I use outline mode in Emacs when writing document. When I'm done with it I convert the outline to MML, a format that Framemaker can import and then touch it up with pictures and a TOC. Works pretty fine.
I do this mostly for the nice spell checking Emacs and Ispell provides.
> They should make it work like R2-D2: when the batteries are low, it just walks over, sticks > it's... uh... universal utility device in the wall mounted charging unit, and charges up.
...and while doing that his head spins around and white smoke with a smell of burned electronics comes out of him. That would be even cooler!
I've seen the movie (2h-version) a couple of times and thinks it's quite good actually. The movie is strange, somewhat confusing and the characters are weird, just the way I like it.
Maybe not too faithful to the book but this is still one of the best SF-movies out there.
When talking about stripped down web browsers, I just like to bring up this one again. W3M is a text based web browser that is truly amazing! It handles tables, frames and forms without a glitch.
Lynx is nice, but this one really is outstanding. On a slow machine (such as my poor workstation at work), W3M is big relief compared to using Netscape (even compared to Lynx for that matter).
Find it here: ftp://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/w3m/
There actually already exist a textbased browser that can do tables, it even does frames. The name of the browser is W3M and I think it is working really great, renders slashdot as good as it gets in an xterm. And yes, it is gratis!
Find it here: ftp://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/w3m/
Check out the Mitac Avenia, it's pretty cool. I once sent them and email and asked if it worked with Linux. Of course they could not promise that. But they did say that my email had reminded them of Linux's increasing popularity and that they would consider this in their next release.
Well, we'll see about that. I'm not yet in a need for a new computer right now, my good old K5-system is still doing a good job. But I do like the idea of these kinds of PC:s, if they only could make them in black too...
This is a bit off topic, but is there some program that can say words for me in Linux? I remember on my friend's Amiga there was some way to type some words and then the Amiga read it back in some rather silly voice.
Maybe something useless like this could be done then:
According to one of my trustworthy sources, a comet will impact near Padua, Italy in 2077. Fortunately this will not be the end of civilization, it will only wipe out half of Europe.
Good thing I live in the northern Europe, I most likely will be safe here. But I guess by then, the radiation from my cell. phone has killed me long before.
Something I've thought about many times but never have had the time to do is making a program something like that cute esheep that they have in Windows. But instead featuring Tux of course, would be pretty cool I think.
From what I've read (somewhere), the word fubar came to life already during the second world war. And I thought foobar is the same as fubar, just slightly modified to sound a bit less abusive (in case some sensitive person should read our code).
Does it really look that much like Windows? I think KDE has it's own look. Sure, a lot of things smells Windows, but then there's also a smell of other desktops (like CDE). Just my opinion.
Anyway, I believe KDE is wm indepentant these days. Think I've seen KDE compliant versions of WindowMaker, IceWM and others.
More important, some months ago some guy posted an url here. There was some sceenshots showing off Qt with a Next theme, surely looked awesome. Maybe someone remember the url, I don't??
This was just some drivel, I'm quite clueless about KDE nowadays. It's been a year since I tried it last time, nor do I use Gnome. I still prefer the clean look of plain good old WindowMaker.
Most likely the Amiga will never come close to the number of sold PCs. But how big marketshare does a computer company really need in order to survive today? Is 5% enough, or does it take more?
The PC is not really my dream computer. I would gladly buy a niche computer, if only I know that it will survive for at least some years ahead. (oh, I don't know if the Amiga is intented to be a niche computer or not...)
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I use outline mode in Emacs when writing document. When I'm done with it I convert the outline to MML, a format that Framemaker can import and then touch it up with pictures and a TOC. Works pretty fine.
I do this mostly for the nice spell checking Emacs and Ispell provides.
> They should make it work like R2-D2: when the batteries are low, it just walks over, sticks
> it's... uh... universal utility device in the wall mounted charging unit, and charges up.
...and while doing that his head spins around and white smoke with a smell of burned electronics comes out of him. That would be even cooler!
I've seen the movie (2h-version) a couple of times and thinks it's quite good actually. The movie is strange, somewhat confusing and the characters are weird, just the way I like it.
Maybe not too faithful to the book but this is still one of the best SF-movies out there.
When talking about stripped down web browsers, I just like to bring up this one again. W3M is a text based web browser that is truly amazing! It handles tables, frames and forms without a glitch.
Lynx is nice, but this one really is outstanding. On a slow machine (such as my poor workstation at work), W3M is big relief compared to using Netscape (even compared to Lynx for that matter).
Find it here:
ftp://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/w3m/
There actually already exist a textbased browser that can do tables, it even does frames. The name of the browser is W3M and I think it is working really great, renders slashdot as good as it gets in an xterm. And yes, it is gratis!
Find it here:
ftp://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/w3m/
I'm pretty sure that I've seen a cpu called Z8000 in some catalogue. It was more then 8-bit (maybe even 32, I don't remember).
Anyone know if that one was ever used in some, at least to some extent, famous application?
Will switching place of the 'y' and 'k' button on mk yekboard maye mk computer k2y-compliant?
;)
(...duh! What a lame comment...
Why is the loss so big anyway? Is x86-development really that expensive? Or is their other chip production not making money anymore?
Here you can find another one: http://www.mitac.com/micweb/index.html
Check out the Mitac Avenia, it's pretty cool. I once sent them and email and asked if it worked with Linux. Of course they could not promise that. But they did say that my email had reminded them of Linux's increasing popularity and that they would consider this in their next release.
Well, we'll see about that. I'm not yet in a need for a new computer right now, my good old K5-system is still doing a good job. But I do like the idea of these kinds of PC:s, if they only could make them in black too...
Indeed, I found one. rsynth includes a "say" command. Just have to see if I can tweak this a bit, the voice is rather too much robotic for me.
This is a bit off topic, but is there some program that can say words for me in Linux? I remember on my friend's Amiga there was some way to type some words and then the Amiga read it back in some rather silly voice.
Maybe something useless like this could be done then:
$ quota -v | say
According to one of my trustworthy sources, a comet will impact near Padua, Italy in 2077. Fortunately this will not be the end of civilization, it will only wipe out half of Europe.
Good thing I live in the northern Europe, I most likely will be safe here. But I guess by then, the radiation from my cell. phone has killed me long before.
Something I've thought about many times but never have had the time to do is making a program something like that cute esheep that they have in Windows. But instead featuring Tux of course, would be pretty cool I think.
So many things to code, so little spare time.
From what I've read (somewhere), the word fubar came to life already during the second world war. And I thought foobar is the same as fubar, just slightly modified to sound a bit less abusive (in case some sensitive person should read our code).
Just my theories. No references.
Does it really look that much like Windows? I think KDE has it's own look. Sure, a lot of things smells Windows, but then there's also a smell of other desktops (like CDE). Just my opinion.
Anyway, I believe KDE is wm indepentant these days. Think I've seen KDE compliant versions of WindowMaker, IceWM and others.
More important, some months ago some guy posted an url here. There was some sceenshots showing off Qt with a Next theme, surely looked awesome. Maybe someone remember the url, I don't??
This was just some drivel, I'm quite clueless about KDE nowadays. It's been a year since I tried it last time, nor do I use Gnome. I still prefer the clean look of plain good old WindowMaker.
(or were you just trolling?)
Most likely the Amiga will never come close to the number of sold PCs. But how big marketshare does a computer company really need in order to survive today? Is 5% enough, or does it take more?
The PC is not really my dream computer. I would gladly buy a niche computer, if only I know that it will survive for at least some years ahead. (oh, I don't know if the Amiga is intented to be a niche computer or not...)