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[Parshy]

Well, it's ofiicall, I have OCD about SMG

[antiaircraft]

I have no idea what you're trying to say.

 

On a random note, I just tried out OpenOffice.org and it's not bad, especially considering it's free.

[Guest Levy]

What is that? Some kinda of game or sumthin?

[antiaircraft]

It's a free office suite, almost as good as Microsoft Office. It's missing a feature here and there but so far I haven't found anything glaring.

[Hubert]

I don't even have microsoft "word". And that is really annoying!

[Parshy]

OCD=You are obseing about something

SMG= Super Mario Galaxy

[Hubert]

Super Mario Galxy? I want that game!

[Parshy]

Well, the more of it you see, the more you REALLY want it

[The Original Luna]

Super Mario Galaxy? I don't even have the player for that... or the game pac either.

[antiaircraft]

And I still don't really get what you guys are talking about. XD

 

Why don't you have Microsoft Word Usemaster?

[Guest Levy]

He prolly has XP Home edition, Home doesn't come with Microsoft Word.

I have XP Home, but I have an old program called Corel Wordperfect Suite 8 to compensate.

[antiaircraft]

I have XP home, and I installed Microsoft Office on it, but recently I tried out OpenOffice and decided to switch (although I still left Microsoft Office on the computer so that my parents didn't go mad).

[Hubert]

Well im fine with the notebook. I dosn't write so much you know.

[antiaircraft]

I really don't like notepad unless I'm editing HTML or encoding/decoding something.

[Izzy ♥]

I had Works on this computer when I first got it... I didn't like it though so I borrowed an Office CD from work and loaded that on :P

[Myriad]

Haha, my computer doesn't even have Microsoft Genuine! It sucks.

[antiaircraft]

In the future if I need an office suite I'll just download OpenOffice instead of forking up more than US$100 for a Microsoft Office suite.

[Hubert]

So OpenOffice is good? Worth to download?

[antiaircraft]

Well if you need a word processor, it's fine, although whether or not it's worth it depends on your internet connection - it's a hefty download, over 100MB.

[The Original Luna]

Sheesh- you sound like you're flogging it! Erm, I mainly use XP Word.

[antiaircraft]

Well the main reason I switched to OpenOffice is because it's open source. GO OPEN SOURCE!!!

[The Original Luna]

Could you explain what Open source actually is please? What is it like and stuff.

[antiaircraft]

Open source software is software whose source code is made available to the public. That means that it can be worked on by the community instead of employees. This in turn means that developers (like me!) who actually use the software can get involved in the project and fiddle around with things, improving it and adding their own stuff which they actually find useful, instead of everything being done by a big company which THINKS it knows what its users want, but actually doesn't.

[The Original Luna]

So it's like the coding Neopets uses for its site?

[antiaircraft]

Nope - it refers to projects like Firefox, OpenOffice and Ubuntu Linux, where most of the actual making of the program is done by volunteer developers from around the world.