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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 21, 2012, 07:03 PM »I might actually have a nice list of some re-unearthed books shortly.
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He-he. Linux is fun when I have time to play with it, but serious work has to be done in Windows. Mind you, that's me, not necessarily the world. My biggest Linux issue is documentation - no, man pages don't cut it
. Most of 'em seem to be written for folk who already know ninety percent of the answer
. Seems there's a severe lack of technical writers in the open source community
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Well, there is one (1) other issue, that being the command line - but, then, I have that same issue in Windows. The issue is not typing commands, but remembering the commands to type. Had the same issue with OS/2. When /d has a different meaning for every command you use, you soon run out of organic RAM to store all the variances.
On the other hand, my local server is running a very old version of Red Hat - very old! - and works just fine. I don't have to mess with it.
As I said, it's fun to work with Linux distros, but the two (2) biggest failings throughout the various distros, to my thinking, is the lack of drivers - which is curable only by mainstream adoption - and a serious lack of, or inadequate, documentation. And as long as I restrict myself to distros that support available drivers for my hardware, Linux works just fine. No speed penalties, as long as I learn the rules and play by them.
That said, I have Puppy on a USB stick for those times when I have to go into recovery mode.
Oh, on the subject of documentation, Jack Wallen has a fairly interesting article on crowdsourced documentation for Fedora. Might be worth a read for Linux and non-Linux users alike.-barney (May 21, 2012, 04:26 PM)
Cause someone mentioned a favorite program being better now because of the ability to customize its ribbon... Surely you saw that?-J-Mac (May 17, 2012, 11:01 AM)
What I saw was that Excel 2010 now had that ability, so I wasn't sure how that pertained to note-taking. Maybe I missed something.-longrun (May 17, 2012, 12:16 PM)
Well, that's something, anyway. We aren't going to adopt Office 2010 anytime soon, on the grounds that it's a memory hog, so I won't worry that I'm missing anything. I did hope that there would be aversion of OneNote for Mac, but I think I would have heard of that by now, if so.
Thanks!-melitabel (October 11, 2010, 03:03 PM)
What self publishing needs is a public filter system something like DIgg or reddit used to provide until corporates used it to sneak their stuff in. That if handled properly then it is easy to filter the self published books. That sort of platform will have it's pros and cons but atleast it will filter good or bad books to some extent. Sites like goodread started with that intention and later sidetracked with publishing house books.-mahesh2k (May 15, 2012, 01:48 PM)
It's been a while since the last celebration, but I've found another one:
Congrats, TaoPhoenix! (see attachment in previous post)-Ath (May 05, 2012, 11:04 AM)
It could. Sometimes apps auto-assign themselves to a file type every time they are run. That could be what is happening here. I'll try to look into it more when I get a chance.-c.gingerich (May 15, 2012, 09:29 AM)
Have you updated to the most current versoin? (v1.0.1.0)? Can you open the folder where FastUnzip snack is installed and double click on FastUnzip Snack.exe, what happens? Do you get the settings dialog or do you get a info box saying to run the settings from the start menu? If you run the settings, the RAR File Association box is checked?
I am asking all this because I cannot find anything wrong in the code (yet) and my copy is working on RAR files. I'm sure I missed something, just trying to find out what.
-c.gingerich (May 08, 2012, 07:16 AM)
