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The next document I put together will be done with LyX

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...

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Software needed: Nifty bash math tools

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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WYSIWYG not WYSIWTG

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...

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Software Needed: Enhanced web search

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......

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Does anyone else get this error from John Stewart and the rest of them at Comedy Central?

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:...

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So, are you sure you want to beleieve that Apple Corporation is not fundamentally evil, like the rest of the corporations?

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...

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Running Alpine in Function Key Mode

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....

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Woman Arrested for Poking on Facebook

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!...

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Happy Birthday OpenOffice.org!

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...

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Do you want the alpine email client to remember your passwords?

Category: Linux

By default, the text-based email client 'alpine' requests a password the first time, per session, that it is requested a password from any email services it checks. For the duration of that session, it remembers the password, but forgets it if you quit alpine so...

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