This is incorrect. From the Social Security Administration's page:
We do not reassign a Social Security number (SSN) after the number holder's death. Even though we have issued over 415 million SSNs so far, and we assign about 5 and one-half million new numbers a year, the current numbering system will provide us with enough new numbers for several generations into the future with no changes in th
I'm not the GP poster, but you can do this on at least all 3rd gen iPods (not sure about the earlier ones). There's a calendar view that works off the iCalendar format (and if you use Outlook, there are programs that will synch the Outlook pst format to iCalendar style and place it on your iPod), there's a Notes viewer so you can view things like Mail (again, there are conduits etc on Windows, not sure how easy it is to synch mail on Mac OS X), and there's a Contacts feature where you can see name, phone, addresses, etc. The only limitation to all this (and I think this is what the GGP was talking about) is that its read-only, and you can only input when you're back on your main computer, which isn't too practical in terms of writing addresses you've just received in a meeting or such.
Drifting a little OT, but look to Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49", IIRC the muted horn is a logo associated with an underground mail system known as *drumroll* WASTE.
Sure, downloading a SWX and importing the macro will do the trick, and I appreciate the link, but really, as the author of the page says, it's something that should (and I suspect, will be soon) included straight out of the box if it aims to be a drop-in Word replacement.
Yes, but that's Document-wide, not paragraph or selection-specific, which is important in many word-processing tasks, and unfortunately still lacking in OO.org.
A couple of years back (using a Mandrake distro that was still basically Red Hat with some changes) I was messing around with the fstab file, trying to get a cdwriter to work, and decided that I had screwed it up beyond repair. Since I was coming from the "Wonderful World of Windows" I expected these files to autogenerate themselves on bootup (how? why? etc etc). So I deleted the fstab file . . and upon reboot found that, no, the absence of an fstab file is not a quick way to have a new one generated.
A few people complaining about the fact that the person put the numbers in the same column as the Song Title, here's an easy way to fix if you have a word processor that can do find/replace:
1. Get a plaintext version. 2. Replace all instances of " (" (thats a space and open parantheses) with a Tab. 3. Replace all instances of ")" with nothing. 4. Import into a spreadsheet program (practically every single one will do tab-delimeted fields).
Yes, those products are available, but the original poster's point was that he already has those programs for Windows, and doesn't want to re-purchase the same product for Mac.
If Apple extended their Trade-up to Final Cut program (allowing people to trade in Adobe Premiere to get a free copy of Final Cut Express) to apply to all Adobe products, and replace them with their Adobe Mac counterparts, then this wouldn't be a problem, but the chances of Adobe allowing this are looooooow.
However, the book is based on OpenOffice 1.0 ("OpenOffice.org 1.0 Resource Kit") and things certainly have changed from 1.0 to 1.1, beta, release candidate, or final.
Check out Book-a-minute . . great condensations of everything from Shakespeare to Tolkien...
(from this page) Gandalf
Bilbo Baggins, your Ring is evil. In a couple decades, we'll try
to destroy it. In the meantime, leave it for Frodo to play with.
Bilbo Baggins
It's not evil. It's mine. My precious. Mine! MINE, I TELL YOU!!
MOOHOOHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
(Frodo takes it to RIVENDELL. Some FRIENDS come with him. They
are attacked by black riders a LOT, and it is SCARY.)
Elrond
Frodo Baggins, if Sauron ever gets this Ring, the world will be
destroyed, and evil will reign forever. We must act quickly.
Take the Ring to where he lives.
(They do some travelling. Some more FRIENDS come with him. Gandalf DIES
in the mines of Moria, but will later be RESURRECTED in GLORIFIED form having
triumphed over EVIL, an obvious literary ALLUSION to that movie where the guy
comes back as a DOG.)
I opened up IE to check it out, and the site looks quite nice on IE, especially the "story" pages (which feature some of the best "page turning" or column changing I've seen in a while). If this was re-done in proper coding I would be far more impressed, however. MozFirebird can't render it properly (the story pages work, however) and I imagine almost any other non-IE browser would struggle with it as well.
Cut down on the javascript and tables and then we'll talk =)
The reports of Apple including ogg support in iTunes were "delusional", or more accurately just misinformed. What had actually happened was that the Quicktime Component that supports Ogg (not developed by Apple) had hooked in with iTunes as well. This update just makes the component compatible with the (as far as I know) latest version of Quicktime, 6.0.2.
You gotta love today's bottom-of-the-page witticism:
I sat down beside her, said hello, offered to buy her a drink... and then natural selection reared its ugly head.
The methods mentioned above will keep your dll plugins (Shockwave Flash, Java, Quicktime) but not your Extensions (Mouse Gestures, RadialContext, Tabbrowser Extensions). I haven't found a way to solve this problem when it comes to extensions, so what I do is have a "Mozilla Extensions" folder with the original XPIs for all the extensions. So, when I install a new version, all I have to do is drag the XPI to the Mozilla window, and it'll install the extension. I'm not sure how this would work in Linux , as I'm running Moz on windows but I'm assuming the process should be somewhat similar.
The problem with the extensions stems, as far as I can tell, from the fact that although the.jar files might still be present in the chrome folder, they aren't registered with Mozilla and hence not recognized (dragging the tabextensions.jar file into the chrome folder, for example, has had no effect in my attempts). If there's a way to manually register extensions without reinstalling them...well, I haven't found it yet.
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Even with Messenger disabled from starting up at boot, it will still automagically open itself when you load Hotmail, for example, in Internet Explorer. Nothing happens in Mozilla, which is nice, but it's still annoying when it opens up in IE, unasked for and unwanted. Uninstalling it (or disabling it using Group Policy editor in XP home) sorts out that issue.
This is brought up in Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Of course, these treatments usually render the patient gradually less of a person anyway.
As far as I know, the source to the Linux version of Winamp won't be open-source. I think many people will want an alternative to it for that reason. Also, although you do make some good points about trying to re-invent the wheel, having an (open source) alternative can be very useful if the "wheel maker" goes under. For example, if FreeAmp was your only media player, if the project was discontinued, the source would still be available and the project could be continued. Whereas if Winamp (or Nullsoft, but I guess now that they've been bought up, this isn't really that realistic of a scenario) went under, the project might just die.
I HAVE used OS X, but it's not my Mac and I've only used it for running video editing/compositing and image programs, so I haven't delved too deeply into the system preferences. So yes, you're right, people might turn either or both these services on without knowing they are enabling SSH and Apache. I stand corrected. No, wait, I sit =)
I understand that most of Apple's users don't want to touch the command line and wouldn't know where to start compiling software
Good point, but if you think about it, how many of those users (who wouldn't ever want to touch a command line) are running OpenSSH and Apache? A very small group, I'm sure. Those who are running one or both of those services are (usually) at least aware of a command line and how to upgrade without Software Update. Software Update is for those who don't know or care to learn how to use the shell - again, a minority.
iDVD isn't quite great if you want to fully unlock what a DVD can do and hold. Burning with iDVD you're limited to 90 minutes of video, while on the other hand using software like DVD Studio Pro (though expensive) you'll be able to store the maximum (not sure what that would be). Since with a VCD or an SVCD you would be limited to around 30 minutes anyway, the added cost of DVD media/DVD-Recording drive (if he doesn't have one already) wouldn't really justify the difference. However, there's also the issue of (S)VCD compatibility(my DVD player doesn't play home-burnt VCD's, for example).
Some time ago I tried out the Corel Linux distro, and although some of the design choices really didn't work for me (IIRC, it automatically boots into X and provides no easy way to switch out/change this behaviour)what it DID do pretty well was a Control Panel with options to switch Resolution and Color Depth. I haven't used any recent versions of KDE so for all I know they've implemented this too, but at the time (about a year ago?) it was the nicest X configuration utility I'd seen, and I think something like this is pretty important for new users who would be a little thrown off by XF86Config.
This makes a great case for placing problems with extra variables in them, or demanding exact answers to make sure the person taking the test/quiz is actually understanding the concept. I had a math teacher a few years back who used a "Club" symbol and a "Hearts" symbol instead of letter-variables on one of his exams - instantly knocked off the ones who were just memorizing formulae and/or just plugging in numbers in the calculator from those who understood the concept. It's a little sad that teachers have to resort to something like this to "trick" those who over-use their calculators, though...
Well, nvidia's move towards a common architecture on most of their graphics cards solves the problem of developing a driver for one videocard and having that videocard immediatly outdated...unfortunately, their Linux drivers are binary-only, and ATI seem to be making no moves (as far as I know) to implement a similar strategy on their graphics cards.
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This is incorrect. From the Social Security Administration's page:
We do not reassign a Social Security number (SSN) after the number holder's death. Even though we have issued over 415 million SSNs so far, and we assign about 5 and one-half million new numbers a year, the current numbering system will provide us with enough new numbers for several generations into the future with no changes in th
I'm not the GP poster, but you can do this on at least all 3rd gen iPods (not sure about the earlier ones). There's a calendar view that works off the iCalendar format (and if you use Outlook, there are programs that will synch the Outlook pst format to iCalendar style and place it on your iPod), there's a Notes viewer so you can view things like Mail (again, there are conduits etc on Windows, not sure how easy it is to synch mail on Mac OS X), and there's a Contacts feature where you can see name, phone, addresses, etc. The only limitation to all this (and I think this is what the GGP was talking about) is that its read-only, and you can only input when you're back on your main computer, which isn't too practical in terms of writing addresses you've just received in a meeting or such.
Drifting a little OT, but look to Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49", IIRC the muted horn is a logo associated with an underground mail system known as *drumroll* WASTE.
Sure, downloading a SWX and importing the macro will do the trick, and I appreciate the link, but really, as the author of the page says, it's something that should (and I suspect, will be soon) included straight out of the box if it aims to be a drop-in Word replacement.
Yes, but that's Document-wide, not paragraph or selection-specific, which is important in many word-processing tasks, and unfortunately still lacking in OO.org.
Works great for me with Mozilla Firebird, 1st January trunk build . .
A couple of years back (using a Mandrake distro that was still basically Red Hat with some changes) I was messing around with the fstab file, trying to get a cdwriter to work, and decided that I had screwed it up beyond repair. Since I was coming from the "Wonderful World of Windows" I expected these files to autogenerate themselves on bootup (how? why? etc etc). So I deleted the fstab file . . and upon reboot found that, no, the absence of an fstab file is not a quick way to have a new one generated.
A few people complaining about the fact that the person put the numbers in the same column as the Song Title, here's an easy way to fix if you have a word processor that can do find/replace:
1. Get a plaintext version.
2. Replace all instances of " (" (thats a space and open parantheses) with a Tab.
3. Replace all instances of ")" with nothing.
4. Import into a spreadsheet program (practically every single one will do tab-delimeted fields).
Annoying to have to do it but dead simple.
Yes, those products are available, but the original poster's point was that he already has those programs for Windows, and doesn't want to re-purchase the same product for Mac.
If Apple extended their Trade-up to Final Cut program (allowing people to trade in Adobe Premiere to get a free copy of Final Cut Express) to apply to all Adobe products, and replace them with their Adobe Mac counterparts, then this wouldn't be a problem, but the chances of Adobe allowing this are looooooow.
"We at Kemplar.com are proud to offer the upgraded Apple Cube G4 for a limited time."
I guess we'll see how limited . .
However, the book is based on OpenOffice 1.0 ("OpenOffice.org 1.0 Resource Kit") and things certainly have changed from 1.0 to 1.1, beta, release candidate, or final.
Gandalf Bilbo Baggins (Frodo takes it to RIVENDELL. Some FRIENDS come with him. They are attacked by black riders a LOT, and it is SCARY.)
Elrond
(They do some travelling. Some more FRIENDS come with him. Gandalf DIES in the mines of Moria, but will later be RESURRECTED in GLORIFIED form having triumphed over EVIL, an obvious literary ALLUSION to that movie where the guy comes back as a DOG.)Boromir
Frodo BoromirTHE END
I opened up IE to check it out, and the site looks quite nice on IE, especially the "story" pages (which feature some of the best "page turning" or column changing I've seen in a while). If this was re-done in proper coding I would be far more impressed, however. MozFirebird can't render it properly (the story pages work, however) and I imagine almost any other non-IE browser would struggle with it as well.
Cut down on the javascript and tables and then we'll talk =)
The reports of Apple including ogg support in iTunes were "delusional", or more accurately just misinformed. What had actually happened was that the Quicktime Component that supports Ogg (not developed by Apple) had hooked in with iTunes as well. This update just makes the component compatible with the (as far as I know) latest version of Quicktime, 6.0.2.
You gotta love today's bottom-of-the-page witticism: I sat down beside her, said hello, offered to buy her a drink... and then natural selection reared its ugly head.
The methods mentioned above will keep your dll plugins (Shockwave Flash, Java, Quicktime) but not your Extensions (Mouse Gestures, RadialContext, Tabbrowser Extensions). I haven't found a way to solve this problem when it comes to extensions, so what I do is have a "Mozilla Extensions" folder with the original XPIs for all the extensions. So, when I install a new version, all I have to do is drag the XPI to the Mozilla window, and it'll install the extension. I'm not sure how this would work in Linux , as I'm running Moz on windows but I'm assuming the process should be somewhat similar.
.jar files might still be present in the chrome folder, they aren't registered with Mozilla and hence not recognized (dragging the tabextensions.jar file into the chrome folder, for example, has had no effect in my attempts). If there's a way to manually register extensions without reinstalling them...well, I haven't found it yet.
The problem with the extensions stems, as far as I can tell, from the fact that although the
Even with Messenger disabled from starting up at boot, it will still automagically open itself when you load Hotmail, for example, in Internet Explorer. Nothing happens in Mozilla, which is nice, but it's still annoying when it opens up in IE, unasked for and unwanted. Uninstalling it (or disabling it using Group Policy editor in XP home) sorts out that issue.
This is brought up in Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Of course, these treatments usually render the patient gradually less of a person anyway.
As far as I know, the source to the Linux version of Winamp won't be open-source. I think many people will want an alternative to it for that reason. Also, although you do make some good points about trying to re-invent the wheel, having an (open source) alternative can be very useful if the "wheel maker" goes under. For example, if FreeAmp was your only media player, if the project was discontinued, the source would still be available and the project could be continued. Whereas if Winamp (or Nullsoft, but I guess now that they've been bought up, this isn't really that realistic of a scenario) went under, the project might just die.
I HAVE used OS X, but it's not my Mac and I've only used it for running video editing/compositing and image programs, so I haven't delved too deeply into the system preferences. So yes, you're right, people might turn either or both these services on without knowing they are enabling SSH and Apache. I stand corrected. No, wait, I sit =)
I understand that most of Apple's users don't want to touch the command line and wouldn't know where to start compiling software
Good point, but if you think about it, how many of those users (who wouldn't ever want to touch a command line) are running OpenSSH and Apache? A very small group, I'm sure. Those who are running one or both of those services are (usually) at least aware of a command line and how to upgrade without Software Update. Software Update is for those who don't know or care to learn how to use the shell - again, a minority.
iDVD isn't quite great if you want to fully unlock what a DVD can do and hold. Burning with iDVD you're limited to 90 minutes of video, while on the other hand using software like DVD Studio Pro (though expensive) you'll be able to store the maximum (not sure what that would be). Since with a VCD or an SVCD you would be limited to around 30 minutes anyway, the added cost of DVD media/DVD-Recording drive (if he doesn't have one already) wouldn't really justify the difference. However, there's also the issue of (S)VCD compatibility(my DVD player doesn't play home-burnt VCD's, for example).
Some time ago I tried out the Corel Linux distro, and although some of the design choices really didn't work for me (IIRC, it automatically boots into X and provides no easy way to switch out/change this behaviour)what it DID do pretty well was a Control Panel with options to switch Resolution and Color Depth. I haven't used any recent versions of KDE so for all I know they've implemented this too, but at the time (about a year ago?) it was the nicest X configuration utility I'd seen, and I think something like this is pretty important for new users who would be a little thrown off by XF86Config.
This makes a great case for placing problems with extra variables in them, or demanding exact answers to make sure the person taking the test/quiz is actually understanding the concept. I had a math teacher a few years back who used a "Club" symbol and a "Hearts" symbol instead of letter-variables on one of his exams - instantly knocked off the ones who were just memorizing formulae and/or just plugging in numbers in the calculator from those who understood the concept. It's a little sad that teachers have to resort to something like this to "trick" those who over-use their calculators, though...
Well, nvidia's move towards a common architecture on most of their graphics cards solves the problem of developing a driver for one videocard and having that videocard immediatly outdated...unfortunately, their Linux drivers are binary-only, and ATI seem to be making no moves (as far as I know) to implement a similar strategy on their graphics cards.