On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 01:44:43AM +0800, Orlando Andico wrote: > lifestyle techies? wazzat? people who watch that gadget show on TV?
i confess, i watch TechTV whenever my wife and son aren't watching. ;) > akala ko lahat tayo dito lifestyle techies of a sort. admit it! all of you > have spent more than your share of loot on techie devices!! :) i think that after spending enough of my loot on toys that break down after being dropped many times, i'll stick to spending my moolah on stuff that i can be certain has an MTBF of at least 3 years. > besides rolling your own goodies based on mini-ITX or whatnot, you end > up with an ugly looking box. :P which is fine if the ugly looking box does stuff that nothing else that can be bought off-the-shelf can do yet. but yes, i'd spend on techie devices IF i can justify the expense to THE BOSS. she was complaining to me earlier that OpenOffice in Linux (and probably in the other OS too) doesn't have Text Draw (ehrm... i'm completely ignorant about why that tool is necessary because i don't use MS Word). eric -- ___ _____________________________ eric pareja (xenos AT maharlika.upm.edu.ph) \e/ [ Philippine Linux Users' Group ] Linux User #8159 http://counter.li.org _v_ [Python Power!] [Debian Rocks!] [Ubiquitous Computing] /. #2834 Software Free the books! [http://www.bookcrossing.com/referral/pusakat] Freedom Join us on IRC: #plug irc.free.net.ph:6667 | www.upm.edu.ph/~xenos/weblog -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
