. Also you can open a ton of different formats as well as being able to save to those formats, such as MS Word. The best part about Open Office is because it is open source and community developed.... It's FREE! That's right....FREE! Can anyone remember the last time Microsoft gave out MS Office for free? Oh, and Open Office works on Macs, PCs and Linux based machines. I came very close to telling the Microsoft representative on the phone that I was going to install Open Office instead but I don't feel it necessary to do them the favour of telling them anymore about where the eventual downfall of Micro$oft is coming from. While Open Office is open source, meaning anyone can edit the code for the program, it is NOT some program by a Joe Nobody. Google and Sun Microsystems (makers of Java) are the main backers in this initiative allowing it to be easily accessed and have quality that surpasses MS Office. I am a big supporter of Google, if for no other reason than they are one of the only companies with enough influence to take down Microsoft. The next time you get a second on your way to doing a Google search add in the word options after the slash and check out the small list. To really find out what Google is up to takes more work, but I suggest checking out this if you doubt me. Google is definitely here to stay.
I've added more pictures to the Katimavik album, and I'm still trying to figure out where post-Katimavik pictures are going since Facebook requires an account.
Main Man, Out.
2 comments:
How is your minoring is cs going? Do you still have it as your minor? :P
Bit of an issue as they restructured the department and changed all the courses around but I should still be able to get it before I graduate.
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