And so my quest for a working desktop just took a step forward. I've got a pure KDE4 install by taking a commandline only ubuntu box, and aptituding my way to KDE4 + all the apps that I use (and none of the *buntu*-desktop bundles crap that I don't use). Seems to be working really well. There are some nice dark themes for KDE4 that work out of the box, and Phonon is simply awesome. I now have the sound from 'notifications' and the like going to the little speakers in my monitors via the Azalia card, leaving my M-Audio card for Jack to manage. The result?
usability
Adventures in 800x480land
So my Eee arrived. The first thing I noticed was the number of websites that don't go narrow enough. Myself included. A quick change two colums here and all my sites now work. I've come to the conclustion that a lot of popular sites have serious TMI issues. Of course the worst offenders are MySpaz and Facebook, and beyond pretending to be social, I've had no trouble.
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A labour of tech
Several years ago I took it upon myself to bring my mother at least into the 90s. And now it's coming back to bite me. The current challenge is to find a laptop. A laptop for the sole purpose of Powerpoint. And we wander into the idiocy of consumer hardware and the complete failure of countless software engineers to adapt.
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It's what I mean....
The endless headache:
My pages looks different to how it was in [Word/TinyMCE/Xinha]
Since the dawn of word processing, the temptation is to treat an editor like a typewriter and arrange the appearance of the text to match the meaning you are trying to convey.
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