[rescue] Crosse-Platform Graphic Benchmarks
Gregory Leblanc
gleblanc at linuxweasel.com
Fri May 10 00:50:05 CDT 2002
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 22:42, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:07:36PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
>
> > MIS-spellings, not MIS-uses of a word. MS Word 2.0 for Windows actually
> > had a pretty nice grammar checker that caught these pretty well. I've
> > not found anything comparable, either free or otherwise.
>
> You mean that Word got worse with age?
Yep, that's what I'm saying. Both portions of it got worth as things
progressed; the user interface, and the engine that drives it. I should
dig out my Word 2.0 CD and use Wine, just so that I can remember why I
liked that one better.
> There are a pair of programs, style and diction, for unix that are supposed to
> be pretty good at checking grammar. But, I don't have space on my mail account
> for them. They are on the list of programs to be installed on the colo
> machine. I'm taking a break from configuring it while I finish the semester
> (last exam later this morning).
Whee. We need to get you an account on a functional machine. Hmm,
assuming that Dave's fix works for these drives, I'll have a new mail
server on Monday, with "unlimited" space, essentially (4GB for starters,
8GB trivially added)
Greg
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Portland, Oregon, USA.
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