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Re: One Computer, 100 Operating Systems

__/ [ray] on Wednesday 15 February 2006 19:24 \__

> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:00:12 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> __/ [ray] on Wednesday 15 February 2006 16:16 \__
>> 
>>> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 06:37:36 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> 
>>>> A fairly 'light' story:
>>>> 
>>>> GrUB to start over a 100 OSses on one system (97 Linux distributions)
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.flexbeta.net/main/comments.php?catid=1&shownews=18403
>>> 
>>> Very impressive! I think my record (for one machine) is about eight.
>> 
>> 8 distributions and yet you failed to identify tax preparation software,
>> and greeting cards software for the missus?
>> 
>> Perhaps SQL Ledger would help. I have never used it myself, but I hear
>> about it in the context of financial software recommendations.
> 
> Never heard of this one - I'll take a look.
>
http://www.sql-ledger.org/cgi-bin/nav.pl?page=misc/support.html&title=Support

__/ [ray] added on Thursday 16 February 2006 16:36 \__

> The financial program is not the problem. I happily use Gnucash. The
> problem is a tax preparation package like 'TaxCut', etc.


Have you considered WinE yet (emulation)? Setting it up was just a matter of
going through a wizard on SuSE 8.1.

 
>> Owing to your question, I discovered Kreeting Kard:
>> 
>> http://www.linspire.com/lindows_products_details.php?product_id=22249
>> 
>> Looks polished enough to me and there are Web-based alternatives too.
> 
> All the web-based alternatives I've found do e-mail cards; not cards to be
> printed. I've downloaded kreeting kard a couple of times, but have been
> unable to figure out how to do anything useful - my Japanese is
> non-existent.


I have never tried desktop-side software which produces greeting cards, but
have a look at:

http://www.mac.com/WebObjects/iCards.woa

You can print the output, which is a JPEG image. It looks professional enough
to me.


> <snip />

Best wishes,

Roy

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