formats

[Howie]

i was just perusing the site and couldn't find (at a cursory glance) any information as to supported formats for hosted stories. i presume txt with a standard coding (utf-8?) or html are accepted.

 

but actually i wanted to talk about something slightly different.

 

question. what software do you use to write in? or to surf with? or whatever else you do with the computer? operating system?

 

i bring up this topic because software is also a political issue, and i'd be interested in knowing what the people here use. my bet, is that the average person here is politically more liberal in their choice of software than the average computer user is.

 

just to start the ball rolling, and to let you know what sort of freak you're dealing with here:

 

text editor:

kwrite/pico/emacs

 

internet:

firefox

 

other maor bits of software i use pretty much daily:

gcc (programming stuff)

gimp (picture manipulation)

 

operating system:

linux 2.6.15 and also 2.4.31 (laptop)

 

 

edited:-

 

then i of course forgot the most important thing

which formats do you use for text documents?

 

i tend to use

pure text (has the ending txt on windows systems)

html (has the ending htm on windows systems)

rtf

odt (rarely)

Edited January 22, 2006 by Howie

[sumbloke]

i was just perusing the site and couldn't find (at a cursory glance) any information as to supported formats for hosted stories. i presume txt with a standard coding (utf-8?) or html are accepted.

 

but actually i wanted to talk about something slightly different.

 

question. what software do you use to write in? or to surf with? or whatever else you do with the computer? operating system?

 

i bring up this topic because software is also a political issue, and i'd be interested in knowing what the people here use. my bet, is that the average person here is politically more liberal in their choice of software than the average computer user is.

 

just to start the ball rolling, and to let you know what sort of freak you're dealing with here:

 

text editor:

kwrite/pico/emacs

 

internet:

firefox

 

other maor bits of software i use pretty much daily:

gcc (programming stuff)

gimp (picture manipulation)

 

operating system:

linux 2.6.15 and also 2.4.31 (laptop)

edited:-

 

then i of course forgot the most important thing

which formats do you use for text documents?

 

i tend to use

pure text (has the ending txt on windows systems)

html (has the ending htm on windows systems)

rtf

odt (rarely)

 

On laptop:

 

OS: Suse Linux 10

 

WP, spreadsheet, presentation: OpenOffice

Text: emacs

pdf: pdfWriter

browswer: firefox or opera

e-mail, diary: Agenda

programming: php - so just emacs for writing code

images: gimp

 

formats: usually xml or opendoc formats if it's sensible or .txt or proprietary including .doc, .xls etc for ineroperability

 

On desktops and at school:

 

Windows, Office, Dreamweaver, Homesite, VisualStudio, photoshop elements.

[Kay_Derwydd]

text editor:

haven't done much of that lately, but when I do, it's generally just notepad

 

internet:

Internet Explorer

Netscape

 

other major bits of software i use pretty much daily:

artsy:

PSP 9 (Paint Shop Pro)

Photoshop

 

writing:

Word

WordPerfect

Wordpad

 

operating system:

WinXP

 

which formats do you use for text documents?

usually rtf, unless a publisher specifically wants txt or doc

[Dio]

i bring up this topic because software is also a political issue, and i'd be interested in knowing what the people here use. my bet, is that the average person here is politically more liberal in their choice of software than the average computer user is.

 

Software as a political issue? News to me...

 

text editor:

-word

 

internet:

-firefox

 

other major bits of software i use pretty much daily:

-photoshop

-excel

-winamp

-utorrent

...and a whole bunch of protein manipulation proggies too many to list

 

operating system:

-windows xp (Although I've managed to delete most of my hard drive twice through my ignorance, which I've been told is quite an accomplishment)

-Katrina (OK, she's my roomate, but really, she IS my operating system--I'm such a lost cause with computers...)

 

I use .doc unless otherwise requested. It seems fairly common with the people I deal with...

 

-db

[TheZot]

Mmm, software as politics. So very much fun, if you're into that sort of thing. You can't imagine how glad I am I don't have to get involved with that any more.

 

Writing

Word

 

Internet

Camino

Safari

Firefox (Yes, all three, though mainly camino)

 

Operating System

OS X

 

Other stuff

iTunes

gcc

perl

emacs

 

'Course, there is a linux box in the house (the house server), a WinXP box, and a few more Macs. Plus a VAX in the basement, but I don't think it works any more.

 

Yeah, I do use Word to write with. Word on OS X fails to suck rather badly. (Much less so than Word on Windows, which I've always found kind of funny) Change tracking and embedded comments are definitely a nice thing for editing -- beats diff and patch with a big stick.

[Guest fayevalentine]

Writing

Word

 

Internet

Opera

 

Operating System

XP

 

Other stuff

photoshop

winamp

mIRC

soulseek(filesharing program)

MSN messenger

[NickolasJames8]

Writing

Word Pad

 

Internet

IE

AOL

 

Operating System

2000 pro

 

Other stuff

photoshop

winamp

mIRC

Trillian

Yahoo messenger

Real Player

Win Zip

[Iuvart]

Text Editor:

OpenOffice.org Writer

 

Internet:

Opera

Outlook (anyone know a good OS Mail Client?)

Thunderbird

 

Other Software:

Eclipse (programming stuff)

subversion (Repository for programming stuff)

mIRC (gotta stay in touch )

ICQ (same)

Foobar2000 (Music player)

 

Operating System:

Windows XP

 

File Formats

.sxw for text (OO.org Format)

Just noticed they changed the format to .odt in OO.org 2.0

Mainly .java otherwise.

Edited January 24, 2006 by Iuvart

[CoLeYy]

Writing

- Wordpad

- microsoft ( office) depending on what im writing

 

Internet

- Internet explorer

 

 

Operating System

- XP

 

Other stuff

- Aim

- msn messenger

- MIrC

- PSP 8/9 ( paint shop pro)

- photoshop

- itunes

- limewire

- ventrilo

- counter strike

[Lugh]

text editor:

writing tool

openoffice

word

(in that order)

 

internet:

FireFox

(IE when forced)

 

HTML Editor:

arachnophila

composer

 

other major bits of software i use pretty much daily:

keynote

inspiration

MSN messenger

AIM

WordWeb

livejournal client

 

operating system:

XP, although I want linux

 

 

text documents

pure text: .txt

other forms used: .rtf or .doc

 

 

does that help?

ok so where do I lie politically?

just curious...

 

Lugh (who is blue)

[Guest fayevalentine]

Internet:

Opera

Outlook (anyone know a good OS Mail Client?)

 

my bf uses thunderbird and says it's good.

[shadows]

Desktop

 

OS: Ubuntu Linux Breezy Badger

uname -r says it's: 2.6.12-10-386

I'm running the K Desktop Environment (KDE)

Kopete (for chatting)

Kword/OpenOffice/Kwrite/vi (for writing, and editing)

Konsole (Using linux without a konsole is just boring).

Firefox (for webbrowsing)

Amarok (for music)

and a bunch of daemons, ftp, ssh and gnump3d to access my box from anywhere...

 

 

For the Laptop

OSX 10.3.9

NXClient (For accessing the desktop)

Word (Yecch Microsoft)

Adium (Chat)

Camino (Browsing)

Terminal (Again, I like my command line)

 

//shadows

[Wynter]

I use Firefox in XP.

 

Does anyone else have probs displaying certain txt functions?

I find that Dom Lukas Story chapters appear with question marks in place of apostrophes and that never happened when i used IE.

 

Wynter

[TheZot]

Does anyone else have probs displaying certain txt functions?

I find that Dom Lukas Story chapters appear with question marks in place of apostrophes and that never happened when i used IE.

That's usually a font issue. If the document you're reading uses smart quotes or other fancy characters (elipses, em-dashes, and the like) but they're not in the font your browser's using then you'll get that. It also happens if the document's text encoding's incorrect (if it's Latin-1 text but the webserver says it's UTF-8, say) so the browser legitimately confused about some of the characters so throws up its hands and puts out a question mark.

 

I'd check the font you're using by default wiith firefox and make sure it's the same as the one you're using in IE.

[Aeroplane]

XP

 

IE (I can cope with the occasional fit - theres a small button on the front of my case which i use )

 

MSN - all the people i want to talk to are on there, and I did not like Trillian AT ALL.

 

mIRC - Works even when my internet is all but physically disconnected!

 

Skype

 

 

Creative Mediasource

 

Winamp

 

 

Bearshare for filesharing - with spyware removed .

 

 

Word

 

Photoshop/Gimp/Paint depending on how used to doing what i want to do in those programs i am.

 

 

All that and I dont even LIKE Microsoft.

[Wynter]

That's usually a font issue. If the document you're reading uses smart quotes or other fancy characters (elipses, em-dashes, and the like) but they're not in the font your browser's using then you'll get that. It also happens if the document's text encoding's incorrect (if it's Latin-1 text but the webserver says it's UTF-8, say) so the browser legitimately confused about some of the characters so throws up its hands and puts out a question mark.

 

I'd check the font you're using by default wiith firefox and make sure it's the same as the one you're using in IE.

 

Thanks for the help. I checked out the advanced options and made some cahnges so its all working fine.

 

Wynter

[libbonobo]

Home (laptop):

 

OS: Fedora Core 4 Linux, kernel version 2.6.14

office stuff: Open Office (*.doc, *.xls for compatibility at work)

Text: gedit (*.txt)

other document readers: Adobe Reader, kghostview, kdvi

browser: firefox

instant messaging: gaim

images: gimp, I wish there were an illustrator equivalent

programming: gcc

music/video: xmms, xine, mplayer, k3b for ripping/burning

filesharing: aMule, limewire

 

 

Work (desktop):

 

OS: Windows XP

office stuff: Microsoft office, Statview

Text: Notepad, WinEdt for LaTeX stuff

other document readers: Adobe Reader, Ghostview

browser: firefox, internet explorer for the hospital's radiology viewer

instant messaging: gaim

images: photoshop, illustrator

programming: gcc

music/video: winamp, realplayer, mplayer

filesharing: eMule, limewire

[Howie]

XP

 

IE (I can cope with the occasional fit - theres a small button on the front of my case which i use )

 

does IE still have occasional fits? the last time i used it was at university about 10 years ago and it seemed to crash quite regularly.

 

until recently i had an xp installation on one of my computers to do networking stuff, until i replaced the old broken dvd-drive with a new one. now the xp partition doesn't boot. it says something about 'abgesicherter modus' and then stops. i tried fixing it through the linux partition but everything seems to be binary, so that doesn't work. and seeing as i've done a lot of work on this linux partition i don't want to try to reinstall xp.

 

if anyone's interested, i also fired one of my bosses today for sending me work to translate in doc-format. i can understand private people using doc until they discover what it is, but a company has no business using this elitist format.

 

i'm also working on an interesting story (in english this time). i'll upload it if i ever^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H as soon as it's finished

 

howie