Wahwaa! Misheet l'iinformasyoñ! Kihchi-maarsii! Wow! Lots of information! Thanks!<br><br>Eekoshi pitamaa. That's it for now.<br>Heather<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Aidan Wilson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aidan@usyd.edu.au">aidan@usyd.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Heather, as a linux convert of some 4 years ago, and as a former Windows slave, I fully recommend upgrading to Ubuntu. The amount of control over how your computer operates is wonderful - you'll find that you can make it do what you want it to do, how you want it to do it, as opposed to Windows doing what it thinks you want to do, and doing it however it likes.<br>
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However I would warn that there can, nay, will be difficult times when you need to configure something somewhere to fix some serious issue (such as an external wi-fi card not being supported immediately, or flash not working unless you manually download and install it from Adobe). It will require you to perform some actions in the terminal (Unix version of cmd).<br>
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But on the plus side, there is a huge support community of volunteers who are always willing to help out Windows apostates. Firstly there are the Ubuntu Forums (<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/</a>) where you will likely get timely advice, or if you're familiar with chatrooms, there's the #ubuntu channel on the freenode IRC server (irc://<a href="http://chat.freenode.net/#ubuntu" target="_blank">chat.freenode.net/#ubuntu</a> - needs an IRC client, like ircle on a mac or babbel on both mac and windows). Here, there are probably hundreds of users who tend to answer questions very quickly.<br>
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I'd also suggest, if you want to keep windows, to run a dual-boot. The configuration I had, which worked extraordinarily well for 3 years, was to take my laptop hard drive and partition it into three drives, one for data and the other two for the two operating systems, linux and windows. Both can communicate with the data partition equally well, so the net effect is that you can simply reboot in windows and go back to the file you were just working on in linux and open it in a windows program. However this configuration takes quite some setting up.<br>
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As for XML, you really should get a license for Oxygen, an XML editor. It won't teach you about xml, W3schools is excellent for that, but it will allow you to edit XML files without breaking the very delicate structure, as it validates as you type, and produces errors and red squiggly lines under ill-formed chunks.<br>
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On Mon, 10 May 2010, s.t. bischoff wrote:<br>
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Hi Heather,<br>
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w3schools might be a good place to start with XML. You'll find useful tutorials and other resources, and it's<br>
free. In terms of linux, I've been using Ubuntu for about five years with no problems, no Microsoft, and no<br>
viruses.<br>
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Good luck,<br>
Shannon<br>
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On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Heather Souter <<a href="mailto:hsouter@gmail.com" target="_blank">hsouter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
Taanshi,<br>
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Well, I am finally ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML.... <br>
I would like to know what the list suggests I read to get a better idea of what Linux (Ubuntu?)<br>
is all about. I have a MacBook Pro and purchased a partitioning program (Parallels) with at the<br>
same time. I have been thinking about putting a Windows OS on it but now I am thinking that<br>
perhaps I should put a Linux distribution instead.... One of the main reasons I have wanted to<br>
put a Windows OS is to be able to use some software (propriety and open source) I can't use (or<br>
at least don't think I can, LOL!) on my Mac.... <br>
I also want to know if anyone knows of a good "dummies introduction to XML for<br>
non-computer-oriented community-linguist types"? I want to learn about it now that I don't feel<br>
as if I am having an allergic reaction at the mere mention of any kind of computer programming!<br>
LOL!<br>
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Well, I look forward to your suggestions....<br>
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Eekoshi pitamaa.<br>
Heather<br>
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