A Good Day at work
2006-10-25
After a promise a while back then a good month recently, the office has new 19'' flat screens all 'round.
I've also got around to installing MS Visio, and spent a couple of hours playing with it by way of making some diagrams for the report I was preparing. Visio is great: it's not such a complicated brief (I want to be able to put standardised symbols into this diagram easily, connect them with lines where necessary, and if I find something is in the wrong place I want all the lines to follow when I drag it) but I've not found anything else that makes that sort of work quite so convenient.
Visio, however, is insanely expensive, and at full price I would never have approved of getting it (we have it as part of some kind of crazy bulk thing with Microsoft). If anyone knows of anything cheaper (especially a decent Open Source project: I have far more faith in the free things than the $30-for-your-serial ones) that can do the same sort of thing, I'd be interested in using something at home.
Can the GIMP tie vertices together so that lines stay connected?
In other news, the report I was working on recommends deploying a Linux machine in place of an elderly Windows one. It'll be the only non-Windows computer in the organisation. Make of that what you will (I've tried too many times to finish this paragraph, and can't be bothered).
I've also got around to installing MS Visio, and spent a couple of hours playing with it by way of making some diagrams for the report I was preparing. Visio is great: it's not such a complicated brief (I want to be able to put standardised symbols into this diagram easily, connect them with lines where necessary, and if I find something is in the wrong place I want all the lines to follow when I drag it) but I've not found anything else that makes that sort of work quite so convenient.
Visio, however, is insanely expensive, and at full price I would never have approved of getting it (we have it as part of some kind of crazy bulk thing with Microsoft). If anyone knows of anything cheaper (especially a decent Open Source project: I have far more faith in the free things than the $30-for-your-serial ones) that can do the same sort of thing, I'd be interested in using something at home.
Can the GIMP tie vertices together so that lines stay connected?
In other news, the report I was working on recommends deploying a Linux machine in place of an elderly Windows one. It'll be the only non-Windows computer in the organisation. Make of that what you will (I've tried too many times to finish this paragraph, and can't be bothered).
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