The PDF exporter prints the footers in the middle of pages...
I have never once seen this symptom. If you are talking about printing, maybe that is a property of your print server setup. I have found it to be 100% reliable, and I routinely produce scientific documents with lots of special formatting requirements.
Most people create documents for others to view, and in today's corporate environment, that means.doc format. In that case, why does any MSWord document look different on any two computers? You can almost guarantee that Word will mangle the formatting.
If you really want someone to read the document in the way that you formatted it, pdf or ps is the obvious choice.
That's a lot like saying 25% of road accidents are caused by drunk drivers, therefore 75% of accidents must be caused by sober drivers, and therefore you're safer driving drunk than sober.
It is now common practice to use GM plants for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals. It is a relatively cheap and esdy process. The only caveat is that care has to be taken to not allow them to escape into the wild or cross with indigenous flora.
Yep. I spent many (many) years in computing as a sysprog, but I got a bit of an awakening when I went back to school to study biotechnology, and found out (almost for the first time) what the scientific method was.
Computer Science is not science.
Given that I'm now over 40, I spent enough years working with computers to come to regard the discipline (such as it is) of computer science as being an accretion of currently trendy concepts. I'm sorry if that seems excessively cynical, but that's how I've come to feel about it.
I agree that Gnome can be a pig to build (having spent days at it myself from time to time), but it's a matter of perspective. KDE has also not been without its gotchas, but Pat obviously prefers KDE, so he is prepared to overlook them.
After all, it's his distribution, so I guess he can include or leave out whatever he wants. Slackware doesn't lose, given that there is an excellent alternative available in the form of Dropline Gnome.
You might like Slackware then. Until the current version 10, the entire distribution fitted on one CDROM (unless you wanted the source and other stuff as well). Now it no longer fits, and KDE and Gnome are relegated to the second disk.
In any case, it's a simple matter to uncheck the apps you don't want. After all, how many distributions don't have "Install Everything" as the default? Are you going to tell me Windows doesn't?
I'm not so sure that there are any more - that page hasn't been updated since before the Ark set sail. In any case, Pat is listed pn that page as the only one involved with the x86 side of it.
I don't know where you managed to pull that one out of, but given that Slackware is now well over 10 years old, and in common use as a server platform, that hardly seems like a statement connected with any reality I have seen.
The point in Slackware's case is that there is a very slick, fully-fledged distribution of Gnome being produced by Todd Kulesza of Dropline.net. Despite the fact that it seems that Slashdot referrals appear to have currently wiped out Todd's traffic allowance, it is still available at Sourceforge.
The issue here is that getting Gnome built is a headache that Pat finds onerous given that he is known to prefer KDE, and while Todd is happy to distribute Dropline Gnome, Pat might be excused for not wanting to duplicate the effort.
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I saw the thing about lava lamps - I made one of my own a while back (as a biotech student, I have ready access to quantities of polyethylene glycol), but there's no way I would subject a USB port to that kind of power load...
I also have a T720, and the experience has been bad enough that I will never consider buying another Motorola phone again. The hardware is crap: the case creaks, the display is poor in daylight, and service agents in Western Australia literally can't be bothered stocking or obtaining parts. (They told me so, in so many words.)
The UI is sluggish, and Motorola appear to have gone out of their way to make it hard to use templates or drafts for text messages.
However, I would be surprised if Google didn't keep my mobile phone number on record, which is a privacy issue for me. Yes, I know you can hide it, but I don't want to go down that path...
Agreed. But am I the only one for whom the browser (Firefox) disemvowels that page? I get a lot of text such as "âoeDiscussionsâ" for (I guess) any text which is meant to be highlighted in some way.
Tell me where the US government has domain over the citizens and organizations of other countries?
Iraq. Next question.
I think the parent poster meant dominion; but in any case, the fact that US forces are there blowing up Iraqis (and being blown up in turn) doesn't mean they have dominion.
They only have that if they have consensus acceptance of their rule, and I don't think anybody can claim that's the case (though I am well aware that Bush tries).
From TFA: "People are increasingly finding their home pages have been changed or their computers are sluggish," she said. "Their computers are no longer their own, and they can't figure out why."
If they sign or otherwise accept that EULA, they might find their computers are not their own anyway. Which raises an interesting issue (though IANAL) as to who is the aggrieved party.
I'm guessing the park brake on a truck is a transmission brake - locking the drive shaft and hence the rear wheels of the prime mover
Err, no. It's a pneumatic brake that has flexi hose connections to each trailer (otherwise a fully laden set of trailers would have no problem dragging a prime mover downhill).
That loud hissing sound you hear when big trucks park is the sound of the park brake being applied.
I used to drive road trains (also in Australia) for a living, and the park brake (as I was taught) is called that for a reason.
It is used to stop the truck moving when it is parked. It is either on or off - none of the shades in between you have with a car handbrake. And believe me, you don't pull that button while the truck is in motion unless you want to cause a nasty accident.
A friend of mine has a Hyundai Excel that won't start unless it's in first gear. Supposedly a safety feature, but I don't see how. How's about that for idiocy?
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I have never once seen this symptom. If you are talking about printing, maybe that is a property of your print server setup. I have found it to be 100% reliable, and I routinely produce scientific documents with lots of special formatting requirements.
If you really want someone to read the document in the way that you formatted it, pdf or ps is the obvious choice.
That's a lot like saying 25% of road accidents are caused by drunk drivers, therefore 75% of accidents must be caused by sober drivers, and therefore you're safer driving drunk than sober.
It is now common practice to use GM plants for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals. It is a relatively cheap and esdy process. The only caveat is that care has to be taken to not allow them to escape into the wild or cross with indigenous flora.
hurtling headlong into something that may not have a point.
This is fair enough, but not when used as an excuse for inaction.
Yep. I spent many (many) years in computing as a sysprog, but I got a bit of an awakening when I went back to school to study biotechnology, and found out (almost for the first time) what the scientific method was.
Computer Science is not science.
Given that I'm now over 40, I spent enough years working with computers to come to regard the discipline (such as it is) of computer science as being an accretion of currently trendy concepts. I'm sorry if that seems excessively cynical, but that's how I've come to feel about it.
Hmmm... Maybe it's time to dust off that Kyoto protocol that neither the US nor Australian governments could be bothered ratifying.
Yes... but I don't see Windows offering more than one desktop environment. Do you?
After all, it's his distribution, so I guess he can include or leave out whatever he wants. Slackware doesn't lose, given that there is an excellent alternative available in the form of Dropline Gnome.
In any case, it's a simple matter to uncheck the apps you don't want. After all, how many distributions don't have "Install Everything" as the default? Are you going to tell me Windows doesn't?
I'm not so sure that there are any more - that page hasn't been updated since before the Ark set sail. In any case, Pat is listed pn that page as the only one involved with the x86 side of it.
I don't know where you managed to pull that one out of, but given that Slackware is now well over 10 years old, and in common use as a server platform, that hardly seems like a statement connected with any reality I have seen.
The issue here is that getting Gnome built is a headache that Pat finds onerous given that he is known to prefer KDE, and while Todd is happy to distribute Dropline Gnome, Pat might be excused for not wanting to duplicate the effort.
I saw the thing about lava lamps - I made one of my own a while back (as a biotech student, I have ready access to quantities of polyethylene glycol), but there's no way I would subject a USB port to that kind of power load...
As much as that?, You are a generous man, Mr. joe09428752345908. A generous man indeed.
Hell, I've been told there are similar extensions available for IE, though I have no idea whether that's true or not.
The UI is sluggish, and Motorola appear to have gone out of their way to make it hard to use templates or drafts for text messages.
However, I would be surprised if Google didn't keep my mobile phone number on record, which is a privacy issue for me. Yes, I know you can hide it, but I don't want to go down that path...
Agreed. But am I the only one for whom the browser (Firefox) disemvowels that page? I get a lot of text such as "âoeDiscussionsâ" for (I guess) any text which is meant to be highlighted in some way.
Rep. Ron Paul ... who often votes against spending measures, cast the lone dissenting vote...
Iraq. Next question.
I think the parent poster meant dominion; but in any case, the fact that US forces are there blowing up Iraqis (and being blown up in turn) doesn't mean they have dominion.
They only have that if they have consensus acceptance of their rule, and I don't think anybody can claim that's the case (though I am well aware that Bush tries).
If they sign or otherwise accept that EULA, they might find their computers are not their own anyway. Which raises an interesting issue (though IANAL) as to who is the aggrieved party.
Err, no. It's a pneumatic brake that has flexi hose connections to each trailer (otherwise a fully laden set of trailers would have no problem dragging a prime mover downhill).
That loud hissing sound you hear when big trucks park is the sound of the park brake being applied.
It is used to stop the truck moving when it is parked. It is either on or off - none of the shades in between you have with a car handbrake. And believe me, you don't pull that button while the truck is in motion unless you want to cause a nasty accident.
A friend of mine has a Hyundai Excel that won't start unless it's in first gear. Supposedly a safety feature, but I don't see how. How's about that for idiocy?