The big feature, as far as I'm concerned, is the fact that the page is now centered in print layout view. Until now, it was left-justified, and that absolutely drove me nuts on my wide screen monitor. If it bothered you too, check this version out.
Al Gore is on the board of directors, IIRC, and did not hesitate to allow himself to be shown gratuitously with his Mac in "An Inconvinient Truth". Hm.
I can't imagine things have changed drastically since I graduated from high school four years ago. Our staff was afflicted with the worst type of technology paranoia. They couldn't really grasp the size of the internet; they could only understand electronic media as analogous to print, which -- given the popularity of "the internet" meant that publishing something unflattering about your school on the web was (to them) tantamount to taking a full page ad in the New York Times. These people _are_ bullies! They're afraid of the internet, so they'll compensate with administrative brawn.
People on Slashdot often speak of Linux as if it's a finite resource: that if Linspire takes off, it must mean distributions like Slackware or Debian or Gentoo are losing users. That's not true at all. Linspire's target market is a niche previously untapped (not even by Ubuntu or short-lived Caldera) of people who just want a workstation with a web browser, a word processor, a calculator and maybe solitaire. All the power to to Linspire for doing this. There's room in the Linux world for this. I think they're doing a useful thing, and if they come up with some good, non-crippling ideas that improve usability, perhaps other distros will benefit from their innovation one day too.
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
Lets you use original Windows drivers on linux. Not pretty, but it works pretty well. Meanwhile, blame manufacturers.
this is a pointless question to ask. there is absolutely no reason for either candidate to give a straightforward answer --
first, because they don't neccessarily know. second, suppose they do -- any person either candidate endorses as a future leader is a liability insofar as he opens up the campaign for a new range of personal attacks.
the answer will be something along the lines of "when the situation arrives, i will diligently pick someone who i can trust to uphold [insert values campaign is pushing])."
this 'method' of drowning valuables in shit is a microcosm of the decay of the internet. i'm all for this venerable professor getting a taste of his own medicine -- say, encouraging people & spambots to tell him just what we think of his philanthropic contribution to mankind / sell him viagra.
john-hale@utulsa.edu
does this strike anyone else as useless?
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most of the examples cited by the reviewer can be gleaned from cursory investigations of the options menu or (heavens forbid) a quick query of the help contents. despite the o'rilley stamp, this book seems targetted at the 40+ discover-the-magic-of-PCs! where's-the-any-key crowd.
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The big feature, as far as I'm concerned, is the fact that the page is now centered in print layout view. Until now, it was left-justified, and that absolutely drove me nuts on my wide screen monitor. If it bothered you too, check this version out.
Al Gore is on the board of directors, IIRC, and did not hesitate to allow himself to be shown gratuitously with his Mac in "An Inconvinient Truth". Hm.
I can't imagine things have changed drastically since I graduated from high school four years ago. Our staff was afflicted with the worst type of technology paranoia. They couldn't really grasp the size of the internet; they could only understand electronic media as analogous to print, which -- given the popularity of "the internet" meant that publishing something unflattering about your school on the web was (to them) tantamount to taking a full page ad in the New York Times. These people _are_ bullies! They're afraid of the internet, so they'll compensate with administrative brawn.
People on Slashdot often speak of Linux as if it's a finite resource: that if Linspire takes off, it must mean distributions like Slackware or Debian or Gentoo are losing users. That's not true at all. Linspire's target market is a niche previously untapped (not even by Ubuntu or short-lived Caldera) of people who just want a workstation with a web browser, a word processor, a calculator and maybe solitaire. All the power to to Linspire for doing this. There's room in the Linux world for this. I think they're doing a useful thing, and if they come up with some good, non-crippling ideas that improve usability, perhaps other distros will benefit from their innovation one day too.
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ Lets you use original Windows drivers on linux. Not pretty, but it works pretty well. Meanwhile, blame manufacturers.
ampache can do this:
http://www.ampache.org/
kplaylist is a bit more lightweight (i use it):
http://kplaylist.net/
jinzora is a bloat beast, but a nice one at that:
http://www.jinzora.org/
this is a pointless question to ask. there is absolutely no reason for either candidate to give a straightforward answer --
first, because they don't neccessarily know. second, suppose they do -- any person either candidate endorses as a future leader is a liability insofar as he opens up the campaign for a new range of personal attacks.
the answer will be something along the lines of "when the situation arrives, i will diligently pick someone who i can trust to uphold [insert values campaign is pushing])."
what a responsible, admirable decision to make.
this 'method' of drowning valuables in shit is a microcosm of the decay of the internet. i'm all for this venerable professor getting a taste of his own medicine -- say, encouraging people & spambots to tell him just what we think of his philanthropic contribution to mankind / sell him viagra. john-hale@utulsa.edu
most of the examples cited by the reviewer can be gleaned from cursory investigations of the options menu or (heavens forbid) a quick query of the help contents. despite the o'rilley stamp, this book seems targetted at the 40+ discover-the-magic-of-PCs! where's-the-any-key crowd.