I’m sick and tired of people emailing around MS Word documents. When are they gona learn? Either send it as plaintext (when it’s short and you don’t need formatting) or send it as a PDF file. All operating systems I use (KDE/GNU/Linux and MacOS X) can print documents to a PDF-file from the printing dialog. So why can’t they? I’m thinking about pen down a guide to common sense for regular computer users, those who used to be known as lusers in the MIT ITS era.
I might have sounded harsh in the last post. But between last weeks power outage and virus infections I found that if we could convert moronity into electricity we would have an eternal energy source.
In times like this, when people ask me if I got infected by the latest worm, I get to hold many lectures on why I consider people insisting on using MS Windows morons and why they should switch to Linux (Ark Linux, Gentoo) or just get a Mac.
On a related issue, I found this via a banner that pissed me off — for about two seconds — until I realized how well crafted the site is and that probably a majority of MS Windows users will find it beliveable.
Lots of interesting stuff have happend the last couple of weeks that I’m itching to talk about but can not make a full disclosure of — yet.
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I did a terrible misstake a couple months ago which I hate my own guts for. I upgraded to Red Hat 8 ….
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Another plug about Camp Slaughter and Magic Bullet just came in.
I have evaluated the Movie Magic Scriptwriter briefly the last couple of days. It has the same feature set as Final Draft. But there are some nuisances that make me feel awkward using Scriptwriter compared to Final Draft: When you create a new script the first line is not automatically a slug line element. I couldn’t get it to autocomplete the INT/EXT and you must use double dash on slug lines to autocomplete time. And other such small things, however these where the first things that I notices.
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My recent activities of tracking down various word processing documents that I tought was lost and convert them into some kind of open and readable document format — in particular screenplays — have spurred my interest into open source alternatives for scriptwriting.
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