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Comments are now on the Team Blog!

M-Saunders — Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:53 am

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:53 am

This subforum was set up before the LXF Team Blog had a comment system, but it's no longer used and now kept for posterity -- post your comments on www.linuxformat.co.uk/blog/!

M

LXF should do a piece on OpenOffice 3 BASE

Rhakios — Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:19 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:19 pm

I search in vain for anything about Ooo3 in the LXF blog...

Eee pc : switching for Mandriva Flash 2008 Spring

M-Saunders — Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:17 pm

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:17 pm

Hi Bruno,

This thread would be better off in the Magazine or Hardware forums -- let me know that you've seen my reply and I'll move it.

As for Mandriva, it looks like you can extract the contents of the CD ISO, put them onto a USB key and make the key bootable -- see this tutorial:

http://lordikc.free.fr/wordpress/?p=63#comments

(The first comment is the English translation.)

Mike

Anniversary

jjmac — Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:13 pm

Author: jjmac

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:13 pm

(grin)

It's a bit like, a long term educational process in a way.
A person just can not trust in their sensories.
It reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode i saw once, about a space flight simulator in a fair ground.
Delusion becomes normal and only the insane can truly see (wild_cackle.png).

Notice the way in which people who over train, such as athletes, can become so sensitive to illness. Like, distance runners and Multiple Sclerosis events. I'm thinking here specifically, of the .au runner 'Betty Cuthbert'.

Incidently, i smoke, and currently have a very worrying throat situation developing at the moment (damn it).

I think habit will often tend to over-ride sense, which just goes to display its' power.

I wonder, does this somehow relate to MS's currently ongoing 'Lets do something nice for the 3rd worlds kids' initiative

hmmm, time for another ciggy, i </cough> think.

jm

Fdupes vs. whitespaces problem!

Toallpointswest — Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:33 pm

Author: Toallpointswest

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:33 pm

Tried it on another directory, and I have the file list I expected, so I'll try it again.

EDIT: Okay tried it again and, it creates a listing of file names, with a blank line in between each line. I think that the error I'm seeing is rm trying to delete that blank line, as when I re-run fdupes on that directory it finds no dupes, so it is working.

Music-Linux Rocks, Windows Sucks

towy71 — Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:56 am

Author: towy71

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:56 am

Aye there is a fair amount of mild swearing, but no more than when I have to use Windows

Things I don't understand

Nigel — Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:53 am

Author: Nigel

Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:53 am

Well, from an adult perspective I can see where you're coming from re the MacDungheap cash register.

However... young kids love playing "shop"; it's a good way to practice handling money, giving change etc. My daughter used to love her Barbie "talking" cash register, although it drove us up the wall.

The target age group (3+) won't care about the future implications - at that age the burger bar is a fascinating place. And by the time they realise what working there is really all about they will have long since trashed/lost/given away the toy.

Spamming the blog

M-Saunders — Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:32 am

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:32 am

Yeah, I've cleaned it up. We have a filtering system in place and, by the looks of the comment moderation queue, that catches most of it.

M

Comments integrated with blog

M-Saunders — Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:43 pm

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:43 pm

Lo all,

On the LXF Team Blog, you can now post comments in the entries themselves, rather than having to post here. Originally we linked comments to these forums to avoid spam, but we're giving anonymous blog commenting a trial run. I've put some common spam words into the blacklist -- we'll see how it works out.

So please feel free to comment in the blog:

http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/blog/

Mike

N-Joypad looks cool

M-Saunders — Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:41 am

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:41 am

Wahoo! VR was tops. I do have a Mega Drive, although it's been at a friend's house up north for about five years. Must get it back to play Hard Drivin' and Dragon's Revenge...

M

Orange Squash

marco — Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:51 pm

Author: marco

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:51 pm

It's really funny that Szilvi drank pure orange squash. Especially since it happened to me, as well:

When I first arrived in Britain, on my first working day I went to the next supermarket and bought some "orange juice". It was a really horrible juice - extremely sweet - but I bravely finished the whole bottle.

After a while one of my new colleagues asked me if I drank the whole bottle without water, because he could not see a water bottle on my desk. Once he finished laughing (took quite a while) he explained to me how to use squash correctly...

This will NEVER happen to me again

Why learn assembler ?

jjmac — Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:12 pm

Author: jjmac

Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:12 pm

>>
glad I had the chance to do it, never want to go there again
>>

, I used to really like pulling machinery apart. Now i would be inclind to hide out somewhere. (grin).

I think i felt the most excitement, when i was first learning BASIC, rather than anything else. But i wont be blaming my own boredom for to much, i think

jm

My exciting morning in the photostudio

Steogede — Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:22 am

Author: Steogede

Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:22 am

evilnick wrote:

I think they must mean the gardening channel.

The feature should be in LXF84, if I finish writing it by tomorrow

I always imagine you must have a very difficult job. Having to tear yourself away from playing with the toys for long enough to write about them

I�m really, really good at this game:

M-Saunders — Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:26 am

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:26 am

Pfft! Just wait 'til I challenge him at MikeOS Kart -- the best game for MikeOS!

M

MikeOS

GMorgan — Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:34 pm

Author: GMorgan

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:34 pm

You should see if you can get to version 13 before the HURD gets released.