Archives week 9 of 2004
March 1, 2004 - March 7, 2004
OpenOffice Presenter has no style... (Why disable a general mechanism for a specific app?)
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Vindaloo.
OO Presenter has this annoying restriction that you can't define new styles. The annoying thing is that the program is obviously style aware (you can change existing styles using the same stylist as everywhere else in OO). Means that I wind up either having to use an outline level to mean "source code sample", or ...
Rob says hi (Old collegue from Tpresence drops a line)
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Vindaloo.
Have been chatting with Rob Ashbaugh for a last few days via email. Rob was the office manager and financial guy, wonderful sense of humour. Spent a lot of time sitting around chatting with him back then.
Yet more licensing silliness... (GPL licensing kills another hour)
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Snaking.
Wasted almost an hour there on debate regarding GPL and FSF licensing issues. There's a weird entry in the GPL FAQ which tries to claim that using a GPL plug-in with a proprietary application is somehow violating the GPL on the plug-in. Can't see the logic of it. Oh well, glad I avoid the whole ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.