Office XP - More bloat per dollar. Having far too many problems with converting Word XP documents (urgh!) to Rich Text Format (which is meant to be a standard!)
Downloading OpenOffice.org, which if useful I will get them to install on all our machines, as I believe it will deal with the whole standards thing a little better.
NHS Information Authority - e-GIF: Help Using this Website - CompuServe users will probably find it quicker to download the software from the Adobe Forum (GO ADOBE)
CompuServe users?! Rock on!
Found this webserver running on an Apple Newton - This server runs on 4 AA batteries, in only 10K of heap on a 162MHz StrongARM SA-110 RISC processor, using NewtonOS Personal Data Sharing software (nHTTPd v2.043). This Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 is a multi-tasking, object oriented PDA with 4Mb of RAM and a 16Mb Flash storage card, connected via a Farallon PN895 Ethernet card.
MySQL for Windows and ODBC. MySQL ODBC Drivers MySQL ODBC Drivers
MySQL ODBC drivers allow you to connect to MySQL running on your Virtual Private Server from your PC and import/export databases.
$plan: This could be very handy. For the uninformed, mySQL is basically SQL-Server, minus a little of the speed but it's free. Totally free. Let that sink in for a sec...
The Evolution of DarwinAt the heart of Mac OS X one finds Darwin, an open source core that integrates a diverse collection of powerful technologies in a robust, flexible architecture. Darwin is like Linux with a day job: By day, it stays discreetly in the background, running Mac OS X. By night, Darwin shows its open source roots: hackable, extensible, and the product of the same community, culture, and traditions that created Apache, sendmail, GNU/Linux, Mozilla, and UNIX itself.
Users are happy, but engineers also get to have their fun. - That's what it's all about really, isn't it?
