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Comment on R.I.P. - Windows XP by Troy

Troy — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:43:36 +0000

I’m fairly new to Ubuntu (6 months or so), I really like the idea of getting away from Windows, but I can’t seem to figure out the font rendering correctly, I’ve tried lots of little fixes, but still have fuzzy letters. Everytime I use Ubuntu for more than an hour or so, my eyes really start to hurt, and this is keeping me from using it all the time.

Comment on Ubuntu vs. Vista: a comparison for the XP upgrader by Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:01:32 +0000

Good write-up.

Comment on If you love me, buy my book! by Carrie

Carrie — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:53:00 +0000

i hope i was the first to buy your book! it comes sometime in november to my apartment i’m excited!! haha

Comment on R.I.P. - Windows XP, Part 2 by Gary

Gary — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:47:19 +0000

I loved the article, the follow up and your responses to the other commenters. It’s your computer, your time and your effort. Do exactly what you want with it!

Comment on OpenOffice.org is ALMOST perfect for writing a novel by Olaf Nöhring

Olaf Nöhring — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:27:34 +0000

Hi again

well, you could also have created a new “page style”. On that page you would not show footer and header. Assign this style to the page you needed these settings - done? Done (at least in the setting that’s in my mind)!

The page style i also needed for landscape / porait changes etc.

Olaf

Comment on OpenOffice.org is ALMOST perfect for writing a novel by Tanner

Tanner — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:05:41 +0000

Olaf-

Thanks for the comment, and yes - your suggestion is *almost* perfect. The reason I didn’t use that method is because I needed to convert my (very long) document to PDF, and I wasn’t allowed to have any images present in the final PDF. Even though the images covering the page numbers would have been completely white, my understanding is that they would have been included in the final PDF.

However, for a regular document, your suggestion is excellent.

Comment on OpenOffice.org is ALMOST perfect for writing a novel by Olaf Nöhring

Olaf Nöhring — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:27:01 +0000

well, I really like OO too and have written 4 papers (economics, math, 2 teaching) with it. I know there are some problems when it comes down to “very specific” whishes. I really use styles a lot and wherever possible - even in short documents.
For your problem a solution seemd to me quite obvious (as a workaround):
Just place a white square over pageheader and -footer. Didnt this work for you?

Olaf

Comment on R.I.P. - Windows XP by lucas

lucas — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:25:15 +0000

if your xp boots in 5minutes then you have a lot of crap installed. mine boots in 20seconds! on 3 year old notebook.

Comment on R.I.P. - Windows XP by tyler

tyler — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:43:33 +0000

I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who has switched. I’ve been using Ubuntu exclusively on my Dell laptop for about 6 months and it’s been pretty great. I do not miss XP at all.

Comment on R.I.P. - Windows XP by The Cheat

The Cheat — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:38:21 +0000

Ive been trying to switch for almost a week now but i can’t get my friggin display driver to work, im running an nvidia 9500gs with dvi ti hdmi to my 1080p tv, (tried vga to no avail) and im still running in 800×400 resolution… i really want to get rid of vista but this stupid display driver thing is killing me.