That other poster and I don't want high quality flexible format graphs. We want quick & easy graphs that can display basic information and statistical stuff and have good display flexibility. Excel does that far better than Calc, unfortunately.
I haven't tried 2.0 yet, but I've found Excel to have far more advanced charting options that are simultaneously easier to use than those in OOo.
If they've revamped charting in Calc, I'll be very very pleased.
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Using vim for programming is just plain convenient, whether it saves lots of time (I believe it does) or not. I usually do scripting and such in vim, and I'm constantly annoyed when I have to use something that doesn't let you type 'dd' to cut an entire line, 'yy' to copy an entire line, '#dd' or '#yy' to cut or copy # lines, 'p' to paste, 'D', to erase rest of a line, etc. Doing that stuff with a mouse severely slows you down.
You can even do simple scripting by typing 'q[letter] [series of commands] q #@[letter]', which executes [series of commands] # times. Much faster than writing an external script if you only have to do it once.
Oh, yeah, Colonization ruled. I used to play that all the time in middle school. Remember the Fountain of Youth? If you found that, you suddenly got an onrush of qualified immigrants to help your colony along. And instead of a tech tree, you had Founding Fathers that brought with them specific bonuses for the colony (if memory serves). Highly underrated, IMHO.
Remember this name. Pickering's been a member of the Telecom & Internet subcommittee since the mid-90s, and he's the guy responsible for COPA, the overreaching "Child Online Protection Act" that was later declared unconstitutional. His interests are in the commercialization and family-friendlification of the Internet, not in the protection of online freedom or anything like that.
Cool, thanks for the explanation on this. I just tried in on both my Ubuntu (GNOME) partition and my Windows XP partition. My monitor is a laptop flat-screen with dimensions 12 in x 9 in and a native resolution of 1600x1200, giving a dpi of 133 in both directions.
On Ubuntu, I changed this in my xorg.conf file, but see no difference in the size of the objects and text on the desktop. On Windows XP I had to go into the custom dpi settings to manually set 133 (the options were 96 and 120), and unfortunately, the result sucks. The fonts and such are much easier to read at a distance, but it seems to have scaled all the images in the UI as well, and this makes them all blocky and distorted and ugly, since apparently they aren't vector graphics.
Do you have any knowledge of doing this stuff on either of these systems? Is my procedure for calculating and setting my dpi correct (and why can't the OS do this automatically)?
Yeah, this is good stuff. I did this for the past release and put a stack of CDs in the copy room at work. It was nice to see them disappear over the next couple days.
Not harrassing, just inappropriate. I'm glad they changed it, personally. It saves me from getting weird looks when I hand someone an official CD set with that pic on the cover, or boot up into the system with that pic on the splash screen. It's just tiring to hear "Why's that lady in a bra, and why can you see down the other one's shirt?" all the time (especially from the parents) and having to explain it.
"Pudge has been working a lot on that problem. Specifically we've got scripts to fix HTML in all editor & user contributed content spaces. A lot of this is under way already. Old comments are being automatically fixed in the background. HTML in articles from 1998 is being corrected. Scripts are working very hard. And in some cases, tired editors have been re-reading stories from 1998 to correct HTML errors that boggle the mind. None of this is perfect, so don't be to surprised if you find something wonky. Feel free to mail me URLs if you see it. We've got almost 60,000 articles, 900,000 users, and like 13 million comments. There will be mistakes."
I have a subscription, and I've tried 5.0. I quickly moved to Fedora and Ubuntu, though. I suppose if you like KDE and the KDE way of doing things, you might be happy with it. I was very impressed at its installation, and the fact that it configured absolutely everything (including ndiswrapper and Windows Broadcom drivers!) properly the first time.
Fro crying out loud people, who gives a damn?! Thousands are dead, many thousands more injured, and most of them and thousands more homeless and an even larger amount without drinkable water and an even larger amount without electrical power. WHO CARES if Linux is involved?
Amen to that. My RSS reader is full of tech sites, and the past week has seen a giant void of relevant postings.
Like others have said, I can't see how this is going to do any good. Any little bit helps, I guess, but free Wi-Fi? 80% of Mississippi is out of power, last I heard. My parents are in Ridgeland (next to Jackson), and official word was that they won't get power at all until the 2nd. Does Starbucks have a Wi-fi generator or something? I can understand shipments of food, a rush of temporary cell phone towers, free pay-as-you-go phones for people in the area... but free Wi-Fi for 3 days in flooded areas with no power?
I'm not sure morals really enters into the question here. If you're against DRM, you can choose to only support those who publish without any at all. If you're willing to endure a little DRM with your media, an open standard can only be a good thing.
Yeah, it's NullSoft Video, which probably means that something along the lines of WinAmp can do it, though I'm not sure.
See, this is why open-source isn't just the answer to crappy operating systems and spyware-laden p2p apps. There's an entire world of media out there in closed, patented formats just waiting for a little liberation. Thank you Ogg, but can people please start using it?
Well if it makes you feel any better, I use Firefox 1.0.6 all the time on Ubuntu, and I haven't had a crash yet. I tend to turn off esd, but I do have Flash.
Geeze, since when did I say anything about a "draconian site blocking policy"?
As the head of the organization, the librarian is responsible for the goings-on in the library. If there is a systematic abuse of said library over a period of time, the question should rightly fall to the head as to why it was allowed to continue.
In circumstances in which an organization has permitted itself to be abused, it is perfectly reasonable to seek a new leader of the organization. Facing this, a leader will attempt to do things in his power to stop the abuse.
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That other poster and I don't want high quality flexible format graphs. We want quick & easy graphs that can display basic information and statistical stuff and have good display flexibility. Excel does that far better than Calc, unfortunately.
To be accurate, I believe OOo has only had PDF export since 1.1.
I haven't tried 2.0 yet, but I've found Excel to have far more advanced charting options that are simultaneously easier to use than those in OOo.
If they've revamped charting in Calc, I'll be very very pleased.
Using vim for programming is just plain convenient, whether it saves lots of time (I believe it does) or not. I usually do scripting and such in vim, and I'm constantly annoyed when I have to use something that doesn't let you type 'dd' to cut an entire line, 'yy' to copy an entire line, '#dd' or '#yy' to cut or copy # lines, 'p' to paste, 'D', to erase rest of a line, etc. Doing that stuff with a mouse severely slows you down.
You can even do simple scripting by typing 'q[letter] [series of commands] q #@[letter]', which executes [series of commands] # times. Much faster than writing an external script if you only have to do it once.
Oh, yeah, Colonization ruled. I used to play that all the time in middle school. Remember the Fountain of Youth? If you found that, you suddenly got an onrush of qualified immigrants to help your colony along. And instead of a tech tree, you had Founding Fathers that brought with them specific bonuses for the colony (if memory serves). Highly underrated, IMHO.
Anyone know anything about Northland Cable? Broadband Reports doesn't seem to know it exists.
Pickering R-MS
Remember this name. Pickering's been a member of the Telecom & Internet subcommittee since the mid-90s, and he's the guy responsible for COPA, the overreaching "Child Online Protection Act" that was later declared unconstitutional. His interests are in the commercialization and family-friendlification of the Internet, not in the protection of online freedom or anything like that.
Cool, thanks for the explanation on this. I just tried in on both my Ubuntu (GNOME) partition and my Windows XP partition. My monitor is a laptop flat-screen with dimensions 12 in x 9 in and a native resolution of 1600x1200, giving a dpi of 133 in both directions.
On Ubuntu, I changed this in my xorg.conf file, but see no difference in the size of the objects and text on the desktop. On Windows XP I had to go into the custom dpi settings to manually set 133 (the options were 96 and 120), and unfortunately, the result sucks. The fonts and such are much easier to read at a distance, but it seems to have scaled all the images in the UI as well, and this makes them all blocky and distorted and ugly, since apparently they aren't vector graphics.
Do you have any knowledge of doing this stuff on either of these systems? Is my procedure for calculating and setting my dpi correct (and why can't the OS do this automatically)?
Or if you're using an nVIDIA card, cursor drop-shadows are only an xorg.conf config switch away.
Yeah, this is good stuff. I did this for the past release and put a stack of CDs in the copy room at work. It was nice to see them disappear over the next couple days.
Not harrassing, just inappropriate. I'm glad they changed it, personally. It saves me from getting weird looks when I hand someone an official CD set with that pic on the cover, or boot up into the system with that pic on the splash screen. It's just tiring to hear "Why's that lady in a bra, and why can you see down the other one's shirt?" all the time (especially from the parents) and having to explain it.
Not sustainability as in "keep the climate constant", but sustainability as in "not causing a drastic change in the Earth's natural climate cycles".
I agree. LSB has a framework for creating LSB RPM packages that work on any LSB-compliant system. There's a standard here, folks. Why not use it?
"... we may just be egotistical to think that we have an effect on the planet's climate."
The point is, however, that "may" isn't good enough when it comes to global climate change. Isn't it better to err on the side of sustainability?
Here's one explanation, from CmdrTaco's Journal:
"Pudge has been working a lot on that problem. Specifically we've got scripts to fix HTML in all editor & user contributed content spaces. A lot of this is under way already. Old comments are being automatically fixed in the background. HTML in articles from 1998 is being corrected. Scripts are working very hard. And in some cases, tired editors have been re-reading stories from 1998 to correct HTML errors that boggle the mind. None of this is perfect, so don't be to surprised if you find something wonky. Feel free to mail me URLs if you see it. We've got almost 60,000 articles, 900,000 users, and like 13 million comments. There will be mistakes."
Which explains the Politics topic...
I have a subscription, and I've tried 5.0. I quickly moved to Fedora and Ubuntu, though. I suppose if you like KDE and the KDE way of doing things, you might be happy with it. I was very impressed at its installation, and the fact that it configured absolutely everything (including ndiswrapper and Windows Broadcom drivers!) properly the first time.
- 0.0.0.50.linspire0.3.0.4.m10.1.deb... what?? Those who like the simple and elegant would perhaps enjoy Fedora or Ubuntu more.
But it's an extremely inelegant system... you've got package names like nvidia-driver-modules-2.6.10_1.0.6629.is.1.0.6111
Fro crying out loud people, who gives a damn?! Thousands are dead, many thousands more injured, and most of them and thousands more homeless and an even larger amount without drinkable water and an even larger amount without electrical power. WHO CARES if Linux is involved?
Amen to that. My RSS reader is full of tech sites, and the past week has seen a giant void of relevant postings.
Yeah, but 7-zip is open source.
Like others have said, I can't see how this is going to do any good. Any little bit helps, I guess, but free Wi-Fi? 80% of Mississippi is out of power, last I heard. My parents are in Ridgeland (next to Jackson), and official word was that they won't get power at all until the 2nd. Does Starbucks have a Wi-fi generator or something? I can understand shipments of food, a rush of temporary cell phone towers, free pay-as-you-go phones for people in the area... but free Wi-Fi for 3 days in flooded areas with no power?
I'm not sure morals really enters into the question here. If you're against DRM, you can choose to only support those who publish without any at all. If you're willing to endure a little DRM with your media, an open standard can only be a good thing.
I say this is a positive development.
Yeah, it's NullSoft Video, which probably means that something along the lines of WinAmp can do it, though I'm not sure.
See, this is why open-source isn't just the answer to crappy operating systems and spyware-laden p2p apps. There's an entire world of media out there in closed, patented formats just waiting for a little liberation. Thank you Ogg, but can people please start using it?
Well if it makes you feel any better, I use Firefox 1.0.6 all the time on Ubuntu, and I haven't had a crash yet. I tend to turn off esd, but I do have Flash.
Anything URL-specific?
Yep, it really sucks, and it should be enabled by default by distributions (or at least by a checkbox in a preferences dialog).
Oh, wait, I'm agreeing with a troll? My bad.
Geeze, since when did I say anything about a "draconian site blocking policy"?
As the head of the organization, the librarian is responsible for the goings-on in the library. If there is a systematic abuse of said library over a period of time, the question should rightly fall to the head as to why it was allowed to continue.
In circumstances in which an organization has permitted itself to be abused, it is perfectly reasonable to seek a new leader of the organization. Facing this, a leader will attempt to do things in his power to stop the abuse.