I believe that where the image is, no data can be burned. So a CDROM with an image covering the entire CD will look pretty cool but can hold no data. Will this lead to burning 10 Mb of data on a CDROM to have a bigger/cooler image on it? That would suck.
Trillian 3 is a very nice app indeed. The speed of file transfers has been increased and the Rendez Vous (LAN messenger) is a nice addition too. Too bad file tranfers (via MSN and Rendez Vous) seem to crash the app randomly.
IMHO you fight bureaucrats with bureaucrats. This is why oppositions parties are useful. I bet most of the outraged MP's are the MP's from the opposition parties. (Given that the opposition parties are promoting OSS for a few years.) They are the ones that will question what happened here and will raise hell too.
I don't think there's a screensaver that can do that but there might just be a browser that can set you up. It also enhances your Web browsing experience (TM).;)
The Mostly Crystal theme has an update button in the upper right corner. But it isn't red. It's blue and it turns green after checking. It works too, but not after a double click (this is waht the alt text says) but after a single click.;)
I'd really like to make Firefox check for updates at startup or change the interval of checking for updates. I found the variable in the about:config screen but the number "86400000" doesn't make sense to me. Any ideas anyone?
As a shortcut junkie I really hope it uses some similar shortcuts as Photoshop or Paintshop Pro by default. This will make the switch much easier and make it more productive.
Since I work in the digital printing business I have to love Linux because open source started with a printer driver.:) But the really important thing is that my few Linux customers can deliver me the perfect file: A PDF. Making a PDF under Linux is very easy and doesn't require expensive software like Adobe Acrobat. I got a lot of my customors to use PDFcreator (sourceforge) but a lot of them just have to hand over MS Word and MS Publisher documents. They are both a big problem. Especially Publisher. Even a (Ghost- or PostScript) PDF made out of a Publisher file is messy. I like Scribus a lot and it's just something you have to get used to. For the lack of CMYK support: I don't care that much. The CMYK Offset printing has tough competition from machines like the HP Indigo 3050. These baby's print from RGB files and make really stunning prints. My Windows Office clients using MS Word and MS Publisher can design their own stuff and have it printed with Offset Quality and speed as long as they take the effort to make a PDF file. My Linux Scribus, KOffice, OpenOffice, etc. customers too but they have less problems with making a PDF file. The thing that that is still a problem is the lack of PANTONE color support. This would make it possibe to have stuff printed with just two colors insted of four making the prints a LOT cheaper.
Mod me offtopic but I think what we really could use is a way to exchange MS Office documents in their standard form without having problems with missing fonts (including them is not a standard setting so a LOT of the users don't know.) Another thing is fixing that annoying layout based in the installed printer driver. This can screw up the layout pretty hard sometimes, especially when people don't use tabs and hard page breaks. I know a shiny "click to make PDF" button like in Open Office would be too much to ask but with the previous things fixed all the people who spend a quarter of their day restyling exchanged MS Word documents can spend their time more useful.
(Yeah, I know people can spend a lot of money on Acrobat or a cheaper equivalent or even try PDFcreator (Sourceforge) but PDF's can only be saved as HTML or RTF. Not much improvement.)
And how about that Publisher crap? I have seen files that took up to 400 Mb for a double sided A3 paper in color. Bashed it to PDF I only got 3 Mb left. WTF? And I'm not even starting about the print-related bugs in Powerpoint.
I think what the general MS Office user needs from MS is that they finish what they start and make a decent piece of software. That's where I wanna go today. Not another "share-your-Powerpoint-presentation-with-a-friend" button.
My best guess for this is that the economy isn't running that well (globally). The first thing that companies drop is costs in advertising (brochures etc. as well). As a result to that a lot of people in the graphical industry (and especially designers) loose their jobs. Not that much Macs are needed anymore. Next to that the PDF file format has become a standard and for example newspapers don't need Apples for layout. Drag and drop layout applications under Windows have replaced a lot of Macs too.
Funny thing is that a lot of people just don't care. I remember that visual plugin for Winamp: Wild Tangent Valentine Dancer. It turned out to be spyware (and so did the rest of Wild Tangent's plugins and apps) but a lot of people just wanted to see a girl dancing on their screen. They just don't care. Not aware of the results of a spyware infested computer and blinded by some digital hottie. The result is over 3,707,559 downloads.
Hanford isn't a nuclear plant, it was a nuclear weapons research facility that also mass-produced plutonium for nuclear weapons.
So the Weapons of Mass Destruction have been found! (Besides the Daisy Cutters ofcourse) At last. Too bad it's the wrong country. Maybe it's a wise idea to outsource the cleanup? Or are there enough unemployd poor people with childen nearby? They will do it.
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Glad to hear that fase of tecnology is behind us now. Thanks for the info! :)
I believe that where the image is, no data can be burned. So a CDROM with an image covering the entire CD will look pretty cool but can hold no data. Will this lead to burning 10 Mb of data on a CDROM to have a bigger/cooler image on it? That would suck.
There is a Windows port of Gaim.
Trillian 3 is a very nice app indeed. The speed of file transfers has been increased and the Rendez Vous (LAN messenger) is a nice addition too. Too bad file tranfers (via MSN and Rendez Vous) seem to crash the app randomly.
and I hate the small size of the box I'm given to enter my search terms.
;)
This extension called Resize Search Box 0.0.2 fixes that problem. (sorry, no direct link
IMHO you fight bureaucrats with bureaucrats. This is why oppositions parties are useful. I bet most of the outraged MP's are the MP's from the opposition parties. (Given that the opposition parties are promoting OSS for a few years.) They are the ones that will question what happened here and will raise hell too.
I bet they use the same machine they run the website on. It's terribly slow (when it responds at all) ;)
I don't think there's a screensaver that can do that but there might just be a browser that can set you up. It also enhances your Web browsing experience (TM).;)
I only had to replace all the hardware inside. New motherboard with a faster processor, some RAM and a brand new videocard to make it a HL2 box.
The fingerprint made by the yellow colour only. Just deactivate it and print only in CM an K. It's easy!
The Mostly Crystal theme has an update button in the upper right corner. But it isn't red. It's blue and it turns green after checking. It works too, but not after a double click (this is waht the alt text says) but after a single click. ;)
I'd really like to make Firefox check for updates at startup or change the interval of checking for updates. I found the variable in the about:config screen but the number "86400000" doesn't make sense to me. Any ideas anyone?
As a shortcut junkie I really hope it uses some similar shortcuts as Photoshop or Paintshop Pro by default. This will make the switch much easier and make it more productive.
What? e.g. coffee shops
On the other hand, you don't need Google to find any.
...LAX is pronounced as "laks" and means something like "too lazy to do anything". :)
Since I work in the digital printing business I have to love Linux because open source started with a printer driver. :) But the really important thing is that my few Linux customers can deliver me the perfect file: A PDF. Making a PDF under Linux is very easy and doesn't require expensive software like Adobe Acrobat. I got a lot of my customors to use PDFcreator (sourceforge) but a lot of them just have to hand over MS Word and MS Publisher documents. They are both a big problem. Especially Publisher. Even a (Ghost- or PostScript) PDF made out of a Publisher file is messy. I like Scribus a lot and it's just something you have to get used to. For the lack of CMYK support: I don't care that much. The CMYK Offset printing has tough competition from machines like the HP Indigo 3050. These baby's print from RGB files and make really stunning prints. My Windows Office clients using MS Word and MS Publisher can design their own stuff and have it printed with Offset Quality and speed as long as they take the effort to make a PDF file. My Linux Scribus, KOffice, OpenOffice, etc. customers too but they have less problems with making a PDF file. The thing that that is still a problem is the lack of PANTONE color support. This would make it possibe to have stuff printed with just two colors insted of four making the prints a LOT cheaper.
It's not a switch that can be flipped. Software written by humans will always contain errors.
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Well it worked in Day of the Tentacle.
Mod me offtopic but I think what we really could use is a way to exchange MS Office documents in their standard form without having problems with missing fonts (including them is not a standard setting so a LOT of the users don't know.) Another thing is fixing that annoying layout based in the installed printer driver. This can screw up the layout pretty hard sometimes, especially when people don't use tabs and hard page breaks. I know a shiny "click to make PDF" button like in Open Office would be too much to ask but with the previous things fixed all the people who spend a quarter of their day restyling exchanged MS Word documents can spend their time more useful.
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(Yeah, I know people can spend a lot of money on Acrobat or a cheaper equivalent or even try PDFcreator (Sourceforge) but PDF's can only be saved as HTML or RTF. Not much improvement.)
And how about that Publisher crap? I have seen files that took up to 400 Mb for a double sided A3 paper in color. Bashed it to PDF I only got 3 Mb left. WTF? And I'm not even starting about the print-related bugs in Powerpoint.
I think what the general MS Office user needs from MS is that they finish what they start and make a decent piece of software. That's where I wanna go today. Not another "share-your-Powerpoint-presentation-with-a-friend
My best guess for this is that the economy isn't running that well (globally). The first thing that companies drop is costs in advertising (brochures etc. as well). As a result to that a lot of people in the graphical industry (and especially designers) loose their jobs. Not that much Macs are needed anymore. Next to that the PDF file format has become a standard and for example newspapers don't need Apples for layout. Drag and drop layout applications under Windows have replaced a lot of Macs too.
Funny thing is that a lot of people just don't care. I remember that visual plugin for Winamp: Wild Tangent Valentine Dancer. It turned out to be spyware (and so did the rest of Wild Tangent's plugins and apps) but a lot of people just wanted to see a girl dancing on their screen. They just don't care. Not aware of the results of a spyware infested computer and blinded by some digital hottie. The result is over 3,707,559 downloads.
When GNU is Unix, LAME must be an MP3 encoder and WINE must be an emulator.
Hanford isn't a nuclear plant, it was a nuclear weapons research facility that also mass-produced plutonium for nuclear weapons.
So the Weapons of Mass Destruction have been found! (Besides the Daisy Cutters ofcourse) At last. Too bad it's the wrong country. Maybe it's a wise idea to outsource the cleanup? Or are there enough unemployd poor people with childen nearby? They will do it.
-Sorry, it must be monday.