Personally my complaint wasn't just that they did it, but why they did. On the DVD Fran (IIRC) mentions that it wasn't right the way it was written and they couldn't be building up the ring as incredibly desirable and then have Faramir resist easily. Along with other comments about the story being off in places and so on I felt that this showed great disrespect for the book.
Wow, that's awful. Not to mention wrong - the whole point is that Faramir thought for himself, that the ring wasn't desirable to everyone. Aragorn and Galadriel both resisted the ring more easily than Faramir did - in the book!
Maybe I'm missing something - but wasn't the whole point of the Faramir character that he was wiser than his brother and thought for himself? That's totally lost with him making a "save my ass" decision rather than seeing the ring for the evil that it is.
It's like Jackson has no concept of characterization. You almost with an English Lit professor could have been in the production meeting to set those idiots straight.
I liked the movies very well by and large, but I thought that decision was atrocious. And I agree with you that saying Tolkein's version was wrong - well, that's monstrously arrogant, and I'm inclined to go with Tolkein.
Amazing. The fact is that McD's was selling the coffee to people who were going through the drive thru and usually weren't even getting to drink it for awhile.
First, the time at which they drink it is speculative - not to mention which they don't have a separate drive-thru coffee maker, so the people in the restaurant got the same coffee. Had she drunk it, her injuries would have been far worse. Second, McD's cups and lids are quite defective, making spills nearly guaranteed.
I generally don't agree with these bullshit injury judgements, but that one I do.
It's a well established fact in life that if you spill a hot liquid on yourself then you're going to get burned. A corollarly to this well established fact is that you shouldn't use your legs as a cup holder when hot liquids are concerned.
Actually, nothing meant for consumption by a human should cause THIRD DEGREE BURNS. Again, had she drunk the coffee, she could have suffered near-fatal injuries from INTERNAL third-degree burns.
I mean hell, by your reasoning if someone happened to carry home a jug of bleach on their head and they spilled it in their eyes then Clorox should be sued for all their worth.
You'll also notice that 1) Clorox isn't intended for internal consumption while coffee is and 2) the cap on a bottle of clorox is designed much better than that on a McD's coffee.
Bottom line is, nothing that hot should be given to a human in a car in a cup that's guaranteed to come apart.
I'm still unsure whether the whole "take Frodo to Osgilith" scene was necessary or not. I understand Jackson's purpose (Faramir is human and corruptable by the ring, so that *needs* to be shown explicitly to drive the point home), I'm just not sure if I liked how it was handled.
The whole point of having the Faramir/Boromir combo in the book was to contrast them - one brother who tries to steal the ring (and pays for it), and the other who has an opportunity to take the ring and purposely does not.
The way Jackson did it, this contrast is completely lost. Boromir tries to steal the ring, and Faramir probably would have if it wasn't drawing Nazgul to him. As it is in the movie, there is little difference between Boromir and Faramir except that Daddy doesn't like one of them (and even that only came out in the extended edition, I believe).
Their mail server sends out e-mail containing advertising to an address which is sure to be fake (as this is how the worm, which is known after scanning, works). So it's knowingly sending e-mail to a faked address, which I would consider a *severe* misconfiguration.
That's not a configuration of the server, and if it is, it's a misconfiguration shared by every mail server in the world. Mail servers send mail where they're told, that's their job. The misconfiguration in this case is with the anti-virus program which erroneously tells the mail server to kick the virus-laden mail back to the poor schmuck on the header.
But that is NOT the server's fault.
Fixing this would actually be easy by adding a "forged sender"-flag to all that other information in their virus databases, or by simply configuring the e-mail by worm, which they could also use to advertise free disinfection tools, providing a service many people would use and remember. Leaving the e-mail content for a worm empty could default to not sending mail and everyone's happy.
That's true. But again, considering that your proposed solution is fixing the AV program, that indicates the problem isn't with sendmail.
Why would it have to be from Iraq? You just said that the sender was Saddam Hussein, not Iraq. You're mixing up the sender and the origin.
Typically, the sender of a letter does not cross national boundaries to send said letter. However, it is certainly possible. This situation is analogous to someone sending work email from their yahoo account, which you also raise.
Mr Hussein may not have been to WA, but if you mailed the message from (say) Yemen, Saudi Arabia, how would Mr. Bush be able to tell that wasn't from Saddam, just by looking at the postmark?
And that would be better faking. He never claimed that spoofing couldn't be done better, just that when it's that clear it's obviously fake.
But what if you use the name "John Ashcroft"? How would Mr. Bush know that Ashcroft didn't mail something while he was out of his office?
He didn't. It's his analogy, his right.
And (again) how would the mail server know that Client-A@wsu.edu doesn't have an AOL or texas telecom account?
Irrelevant. Yes that can happen, but when it's a virus in question, most times it's a faked header.
Also, by your analysis, his analogy of comparing postmarks is quite valid. In both realms, spoofing is possible, which may or may not be effective. Additionally, in both cases, there are some legitimate reasons for the postmark (ie, relaying server) not matching the return address.
What I tell my users is simple: "Their mail server is misconfigured, just ignore it."
Which is actually completely wrong. And you complain about his analogy...
Wardialing was coined after Matthew Broderick did that activity in the 1983 movie War Games. It was a little bit clever to mutate that into wardriving, but that took the prefix right up to the edge of Fonzie's ramp.
The most fascinating part of this article to me - was the fact that it's NOT a violation of the wire tap act. It seems video isn't considered snooping. Talk about technology out pacing legislation. I wonder how long before we have one of those sites devoted to "hidden camera" porn? Oh, wait...
Maybe a wire*less*tap, but there be no wires here. And the air is legal to all. So if you have a wireless camera on legally-available frequencies...and it's signal isn't encrypted...yes, people will h4X0r your shit.
Back when I was in college, bored, and not getting laid, I did this with cordless phones that used to broadcast clear on 46 or 49 MHz. Obviously that was a lot easier, requiring only a $3 used multi-band radio. In an apartment building full of neurotic college kids, it was occasionally interesting to listen in, particularly when you know the people.;)
But it's hard to argue how it would be illgal. That's like saying I'm going to secretly communicate with my friend across the street using a megaphone, and if you listen in, it's illegal. Won't work too well.
I hope you realize that for most home computers that only have a power button, holding the power button down for 5-10 secs is the equivalent to hitting a reset button. It's possible for this to have been disabled in the BIOS, however the only PCs I've ever seen with no support for this at all are some old low spec Compaqs.
A lot of time, if the thing's completely locked, that's not responsive either, as that switch connects only to the MOBO. I prefer an actual *switch* that goes only to the power supply.
I've seen computers that could only be reset by unplugging the damned things. Newer ones, too.
You do little but confuse everyone by referring to standard source tarballs as.tgz -- yes, some are named.tgz but (especially) when talking slackware, calling them.tgz is going to make people confuse them for the slackware packages (also.tgz, but not the same.)
.tgz is the *most common* format for source tarballs. In fact, I think Slack chose.tgz as their package format because they wanted people to manipulate it just like a tarball. If you untar a slack package, it installs it. Sounds cool to me.
In other words, the "confusion" you refer to is actually "transparency," and I expect is quite intentional on the part of the slack team.
First, a default debian install, as long as you choose not to run dselect/tasksel, is MORE barebones than gentoo by far.
I knew as soon as I posted a Deb fan would get me. I'd agree, Deb's pretty good - if I couldn't use slack, I'd use Debian.
A default debian install does not include gcc or ssh. Slackware uses BSD style init scripts (not traditional SysV init style). Although a rare problem, this causes compatibility problems in some apps.
Sure does, I could even name some.;) I absolutely hate the SysV style scripts, though, so for me the choice was easy. But you're right, if that's a real concern, go for Debian.
TGZ packages are not as common as debian's DEBs, nor as plentiful.
I'd seriously question that - I've never seen anywhere other than *.debian.org have DEB's but not TGZ's. I've seen RPM but no TGZ, although usually 1) they're binaries, and I don't want them, and 2) slack has a useful rpm2tgz utility that works like a charm. Basically, if you want to compile from source, tgz is the most offered format. And anything else is easy to convert. I think the days of non-interconvertible package formats are largely behind us (thank *diety*).
Its only problem is real enteprise support for any of the distros, which I'm pretty sure is buyable from other people. Assuming you can get it with enteprise support, debian is THE distro for the enteprise.
That's saying a lot though, as usually enterprise only uses something if it has support. As such, Red Splat and Li'l Suzie are the only real enterprise options right now.
Ultimately, I think we'd both agree that, for a small, light, fast, barebones linux install, you aren't installing Gentoo.
Yes, I was srot of ginettg at taht in the prat of my psot you coshe not to qtuoe. Not an isuse of drisepsect of the preosn, as the psot mkaes caler, but cretnaily drespisect of tiehr cvaialer auttidte trawod lganguae. Orwell siad it bset in "Ploitics and the Eglinsh Lungague". Bad witring lades to bad tghouht.
I chose not to quote it because it seemed pompous, overly self-important, and unrelated to my point. Second, I find quotations less than authoratative on any matter. If Orwell, or you, have proof in that regard, fell free to cite it. Third, I don't see the link between typographical errors and a "cavalier" attitude toward the language, much less any implications upon one's intellect, thought, or any other matter.
Finally, one need not take one's profession so seriously. I expect I could find evidence of your "cavalier attitude" toward science (my chosen profession) were I to thoroughly examine your life, yet I feel no need for condescension, overly broad generalities, or speculative outcomes based on such attitudes. Similarly, I think you don't need to overinflate the effects of spelling errors. Here, the effect is that the ebay seller will lose up to hundreds of dollars as a result of miscommunication. I think that is sufficient penalty.
I'd have to argue with you on this one. When you install Gentoo...it starts off about as bare bones as you can be....stuff gets added as YOU choose to.
First, have you used slackware? It's been traditionally the fastest distro since its inception 10 years ago. Gentoo doesn't beat it on speed, and isn't likely to.
Second, Gentoo does a lot of things in interesting but non-standard ways. Slackware users like tgz's, standard startup scripts, the usual directories, manual installs, etc. Basically, slackware is as close to unix and BSD as linux gets.
I'm not saying Gentoo is bad - I'm thinking about trying it just to see what all the fuss is about - but it's not right for every possible situation, which a number of gentoo users try to imply. For people who want a stripped-down, screaming box that does exactly what they want and absolutely nothing more...well, that's a job for Slackware.
And, for anyone who wants to get into a pissing contest over which is more correct, then I think I'll just remind you that the language is called "English", not "American", so guess which spelling came first?
Sounds like you're the only one engaging in said contest. For what it's worth, both spellings were valid in England during the time that America and England split. You may recall (or not) that the English language is not fixed, and enjoyed a great deal of flux in the 1600s, including a vast number of accepted spellings for words. So even your timeline analysis is flawed, as "American" English is NOT newer than modern British English. Rather, they both derive from the boundary between late Middle/early Modern English.
What if it really was a Plam Pilot, like maybe some weird knock-off Palm from Vanuatu or something?
Not if it has a picture of the thing, as in this one: Listing for a "Plam." You can clearly read the "Palm" for this device.
Bad spelling really turns me away from these things... Even though there's no real connection between spelling and intellect, it is very hard to read poorly crafted prose and respect it if it's badly written.
Actually, research shows that in languages like English, transposed inner letters have very little effect upon readability. In fact, such errors present great difficulty in proofreading because the human brain tends to correct the errors "on the fly." So for such errors, there is little effect upon "readability."
As for your inability to respect anyone who commits typographical errors, that's your prerogative. Personally, I'd rather take advantage of them on ebay by purchasing items at lower-than-normal prices.
Why would you want to compile your own kernel in most normal situations? That's what modules are for.
As for compiling the kernel at all, it's mainly speed - things compiled on YOUR system tend to be faster than things generically compiled. Good God man, are you installing binary programs too???
Along those lines, if I'm never going to need something, I don't need it as a module either. So all that crap I check "no" on the kernel configuration menu. Getting rid of all those damned modules speeds up how much time it takes me to
make modules && make modules_install
when I rebuild the kernel.
Second, there are things that run better when actually compiled in. In addition, I've found that things give me fewer configuration errors when compiled in to the kernel than left as modules. That said, if I have the choice, I'll leave something as a module if I have no reason not to, simply to keep the kernel nice and light. Basically, it's not so much a question of whether something should be a module or compiled, but whether it should be hanging around at all.
These things do make a difference. There's a reason why different Linux distros out of the box run at significantly varying speeds on the same machine. I'm not going to start a flame war here, so let's just say I enjoy smoking a pipe.;)
Many people do not install the MS Fonts from Office on their Linux machines and then wonder why their documents look different....
Well, that's obvious, and I accept those issues. I was more referring to linespacing issues (and yes, I accounted for the different font spacings). Dunno what's with that.
As you say, once I get around to installing MS fonts on linux (not a fun process), I expect things will improve.
As an aside, do you know of any distros that give better native support for that process? I realize they can't actually *include* the fonts (patent/copyright encumbered), but making it more "drag and drop" would be nice.
Given your friend ran for office in 2000 and this patent was filed in 1999 that doesn't constitute prior art. It just means that your friend might have been violating the patent.
I'm sure his friend will thank him for turning him in.;)
I thought you couldn't be nailed for vioaling a *pending* patent (this one was granted in 2003).
I am not suprised that they are still getting some things wrong (as you claim), since it is such a complicated thing to do well, but after seeing how amazing 1.1 was, I have no doubt that I will eventually be able to actually use OO interchangably with Word.
Yeah, I don't want to sound ungrateful to the OO guys, but it's not there - now - for me. I just installed the development version (680), and I might throw some bugs their way.
Interestingly enough, the version of OO I have on windows does do a much better job opening MS than my Linux box does. Same version too. So I imagine it may take some configuring.
Does it strike anyone else as strange that everyone keeps dreaming up more stuff to throw into the kernel? What happened to the unix philosophy of small, independent programs that do one thing well?
That's still the idea. When they say "putting new stuff in the kernel," they really mean "new options that you *can* compile into the kernel." Don't like Ham radio support in your kernel? Don't compile it in. Same for multiprocessor support, or virtualization support, or whatever the hell they throw in that you happen not to want.
That's the beauty. Now - you *are* compiling your own kernels, right? Cuz if you blindly use whatever default kernel RedHat or whoever throws at you, that's not so good maybe.;)
You don't have pockets? Or a hand to hold it in? I fail to see what's keeping you from running with it...it's small enough to fit in even a shirt pocket - though I don't see many running shirts with those...but there are a number of options beyond that armband...
Then you must not run. Holding it in a hand is unwieldy (not something I want to do for 8 miles), and no one runs in shirts/shorts with pockets. Even if I did, it would be *guaranteed* to fall out.
That's why they sell the armband. I've still not seen a real alternative aside from duct tape.
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Wow, that's awful. Not to mention wrong - the whole point is that Faramir thought for himself, that the ring wasn't desirable to everyone. Aragorn and Galadriel both resisted the ring more easily than Faramir did - in the book!
Maybe I'm missing something - but wasn't the whole point of the Faramir character that he was wiser than his brother and thought for himself? That's totally lost with him making a "save my ass" decision rather than seeing the ring for the evil that it is.
It's like Jackson has no concept of characterization. You almost with an English Lit professor could have been in the production meeting to set those idiots straight.
I liked the movies very well by and large, but I thought that decision was atrocious. And I agree with you that saying Tolkein's version was wrong - well, that's monstrously arrogant, and I'm inclined to go with Tolkein.
First, the time at which they drink it is speculative - not to mention which they don't have a separate drive-thru coffee maker, so the people in the restaurant got the same coffee. Had she drunk it, her injuries would have been far worse. Second, McD's cups and lids are quite defective, making spills nearly guaranteed.
I generally don't agree with these bullshit injury judgements, but that one I do.
It's a well established fact in life that if you spill a hot liquid on yourself then you're going to get burned. A corollarly to this well established fact is that you shouldn't use your legs as a cup holder when hot liquids are concerned.
Actually, nothing meant for consumption by a human should cause THIRD DEGREE BURNS. Again, had she drunk the coffee, she could have suffered near-fatal injuries from INTERNAL third-degree burns.
I mean hell, by your reasoning if someone happened to carry home a jug of bleach on their head and they spilled it in their eyes then Clorox should be sued for all their worth.
You'll also notice that 1) Clorox isn't intended for internal consumption while coffee is and 2) the cap on a bottle of clorox is designed much better than that on a McD's coffee.
Bottom line is, nothing that hot should be given to a human in a car in a cup that's guaranteed to come apart.
The whole point of having the Faramir/Boromir combo in the book was to contrast them - one brother who tries to steal the ring (and pays for it), and the other who has an opportunity to take the ring and purposely does not.
The way Jackson did it, this contrast is completely lost. Boromir tries to steal the ring, and Faramir probably would have if it wasn't drawing Nazgul to him. As it is in the movie, there is little difference between Boromir and Faramir except that Daddy doesn't like one of them (and even that only came out in the extended edition, I believe).
That's not a configuration of the server, and if it is, it's a misconfiguration shared by every mail server in the world. Mail servers send mail where they're told, that's their job. The misconfiguration in this case is with the anti-virus program which erroneously tells the mail server to kick the virus-laden mail back to the poor schmuck on the header.
But that is NOT the server's fault.
Fixing this would actually be easy by adding a "forged sender"-flag to all that other information in their virus databases, or by simply configuring the e-mail by worm, which they could also use to advertise free disinfection tools, providing a service many people would use and remember. Leaving the e-mail content for a worm empty could default to not sending mail and everyone's happy.
That's true. But again, considering that your proposed solution is fixing the AV program, that indicates the problem isn't with sendmail.
Typically, the sender of a letter does not cross national boundaries to send said letter. However, it is certainly possible. This situation is analogous to someone sending work email from their yahoo account, which you also raise.
Mr Hussein may not have been to WA, but if you mailed the message from (say) Yemen, Saudi Arabia, how would Mr. Bush be able to tell that wasn't from Saddam, just by looking at the postmark?
And that would be better faking. He never claimed that spoofing couldn't be done better, just that when it's that clear it's obviously fake.
But what if you use the name "John Ashcroft"? How would Mr. Bush know that Ashcroft didn't mail something while he was out of his office?
He didn't. It's his analogy, his right.
And (again) how would the mail server know that Client-A@wsu.edu doesn't have an AOL or texas telecom account?
Irrelevant. Yes that can happen, but when it's a virus in question, most times it's a faked header.
Also, by your analysis, his analogy of comparing postmarks is quite valid. In both realms, spoofing is possible, which may or may not be effective. Additionally, in both cases, there are some legitimate reasons for the postmark (ie, relaying server) not matching the return address.
What I tell my users is simple: "Their mail server is misconfigured, just ignore it."
Which is actually completely wrong. And you complain about his analogy...
Would Fonzie be warjumping that shark?
I don't know who's dumber, you or the guy who modded you up insightful.
Maybe a wire*less*tap, but there be no wires here. And the air is legal to all. So if you have a wireless camera on legally-available frequencies...and it's signal isn't encrypted...yes, people will h4X0r your shit.
Back when I was in college, bored, and not getting laid, I did this with cordless phones that used to broadcast clear on 46 or 49 MHz. Obviously that was a lot easier, requiring only a $3 used multi-band radio. In an apartment building full of neurotic college kids, it was occasionally interesting to listen in, particularly when you know the people. ;)
But it's hard to argue how it would be illgal. That's like saying I'm going to secretly communicate with my friend across the street using a megaphone, and if you listen in, it's illegal. Won't work too well.
I just pissed myself laughing.
...the guy who posted that joke first obviously did.
A lot of time, if the thing's completely locked, that's not responsive either, as that switch connects only to the MOBO. I prefer an actual *switch* that goes only to the power supply.
I've seen computers that could only be reset by unplugging the damned things. Newer ones, too.
This coming from the person who claimed catastrophe as result of a spelling error on Ebay. Hypocrite.
.tgz is the *most common* format for source tarballs. In fact, I think Slack chose .tgz as their package format because they wanted people to manipulate it just like a tarball. If you untar a slack package, it installs it. Sounds cool to me.
In other words, the "confusion" you refer to is actually "transparency," and I expect is quite intentional on the part of the slack team.
I knew as soon as I posted a Deb fan would get me. I'd agree, Deb's pretty good - if I couldn't use slack, I'd use Debian.
A default debian install does not include gcc or ssh. Slackware uses BSD style init scripts (not traditional SysV init style). Although a rare problem, this causes compatibility problems in some apps.
Sure does, I could even name some. ;) I absolutely hate the SysV style scripts, though, so for me the choice was easy. But you're right, if that's a real concern, go for Debian.
TGZ packages are not as common as debian's DEBs, nor as plentiful.
I'd seriously question that - I've never seen anywhere other than *.debian.org have DEB's but not TGZ's. I've seen RPM but no TGZ, although usually 1) they're binaries, and I don't want them, and 2) slack has a useful rpm2tgz utility that works like a charm. Basically, if you want to compile from source, tgz is the most offered format. And anything else is easy to convert. I think the days of non-interconvertible package formats are largely behind us (thank *diety*).
Its only problem is real enteprise support for any of the distros, which I'm pretty sure is buyable from other people. Assuming you can get it with enteprise support, debian is THE distro for the enteprise.
That's saying a lot though, as usually enterprise only uses something if it has support. As such, Red Splat and Li'l Suzie are the only real enterprise options right now.
Ultimately, I think we'd both agree that, for a small, light, fast, barebones linux install, you aren't installing Gentoo.
I chose not to quote it because it seemed pompous, overly self-important, and unrelated to my point. Second, I find quotations less than authoratative on any matter. If Orwell, or you, have proof in that regard, fell free to cite it. Third, I don't see the link between typographical errors and a "cavalier" attitude toward the language, much less any implications upon one's intellect, thought, or any other matter.
Finally, one need not take one's profession so seriously. I expect I could find evidence of your "cavalier attitude" toward science (my chosen profession) were I to thoroughly examine your life, yet I feel no need for condescension, overly broad generalities, or speculative outcomes based on such attitudes. Similarly, I think you don't need to overinflate the effects of spelling errors. Here, the effect is that the ebay seller will lose up to hundreds of dollars as a result of miscommunication. I think that is sufficient penalty.
First, have you used slackware? It's been traditionally the fastest distro since its inception 10 years ago. Gentoo doesn't beat it on speed, and isn't likely to.
Second, Gentoo does a lot of things in interesting but non-standard ways. Slackware users like tgz's, standard startup scripts, the usual directories, manual installs, etc. Basically, slackware is as close to unix and BSD as linux gets.
I'm not saying Gentoo is bad - I'm thinking about trying it just to see what all the fuss is about - but it's not right for every possible situation, which a number of gentoo users try to imply. For people who want a stripped-down, screaming box that does exactly what they want and absolutely nothing more...well, that's a job for Slackware.
And, for anyone who wants to get into a pissing contest over which is more correct, then I think I'll just remind you that the language is called "English", not "American", so guess which spelling came first?
Sounds like you're the only one engaging in said contest. For what it's worth, both spellings were valid in England during the time that America and England split. You may recall (or not) that the English language is not fixed, and enjoyed a great deal of flux in the 1600s, including a vast number of accepted spellings for words. So even your timeline analysis is flawed, as "American" English is NOT newer than modern British English. Rather, they both derive from the boundary between late Middle/early Modern English.
What if it really was a Plam Pilot, like maybe some weird knock-off Palm from Vanuatu or something?
Not if it has a picture of the thing, as in this one: Listing for a "Plam." You can clearly read the "Palm" for this device.
Bad spelling really turns me away from these things... Even though there's no real connection between spelling and intellect, it is very hard to read poorly crafted prose and respect it if it's badly written.
Actually, research shows that in languages like English, transposed inner letters have very little effect upon readability. In fact, such errors present great difficulty in proofreading because the human brain tends to correct the errors "on the fly." So for such errors, there is little effect upon "readability."
As for your inability to respect anyone who commits typographical errors, that's your prerogative. Personally, I'd rather take advantage of them on ebay by purchasing items at lower-than-normal prices.
Really? Takes me about a few seconds and a good porno mag.
As for compiling the kernel at all, it's mainly speed - things compiled on YOUR system tend to be faster than things generically compiled. Good God man, are you installing binary programs too???
Along those lines, if I'm never going to need something, I don't need it as a module either. So all that crap I check "no" on the kernel configuration menu. Getting rid of all those damned modules speeds up how much time it takes me to
when I rebuild the kernel.Second, there are things that run better when actually compiled in. In addition, I've found that things give me fewer configuration errors when compiled in to the kernel than left as modules. That said, if I have the choice, I'll leave something as a module if I have no reason not to, simply to keep the kernel nice and light. Basically, it's not so much a question of whether something should be a module or compiled, but whether it should be hanging around at all.
These things do make a difference. There's a reason why different Linux distros out of the box run at significantly varying speeds on the same machine. I'm not going to start a flame war here, so let's just say I enjoy smoking a pipe. ;)
Well, that's obvious, and I accept those issues. I was more referring to linespacing issues (and yes, I accounted for the different font spacings). Dunno what's with that.
As you say, once I get around to installing MS fonts on linux (not a fun process), I expect things will improve.
As an aside, do you know of any distros that give better native support for that process? I realize they can't actually *include* the fonts (patent/copyright encumbered), but making it more "drag and drop" would be nice.
I'm sure his friend will thank him for turning him in. ;)
I thought you couldn't be nailed for vioaling a *pending* patent (this one was granted in 2003).
Yeah, I don't want to sound ungrateful to the OO guys, but it's not there - now - for me. I just installed the development version (680), and I might throw some bugs their way.
Interestingly enough, the version of OO I have on windows does do a much better job opening MS than my Linux box does. Same version too. So I imagine it may take some configuring.
That's still the idea. When they say "putting new stuff in the kernel," they really mean "new options that you *can* compile into the kernel." Don't like Ham radio support in your kernel? Don't compile it in. Same for multiprocessor support, or virtualization support, or whatever the hell they throw in that you happen not to want.
That's the beauty. Now - you *are* compiling your own kernels, right? Cuz if you blindly use whatever default kernel RedHat or whoever throws at you, that's not so good maybe. ;)
Then you must not run. Holding it in a hand is unwieldy (not something I want to do for 8 miles), and no one runs in shirts/shorts with pockets. Even if I did, it would be *guaranteed* to fall out.
That's why they sell the armband. I've still not seen a real alternative aside from duct tape.