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I gave this chart a rating of 4. This is very useful information. I've mentioned in previous posts that I have created a lot of work for myself by using a test machine to experiment with turning services off and seeing what happened. This chart will save people a lot of time.
The only reason that I did not rate this chart as 5 is the format. I think that XLS format is a bad idea for general distribution of information. I mentioned in a recent discussion about someone migrating to OpenOffice.org software that the spreadsheet program can be a bit of a problem when reading a genuine M$ Excel file. In this case I found that the OOo spreadsheet program appeared to work but the Gnome spreadsheet called gnumeric failed to display the file properly.
I think that it you are going to distribute information that it NOT intended to be edited by the recipients then it is better to use a noneditable format such as PDF. Plus the software available on Unixes to display PDF files have better compatibility with PDF files created by any number of software applications. So I strongly prefer to receive documents in PDF format rather than in XLS format.
I want to end with a positive comment so I'm going to just say thanks for providing this information. I believe that it will be very useful to me in my professional activities.
The only reason that I did not rate this chart as 5 is the format. I think that XLS format is a bad idea for general distribution of information. I mentioned in a recent discussion about someone migrating to OpenOffice.org software that the spreadsheet program can be a bit of a problem when reading a genuine M$ Excel file. In this case I found that the OOo spreadsheet program appeared to work but the Gnome spreadsheet called gnumeric failed to display the file properly.
I think that it you are going to distribute information that it NOT intended to be edited by the recipients then it is better to use a noneditable format such as PDF. Plus the software available on Unixes to display PDF files have better compatibility with PDF files created by any number of software applications. So I strongly prefer to receive documents in PDF format rather than in XLS format.
I want to end with a positive comment so I'm going to just say thanks for providing this information. I believe that it will be very useful to me in my professional activities.
Posted by stress junkie
30th Jun 2005
