[Gllug] Off Topic Not a Plug

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 3 Oct 2001, Xander D Harkness wrote:
>> Hmma. I've seen some good things done in Flash, but not one of them
>> was a Web site.
>errrm http://www.linux.co.uk/flash/
>No comment as to its benefits - just that it does exist!

That's a Web site, but it's not a good thing; it's a vile replacement
for a nice text menu.

>I then went to download some specs of the monitors, Oh good, a pdf (the 
>latest Mozilla build auto launches xpdf which I think is a good default 
>setting).  Well I was outraged to see that the had broken the 
>portability of the PDFs by sticking them in a .exe!

Obviously they shouldn't do this, but _if_ these are self-extracting
ZIP files, you can in fact just unzip them with 'unzip'.

>I will now be searching the Gllug archives as I remember there being a 
>discussion on monitors and which people recommend.

I have a nice Viewsonic 19" job at home.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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