Re: [OT] Re: Entourage: Kill that Daemon! (Shell)
Re: [OT] Re: Entourage: Kill that Daemon! (Shell)
- Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Entourage: Kill that Daemon! (Shell)
- From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 14:22:48 +0100
Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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On 11/15/02 12:28 AM, "Axel Luttgens" <email@hidden> wrote:
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The "Office Address Book" in Word, and the Contacts Toolbar there, use
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Entourage's Address Book for mail merge (Data Merge), and for inserting
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contact data in documents, and so on. I think you can also send an Excel
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file as an email attachment (via Entourage) directly from a menu item in
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Excel. So when you launch Word or Excel they in turn open up the Entourage
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database which launches the Database Daemon. The Office Address Book and
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Contacts Toolbar are very handy devices used by people who have a sort of
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integrated approach to the whole Office suite, which is supposed to be one
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of its attractions and selling points. They're also Mac only - there's no
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exact equivalent in the Windows version of Office. The Daemon itself is a
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Unixy thing new in OS X - Unix programs have had these daemons for
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background "watching" at all times - just about forever. There's very little
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overhead - check it out with tops or equivalent.
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Again, thank you for your comprehensive reply.
And, yes, I think to have some understanding of the unix thing, so that
the overhead problem was not really my concern. The point is that I miss
those elegant applications that did just what you wanted them to do,
without those current overcluttered user interfaces that tend to
substitute themselves to the operating system (as an example of what I
mean, remember the simple, powerful and blazingly fast WriteNow?).
So, when I use Word just to open a document I've received and that can't
be easily translated (because the user who gave you that document was
even not aware of the plethora of annoying/useless things he included),
I am at the same time launching a lot of things I won't use... I find
the principle quite frightening.
Each time I had to install something like Office, the first I did is to
uncheck everything that may be turned off in the preferences (and
perhaps turned some of them on again later, when I really needed them).
Have you noticed how it becomes more and more difficult to control the
behavior of those monsters, as the version numbers grow?
Don't you fear that growing and uncontrolable complexity, from a
stability, bugfreeness and compatibility viewpoint (I've managed, just
by opening a document, to freeze my system, so that I had to resort to
fsck and some backups)?
Not speaking about this aspect: human resources are devoted to conceive
and implement all those "functionalities", while for example text
scrolling still remains ugly in Word X.
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