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Category: Technology
Just when you thought it was time to abandon the mouse altogether and start using only the command line, the OpenSource world has come up with a mouse with one zillion buttons that allows one-handed use of OpenOffice apps and plays World of Warcraft....
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:57 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
I don't mean blog posts or emails. For blog posts I use souped up gedit, and for emails I use pico. (There was a time when I thought I'd be using emacs for both of those, but emacs suffers from a deep philosophical dysfunction.) I'm...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:11 AM • 54 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Linux
And when I say bash math, I do not mean being mean to math, and I do not mean math as it is done in bash. I mean math as humans do it, but on the bash command line....
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Category: Technology
Huh? ...The person I was talking to responded (quite seriously) that WYSIWYG means "What You See Is What You Get", not "What They Get", that Word actually renders the document on screen based on the capabilities of the default printer on that computer, so that...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:05 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
Google is great, and yes, I know all those tricks that make it greater. But I still want to use REGEX in some cases. So, I figured out a way to do that, in theory, all I need now is the code......
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:07 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
I've stopped paying attention to John Stewart and that other guy what's his name at Comedy Central because over the last month or so every single video form that source I've looked at produces this error:...
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:57 PM • 34 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
Earlier today a pending non-provisional utility patent application assigned to Apple Computer published. This application, US Patent Application 20090265214, is titled Advertisement in Operating System, and covers exactly what the title implies; namely an operating system that is capable of displaying a variety of advertisements...
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:26 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: alpine email
By now I assume you've experimented with Alpine, as a character-based email client. Well, I have another tip for you....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:36 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
I don't think I've poked anybody on Facebook. I was afraid. And I'm so glad I didn't do it!...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:15 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
October 13th was the eigth birthday of the Office Suite OpenOffice.Org. This is an OpenSource office suite that will look familiar to anyone using Microsoft Office, WordPefect Office, etc. It has a word processor (Writer) that does pretty much everything Microsoft Word does, but with...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:00 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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