<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Like the title change, funny as I was thinking about making BIG steps.....<br><br>1 - How much does it cost the University IT department per student taking into account Hardware, Software (licenses and support) and Internal staffing costs.<br>2 - How much would it cost to provide each student with a Linux based laptop with some support.<br><br>If (1 > 2 response = Yippee)<br>Else response = pooPants<br><br>Just another tangent on the subject of documents.<br>All this talk about formatting being messed up reminds me of some Uni buddies who would create an outstanding looking GUI in Java and then have zero functionality as they hadn't written any working code.<br>If you have a working document should you really be worried about how pretty it looks until it's complete, surely the content is
more important than presentation when creating......<br><br>Mark<br><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: "STEVENS, GRAEME" <986100930@abertay.ac.uk><br>To: seago.john@googlemail.com; Tayside Linux User Group <dundee@lists.lug.org.uk><br>Sent: Saturday, 18 October, 2008 13:06:18<br>Subject: [dundee] Open Office - Baby Steps<br><br>If the Uni wont even consider adding open office in the forseeable, then, what about Zoho?<br><br>Its online - No Installation<br>You can export to OO or Office, so when both are available, its still relevant.<br><br>Keeping your work on a an Internet based office has its benefits i.e access.<br><br>That way, you introduce the concept of freedom but without the Uni technicians having to do anything.<br><br>Just a thought.<br><br>Graeme Stevens<br>MSc Ethical
Hacking and Computer Security<br>University of Abertay Dundee<br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a ymailto="mailto:dundee-bounces@lists.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:dundee-bounces@lists.lug.org.uk">dundee-bounces@lists.lug.org.uk</a> on behalf of John¹<br>Sent: Thu 16/10/2008 21:59<br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:dundee@lists.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:dundee@lists.lug.org.uk">dundee@lists.lug.org.uk</a><br>Subject: Re: [dundee] The Distro Swap Shop<br> <br>On Thursday 16 October 2008 19:24:10 "Christie, Brian" <br><<a ymailto="mailto:B.Christie@abertay.ac.uk" href="mailto:B.Christie@abertay.ac.uk">B.Christie@abertay.ac.uk</a>>, wrote:<br>> I'll see if I can find out what happened to that and what their position<br>> is...<br><br>vide, <a href="http://www.theopendisc.com/" target="_blank">http://www.theopendisc.com/</a><br><br>-- <br>John Seago<br>GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 <a href="http://counter.li.org/"
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