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On 28-06-2008 12:10:36 -0500, Greg wrote: |
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>> That's by far easiest right now. Chicken/egg problem. ;) |
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> I've learned more in the past couple of months than in the previous 5 |
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> years of using Linux. Part of that is because of my trials and |
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> tribulations of installing Gentoo Linux on my RS6000s. Since most IBM |
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> video cards kill the bootup, I had to learn a lot more on command line. |
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Well, you seem to be a bit persistant in continuing even though people |
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suggest otherwise ;) Personally I think that's a good property... |
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> Now I'm at work using PuTTy on Windows XP to ssh to one of my PPC64's |
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> running Gentoo to telnet into a PPC64 running AIX. |
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> I used svn to download the latest, made a tarball out of it and now I've |
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> started Firefox remotely and am about to use it to upload to my |
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> geocities webpage. Then I'll wget it from the AIX box. |
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LOL! Can't you just use winscp? I guess not, becayse you mentioned a |
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telnet link... I know the problem, I have the same situation on Interix |
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at the moment. |
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> I guess I should mention that we have Hummingbird here at work to |
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> connect to our own AIX Catia drafting server and that's what I'm using |
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> to view the firefox I'm running on the Gentoo Linux box at home. |
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> Ironically, this is *easier* than just installing 1.2 that I can just |
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> wget. And my wife wonders why I spend so much time on the computers. |
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> :-) |
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> My ultimate goal is to find some way, any way, to get OpenOffice |
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> installed on one of these, so I can get my company to use it for the |
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> engineers who only have an AIX computer. My department creates an Excel |
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> spreadsheet with all the Electrical Equipment we need a business jet and |
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> they have to use a hard copy to transfer that information to a 3D model. |
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> I suggested using OpenOffice so they could use the latest instead of |
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> using an outdated hard copy. Of course I suggested this pre-maturely |
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> since it's next to impossible to get past all the AIX bugs to install the |
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> thing. A VERY large compile that always fails after 9 hours. |
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I'm not sure on how necessary it is to *edit* the Excel virus, but for |
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sure there are several tools (non-openoffice) that can read excel and do |
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something with it. One of them the lovely tool xlhtml, which converts |
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excel to html. |
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> I guess I'm just a masichist. |
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or a "freak" using current terminology ;) |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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