Open Office doesn't allow you to select hard carriage returns, for instance--they're not recognize the same way Word does.

Suela, what's the exact s&r clean up you do? I was able to get it to find and replace paragraph tags using regular expressions ($), though it took me a couple passes to nuke them all. ETA: [link]

3D effects with Beryl on Linux are kinda cool.

A video somebody made: [link]

Apparently they really like the cube thing. It does make switching between virtual desktops pretty cool, but I'm not sure about the functionality of just moving it around.

OMG, Plei, thank you! I looked and looked for that, and was utterly lost in the help files, there was nothing there.

I was doing some cludgy html prep, adding br to every paragraph break to keep the formatting when I dropped the story into my standard page setup. t defensive I don't know any other way to do it, and I'm sure there's a better way, but this works fine and it's simple and the page loads fine and I don't really care if it's the cleanest code ever. t /defensive

De nada!

I knew it had to be in there somewhere, but their documentation is a sad, sad thing. I'll have to use it, too, when I get back into the groove of moving all my fic into WordPress.

Were you using OO to format your files for recal? I thought you were using a different program.

Also, when I moved everything to WP, I went to my website and just copy and pasted all the test into the text box. Easier for me than wading through coding, since WP does it for you all over again.

Random question: Does it matter if I turn my computer off or not? It's a laptop that goes into snooze mode or whatever.

I don't know.

Sorry, for a long time I've been tempted to 'answer' a Buffistech question that way. And actually, that question has crossed my mind recently, as my iBook was not allowed to sleep (it would crash when it woke up) but my MacBook sleeps without a problem. So I pretty much only reboot it when it needs to be (updates, etc).

Um, there's still no point for this post, is there?

I do remember hearing that you reduce the life of some of the components by powering on and off. How this rates against the reduction in life of other components, I couldn't tell you.

Boy, we're helpful today.

I've heard that continually plugging the computer into the power source weakens the battery. Which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with turning it on or off. But it shouldn't matter--as my old boss used to say, they were designed to be kept on for essentially ever, so there's no point in turning them off. I usually find the performance is better if I leave it off for a day after a week or two of continual on-ness.

I only turn off tthis computer when we are away for more than a weekend or if there is a reason that I am going to shut off the in this part of the house ( as in today - when we shut off the power to put in a dimmer switch)