Ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML....

[Heather Souter]

Wahwaa!  Misheet l'iinformasyoñ!  Kihchi-maarsii!  Wow!  Lots of
information!  Thanks!

Eekoshi pitamaa. That's it for now.
Heather

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Aidan Wilson <aidan at usyd.edu.au> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> 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 (http://ubuntuforums.org/) 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://chat.freenode.net/#ubuntu - 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> -Aidan Wilson
>
> --
> Aidan Wilson
>
> The University of Sydney
> +612 9036 9558
> +61428 458 969
> aidan.wilson at usyd.edu.au
>
>
>
> On Mon, 10 May 2010, s.t. bischoff wrote:
>
>  Hi Heather,
>>
>> w3schools might be a good place to start with XML. You'll find useful
>> tutorials and other resources, and it's
>> free. In terms of linux, I've been using Ubuntu for about five years with
>> no problems, no Microsoft, and no
>> viruses.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Shannon
>>
>> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Heather Souter <hsouter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>      Taanshi,
>>
>>      Well,  I am finally ready to take the plunge into Linux and XML....
>>      I would like to know what the list suggests I read to get a better
>> idea of what Linux (Ubuntu?)
>>      is all about.  I have a MacBook Pro and purchased a partitioning
>> program (Parallels) with at the
>>      same time.  I  have been thinking about putting a Windows OS on it
>> but now I am thinking that
>>      perhaps I should put a Linux distribution instead....  One of the
>> main reasons I have wanted to
>>      put a Windows OS is to be able to use some software (propriety and
>> open source) I can't use (or
>>      at least don't think I can, LOL!) on my Mac....
>>      I also want to know if anyone knows of a good "dummies introduction
>> to XML for
>>      non-computer-oriented community-linguist types"?  I want to learn
>> about it now that I don't feel
>>      as if I am having an allergic reaction at the mere mention of any
>> kind of computer programming!
>>      LOL!
>>
>>      Well, I look forward to your suggestions....
>>
>>      Eekoshi pitamaa.
>>      Heather
>>
>>
>>
>>
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