« Dinosaurs. | Main | The secret of NIMH is now available at the Wistar Institute »

August 30, 2005

NeoOffice is looking quite good at the moment

The entirity of yesterday evening was spent writing a commentary on a long, dull proposal for submission today. It was not an experience I would care to repeat, so I was careful to save the document every 10 minutes or so.

However, it's when there's a deadline that the foibles of software become less of a tolerable peccadillo and escalate into something that bodes poorly for the health of the hardware. Microsoft Word (for the Macintosh), which crashes on a semi-regular basis, has one other fault I have just discovered. It gives no indication and issues absolutely no warnings when it fails to save a document to a shared (SMB) drive. It appears, to all intents and purposes, that the document is saved. Until you close Word and look for it.

NeoOffice is the Macified version of OpenOffice, which I intend to download and install today.

Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at August 30, 2005 09:22 AM

Comments