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by Kris Douglas

Today I completed an assignment for IT in Linux. (We dont have any windoze machines in the house). So I saved it in a format supposedly compatible with Microsoft Office 2003, but...of course, microsoft's (lack of) support for open document format has redered the rather hefty assignment useless to the school. I think this is a pile of animal's fecal matter, the school should cater for the people that are actually using some software that is compatible with open formats available on the *nix platforms. I intend to complain at my school today to see if I can get some form of open solution for the software made available to us. But I am interested to hear your oppinions on this issue, and if its actually worth promoting. A rather peed off, Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: kris(a)softdel.net

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BBC get Boll****d by Government.

by Kris Douglas

The petition Linux and mac users alike created for the BBC to release an iPlayer that functions on other platforms prevailed today, as the BBC make it a condition to release a compatible system for other systems. See BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6983196.stm -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: kris(a)softdel.net

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Government response to the iPlayer petition

by Kevanf1

Here's the government's response to a petition sent to it some time ago concerning the proposed new BBC iPlayer service. This service will roll out only for use on the Windows platform to start with. It will be Windows XP and Vista only so further narrowing its scope of use. http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page13090.asp Now, my personal view on this is that on the face of it, it actually makes perfect sense to trial the new player on the most widely used OS. My anger is that they 'appear' to have only considered other platforms (OS's) after being moaned at by both Linux and BSD and Mac users. I include myself in the number of people who took the trouble to make enquiries about the service being made available for Linux. -- ============================================== Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Staffordshire

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Here's one we made earlier.

by stuart bell

Doesn't look too hard to make. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUTT8wdN_VA Stuart :))

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London Expo Postponed

by ArchLinuxUser dick_turpin

Hi All It was announced today that the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo London 2007 has been postponed until spring 2008. The decision follows feedback from potential sponsors and exhibitors who feel that the event is too close to the Linux Kernel Summit. I've had a little tantrum about it on my site http://www.cannon-linux.co.uk which goes out on a number of 'Planet Feeds' so I'll wait for some 'Mr Big' to mail me and tear me off a strip. -- Regards Dick Turpin Arch Linux is an independent i686-optimized community distribution for intermediate and advanced Linux users. Utilising a Rolling Release System packages are regularly updated and an ISO release is just a snapshot to the stable packages at that time. So there's no need for a fresh install the command 'pacman –Syu' upgrades the whole system.

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StaffsLUG Archive of staffslug@staffslug.org.uk September 2007