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  1. Re:Where to get a three-butten mouse with no rolle by Isthistakenyet? · · Score: 1 · on Top Mice Compared

    I got a couple of Belkin 3-button optical mice from Dell a few months ago, and I'm very happy with them. They're nice, fairly inexpensive, and don't gum up like ball mice. I'm leary of Belkin products in general, but I haven't had any problems with these. I have more information at http://k-lug.org/~griswold/mouse.html.

  2. Re:DUPE!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Adobe Releases Acrobat Client for Linux

    And it's also a different, NEWER build than what was available earlier...
    The tar.gz file was replaced, but rpm's of both versions are still available (7.0.0-1 and 7.0.0-2). The first version presented itself as "7.0.0 03/11/2005", while the official version calls itself "7.0.0 03/21/2005" (but wasn't on the ftp site until much later).
    The JavaScript/EScript.api fix works on both.
    ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/e nu/
    http://k-lug.org/~griswold/Progs/adobe7patch.html

  3. Re:javascript and privacy by DrJimbo · · Score: 1 · on Adobe Releases Acrobat Client for Linux
    Here is a quick fix (that I got from the last Slashdot article about acrobat 7.0 for Linux).

    Adobe Reader 7 JavaScript Bug.

    You can disable Javascript support in Acroread but it then nags you. The above patch turns off the nag dialog box.

  4. Re:Discussed on LWN concerning Adobe Acrobat 7 by Isthistakenyet? · · Score: 5, Informative · on PDF Tracking On the Way

    There is a bug (in my opinion) in Acrobat Reader 7 when you disable JavaScript that causes this warning to appear when exiting the program:

    This document contains JavaScripts. Do you want to enable JavaScripts from now on? This document may not behave correctly if they're disabled.

    This happens even if you do not have a document loaded, since Adobe Reader tries to run some internal JavaScripts when it exits. If JavaScript is disabled, this warning comes up. I've created patches that prevent this from happening on both Linux and Windows. They may also prevent the warning from coming up with documents that actually contain JavaScript.

  5. Re:best part by ChristTrekker · · Score: 1 · on Gnome 2.6 Usability Review

    Funny you should mention that. I just noticed it on my old LUG's web site today. (Look out for the Praetorians.) I never knew why (and nobody would tell me) why the favicon is a goat, either.

  6. Total Cost of Ownership by octogen · · Score: 2, Informative · on When IT and Bad Government Meet, Everyone Loses

    ...city did not renew a maintenance contract with IBM because it cost more than the PC network.

    Considering all cost caused by administration, crashing PC servers, viruses and such things, i'd rather assume, that running an AS/400 box is much cheaper than running a PC network.

    Especially database administration (including backup/restore) is much easier on an AS/400, because the database is integrated into the operating system (and vice versa).

    Even Microsoft tried to replace 23 AS/400 boxes with 1200 NT-Servers in 1999/2000, and they couldn't make it run, so they are back on the AS/400s now.
    (Read the full story, an article called "IBM's Frank Soltis, uncensored":
    http://k-lug.org/pipermail/klug/2000-October/00657 9.html
    http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2000-November/0 25445.html)

    regards,
    octogen

  7. Re:They don't walk the walk by Mike+Hicks · · Score: 2 · on Scott Handy Tells What's Up With IBM and Linux

    Yeah, my Dad works at IBM, and a lot of people in the Rochester, MN LUG work there as well. Lack of Notes support on Unix (mostly AIX and Linux) is a really annoying problem for those folks. Of course, the Windows Notes client isn't exactly the best mailer in the world either...

    Still, I think people would be extremely happy to just see some documentation put up on how to communicate with Notes servers. I know that Notes support is one of the big questions hanging over the Evolution mailer, for instance..
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