[CVALE] cvale Digest, Vol 28, Issue 8

[Joe]

On Fri, 30 May 2008 12:00:01 -0700
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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Web Site Design & Reconfiguration (Rick Knight)
>    2. Re: Microsoft Supporting ODF? (Ian Sterling)
>    3. Re: Microsoft Supporting ODF? (Landon Blake)
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> Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 14:50:09 -0700
> From: Rick Knight <rick_knight at rlknight.com>
> Subject: [CVALE] Web Site Design & Reconfiguration
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> Cvalers,
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> If I remember correctly, someone here does web site design with 
> Microsoft IIS servers.
> 
> At my work we have an IIS web site that, among other things,
> functions as an ftp upload/download site. This past weekend the
> server that house the upload and download directories crashed and we
> are not going to replace it. That means I now have to reconfigure the
> web site to use a different location just for the file transfer. The
> problem is this is all written in asp and I have zero asp experience.
> After fiddling with it for a day and a half I have only been able to
> get the uploads to work. I need someone who can come in, look at the
> asp  pages make the necessary  changes and then show me where the
> changes are made in case the problem arises again.
> 
> My contact info...
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> Rick Knight
> IT Admin
> Strocal. Inc
> 209-948-4600x3055
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 09:50:31 -0700
> From: "Ian Sterling" <xyverz at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CVALE] Microsoft Supporting ODF?
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> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Landon Blake <lblake at ksninc.com>
> wrote:
> > What do you guys think:
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> > http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsoft-and-odf-has-hades-gone-sub-zero
> 
> I don't think anything much will come out of this - other than MS
> trying to inject their own crap into the standard, or at least into
> their version of the standard.  Either that, or I'm spending too much
> time listening to my inner cynic.  :-)
> 
> --Ian...
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 09:59:15 -0700
> From: "Landon Blake" <lblake at ksninc.com>
> Subject: Re: [CVALE] Microsoft Supporting ODF?
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> Thanks Ian.
> 
> I was just curious about this. I thought maybe Microsoft was finally
> admitting defeat at some level.
> 
> Thank goodness some government officials in Europe have some sense and
> keep Microsoft in check. It's too bad the same thing can't happen here
> in the US.
> 
> I really believe an open standard for office documents, like ODF, will
> really benefit all of society in the long run. That is one of the
> greatest things about open source for me.
> 
> Landon
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> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Landon Blake <lblake at ksninc.com>
> wrote:
> > What do you guys think:
> >
> >
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsoft-and-odf-has-hades-gone-sub
> -zero
> 
> I don't think anything much will come out of this - other than MS
> trying to inject their own crap into the standard, or at least into
> their version of the standard.  Either that, or I'm spending too much
> time listening to my inner cynic.  :-)
> 
> --Ian...
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Microsoft knew that at least two countries would be appealing the fast
tracking of OOXML thru the ISO process and had to have something else
ready. As it now stands, after the formal appeals by Brazil and New
Zealand the process comes to a creeching halt and will be mired in
politics for who knows how long.
Joe