On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:16:44PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 02:10:55PM -0700, Cory Myers wrote:
>
> >Whose bright-spark idea was it to use a common HTTP port for a *printer
> >driver*?
>
> Probably someone dealing with the sort of c
New printer; new printer driver. What could go wrong?
Then my local caching proxy stops working.
I restart it. I fiddle with its configuration. I upgrade to the latest
version. No dice.
I happen---just happen!---to need printer drivers for another platform.
So off to hp.com I go.
In the rel
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 02:19:03PM -0600, Eli Naeher wrote:
With Common Application, Many Find a Technical Difficulty in Common, Too
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/education/23college.html
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When he would follow the program’s instructions to execute a “print
preview” of his answers — which
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 07:57:22AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> Because all RSS readers I've tried suck even more than all graphical
> Usenet readers I've tried, and I can't be arsed writing a gateway so I
> can read slashdot using trn.
http://rss2email.infogami.com/
pgpAo1fTqtOMK.pgp
De
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:17:14AM +, Chris Devers wrote:
> The only distinction that matters is whether it's actively maintained
> dreck or abandoned dreck, and the MMDD scheme would answer that
> question implicitly.
Would you then consider TeX (last released in December 2002) abando
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 01:24:41PM +0100, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
> I should add to the list of hateful things about these wifi hotspots:
>
> * Sessions that time out our login after not using it for several minutes
> (such as when you're in the midst of writing an e-mail). Extra bonus
> hat
And try to load that page but don't accept cookies, or you have
JavaScript turned off, you get a two-stage infinite redirect loop.
And, given that said page is on Microsoft's web site, this surprises you? :)
C.
So I wonder: were these "Smart Tags"? The Russian translation called them
"quotes", but something makes me not trust it very much.
No---Smart Quotes are (should be) quotation marks, just remarkably
un-smart ones.
*These* are "Smart" Tags:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA010347451033.a
There is an equivalent option for table cells...somewhere. And
probably only in some versions, with Smart Tags (*shudders*) turned
on.
C.
On 11/7/06, Jeremy Weathers wrote:
This morning I had to use Word to enter some tabular data - most of
the data was all lowercase, but Word insisted on capi
On Oct 3, 2006, at 6:11 PM, Joe Mahoney wrote:
I personally like to be able to organise music by stuff like BPM,
genre, length (which isn't the same as file size) as well as
artist/album/song. I'm not sure how you'd structure a filesystem to
make that easy.
WinFS, anyone?
I wouldn't mind a se
Worse IMHO, is customers/people/boneheads that have switched to
html-only
mail, just so they can force this font upon us, as they like it so
much.
Or those who've switched to HTML-only mail for the purpose of
delighting in formatting goodies. I'm not so miserly as to mind the
waste of ban
Twips aren't meaningless:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twip
They *feel* meaningless. And buggy---it should not be that difficult
to get two lines to overlap.
C.
I tuned out after the first word in the topic. Too easy to hate.
Agreed. Enough so that I use LaTeX, which is also hateful but
vastly---vastly!---less so.
But my clients do not. Low-hanging fruit is still fruit.
C.
It cannot fill in the center of a closed polygon made from line
"AutoShapes."
No paint buckets, apparently. And since PowerPoint---like Visual
Studio---seems to use the absolutely meaningless "twip" as its
preferred unit of measurement, creating *another* polygon, this one
filled, to posi
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