While I haven't used Microsoft Word in a while (OpenOffice over here) somewhere in Tools -> Customize you can show a toolbar called 'Contextual Menus' or something like that which you can edit to add the paste special option
AlphaSmart has a few products that may interest you. The AlphaSmart 3000 (US$200)is a dumb keyboard which stores about 100 pages of text, and 3 AA batteries run it for 300-700 hours. If you need to take notes involving graphics, the Dana (US$400), which is a Palm OS hybrid, may be the right thing. The Dana Wireless also has Wi-Fi access.
For something with a bit more power than the 3000 but not a full Palm OS hybrid, you may be interested in the Neo, which is due to be released in September.
I have a copy of OpenLinux 2.4 that I got for free (after mail in rebate). It was my very first Linux distro. It had Acrobat Reader, Real Player, Netscape, KDE 1.x, StarOffice, and this OMNIS Studio product (don't know what it was). It also came with an installer that could bootstrap from Windows 9x and licensed versions of BootMagic and PartitionMagic Caldera Edition (simple dialog that shrinked your Windows partition and made a Linux ext2 and swap partition). It used the 2.2 kernel and the only USB support it had was for a USB mouse. It came on 3 CDs: 'Installation from Windows and Commercial Packages', 'Binaries and Installation', and 'Source Code'. All of the CDs have an FTP URL to the source code as well.
If anyone REALLY wants to know more about it, please e-mail me with 'Caldera OpenLinux' in the subject (so it won't get thrown away)
I was referring to what the PFY used to change user passwords to, before something happened (I think he fell in love again). I have to commend you for your knowledge of BOFH tho, I never knew anyone else was so obsessed
Also, Sir Steven is the only lead I have ever seen of the PFY's name. He is always referred to as The PFY, often with the T in 'the' capitalized.
Finally, in the first episode of BOFH 2001, the PFY does this to confuse users:
"You can't remember your password over the break?" The PFY cries happily into his headset, "OK, I'll change it to 'tomorrow' for you, one 'm', two 'r's... Oh, don't mention it."
One hour later
"You can't remember your password after the break," the PFY cries into his headset, "I've changed it to 'thedayaftertomorrow' for you. Bye"
One hour after that
"You can't remember your password after little more than a week?!?" the PFY snorts into his headset. "I suppose we're lucky you found your way to work...I'll change your password the day after tomorrow. >click"
The official BOFH passwords are 'goshimaplonker' and 'imaginebeingsostupid' from, IIRC, the New Bastard Menu from Hell (available at bofh.iinet.au IIRC)
My Thinkpad G40 does something like that as well. All of the metal parts are 30-some volts above ground, and the supposedly grounded wire of the AC adapter is 40-some volts above ground
To take a recent example, the Sony Clie UX50. It has built in WiFi and Bluetooth. You can use the builtin web browser to go to a Web site and download the.zip file with the things you need. You save it on an expansion card or the internal virtual card. You use the included software to unzip the files, then move them to main memory and they're installed.
Yes, it's only one PDA. Yes it is somewhat involved. Yes it only works on programs that aren't distributed in.exe Windows Setup program format. But it can be done
Then do it like this: You talk to a support tech, who agrees that you need a replacement part. They put a charge on your credit card, then send you the new part and a box. When you send back the old part, they take off the charge.
Secondly, put a clause in the warranty that disclaims liability for you installing the part. Basically, they'll cover defects, but you're SOL if you messed it up through your own fault.
Take a look at WinPT, available at www.winpt.org. Windows Privacy tools is a graphical frontend to GPG that has a GUI installer and an interface that you'll probably find easy to use and easy to write idiot guides for.
Obvious karma whore, but according to my 8th grade French that would mean "Why is there a problem speaking French?" And the answer probably lies in the Quebec Referendum 1995. Most of the nuttiness from Quebec is concentrated in the Parti Quebecois, which in 1995 tried to seperate from Canada. Then again, there are nice people, and there are the nutcases. You've got them south of the border, where they're called the Religious Right.
Quebec Referendum 1995
Microsoft page on packaging ActiveX controls. Just take the.zip version of Firefox, put it into a CAB, add a.bat file to work with the shortcuts, and put in the necessary ActiveX magic and you could have just that.
I for one welcome our new Self-Installing IE Firefox Overlords
A Windows.lnk file is managed by the shell to open a file or open a folder in the shell. However, a big difference between a Unix style symlink is that Unix style symlinks assume the type of their target and form part of the directory tree so you can cd to a symlink. However, as they are managed by the shell, you cannot cd to a symlink.
I don't know about regular Wine, but CodeWeavers used to sell a product that has Wine-based Linux browser plugins for popular Linux browsers. Now it's integrated into CrossOver Office, as you see at:
The nice thing about Moz/Firefox is that it doesn't put those features in your face, like Opera. Fiddle with the IE shortcuts so they point to FF. I think there is an IE theme for FF as well.
And sometimes, the threat of revoking your "Family service plan" will be enough to get the to shape up" That and what one of the parents said about saying that IE let in malware that let people steal your money
Remember: when in doubt, go for the greet jugular.
a) Threaten to never support her computer again b) Hide the IE shortcuts c) Change the IE homepage to say, in big letters, "YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE USING THIS NOW GET OUT AND START FIREFOX" d) If you have Zonealarm on her computer, set it so IE has no Internet access e) Use IE's Content Advisor to block all Web sites f) I could go on and on
Short answer: Holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, while knowing them to be contradictory.
Long answer: (quoted from Nineteen Eighty-Four):
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.'
(thanks to www.newspeakdictionary.com for the convienience)
And yes, it is doublethink. Some people argue that the War on Drugs is too (comparing it to Prohibition)
Slashdot Mirror
Your wish for Ogg Vorbis is granted.
You can edit the right-click menus, you know.
While I haven't used Microsoft Word in a while (OpenOffice over here) somewhere in Tools -> Customize you can show a toolbar called 'Contextual Menus' or something like that which you can edit to add the paste special option
You are aware that that the only thing less reliable than the 3.5 inch floppy is the 5.25" floppy? Man, you are just BEGGING for it
Tho if it's geek points you want, get an old CueCat and store a barcode as a series of photos on $PREFERRED_PHOTO_VIEWING_DEVICE
SendStation's PocketDock. 'Nuff said.
AlphaSmart has a few products that may interest you. The AlphaSmart 3000 (US$200)is a dumb keyboard which stores about 100 pages of text, and 3 AA batteries run it for 300-700 hours. If you need to take notes involving graphics, the Dana (US$400), which is a Palm OS hybrid, may be the right thing. The Dana Wireless also has Wi-Fi access.
For something with a bit more power than the 3000 but not a full Palm OS hybrid, you may be interested in the Neo, which is due to be released in September.
I have a copy of OpenLinux 2.4 that I got for free (after mail in rebate). It was my very first Linux distro. It had Acrobat Reader, Real Player, Netscape, KDE 1.x, StarOffice, and this OMNIS Studio product (don't know what it was). It also came with an installer that could bootstrap from Windows 9x and licensed versions of BootMagic and PartitionMagic Caldera Edition (simple dialog that shrinked your Windows partition and made a Linux ext2 and swap partition). It used the 2.2 kernel and the only USB support it had was for a USB mouse. It came on 3 CDs: 'Installation from Windows and Commercial Packages', 'Binaries and Installation', and 'Source Code'. All of the CDs have an FTP URL to the source code as well.
If anyone REALLY wants to know more about it, please e-mail me with 'Caldera OpenLinux' in the subject (so it won't get thrown away)
I was referring to what the PFY used to change user passwords to, before something happened (I think he fell in love again). I have to commend you for your knowledge of BOFH tho, I never knew anyone else was so obsessed
Also, Sir Steven is the only lead I have ever seen of the PFY's name. He is always referred to as The PFY, often with the T in 'the' capitalized.
Finally, in the first episode of BOFH 2001, the PFY does this to confuse users:
"You can't remember your password over the break?" The PFY cries happily into his headset, "OK, I'll change it to 'tomorrow' for you, one 'm', two 'r's... Oh, don't mention it."
One hour later
"You can't remember your password after the break," the PFY cries into his headset, "I've changed it to 'thedayaftertomorrow' for you. Bye"
One hour after that
"You can't remember your password after little more than a week?!?" the PFY snorts into his headset. "I suppose we're lucky you found your way to work...I'll change your password the day after tomorrow. >click"
The official BOFH passwords are 'goshimaplonker' and 'imaginebeingsostupid' from, IIRC, the New Bastard Menu from Hell (available at bofh.iinet.au IIRC)
My Thinkpad G40 does something like that as well. All of the metal parts are 30-some volts above ground, and the supposedly grounded wire of the AC adapter is 40-some volts above ground
What you need is an m68 port of this
-1, Outdated
.zip file with the things you need. You save it on an expansion card or the internal virtual card. You use the included software to unzip the files, then move them to main memory and they're installed.
.exe Windows Setup program format. But it can be done
To take a recent example, the Sony Clie UX50. It has built in WiFi and Bluetooth. You can use the builtin web browser to go to a Web site and download the
Yes, it's only one PDA. Yes it is somewhat involved. Yes it only works on programs that aren't distributed in
You mean it's a bad thing that AOL wouldn't work?
"Give me my fair use rights back, I won't bother breaking your protection. Failed business models don't deserve government protection."
Just reading it reminds me of the song Sleepless by Jann Arden. Here's my satirical version.
Take your wool n'blinders off
Come and read our news sites
We could cleanse your mind
Or just open your eyes
Three hundred million surround us
So many geeks lose their way
All that we have is a Constitution
And that's all we've ever wanted
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Don't you think it's funny
Tell them 'bout democracy
We could win tomorrow
Might as well keep fighting
Three hundred million surround us
So many geeks lose their way
All that we have is a Constitution
And that's all we've ever wanted
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Give me my right to fair use
I won't break your DRM
Failed business models don't deserve
Government protection
Three hundred million surround us
So many geeks lose their way
All that we have is a Constitution
And that's all we've ever wanted
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Copyrighted content, used without permission in the fair use of parody and satire
Then do it like this: You talk to a support tech, who agrees that you need a replacement part. They put a charge on your credit card, then send you the new part and a box. When you send back the old part, they take off the charge.
Secondly, put a clause in the warranty that disclaims liability for you installing the part. Basically, they'll cover defects, but you're SOL if you messed it up through your own fault.
Take a look at WinPT, available at www.winpt.org. Windows Privacy tools is a graphical frontend to GPG that has a GUI installer and an interface that you'll probably find easy to use and easy to write idiot guides for.
One word: OpenPGP
One value-added word: GPG
(AOL voice) There's never been a better time to start encrypting your e-mail.
Whoops, that should have been "the greed jugular"
Obvious karma whore, but according to my 8th grade French that would mean "Why is there a problem speaking French?" And the answer probably lies in the Quebec Referendum 1995. Most of the nuttiness from Quebec is concentrated in the Parti Quebecois, which in 1995 tried to seperate from Canada. Then again, there are nice people, and there are the nutcases. You've got them south of the border, where they're called the Religious Right. Quebec Referendum 1995
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/components/acti vex/packaging.asp
.zip version of Firefox, put it into a CAB, add a .bat file to work with the shortcuts, and put in the necessary ActiveX magic and you could have just that.
Microsoft page on packaging ActiveX controls. Just take the
I for one welcome our new Self-Installing IE Firefox Overlords
A Windows .lnk file is managed by the shell to open a file or open a folder in the shell. However, a big difference between a Unix style symlink is that Unix style symlinks assume the type of their target and form part of the directory tree so you can cd to a symlink. However, as they are managed by the shell, you cannot cd to a symlink.
I don't know about regular Wine, but CodeWeavers used to sell a product that has Wine-based Linux browser plugins for popular Linux browsers. Now it's integrated into CrossOver Office, as you see at:
c e/
http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/cxoffi
IIRC, the zip-file version writes settings to your %UserProfile%\Application Data folder, so you may not be able to use it
The nice thing about Moz/Firefox is that it doesn't put those features in your face, like Opera. Fiddle with the IE shortcuts so they point to FF. I think there is an IE theme for FF as well.
And sometimes, the threat of revoking your "Family service plan" will be enough to get the to shape up" That and what one of the parents said about saying that IE let in malware that let people steal your money
Remember: when in doubt, go for the greet jugular.
a) Threaten to never support her computer again
b) Hide the IE shortcuts
c) Change the IE homepage to say, in big letters, "YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE USING THIS NOW GET OUT AND START FIREFOX"
d) If you have Zonealarm on her computer, set it so IE has no Internet access
e) Use IE's Content Advisor to block all Web sites
f) I could go on and on
Doublethink:
Short answer: Holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, while knowing them to be contradictory.
Long answer: (quoted from Nineteen Eighty-Four):
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.'
(thanks to www.newspeakdictionary.com for the convienience)
And yes, it is doublethink. Some people argue that the War on Drugs is too (comparing it to Prohibition)