On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Stan Goodman
At 20:01:06 on Monday Monday 19 April 2010, Mark Goldstein
wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Stan Goodman
wrote: ... Oh, I did that first thing (see my paragraph just above yours). It isn't worth trying further to massage it;
Hmm, strange. What could be the difference between our systems? Mine is 11.1, 32-bits. KDE-3.
...I've taken the easy way out, and installed the Windows binary in the WinXP virtual machine that I keep handy for just such purposes.
I did the same when I bumped into one book in LIT format that Linux version of Calibre could not open. Windows version, (more advanced) opened it OK.
In passing, I have to remark that the developer's non-chalance about the impressive array of installation woes described in great detail all over the Web is typical of what causes Linux users to remain only 10% (at most) of users, which in turn explains a lot about why so many important websites (banks, government offices, etc) are unusable except with Internet Explorer. And that will never get any better.
Well, I can understand the situation when few guys are developing the product. They just can´t cover all possible flavors of the systems. They provide the sources and instructions and then the users of specific distribution can contribute binary installation for their system. I guess, situation with Websites is different. The Web programmers just were taught using MS tools and extensions (e.g for jscript) that are often non-standard. The situation is slowly improving and more and more sites are working with FF now (BG airport is one bad example - still accessible only from MS IE). -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org