Yeah, a 5 inch screen is pretty lame, unless, you know, you are looking at it from less than 2 feet away, then it's fine. Of course, bigger screens mean less battery life, less portable, higher price.
Maybe you don't get the point of this Portable DVD player because it's not a DVD player. It's a portable "media" player. There is no DVD drive. Or CDrom drive. Or floppy drive. It's the size of a deck of cards. Think "iPod that can also play video, if you want it for that."
You're probably thinking about one of these. They cost 200 dollars. You think you can get a halfway decent laptop for 200 bucks? Please tell me where.
Not to be disencouraged but your sense of touch has to be extremely accustomed to recognition.
I was under the impression (please correct me if I'm wrong) that people who were visually impared had heightened senses of touch, hearing, etc. For example, I can see just fine (with glasses) but can't read brail. Can't tell the difference between the letters. A lot of blind people can read brail just fine, or in many cases faster/better than sight-enabled folks can read printed text. Do you think the same would apply for shape recognition of maps?
AFAIK, there isn't an official "standard" Office format. I have played around with Star Office, Open Office, Abiword, etc. without too many problems, but translating from one office app to another and back always messes something up. So now I use my licensed (through work, of course) copy of Office 2000 on my Fedora Linux system running Crossover Office. Crossover Office runs all my "Office" apps, including IE6 (if I need it to run some Flash Communication Server streaming video or whatever that won't run under Linux/Mozilla) and Lotus Notes without a hitch.
If I need to read/write word docs (which I do, unfortunately most people aren't down with the "text" format) or excel spreadsheets, I use Word or Excel. Not a problem. If someone gives me something in OpenOffice format, then I use Open Office.
If I am the originator of a document, then I will send it as plain text, so anything can read it. If I need to send out a spreadsheet, I'll send it as comma-delimitted, if they can't figure it out then I'll export it to Excel for them or build an html file with tables.
I haven't gotten it to work yet, but didn't put that much effort into it since I've got a nice orinoco card that just works. There's a howto here, I'm planning on following those insturcuctions with my iwp2200bg.
If you dual-boot Windows XP/2000, some combination of the new 2.6 kernel with Grub will destroy your partition table and disable access to Windows XP.
As I'm installing this (upgrading from Fedora core 1, actually) I ran into an error message to that effect. They said it was safe to ignore, but may cause (fixable) problems. Fortunately it's a new system and there's nothing of importance on it.
Well, it's a HUGE difference! This is like a video camera, true, BUT it's attached to some big sunglasses! AND there's no viewfinder! This is technology at work.
Write your own blog/photo-album thing-a-ma-jigger. It's guaranteed to have all the features your family needs, and be easy to use for people who are computer illiterate. You will know this, because you will design the features and interface yourself.
Most of what you want is probably already written in perl somewhereelseanyway, you can just pick out the pieces you want and put them together.
And, it will totally come from the heart, since YOU made it! Parents love that.
Neither do I, it was a joke. I put a smiley by it so people would know it was a joke, because I figured "It's probably not all that funny, but it's really all I got."
I prefer fdisk over disk druid, possibly because I know fdisk, and don't know disk druid. I was surprised to see disk druid the default partitioner and fdisk the "experts only" option on a redhat install.
Likewise, when they switched to grub, I was whizzed. I spent all this time learning lilo, just to have grub dropped on me, which I have gotten used to and now prefer:)
I have no intention of "getting used to" disk druid though, as long as fdisk is still around, I'll use that.
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Yeah, a 5 inch screen is pretty lame, unless, you know, you are looking at it from less than 2 feet away, then it's fine. Of course, bigger screens mean less battery life, less portable, higher price.
Ahh.. the Rules for men, THAT's where I stole that from. Heh. I had forgotten.
You're probably thinking about one of these. They cost 200 dollars. You think you can get a halfway decent laptop for 200 bucks? Please tell me where.
If I need to read/write word docs (which I do, unfortunately most people aren't down with the "text" format) or excel spreadsheets, I use Word or Excel. Not a problem. If someone gives me something in OpenOffice format, then I use Open Office.
If I am the originator of a document, then I will send it as plain text, so anything can read it. If I need to send out a spreadsheet, I'll send it as comma-delimitted, if they can't figure it out then I'll export it to Excel for them or build an html file with tables.
The URL got munged. here's a correction.
Nah, I've got one of those.
the jealousy is oozing from my pores. This is amazingly amazing.
You're probably talking about this one.
Just FYI, I found it linked on the page of "this beautiful one" you provided.
B - It has a GUI on each and every user's desktop
C - There is no C.
* Not to imply that fucking butts is a bad thing
I haven't gotten it to work yet, but didn't put that much effort into it since I've got a nice orinoco card that just works. There's a howto here, I'm planning on following those insturcuctions with my iwp2200bg.
Have you tried ndiswrapper?
Well, it's a HUGE difference! This is like a video camera, true, BUT it's attached to some big sunglasses! AND there's no viewfinder! This is technology at work.
#!/bin/bash
shitlist=""
MATCHLINES=`grep -r shit *`
for word in $MATCHLINES; do
if [ "$word" = "shit" ] || [ "$word" = "shitty" ]; then
shitlist="$shitlist $word"
shitcount=`echo $shitlist | wc -w | awk '{print $1}'`
fi
done
echo $shitcount
So instead of carpal-tunnel everyone will get torsal-tunnel, is that better? :)
Most of what you want is probably already written in perl somewhere else anyway, you can just pick out the pieces you want and put them together.
And, it will totally come from the heart, since YOU made it! Parents love that.
So we'd call is BSD/Linux of something? That's not confusing :)
Likewise, when they switched to grub, I was whizzed. I spent all this time learning lilo, just to have grub dropped on me, which I have gotten used to and now prefer :)
I have no intention of "getting used to" disk druid though, as long as fdisk is still around, I'll use that.
I asked Google, but it didn't give me what I was looking for, so after a couple of minutes I gave up on finding the information.
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