On 12/10/2009 01:00 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:

2009/12/10 Ng Oon-Ee:

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On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 04:13 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:

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Guys,

I had to uninstall go-openoffice today and install the regular (beta) version so my templates would open again. When I would try and open them in go-oo, the window would open like it was trying to open the template, then the window would just disappear. Has anyone else had a problem with go-oo and templates?

Yes, I have. Posted a forum topic about it. No real response (wonder how many people actually use OO regularly). Am running the beta currently due to that.

Ah, does the beta open templates properly?

I ended up running OO in Windows, just to open the template and save it as a regular document... this doc then opened find in Linux and I could carry on there.

/M

I use go-oo, but don't use template. You could send me one privately so I can confirm. -- Jeroen Op 't Eynde jeroen@xprsyrslf.be http://xprsyrslf.be How to set up a cheap professional hosting @ XprsYrslf.be See my latest work: www.jhdeput.be

On 12/10/2009 06:00 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:

2009/12/10 Ng Oon-Ee:

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On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 04:13 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:

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Guys,

I had to uninstall go-openoffice today and install the regular (beta) version so my templates would open again. When I would try and open them in go-oo, the window would open like it was trying to open the template, then the window would just disappear. Has anyone else had a problem with go-oo and templates?

Yes, I have. Posted a forum topic about it. No real response (wonder how many people actually use OO regularly). Am running the beta currently due to that.

Ah, does the beta open templates properly?

I ended up running OO in Windows, just to open the template and save it as a regular document... this doc then opened find in Linux and I could carry on there.

/M

Yes, I have had no problems with my templates in oo-beta. No crashes either. A few quirks, but nothing more out of the ordinary. Well worth the install. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Logan Rathbone wrote:

David, are you running (Arch) Linux in your law office?  If so, could you describe your experiences?  What do you use for time and billing?

I too would be interested to hear about solutions for billing and keeping track of time on Linux. I do freelance web development and have to record my working hours and send invoices to clients. Right now I just write down my working hours in a plain text file and use an OpenOffice template for invoices. Denis.

On 12/23/2009 01:55 AM, Rene Rasmussen wrote:

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:08:40 -0500 Denis Kobozev wrote:

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On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Logan Rathbone wrote:

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David, are you running (Arch) Linux in your law office? If so, could you describe your experiences? What do you use for time and billing?

I too would be interested to hear about solutions for billing and keeping track of time on Linux. I do freelance web development and have to record my working hours and send invoices to clients. Right now I just write down my working hours in a plain text file and use an OpenOffice template for invoices.

Denis.

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for. It needs a LAMP server to run, but can then be used from a browser.

http://bambooinvoice.org/

Rene, all, What drove my decision of using eGroupWare as the core of our office was basically 2 things, (1) it was an open-source solution, and (2) is was LAMP. I tried all of the groupware packages back in the 2005 timeframe and settled on eGroupWare. All I can say -- is "I guessed right!" The package was just pre 1.0.0 at the time, but it looked and worked better than phpGroupware and the other two at the time. The bet was that: egw was going to remain actively developed and prevent any interruption in work flow when the project faded away and you were left holding the bag. I cannot say enough good things about Ralf Becker, Lars Kneschke, and the rest that put this package together and have kept it up to date. For all the packages that try to be a "one stop shop" I usually find that trying to combine all your calendar, address, email, projects, time tracking, knowledge base, etc... just turns into a wholly mess. Egw has done a good job to keep it well put together. The only weak area is the email client they include "felamimail" which is just a simple no frills package with some good integration (email or cc: to your todo list, etc..). But, honestly, if there was one area that was a little light, I would rather it be email, because I don't really care about any bundled package, I'll be using tbird or kmail anyway. The rest of the package is just -- well incredible. Egw has good time tracking/billing data capture and storage. The limitation is with the printing of invoices, etc.. I have used the project and timesheet print-to-pdf routine for billing directly in cases where billing isn't that extensive or formal. However, it all has to go into quickbooks at the end. If you are looking for a rock-solid groupware package, give egw a try. I'm still amazed at how much it can do, and I'm even more amazed at what it has the potential to do. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 03:10 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:

Anybody got a favorite open-source accounting package that would be good to test?

http://www.gnucash.org

2009/12/13 Logan Rathbone

David, are you running (Arch) Linux in your law office? If so, could you describe your experiences? What do you use for time and billing

I'm also running an entire law office on linux. We chose Debian Linux, because the person who is responsible for our server and network is an official debian-developer. I'm myself responsible for making a PHP-interface to all the different services we are running. It is my goal to have all of these working together in my PHP-driven intranet-site: - NFS for storing all our documents, templates etc. (*) - dovecot for our IMAP-mail (***) - asterisk for our telephones (*) - LDAP for our addressbooks (* - Read only) - davical for our calendars (* - Read only) - templating over PHP for our standardized documents (**) - billing and time management (***) * = done ** = not completely working *** = planned feature Any of the features that is not working in my PHP-driven frontend, can be done with standalone applications (file manager, openoffice, evolution) or webbased applications (contagged, roundcube webmail etc.). That's the whole purpose of my system: tailored to fit our needs and if it should fail, we're not tied to this app, because it is built around open standards. It is a lot of work, but since a month or two it is really getting usable and saving us time. We have an accountant that does all the billing for us, so I don't have any recommendations on that. Bambooinvoice looks good. Maybe I could give it a try... HTH

2010/1/7 David C. Rankin

Believe it or not, our Federal Government has done a good job with a Linux backend for a good part of the CM/ECF electronic filing system for the Federal District Court system.

Wow - that's impressive from the viewpoint of a Belgian lawyer. We still live in the middle ages having to print out every procedural document and physically carry it to the court. Not even depositing the document by fax is always allowed... What's even more frustrating is that a large part of Belgian courts were transferred to linux early in 2008 and one month ago it was announced they would go back to a windows-environment. The users just couldn't adapt to linux. If you add up to that that the project to get the Belgian justice department somewhere in the current millennium failed after costing several billions of Euro's, you have to conclude that our government has lost all touch with reality/reason. Well, just my 0.02 ounces of frustration. No need to bother you guys with this. Thank your god you have a decent backend to work with :) Vincent