I got really frustrated looking for a laptop bag that would hold my accessories (especially since I always found myself unpacking things when I wanted to make the bag light, then having to repack them), so I did the homebrew thing and made my own. I was able to pick up sturdy denim ends for C$4/m, some web, snaps and Velcro. I made a bag that actually holds my accessories and made them snappable so I can tear out things I don't need right now. And I made them themed, so, all my A/V cables are on one snappable sheet and Ethernet cables are on another. It's quiet nice.
You can probably find plans for a knapsack or messenger bag that you like, and go from there. Even if you aren't very proficient with a sowing machine, it's mostly straight lines.
What commercial bag can boast pocket for a wifi card and a removable holder for headphones?
> The alternative suggested by the article, LaTeX, is undoubtedly not to everyone's taste either.
Indeed LaTeX is complicated, but it, in a strange way, makes things simpler. For instance, in Word, you tend to make things bold and centred; why? Section headers. However, are they really sections? Maybe you need subsections. How does this text fit in the document as a whole? Does this need to be separated? LaTeX forces you to think about those kinds of things and forget about the nitty-gritty of formatting. If something is formatted wrong in LaTeX, it's either a trivial error or a sign of a larger problem with your *content*.
All that being said, if you treat Word like LaTeX, it behaves much better. To do this, don't use anything on the formatting toolbar. Adjust fonts and formatting using the ``styles'' box. If you don't have graphics, using styles is actually pleasant!
I've been working out of the co-op (internship) program from my university in an IT department's software development group. I use an ill-concieved, buggy ASP-based content management system that needs to have its server rebooted every week for no apparent reason. It also has a nasty habbit of reformatting HTML as it thinks is best, which would be compeletly unuseable on any known browser. It also like to put the FONT tag in as often as possible.
The rest of the time, I work with ASP. I have to constantly listen to the Microserf beside me who tells me how much better things will be under ASP.NET and that we should upgrade. I wouldn't mind ASP execpt that I inheireted a program written by a previous student. They decided to make backups in the same directory and just rename some of the files, so I have some random combination of file.asp, file1.asp, file2.asp, filenew.asp, fileold.asp and fileColor.asp. The internal code isn't much better. The record sets are all label "rs1", "rs2", and so on, and they get reused, across the multiple files included on any given page! I still have no idea how most of them work and make changes by the copy-and-tinker approach.
To top it all off, they looked into project management software and liked this OpenSource PHP thing that a local company pedalled. Well, they bought it an installed it when I was back at school and it turns out to be the biggest piece of crap I have ever seen with the most illogically designed mySQL database that has to magcially talk to MS-SQL thorugh our netadmin's convoluted LAN. Of course, being the OSS advocate, I now get to maintain this POS and hear from the Microserf how OSS is bad and MS is good and uses this POS as evidence.
But I get to back to school in 1 month, and that keeps me sane.:-)
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Using XML this way makes more sense in a functional language like Scheme or LISP. It becomes completely reasonable to have a document like:
In fact, there are already XML tools for Scheme that will parse XML directly into Scheme lists and back again.
I got really frustrated looking for a laptop bag that would hold my accessories (especially since I always found myself unpacking things when I wanted to make the bag light, then having to repack them), so I did the homebrew thing and made my own. I was able to pick up sturdy denim ends for C$4/m, some web, snaps and Velcro. I made a bag that actually holds my accessories and made them snappable so I can tear out things I don't need right now. And I made them themed, so, all my A/V cables are on one snappable sheet and Ethernet cables are on another. It's quiet nice.
You can probably find plans for a knapsack or messenger bag that you like, and go from there. Even if you aren't very proficient with a sowing machine, it's mostly straight lines.
What commercial bag can boast pocket for a wifi card and a removable holder for headphones?
> The alternative suggested by the article, LaTeX, is undoubtedly not to everyone's taste either.
Indeed LaTeX is complicated, but it, in a strange way, makes things simpler. For instance, in Word, you tend to make things bold and centred; why? Section headers. However, are they really sections? Maybe you need subsections. How does this text fit in the document as a whole? Does this need to be separated?
LaTeX forces you to think about those kinds of things and forget about the nitty-gritty of formatting. If something is formatted wrong in LaTeX, it's either a trivial error or a sign of a larger problem with your *content*.
All that being said, if you treat Word like LaTeX, it behaves much better. To do this, don't use anything on the formatting toolbar. Adjust fonts and formatting using the ``styles'' box. If you don't have graphics, using styles is actually pleasant!
I am I the only one who finds it odd that an OS with a flightless bird as its mascot is ``spreading its wings''?
I've been working out of the co-op (internship) program from my university in an IT department's software development group. I use an ill-concieved, buggy ASP-based content management system that needs to have its server rebooted every week for no apparent reason. It also has a nasty habbit of reformatting HTML as it thinks is best, which would be compeletly unuseable on any known browser. It also like to put the FONT tag in as often as possible.
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The rest of the time, I work with ASP. I have to constantly listen to the Microserf beside me who tells me how much better things will be under ASP.NET and that we should upgrade. I wouldn't mind ASP execpt that I inheireted a program written by a previous student. They decided to make backups in the same directory and just rename some of the files, so I have some random combination of file.asp, file1.asp, file2.asp, filenew.asp, fileold.asp and fileColor.asp. The internal code isn't much better. The record sets are all label "rs1", "rs2", and so on, and they get reused, across the multiple files included on any given page! I still have no idea how most of them work and make changes by the copy-and-tinker approach.
To top it all off, they looked into project management software and liked this OpenSource PHP thing that a local company pedalled. Well, they bought it an installed it when I was back at school and it turns out to be the biggest piece of crap I have ever seen with the most illogically designed mySQL database that has to magcially talk to MS-SQL thorugh our netadmin's convoluted LAN. Of course, being the OSS advocate, I now get to maintain this POS and hear from the Microserf how OSS is bad and MS is good and uses this POS as evidence.
But I get to back to school in 1 month, and that keeps me sane.