You don't mention your budget or how much effort you want to put into this but seriously consider Framemaker. It's cross platform - runs on Unix, Mac and Windows - long tried and true for documentation and manuals - Office and sales types even "get it" pretty quickly. You will find it much less cumbersome than cobbling with Pagemaker or Indesign for sure and offers you much better management controls. Has great integration with PDF, SGML, XML and more. No I don't work for Adobe - I just used to do this kind of stuff - it's a real workhorse for what you are after... Adobe's web site has lots of info.
Actually two different issues here - the first is the solution to your Flash content authoring needs in Linux (congrats on that final fdisk btw;-). The second regards the current scarcity of polished plug-in support to actually render your work in non-Iexplore browsers.
2nd issue first: There are many programmers out there working tirelessly on open source browser and OS alternatives for us (thanks guys) but there is much so much work to be done yet so one way to help is to donate money and hardware (like say old i386 stuff) to open source organizations like mozilla, KDE, etc. to aid them in further development of plugins that actually work the way they should - remember these are all works in progress and they are competing with some pretty deep pockets.
1st issue second: I have a couple of possible directions here for you to poke around: Don't forget you can run Solaris, SGI, HPUX binaries too (at least I can on my FreeBSD machine - so probably Linux too) and there may be some cool (albeit commercial and pricey) stuff available that route although I alas can only make the suggestion - perhaps someone else has experience with this? As a fellow graphic designer turning geek this is on my list of things to play with one of these days as I gain time/knowledge.
Secondly I don't want to troll, but I would refer you to another very interesting "ask/." about building a PC for an artist (graphic designer = artist) that contains comments regarding Mac OSX you may find useful in your quest as a M$ free artist.
I know that GE (I think) has a consumer model available article here It's an old article - couldn't tell you where they went with it but I plan on seriously looking into it myself this summer. They create clean, quiet power and are efficient. You may also consider upping your requirements from 1Kw - that is not enough for many devices even if only when they first power up.
Even though today's monitors are unfriendly things, eventually we will have displays that are every bit as readable as paper is (if not as beautiful). This WILL happen. It is only the stupid publisher who does not realize this. But, as someone who has actually made paper and bound books by hand I am not bothered by this so much. In Gutenberg's day, I am sure many people mourned the passing of the illuminated manuscript (I know I would have...). But now, books can once again become works of art. Ironic huh? We will have the choice of either the cheap "byteback"tm from online publishers or a real, letterpress printed, leather bound work of art that can be appreciated and handed down to the grandkids. And...think of all the trees that will be left for real books when the National Enquirer goes 100% digital, heh heh.
Even if you consider $1.75/50 billion dollars in tax revenue to be a trivial amount (I don't, btw) what do we do in 2004, or 2005? If you fund a government by taxing sales then you have to do it consistently. Failing to tax this segemnt of the economy will cause the sales tax to become more REGRESSIVE, that is, the less unfortunate members of our population who do not have access to computers, internet and credit cards will carry a heavier tax burden than those who make purchases via the net, mail order or other tax free venues. Yeah ok, call me a liberal but otoh, saying an internet tax would be too difficult to implement is hardly a solution...what if Mr. Torvalds decided not to code an os because it would just be too darn complicated, hmmm?
to see that the damage amount wasn't jacked to $80m. There is no real news here for slashdot readers except that the company and the authorities acted appropriately to a real crime without hysteria or hyperbole. Even the article was well written and completely free of the word hacker or "evil computer genius". The only thing that really did suck was the/. headline.
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You don't mention your budget or how much effort you want to put into this but seriously consider Framemaker. It's cross platform - runs on Unix, Mac and Windows - long tried and true for documentation and manuals - Office and sales types even "get it" pretty quickly. You will find it much less cumbersome than cobbling with Pagemaker or Indesign for sure and offers you much better management controls. Has great integration with PDF, SGML, XML and more. No I don't work for Adobe - I just used to do this kind of stuff - it's a real workhorse for what you are after... Adobe's web site has lots of info.
Actually two different issues here - the first is the solution to your Flash content authoring needs in Linux (congrats on that final fdisk btw ;-). The second regards the current scarcity of polished plug-in support to actually render your work in non-Iexplore browsers.
/." about building a PC for an artist (graphic designer = artist) that contains comments regarding Mac OSX you may find useful in your quest as a M$ free artist.
2nd issue first: There are many programmers out there working tirelessly on open source browser and OS alternatives for us (thanks guys) but there is much so much work to be done yet so one way to help is to donate money and hardware (like say old i386 stuff) to open source organizations like mozilla, KDE, etc. to aid them in further development of plugins that actually work the way they should - remember these are all works in progress and they are competing with some pretty deep pockets.
1st issue second: I have a couple of possible directions here for you to poke around: Don't forget you can run Solaris, SGI, HPUX binaries too (at least I can on my FreeBSD machine - so probably Linux too) and there may be some cool (albeit commercial and pricey) stuff available that route although I alas can only make the suggestion - perhaps someone else has experience with this? As a fellow graphic designer turning geek this is on my list of things to play with one of these days as I gain time/knowledge.
Secondly I don't want to troll, but I would refer you to another very interesting "ask
I know that GE (I think) has a consumer model available article here It's an old article - couldn't tell you where they went with it but I plan on seriously looking into it myself this summer. They create clean, quiet power and are efficient. You may also consider upping your requirements from 1Kw - that is not enough for many devices even if only when they first power up.
Even though today's monitors are unfriendly things, eventually we will have displays that are every bit as readable as paper is (if not as beautiful). This WILL happen. It is only the stupid publisher who does not realize this. But, as someone who has actually made paper and bound books by hand I am not bothered by this so much. In Gutenberg's day, I am sure many people mourned the passing of the illuminated manuscript (I know I would have...). But now, books can once again become works of art. Ironic huh? We will have the choice of either the cheap "byteback"tm from online publishers or a real, letterpress printed, leather bound work of art that can be appreciated and handed down to the grandkids. And...think of all the trees that will be left for real books when the National Enquirer goes 100% digital, heh heh.
Even if you consider $1.75/50 billion dollars in tax revenue to be a trivial amount (I don't, btw) what do we do in 2004, or 2005? If you fund a government by taxing sales then you have to do it consistently. Failing to tax this segemnt of the economy will cause the sales tax to become more REGRESSIVE, that is, the less unfortunate members of our population who do not have access to computers, internet and credit cards will carry a heavier tax burden than those who make purchases via the net, mail order or other tax free venues. Yeah ok, call me a liberal but otoh, saying an internet tax would be too difficult to implement is hardly a solution...what if Mr. Torvalds decided not to code an os because it would just be too darn complicated, hmmm?