MonadLUG Notes, 12-Oct-1007: Ben Scott presents DNS and BIND

[Kent Johnson]

Ted Roche wrote:

> I would think an editor that "knows about" XHTML so that it creates the
> </li> when you create the <li> tag would help a lot. I mostly hand-code
> my HTML (I know, how last century!), so I'm used to it.

Me too, actually; maybe I'm making too big of a deal out of it.

> Failing this, perhaps OpenOffice.org Impress to develop the presentation
> and PDF output is second-best.

I have been uniformly un-Impressed with OO on Mac OSX. Writer is clunky, 
I have had problems interoperating with MS Word (and whatever you think 
of MS Word, sometimes that is a real requirement) and Calc is unusably 
slow even on a reasonably fast machine. Oh, and X11 doesn't integrate 
very well either. This is one reason I bought MS Office in the first 
place, it wasn't without some consideration of the alternatives. So I'm 
not that excited about trying Impress.

> But PowerPoint? PowerPoint kills, man. (Well, PowerPoint doesn't kill
> people. People using PowerPoint kill people. But, still...)

??

It doesn't help that I already have an older version of the presentation 
in PP...

> P.S. You might take a look at Google Present if you've got a free Google
> Apps account. Similar in concept to S5.

OMG this is sweet! Imports .ppt files with styles! Looks like a winner.

Kent