IRC log for #asterisk-doc on 20110715

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12:13.05oejHello jsmith. Have a nice weekend!
12:14.56jsmithoej: Hey Olle... you too!
12:15.04jsmithoej: You headed back home for the weekend?
12:15.32oejI am soon to hit the autobahn to get to the airport :-)
12:15.42jsmithWhee!
12:16.03oejI will arrive to Stockholm at the same time as my sister Anna. She flies from Mexico, I fly from Germany. That's synchronization.
12:16.13jsmithoej: Sounds like you had a fun week -- I really need to get back into SIP stuff
12:28.34oejYes, you do.
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16:17.06AlricLooks like the Mayans were off, by over a year!
17:37.07jsmithAlric: Oh?
17:37.24jsmithAlric: Actually, the guy who calculated the 2012 date was way off anyway
17:59.40AlricWell if they predicted August 2, 2011, I'd be impressed.
19:45.50AlricDo you guys think OpenOffice is a real competitor to MS Office?
20:05.55leifmadsennope
20:06.04leifmadsenI find OOo mostly junk
20:06.08leifmadsenit's tolerable
20:08.53jsmithLibreOffice is getting better, now that they're cleaning out a lot of the worst code
20:09.04jsmithBut it's still not truly competitive
20:09.17jsmithThat being said, I haven't used the real Office in several years now
20:09.24jsmithLibreOffice does everything I need it to
20:11.28AlricOO does what I need, just slower and more painful than MSO.
20:11.53Alricand every time I touch it I long for my Office for Mac 2004 or whatever version that was.
20:12.46AlricI can't believe modern PC MS Office can't convert to PDF
20:12.59AlricAnd I'm wondering if that feature got stripped out of the most recent Office for Mac.
20:23.54leifmadsenI just use a document-to-pdf print driver
20:26.10AlricI'd certainly like to use something like Linux day-to-day.  I mean, free is compelling.  OS X and Win 7 are just too pretty.
20:26.28Alricand if I'm going to deal with something 8+ hours a day, it will be pretty.
20:26.32jsmithloves his Linux, and can't stand to go back to either Windows or OS X
20:26.40jsmithwould take functional over pretty any day
20:26.50jsmith(That being said, Gnome 3 *is* pretty)
20:27.02AlricWho said I was missing functionality?
20:29.22AlricThere may be a better way to run a railroad, but I'm doing pretty well.
20:30.33AlricQuickly comparing what I run, I wouldn't lose anything going to Fedora 15 (except MS Office), but what I'd gain aside from it being free isn't enough for me.
20:37.14leifmadsenI can't use anything but linux on my desktop anymore... gotten too used to be able to do what I want with it
20:39.38AlricWhat does that mean in practicality?
20:40.05leifmadsenI don't understand the question
20:40.30leifmadsenit means I work more efficiently and I find linux earier
20:40.32leifmadseneasier*
20:40.38AlricGive me an example of something you have "done what you want with", that wouldn't be possible with Win 7 for instance.
20:40.48AlricThat should even be easy :D
20:40.48jsmithAlric: Here, I'll give you an example...
20:41.03jsmithAlric: https://plus.google.com/106376239368339615111/posts/MNgKVMRQ5i2
20:41.40jsmithThe windows driver alone is probably 300+ megas
20:41.50leifmadsenAlric: you're missing the point
20:41.55leifmadsenit's not about that for me
20:42.17leifmadsenI just find linux easier for me -- I'm not trying to justify it for anyone else
20:42.30AlricI'm not asking you to.
20:42.34leifmadsenthen I'm done
20:42.37AlricI'm trying to understand what you find so fascinating about it.
20:42.40leifmadsengoes back to deprecating modules
20:43.06leifmadsenwho said things were fascinating?
20:43.11AlricBecause so far I don't see any practical reason that linux is more customizable.
20:43.25leifmadsenI'm saying for what I do, and the software I interact with, using Linux as my desktop is the easiest thing for me, and I don't miss using Windows or OSX
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20:44.56AlricThat is pretty cool jsmith.
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