At 03:28 even 9/4/02 +0530, PTellis wrote:

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Q u a s i wrote:

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click, get a presentation done for tomorrow in 20 minutes and go to

powerpoint takes significantly more than 20 minutes to build a presentation. more than a few hours actually. even then the presentation isn't visible on an OHP because the person who built the presentation doesn't understand the difference between a CRT and a projector.

If that comes to that, it is best to use transparencies and OHP marker pens. That is why most of the dear lecturers at NCST do that.

well, I use linux because it works better than anything else I've used, and it looks better than anything else I've used. Yes, I use X a lot when I'm at work, and it's painful to have to use a windows machine after sitting at my system. The widgets look ugly, the colours are terrible, the sharp edges I don't like, and the nasty double-clicking is too much for me. I use Gnome as my DM and Mozilla as my browser.

{grin} we surely have different tastes. But I guess the colours bit is a bit too much dont you think? You can have whatever colours you like, windows or x. In XP you get all sorts of curves too, translucence, shadow, single clicks - all the works. Even getting single clicking to win98 SE is a trivial 5 sec job. Come come Sir, let us be unbiased.

I am not propagating M$ products. I am not saying windows is better overall. All I am saying is dont ignore the good points of M$. As I mentioned earlier, M$ has had no qualms incorporating features swiped from all over the place. What makes windows bearable, too, are some super cool *free* software available for it. Anyway we can sit arguing like this forever. In the end, we get used to and love what we use.

I can watch movies full screen, and if only I could get a pair of speakers in here, I could hear them too (my sound system is configured correctly).

We can watch full screen movies in Windows too. :D And yes I require a pair of speaker to get sound out of windows too. BTW on my P200MMX watching fullscreen movies on Linux was *very* jerky. Ditto windows media player. But Cyberlink player played the same movies super smooth.

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that it has the potential to be ~170 deg K.

hmmm... cool enough to get frostbite. ofcourse, if that's too cool for some people, they could just switch themes, and linux would be hot!

as you know, ice can give you "burns" ... :D So, that 170'K I mentioned is both super cool as well as burning hot - take your pick.

Let me quote William Blake "If the doors of perception were cleansed, all things would appear infinite"

quasi