Monthly Archives: December 2002

Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | J.R.R. Tolkien — enemy of progress

A few ‘small’ things that would make a huge difference to a Linux desktop. Found this via Google.

Mathew posted some hints on configuring Open Office. He has a couple of good points, but I haven’t decided if I agree with point 5 yet. I like to see my bullet points shaded as the default bullet is quite small and can be mistaken for a full stop (AFAIR).
My Dad didn’t like the page boundary around each page, but after using Word 97 here at work I found it infuriating trying to find the first line of a page. I usually backspaced through too many lines by 1 or 2 lines.

How to Ruin American Enterprise – Not just in the USA…

Interview with a Kernel Hacker, Robert M. Love.

Vanishing Features of the 2.6 Kernel – it’s not all bad, the in-kernel web server is now a user-mode program for instance.

NEW HYPOTHESIS OF THE TUNGUSKA EXPLOSION – it may not have been a comet.

This would be handy if I had a laptop to play MP3s in the car with..

Scott on open source and India.