Thanks, I've been damned again;). >What's with this metric BS. It's too confusing. a) don't call it BS, please just because you don't understand and use it b) it is _not_ confusing. the basic length unit is 1 meter. a KILOmeter is 1000 meters, centimeter is 1/100 of a meter, a milimeter is 1/1000 of a meter. it's all multiplies of ten of the basic unit. does it seem confusing to you? c) we, who use this system, are in majority:) (e)
I hope the open-sourcing of SO will help making it smaller (both package size and memory footprint) and faster. Then it would be usable for my setup (K6/233 Mhz, 48 MB ram) and I could finally delete Windows, which I still need to run MS Office (the _only_ use for them).
WHen started using LaTeX (for writing stuff for school), I found enough documentation in the latex-doc package of my favourite (e.g. Mandrake) GNU/Linux distro.
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Thanks, I've been damned again ;). >What's with this metric BS. It's too confusing. a) don't call it BS, please just because you don't understand and use it b) it is _not_ confusing. the basic length unit is 1 meter. a KILOmeter is 1000 meters, centimeter is 1/100 of a meter, a milimeter is 1/1000 of a meter. it's all multiplies of ten of the basic unit. does it seem confusing to you? c) we, who use this system, are in majority :) (e)
I hope the open-sourcing of SO will help making
it smaller (both package size and memory footprint) and faster. Then it would be usable for my setup (K6/233 Mhz, 48 MB ram) and I could finally delete Windows, which I still need to run MS Office (the _only_ use for them).
WHen started using LaTeX (for writing stuff for school), I found enough documentation in the latex-doc package of my favourite (e.g. Mandrake) GNU/Linux distro.