[BLUG] Interesting article for those still tethered to Windows by one or two applications

[Simon Ruiz]

Re: Fry's. I'll have to check that out...
 
Re: alt+NNNN. That's how it's worked on MS systems since I was old enough to type, Alt+162, though it doesn't seem to work for me when I'm on Internet Explorer nowadays...Anyhow, in Linux--at least in Ubuntu--it doesn't seem to recognize the alt way of doing it, much to my ingrained habits dismay.

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Sent: Mon 1/22/2007 10:40 AM
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Subject: Re: [BLUG] Interesting article for those still tethered to Windows by one or two applications



> Re: Fry's, thanks for the tip! Is it really any better than getting my
> parts off Newegg?

It depends.  Fry's has sales that are very competitive quite often.  I
haven't bought any parts online since Fry's opened, but I'm partially
spoiled by the instant gratification.

> P.S. Is there a simple way to type "ó" in Linux on a us-EN keyboard?
> It happens to be something I find myself needing to type a lot and I'm
> getting sick of going to the character map to copy and paste it.

There's probably an alt+NNNN sequence but I don't know what it is.
There's an old link on the CINLUG site that talks about configuring the
Windows Keys to type accented characters.  It was written a long time
ago so I don't know how applicable it is, but it's available at
http://www.cinlug.org/files/education/spanish_key_mini_HOWTO.html
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