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Typo in forum description

Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 3:58 am
by urxae
In the description of the "OSDev Wiki" forum: "orginization" --> "organization"

Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 7:01 am
by jnc100
--> organisation

Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 7:03 am
by os64dev
is the wiki english or american because both syntaxes are correct :wink:

Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 7:30 am
by AndrewAPrice
os64dev wrote:is the wiki english or american because both syntaxes are correct :wink:
Do one, and just redirect the other spelling.. Either that, or fork the Wiki into international English and American English, using a script that detects changes in the wiki, copies it across to the other, and then detects spelling differences.

Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 8:31 am
by chase
thanks

Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 3:15 pm
by pcmattman
Um, the 'OS Development' description is wrong too, 'fuction' instead of 'function'...

Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 3:28 pm
by Alboin
I believe there is also a mistake in the project area..."accouncements"?

Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 4:38 pm
by chase
Alboin wrote:I believe there is also a mistake in the project area..."accouncements"?
I spelled it right in the title just not the description. This is one of the reasons not to do forum administration *after* you've already stayed up all night coding. I guess I need to upgrade to Firefox 2, I think it comes with a spell checker for forum text areas.

Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 4:44 pm
by Kevin McGuire
I guess I need to upgrade to Firefox 2, I think it comes with a spell checker for forum text areas.
That is a run-on sentence.

Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 6:16 pm
by chase
Kevin McGuire wrote:
I guess I need to upgrade to Firefox 2, I think it comes with a spell checker for forum text areas.
That is a run-on sentence.
:P

Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 7:11 pm
by Alboin
chase wrote:I guess I need to upgrade to Firefox 2, I think it comes with a spell checker for forum text areas.
Indeed it does. A mighty awesome feature it is. To my dismay, however, I find myself muddled as to why I am writing in this fashion...

Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 7:19 am
by JAAman
it certainly does!, yes i am very thankful for spell check in the browser, but thats not the only good thing about FF2 -- there is now scrolling on the tabs bar -- very useful for those of us who commonly have 20+ tabs open at once

another very useful feature is 'undo close tab' which will reopen the last non-blank tab that was closed

you should definitely upgrade (after all, FF2 has been here for a while now)

the downside is the close-tab button has been removed and replaced with a close button on each tab (but thankfully you can remove the close button from the tabs, i did this when i discovered how easy it was to close tabs instead of switching to them -- the close button is still on the current tab, and you can still middle-click to close non-current tabs)

Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 12:44 am
by os64dev
whoot whoot product promotion detected whoot whoot :twisted:

Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 2:03 pm
by Alboin
os64dev wrote:whoot whoot product promotion detected whoot whoot :twisted:
I prefer to call it more of a 'review'. Besides, it's free software. Can't we promote that?

Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 5:28 pm
by Tyler
Alboin wrote:
os64dev wrote:whoot whoot product promotion detected whoot whoot :twisted:
I prefer to call it more of a 'review'. Besides, it's free software. Can't we promote that?
It's quotes like this that give Free/Open Software a better name than it often deserves. Free Software creators still attempt to promote it for the money gained from other areas, so any kind of advertising is advertising whether the product requires payment before use or not. There are other reasons and this is not compeltely correct but i am too tired to remember my point, so hopefully someone unbiased and intelligent will expand for me.