It doesn't matter. First sale doctrine says you can re-sell anything someone else has sold to you. That includes your software, no matter what some silly sticker on your computer says.
You didn't buy it, you licensed it. That's the whole point behind software licensing.
Ashley, the reporter, give a real good lesson on how to be a sanctimonious bitch. From all tech support people out there, whether in India, the US or elsewhere let me say "Fuck you, you arrogant bitch."
I'm not 100% certain, but isn't Blu-Ray a Sony technology? If so, then Microsoft would be buying parts from Sony for the Xbox.
Actually, Sony is licensing WMV code from Microsoft, so they are already doing deals on this. The big problem is it would add serious cost to an already expensive X-Box 360. Hell, with Nintendo rolling out a *free* equivalent of X-Box Live for the Nintendo DS & Revolution, Microsoft's gaming division is going to be under serious pressure. Once the PS3 hits, then the Revolution, the 360 better have some *damn* good, exclusive games.
You do realise that just because you are editing it and sending it to google's servers encrypted, The moment it exits googles servers it is being delivered in clear text.
Not necessarily. If the destination mail server supports Secure SMTP then Google's servers communicate to it securely (SSL). If the recipient uses the same, it'll get transferred to them the same way. No going over wires in plain text.
However, that is only IF the destination server and user support SSL/SMTP AND doesn't address the fact that the e-mail sits on Google's and then the destination server in plain text.
Google's G/Mail also supports S/MIME for encryption and signing of e-mail. PGP/GPG isn't integrated with the mail program and it is a bit more cumbersome to use.
Except, of course, that the government currently has its finger in the pie. The US Dept of Commerce authorizes or denies changes to the DNS proposed by ICANN.
Except that anyone with a '486, a bunch of RAM and a fast connection could bypass it. Feel free to create your own TLD. The big problem is convincing everyone else to recognize you as authoritative, but it can happen.
Hell, you could create a private Internet that overlays the existing one and just have a TLD that is usable by your friends. How do we know that hasn't already been done?
All that has to happen is the big ISPs need to change what they consider authoritative for a TLD and voila! Balkanization. Department of Commerce or no, government or no, unless you have something equivalent to a "Great Firewall" that examines every packet for hidden/blacklisted DNS requests, you're going to have a hard time stopping it.
Eolas has only 100 shareholders, so not counting legal fees that would mean $5.21 million each. After fees it'll probably be about $49.95 each.:-)
Still, this is a broad patent and will have serious implications if those 100 start seeing dollar signs. Microsoft could be target #1 and while I've heard rumors of Eolas vowing not to go after FOSS infringers -- like Mozilla -- all bets are off once the greed fever takes hold.
I wonder if AOL/Time-Warner is a potential target for all their infringing years as owners of Netscape/Mozilla. They have some cash laying around that I'm sure some patent lawyers would like to "liberate".
Well, thinking of reference books, most of them can't be checked out at libraries and you have to use them there. So I've never heard of anyone doing a research project going out and buying one, unless they worked in that field and referenced it often. And getting $0.05 for a cite -- a paragraph or reading a could pages online -- would quickly add up to more than a library purchase. If a library keeps a reference book 5 years, then that is ONE copy sold every five years. Getting $0.05 a read, once the limits of physical "must be in my hands" is taken away, could quickly add up to more than what you get for that single physical purchase.
Google is still just *indexing* the books, then most likely will end up with some model where books get sold. There are lots of music sites where you can search lyrics, then buy the music. I use Google all the time to track down songs my kids are looking for MP3s for. I've purchased several individual tracks after finding what they were looking for. I can guarantee you those would have NEVER been purchased if we had to go to Best Buy or the like and start listening to various tracks that we THOUGHT were it.
Look at this project as the first step to the Great Library of Alexandria. More like the Great Index of Alexandria. Make it easy to find something and you'll end up selling more of that thing. Once the Index is created, it will be the biggest gateway to book sales the world has ever seen. IMHO, that is.
What if you, the author, got a small piece ($0.05 or such) every time someone pulled up a reference in one of your books via Google? Considering that other than common dictionaries, reference books don't exactly hit the NY Times Bestseller list, what would the threshold be for you as an author getting more in royalties this way that by traditional book sales.
Your own numbers say the bulk of these sales are 10,000 - 15,000 in the first two months. What cut do you get from that and where is the payback point for per citation royalties?
Consider the market that would be opened for reference books. Most people do NOT buy reference books for one or two snippits, they go to a library. Think of all the high school and college students who would no longer be sharing the 1 or 2 copies of a book at their school library for research. The numbers start to approach THOUSANDS of potential per-citation payments as opposed to all those students using ONE "sold" book.
Great, so now the network being down means I can get absolutely no work done.
This is the norm in many locations already. Because of data integrity and compliance issues, many organizations forbid the saving of local data. All data is saved to the managed network shares, which are backed up regularly.
Thus, when the network was down, no one gets any work done. Yes, you could load Word and start typing, but you had to start completely blank.
I've managed networks at a couple manufacturing facilities that did this and it worked wonderfully. Because network delays were painful and obvious to the executives they allocated a real budget for the network infrastructure. As a result, those facilities had switched Gigabit Ethernet to every desktop and a very fast set of file servers. Stuff frequently loaded and saved FASTER over the network than off local hard drives.
We also had proper training and backup equipment and as a result, in 3 years the network NEVER went down except when the whole building lost power. [Planned overnight or holiday maintenance doesn't count.]
So it not only is doable, but if done right it is preferrable. The key is "done right", which can be a challenge.
It's called "branding" and is quite effecting in letting the masses know that the so-named apps were designed with KDE in mind. No, not every app that begins with a "K" is for KDE, but it is a good chunk in the *IX world.
Because SMP support on OpenBSD is in its infancy and doesn't scale well beyond 2 processors. Because they don't support hyper-threading worth a darn. RAID and LVM support are also being redone and very immature at this time. All these issues are of critical importances on server systems.
Wow, I see none of that. Both on-screen and text printing are perfect for me. Normally I don't use Arial and TNR but I tried both just now and they are flawless. It sounds to me like your FreeType2 is either out of date or not configured properly, but that is just a guess.
There are issues with QT 3.x and fonts that aren't going to be fixed until QT 4 and KDE 4, but I've never seen the issues discussed on the mailing lists.
Check out the Font-HOWTO for lots of details on how to tweak and tune fonts. It might have something that could help you.
I haven't run into this issue with KWord using CUPS/GIMP-Print on Slackware 10.1 and KDE 3.4.2 with an Epson Stylus Photo 925 printer. My kids had to create a "newspaper" layout (11" x 17", 4-column,.75" margin, etc.) for English class and the type turned out fine. KWord did a great job, though I bumped into one or two problems. The first was not being able to anchor a sub-frame to a header or footer frame. The second was with KChart, which has ZERO support for non-color charts. It doesn't do pattern fills and printing a color bar chart on either B&W or greyscale is totally useless.
AbiWord, on the other hand, while nice and fast doesn't do margins worth a damn. Enter.75 for a margin and it ROUNDS IT UP TO.8. WTF is up with that? The printing interface is also rather non-existant. Damn fast and good looking, though. Maybe w/2.4...
Do you have a sample.kwd file somewhere that you know outputs wrong? What printer system (CUPS, LPR, etc.) are you using?
...more like supporting opinion. It probably should have been included in the article posted yesterday where the president of Sun claimed PCs are relics and advocated computing thru mobile phones.
You're comparing apples with oranges. Bandwidth is not a gating vactor for a compute intensive application such as CAD/CAM. It is a gating factor for games -- textures don't come free.
No, I just wasn't clear. The CAD/CAE program was a behemoth that took forever to load. The dual-CPU setup and oodles of RAM took care of the computing -- and the screaming masses in the building didn't rate those for Excel.:-) As far as textures go, that is what local cache is for. A 1 Gb flash in the form of USB 2.0 or disk-on-chip style would buffer your textures nicely.
But even if that were not the case, your argument would still be weak. The network's backend fabric has finite bandwidth, and. switched or not, that bandwidth is still going to be shared.
No. The network switching fabric on the inside of a switch usually dwarfs the connection limits of the individual links. FastE switches, and I don't mean Netgear or D-Link, frequently have multi-Gb fabric.
Set up SNMP on a switch some time and watch the traffic patterns. No one but the main servers will max out their links. People w/100 Mb links almost NEVER use the full link, other than on initial program loads, large data loads and saves. Network traffic is very, very bursty. This is why oversubscription works and is a good thing -- when done right and not out of pure greed.
It isn't a solution for 100% of everything, but network-centric computing can make the 95% that it does deal with a whole lot better.
Only if the connection is unshared. That's the thing about my CD-ROM drive -- it's an unshared resource. Yes, it isn't as fast as an unshared switched connection, but it's a lot faster than a shared switched connection.
On a switched connection, the only part shared is the connection to the server and it isn't really shared as much as sliced. The server would have multiple, faster connections -- like a 4-channel GbE link. For large networks, distribute the load to a cluster of application servers. I've done this w/a design and manufacturing facility using large and bloated CAD/CAE software, as well as MS Office 2000. After test runs with half-a-dozen seats of Cadence (CAE), everyone in the building wanted network hosted apps. They were significantly faster in loading and saving. It was very noticable. That was the key -- speed. Just imaging everything loading up as fast as AbiWord does on a 2 GHz, SATA-150 tweaked Gentoo system. Fast, fast, fast.
I've never been a fan of terminal services, where the apps run on a main server and just feed the data to a terminal. But a central PXE/application server and diskless workstations that have POWER in the form of CPU/RAM/graphics, just no hard drive other than some flash for cache (sorry), is a really nice setup.
Keep in mind, he is talking about "poorer areas" and 3rd World countries who don't have PCs to begin with. Mobile phones are cheap and while people aren't going to be doing major computing tasks on small-screens, most don't have computers at all but have access to phones.
There are countries in Africa where cell phones are proliferating rapidly because the cost of infrastructure and access is magnitudes cheaper than wiring up the bush.
As far as the "can't use a cell phone to write home to mom" argument goes, it needs to be though of in a different context. Joe User dictates the letter into his cell phone. Delivery is determined by the address entries in the phone. Phone number = voicemail. E-mail address = e-mail. Physical address = printed and posted. Way back when, online giant CompuServe used to print e-mail messages out in the POP nearest the recipient and post them for a surcharge over postage.
No, every computing task can't be handled that way but the point is to not be constrained by current methods and methodologies. Network centric computing isn't a 100% solution, even Sun recognizes that on their SunRay page where it says it isn't suitable for 3D applications. Then again, no technology is a 100% solution -- just ask those who relied on telephones for all their communications down in New Orleans recently.
Add a Gb of cache storage, like a flash chip, to a PC with a 100 Mb/s and Doom 3 and the like would run wonderfully. Hell, unless you've got the latest & greatest SATA-150 or Ultra-320 SCSI drives in your system, it'll probably load faster thru a switched FastE connection.
Same goes for any other app. A fast local processor for intensive programs and some decent cache space and 90% of the computing world would be better off.
"There's no content that I know of that does not have variable pricing," said Mr. Bronfman at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia investor conference.
Really? Then how come every movie in the theater costs the same? The only variable is discount theaters and "matinee" pricing. Still, the price doesn't vary based on the content but rather time. Garbage like Gigli and Glitter cost the same at the theater as blockbusters like Spider Man, Star Wars and Harry Potter. Where's the variable pricing there?
This issue isn't unique to information. Kitchen knives make nice tools for cutting up dinner...or the neighbor's cat. The entire concept of "significant non-infringing uses" is the foundation for the legality of such devices as ubiquitous as the VCR, CD/DVD recorder, TiVO and photo copy machine.
"The sword cuts both ways" is a phrase that was invented long before the information age.
Easy access to large amounts of information has benefits to society that vastly outweigh the detriments.
I have not had a problem with printing from KWord using CUPS as the printing service and the standard KDE interface to it. The print preview looks just like the output, as does what is on the screen in KWord.
I haven't tried it in Konqueror or KMail, but if you're having a problem it is probably something to do with KHTML's interpretation. That is a known issue and being actively worked on. It was part of Google's "Summer of Code".
You ignored the "along with other precautions" part of my post.
No I didn't. I understood that part and was only looking for clarification on the hash comparison. Other have pointed out that you get the hash not from the mirror but from a trusted source. This was the bit I was mentally missing.
Sorry about the tone. I wasn't trying to be a smartass, I was missing an important bit and couldn't quite put my finger on it.
Slashdot Mirror
It doesn't matter. First sale doctrine says you can re-sell anything someone else has sold to you. That includes your software, no matter what some silly sticker on your computer says.
You didn't buy it, you licensed it. That's the whole point behind software licensing.
-Charles
Ashley, the reporter, give a real good lesson on how to be a sanctimonious bitch. From all tech support people out there, whether in India, the US or elsewhere let me say "Fuck you, you arrogant bitch."
-Charles
I'm not 100% certain, but isn't Blu-Ray a Sony technology? If so, then Microsoft would be buying parts from Sony for the Xbox.
Actually, Sony is licensing WMV code from Microsoft, so they are already doing deals on this. The big problem is it would add serious cost to an already expensive X-Box 360. Hell, with Nintendo rolling out a *free* equivalent of X-Box Live for the Nintendo DS & Revolution, Microsoft's gaming division is going to be under serious pressure. Once the PS3 hits, then the Revolution, the 360 better have some *damn* good, exclusive games.
-Charles
You do realise that just because you are editing it and sending it to google's servers encrypted, The moment it exits googles servers it is being delivered in clear text.
Not necessarily. If the destination mail server supports Secure SMTP then Google's servers communicate to it securely (SSL). If the recipient uses the same, it'll get transferred to them the same way. No going over wires in plain text.
However, that is only IF the destination server and user support SSL/SMTP AND doesn't address the fact that the e-mail sits on Google's and then the destination server in plain text.
Google's G/Mail also supports S/MIME for encryption and signing of e-mail. PGP/GPG isn't integrated with the mail program and it is a bit more cumbersome to use.
-Charles
Except, of course, that the government currently has its finger in the pie. The US Dept of Commerce authorizes or denies changes to the DNS proposed by ICANN.
Except that anyone with a '486, a bunch of RAM and a fast connection could bypass it. Feel free to create your own TLD. The big problem is convincing everyone else to recognize you as authoritative, but it can happen.
Hell, you could create a private Internet that overlays the existing one and just have a TLD that is usable by your friends. How do we know that hasn't already been done?
All that has to happen is the big ISPs need to change what they consider authoritative for a TLD and voila! Balkanization. Department of Commerce or no, government or no, unless you have something equivalent to a "Great Firewall" that examines every packet for hidden/blacklisted DNS requests, you're going to have a hard time stopping it.
-Charles
Eolas has only 100 shareholders, so not counting legal fees that would mean $5.21 million each. After fees it'll probably be about $49.95 each. :-)
Still, this is a broad patent and will have serious implications if those 100 start seeing dollar signs. Microsoft could be target #1 and while I've heard rumors of Eolas vowing not to go after FOSS infringers -- like Mozilla -- all bets are off once the greed fever takes hold.
I wonder if AOL/Time-Warner is a potential target for all their infringing years as owners of Netscape/Mozilla. They have some cash laying around that I'm sure some patent lawyers would like to "liberate".
-Charles
Well, thinking of reference books, most of them can't be checked out at libraries and you have to use them there. So I've never heard of anyone doing a research project going out and buying one, unless they worked in that field and referenced it often. And getting $0.05 for a cite -- a paragraph or reading a could pages online -- would quickly add up to more than a library purchase. If a library keeps a reference book 5 years, then that is ONE copy sold every five years. Getting $0.05 a read, once the limits of physical "must be in my hands" is taken away, could quickly add up to more than what you get for that single physical purchase.
Google is still just *indexing* the books, then most likely will end up with some model where books get sold. There are lots of music sites where you can search lyrics, then buy the music. I use Google all the time to track down songs my kids are looking for MP3s for. I've purchased several individual tracks after finding what they were looking for. I can guarantee you those would have NEVER been purchased if we had to go to Best Buy or the like and start listening to various tracks that we THOUGHT were it.
Look at this project as the first step to the Great Library of Alexandria. More like the Great Index of Alexandria. Make it easy to find something and you'll end up selling more of that thing. Once the Index is created, it will be the biggest gateway to book sales the world has ever seen. IMHO, that is.
-Charles
More like the head of Google will be saying, "Looking back, working with NASA was a mistake."
I guess the response to the April 1st ad to work at Google's Moon location was just to overwhelming to ignore.
-Charles
Just curious.
What if you, the author, got a small piece ($0.05 or such) every time someone pulled up a reference in one of your books via Google? Considering that other than common dictionaries, reference books don't exactly hit the NY Times Bestseller list, what would the threshold be for you as an author getting more in royalties this way that by traditional book sales.
Your own numbers say the bulk of these sales are 10,000 - 15,000 in the first two months. What cut do you get from that and where is the payback point for per citation royalties?
Consider the market that would be opened for reference books. Most people do NOT buy reference books for one or two snippits, they go to a library. Think of all the high school and college students who would no longer be sharing the 1 or 2 copies of a book at their school library for research. The numbers start to approach THOUSANDS of potential per-citation payments as opposed to all those students using ONE "sold" book.
Royalties from research could skyrocket.
-Charles
Great, so now the network being down means I can get absolutely no work done.
This is the norm in many locations already. Because of data integrity and compliance issues, many organizations forbid the saving of local data. All data is saved to the managed network shares, which are backed up regularly.
Thus, when the network was down, no one gets any work done. Yes, you could load Word and start typing, but you had to start completely blank.
I've managed networks at a couple manufacturing facilities that did this and it worked wonderfully. Because network delays were painful and obvious to the executives they allocated a real budget for the network infrastructure. As a result, those facilities had switched Gigabit Ethernet to every desktop and a very fast set of file servers. Stuff frequently loaded and saved FASTER over the network than off local hard drives.
We also had proper training and backup equipment and as a result, in 3 years the network NEVER went down except when the whole building lost power. [Planned overnight or holiday maintenance doesn't count.]
So it not only is doable, but if done right it is preferrable. The key is "done right", which can be a challenge.
-Charles
It's called "branding" and is quite effecting in letting the masses know that the so-named apps were designed with KDE in mind. No, not every app that begins with a "K" is for KDE, but it is a good chunk in the *IX world.
-Charles
Because SMP support on OpenBSD is in its infancy and doesn't scale well beyond 2 processors. Because they don't support hyper-threading worth a darn. RAID and LVM support are also being redone and very immature at this time. All these issues are of critical importances on server systems.
-Charles
Wow, I see none of that. Both on-screen and text printing are perfect for me. Normally I don't use Arial and TNR but I tried both just now and they are flawless. It sounds to me like your FreeType2 is either out of date or not configured properly, but that is just a guess.
- formats/html/Font-HOWTO-html.tar.gz
There are issues with QT 3.x and fonts that aren't going to be fixed until QT 4 and KDE 4, but I've never seen the issues discussed on the mailing lists.
Check out the Font-HOWTO for lots of details on how to tweak and tune fonts. It might have something that could help you.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other
-Charles
I haven't run into this issue with KWord using CUPS/GIMP-Print on Slackware 10.1 and KDE 3.4.2 with an Epson Stylus Photo 925 printer. My kids had to create a "newspaper" layout (11" x 17", 4-column, .75" margin, etc.) for English class and the type turned out fine. KWord did a great job, though I bumped into one or two problems. The first was not being able to anchor a sub-frame to a header or footer frame. The second was with KChart, which has ZERO support for non-color charts. It doesn't do pattern fills and printing a color bar chart on either B&W or greyscale is totally useless.
.75 for a margin and it ROUNDS IT UP TO .8. WTF is up with that? The printing interface is also rather non-existant. Damn fast and good looking, though. Maybe w/2.4...
.kwd file somewhere that you know outputs wrong? What printer system (CUPS, LPR, etc.) are you using?
AbiWord, on the other hand, while nice and fast doesn't do margins worth a damn. Enter
Do you have a sample
-Charles
...more like supporting opinion. It probably should have been included in the article posted yesterday where the president of Sun claimed PCs are relics and advocated computing thru mobile phones.
SSDD
-Charles
You're comparing apples with oranges. Bandwidth is not a gating vactor for a compute intensive application such as CAD/CAM. It is a gating factor for games -- textures don't come free.
:-) As far as textures go, that is what local cache is for. A 1 Gb flash in the form of USB 2.0 or disk-on-chip style would buffer your textures nicely.
No, I just wasn't clear. The CAD/CAE program was a behemoth that took forever to load. The dual-CPU setup and oodles of RAM took care of the computing -- and the screaming masses in the building didn't rate those for Excel.
But even if that were not the case, your argument would still be weak. The network's backend fabric has finite bandwidth, and. switched or not, that bandwidth is still going to be shared.
No. The network switching fabric on the inside of a switch usually dwarfs the connection limits of the individual links. FastE switches, and I don't mean Netgear or D-Link, frequently have multi-Gb fabric.
Set up SNMP on a switch some time and watch the traffic patterns. No one but the main servers will max out their links. People w/100 Mb links almost NEVER use the full link, other than on initial program loads, large data loads and saves. Network traffic is very, very bursty. This is why oversubscription works and is a good thing -- when done right and not out of pure greed.
It isn't a solution for 100% of everything, but network-centric computing can make the 95% that it does deal with a whole lot better.
-Charles
Only if the connection is unshared. That's the thing about my CD-ROM drive -- it's an unshared resource. Yes, it isn't as fast as an unshared switched connection, but it's a lot faster than a shared switched connection.
On a switched connection, the only part shared is the connection to the server and it isn't really shared as much as sliced. The server would have multiple, faster connections -- like a 4-channel GbE link. For large networks, distribute the load to a cluster of application servers. I've done this w/a design and manufacturing facility using large and bloated CAD/CAE software, as well as MS Office 2000. After test runs with half-a-dozen seats of Cadence (CAE), everyone in the building wanted network hosted apps. They were significantly faster in loading and saving. It was very noticable. That was the key -- speed. Just imaging everything loading up as fast as AbiWord does on a 2 GHz, SATA-150 tweaked Gentoo system. Fast, fast, fast.
I've never been a fan of terminal services, where the apps run on a main server and just feed the data to a terminal. But a central PXE/application server and diskless workstations that have POWER in the form of CPU/RAM/graphics, just no hard drive other than some flash for cache (sorry), is a really nice setup.
-Charles
Keep in mind, he is talking about "poorer areas" and 3rd World countries who don't have PCs to begin with. Mobile phones are cheap and while people aren't going to be doing major computing tasks on small-screens, most don't have computers at all but have access to phones.
There are countries in Africa where cell phones are proliferating rapidly because the cost of infrastructure and access is magnitudes cheaper than wiring up the bush.
As far as the "can't use a cell phone to write home to mom" argument goes, it needs to be though of in a different context. Joe User dictates the letter into his cell phone. Delivery is determined by the address entries in the phone. Phone number = voicemail. E-mail address = e-mail. Physical address = printed and posted. Way back when, online giant CompuServe used to print e-mail messages out in the POP nearest the recipient and post them for a surcharge over postage.
No, every computing task can't be handled that way but the point is to not be constrained by current methods and methodologies. Network centric computing isn't a 100% solution, even Sun recognizes that on their SunRay page where it says it isn't suitable for 3D applications. Then again, no technology is a 100% solution -- just ask those who relied on telephones for all their communications down in New Orleans recently.
-Charles
Add a Gb of cache storage, like a flash chip, to a PC with a 100 Mb/s and Doom 3 and the like would run wonderfully. Hell, unless you've got the latest & greatest SATA-150 or Ultra-320 SCSI drives in your system, it'll probably load faster thru a switched FastE connection.
Same goes for any other app. A fast local processor for intensive programs and some decent cache space and 90% of the computing world would be better off.
-Charles
"Some songs should be $0.99 and some songs should be more."
He forgot "and some songs should be less". That is, if he really wants to let the market decide.
Jobs was right, the industry is greedy.
-Charles
"There's no content that I know of that does not have variable pricing," said Mr. Bronfman at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia investor conference.
Really? Then how come every movie in the theater costs the same? The only variable is discount theaters and "matinee" pricing. Still, the price doesn't vary based on the content but rather time. Garbage like Gigli and Glitter cost the same at the theater as blockbusters like Spider Man, Star Wars and Harry Potter. Where's the variable pricing there?
-Charles
This issue isn't unique to information. Kitchen knives make nice tools for cutting up dinner...or the neighbor's cat. The entire concept of "significant non-infringing uses" is the foundation for the legality of such devices as ubiquitous as the VCR, CD/DVD recorder, TiVO and photo copy machine.
"The sword cuts both ways" is a phrase that was invented long before the information age.
Easy access to large amounts of information has benefits to society that vastly outweigh the detriments.
-Charles
I have not had a problem with printing from KWord using CUPS as the printing service and the standard KDE interface to it. The print preview looks just like the output, as does what is on the screen in KWord.
I haven't tried it in Konqueror or KMail, but if you're having a problem it is probably something to do with KHTML's interpretation. That is a known issue and being actively worked on. It was part of Google's "Summer of Code".
-Charles
In many places in the U.S., "we don't need your services anymore" is a valid reason. Reading/posting to Slashdot on company time is a valid reason.
-Charles
You ignored the "along with other precautions" part of my post.
No I didn't. I understood that part and was only looking for clarification on the hash comparison. Other have pointed out that you get the hash not from the mirror but from a trusted source. This was the bit I was mentally missing.
Sorry about the tone. I wasn't trying to be a smartass, I was missing an important bit and couldn't quite put my finger on it.
-Charles