1. In a small hut in the jungle of Malaysia, programming an Electronic Health Records System for a government mobile clinic. The electricity was provided by a petrol generator set that ran out of fuel around midnight. I had to tap power by joining to the wires of the lights. My laptop was also literally full of bugs, since the insects were attracted by the only source of light in the jungle.
2. Fixing software bugs in server using SSH on a Nokia E71 handphone, inside a moving taxi in rural Sri Lanka.
Since when has Debian been positioned as the distro for the general public? It is up to Debian derivatives like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc. to make things simpler for the average user. It is the distros like these that will be judged by the public whether Linux is ready for the mainstream, not Debian.
Google spreadsheet is horrendous - rudimentary and slow response. But, one can use http://www.editgrid.com/ which is almost similar to Excel but completely web based.
You can install a completely FOSS stack by running VistA on http://www.geocities.com/kdtop3/GT.M on top of Linux. The only issue is that GUI part, i.e. CPRS only runs on Windows. Modifying it to run on Wine is still incomplete.
Don't nuerons use neurotransmitters to bridge the synapses? How is this able to send signals to hard silicons? Were the silicons created with proper receptors?
I believe OOo stores native documents in compressed form. If your document is mainly text, then 10MB contains A LOT OF TEXT to expand. If the 10MB file is mainly graphic objects then there would be less objects to uncompress, hence less time required.
There is still the lack of uptodate printed manuals and dummy books that the new user could handily refer to, when it comes to OOo, whereas MS-Office had numerous books since the earliest versions.
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This might have been suggested before:
A few respected stocks analyst should study the SCO cases carefully - reviewing all the facts and discussions here, groklaw, etc. (Anyone close enough to these people to explain it gently to them?)
If they can see the reality instead of the FUD, then they should recommend a sell instead of a hold or buy.
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1. In a small hut in the jungle of Malaysia, programming an Electronic Health Records System for a government mobile clinic. The electricity was provided by a petrol generator set that ran out of fuel around midnight. I had to tap power by joining to the wires of the lights. My laptop was also literally full of bugs, since the insects were attracted by the only source of light in the jungle.
2. Fixing software bugs in server using SSH on a Nokia E71 handphone, inside a moving taxi in rural Sri Lanka.
Since when has Debian been positioned as the distro for the general public? It is up to Debian derivatives like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc. to make things simpler for the average user. It is the distros like these that will be judged by the public whether Linux is ready for the mainstream, not Debian.
Does anyone know why Dell would want to set the 1GB RAM limit? 4GB I can understand, but 1GB?
And it really happened to me. My buddy had to blurt it out before I had a chance to catch the movie.
Google suggests that you create a few empty documents when you are online. It may seem clumsy, but it's not impossible.
Google spreadsheet is horrendous - rudimentary and slow response. But, one can use http://www.editgrid.com/ which is almost similar to Excel but completely web based.
"OMG, they've killed Duncan" ... pause "Those bastards!"
You can install a completely FOSS stack by running VistA on http://www.geocities.com/kdtop3/GT.M on top of Linux. The only issue is that GUI part, i.e. CPRS only runs on Windows. Modifying it to run on Wine is still incomplete.
You can try http://www.hushmail.com/ which includes free secure webmail but with limited space.
And make sure it's GPLv3, since they intend to patent it.
... a really good hoax ... just like Alan Moore's The Watchmen?
The Mother of All CPU Charts 2005/2006.
IANAL, but what is the implication in the current environment vis-a-vis the dreaded DMCA?
Don't nuerons use neurotransmitters to bridge the synapses? How is this able to send signals to hard silicons? Were the silicons created with proper receptors?
I believe OOo stores native documents in compressed form. If your document is mainly text, then 10MB contains A LOT OF TEXT to expand. If the 10MB file is mainly graphic objects then there would be less objects to uncompress, hence less time required.
There is still the lack of uptodate printed manuals and dummy books that the new user could handily refer to, when it comes to OOo, whereas MS-Office had numerous books since the earliest versions.
... Carpe diem."
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"I do not wish to realise when I die, that I had not lived
This might have been suggested before: A few respected stocks analyst should study the SCO cases carefully - reviewing all the facts and discussions here, groklaw, etc. (Anyone close enough to these people to explain it gently to them?) If they can see the reality instead of the FUD, then they should recommend a sell instead of a hold or buy.