2010/1/22-30 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:53655 Activity:high | 1/22 looking to buy a new development laptop
needs ssdrive, >6 hr possible batt life, and runs linux reasonably
Anyone have a recommendation? Thx.
\_ thinkpad t23 w ssdrive and battery inplace of drive bay
\_ Ever wondered what RICHARD STALLMAN uses for a laptop? Well,
wonder no more!
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2009/7/24-29 [Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:53195 Activity:low | 7/24 Is dos2unix available somewhere? Someone added all those Ctrl-M's to
motd.public.
\_ %s/^V^M//g in vim. What has your editor done for you today?
\_ that works great in vi actually... in vim :set filetype=unix
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2009/2/28-3/11 [Computer/SW/Compilers] UID:52661 Activity:nil | 2/28 I'm looking for a recommendation of a compiler/IDE to use to
develop C/C++ code under Linux. In school, we used jove/gcc and
I still use emacs/vi and gcc to this day. However, it is really
lacking. Under Windows I tried Visual Studio and there were some
really nice things about it, although it was so overwhelming that
after 6 months of occasional use I still didn't really know what I
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2008/9/22-24 [Science/Electric, Computer/Companies/Google, Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:51263 Activity:kinda low | 9/22 Gmail's "conversation feature" drives me nuts! Is there a way to
disable that and make Gmail act like every other e-mail client on the
planet? WTF thought this was a nice thing to have on by default?
\_ Umm, why don't you just use another email service then...
\_ Umm, I do, which is how I have something to compare to. I get
mail in at least 4 places only one of which is Gmail. I
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2008/6/12-13 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/Editors/Vi, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:50233 Activity:nil | 6/12 Does emacs or vi include a column paste? I sometimes have a block
text I want to insert horizntally next to another block/column. This
is common for data plotting etc. In Microsoft Word has this, I need
it in a Unix text editor.
\_ Does M-x picture-mode in emacs work for you?
\_ Yes, with the commands below, thanks.
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2009/8/27-9/9 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:53304 Activity:nil | 8/26 Any suggestions on a good OCR program for either OS X or Windows that
will work on scanned documents outputted to pdf? Preferably free?
Thanks, scottyg
\_ Check Abbyy or Scansoft. Not free.
\_ Thanks...I think I'd prefer a free or opensource piece of
software unless there is a huge difference in quality. I
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2006/10/10-12 [Computer/HW/Printer] UID:44752 Activity:kinda low | 10/10 Any reccomendations for a cheap monochrome laser printer? Network
not needed. A decent-size starter toner cartridge would be nice.
\_ I got a used HP 2200D off craigslist for $250 or so. It's
great, it does postscript and prints on both sides of the
paper, which is nice. Speed is not too bad. -phr
\_ I recently bought a Samsung 3051n from Newegg for $200 ($250
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2006/9/26-27 [Computer/SW/Apps] UID:44550 Activity:nil | 9/26 Is there a way to strip away parts of a pdf document in order to
keep just one part of it, without buying Adobe Acrobat? Thanks.
\_ convert to postscript, start editing with $EDITOR
\_ unlicensed copying of Acrobat
\_ Depending on the document and what you're trying to save, you
may be able to select the text and copy and paste. -tom
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2006/6/7-9 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:43316 Activity:nil | 6/7 What, if any, is the best way to "convert" a PDF document to either
a text file or a Word document? I tried copying/pasting the text
(after highlighting it), but the document formatting is lost. I can
manually enter carriage returns, but it's a long document (~50 pages)
The entire document is just paragraphs of text. This is on a OS X
machine. Thanks.
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2006/1/30-2/1 [Computer/SW/Database, Computer/SW/Apps] UID:41603 Activity:nil | 1/30 What is an easy and free way to extract about 40 pages from a 180 page
pdf document, so that I end up with one 40 page .pdf file and one
140 page .pdf file? I only need to do this once, so if there's
some business that'll do this, I'd pay for it, but I don't want to
buy software to only do it once. I have Acrobat Professional, but I
can't figure out how to use that to do this.
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2005/11/21-23 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:40679 Activity:moderate | 11/21 I've noticed that the OS X Terminal.app and xterm etc are all
slower than xterm / rxvt on Linux/x86. Even a 500 MHz P2 has
quicker response than a 1.33 Ghz G4 when you are logged
into a server via SSH. I'm wondering what could be the cause
of this lag. Is it something that can be adjusted? I find the
sluggishness the only think holding me back from using a Mac
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2005/9/8-10 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:39575 Activity:nil | 9/8 Is there a better Windows ghostscript front-end than GSview? What do
you use to view PostScript on Windows?
\_ Not really. The usual method is to convert to PDF using distiller
and view it using Acrobat Reader.
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