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Maybe starting to get into it a bit too much.
Either that, or your life's really interesting.
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Hello, Kids. Welcome to "Junior Paper Hour" with Allie.
Today's lesson is on open source software and why it is so much better than that silly stuff you paid $350 for.
Take a certain well-known free word processing suite. Today I saved a one page file, with all the proper formatting I needed for it and it was about 6.4 kb in size.
Well, a "friend" of mine, for some reason, does not have that program installed. Is that a problem? No way! I use the handy Save As: function to save it as another popular, but costly program's filetype.
The size? It was now 11kb.
Still with the proper formatting. The text became a big hyperlink for some reason, but I wasn't complaining.
Then I decided to paste the original file directly into that costly word processor and see if it was any better than the imitation filetype.
The formatting went to hell.
I spent five minutes getting the spacing to stop adding an extra space between paragraphs, and then I had to fight with hanging indents, which had to be manually reset every single time, rather than just once, or just adding a tab where I wanted it. No, when I did that, it added a tab for every single line in the paragraph, above and below.
Eventually I beat it down to how it was before.
Saved it.
A whopping 24.6 kb.
Now children, I had noticed open source software saving files in less space in the native format of their commercial competitor (Hello, graphics editing programs!), but to find out that it seemed to be common in the industry, that was a little mind blowing.
That's all for today, Kids. I hope you all learned something very valuable from this.
Maybe starting to get into it a bit too much.
Either that, or your life's really interesting.
The LiveJournal Quiz
Take Other Caffeine Nebula Quizzes
Hello, Kids. Welcome to "Junior Paper Hour" with Allie.
Today's lesson is on open source software and why it is so much better than that silly stuff you paid $350 for.
Take a certain well-known free word processing suite. Today I saved a one page file, with all the proper formatting I needed for it and it was about 6.4 kb in size.
Well, a "friend" of mine, for some reason, does not have that program installed. Is that a problem? No way! I use the handy Save As: function to save it as another popular, but costly program's filetype.
The size? It was now 11kb.
Still with the proper formatting. The text became a big hyperlink for some reason, but I wasn't complaining.
Then I decided to paste the original file directly into that costly word processor and see if it was any better than the imitation filetype.
The formatting went to hell.
I spent five minutes getting the spacing to stop adding an extra space between paragraphs, and then I had to fight with hanging indents, which had to be manually reset every single time, rather than just once, or just adding a tab where I wanted it. No, when I did that, it added a tab for every single line in the paragraph, above and below.
Eventually I beat it down to how it was before.
Saved it.
A whopping 24.6 kb.
Now children, I had noticed open source software saving files in less space in the native format of their commercial competitor (Hello, graphics editing programs!), but to find out that it seemed to be common in the industry, that was a little mind blowing.
That's all for today, Kids. I hope you all learned something very valuable from this.