Actually, the fact that An == 2*A(n+1) is very useful in many situations. E.g. you can get two A4 papers by splitting one A3, or you can fit an A4 into an C5 envelope by folding it over.
As the article explaned, since A0 is 1 m^2 and the weight of paper is usually specified as x g/(m^2), the weight of an An paper is x/(2^n).
Conectiva's AptRpm can actually fetch dependancies for local packages.
What would be even cooler is if you instead of downloading actual packages would download some kind of description of where the package can be downloaded, its dependancies, and where to get them. This could also work cross distro. You could just tell users to get the description file, and it could contain pointers to an apt/dpkg repository for Debian users, apt/rpm, yum or whatever for users of rpm-based distros.
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Sodipodi is a vector-based drawing program. GIMP is a raster image manipulation program. They have different purposes and can't really be compared.
If you really can't figure out how to draw a rectangle in the GIMP, I'm guessing you've never used Photoshop or any other similar image manipulation program. You probably want to read up a bit, there's plenty of books, online tutorials etc.
Anyway, the answer to your question: 1. Make a selection with the desired shape. 2. Fill the selection with the desired color.
And beyond that, there's stuff like date formats, currency, other units, etc that have to be localized. And some icons/symbols only make sense in English. Then there's applications like tax software, which need lots of modifications to be useful in other countries.
boot-floppies is the name of the old installer for Debian -- whether or not you actually use any floppies. The new one is (of course) called Debian Installer.
It would be interesting to compare these numbers with the amount of raw material used to manufacture other household items etc, e.g. other electronics, furniture, refrigerators, cars, clothes, food. The figures are probably surprisingly high nomatter what you look at.
It might also be that her hearing aid isn't properly adjusted. Many older people with hearing loss hear things loud enough, it just that their hearing is "blurry" -- they don't have trouble hearing sounds, but it's difficult for them to actually make out the sounds. It's possible that her hearing aid simply amplifies certain frequencies to an irritating level.
Anyway, if I were you, I'd look into whether the problem actually is the hearing aid rather than your grandma.
Well, there is a company called iDot, selling computers. Apparently, they've appended "pc" to their name, but it still looks like a misspelling of "idiot".
Also, I know there must be a way to choose a better font, but everybody who uses TeX seems to use the same set of (butt ugly) fonts for everything. It's rather telling that most tech people can instantly tell when something was typeset in TeX.
You mean Computer Modern. It's the font that Donald Knuth designed to be used together with TeX and METAFONT. I guess it's a matter of taste whether you like it or not, but at least it's a well designed font and serves its purpose. People tend to use it since it's the default font (just like 90% of all Microsoft Word documents use Times New Roman), and because it's the only free font for TeX if you want to typeset math (AFAIK). The alternative is to buy e.g. MathTime.
Anyways, texts typeset in TeX are easily recognized IFF they use CM (since nobody seems to be using CM outside of TeX), if they aren't, it's pretty impossible to tell.
Actually, that's one of the few things I like about Windows (and most MS software): it has always been possible to access almost everything using your keyboard. Although it's often neither convenient nor efficient (press TAB 42 times until the correct widget is focused and then press Enter), but at least it's possible. With many X apps, especially older ones, you basically can't do anything without a mouse (e.g. xdvi). Focus-follows-mouse isn't very convenient if you don't have a mouse.
Sweden, and the EU use the Nice classification system for trademarks. Class 9 is a pretty broad class, which amoung other things seems to cover all kinds of scientific instruments, electric devices, computers and software. Class 16 is related to "Paper, cardboard and goods made from these materials" (boxed software?).
[...]signs which may be registered as a trade mark include the following:
word marks including letters, numbers or combination of letters, numbers and words;
figurative marks, whether or not including words;
figurative marks in colour;
colours or combinations of colours;
three-dimensional marks;
sound marks;
So you can register a logo using a specific typeface as a figurative mark. Of course, if you register a word mark instead, you get the rights to all graphical representations of the word(s).
Microsoft has registered Windows as a trademark in Sweden, and there's also several registered EU trademarks for Windows: 000079681, 000327890, 001691963 (you can do a trademark search here).
Anaconda won't be Debian's default installer -- the next version of Debian will use the new Debian Installer, which supports multiple UIs and all the Debian platforms.
Anaconda has been ported to Debian by Progeny, mainly because Progeny supports both Red Hat and Debian and they want to use the same installer for both distros.
Oh, and yes, Anaconda can be run in text mode, but it doesn't currently work in the Progeny port.
Since no one's mentioned it already: to keep your sanity when managing Windows boxes, you needpstools. It contains tools like psexec, which is like a poor mans telnet -- run commandline programs on remote computers -- and tools for listing logged on users, installed software, running processes and more. All you need is the proper rights and you can do magic on Windows workstations, even while a user is logged on (you can also use it for BOFH stuff;).
I'll also recommend Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer, which lets you check computers for "common misconfigurations", i.e. missing patches, trivial passwords, etc.
Also, if you are a *nix guy, put a GNU/Linux or *BSD box on your network. If nothing else, just for tools like nmap etc. While most of it is available for Win32 too, it's so much eazier to just apt-get what you need instead of hunting for an outdated, buggy Win32 binary.
I seems like Google has started to use stemming (or something similar). If you search for "linux print", it also finds pages containing "linux printing". IOW it considers word with certain suffixes (probably -ing, -s, -ed etc, depending on wordclass) to be equivalent with their stem, i.e. the word with the suffix stripped off. This isn't such an important thing in English, since there aren't so many different suffixes, but it can be very important for more inflective languages.
Sure, but compare that to the turnout numbers for other countries. Having only half of the elegible voters voting is a huge democratic problem. If you can't even get a majority of the population to bother to vote, something must be wrong and radical changes are needed.
Of course, voting from your home seems like an extremely bad idea and an even bigger democratic problem than low turnout. There's no way to ensure that the voter actually voted independently if they voted from home -- it makes it possible to threaten/pay people to vote for your candidate and make sure they actually voted that way.
Um, have you ever read the philosophy pages at gnu.org? Of course RMS won't be satisfied until all software is free. It's like expecting human rights organizations to stop complaining because only two political dissidents are executed per day, instead of ten. (For the logically challanged: no, I'm not comparing releasing proprietary software with killing dissidents).
I don't remember reading about it either on/., and I can't seem to find it using the search engine (not that I've ever found what I was looking for with/.'s search engine). I did however read a story about it on Ars. Maybe that's what he was thinking about.
While I agree that it's a bit premature to call the new plant a total failure, orders have been smaller than IBM expected.
Well, that's a philosophical question. Some might argue that while you tried to write a science fiction story, it didn't necessarily turn out that way, e.g. if it ended up being about the sexual habits of fruit flies. If I find a chair shaped object in a store, buy it and start using it to sit on, doesn't that mean that (from my point of view) it actually is a chair -- even though the maker might have made it for a different purpose? In other words: the user decides what the thing they're using is.
That said, just because everyone who buys a product uses it as a chair doesn't mean the maker has to adapt it for that use (but it might be good for business).
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As the article explaned, since A0 is 1 m^2 and the weight of paper is usually specified as x g/(m^2), the weight of an An paper is x/(2^n).
Don't you mean "friend" (or possibly "mellon")?
What would be even cooler is if you instead of downloading actual packages would download some kind of description of where the package can be downloaded, its dependancies, and where to get them. This could also work cross distro. You could just tell users to get the description file, and it could contain pointers to an apt/dpkg repository for Debian users, apt/rpm, yum or whatever for users of rpm-based distros.
If you really can't figure out how to draw a rectangle in the GIMP, I'm guessing you've never used Photoshop or any other similar image manipulation program. You probably want to read up a bit, there's plenty of books, online tutorials etc.
Anyway, the answer to your question: 1. Make a selection with the desired shape. 2. Fill the selection with the desired color.
And beyond that, there's stuff like date formats, currency, other units, etc that have to be localized. And some icons/symbols only make sense in English. Then there's applications like tax software, which need lots of modifications to be useful in other countries.
boot-floppies is the name of the old installer for Debian -- whether or not you actually use any floppies. The new one is (of course) called Debian Installer.
What search query did you use? Try this.
So yeah, recycling really is a good idea.
Anyway, if I were you, I'd look into whether the problem actually is the hearing aid rather than your grandma.
Is Fox "News for nerds, stuff that matters"?
Well, there is a company called iDot, selling computers. Apparently, they've appended "pc" to their name, but it still looks like a misspelling of "idiot".
And you managed to spell "grammar" incorrectly...
Anyways, texts typeset in TeX are easily recognized IFF they use CM (since nobody seems to be using CM outside of TeX), if they aren't, it's pretty impossible to tell.
Actually, that's one of the few things I like about Windows (and most MS software): it has always been possible to access almost everything using your keyboard. Although it's often neither convenient nor efficient (press TAB 42 times until the correct widget is focused and then press Enter), but at least it's possible. With many X apps, especially older ones, you basically can't do anything without a mouse (e.g. xdvi). Focus-follows-mouse isn't very convenient if you don't have a mouse.
According to the FAQ:
So you can register a logo using a specific typeface as a figurative mark. Of course, if you register a word mark instead, you get the rights to all graphical representations of the word(s).
Microsoft has registered Windows as a trademark in Sweden, and there's also several registered EU trademarks for Windows: 000079681, 000327890, 001691963 (you can do a trademark search here).
Anaconda has been ported to Debian by Progeny, mainly because Progeny supports both Red Hat and Debian and they want to use the same installer for both distros.
Oh, and yes, Anaconda can be run in text mode, but it doesn't currently work in the Progeny port.
I'll also recommend Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer, which lets you check computers for "common misconfigurations", i.e. missing patches, trivial passwords, etc.
Also, if you are a *nix guy, put a GNU/Linux or *BSD box on your network. If nothing else, just for tools like nmap etc. While most of it is available for Win32 too, it's so much eazier to just apt-get what you need instead of hunting for an outdated, buggy Win32 binary.
I seems like Google has started to use stemming (or something similar). If you search for "linux print", it also finds pages containing "linux printing". IOW it considers word with certain suffixes (probably -ing, -s, -ed etc, depending on wordclass) to be equivalent with their stem, i.e. the word with the suffix stripped off. This isn't such an important thing in English, since there aren't so many different suffixes, but it can be very important for more inflective languages.
If you don't care about free as in whatever, there's been stable r/w support for a long time.
Of course, voting from your home seems like an extremely bad idea and an even bigger democratic problem than low turnout. There's no way to ensure that the voter actually voted independently if they voted from home -- it makes it possible to threaten/pay people to vote for your candidate and make sure they actually voted that way.
Um, have you ever read the philosophy pages at gnu.org? Of course RMS won't be satisfied until all software is free. It's like expecting human rights organizations to stop complaining because only two political dissidents are executed per day, instead of ten. (For the logically challanged: no, I'm not comparing releasing proprietary software with killing dissidents).
While I agree that it's a bit premature to call the new plant a total failure, orders have been smaller than IBM expected.
That said, just because everyone who buys a product uses it as a chair doesn't mean the maker has to adapt it for that use (but it might be good for business).
In Sweden credit card purchases require either entering a PIN code or showing ID plus a signature (except, it seems, in bars and restaurants).