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

I use LaTeX to produce most of my documents, but occasionally I need to send someone something in Word format. Often I just use latex2rtf, but sometimes it does not do a good job. I recently ran into another alternative. It is called GrindEQ . It is not free, but it seems to do a pretty decent job. GrindEQ also has a tool to convert from Word to LaTeX. You can download an evaluation copy that will launch 10 times. It seems to work pretty well for what I have tried.

I thought I would add to the discussion of Parallels vs VMWare Fusion. For those who don't know, both of these programs run on Intel Macs and provide a way of running other operating systems alongside Mac OS X. Most commonly, this is used to run Windows programs on the Mac. Until recently, I had no interest in trying Parallels because I knew VMWare was coming out soon. I have used VMWare in the past and have been impressed. However, recently I installed Parallels 3.0 to troubleshoot something at work. The install lasted less than a day on my system because it the software my company develops did not work with Parallels 3.0 running on Leopard, but worked flawlessly in VMWare Fusion 1.1 running on Leopard. I currently work for Aquaveo, LLC which develops the XMS family of programs for water resources engineers. I did not make benchmarks of Parallels vs VMWare because Parallels simply did not work right. I am still a fan of VMWare because I have had no problems with it at all