[OT] flash for Firefox (64-bit jaunty)?

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 14:15 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
> Donn wrote:
> > On Sunday, 24 May 2009 07:29:38 Goh Lip wrote:
> >> BTW, when you prepare pdf's for submission to Lulu, what program did you
> >> use? Any good replacement for Acrobat (not reader) in Linux? For
> >> publishing, seems unavoidable to use Mac (or windows now, but not as good)?
> > I published some poetry a few years ago. I used Lyx. I created the cover in 
> > Inkscape and made the PDF of the cover in Scribus. I submitted the book as a 
> > ps (postscript) file and let Lulu convert it. This was advised at the time.
> 
> 
> Thanks Donn, yes, we could let lulu handle everything but it may not 
> turn out the way we want it exactly. Also, we can let those publishing 
> guys do it (usually on macs), charges not expensive now, check it 
> ourselves before submitting.
> 
> Permit me a small frivolous rant. That is how I think Microsoft got 
> Apple by the balls when they gave money to apple. Microsoft gets 
> everybody by the balls. Microsoft, by being micro and soft, needs 
> everybody else's balls. Now there's steve BALLmer, what more can I add?

You know that Bob Young (of Red Hat Fame) when he retired set up Lulu.
He's a heckuva guy personally. He was always for the users. The "Boxed
Set" wasn't dropped until after he left. I think his premise was that to
earn the hearts and minds of the new users, you could then count on a
degree of loyalty after they become the next-gen admins. I think that
Mark Shuttleworth understands that thinking far better than that Fedora
effort RedHat has now. Me, I just want stuff to work, so I can do my
work and contribute something back, by paying forward. Too many desktop
surprises interferes with that process.  
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