I think of the inside of my computer as a battleground.

This is wise thinking!

I use Linux and Macs at home and Linux, AIX, SunOS and Windows NT/2000/2003/2008 at work.

I think every OS sucks. Having worked with Windows for many years, I can say nowadays it's actually fairly stable -- back in the 9x days, it was awful. Although I do loose about one day a month due to shitty Windows issues still. Windows Server 2003 + terminal services is particularly fun - it's a stability clusterfuck.

Seeing as my last three days have involved crazy crashes on a brand new MacPro I think all computers suck donkey ass.

I think of the inside of my computer as a battleground.

But then love is a battle field too. So by the transitive property....

ION, everybody complains about the Win 9.x days, but were those days as bad as the 3.x days? I dunno - I thought 95 was much better than 3.1, and 98 was about the same as 95....

In Outlook 2003, follow-up flags default to 12:00 AM unless you manually change it.

Is there a way to change that setting globally so that (just say) all of my follow-up flags default to 5:00PM?

How much does it cost to replace an LCD screen on a MacBook?

(I slipped on the snow and fell on top of my MacBook. Now there's lots of pretty liquid patterns on half the screen....)

Have you ever considered moving to a less slippery climate, tommy? I'm sorry that gravity is not your friend.

Ouch, tommy.

OK, since this is say something nice about Microsoft day:

I withdraw about half my complaints about the way Word exports to html. If you make sure to use styles properly, meaning absolutely nothing is formatted via the font buttons on the tool bar, and 100% of formatting is done via named styles (either built-in or custom ones you create) it creates a nice CSS based pages, with 100% of formatting handled in CSS. It still uses way too many hard coded font sizes, margins, and table and cell widths. But if you are consistent in your style naming conventions you can modify the definitions one time, and put them in a style sheet. From then on cut out everything inside the style tag in the filtered web page , and replace it with an include statement pointing to the style sheet your created from your first save.

Since I once asked about this problem, and never got a great answer, I'm assuming this is new to somebody.

Quite frankly my word processing history goes back to before styles were in included in word processors. (Actually, it goes back to line editors. Giving away my age here.) So my current document is the first one I've created where I used styles properly, rather than directly applying formatting commands. But honestly, it never occurred to me that if you used styles properly Word would reward you with easy to modify html.

Hope somebody finds this tip useful.

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