Rick Henkel - FrameMaker-Related Stuff

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According to Wikipedia, a "moire pattern" is "an interference pattern created when two grids are overlaid at an angle, or when they have slightly different mesh sizes." Screen captures often have that moire pattern, especially on dialog box scroll bars.

Roger Shuttleworth provided a solution to this problem on one of the FrameMaker user's lists. (He said that he in turn got this answer from the list several years ago.)

1. On your desktop, right-click and select Properties on the shortcut menu that appears.

2. Click the Appearance tab.

3. Click the OK button on the Message Box example. The Item drop-down list automatically selects 3D Object.

4. Click the Color arrow to display the drop-down list, and click Other.

5. Change the value in the Lum field to 180.

6. Click Add to Custom Colors.

7. Click OK on the Color dialog box and again on the Display Properties dialog box.

(These steps are specifically for Win2K. Things might be in different locations for different flavors of Windows.)

The KC on Exchange and Outlook blog has a good tip today. I've paraphrased it below, but you can check her entry for the original.

When you click a link to an Office doc, IE opens the doc in-frame by default. This may be OK for just viewing docs, but it can get annoying because not all features work in this manner.

If you'd rather have IE just open the doc in the appropriate application, use the following instructions:

1. Open Windows Explorer.

2. Go to Tools | Folder Options | File Types.

3. Select the appropriate file type (e.g., XLS, DOC, PPT), and click Advanced.

4. Clear the "Browse in same window" check box, and OK out of all the dialog boxes.

Many media outlets are touting the 1,000 mark in dead soldiers as the reason to pull out of Iraq. I haven't seen them post the total number of terrorism victims in New York, Washington, Pennsylvania, Spain, Russia, etc.

Would they have "celebrated" (that word may be a little harsh, but I can't think of another one) the number of dead during the first two World Wars?

(That reminds me of something. I find it interesting that many people protested and severely criticized another President for bringing the nation to war. I don't mean LBJ or JFK. Or Wilson or FDR. Lincoln. They--people in the North, by the way--thought the Civil War was a mistake. Interesting.)

The people directly affected by the 1,000 lives lost--the soldiers currently in Iraq--are not using that as an excuse to pull out of Iraq. Rather, they are using it to strengthen their resolve to finish the job.

For my grandparents, it was 12/7/41. For my parents, it was 11/22/63. For me, it was 9/11/01. The day that everything changed.

It's been nearly three years now, and it seems like a lot of people have forgotten the details about that day of great devastation and emotion. This page serves as an incredible reminder. (It's over 7MB, so you'd be better off using a high-speed connection to view it.)

This book, published in 1971, is pretty difficult to find nowadays. In fact, people are selling copies on E-bay for hundreds of dollars.

Some guy now has a PDF file of the book available for free download. (It's a pretty large file at 17MB.)

I haven't read it yet myself. I just find it pretty interesting that this guy is providing it for free. I don't know much about copyright laws, but it seems like this would be violating at least some of them.