4. how about an integrated mouse in a laptop? it could snap on/off and you could use it on the side, then just have the cord retract and it would re-attach to the machine.
How are you planning to deal with the right hand/left hand mouse issue? Make two models (one for lefties and one for righties, and hope the computer only has one user thrughout it's lifetime)? Have the left handed mouse user drag the cord all the way to the other side and use it there?
Aside from left/right hand issues, will that mouse replace the current pointing device? If so- how is one going to use it where you don't have much room for the mouse, like on the seat tray you get when you fly coach?
I dunno. I just never understood people who use mice with laptops. I guess they don't travel much with the laptop.
Well, if you are using the Hebrew or Arabic (and probably other languages as well) enabled versions of Windows 98, you will just get a message that WindowsUpdate is no longer supported, and that you should locate your updates by going thrugh all the lists at MS's site and deciding for yourself which ones you need.
"more feature-packed browser that's on the cutting edge". Yeah, cutting egde. Being the LAST browser to implement bidi support, and even now they don't get it close to right on anything but the Widnows version (I am talking about 7.53 version on both Linux and MacOSX). http://nontroppo.org/wiki/OperaAndBiDiLanguages
Sorry, but I refuse to use a browser that displays any Hebrew/Arabic text that appears in a form widget- be it a drop down menu or the text I write in a text area- reversed, making it impossible for me to read what I am writing (and guess what are the options presented to me in the drop down menus).
Not to mention the email client and the IRC client which suffer from the same problem which makes it unusable.
It is ironic, that a non-US browser is so weak when it comes to i18n features. It is sad that Opera is the one that came out with a press release about how great they are for Hebrew- http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2002/06/2002 0620.dml THat was over two years ago, and they still don't get it right.
I used to like Opera very much, back in Opera 4 days. But after many years, many versions, many bug reports submitted and many unfullfiled promises, I just moved on to FOSS browsers.
At least there, I can search bugzilla and see what is going on with my bug reports, and not be forced to download the next version in the hope that maybe maybe they fixed it now.
I just checked, and a very large portion of the Music on my iPod came from legal downloads.
Some sources, all free (as in beer): http://www.legaltorrents.com/ (that site alone can fill up a few iPods- no porblem. All music is CC ) http://www.archive.org/audio/netlabels.php (Also CC music) http://www.castlex.com/mods/ http://www.e pitonic.com/ http://www.soundclick.com/ http://w ww.vitaminic.com/main http://www.purevolume.com/ http://www.peoplesound.com/ http://www.iuma.com/ http://music.download.com/
And there are many many more out there. Just google around...
click and hold the "paste" icon in the toolbar, and you will get an option of "paste as unformatted text" (It is also available from the edit menu- haven't checked the context menu lately)
With these "natural language" languages, I always wonder- is English the only natural language out there? Doesn't look like it from the world around me.
Then why all those "natural language" thins are in English?
Seems to me that is easier to learn a programming language then to learn English for a non-native English speaker: much less ambivalence.
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How are you planning to deal with the right hand/left hand mouse issue? Make two models (one for lefties and one for righties, and hope the computer only has one user thrughout it's lifetime)? Have the left handed mouse user drag the cord all the way to the other side and use it there?
Aside from left/right hand issues, will that mouse replace the current pointing device? If so- how is one going to use it where you don't have much room for the mouse, like on the seat tray you get when you fly coach?
I dunno. I just never understood people who use mice with laptops. I guess they don't travel much with the laptop.
The Dev snapshots of OpenOffice (2.0) have a very nice GUI (and Access like) front end for databases (any database OOo can use as a data source).
i ndex.html
You can see a few screenshots here:
http://www.openoffice.org/screenshots/ooo19/base/
It isn't ready yet, but it is worth keeping an eye on.
Hmm... it sounds like you are looking for something like the SpoofStick Firefox extension.
There are also WinLibre and GnuWinII if you don't like the application selection in TheOpenCD. And you can make your own compilation :-)
Well, if you are using the Hebrew or Arabic (and probably other languages as well) enabled versions of Windows 98, you will just get a message that WindowsUpdate is no longer supported, and that you should locate your updates by going thrugh all the lists at MS's site and deciding for yourself which ones you need.
And Win98 is still officially supported.
But only on Windows- and gecko runs not only on Windows.
Even IE/Mac didn't do ActiveX.
It adds "Opera" to the end of the UA string.
:-(
From the logs of my site:
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; en) Opera 7.60"
You can also get strange ones, like spoofing MSIE running under Linux:
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i686) Opera 7.54 [en]"
Last I checked, the spoofing of the UA string was the default
The unspoofed UA looks something like this:
"Opera/7.60 (Windows NT 5.0; U) [en]"
"more feature-packed browser that's on the cutting edge".
2 0620.dml THat was over two years ago, and they still don't get it right.
Yeah, cutting egde. Being the LAST browser to implement bidi support, and even now they don't get it close to right on anything but the Widnows version (I am talking about 7.53 version on both Linux and MacOSX).
http://nontroppo.org/wiki/OperaAndBiDiLanguages
Sorry, but I refuse to use a browser that displays any Hebrew/Arabic text that appears in a form widget- be it a drop down menu or the text I write in a text area- reversed, making it impossible for me to read what I am writing (and guess what are the options presented to me in the drop down menus).
Not to mention the email client and the IRC client which suffer from the same problem which makes it unusable.
It is ironic, that a non-US browser is so weak when it comes to i18n features. It is sad that Opera is the one that came out with a press release about how great they are for Hebrew-
http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2002/06/200
I used to like Opera very much, back in Opera 4 days. But after many years, many versions, many bug reports submitted and many unfullfiled promises, I just moved on to FOSS browsers.
At least there, I can search bugzilla and see what is going on with my bug reports, and not be forced to download the next version in the hope that maybe maybe they fixed it now.
I just checked, and a very large portion of the Music on my iPod came from legal downloads.
e pitonic.com/w ww.vitaminic.com/main /
Some sources, all free (as in beer):
http://www.legaltorrents.com/ (that site alone can fill up a few iPods- no porblem. All music is CC )
http://www.archive.org/audio/netlabels.php (Also CC music)
http://www.castlex.com/mods/
http://www.
http://www.soundclick.com/
http://
http://www.purevolume.com/
http://www.peoplesound.com/
http://www.iuma.com
http://music.download.com/
And there are many many more out there. Just google around...
click and hold the "paste" icon in the toolbar, and you will get an option of "paste as unformatted text" (It is also available from the edit menu- haven't checked the context menu lately)
Make sure that you are running a current versin of OpenOffice on the mac (i.e., something newier then 1.0)
d ownload s.html
You can get the latest one here:
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_
With these "natural language" languages, I always wonder- is English the only natural language out there? Doesn't look like it from the world around me.
Then why all those "natural language" thins are in English?
Seems to me that is easier to learn a programming language then to learn English for a non-native English speaker: much less ambivalence.