Omfg because Word sucks ass. This guy has this document that can be opened, edited, etc. on the PC, but can't be saved on a Mac, in any version of Office for Mac. It's full of ugly equation editor objects, an Autocad document, and a bunch of Excel tables pasted in. Something in all this …
Category Archive: Computing
Apr 18 2005
I suck, but I redeem myself
Yes, yes, I am also Microsoft's bitch. Whatever. I love me some PowerToys, but I'm an idiot and failed to back up my old-school PowerToys this last time I wiped my computer. So things like the handy-dandy ISO burner and the fabulous background switcher were lost to me! Because the latest official PowerToys release does …
Apr 11 2005
Information security
The single largest obstacle to information security is not Microsoft holes, nor spyware, nor viruses. It's people. Stupid people. Recently some 98,000 social security numbers were stolen from UC Berkeley. How? It wasn't hackers. It was some dumbass who left a laptop that had these numbers on its hard drive in an unlocked office. My …
Mar 28 2005
The EU makes asinine rules
So, Microsoft is realeasing a special version of Windows XP for the European Union market, called XP N. The difference between this version and the one we buy here in the U.S. is that N does not come with Windows Media Player preinstalled (N stands for "not with media player," according to MSNBC. Microsoft was …
Mar 04 2005
TeX to MathML Method
With a MikTeX distribution it is now easy to invoke TeX so that what is output is a Firefox-compatible xhtml with MathML. Visit the MathZilla website and download their tweaked version of TeX4ht. Extract the files to c:\tex4ht. The instructions on their site are very helpful. Basically, on my distribution of MikTeX all I had …