Mac at Work (was FreeBSD on Dell C400, and other stuff)

Sometimes I use Excel or NeoOffice/OpenOffice.org to create tables I want to include in latex documents. I try to get latex code for the table using Calc2Latex or the Excel2LaTeX , but when that doesn't work so well, I print the table to a pdf an include that pdf in the pdflatex document. [UPDATE] I recently discovered that the graphicx package can include pdf files as pictures. Also useful. [/UPDATE] This is what you can use for concatenating PDFs: (shamelessly stolen from http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/software/pdf-append.php) begin quote If you have LaTeX installed, you probably have pdftex and a package called pdfpages, and you can use those together with a hand-written driver file to append PDFs. This approach is more work than I'd really prefer, but it's the only one I found that actually did work in my situation, after spending a lot more time on the problem than I ought to have (and not being paid by the hour, so it hurt). If I were doing this task many times I cou...

So I have switched from Opera to Camino. Why? Well, the killer feature in Camino is the ability to use Google Spreadsheets, which we use at my work. It seems that only the Gecko rendering engine does it correctly on the Mac. I also tried OmniWeb 5.5 . I thought it was a very nice browser, but Camino does everything I need and performs very well. I have used Firefox on the Mac, but I prefer the interface of Camino. Other people will like other things. On a separate note, Sherlock is a pretty neat tool for searching things on the web that comes with OS X and Path Finder is great Finder replacement.