-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 March 2008 12:09:47 pm Timeout wrote: > Please ask around any translators if they see many ODF. That will be the > first indicator of it being used by business and not what governments are > saying. I run my own business. We made the transition to ODF already and only come across the odd XLS every once in a while (in which it gets converted to ODF in short order anyway). You can no longer apply for state jobs or exchange documents with state government here with MS-format documents except with one or two smaller bureaus that haven't joined us in the third millennium yet; it's ODF, PDF or the highway as far as Oregon's concerned these days. > > You still don't need to reinstall just because your drivers go > > south...boot from a rescue CD and fix from there. About the only time > > you really need to reinstall is if your system gets compromised... > > I need to reformat the home partition because otherwise I have a ghost > partition. Telling me I have 2 GB used and 5 GB free out of a 86 GB home > partition. For my purpose it's to small. Aaah, that wasn't made clear earlier. It sounded like you were reinstalling because of something considerably more superficial than that. - -- Paul Johnson baloo@xxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH5q0CUCxPKZafKh0RAqVTAJ99cN93KNFUp2wXKMVTSgtnq4qX1QCeIg4p SP9g3bS+62iq/gJ9jLE/6Nk= =uL/T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
