Comments on: This week’s interesting tech news http://iloveteh.biz/this-weeks-interesting-tech-news/ Writing for writing's sake Sun, 13 May 2012 03:58:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: mel http://iloveteh.biz/this-weeks-interesting-tech-news/comment-page-1/#comment-624 mel Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:38:28 +0000 http://iloveteh.biz/this-weeks-interesting-tech-news/#comment-624 "Just messing around with LaTeX"? James,you are such a freakin' geek. :) “Just messing around with LaTeX”?

James,you are such a freakin’ geek. :)

]]> By: James Westfall http://iloveteh.biz/this-weeks-interesting-tech-news/comment-page-1/#comment-614 James Westfall Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:38:17 +0000 http://iloveteh.biz/this-weeks-interesting-tech-news/#comment-614 Almost no one, since the inception of commercialized Linux, has done more for UNIX and its derivatives than Apple has in the last 5 years. I strictly state commercial because there are obviously non-profit distros that have done a ton of work in pushing *NIX to everyday users as well. Life is definitely sweeter with CUPS and now that Apple owns CUPS, it'll be even more sweet. I won't be using LaTeX solely as an Office replacement however, I will be giving it a try. I hardly type anything that's not a simple text file so really, it's just me messing around with LaTeX. Almost no one, since the inception of commercialized Linux, has done more for UNIX and its derivatives than Apple has in the last 5 years. I strictly state commercial because there are obviously non-profit distros that have done a ton of work in pushing *NIX to everyday users as well. Life is definitely sweeter with CUPS and now that Apple owns CUPS, it’ll be even more sweet.

I won’t be using LaTeX solely as an Office replacement however, I will be giving it a try. I hardly type anything that’s not a simple text file so really, it’s just me messing around with LaTeX.

]]> By: mel http://iloveteh.biz/this-weeks-interesting-tech-news/comment-page-1/#comment-613 mel Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:25:46 +0000 http://iloveteh.biz/this-weeks-interesting-tech-news/#comment-613 Is anyone doing more to take Unix to the mass market than Apple? I own print testing on my Apple app development team. Life is sweet with CUPS. I'm no big fan of WYSIWYG office suites myself, even though I help develop one, and prefer text editors like TextMate. However, I don't know many people who care that much about typesetting either. LaTeX is no question very good at what it does but the LaTeX as Office alternative seems a bit wack to me. Is anyone doing more to take Unix to the mass market than Apple? I own print testing on my Apple app development team. Life is sweet with CUPS.

I’m no big fan of WYSIWYG office suites myself, even though I help develop one, and prefer text editors like TextMate. However, I don’t know many people who care that much about typesetting either. LaTeX is no question very good at what it does but the LaTeX as Office alternative seems a bit wack to me.

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