Today, 13 October 2005 is OpenOffice's fifth birthday today. The project has come a long way in the past five years, with the imminent release of version two, which is currently in release candidate stage.
I'm currently using Eric B's latest build for Mac OS X, which is the best build I have seen so far!
Excellent Work keep it up OpenOffice.org team!
I've just noticed on the Apple store that Apple now have a USB modem that is required for connecting to the internet. This is probably due to the fact that the majority of people connecting tot he net these days do so via broadband rather than dial-up.
Is Apple starting the beginning of the end for dial-up internet connections by phasing out modems in the iMac? This seems to be the same thing as the loss of the floppy disk drive from the iMacs when they came out in 1998.
I managed to crash the startup script on my iPod Photo, when trying to update it.
The syptoms constantly force restarting its self after starting to read from the HD.
I did eventually managed to sort it. How?
Put the iPod into disk mode (press and hold select and menu keys to reset, then when you see the apple logo immediately press and hold the select and play keys). You can then connect it to a computer and run a disk utility app over it.
Fingers cross the disk utility app will sort the problem out. If it does your fine, you can just eject the iPod, disconnect it and it will hopefully work. It did for me after a few runs of the repair disk in disk utility. Any comments let me know.
Why not use hybrid trolley buses as an interim measure, until there is enough money is available to fund the laying down of the tracks.
I would say that using hybrid trolley buses instead as it would be more flexible. They don't always require electric to run, and they don't need the expensive tracks.
The Museum of Transport in Glasgow has a trolley bus from the 60's, so it might be an idea taking a look at it.
Take a look at: http://www.genecombio.com/news.asp?id=23, to see the company and project I've been doing.
Edit:
Due to a change, to make Google index the news articles properly, the above URL no longer takes you to the correct place try http://www.genecombio.com/news.asp?pageref=23 instead.
According to the Evening News - End of the line for bus routes once trams start to run in city . Bus companies are going to have to cut the bus services to the city centre. If the right routes get cut then it won't be a bad thing as the current probem with the city centre is that there are far too many buses there. So many they are holding each other up! If this goes ahead I just hope that the buses that get taken off from the city centre will be put on to the routes avoiding the city centre!
Unfortunately the new Yahoo Mail service that makes webmail feel like your at you desktop is only available to those who have a @yahoo.com address. See Yahoo's Beta Signup page.
It's a real shame I only have a @yahoo.co.uk address, I was looking forward to trying it out.
It seems as though the release of Quicktime 7 for Windows has been overshaddowed by the releases of the iPhone, iPod Nano and iTunes 5.
Apple have just released a new iPod, the iPod Nano.
It seems to be simply a larger shuffle with a colour display.
There also seems to be a new version of iTunes too according to the page of about the iPod Nano.
The new iTunes features a new interface similar to Apple's Mail in Tiger.
Other features include:
