(JA)OpenOffice.org ユーザーのためのMicrosoft Office 互換性研究室

OpenOffice.org ユーザーのためのMicrosoft Office 互換性研究室というホームページがあります。
互換性という観点から、OpenOffice.orgとMS Officeの比較などtipsがまとまっています。 現在、UNIX USERに連載されているそうで、半年遅れですが、記事を見ることも出来ます。
昨今OpenOffice.org 2.0(StarSuite 8)の方に話がいきがちですが、 まだ正式リリースではありませんし、現状ではかなり有用なサイトだと思います。
お勧めです。

Posted at 10:34午後 3 21, 2005 by Yasuhiro Fujitsuki in Linux & Solaris  |  投稿されたコメント[0]

(EN) KDE 3.4 released

KDE 3.4 released on March 16.
GUI of Sun Java Desktop(JDS) is based on Gnome 2.x, so it is probably not important for JDSD users. It is the fact that KDE is just a rival of Gnome...

I like KDE, K desktop environment. KDE is easy to use for me , and it is easy to customize desktop environments.

It is just my opinion. I think that KDE is bettern than Gnome. There are some reason that Gnome is based of JDS, but I do not talk about it.

When I get a question that "What of KDE is more excellent than that of gnome?", I will answer that "I think User Interface of KDE is better than Gnome, especially Look & Feel".
Look & Feel is very important component for client side system. I think Aqua's Look & Feel is very excellent. Aqua is a user interface of MacOS X.
Project Looking Glass (LG3D) got into the news very much. I think that reason of it is beautiful look & feel of LG3D.
So, I think that look & feel is very important component of user interface, and look & feel of KDE is better than Gnome.
We can get excellent user interface and look & feel on Gnome environment when we had customized. It is just like a JDS, JDS is a good example of customization of Gnome. I think that it is not significant when excellent look & feel is not obtained by default...

By the way, KDE latest version 3.4 released on March 16. In this release, there are some large updates, for example 6500 bugs fixed. I am interest in "Support Text to Speech", so I tried to install KDE and use Text to Speech. The photograph of right side is a screen shot of KDE on JDS R3 Beta.
I installed KDE and FreeTTS, Java based Text-to-Speech software, And, I had KDE read Jonathan's blog.;-)

JDS is based on Gnome, so JDS is not include packages of KDE and some application packages which is need by KDE. When you install KDE to JDS R3, you should install many packages. Easy way to install packages is installing rpm binary packages of SUSE linux ftp version.
And, you can get rpm binary packages of KDE for SUSE Linux.
When you use JDS R2, you should use packages for SuSE Linux 8.1/8.2. When you use JDS R3, you should use packages for SuSE Linux 9.1/9.2. I think packages for 8.1/9.1 are good for us. But, when you installed these packages, there is no support from Sun and Novell, Okay?

Posted at 05:29午後 3 21, 2005 by Yasuhiro Fujitsuki in Linux & Solaris(EN)  |  投稿されたコメント[0]

(JA/EN) 実験的に…。 / English translation started

実験的に、英語に翻訳したブログを作ってみました。
続けることができるかどうかはわかりませんが。
とりあえず、必要ないと判断した時点でやめますし。
英語に翻訳しない項目も当然あります。^-^;
それにしても、ひどい英語だ…orz。

-- English Translation --
I started English translation of my blog contents. It is just test for me. When I think I do not need English translation of my blog contents, I will give up to write English translation... And, I might not translate some contents into English.

Posted at 05:05午後 3 21, 2005 by Yasuhiro Fujitsuki in General  |  投稿されたコメント[0]

(EN) rdesktop 1.4.0 released

Rdesktop latest version (rdesktop 1.4.0) released on rdesktop.org. In mailing list archive of rdesktop developer, you can find the message from thaniwa, it's me. This fact is off-the-beaten-path on Sun Microsystems.
My work was that 24bit color mode on SPARC(big endian) machines. Current code of rdesktop 24 bit color is not my written code. ;-)
When your rdesktop is version 1.2.0 and your rdesktop has -r option, this version include my patch of 24bit color.

Rdesktop is a reverse engineering project of Matt Chapman. Rdesktop is a client application to access Windows Terminal Server.
Target environemnt is a linux, but rdesktop run on Solaris(SPARC) environment and it's can use on Sun Ray environment.
We need Windows Server machine and turn on the terminal server mode to use rdesktop. So, you think that you do not need rdesktop for your work.
But now, Windows XP has a function of terminal server, so you can display Windows XP on your linux desktop.
Windows XP limit to use 1 session of terminal server, so multiple user cannot support in this environment, but it is enough for personal works.

I think that combination of rdesktop and Sun Ray environment is very good. When you use Sun Ray environments and Windows Terminal Server environment, administrator do not have to manage client, so you can reduce administration machines. Current Windows based terminal client have to run Windows CE, so administrator have to manage terminal client, but need no administration on Sun Ray environment.
But, you should think that this usage is the way for shift of environment, Windows to Solaris/Linux environment.

My interest of latest rdesktop's new functions are as followings,

• Sound Re-direct function
• Network disk function

Rdesktop can play the sound on client machine, this sound is played on Windows server. This function does not need for work, but I think it is very interest for me.

Network disk function is very convenience(good) function. When you use rdesktop wich -r desk:home=/home/XXXXX option, you can see your local home directory of linux as network disk. Samba is unnecessary to the use of this option.

If you want to use latest version of rdesktop, you have to build from source code. This is very easy. Just ./configure; make; make install.
And, the release interval of rdesktop is very long. So, when you want to use latest function, not in latest version, you should get source codes via cvs.
Source codes via cvs does not have configure script, so you have to make configure script with automake, autoconf, and so on.

Posted at 02:02午後 3 21, 2005 by Yasuhiro Fujitsuki in Linux & Solaris(EN)  |  投稿されたコメント[0]

(EN) LG3D 0.6.1 Full Screen

Photograph of right side is a screen shot of full screen mode of LG3D opensource 0.61 version, I used on Project Looking Glass(LG3D) session of Java Computing 2005 at Roppongi, Tokyo Japan.

When you use LG3D opensource version on Linux environment, you have desktop/laptop pc with ATI Radeon chip or NVidia GeForce/GoForce chip, because LG3D opensource version need 24bit color and 3D(DRI) function.
And now, when you want to use full screen mode of LG3D, your PC need NVidia graphic chip, because current ATI's driver do not support Composite extension with DRI.
You can use full screen mode without Composite extension on ATI's graphic chip. But, in this environment, LG3D cannot display 2D window application...

LG3D full screen mode is works good. LG3D can display slide-show mode(full screen) of StarOffice(OpenOffice.org). But now, when you want to do it, it is good that your PC has over 1GB memory, because, current LG3D and StarOffice need large size memory.
And, Full Screen mode of Some Application like a Acrobat Reader cannot use on LG3D.

This screen shot is LG3D 0.6.1 full screen mode on Sun Java Workstation W1100z, which has NVidia Quadro 280 graphic chip on the system. In this screen shot, I ran xterm, mozilla, gimp, and acrobat reader on LG3D full screen mode, and I took the screen shot with gimp 2.0 screen capture function.

Posted at 01:22午後 3 21, 2005 by Yasuhiro Fujitsuki in Java(EN)  |  投稿されたコメント[0]