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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software Date: 29 Dec 2024 06:38:29 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <9OCcnRW7grqkbPT6nZ2dnZfqnPUAAAAA@earthlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net dbvYn34608yQGa0MTd+zrgQcRXKc/toeRVViAQoFB+tuEFJyeU Cancel-Lock: sha1:BsulzkEZAG318lL14bhlTuOefSU= sha256:fqX6C6AXqTYj1GhfQEz8Wi9pAVq13spTuyhmsA2OyRI= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 2650 On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 21:26:49 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote: > The only thing I've ever used Office for is essays and the occasional > presentation. I've said it before: even AbiWord is more than enough for > me. If I recall correctly, AbiWord had every feature I needed to write > university essays and I actually became quite loyal to the program > because it bailed me out when I had no other program to write with. It's > pretty useless for the advanced Office files we all receive from others, > but it's spectacular with any new document you might want to produce. > The bonus is that it's fast as heck in 2024. Hell, it was fast and light > as heck even in 2002 or whatever year it was. Essays in my school days generally involve a pen and 'blue book' for exams or a cheap manual typewriter in some cases. The first word processor I was exposed to was WordStar that was bundled on a CP/M system, over ten years later. It was serviceable as a programming editor. Vim was in the future and vi, prior to improvement, was primitive. In later years any documentation I did was with Vim. The process was we would try to dig up a past document that was sort of like the new interface. I'd make notes on it, the tech writer would make it pretty, I would review it, rinse and repeat. Over time I became convinced the clients seldom read the final product anyway.