[geeks] Now what am I supposed to do with this?

[Big Endian]

>On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Big Endian wrote:
>
>>  MP3s on the U10?  75 gigs is nothing to sneeze at, even if it is IDE.
>
>If the fscking SunPCI could use > 2 GB partitions, -and- didn't coredump
>when I run it across the network via X, I'd have dumped my PC a long time
>ago for the few apps that I do need under Windows (I think I've narrowed
>that down to "AutoCAD", but only because I want to learn it).

I've narrowed it down to "games", but if I"m not playing the PC stays off.

>  > How hard is doing word processing in LaTeX?  For those of us used to
>>  things like Claris/Appleworks?
>
>It's a completely different way of working.  It's like old-school HTML or
>SGML, where you specify the construction of a document (this is the
>beginning of a chapter, this is a cross-reference to here, this is a
>bulleted-list, etc) rather than the formatting (indent here, bold, and
>take the font up 3 points).

Ahh... that'll take some getting used to.

>Plus, there's "math mode", which is something you don't have anywhere
>else.  I've heard that Scientific Word comes close, but really, math mode
>makes the MS Office "Equation Editor" look like the set of spiked
>thumbscrews that it is.

Not a big math geek, so that doesn't do much for me.

>The downside is that it takes a while to let loose of those DPW tendencies
>that Word and Appleworks enforce in us.  The upside is that, when you do,
>LaTeX produces -beautiful- documents, -and- you get all the benefits of
>automagic cross-referencing and bibliographies.

That would be nice to have that stuff, but it'll take a while to get 
used to it.

>  > I've been trying to make my PC obsolete for 2 years now, I'm almost there.
>
>I keep trying, but I keep coming back for the games.  How much damned CPU
>do I need to emulate an SNES?  snes9x -kills- the Octane.

really? WTF?  snes9x doesn't have any problems on my powerbook (500 pismo).

daniel
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