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A few currency marks work if you're posting in (Slashdot's brain-damaged idea of) HTML, and you use the standard HTML character entity encoding for them:

Pound: £
Euro: €
Yen: ¥

Of course, HTML 4.01's entity list only has a few currency marks available to begin with, including WTF ever a "general currency mark" is, but Slashcode can't be troubled with those other than the few listed up above.

Use html character entities, i.e.

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displays as voilà

Yes, it does.

Granted, the reason for buying a Mac is the OS, but it ain't impossible to get running.
(The above-linked text is to a blog entry about some crazy guy doing this on a PPC-Mac - today, it is much easier with Boot Camp & rEFIt).

Hell, if they make it any easier, I'll install a third OS on my Mac, just for kicks! :-P

http://www.intuitive.com/blog/google_fires_blogger _and_the_evils_of_gossip_and_innuendo.html

I'm not suprised there's now a Blog completely dedicated to ex-Google employees. It seems that they (Big G) don't take kindly to outsiders looking in... And God help you if you try to open the window and give others a peek.

$ March 2004

Clueless Sun complains IBM isn't porting apps to Solaris 10

Quick summary: Sun should pay IBM to port the apps or adopt Linux wholeheartedly rather than further splinter the Unix marketplace.

PS. If you're new to shell-scripting or if you just want a collection of good useful scripts, you cannot IMHO do better than Wicked Cool Shell Scripts which has about 100 example scripts, a couple of which show how to do neat stuff with wget and the Lynx browser in command-line mode.

Curious about other writing I've done? There's some useful free info online at 404 error page, particularly for Apache admins, and another book that slashdotters will appreciate is my Wicked Cool Shell Scripts. And, yes, Virginia, the latter includes specific scripts for Mac OS X too.

so email me and let's talk about this. I'm interested because, among other things, I'm tech editing the next edition of Linux for Dummies, as it happens. You can get to me through my contact page on my Web site.

As the review says, Solaris 9 for Dummies is most definitely NOT a book about system administration (though it includes some basic sysadmin stuff) and it's also NOT the same book as John & Margy's Unix for Dummies. Solaris 9 for Dummies has considerable coverage of both the Common Desktop Environment and GNOME: it's the first Solaris book I know of that covers both the old and new school of GUI interfaces.

In addition, as a Unix and Linux book author too, I can tell you that Solaris is, um, a different beast, so it is most definitely useful to have a book focused specifically on the Solaris environment for neophytes and people seeking to get a quick head start on their Solaris knowledge.

Finally, another topic that's covered in some level of detail but isn't mentioned in the review is Open Office (aka Star Office): rather than focus on the sysadmin-y sort of things and have lots of geeky command line stuff, Solaris 9 for Dummies is just as much about the GUI and how to be a productive USER of Solaris: competing titles are all about how to be an admin, but there are plenty of Solaris folk who aren't admins, don't want to learn how to administer their system, and just want to be productive.

Learn more and read a sample chapter to see what's what:

http://www.intuitive.com/solaris/

I talk about some of these subjects from the instructor side on my own weblog, The Intuitive Life, in particular you might want to check out I thought students had lots of opinions? and Lazy students, a rant, both of which address the same basic question of student interaction.

If anyone has further questions that I can answer, please feel free to drop me a note!

I talk about some of these subjects from the instructor side on my own weblog, The Intuitive Life, in particular you might want to check out I thought students had lots of opinions? and Lazy students, a rant, both of which address the same basic question of student interaction.

If anyone has further questions that I can answer, please feel free to drop me a note!

I talk about some of these subjects from the instructor side on my own weblog, The Intuitive Life, in particular you might want to check out I thought students had lots of opinions? and Lazy students, a rant, both of which address the same basic question of student interaction.

If anyone has further questions that I can answer, please feel free to drop me a note!

The refutations are not completely persuasive.

Common language and addspeak are not identical. I can easily imagine a "Nova" add campaign that confused people--for instance, a radio campaign with emphatic accents or music that obscured the voice of a speaker, or magazine adds with fancy glyphs that suggested "n o v a." Grammar be damned--it's about creating an instant and lasting impression--any kind of negative association is a liability.

It's telling that the story is GM folklore. Any GM employee can tell you about it.

There aren't enough facts here to either accept or dismiss the "no va" story. Here's a smart summary of some of the arguments.

[wince] WinCE [/wince] is a phenomenally stoopid name.

You're right. Golias - the point of this book wasn't to have an exhaustive document about Unix or Darwin (there are man pages and some great Web sites with that information) but to address the market of people who migrated to Mac OS X (perhaps from OS9, perhaps from Windows) and suddenly had this nifty new capability of the Terminal.app and the shell. If the reader wants a more comprehensive book for learning Unix, well, of course, there are a variety of O'Reilly titles, and there's always my Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours, which, contrary to some mindless slams earlier in this discussion, is actually a very pleasant way to go from embarassed newbie to Smart Person Who Gets This Stuff. If I say so myself. :-)

It seems so altough w3 offer a validator for free.

Maybe learning html in a weekend or in faster don't help keeping the quality of code at high level ; )

I've got one of those Intellimouse Explorers (the huge silver ones with the superfluous tail light and like three extra buttons; well, what the hell, here's a http://www.microsoft.com/Mouse/explorer.htm link) and sites that won't let you back out are an incredible annoyance. See, two of the buttons on there serve as Forward/Back (respectively) while browsing the web, and after about 20 minutes of using them, I was hooked. You wouldn't believe how simple (and remarkably intuitive) to navigate with your thumb. Now if I could just find a good use for those buttons in Half-Life... I mean, sure, it's easy enough to hold down the back button and select the page before the offending site, but that would require moving my cursor over six or so linear inches of desktop space. Isn't that just a little bit unreasonable? No? Ah well.

but I guess that's because my mind is in the gutter.

Have you noticed the they don't pronounce the name of the car in the adds. I guess they don't want to bring attenttion to it.

Of course naming things in an international marketplace is tough. Although the well known story of the failure of the Chevy Nova in Latin America is apparently apocryphal there are many pitfalls of international naming according to http://www.intuitive.com/taylor/gs/gs-ch ap5.html

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