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My new HTML to TXT converter. 1237
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kelsey Bjarnason wrote on Wed, 16 Mar 2005 02:25:50 GMT Hm...good point. However, he does use C++ concepts; there's a reference in his macro IncDef() implementation (the first parameter). Therefore...
My new HTML to TXT converter. 1238
snips On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:00:04 +0000, The Ghost In The Machine What Numbnuts fails to realize is...
I can't wait for Microsoft to fix sh_t
Hi Kelsey... Who's Numbnuts ? Re: The code works, and works well... X.CPP uses it. Who enforces these so-called standards ? Why would I...
Long live Usenet
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kelsey Bjarnason wrote on Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:26:34 GMT Depends on a number of factors. There's PS and there's PS...
It's called HTM_TXT.CPP
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, JeffRelf wrote on 16 Mar 2005 10:20:01 GMT Well, I suppose if we really wanted to...
If Kelsey knew something about C
Hi DFS, Re: Kelsey's inability to produce anything half as good as my HTMTXT.CPP, Relf, I HATE aligning myself with...
If Kelsey knew something about C
snips On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:27:55 +0000, JeffRelf I've been looking over your code. After...
Numeric chars like   &#o40 or  
Hi Kelsey, Re: My LoopXx() vs. this code of yours from Kelsey.CPP: for ( codeiter = codes.begin(); codeiter != codes.end(); codeiter++ ) The loop I use finds...
Either one would be a good start
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:04:58 +0000, Tim Smith He's one of those people incapable of seeing anything beyond the end of his...
My _ standard is to write code that works well... day after day
If his page renders in IE, he's happy. The whole reason he's here in the first place is sheer terror that he might have to scrap everything he's ever learned about...
Knowledge trumps cash
Howdy there NurseQuixoteJeffDivaMan ( ha ha ), Re: Your comment on how Seattle.General is a wasteland of...
What do you think this C code does
JeffRelf Instead you let sloth enslave you. No you haven't. Not if what you've been telling...
It gets order BBC12345 and Fails to create a compressed file
Hi DFS, Re: How money would enslave me if I wasn't so vigilant, Goofing off is a fine luxury... you should try...
It gets order BBC12345 and Fails to create a compressed file. 1250
snips On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 04:11:12 +0000, JeffRelf Note this is supposed to be C code. Let's proceed... Non-portable. It's definitely implementation-specific, to the point that, IIRC, some...
It gets order BBC12345 and Fails to create a compressed file. 1251
JeffRelf It's a deadly sin is what it is. A sin far worse than being consumed by money. Cool. Why don't you get a full...
Low expenses are the keys to freedom
Hi DFS, Re: The luxury of goofing-off, Control is the goal... and you missed it by a...
Low expenses are the keys to freedom
JeffRelf You don't seem to me to have control of anything. You lost control of your life years ago, and now you try to justify your "lifestyle" as a choice...
The MS 'begin' bug 1254
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:30:09 -0500, rapskat Hmmm, I liked 40tude dialog and even Thunderbird (though, it seems sort of slow) better. But, thanks for allowing...
Google results
OS Wars.... Results 1 - 10 of about 289,000,000 for windows Results 1 - 10 of about 219,000,000 for linux Results 1 - 10 of about 94,300,000 for apple Obviously a bit skewed here due to ambiguity...
Linux's "person apps
Generally this has come up time and time again, the question of "person apps." Mainly the idea that Linux doesn't have them. I really think though, that this is...
How Can Linux Compete with WinFS With its OPath language 1257
mlw Gee, another way for M$ to block out competing apps from its own selection. Well, it's not OS-level itsinformationlevel. You have to understand that Longhorn is not ( and cannot ) compete at the traditional...
How Can Linux Compete with WinFS With its OPath language 1258
Among Thieves Not at all. By OS-level, it is buttumed that the reader understands it is benefits to the application provided by the OS. You *have* to...
Google is USELESS for my PONTIAC
Here's why boolean search (Google) is useless. I just bought a Pontiac Grand Prix 1991 last Saturday. It's...
Linux programs similar to iLife, etc. 1261
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:18:15 -0700, Snit Those are Linux "Live-CD" distros. You don't...
Linux programs similar to iLife, etc. 1262
Excellent - thanks. I will try those. Thank you. While disappointing that Linux is not "there...
Linux programs similar to iLife, etc. 1263
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 06:20:23 -0700, Snit snippage You are welcome. I don't have much experience with what is available on...
Linux programs similar to iLife, etc. 1264
Not hard to believe. Much of such software for Windows is utter garbage. ILIfe is generally quite good, though sometimes it leans a bit too heavily on...
Mandrake PPC: no dice on G3 B&W
Thought I would give Mandrake a whirl in order to get familiar with KDE, as I'm still...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1266
Does the lack of the easy-to-use tools that you describe limit the finished product? What I mean is, if I can jump through hoops with LaTeX and friends...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1267
I don't know. In some cases, sure. But I go on the buttumption that time is money, and work-arounds for tools not present wastes a lot of both. Apps like Scibus...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1268
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:40:14 -0600, TravelinMan Sorry, Jason Walsh isn't a DTP professional...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1268 plus 1
Probably using LaTex or something similar, which, as I've pointed out before, is a useful tool, but not the same thing as a program like InDesign. Reposting...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1270
Sorry, if this guy is giving Scribus an award on the Mac platform, which he appears to be, he's just off his rocker. I don't care how much DTP experience he's got. The...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1271
He's wrong about how "good" it is. For a start, the "Story Editor" concept is waaaayyy...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1272
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:46:12 GMT, And the whole paragraph, from which you snipped the fragment. 'That said, Scribus was not designed to be a "Quark-person".Scribus...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1273
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:27:35 -0600, Liam Slider Linux Magazine (the British one, not the American) has just finished three part series on Scribus and newpaper production, Here is a quote from a newspaper...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1274
There's more to security than just viruses. Just looking at OS X security problems for 2005, we've...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1275
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:21:51 -0600, TravelinMan How about MainActor? Sure, there are equally capable, even more...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1276
Can you read? We're talking about desktop apps, Rick. How many times does this have to be...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1277
Well, from the site you can't really tell anything about the author's. Which is to say if they're professional folks or not. Someone doing a book cheap...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1278
And according to the Scribus site it was the *first* which implies *only* book done in Scribus. Sounds more like a proof of concept and once again...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1279
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:47:50 -0600, Jim Polaski And yet....in the comments to the article on the site was found...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1280
You call this the same level of support? From YOUR page at Scribus: "Commercial Support for Scribus Members of the Scribus Team are pleased to announce commercial support for Scribus with the release...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1281
It appears higher than yours, that's for sure. Now, you just might look here, html And a snippet: "Not surprisingly, according to...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1282
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:40:23 -0600, Lloyd Parsons You didn't like Mandrake 9.0? What was...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1283
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:17:51 +0000, George Graves So you say. That's the thing, though: they aren't 'toy' apps. Certainly they bear comparison to...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1284
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 01:12:54 +0000, George Graves I am. They are. Just because you don't rate them, doesn't mean they aren't real, or eminently usable. Yes. Why...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1285
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:19:41 -0600, Jim Polaski It's the definition of Linux desktop apps as toys that bothers me, really. I don't...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1286
Can't you people keep these debates straight? This one isn't about so much. Apparently, what I could glean from...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1287
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 07:04:02 +0000, George Graves GIMP." line above. And, BTW, GIMP is widely used for editing graphics on web...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1288
That's not the point. The point is that these apps are NOT ANYWHERE NEAR AS GOOD AS...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1289
Rick. Set your pro-OSS bias aside for a moment and THINK ABOUT IT. Who (or how many) uses this stuff is NOT an indicator...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1290
Why? Seriously, who cares about XPress these days? Sure, some people are still using it, but the trends are clear. Actually, that's a...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1291
Right. Note that the problem is *not* that there are a few zillion different dialogs for this kind of thing. After all, tastes differ...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1292
To some extent I agree, though I do think that if you had such a system you risk making it hard in offices, computer labs...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1293
Nothing earth shattering was wrong, but it just seemed crude. That's purely a subjective description. It reminded me of Windows for look and feel, and not the latest in Windows either. Also the longest damn...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1294
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:40:19 -0600, Lloyd Parsons Hmm... thinking back, though I wouldn't entirely agree about the Windows look, 9.0s GUI wasn't as advance-looking as 10.1s, though that's to be...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1295
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:12:23 +0000, Kier Ah, but to them, if it has anything remotely resembling the taskbar-start button combo in...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1296
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:09:54 -0600, Liam Slider Haven't really used Audacity, but I really like Blender, despite its being quite difficult to get to grips with...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1297
Slider You were the one who brought up professionals, when you were trying to put words in George's mouth. Here is what George said: # Just spent from last Friday until...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1298
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 07:37:20 -0600, a) Yes you do get free support with downloaded Linux...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1299
But it's not a level of support that most companies want to rely on. That's what you Linux nuts don't seem to get. The world is not full of hobbyists...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1300
TravelinMan Say I have a problem with Apache. I can Google and I can read the mailing lists and forums. Or I can...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1301
Picking up the phone and talking to vendors does *not* bring solutions, because they're no better at this than anyone else is. What's more, if you *do* want them to fix it *after* you've deployed...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1302
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:29:05 GMT, Then you *pay* for support. not gratis, no, libre, yes. Linux has a full spectrum...
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