[clug] Calling all Linux n00bs

[Lana Brindley]

2009/6/4 Owen <rcook at pcug.org.au>

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> >> >> http://lanabrindley.blogspot.com/2009/05/linux-n00bs.html
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> >
> > Sorry you couldn't see my blog, I can understand how the graphics
> > could take
> > a long time to load under 56k connection speeds.
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> The main problems with that site for  me are;
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> 1.  There are a number of tick boxes emeshed in a black background and
> the detail cannot be read easily
> 2.  The site requires additional plug-ins, and both Ubuntu
> installations cannot find a suitable plug-in, I have no idea what the
> plug-in required is
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> I just had another look and the visibility of the lack area'seems
> dependent on the angle of the lcd screen
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> maybe I should be using fedora!
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Yeah, I understand the grey-on-black issue, and it's bugging me too. The
alternative is to put it into the sidebar, but I wanted it to be prominent.
Not sure what plugin it's asking for, though. That seems odd.

(Disclaimer: I'm not in any way a web dev. My knowledge of HTML is so rusty
it's only applicable to writing formatting tags in comment boxes. As it is,
my blog is a total hash of things barely hanging together with duct tape.
Every so often I spray some WD-40 around hopefully. I apologise unreservedly
for any and all problems you experience. Please don't blame my poor
long-suffering web-dev friend who occasionaly jumps in and fixes it when
I've irrepairably broken something!)

All that aside, runing Fedora might help! *nods* Uh-huh. For sure! Go the
hat!

L


-- 
Cheers! Lana

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madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the
aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and
aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and
vagaries of the crowd.
 -- Edith Sitwell

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