Re: the older debian user; Debian Senior
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 07:04:08PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote:
> John W. M. Stevens wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 05:22:55PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> >
> >>Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net> writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Getting older, the main things I notice are:
> >>>Fear of learning new things.
> >>>Fear of complexity.
> >>
> >> To overcome these fears, I switched from DOS to Debian at age 70,
> >>and began learning bash scripting; became a Debian developer at age 71
> >>and began studying C programming.
> >
> >
> >Go get 'em!
> >
> >
> >>>Are they serious about that <small> font on their webpage.
> >>
> >> I met this problem by getting a 21" monitor.
> >
> >
> >You can also deal with this (web pages only, of course) by
> >setting your Mozilla preferences correctly.
> >
> >Choose a VERY BAD web page, then go in and set your font preferences
> >to the size of fonts you are comfortable reading.
> >
> >Be sure to override the document font preferences, of course . . .
> >
>
> That shouldn't be necessary,
No, it shouldn't . . . but it is.
> just set the minimum font size to something
> readable...
If you don't set the override flag, there will still be pages
that display an unreadably small font. By setting override,
that almost (almost!) never happens.
John S.
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