Posted on 10/20/2005 7:06:32 AM PDT by decimon
I can't get any DSL or cable modem service where I am. Not really in the boondocks but not near enough to whatever you need be near.
ouch
Thing is, does anyone know by chance if there's a Slackware TGZ or a Slax .mo available?
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Spelling is great, no grammar checker.
I should point out that the grammar checking on the Microsoft products is not worth the powder to blow it to hell.
I rejected OpenOffice out of hand in an earlier version because it did not have "on-the-fly" spell correction. But OOorg has had it since 1.1 as far as I recall.
When one is writing fiction, it is handy to tell AutoCorrect to automatically change any occurrence of xg to Giselle, or xp to Pascal, for example. Who wants to keep typing Arromanches when the word processor can be easily trained to substitute every occurence of xa with Arromanches, on the fly?
Great feature!
If you really want broadband, a friend a couple miles away with DSL or cable could feed you with directional wireless. You can make the antennas at home real cheap.
Mostly ringed with hills. No TV antennas on my block. Some sort of broadband will come in time.
In the wrong hands, autocorrect can be evil.
One computer at our student paper had common words flagged, so they automatically became obscenities. It was funny until someone turned in a story that they didn't fix.
I've heard of such things. That's just ice-cold evil.
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