Geoffrey Heard wrote:
> At 4:47 AM +0100 15/02/11, Erik Richard Sørensen wrote:
>> I have been looking at the Papyrus eventually for a Danish 
>> translation... And my German is about as good as my English, but not 
>> for a translation from German computer language into English - hardly 
>> from German to Danish. Computer expressions are so far from the 
>> English as Danish is from Greek..-)
> 
> But that's often the point, Erik -- learn some terms and everything 
> falls into place. Australia offers a range of "professional English" 
> courses to skilled immigrants whose mother tongue is not English. Or 
> used to do.
> the courses were only an hour or two a day for some weeks. (They are 
> expected to spend more than an hour or two in private study, of course.)

Well. I've downloaded all the Apple dictionaries for their localization 
tools, but these language dicts don't seem to work with XCode newer than 
1,5 or so, - and I use both ver. 2.5 and 3.0 - no dictionaries 
available. These dicts might have been useful even from English into 
Danish since more terms then could be automated...

>> I wrote to my contact and asked why on earth they didn't either use 
>> OpenOffice or NisusWriter Pro for that work, but Pages? Huh! I've had 
>> so many problems making this translation that you won't belive it.
> 
> Apple talks a lot about Pages and Word compatibility but there seems to 
> be plenty of evidence out there that Pages is not nearly as compatible 
> with Word as Apple seems to imply.

Indeed! - One of the worst things is that it is nearly impossible to 
make a deacent spellchecking, and opening Win-Word files containing 
graphics and tables is a real horror. - I'd say it that hard that even 
the old Clarisworks 2.0 for System 7.x does a far much better job than 
Pages...

>>>> OK, there of course still are the three large compeditors - 
>>>> NeoOffice, OpenOffice and StarOffice. These three are doing great 
>>>> and as far as I'm aware of now have more than a 1/3 of the market 
>>>> totally seen on all platforms. I use the OpenOffice on both Mac and 
>>>> Windows...
> 
> I have NeoOffice on board. It differs in detail from OpenOffice, and 
> seems to work better for me.

I've deleted the NeoOffice in favor of OOo because the handling of 
non-latin languages is that much better in OpenOffice 3.2.x or the new 
3.3 - also better than in LibreOffice. Especially the CTL (Complex Text 
Handling) is now by near perfect no matter if you open odt files created 
on any Linux or Windows version of OOo or StarOffice. Also font 
substitution works better in OOo than in NeoOffice, and I'm really glad 
that they still continue the developing of the PowerPC version too, so I 
can use the same ver. on any of my machines - both Intel, PowerPC Macs 
as well as Windows, and know that files /are/ identical to each others..

> I don't have Windows, of course. However, I have just upgraded Parallels 
> again with a view to installing Windows so I can use one of those "go 
> anywhere" wireless Internet dongles when I am in Papua New Guinea. They 
> have a service which I am told works quite well, but it only runs on 
> Windows. The joke is that there is a picture of a MacBook on the dongle 
> box!  :)
> 
> Intuitively, getting Windows installed so I can go on the internet 
> sounds like exactly the wrong thing to do given the vulnerability of 
> Windows connections. I suppose I'll have to worry about a firewall and 
> whatnot. sigh!

No, no worry about firewall if you install Windows as a virtual machine. 
When you do this using Parallels the Mac side reacts as a firewall, but 
if you install Windows as bootable partition, you must enable the fully 
firewall protection within Windows + have a good antivirus application 
as well.

Reg. Windows version. Do keep away from Vista, stay either with Win 
XPPro or go to Win7. These are the two best versions on Mac.

Reg. antivirus app. Here I'll strongly suggest to use Avast! It is free 
if used privately on home computer, but you'll need to pay a little for 
it, and if you buy the double pack with Avast! For Mac with Avast! Pro, 
you get even higher rebates. - If you just want the Win-version, you 
will also get protected inboxes in mail apps, which else Norton 
Antivirus is the only other AV app on Windows that does the same. Avast! 
also can handle any shared disk on Windows - including Mac HFS+ 
formatted disks.
http://www.avast.com/en-eu/index

If you install Windows as a virtual machine and install ClamXav on the 
Mac, this app is also able to scan inboxes as well and it's also capable 
of scanning shared disks.

Using Parallels you also will benefit from another feature. You can add 
_any_ Mac formatted disk as 'shared disk' both USB and Firewire 
harddisks, USB sticks flashcards etc., and be able to bot _read_ and 
_write_ to/from these disks - even when the Windows image is made using 
the NTFS partition map! - AND get full protection as mentioned above 
when working in Windows.

Note. If you initialize the Windows image as NTFS you don't need a NTFS 
driver on the Mac to be able to access the Windows side either, but if 
you make the Windows bootable using NTFS map, you must have a NTFS 
driver on the Mac OS X to be able to both read and write to/from the 
Windows side. For this I prefer the Paragon NTFS Driver, but there are 
freeware drivers like NTFS 3G Driver 2010, which is nearly as good and 
reliable as the Paragon tool.

One reason more to only use XPPro is that still some printerdrivers from 
a.m.o. HP haven't been updated to Win7, if printers are more than 2 
years old and it's rather a harsh routine to install and use the older 
drivers on Win7.

Also get Firefox and Thunderbird for Windows and stay far, far away from 
WindowsMail and Explorer, - you won't get anything but trouble with 
these two apps. - And sure let WinUpdate make all the system updates on 
the Windows side, then both XPPro and Win7 will act bearably. And if 
some office package is needed, just get OpenOffice for Windows, then 
you're well done too anc can avoid the M$ monster.

For the moment I'm only running Windows XPPro SP3 as a 120gb NTFS 
formatted virtual machine and it is faster than when installed on a 
similar regular PC!

Cheers, Erik Richard

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