| Wednesday,
March 27, 2002 From Roland, on Office
under Linux:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT6509081484.html
and
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/27/0444257&tid=15
And a press release of some interest:
Hi Jerry , I wanted to let you know about two
announcements from this week that may be of interest to you and your
readers.
- WordPerfect has been selected as the
standard office suite for all Sony VAIO desktop and select models of Sony
VAIO laptops throughout North America. - WordPerfect has also been
selected for HP bundles with HP home and office PCs.
The complete press releases are both below
for your review. If you would like any additional information, please let
me know and I will be happy to answer any questions you may have.
Best, Becky
Sony VAIO? Customers To Experience the Power
of WordPerfect? Office 2002
Ottawa, Canada ? March 27, 2002 ? Corel
Corporation (NASDAQ: CORL, TSE: COR) today announced a strategic agreement
with Sony Electronics Inc. which will enable it to include WordPerfect?
Office 2002 on all Sony VAIO? desktop and select models of VAIO laptop
personal computers sold in North America. Sony VAIO customers will receive
an office suite which includes WordPerfect 10, Quattro? Pro 10, Corel?
Presentations? 10 and more.
In addition, these customers will have the
opportunity to upgrade to WordPerfect Office 2002 Professional at a
preferred rate.
"We are extremely pleased to be working
with Sony Electronics to ensure that VAIO customers experience the power
and precision of WordPerfect," said Steve Houck, executive
vice-president of strategic relations at Corel Corporation. "The Sony
brand is recognized as a leading name in electronics, standing for quality
and innovation. These same characteristics are the driving force behind
WordPerfect Office 2002. VAIO PCs and our exceptional office suite will
provide customers with a very compelling offering."
WordPerfect 10 offers customers unprecedented
precision and control over their document creation. Complete with Reveal
Codes, Publish to PDF, support for Microsoft? Windows? XP and Microsoft
Word documents, including Word 2002 (Microsoft Office XP), WordPerfect 10
provides a number of powerful new features to improve productivity. For
more information about the other applications provided in this special
offer, please visit www.wordperfect.com.
VAIO customers who wish to upgrade to
WordPerfect Office 2002 Professional may contact Corel customer service at
1-800-772-6735. The Professional edition includes WordPerfect 10, Quattro
Pro 10, Corel Presentations 10, CorelCENTRAL? 10, Paradox? 10, Dragon
NaturallySpeaking?, Microsoft? Visual Basic? for Applications, Net2Phone?,
1000 fonts, 11,000 clipart images and 200 photos.
Corel Brings WordPerfect? to HP PCs
Ottawa, Canada ? Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:
CORL, TSE: COR) today announced that its WordPerfect? suite of software
will be bundled across Hewlett-Packard Company?s (HP) home and business
PCs.
A trial version of WordPerfect? Office 2002
is included on HP Pavilion desktop PCs for the North American market. The
trial version gives consumers a chance to use and evaluate Corel?s
globally recognized office suite for a 30-day period. Following the trial
period, users can quickly and easily purchase a full version of the
product by utilizing an innovative "unlocking" technology
accessible on their desktops or by visiting Corel?s e-store.
WordPerfect 9, the award-winning
word-processing program, is included with HP Pavilion ze1000 series
notebook PCs sold in North America. Additionally, HP Pavilion ze1000 and
HP Pavilion zt1000 series notebook PC owners have the opportunity to
upgrade to WordPerfect Office 2002 through a special in-box promotional
offer.
Brazilian-Portuguese and Spanish editions of
WordPerfect 9 are also bundled on HP Vectra business desktop PCs for the
Latin American market. Recent industry data shows that HP led the
worldwide home PC market in 2001 for the second straight year.
"We are pleased to introduce these new
initiatives ? the latest in a series of successful endeavors we?ve enjoyed
with HP over the years," said Steve Houck, executive vice-president
of strategic relations at Corel Corporation. "We are providing PC
users with options that expand the range of software solutions available
to them. We?re particularly satisfied by the strong response we?ve
received through our e-store from users who have opted to purchase the
full version of WordPerfect Office 2002 after evaluating the trial version
of the software."
"HP is committed to offering our
customers the latest in hardware-software solutions," said Tom
Anderson, worldwide marketing manager, HP home products division.
"Offering Microsoft XP compatible WordPerfect Office 2002 on HP PCs
is just another way HP and Corel deliver customers greater choice in
adopting the solution that meets their individual computing needs."
http://www.corel.com
About Corel Corporation
Founded in 1985, Corel Corporation (www.corel.com)http://www.corel.com/
is a leading technology company that offers three major brands of software
tailored to distinct customer profiles ? Corel, procreate? and DEEPWHITE?.
With its headquarters in Ottawa, Canada, Corel?s common stock trades on
the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol CORL and on the Toronto Stock
Exchange under the symbol COR.http://www.corel.com/
? 2002 Corel Corporation. All rights
reserved. Corel, WordPerfect, procreate, DEEPWHITE and the Corel logo are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation or Corel
Corporation Limited in Canada, the United States and/or other countries.
All other product, font and company names and logos are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Press Contact:
Becky Porter Maverick Public Relations
And something a bit different
Jerry:
The item below is totally fictional but contains the
daily minimum requirement of buzzwords.....
http://www.seapod.org/writing/mac-os-y.html
Mac OS Y by Steve Klingsporn
March 26, 2002
I have some "inside information"
about the next release of the Macintosh operating system. It will be
called "Mac OS Y," and will reach an unprecedented level of
irrelevance. In true Apple style-over-substance, you will be able to
choose between fifteen different "essences," nee
"flavors," and the system will require 1GB of RAM for baseline
performance, and 10GB of disk space (not including the moderate extra
space required to install the optional developer tools). It will be
distributed on 4 DVD-ROMs and will require that you reformat your hard
disk prior to installation, before dumping a heretofore unheard of
sixty-nine million files, randomly fragmented about your disk. Icons will
be a whopping 1024x1024 pixels in detail, and are rendered in stunning
128-bit color. A 23" display will be recommended to view a single
page of text. "Small screens are a thing of the past," company
CEO Steve Jobs claims.
In another revolutionary move, Apple will
unveil "Nitrous," its ultra-super-modern development framework
for advanced graphical application development. Nitrous is built with the
non-standard, but immensely powerful Objective-Cobol language, which
offers intuitive extensions to the popular and time-tested Cobol language
to enable rapid object-oriented development. "Once developers get a
whiff of Nitrous," a company spokesperson is quoted as whispering,
"they won't know what hit them. Select Super Top-Secret non-disclosed
developers who have tried Nitrous say they haven't tasted anything quite
like it. It's revolutionary. They cannot get enough of this stuff."
Apple hopes that its pioneering efforts in the operating system space will
continue its technological lead in the industry it ignited a short but
sweet 30 years ago.
The system boots in five minutes and thirteen
seconds, an industry first. "It ships with really neato desktop
billboards," the company spokesperson claims. Apple hasn't stopped
with its impressive resource requirements -- it intends to take the
familiar and unchanged Macintosh user experience one step further with
"Acid," its new "psychedelic" look and feel. Not only
are the elements which comprise the user interface "lickable,"
but "they glow, throb, gyrate and leak," Jobs raves. "Since
our core operating system is not re-entrant, we figured it would be in
good taste to dedicate the otherwise useless second processor to rendering
objects in the user experience." The result, one developer agrees,
"is totally wicked. Apple has gone the extra mile to put to bed any
doubts that perception isn't more powerful than reality."
The single most incredible aspect of the new
system is its underpinnings. Rather than invent something new, adding to
the panic of developers who are scrambling to assure that their
applications are "Mac OS Y savvy," it has encapsulated the
MACH/BSD base from Mac OS X in its own compatibility environment and
ingeniously slipped the CMS operating system underneath it. On top of
that, in a move that will shock and astound open-source developers, it has
opened up the entire source base to the operating system. "It's a
matter of public disclosure," a developer close to the project
exclaims. "The Freedom of Information Act mandates that the full
extent of our doings be publicly viewable, so we are in total compliance
with this new and unprecedented strategy."
Company executives claim that these moves,
while brave, are "about as safe as you can get. Capitalism dictates
that we need to keep a careful eye on the bottom line. Since we don't make
much money on our software, we need our loyal installed base of 1 million
customers to upgrade their hardware every few years." Also noted was
the internal excitement that the sheer size and media required to deliver
the new system would help combat piracy. "It would take far too long
to download four DVD images over the Internet," they hope.
Meanwhile, a 120 MHz Pentium-based HP
computer with 16MB of RAM and a 1GB hard disk boots the aging Be operating
system in 15 seconds, and is quite responsive. "I heard it can't even
print," Apple zealots still claim. "I mean, look what happened
to them. How could so few developers create something so incomplete -- I
mean, there aren't even any applications for it." Thanks to the
groundbreaking Carbon 2.0 environment in Mac OS Y, this won't be a
problem, Apple insiders note.
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Its only slightly less believeable than today's spam
in which the country and deal have changed slightly from those you have
posted....
From, Ahmed Garba Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire TEL:
00225)077-78119
Business Relationship
ATTN:
Dear Sir, I know my message will come to you
as a surprise. I wish to write you this letter of assistance believing
that you will not betray the trust I'm to impose on you.
By brief introduction, I am AHMED GARBA the
only son of DAVID GARBA former chief of defence-staff of (Republic of
Guinea Bissau). I got your contact from a business magnet who told me to
feel free to do any business with you that you are truthful and
trustworthy and also your capability of handling this business.
He made me to surmise totally that you must
be such an erudite businessman full of ingenuity and human resources
management. My late father was killed just last year December following
his role as a rebel leader against the past government of guinea Bissau.
Following this political crisis, I and my mother were forced to live our
country to Abidjan the capital city of Cote d Ivoire for our dear life.
It is here in Abidjan he deposited ONE
METALLIC TRUNK BOX in a Security Company. Here registered it as an African
Artworks as belonging to his foreign business partner who will come with
the keys for the claim of the consignment. He did not disclose to the
Security Company the real content of the box. The box contain US$
12,000.000.00 (Twelve Million United States Dollars ). To be honest with
you, this is the only legacy left for me by my father which I am with the
certificate of deposit and other necessary documents regarding this
deposit.
I want to front you as the bonafide
beneficiary of the consignment and claim the consignment for onward
transfer of the Fund to your Bank Account abroad for onward investment in
your Country. We have decided to offer you 5% of the total sum and 2% for
other miscellaneous expenses you may incur on the cause of this
transaction. On the notice of your willingness to assist me, I will tell
you the modalities we shall follow to ensure a smooth hitch-free
transaction.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Best regards
AHMED GARBA
NB: Please do write me as soon as you receive
this message for more briefing and also I want to invest in your country.
WHich ought to be interesting enough...
Then we have:
Dr. Pournelle,
I assume you have heard this many times, however on
the off chance that you have not, Computer World is reporting that,
"Nigeria launches Web site to target e-mail scams". The link may
be found here:
http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO69562,00.html
- Warren D. Fleming
but of course the question is, is that one a scam
too? Ah well.
And An announcement:
Space Access Society's Space Access '02 Conference
April 25-27, 2002, in Phoenix Arizona
Well, we're doing things more "just in
time" than ever this year - it's a tough year to get people to commit
to travel, for obvious reasons. But we have two-thirds of our conference
schedule confirmed now, and the rest should fill out nicely if, as we
expect, about half the "maybes" end up able to make it. It looks
like being another good one, and it's just over four weeks away.
So, make your arrangements ASAP to attend our tenth
annual conference on the business, politics, and technology of radically
cheaper space transportation, Space Access '02, Thursday evening April
25th through Saturday night April 27th 2002, at the Quality Inn South
Mountain in Phoenix, Arizona, a ten-minute cab ride from the Phoenix
airport. There are lots of cheap airfares and we've got a great hotel rate
- book your trip now!
Our conference will once again be a cross-section of
the emerging low- cost launch industry, presenting an informal snapshot of
just how interesting times are this spring of 2002. (Be there or miss out
- part of our relaxed atmosphere and up-to-the-second inside information
is that we don't ask for formal papers and we don't do proceedings.)
Confirmed Speakers
- Armadillo Aerospace - John Carmack - Experimental
Rocket Propulsion Society - Randall Clague, Dave Masten, Michael Wallis -
FAA AST - Joe Hawkins - JP Aerospace - John Powell - Jordin Kare, on
Recent Advances In Solid-State Lasers, Mockingbird, and an extremely
high-energy laser-kinetic propulsion concept - Pioneer Rocketplane -
Mitchell Burnside Clapp - Richard Pournelle, XCOR, on potential
fast-developing markets - Dave Salt, on Assessing Reusable Launcher
Concepts, and on European Space Developments - Dr Gerald A Smith,
Synergistic Technologies, on near-term antimatter propulsion progress -
Henry Spencer, on various subjects - TGV Rockets - Pat Bahn - XCOR
Aerospace - Dan DeLong, Aleta Jackson - Panel, Low-Cost Reusable Launch
Regulatory Issues - Panel, Potential New Markets - Panel, The Investment
Environment - Panel, The Political Environment
Invited, Still Maybe
- Andrews Space & Technology - HMX -
Interorbital Systems - Kelly Space & Technology - Nielsen Engineering
& Research - Northrop-Grumman - Scaled Composites - Space Access LLC -
Space Frontier Foundation - Space Transportation Association - SpaceDev -
Spectrum Astro - Vela Technology
(Watch http://www.space-access.org for updates and
additions.)
Our hotel is the Quality Inn South Mountain, ten
minutes from the Phoenix airport by cab or call the hotel for their
shuttle van, 5121 E LaPuente Ave, (take I-10 east from the airport, exit
at Elliot Rd, turn right on Elliot, take your first right at 51st st, take
your first right at LaPuente, you're there) right next to a quiet suburban
restaurant and shopping district. Our conference hotel room rate is $65.00
per night, single or double, plus tax, mention "space access"
for the rate when you reserve your room. For reservations call (800)
562-3332 or (480) 893-3900.
Space Access '02 hospitality and registration will
open around 6 pm Thursday, April 25th, 2002. Thursday evening sessions
will begin around 7:30 pm in the main ballroom. Main sessions will run 9
am to 10 pm Friday the 26th and Saturday the 27th, with breaks midmorning
and midafternoon plus longer breaks for (on your own) lunch and dinner.
(We don't do rubber-chicken meal functions; we pick our conference hotel
for a variety of nearby restaurants and run our snacks-and-refreshments
hospitality suite till late to encourage people getting together, trading
information, and making deals.)
Registration (opposite the main ballroom) and our
reknowned Space Access Hospitality suite (room 234, across the pool
courtyard) will be open by 8 am Friday and Saturday.
Space Access '02 registration is $100 in advance,
$120 at the door, $10 off for SAS members. Day rates and $30 Student rate
at the door only. One year's SAS membership is $30 (please include your
email address for Updates). Mail checks to:
Space Access Society, 4855 E Warner Rd #24-150,
Phoenix AZ 85044.
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