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Spellbound with the Firefox Web Browser

Posted 04-02-2006 at 10:03 AM by lake

I Really Needed a Spell checker

I've always had a problem with spelling, but luckily it went away with the advent of computer word processing and the wonderful world of integrated spell checkers. But when I started blogging, things changed...and for the worse! While nearly every writer program now has a spell checker, my FireFox (Deer Park V1.5) browser didn't, and believe me, I needed one bad! So when I was in a blog site text entry window, I was really on my own....

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Hello

Posted 04-02-2006 at 07:13 AM by ukch

Hello, and thank you for reading my blog.

My name is Joel, I come from Croydon, UK and am in my second year of studying computer science at Exeter University. I have been a member of LQ for almost 3 years, and have made a total of 10 posts. Let's say I'm not what you would call the most committed member of this site. When bored I read the community bulletins sent out by email, and I happened to be reading one today that mentioned this blog. I thought to myself; "Wow! A blog!...

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SimplyMEPIS: Linux Ready for the Desktop

Posted 04-02-2006 at 06:54 AM by raldz

I made this article in order to encourage those who haven't tried any Linux Distribution yet to get out of their comfort zone and experience the best, easy, and secure life with Linux.

The latest release of SimplyMEPIS is 3.4-3 released last February 9, 2006. MEPIS ranks number five at Distrowatch.com and is one of the most overlooked Linux distribution. Why overlooked? Well, from my arsenal of different Linux flavors, this distribution is yet the easiest that I found. From installation...

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Hello , here i am

Posted 04-02-2006 at 06:34 AM by geletine

This is my first attempt at a blog, its nothing special , when is anything good at first?
In time I may add diary entries, until then its just whatever comes to mind..

April fools was yesterday, i fell for the amorak 1.4 trick, i thought the windows version was funny, I believe it removes itunes, windows media player and winamp, anyone who has actually tried can e-mail me if they like, i don't have a a windows box. Amarok is a kde only application, and they size of the tarball...

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Mahjongg builder bash script using imagemagick

Posted 04-02-2006 at 06:23 AM by rednuht

I have created a script and accompanying web page for taking images and munging them into a new Mahjongg tileset.
(Gnome Mahjongg which most people have installed with linux games)
http://www.jumpstation.co.uk/scripts/mahjongg_builder/

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