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Comment on Capitalization of Fantasy Race Names by Rhiannon

Rhiannon — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:26:39 +0000

Thank you so much for this! I have always been confused when it comes to writing the names of my species, as I typically prefer to use common nouns (which makes it even harder to decide). I feel more confident now. I only hope my lecturers agree (haha!).

Comment on Capitalization of Fantasy Race Names by George

George — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:20:21 +0000

Wow is all I can say. I seriously did not expect to find such a thorough, detailed analysis of a fundamental problem I was having while writing. Though it was written a while back, I feel the need to say thank you for your hard work and critical analysis. The work you did will be of great use to me and many others.

Comment on Capitalization of Fantasy Race Names by KaAnna

KaAnna — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:45:44 +0000

Brilliant article. I love how detailed you went into it and also provided a summary/guidelines at the end. This will be bookmarked for life! <3 Thank you!

Comment on Ubuntu Unity vs Gnome Shell by M.W.Chase

M.W.Chase — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:29:49 +0000

Thanks for the comment! By the way, you can just hit the “windows” key on the keyboard (also called the Super key) to bring up Activities. Or use Alt-Tab to go through active programs as normal.

Comment on Ubuntu Unity vs Gnome Shell by Vladimir

Vladimir — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:58:51 +0000

I have tried the Gnome shell, but I felt like a screen wiper moving frequently with the mouse pointer from upper left corner to the right side previews.

Comment on Ubuntu Unity vs Gnome Shell by Richard Mart

Richard Mart — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:57:04 +0000

I couldn’t agree with you more and i thank you for this post.
It made me try gnome shell again on a new Oneiric desktop. Thanks to Gnome Shell i’m ready to switch back from Linux Mint to Ubuntu.
Like you said there’s no doubt it my mind Ubuntu would be better off with Gnome Shell. Not only does it look much better but i find it more usable. I particularly like the extensions that allow power users to get more of the classic functionality and i’m a huge fan of the new workspace system.

Comment on End of an Era by Barnhard Blog » Nasa’s Direction 2011

Barnhard Blog » Nasa’s Direction 2011 — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 05:29:31 +0000

[...] or this weekend, the last space shuttle flight will commence.There are many (much emotional goodbyes going around). However, there is plenty of reasons to stop. For example the space shuttle was too [...]

Comment on Just Another Day in Paradise by Dad

Dad — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:56:37 +0000

Wow, Mark, you and Tina are adventurers! Your commentary is rich in details and important stuff. The photos are awesome!
This narrative seems to be suited for a travel magazine, especially with the photos. Did you consider sending it to a publisher, even National Geographic maybe!!!

We love you!

Comment on Tron: Legacy — Awesomeness Reborn by Jay

Jay — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:10:30 +0000

The soundtrack is on sale at Amazon today for $5! (digital version of course)

Comment on OpenOffice.org -> LibreOffice, oh my… by Gary Cota

Gary Cota — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:09:05 +0000

I was wondering why OOo hasn’t had any updates recently…

It took me months to talk management into using OOo as an alternative to MS Office. I finally got permission to being a pilot program on a couple of dozen workstations. I had even purchased OpenOffice Enterprise in order to manage the OOo through Active Directory. Unfortunately converting more PCs to OOo will now be more difficult because of this news.

I totally agree with you. The split could weaken both OOo and LibreOffice and potentially drive end-users back to MS Office. From a technical perspective OpenOffice is a very stable product. And with Sun backing OOo, management had a big company for name recognition. Ditto with Oracle but Microsoft groupies will surely use the break up to strengthen their argument for continuing the use of MS Office in the corporate environment.