"In 1990 Carlos Armando Amado filed a patent for software which helped transfer data between Excel spreadsheets and Microsoft's Access database using a single spreadsheet. He said he tried to sell this technology to Microsoft in 1992 but they turned him down. According to Amado, Microsoft started including his software in their releases between 1995 and 2002."
There's a nice little Windows application that sits in your systray waiting for you to double-click on it to change the layout from QWERTY to Dvorak or vice versa. You can also set a hotkey, which can be quite handy. It's a tiny self-contained executable, so you can just run it when you get on there, and close it when you get off.
There are caveats though; it cannot be extended to support other keyboard layouts, which would be extremely useful. In addition, it's billed as an open-source program but I have searched everywhere and sent emails to the creator asking for the source to no avail.
Nevertheless, you should try it out. Works like a charm on the computers at my school.
I really hope these masses of shredded papers aren't dumped in our landfills... I think we already have enough junk in there that won't be decomposing any time soon.
It's good to see that Gentoo's in-depth handbook is starting to catch on with other Linux distributions (not to say they didn't borrow the idea from somewhere else).
It's an excellent way to document Linux instead of having to sift through a long README document or rtfm man pages.
Does anyone else agree with me that it is kind of sad that it has gotten to this point, where we need a conference just to battle these messages?
Especially when it's only a small core group of individuals which accounts for most of the spam...
Will there always be people that abuse systems in any possible way?
What ever happened to kids playing with teddy bears, or learning from reading books? Technology might be making it too easy for them, so they don't even learn.
This was definitely unfair and uncalled for if his intention was to notify the company of their product's defects, or if he already did but got no response.
On the other hand, if he only wanted to hinder the company, he is at fault. But even then, he's got a pretty harsh reprimand.
Skype seems a bit bloated though; the Windows executable weighs in at just over 10 MB. For a small VoIP application, I find this pretty rediculous. How could they possibly make it take up so much space?
Don't you think they should improve their operating system's security before they sell additional anti-spyware software? This just seems like another way to coax more money out of consumers..
I've never tried it, but I can't see why they would do it... I really hated it when Windows used that spatial thing. But, you know, I think the Gnome team would have done a bunch of research before they changed something as significant as this, so I don't think I have to worry about it being unefficient or anything. It's just getting used to it that will be a problem.;)
Slashdot Mirror
And next we'll have .store, .house, .tvshow, .website...
This story doesn't exactly mention what functionality the patch removes. But there is another article about it here with a bit more information:
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/07/microsoft
"In 1990 Carlos Armando Amado filed a patent for software which helped transfer data between Excel spreadsheets and Microsoft's Access database using a single spreadsheet. He said he tried to sell this technology to Microsoft in 1992 but they turned him down. According to Amado, Microsoft started including his software in their releases between 1995 and 2002."
There's a nice little Windows application that sits in your systray waiting for you to double-click on it to change the layout from QWERTY to Dvorak or vice versa. You can also set a hotkey, which can be quite handy. It's a tiny self-contained executable, so you can just run it when you get on there, and close it when you get off.
There are caveats though; it cannot be extended to support other keyboard layouts, which would be extremely useful. In addition, it's billed as an open-source program but I have searched everywhere and sent emails to the creator asking for the source to no avail.
Nevertheless, you should try it out. Works like a charm on the computers at my school.
http://clabs.org/dvorak.htm
SourceForge Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvassist/
I really hope these masses of shredded papers aren't dumped in our landfills... I think we
already have enough junk in there that won't be decomposing any time soon.
It's good to see that Gentoo's in-depth handbook is starting to catch on with other Linux distributions (not to say they didn't borrow the idea from somewhere else).
It's an excellent way to document Linux instead of having to sift through a long README document or rtfm man pages.
SPAM: Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages
Does anyone else agree with me that it is kind of sad that it has gotten to this point, where we need a conference just to battle these messages?
Especially when it's only a small core group of individuals which accounts for most of the spam...
Will there always be people that abuse systems in any possible way?
What ever happened to kids playing with teddy bears, or learning from reading books? Technology might be making it too easy for them, so they don't even learn.
Though the idea does sound pretty cool...
runs out and buys one
This was definitely unfair and uncalled for if his intention was to notify the company of their product's defects, or if he already did but got no response. On the other hand, if he only wanted to hinder the company, he is at fault. But even then, he's got a pretty harsh reprimand.
You might want to close the italics tag in the post so that the rest of the page doesn't become italic...
Skype seems a bit bloated though; the Windows executable weighs in at just over 10 MB. For a small VoIP application, I find this pretty rediculous. How could they possibly make it take up so much space?
Don't you think they should improve their operating system's security before they sell additional anti-spyware software? This just seems like another way to coax more money out of consumers..
I've never tried it, but I can't see why they would do it... I really hated it when Windows used that spatial thing. But, you know, I think the Gnome team would have done a bunch of research before they changed something as significant as this, so I don't think I have to worry about it being unefficient or anything. It's just getting used to it that will be a problem. ;)