Re: [lopsa-discuss] facebook

2009-02-09 Thread C.M. Connelly
"ES" == Etaoin Shrdlu ES> Reddit isn't really the same thing, though. Besides, ES> almost everyone I know is on Twitter. I don't know too ES> many folk that are on reddit, or care much about ES> it. Rather like Tribe, and Orkut, and so many others that ES> have fallen by the w

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Red Hat vs CentOS

2009-07-31 Thread C.M. Connelly
It's fair to say that if you're considering CentOS, you should compare it with other major distros and not just the paid RHEL product. But I think it's a bit unfair to limit its value only to those wanting compatibility with RHEL. We run CentOS with supplemental packages from EPEL and RPMForge p

[lopsa-discuss] E-Mail and Calendar Comparisons

2009-11-20 Thread C.M. Connelly
I've spent some time looking for a comparison chart showing features for various e-mail and calendaring servers and services, and am coming up short (I can find charts for *clients*, but not servers or web services). Does any know of such a resource? [Background: I'm on a task force that's looki

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Chrome Download Creepiness anyone?

2009-12-18 Thread C.M. Connelly
When I tried to install Chrome today (from www.google.com/chrome/ in Firefox on Windows XP), it 1. Gave me a button to click to download the installer; 2. Took me to a page with a EULA to agree to, and a ``Download and Install'' button; 3. Took me to another page with installatio

Re: [lopsa-discuss] books about technical writing

2010-01-04 Thread C.M. Connelly
Lyn Dupre's _BUGS in Writing_ is a really nice book about developing your ``ear'' for good writing by providing lots of examples (classified as ``Bad'', ``Ugly'', ``Good'', or ``Splendid''; hence BUGS) instead of a bunch of abstract rules. It has a lot of short chapters covering different topics,

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to improve documentation habits (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-19 Thread C.M. Connelly
"JJ" == Johnson, Jonathon W Mr CTR USA TRADOC USA JJ> And as already mentioned, Word adds in A LOT of JJ> other code. I've had reasonable luck in using Mac OS X's TextEdit to do cleaner conversions to HTML. TextEdit can open Word docs nativelyy, and save as HTML. You can specify the d