h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Okay, so I know we're a BBC site and we have to conform to British conventions, but... since when does Calvin sell 'a swift kick in the butt' for £1.00? Has the dollar gone out of fashion? And in the UK they may call the principal the 'headmaster', but in Calvin and Hobbes he's always the 'principal'. It's called cultural difference, okay? Anyone got a problem with that?

I certainly didn't put a £ thingy down there. I don't even know how to make those appear except by copying and paste-ing.

Off to Editorial Feedback with the swift kick in the butt thing. I don't think I could win the headmaster issue, but you can try and I'll back you

On British keyboard layout, you can find the £ right above the 3, where the # normally is.

The most frustrating thing about British keyboards, I find, is the fact that they don't have a backslash. So if you're typing something in the Run box... well, forget it.

The fascinating thing about Irish keyboards, which I've just discovered, is that if you hold down Ctrl + Alt and type vowels, you'll get accents: áéíóú!

Okay, that's topic drift for you. Heading on over to Editorial Feedback...

I like my good ole fashion Mac American configuration.

Well if you've got a Mac (lucky you!), American does seem proper somehow. It seems a very American company, somehow. Just a feeling I have. Windows is such crap it doesn't really matter, anyway.

I just like screwing around with system settings. For a while I had everything in French, but then when I realised I couldn't really read any of it, and that it made it very difficult to type in English, I gave it up.

I'm still waiting for the Latin system configs, but you can only get that on Google.

Powerbook G4... the big, wide one too Guide somehow entries look shorter with a wide screen.
Apple is in California, they're a whole continent *and* a sea away from Britain.

God bless Google, eh?

Hear, hear!

My parents say they'll get me a Powerbook as a high school graduation present. But that's three whole years from now...

Worth the wait, my friend They're wonderful devices.

The only thing I don't like is that this PowerBook didn't come with as much software as my old iBook did. The iBook had Appleworks and a little built in encyclopedia (trial thing, I think it was) which both came in handy.

In three years, the PowerBooks will probably be better than they are now though, or at least less expensive. Moore's Law, eh? So there's a positive side to being stuck in PC Hell for three years

Which word processor do Macs come with? It's Word, isn't it? (Microsoft never really releases its hold. Rather like a leech in that respect.)

AppleWorks. It's a lot like Word... just as good, but it's not compatible with Word stuff like the document files and excel. Which is frustrating, but I got a free Word copy. Wouldn't do that to any company but Microsoft. They've got enough money, I say.

Down with Microsoft!

Up with Apple!
Up with free, or at least fairly-priced, love!
Up with freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedom!

It might be of interest to note that Douglas Adams bought the first two Macs in the UK, and Stephen Fry bought the third. There you go, two of the most discerning minds of the century. What more could a computer company ask?

I wonder who bought the first American macs?

Probably just a couple of computer nerds
Still, where would we be without s?

It was probably Steve Jobs.

Like I said...