I just wanted to share the process for vertically centering a page in Open Office Writer 3–it’s easy once you know how.

1. Open a new text document.
2. Select View | Zoom | Entire Page to see the entire page on your screen.
3. From the Table menu, select Insert | Table.
4. In the Insert Table dialog under Size, select 1 column and 1 row.
5. Under Options, uncheck Heading and uncheck Border.
6. Click OK.
7. Right-click on the table row and select Row | Height from the menu that appears.
8. Enter 9.92 inches in the row height specification box if you are using the default page settings. If you have changed your margins, determine the correct row height by calculating Row Height=Page Height-(top margin+bottom margin).
9. From the Table toolbar select the Center (vertical) button.
10. Begin typing the contents of your vertically centered page.
Becuase of the nature of inserting a table row that is the same size as a page, an extra page will automatically be added to your document. When you are printing your document, remember to set your printer settings to only print the page with content.

Here is another one:

1.Select the text that you want to center on the page.
2.Choose Insert -> Frame.
3.In the Anchor area, select To page.
4.In the Size area, set the dimensions of the frame.
5.In the Position area, select “Center” in the Horizontal and Vertical boxes.
6.Click OK.

I’m not kidding; everyone google “openoffice vertical center” right now, and journey back in time to 1996.

Not only that, but they tend to be one-off single line scripts. Given that, the speed of the CLI is immaterial. After all, what’s an additional (possible) 30 seconds for a task that needs to be done once? Meanwhile, Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe spend millions researching which functions to make most visible so as to enhance efficiency.

Pretty much all of them, you dumb fuck. Well, all of the successful ones. You know, the ones that know how to “compete in the marketplace”.

It’s not that we don’t already know that you’re stupid; it’s that we are always surprised by exactly how stupid you actually are.

By the way, the Linux win in Munich is turning out to be a great victory… for Microsoft.

That’s a funny accusation coming from a Linux evangelist. FOSS is the epitome of dumping.

Historically, Microsoft hasn’t even advertised Windows as a lifestyle choice like Apple does, so how exactly did they do all this brainwashing?

Most, I’d bet, if not all.

“What other company has been declared an illegal monopoly like M$?”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:United_States_antitrust_case_law

You’re a bit obsessed, you realize?

I’ve never heard of a Microsoft fanboy, but there’s no way they’re as crazy or repulsive as this “Adam King” character. Are you just a fictional parody?

“What other company has most of the population brainwashed into using their crappy product?”

I’ve been using desktop Linux as my main OS for several years, and I think I’m going to switch to Windows 7 with my next computer. I’ve been using it on another computer for a few months, and it’s much more reliable, stable, intuitive, and usable than Linux.

Yes, that would mean I’m *CHOOSING* to go back to Windows, because it’s objectively *BETTER* than Linux. I’m an intelligent person, and I’ll gladly pay a few hundo for an OS that’s not going to waste all my free time and give me migraines when it fails me every few days. Stability and usability are much more important to me than meaningless notions of “freedom”. I want to use my computer to get things done, not to dick around on the command line putting band-aids on bugs created by amateur programmers who have been duped into working for free so that corporations can make money off their fanatical idealism. I drank the Kool-Aid once, but I think it’s wearing off.

Yep, of course you do. Anyone with a contrary opinion has dastardly intent. It’s all black and white, and anyone who is not for you is against you, etc etc etc.

By the way, are you aware that paranoia is classified as a form of delusion? From Wikipedia: Paranoia is a thought process heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat towards oneself. In the original Greek, paranous simply means madness (para=outside, nous=mind). Historically, this characterization was used to describe any delusional state.

I’m one of the first to criticize MS. I loathe Internet Explorer and severely dislike the Xbox. I have issues with MS policies, prices and design decisions. But I don’t have the same irrational hatred as many in the IT world do, and believe in fair criticism as opposed to outright lies, double-standards and exagerrations.

“What other company routinely breaks the law like M$?”

Royal Dutch Shell (corruption, use of forced labor, violating embargoes, war profiteering during the Vietnam war, to name only a few cases), Boeing (industrial espionage), McDonald’s (illegal environmental, labor and health practices, bullying other companies), Wal-Mart (use of illegal workers, underage staffing), Nintendo (price-fixing), Goldman-Sachs (fraud and corruption), Xerox (auditing and accounting irregularities), Enron and Halliburton (do I even need to go into detail with that one?), and so on and so forth.

Out of interest, CNN ran an article not to long ago about American companies use Stimulus funds to break the law: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/01/25/stimulus.breaking.law/index.html

The biggest companies in the world are related to oil and motorcars, and are the among the biggest offenders to the law, human rights and the environment. MS doesn’t even feature in the top 10 list, nor in the top 25 list of the biggest companies in the world.

“What other company has been declared an illegal monopoly like M$?”

MS is neither a monopoly nor has it been “declared illegal”.

For a company to be a monopoly it must have absolute control over a service and/or product. The very fact that MS has competition, in the desktop market with Apple and in the server market with BSD and Linux, means that it is not a monopoly. MS has a large majority of the desktop market, which is *not* the same as a monopoly.

An example of a true monopoly is the South African company Spoornet, also known as Transnet. It is a railroad company that is state-owned. No other railroad company exists in the country.

Microsoft has been brought to court over its business practices, just as much as the companies listed above. MS’ practices, while not excusable, are tiny in comparison to the atrocities commited by the above and other historic companies, such as the East India Company.

“What other company has most of the population brainwashed into using their crappy product?”

Most folks use Windows because it meets their needs, not because they’ve been “brainwashed”. Linux is free, widely-known and has an army of defenders. Most people, Windows users included, bash Microsoft regularly. Yet, the majority of the world uses Windows on their desktops. Why do you think that is? Actions speak louder than words, and no matter how highly you speak of a product, the population will not use it if it doesn’t meet their needs.

“What other company dumps their product when it looks like a competitor just might have a customer?”

See above.

“What other company’s products routinely phone home to make sure chairman Bill hasn’t decided to cut off all windows 7 licenses unless you pay him $1000?”

Windows 7 “phones home”, once, to be activated. It will require re-activation if it detects major hardware changes. It’s not “routinely”. Also, Windows 7 does not cost $1,000. It costs less than $400.00, and that’s for the Ultimate edition.

Even if what you “begin to suspect” is that the person who says that, is not a dishonest and ignorant liar like yourself, you are still as dumb as a rock.

Sometimes people here say that “Adam Queef has nothing left” but the fact is, that Adam Queef has nothing, has always had nothing, will always have nothing, and, most importantly, is nothing.