Gorilla glass is NOT plastic.
It is a regular high quality glass that is tempered in a molten salt.
Quote from Wikipedia:
During its manufacture, Gorilla Glass is toughened by ion exchange. The material is submersed in molten potassium salt at a temperature of approximately 400 degrees C (750 degrees F), whereby smaller sodium ions leave the glass to be replaced by larger potassium ions from the salt bath. The larger ions occupy more space and are pressed together when the glass cools, causing potassium ions to diffuse far into the surface, thereby creating a 'surface' layer of high compressive stress deep into the glass, a layer more resistant to damage from everyday use.
I think that going to PCRE would be a step back. RE implementation of RE is superior to that. It even has much better documentation of RE functionality
Have a look at the PocketBook e-ink readers. Sadly, they have left USA market, unable to compete with Amazon. Here in my European country, in an online store specialized on e-book readers PocketBook is by far the most popular brand. Keep in mind that most people buying kindles are buying them directly from Amazon. I have PocketBook Touch Lux 623. The screen and front-light are the same as on Kindle Paperwhite. It supports 18 e-book formats and lots of configuration options, all without hacking. It has headphones output with support of TTS in many languages. You can use micro SD card. There are third-party programs available, such as scientific calculator, Linux terminal (for hacking - the reader itself has busybox installed), ftp server (so you can look at *and* modify files from internal memory), Coolreader, chess, several games, Vim text editor (full-fledged recent version). You can make your own notes and highlights and PocketBook will prepare html file for each document with your notes that you can download to your PC. No special software necessary. You can import PocketBook from Europe.
I remember reading somewhere that Bram Moolenaar is willing to sell you a special licence for his program if you insist that you want to buy it.
Vim is absolutely magnificent Free Software project - a very powerfull reincarnation of the vi editor. And the left-over money will be used for kids in Uganda.
See this page: http://www.vim.org/sponsor/index.php Registered Vim user
You can become a registered Vim user by sending at least 10 euro. This works similar to sponsoring Vim (see above). Registration was made possible for the situation where your boss or bookkeeper may be willing to register software, but does not like the terms "sponsoring" and "donation".
Even if you are just kidding;-)... It does have web interface. But only for browsing your collection. Preferences -> sharing -> sharing over net -> start server.
I was using Calibre the same way as you - for conversions (and to communicate with my Sony PRS-500 reader), exactly because of that unusual interface. Nowadays I simply reconfigure the interface, using Preferences -> interface - > Toolbar. I remove all icons from the toolbar and put the functions I want on the menubar. Do not saw off the branch you are sitting on and first define the menubar, with a prefferences menu and only then remove the toolbar.
Calibre is extremely configurable and *very* powerfull. It has great support for regular expressions and other advanced things.
Well, the ideal line length for printed text is 56 characters, or some similar number, depending on what study you read. In practice this of course varies for practical reasons, but a text in a well typeset book is seldom longer than 75 characters. Just grab a random book and count 'em.
If the page is wider, the [well laid-out text] is usually broken into columns.
When the line is shorter, the gaps between words are too uneven in case the text is full justified (needed for columns) and the eyes have to skip too much.
When the line is much longer, then the eye has problems tracing back from right to left the the beginning of the next line.
Six inch e-ink displays have size close to ideal, from the length-of-line point of view. But you have to set margins smaller than they are set on the out-of-the-box Kindle.
Typical Kindle and other books have other problems, like lack of hyphenation, which makes the gaps between words too uneven with the [default] full justification.
OK. I could save one watt by running IE instead of [insert your favorite browser here]. But then I would have to run it on Windows, and install anti-mallware, anti-virus and other anti-CPU measures. I think I am much better off running a less efficient browser on Linux, even with a memory hog called KDE 4 running the whole show.
I know you do not need ISA for RS232. I wrote about ISA to show that you can buy even more exotic stuff than a PC with an RS232 port. Sometimes you have special hardware that does require ISA.
A few posts ago I wrote about Industrial PCs. If you need just a serial port, and not complete PC running old software that needs to access serial port directly, there are boxes from Moxa that let you connect dozens of serial ports to one PC.
At work we use Industrial PCs for work with PLCs. You can still buy PC with an ISA slot, and most of industrial PCs have good old serial port. Just contact any competent supplied of industrial automation equipment. One of manufacturers is Advantech. Have a look at their UNO line of "brick" computers. Plenty of industrial RS232 and RS485 ports even in the most basic models. Computers are fanless and built to last. Unfortunatelly, those machines are bloody expensive.
If you look really hard, you can even find new 486 machines. Those are even more expensive than Advantech bricks I wrote about, but there are still people that need those computers, so there are companies able to provide them at a cost.
I block ads because some sites are *so* horribly infested with annoying, blinking, screaming, memory-hogging, loud crap that there is no choice but to install something. I am willing to whitelist a site that asks nicely AND takes care that the advertisments do not make their site un-viewable. No popups, no animated crap that makes reading text impossible, no flash that bogs down entire computer, no loud sound, no articles divided to 20 parts so they can cram 20 times more ads down our collective throats, no double-underlined words that display a caption add when I move mouse over them. It can be done. Have a look at google site.
Please understand: the vast majority of users out there are too lazy and ignorant to mess with switching on the add blocking. They are even willing to use browsers horribly infested with unbelievable amount of crap. In order to make such user to go and ask someone knowledgeable to install an adblock for them they had to be extremely annoyed.
So, if you want to blame somebody, blame stupid webmasters and super-greedy advertisers that created sites that drove us to block ads.
Well, my very first thought after I started using Windows 8 was that that thing was in many aspects very similar to Emacs.
To use Windows 8 you very quickly learn many useful keyboard shortcuts, like Win-x if you want to start some program that isn't jet on that Start screen. Compare that with Meta-x used in Emacs to run commands. There are many other similarities.
The problem is, you do not get the same results. Mint also makes it difficult for you to change their Google search, restoring the config to the default after reboot. When I discovered this fact, I actually went and tried out several other distros. Sigh... I guess I am too spoiled by Mint and I wasn't satisfied with other systems.
When I type something like '1.2 * 123 Usd in Eur' into a vanilla Google, I get the numerical result. When I type those into the search box in firefox at Mint Linux, I do not get numerical result. There are many more examples. Fortunately, it is trivial to *add* (not change the one installed by Mint;-) ) additional search engine, so I added a Google.com search engine - the one that doesnt redirect you to regional version of Google.
For a time I tried to switch to the search engine provided by Mint for searches that I knew would provide very similar result, but I do not do that anymore. Sorry Clem. No revenue from my hijacked search queries.
In later versions Clem made pact with duckduckgo search engine and made that default. I tried to use duckduckgo as well, but, somehow, I gravitated back to using Google.com.
At the moment I use Mint Linux Maya KDE as my main home desktop.
Yes, you knew that, and yet you called them "The Santa Cruz Operation."
Santa Cruz operation was entirely different company. This bankrupted company is Caldera, later renamed "SCO" [that is: NOT Santa Cruz Operation] in an attempt to muddle things. Apparently they were highly successful.
I do that differently. I have one large partition for the/home directory and two primary partitions for my Mint Linux installs. On one of those I keep working Mint Linux installation that I use for everyday activity and the next is for trying the new stuff. When I am finally satisfied with a new install, I switch to using that as my main workhorse and use the old partition for experimental stuff. Just do not use the same login name when you install the new version, so you keep your entries in/home/WhateverLoginName separate. You can of course use all the stuff from your all home.
Just take care to keep all your stuff in/home directory.
One more thing. Always install Grub (or whatever bootloader the distro has) to the partition with the distro and use Smart Boot Manager in mbr to choose what you want to boot.
I wish I had modpoints. There are two possibilities: 1. Excel gets ported with full support of the VBA scripts and Macros, user defined functions, and control elements (such as buttons, checkboxes) and gets shot down immediately 2. Excel gets ported without the above functionality and will be useless for business users.
When I tried to deploy OpenOffice.org in our company all users(*) that were fighting tooth and nail for Excel were claiming that they can't possibly live without "advanced" Excel stuff like macros, basic scripts and 100% compatibility with documents created by our business partners.
(*)Yes, there was small handful of users that started using OO.o Calc with no problems.
One day my pre-teen-aged daughter wanted to set up an avatar for her Google mail account, like her best friend had. A nice pony or whatever. So we have opened the settings and one of things that Google wanted to know was the date of birth. After naively filling in the date (*not* the real number, but still way low age)... poooof... the account was gone. And mind you, this was account my daughter has created in an "IT" class. In my country we do not have educational accounts the article talks about.
In one second the account is there, the next... gone. Google wanted scan of my ID or something. YOU ARE NOT GONNA GET IT GOOGLE!!! You Do. Not. Need. A. Copy. Of. My. Passport.
So we have created another account with a slightly different name, but my daughter has been upset for quite a long time. Still is, in fact. And I had to explain why Google are such... bloody morons.
The same day I have made backup of my entire Google mail account. I do not trust them anymore that they won't pull the same stunt with MY personal account.
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The gorilla glass screens are actually plastic,
Gorilla glass is NOT plastic.
It is a regular high quality glass that is tempered in a molten salt.
Quote from Wikipedia:
During its manufacture, Gorilla Glass is toughened by ion exchange. The material is submersed in molten potassium salt at a temperature of approximately 400 degrees C (750 degrees F), whereby smaller sodium ions leave the glass to be replaced by larger potassium ions from the salt bath. The larger ions occupy more space and are pressed together when the glass cools, causing potassium ions to diffuse far into the surface, thereby creating a 'surface' layer of high compressive stress deep into the glass, a layer more resistant to damage from everyday use.
I think that going to PCRE would be a step back. RE implementation of RE is superior to that. It even has much better documentation of RE functionality
put the line :set shortmess+=I
at the beginning or your vimrc file.
Problem solved.
Have a look at the PocketBook e-ink readers. Sadly, they have left USA market, unable to compete with Amazon.
Here in my European country, in an online store specialized on e-book readers PocketBook is by far the most popular brand. Keep in mind that most people buying kindles are buying them directly from Amazon.
I have PocketBook Touch Lux 623. The screen and front-light are the same as on Kindle Paperwhite. It supports 18 e-book formats and lots of configuration options, all without hacking. It has headphones output with support of TTS in many languages. You can use micro SD card. There are third-party programs available, such as scientific calculator, Linux terminal (for hacking - the reader itself has busybox installed), ftp server (so you can look at *and* modify files from internal memory), Coolreader, chess, several games, Vim text editor (full-fledged recent version).
You can make your own notes and highlights and PocketBook will prepare html file for each document with your notes that you can download to your PC. No special software necessary.
You can import PocketBook from Europe.
Are you sure you are not confusing King with Patterson? ;-)
I remember reading somewhere that Bram Moolenaar is willing to sell you a special licence for his program if you insist that you want to buy it.
Vim is absolutely magnificent Free Software project - a very powerfull reincarnation of the vi editor. And the left-over money will be used for kids in Uganda.
See this page: http://www.vim.org/sponsor/index.php
Registered Vim user You can become a registered Vim user by sending at least 10 euro. This works similar to sponsoring Vim (see above). Registration was made possible for the situation where your boss or bookkeeper may be willing to register software, but does not like the terms "sponsoring" and "donation".
Even if you are just kidding ;-) ... It does have web interface. But only for browsing your collection.
Preferences -> sharing -> sharing over net -> start server.
I was using Calibre the same way as you - for conversions (and to communicate with my Sony PRS-500 reader), exactly because of that unusual interface.
Nowadays I simply reconfigure the interface, using Preferences -> interface - > Toolbar.
I remove all icons from the toolbar and put the functions I want on the menubar.
Do not saw off the branch you are sitting on and first define the menubar, with a prefferences menu and only then remove the toolbar.
Calibre is extremely configurable and *very* powerfull. It has great support for regular expressions and other advanced things.
Well, the ideal line length for printed text is 56 characters, or some similar number, depending on what study you read. In practice this of course varies for practical reasons, but a text in a well typeset book is seldom longer than 75 characters. Just grab a random book and count 'em. If the page is wider, the [well laid-out text] is usually broken into columns. When the line is shorter, the gaps between words are too uneven in case the text is full justified (needed for columns) and the eyes have to skip too much. When the line is much longer, then the eye has problems tracing back from right to left the the beginning of the next line. Six inch e-ink displays have size close to ideal, from the length-of-line point of view. But you have to set margins smaller than they are set on the out-of-the-box Kindle. Typical Kindle and other books have other problems, like lack of hyphenation, which makes the gaps between words too uneven with the [default] full justification.
OK. I could save one watt by running IE instead of [insert your favorite browser here]. But then I would have to run it on Windows, and install anti-mallware, anti-virus and other anti-CPU measures.
I think I am much better off running a less efficient browser on Linux, even with a memory hog called KDE 4 running the whole show.
I know you do not need ISA for RS232. I wrote about ISA to show that you can buy even more exotic stuff than a PC with an RS232 port. Sometimes you have special hardware that does require ISA.
A few posts ago I wrote about Industrial PCs.
If you need just a serial port, and not complete PC running old software that needs to access serial port directly, there are boxes from Moxa that let you connect dozens of serial ports to one PC.
At work we use Industrial PCs for work with PLCs. You can still buy PC with an ISA slot, and most of industrial PCs have good old serial port. Just contact any competent supplied of industrial automation equipment.
One of manufacturers is Advantech. Have a look at their UNO line of "brick" computers. Plenty of industrial RS232 and RS485 ports even in the most basic models. Computers are fanless and built to last. Unfortunatelly, those machines are bloody expensive.
If you look really hard, you can even find new 486 machines. Those are even more expensive than Advantech bricks I wrote about, but there are still people that need those computers, so there are companies able to provide them at a cost.
In my country they DO sell game meat in stores.
I block ads because some sites are *so* horribly infested with annoying, blinking, screaming, memory-hogging, loud crap that there is no choice but to install something.
I am willing to whitelist a site that asks nicely AND takes care that the advertisments do not make their site un-viewable. No popups, no animated crap that makes reading text impossible, no flash that bogs down entire computer, no loud sound, no articles divided to 20 parts so they can cram 20 times more ads down our collective throats, no double-underlined words that display a caption add when I move mouse over them. It can be done. Have a look at google site.
Please understand: the vast majority of users out there are too lazy and ignorant to mess with switching on the add blocking. They are even willing to use browsers horribly infested with unbelievable amount of crap. In order to make such user to go and ask someone knowledgeable to install an adblock for them they had to be extremely annoyed.
So, if you want to blame somebody, blame stupid webmasters and super-greedy advertisers that created sites that drove us to block ads.
Well, my very first thought after I started using Windows 8 was that that thing was in many aspects very similar to Emacs.
To use Windows 8 you very quickly learn many useful keyboard shortcuts, like Win-x if you want to start some program that isn't jet on that Start screen. Compare that with Meta-x used in Emacs to run commands. There are many other similarities.
That said, I personally prefer Vim ;-)
well, before jumping to conclusions you should have looked up previous names:
1.0 - Ada
2.0 - Barbara
2.1 - Bea
2.2 - Bianca
3.0 - Cassandra
3.1 - Celena
4.0 - Daryna
5 LTS - Elyssa
6 - Felicia
7 - Gloria
8 - Helena
9 LTS - Isadora
10 - Julia
11 - Katya
12 - Lisa
13 LTS - Maya
14 - Nadia
This way it makes much more sense, doesn't it?
The problem is, you do not get the same results. ... I guess I am too spoiled by Mint and I wasn't satisfied with other systems.
Mint also makes it difficult for you to change their Google search, restoring the config to the default after reboot.
When I discovered this fact, I actually went and tried out several other distros. Sigh
When I type something like '1.2 * 123 Usd in Eur' into a vanilla Google, I get the numerical result. When I type those into the search box in firefox at Mint Linux, I do not get numerical result. There are many more examples. ;-) ) additional search engine, so I added a Google.com search engine - the one that doesnt redirect you to regional version of Google.
Fortunately, it is trivial to *add* (not change the one installed by Mint
For a time I tried to switch to the search engine provided by Mint for searches that I knew would provide very similar result, but I do not do that anymore. Sorry Clem. No revenue from my hijacked search queries.
In later versions Clem made pact with duckduckgo search engine and made that default. I tried to use duckduckgo as well, but, somehow, I gravitated back to using Google.com.
At the moment I use Mint Linux Maya KDE as my main home desktop.
Yes, you knew that, and yet you called them "The Santa Cruz Operation." Santa Cruz operation was entirely different company. This bankrupted company is Caldera, later renamed "SCO" [that is: NOT Santa Cruz Operation] in an attempt to muddle things. Apparently they were highly successful.
Try just setting the hinting to the highest level. The fonts will look extremely sharp. I have done just that in Mint 11 and 12 and I am very pleased.
I do that differently. /home directory and two primary partitions for my Mint Linux installs. On one of those I keep working Mint Linux installation that I use for everyday activity and the next is for trying the new stuff. When I am finally satisfied with a new install, I switch to using that as my main workhorse and use the old partition for experimental stuff. /home/WhateverLoginName separate. You can of course use all the stuff from your all home.
I have one large partition for the
Just do not use the same login name when you install the new version, so you keep your entries in
Just take care to keep all your stuff in /home directory.
One more thing. Always install Grub (or whatever bootloader the distro has) to the partition with the distro and use Smart Boot Manager in mbr to choose what you want to boot.
He is going to teach other English Literature majors.
I wish I had modpoints.
There are two possibilities:
1. Excel gets ported with full support of the VBA scripts and Macros, user defined functions, and control elements (such as buttons, checkboxes) and gets shot down immediately
2. Excel gets ported without the above functionality and will be useless for business users.
When I tried to deploy OpenOffice.org in our company all users(*) that were fighting tooth and nail for Excel were claiming that they can't possibly live without "advanced" Excel stuff like macros, basic scripts and 100% compatibility with documents created by our business partners.
(*)Yes, there was small handful of users that started using OO.o Calc with no problems.
It looks very promising. Simple, neat, clean-looking. There was discussion on /. a few days ago.
http://razor-qt.org/screenshots/
One day my pre-teen-aged daughter wanted to set up an avatar for her Google mail account, like her best friend had. A nice pony or whatever. So we have opened the settings and one of things that Google wanted to know was the date of birth. After naively filling in the date (*not* the real number, but still way low age) ... poooof ... the account was gone. And mind you, this was account my daughter has created in an "IT" class. In my country we do not have educational accounts the article talks about.
In one second the account is there, the next ... gone.
Google wanted scan of my ID or something.
YOU ARE NOT GONNA GET IT GOOGLE!!! You Do. Not. Need. A. Copy. Of. My. Passport.
So we have created another account with a slightly different name, but my daughter has been upset for quite a long time. Still is, in fact. And I had to explain why Google are such ... bloody morons.
The same day I have made backup of my entire Google mail account. I do not trust them anymore that they won't pull the same stunt with MY personal account.