[plug] Star Office and 5.1 and the registration

[David Bastow]

<Insert message outlining "how studid these `how-long-to-learn'
debates are and how I really shouldn't post anything but..." here>

On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Bret Busby wrote:

> 
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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> On 6/4/99, 11:47:00 AM, Christian <christian at global.net.au> wrote 
> regarding Re: [plug] Star Office and 5.1 and the registration:
> 
> <snip>
> > It's basically looking at the approaches taken to security at the
> > various software development phases.
> 
> Does that include the wonderful method of security (?) developed by 
> the ANZ Internet banking facility (shut out everyone who does not have 
> IE 4 or IE5, and tell those who can access the facility, that 128 bit 
> encryption applies, regardless of the ability of their browser?)
> 
> >  I'm submitting the proposal on
> > Tuesday. :)
> 
> Definitely not enough time to learn LaTeX!

I learnt latex last night - (cracked open a tutorial at about 9:00pm) and
I have just handed in a lab report complete with equations, graphs and
circuit diagrams, written in latex.  It didn't seem much harder than HTML
to me, same idea, _slightly_ larger vocabulary.  I don't claim to be an
expert - far from it - but I got the job done.

> 
> With that time frame, in spite of people's anticipated adverse 
> response on this mailing list, I would be inclined to use M$ Winword 
> 97, on WinNT, for the stability that that would give over Win9x.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Bret Busby
> 
> 
The last lab report I did (of similar nature) took me _hours_.  Ever tried
to use MS equation editor for, like, real work!  It doesn't even have
keyboard shortcuts for anything, its all clickety, click, click, click
all the way - and soooooooo tedius.

Seems I have $9.94 left now,  

   David B