I was able to do my state tax forms (which didn't grant me "rights" to save changes) by opening it in gv, saving the individual pages to separate.pdf files, converting them to.ps files with pdftops (don't use pdf2ps, it's crap), then importing that into Scribus. It has a nice WYSIWYG environment to do your editing.
Not only did he get the wrong language (Spanish instead of Portugese), he got the wrong name. In English it's "Joe Sixpack". Joe is a familiar form of Joseph, whereas Juan is the Spanish version of John. In order to do a more accurate Spanish translation he should have said Jose Sixpack.
Sorry for replying to my own post, but I just realized I linked to the wrong version. The Star Wars Gangsta Rap Special Edition music video is much cooler. Enjoy!
I think a possible solution would be for Wikimedia to maintain secrecy regarding the "gold master" deadline. They would only be able to announce an actual release.
Even more so than "maricon", I think Mandriva brings to mind the Spanish word "mariposa", which literally means "butterfly", but is also used (at least among Mexicans -- can't speak for others) as a synonym for "maricon".
I've crossed the US - Mexico border many times, and usually this works. From what I can tell, they don't really care where you're going and what you'll be doing. They just want to make sure you don't have a strong "Cheech and Chong" accent when you answer. Interestingly enough, the toughest border patrol guards are the foreign ones (yes, there are *many* foreiners working at INS) -- probably because they are less able to verify that my accent is authentic (although my family is several generation USian, I am hispanic). I was once sent to the "2nd" inspection area by a Filipino guard (he could barely speak English, himself... I felt like I should be the one demanding *his* papers) who thought I was "very strange" because my rental car had an out of state (non CA) license plate. The guys at 2nd revision just basically asked the same "where are you from and where you going?" question, and were like "Why did that idiot send you to us? Go on your way."
I lived for a few years in Tijuana, Mexico, and it looks like TJ and most border towns are completely mapped at the highest resolutions, as well. I could spot the house where I stayed and everything. You have to search for San Ysidro, CA and then drag southward, though. Here's a link to the border crossing gate. The line dividing the screen is the "iron curtain" -- The wall between the countries built by the US.
A webmaster was jailed under PATRIOT because someone had posted bomb making info on his server. Keep in mind that he didn't put the info there, he was basically a web host, and one of his clients was using his account this way. This is a particularly damning case of abuse where "Innocuous objects such as iced tea bottles and a toy car were described as terrorist devices by the FBI and a joint task force of police officers."
I have a policy about not wasting hard-earned money on expensive restaraunts when a nice, back-alley taco stand will do:-) You don't have to carry large wads of cash to eat well.
I invariably hear this argument brought out whenever the security of online purchases is brought into question. The response I'm supposed to have runs along the lines of: "Oh, yeah, you're right... the restaurant is just as insecure... I guess that means I can buy stuff on the internets, again!". To me this logic is flawed. First of all, it is assumed that I am already paying via CC when I eat out (I always pay with cash for this very reason). Such an argument doesn't convince me that the internet is any safer, but rather seems to be an admission of it's insecurity, as well as that of the restaurant waiter scenario. Rather than running out and buying things on the web, I'm more reinforced in my decision to just pay with cash at restaurants, *and* maintain abstinence from online purchases.
...what I've found to be easiest method is using ssh/sftp from the guest to the host computer. You need to make sure to use the -user-net option and that sshd is running on the host (Cygwin can do this in Winblow$). It's worked for me every time.
Actually this is straight out of the new testament. I give you Mark 12:41-44 (NIV translation)...
Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins,worth only a fraction of a penny.
Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything-all she had to live on."
Now let's take this and apply it to the current situation... Bill Gates would obviously equate to the "many rich people" mentioned above, but to me, the legions of humble, nameless contributors to FOSS projects (many of whom come from underdeveloped nations) have much in common with the poor widow, who gives more *of themselves*, because they give of *all that they have* -- their valuable time and talents, instead of heaps of money
"So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men..."
I know there are many atheists out there, but the Bible has some real jems.
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Podcasting is basically the combination of RSS, mp3, and in some cases, BitTorrent to create a free (as in freedom *and* beer) subscription based, music, or talk-radio type experience. Check it out. There's some really cool tech talk shows I subscribe to. I highly recommend the "Linux Link Tech Show" -- funny commentary on all sorts of tech issues.
You're probably are aware of this, but for the benefit of the general readership... I once read an article that had the following quote from Bill Gates. I found it compelling enough to copy and paste to a quotes.txt file. It illustrates that there are some very good reasons why these things go under-inforced. It's very planned (Dons tinfoil hat):
"As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."
-- Bill Gates on software piracy in Asia
If anyone out there can provide the link to the original article, I'd be very appreciative!
I've had a really good experience with installing plain old Debian Woody on old hardware. I set up an old machine for my kids to use. Here's my setup:
Pentium I 100 Mhz cpu w/1xCDROM & ISA slots
Lightweight web browser w/ Java - FF if it's not too heavy
I installed FF, too. It's kinda slow, but my kids can even do flash games from sesamestreet.com. If it's not working for you, try Dillo, or even links. You won't have Java, but they're very fast.
Lightweight word processor that opens/saves MS-Word 95 files
Try using catdoc (doc -> txt or tex) to get them out of Word format, altogether... you can even convert them to rtf, by using latex2rtf and then you can open them in AbiWord, or Ted, both very good lightweight Word processors.
Lightweight spreadsheet that opens/saves MS-Excel 95 files
Use xlhtml to convert your Excel file to html, for easy parsing/conversion. Then consider xspread, or even sc. Their file format is ASCII, for easy parsing, and conversion to CSV, which Excel can open without any problem.
Lightweight "presentation" program that opens/saves MS-Powerpoint 95 format
Try ppthtml to convert your PowerPoint files to more flexible HTML.
Other apps I'd recommend:
mp3blaster - console based mp3 jukebox
centericq - Think of Kopete, or Gaim, but console-based
abook - console address book
smbc - console based Samba file manager
giFTcurs - console based P2P, compatible w/ 4 popular protocols
tcd - plays music CD's
aumix - powerful mixer
MPlayer - movie player. I installed the latest version with all codecs without X (using SVGAlibs) and it works great. It's a bit choppy on some movies with the slow processor, but my 4-year old doesn't care.
SuperTux - a Mario style game that kids will love. (mine do!)
... and finally, Perl - never leave home without it:-)
I once spent about a month living in a house in Mexico that had no internet connection. The only access was through 2 local internet cafe's, which unfortunately, only ran Winblow$. I needed to ssh to my computer at home, and was sick of trying to function without my 'swiss army knife' (Perl). I managed to talk the manager of one of the cafe's into allowing me to install "some software to connect to my computer at home" which was really Cygwin+all *nix apps I might need during my stay. It took forever over that slow connection. A live CD would have really come in handy, back then!
P.S. The astute reader will note that several of the aforementioned '*nix apps' already have native windows ports, but they were not installed on these boxen, and Cygwin has them all bundeled in one convenient package. Talking the manager into installing one thing (Cygwin [really many in one, I know]) was easier than talking him into installing many different programs, which is what I would have to do to hunt down all the native ports, individually.
I want to second this. I've been a contributor to kde-look.org, myself. Why learn art when there are so many other good artists just giving it away? Most of the stuff is released under GPL or similar licenses. If you do insist on learning for yourself, you'll find a community ready to give advice, and helpful criticism. While your at it, have a gander at the sister site gnome-look.org. Good luck!
What about podcasting? I know a lot of podcasters just use plain old references to mp3/ogg files, but have seen several (those with less available bandwidth, for example) using it as a means to distribute torrent files.
I'm a graphic designer, as well. I agree that Gimp versions 2.0 had a 'really bad' UI, but I think it's fine now -- in some ways even *better* than Photoshop (I love being able to just right-click to get to the menu w/o moving the mouse to the top of the screen [this can really make a difference on a 22" monitor:-)]). It is different from Photoshop, so if what you're looking for is something *exactly* like PS you will be dissapointed, but that's through no fault of the Gimp, just people's own conditioning.
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I was able to do my state tax forms (which didn't grant me "rights" to save changes) by opening it in gv, saving the individual pages to separate .pdf files, converting them to .ps files with pdftops (don't use pdf2ps, it's crap), then importing that into Scribus. It has a nice WYSIWYG environment to do your editing.
Not only did he get the wrong language (Spanish instead of Portugese), he got the wrong name. In English it's "Joe Sixpack". Joe is a familiar form of Joseph, whereas Juan is the Spanish version of John. In order to do a more accurate Spanish translation he should have said Jose Sixpack.
Sorry for replying to my own post, but I just realized I linked to the wrong version. The Star Wars Gangsta Rap Special Edition music video is much cooler. Enjoy!
This reminds me of the Star Wars gangsta rap.
I have a purple and white iMac. It works perfectly. No sound or X problems like you describe.
I think a possible solution would be for Wikimedia to maintain secrecy regarding the "gold master" deadline. They would only be able to announce an actual release.
Even more so than "maricon", I think Mandriva brings to mind the Spanish word "mariposa", which literally means "butterfly", but is also used (at least among Mexicans -- can't speak for others) as a synonym for "maricon".
I've crossed the US - Mexico border many times, and usually this works. From what I can tell, they don't really care where you're going and what you'll be doing. They just want to make sure you don't have a strong "Cheech and Chong" accent when you answer. Interestingly enough, the toughest border patrol guards are the foreign ones (yes, there are *many* foreiners working at INS) -- probably because they are less able to verify that my accent is authentic (although my family is several generation USian, I am hispanic). I was once sent to the "2nd" inspection area by a Filipino guard (he could barely speak English, himself... I felt like I should be the one demanding *his* papers) who thought I was "very strange" because my rental car had an out of state (non CA) license plate. The guys at 2nd revision just basically asked the same "where are you from and where you going?" question, and were like "Why did that idiot send you to us? Go on your way."
I lived for a few years in Tijuana, Mexico, and it looks like TJ and most border towns are completely mapped at the highest resolutions, as well. I could spot the house where I stayed and everything. You have to search for San Ysidro, CA and then drag southward, though. Here's a link to the border crossing gate. The line dividing the screen is the "iron curtain" -- The wall between the countries built by the US.
Oh, yeah? Well, in Soviet Russia, your ______________ does ______________ to you!
Any story by Paul Ruebens has to be met with a certain level of healthy skepticism on my part. :-)
To the mods: Post is meant to be funny.
Please note that the identical AC post in this story was me, but I accidentally posted it as AC the first time.
Here's a basic list of just a handful of abuses I came up:
And finally, maybe there haven't been as many abuses as there will be once all 2nd legal track the preparations are in place.
I have a policy about not wasting hard-earned money on expensive restaraunts when a nice, back-alley taco stand will do :-) You don't have to carry large wads of cash to eat well.
I invariably hear this argument brought out whenever the security of online purchases is brought into question. The response I'm supposed to have runs along the lines of: "Oh, yeah, you're right... the restaurant is just as insecure... I guess that means I can buy stuff on the internets, again!". To me this logic is flawed. First of all, it is assumed that I am already paying via CC when I eat out (I always pay with cash for this very reason). Such an argument doesn't convince me that the internet is any safer, but rather seems to be an admission of it's insecurity, as well as that of the restaurant waiter scenario. Rather than running out and buying things on the web, I'm more reinforced in my decision to just pay with cash at restaurants, *and* maintain abstinence from online purchases.
...what I've found to be easiest method is using ssh/sftp from the guest to the host computer. You need to make sure to use the -user-net option and that sshd is running on the host (Cygwin can do this in Winblow$). It's worked for me every time.
Actually this is straight out of the new testament. I give you Mark 12:41-44 (NIV translation)...
Now let's take this and apply it to the current situation... Bill Gates would obviously equate to the "many rich people" mentioned above, but to me, the legions of humble, nameless contributors to FOSS projects (many of whom come from underdeveloped nations) have much in common with the poor widow, who gives more *of themselves*, because they give of *all that they have* -- their valuable time and talents, instead of heaps of money
I leave you with a section of Matthew 6:2...
I know there are many atheists out there, but the Bible has some real jems.
Podcasting is basically the combination of RSS, mp3, and in some cases, BitTorrent to create a free (as in freedom *and* beer) subscription based, music, or talk-radio type experience. Check it out. There's some really cool tech talk shows I subscribe to. I highly recommend the "Linux Link Tech Show" -- funny commentary on all sorts of tech issues.
You're probably are aware of this, but for the benefit of the general readership... I once read an article that had the following quote from Bill Gates. I found it compelling enough to copy and paste to a quotes.txt file. It illustrates that there are some very good reasons why these things go under-inforced. It's very planned (Dons tinfoil hat):
"As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."-- Bill Gates on software piracy in Asia
If anyone out there can provide the link to the original article, I'd be very appreciative!
I've had a really good experience with installing plain old Debian Woody on old hardware. I set up an old machine for my kids to use. Here's my setup:
Pentium I 100 Mhz cpu w/1xCDROM & ISA slots
Lightweight web browser w/ Java - FF if it's not too heavyI installed FF, too. It's kinda slow, but my kids can even do flash games from sesamestreet.com. If it's not working for you, try Dillo, or even links. You won't have Java, but they're very fast.
Lightweight word processor that opens/saves MS-Word 95 filesTry using catdoc (doc -> txt or tex) to get them out of Word format, altogether... you can even convert them to rtf, by using latex2rtf and then you can open them in AbiWord, or Ted, both very good lightweight Word processors.
Lightweight spreadsheet that opens/saves MS-Excel 95 filesUse xlhtml to convert your Excel file to html, for easy parsing/conversion. Then consider xspread, or even sc. Their file format is ASCII, for easy parsing, and conversion to CSV, which Excel can open without any problem.
Lightweight "presentation" program that opens/saves MS-Powerpoint 95 formatTry ppthtml to convert your PowerPoint files to more flexible HTML.
Other apps I'd recommend:
I once spent about a month living in a house in Mexico that had no internet connection. The only access was through 2 local internet cafe's, which unfortunately, only ran Winblow$. I needed to ssh to my computer at home, and was sick of trying to function without my 'swiss army knife' (Perl). I managed to talk the manager of one of the cafe's into allowing me to install "some software to connect to my computer at home" which was really Cygwin+all *nix apps I might need during my stay. It took forever over that slow connection. A live CD would have really come in handy, back then!
P.S. The astute reader will note that several of the aforementioned '*nix apps' already have native windows ports, but they were not installed on these boxen, and Cygwin has them all bundeled in one convenient package. Talking the manager into installing one thing (Cygwin [really many in one, I know]) was easier than talking him into installing many different programs, which is what I would have to do to hunt down all the native ports, individually.
2000 years!? What about that one guy I see on TV every morning? Science, eat your heart out! :-D
Disclaimer: The above comment is intended to be humorous, and in no way implies belief in the referenced televangelist.
I want to second this. I've been a contributor to kde-look.org, myself. Why learn art when there are so many other good artists just giving it away? Most of the stuff is released under GPL or similar licenses. If you do insist on learning for yourself, you'll find a community ready to give advice, and helpful criticism. While your at it, have a gander at the sister site gnome-look.org. Good luck!
What about podcasting? I know a lot of podcasters just use plain old references to mp3/ogg files, but have seen several (those with less available bandwidth, for example) using it as a means to distribute torrent files.
I'm a graphic designer, as well. I agree that Gimp versions 2.0 had a 'really bad' UI, but I think it's fine now -- in some ways even *better* than Photoshop (I love being able to just right-click to get to the menu w/o moving the mouse to the top of the screen [this can really make a difference on a 22" monitor :-)]). It is different from Photoshop, so if what you're looking for is something *exactly* like PS you will be dissapointed, but that's through no fault of the Gimp, just people's own conditioning.