Quoth Erez D: > 1. firefox (even on windows) does not support a lot of israely sites: my > nephue can't play at fun.walla.com <http://fun.walla.com>, i can't reach > yes's program guide, etc
True. Absolutely true. Linux is - alas - not yet for children. > 2. OO: even with OO 2.0 beta, i tried reading a word document - it worked, > but when i saved it back, parts of it were net readble by word (which the > targets of this doc use) also, the default format that OO 2.0 saves is > not compatible by OO 1.0 , so saving it in oo 1.0's format is similiar to > saving word in word97 format or rtf Disagree - as gilf so adroitly pointed out - send RTF and the problems will be blamed on Microsoft anyway ;-). Or - educate or coerce your correspondents. > 3. things like GIMP: at my mother's house, i installed GIMP. but my sister > is used to working with photoshop, and took her long time to find the > functions she needed, and she said some are missing (or maybe they had > different names, and she didn't find them). in short, most people are used > to windows. Agree completely and absolutely. GIMP (no matter which version) is a pile of tripe. It is not ready for work with digital photography. It _can_ and is being used to produce reasonable web-sites graphics, but no more. > 4. at my work place, we use exchange server. as i do not have a good open > replacement, i had to leave it that way. i tried to set evolution to work > with it, but after spending two days on it, i gave up as it didn't work. True and no good solution. Life sucks. Some people make money on it ;-). M -- ---MAV Marc A. Volovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Swiftouch, LTD +972-544-676764 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
