Post your desktop

Post by **kv83** » Mon 21 Feb, 2005 8:41 pm

Well, CoBB, I guess you either use Open Office OR Microsoft Office, which enable you to open the file

CoBB · Post by **CoBB** » Mon 21 Feb, 2005 10:27 pm

I don't like office suites, be it OOo or mso.

Post by **kv83** » Tue 22 Feb, 2005 7:12 am

CoBB wrote:I don't like office suites, be it OOo or mso.

OK, I could have guessed that you would reply with something like that

coelurus · Post by **coelurus** » Tue 22 Feb, 2005 4:02 pm

Isn't the ms office suite "pretty expensive"? There are tools for free to make docs that look just as good (always better when it comes to school-work). I'd never put money on something that can easily be substituted

Anyway, to stay on-topic, I changed my desktop a little; new background :p Thinking about switching over to fvwm2 just to be able to do things most wms will do a few years ahead, but it takes some time to set all cfgs.

Andy_J · Post by **Andy_J** » Tue 22 Feb, 2005 4:51 pm

Any student or faculty at my college (The University of Akron) can get Office 2003 for Windows for $30. You can only get one license per version, though. And I lost my CDs (or at least I don't know where they are), so I'm screwed.

Post by **benryves** » Tue 22 Feb, 2005 4:54 pm

coelurus wrote:Isn't the ms office suite "pretty expensive"? There are tools for free to make docs that look just as good (always better when it comes to school-work).

Just use LaTeX or something. OpenOffice/AbiWord are all pretty ropey because they try and do what MS Word can, and fail at that. If they produced their own formats and stuck to them, so be it.

LaTeX is free, can output as PS/DVI/PDF (so easy to read/print) and the files are tiny as it's just source, not a whopping huge Word document.

leofox · Post by **leofox** » Tue 22 Feb, 2005 4:56 pm

my parents both got Office 2000 for free some years ago because they're teachers or something..

now i don't have to pay ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬130 or use M$ work$!

CoBB · Post by **CoBB** » Tue 22 Feb, 2005 8:18 pm

And most importantly, LaTeX can handle documents of the size of a normal thesis (soon to be a current issue for me) with ease, which is usually too big for WYSIWYG word processors not to choke on. Additionally, one can absorb a bit of typographical erudition while using it, which never hurts.

leofox · Post by **leofox** » Tue 22 Feb, 2005 8:23 pm

new background!!

It's TES4: Oblivion

Post by **Patori** » Fri 04 Mar, 2005 1:59 pm

Well, here's my 500mhz's desktop with all the icons....

I really need to clear it off some... especially the 'Fan-subs'... er...

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Post by **benryves** » Fri 04 Mar, 2005 7:26 pm

A background I made myself:

You can grab different sized versions (1280x1024, 1024x768 and 800x600) from my b3ta profile: http://www.b3ta.com/users/profile.php?id=27007