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A few things: Everything not being 4:3 screens. I found it better for programming than everything being cinematic screens. Back when monitor manufacturers wer

by avar 10y ago

A few things: Everything not being 4:3 screens. I found it better for programming than everything being cinematic screens. Back when monitor manufacturers were racing to make better / higher resolution monitors, instead of just leaving it at 1080p / 4k / whatever the current standard good enough for movies is. The GMail interface before it started auto-converting the textarea to HTML when edited externally. Console gaming when it Just Worked. Nowadays when I pop in a game it's update this and update that, long loading times etc. E-Mail before we lost the "text should be text and not goddamn HTML" war.

kome 10y ago
> E-Mail before we lost the "text should be text and not goddamn HTML" war. I am still fighting, and the war is not over.
- guyzmo 10y ago
 So am I... at some point for colleagues that were telling me that my mail looked bad because text (and they weren't using fixed width font), I was sending them text converted to html by a script, so it is contained in a <pre></pre> :->
 - function_seven 10y ago
 Haha, imposing your plain text will on the HTMLers. I love it.
- qw 10y ago
 The main problem In the business world is Outlook. For some reason they decided to ignore line breaks in plain text by default, which makes plain text a broken mess
 - Teckla 10y ago
 The main problem In the business world is Outlook. For some reason they decided to ignore line breaks in plain text by default, which makes plain text a broken mess There's an option in Outlook to turn that "feature" off, but of course, nobody does. It's a horrible, terrible default feature of Outlook.
 - ams6110 10y ago
 It's also their problem. They send me HTML and I have to deal with that. I send them plain text, so they can do likewise.
 - MichaelGG 10y ago
 That reason probably is good. Some mail clients wrap at 78 chars. Result is that the text doesn't flow. Larger window and text doesn't fill, smaller and you get staggered lines. For most Outlook users, it makes sense to convert this into something more readable. I think there is an option to change its behaviour.
- berntb 10y ago
 Good luck, "forest brother". Where should I leave stashes with food and ammo? :-) :-(
- bitwize 10y ago
 You're pretty much the equivalent of the Japanese soldier who got stranded in the Philippines and kept fighting WWII until the 1970s. HTML mail won. If you work in an office they will use either Exchange or Google Apps; Exchange's default configuration is a fuck you to text-based mail clients. <o:p> </o:p>Hope you like all your email looking like this, because the only response you’ll get from your sysadmin should you decide to complain is a snippy remark along the lines of “try using an email client from this century”. Don’t worry, with enough practice you won’t even see the code — just blonde, brunette, redhead₀ J The war is over, friend. Come on home.
 - Retric 10y ago
 You can just pipe your email through something that removes HTML. Outlook seems to just ignore line breaks by default. But, there is probably a mime type to get around that.
 - jeremysmyth 10y ago
 HTML ignores line breaks. If you're using plain text, the format=flowed header is what ignores line breaks. Not all clients support it.
 - bitwize 10y ago
 It's not just Outlook. Exchange adds this mush to emails which were sent in plain text.
 - Styx- 10y ago
 Thanks for the laugh, that was well done.
 - tremendo 10y ago
 Perhaps, but why give up if you're not missing any benefit? I still pretty much can rely on something not being readable as plain text also not being worth my time.
- Freak_NL 10y ago
 A lot of mail clients actually send both HTML and text (as they should), so if you configure your mail client to prefer text, almost all incoming mail will be presented to you as text. Now configure it to only send out plain text, and you are no longer part of the problem. :)
lillesvin 10y ago
> E-Mail before we lost the "text should be text and not goddamn HTML" war. Keep fighting the good fight. I still use Mutt and haven't gotten around to finding a way to handle Office365 meeting invites and such. I'm also the only one in the company that connects to Slack via an IRC client (irssi).
- copperx 10y ago
  Programmers ought to get together and create CLI versions of clients of popular protocols (Exchange, for one).
  - Karunamon 10y ago
    Davmail can get you most of the way there for Exchange. Definitely a product I would buy if it were commercialized.
  - ams6110 10y ago
    I manage my email in emacs, though it's delivered to the Exchange server at work. I deliver it to a local maildir with fetchmail, and use notmuch to index it. Searching is better and faster than GMail IMO.
  - lillesvin 10y ago
    There's actually a surprising number of CLI implementations of popular protocols out there. I recently started using Hangups (https://github.com/tdryer/hangups https://github.com/tdryer/hangups) for Hangouts. And there's one for Play Music too although I can't recall its name at the moment. Only thing I'm really, really missing now is a CLI for KeePass, but I'm considering writing one myself in Go, since I've been looking for something to do for practice in Go anyway.
  - jeauxlb 10y ago
    Check out Davmail (http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ http://davmail.sourceforge.net/). I use this with offlineimap to run mutt with an Exchange installation; apart from calendar invitations, it works quite well.
akerro 10y ago
>Everything not being 4:3 screens. I found it better for programming than everything being cinematic screens. This! I concentrate much better on old laptop with 4:3 screen. I have one single window open, no browser, not documentation, no chat windows, no email. The laptop wouldn't even handle all programs at the same time, 512MB of RAM.
pmontra 10y ago
4:3 screens: yes, but on laptops. Given an equally wide laptop 4:3 gives much more space to work on. I wonder if there would be space for large touchpads but the Thinkpad/stick fans won't care. My personal sweetspot on laptops was 16:10. For standalone monitors, nobody was making screens as wide (in cm) as the ones we have now, at a reasonable price. You could have two 4:3 monitors side by side which is 8:3 or 16:6, worse than 16:9 for the same width. I add: 15" laptops without numberpads (Macs don't count, I don't like OSX and their keyboards and the buttonless touchpad)
- paol 10y ago
  My sweet spot for laptops is 4:3 @ 14in, but 16:10 @ 15.6in is a reasonable choice as well. 16:9 on the other hand has no place in anything but very large desktop monitors (say 27in and above). Whenever I have to use someone's 13in notebook - inevitably 16:9, even expensive ones - it makes me want to scream. It's like peering through a mailbox slot.
  - r00fus 10y ago
    One of the great things about Mac laptops... The default 16:10 everywhere (with the exception of the mba11").
davb 10y ago
> Console gaming when it Just Worked. Nowadays when I pop in a game it's update this and update that, long loading times etc. This might be about to change with Nintendo's upcoming NX system rumoured to use ROM cartridges rather than optical media. The cart-based 3DS has loading times comparable to the Mega Drive or SNES (negligible). And the cartridge distribution model is great for this with sub-par internet connections.
- ZenoArrow 10y ago
  I strongly suspect the NX will be based on a game streaming service like OnLive. If you look at most of the rumours with that in mind, they make more sense.
  - davb 10y ago
    I very much doubt it. They'd be cutting off massive markets where internet connectivity isn't consistently good (most of the world). Sure, Nintendo are struggling to find their place in the home console market right now but they're more conservative when it comes to changing the distribution/sales model.
    - ZenoArrow 10y ago
      > "They'd be cutting off massive markets where internet connectivity isn't consistently good (most of the world)." With all due respect, countries without decent Internet infrastructure are unlikely to be places where there are plenty of people with the spare cash to blow on a console. Furthermore, Nintendo has said that the NX is not designed to be a replacement for the Wii U, meaning that Nintendo may still plan to sell the Wii U, and therefore would have a product to sell in emerging markets (in addition to their handheld devices). http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-05/15/nintendo-nx-not-wii-u-3ds-replacement http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-05/15/nintendo-nx-n... "Following a Nintendo investor briefing, officially translated here, president Satoru Iwata says that although the NX will be "a dedicated video game platform with a brand new concept," he does not "intend it to become a simple "replacement" for Nintendo 3DS or Wii U."" Carrying on, consider the following points from the GFK Research Group leak: http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/rumored-nintendo-nx-specs-leaked-could-support-4k-streaming-1313462 http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/rumored-nintendo-nx-spe... "Connect with other Nintendo players around the world via the Nintendo Network" "Gameplay flows between Nintendo NX console and Nintendo NX handheld device" "Supports 4K/60fps video streaming" "Gameplay graphics at 900p/60fps" > "Sure, Nintendo are struggling to find their place in the home console market right now but they're more conservative when it comes to changing the distribution/sales model." Nintendo have been slow to develop their online offerings, but they're increasingly working in that direction. Nintendo is also keen to get into the mobile gaming market, which a game-streaming platform would help with: http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/17/nintendo-and-dena-announce-a-business-and-capital-alliance/ http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/17/nintendo-and-dena-announce... Furthermore, even if such a move to a streaming, subscription-based service would be innovative for Nintendo, the sort of 'Netflix for gaming' approach is nothing new in the market. Aside from OnLive as mentioned before, Sony are already doing it with PlayStation Now. Nintendo can learn from earlier attempts in the market, they don't have to go in blind. http://www.techradar.com/reviews/gaming/playstation-now-1213666/review http://www.techradar.com/reviews/gaming/playstation-now-1213... Lastly, if you believe some of the rumoured specs (which I personally think are mostly driven by wishful thinking), the NX is meant to be 3x more powerful than the PS4. That sort of power only makes sense if it's a streaming platform.
nickjj 10y ago
I still use a Dell FP2007 20" 1600x1200 monitor [1] as a second monitor. I remember making sure the serial numbers matched the IPS version too. I've been using it full time for 8 years and it still runs flawlessly. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Ultrasharp-1600x1200-Monitor-Height-Adjustable/dp/B000UVDONY http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Ultrasharp-1600x1200-Monitor-Heig...
- altano 10y ago
  6 months ago I bought 6 of these off ebay for ~$300 and a cheap 3x2 monitor stand. It's a pretty awesome, if tenuous, setup.
jlgaddis 10y ago
This is one of my two biggest pet peeves when it comes to e-mail. Top posting is the other. > E-Mail before we lost the "text should be text and not goddamn HTML" war.
- ams6110 10y ago
  I have mostly succumbed to top-posting, but I do generally try to trim the quoted message history to only the one I'm responding to. That way in a long thread I don't end up sending a ten-page message that only include one sentence of new content.
digi_owl 10y ago
Heh, i recall when Apple started shipping everything with 16:9. You could tell when a web dev was using Mac, as invariably the site layout would produce a scroll bar at the bottom of the screen on 4:3 screens.
- superdude 10y ago
  Actually, Apple has only used 16:10 screens for their laptops (11" Air is an exception) while almost everyone else uses 16:9. The iPad has a 4:3 screen while so many other Android tablets have used 16:9 (thankfully there are more choices now).
  - digi_owl 10y ago
    16:9, 16:10, potato, potato. Point was that said web devs could not be assed to consider that there was a world outside of Apple.
Figs 10y ago
I've found that I actually really like using rotated 9:16 portrait mode monitors for writing code in a dual or triple monitor setup. It's very helpful to be able to see 80+ lines at a time.
- qb45 10y ago
  But 1080x1920 is stupidly narrow. On 1440x1920 (4:3) you could place two windows side by side without much effort. It barely becomes possible at 1200 (16:10), though not with the font size I'd be long-term comfortable with.
mcculley 10y ago
> E-Mail before we lost the "text should be text and not goddamn HTML" war. It didn't work. To this day, if you begin a plain text email message with the word "From", you'll confuse mail programs because there wasn't a proper encoding of the body of the message separate from the headers.
- Freak_NL 10y ago
  > To this day, if you begin a plain text email message with the word "From", you'll confuse mail programs […] RFC 5322: > […] The body is simply a sequence of > characters that follows the header section and is separated from the > header section by an empty line (i.e., a line with nothing preceding > the CRLF). What brain dead mail program interprets anything after the first empty line as a header?
  - mcculley 10y ago
    Various MUAs have failed this over the years. RFC 5322 is dated 2008. Plenty of users moved to HTML payloads inside MIME attachments because of the mangling that would happen otherwise. Many MUAs would prepend a > before the word From at the beginning of a line so that it wouldn't cause problems for recipients. Some that I used that I remember such problems with include the MUA inside Netscape Navigator and mutt.
Millennium 10y ago
I miss 4:3 screens for coding on laptops and all-in-ones. But on anything where the screen can be rotated, I love them.
parenthesis 10y ago
The annoyingness of cinematic screens is increased futher if your favourite TV shows are from the 80s and 90s, and your favourite movies from the 30s, 40s and 50s.
grogenaut 10y ago
Get a monitor like a Dell u2715 and turn it sideways. Basically a double tall square resolution monitor.
grogenaut 10y ago
Get a monitor like a Dell u2715 and turn it sideways. Basically a double tall square resolution monitor.
rsync 10y ago
"Everything not being 4:3 screens. I found it better for programming than everything being cinematic screens." It may interest you to know that there is a new, modern, 1:1 screen for sale from a reputable company, today - the EIZO FlexScan EV2730QFX: http://www.amazon.com/FlexScan-EV2730QFX-Monitor-1920x1920-EV2730QFX-BK/dp/B00R58MLSY http://www.amazon.com/FlexScan-EV2730QFX-Monitor-1920x1920-E... Please, please buy one (or three) of these, as I did, and place your dollar votes for screen innovation like this.
- rayiner 10y ago
  But wide-screen laptops are just the right size for side-by-side 80x25 emacs windows.
- J_Darnley 10y ago
  Thank you for the suggestion. If I ever have that kind of money for a display I will get one.
SixSigma 10y ago
My xbox 360 has never been connected to the internet And I'm a top poster!

by avar 10y ago

kome 10y ago

> E-Mail before we lost the "text should be text and not goddamn HTML" war. I am still fighting, and the war is not over.

guyzmo 10y ago
So am I... at some point for colleagues that were telling me that my mail looked bad because text (and they weren't using fixed width font), I was sending them text converted to html by a script, so it is contained in a <pre></pre> :->
- function_seven 10y ago
 Haha, imposing your plain text will on the HTMLers. I love it.
qw 10y ago
The main problem In the business world is Outlook. For some reason they decided to ignore line breaks in plain text by default, which makes plain text a broken mess
- Teckla 10y ago
  The main problem In the business world is Outlook. For some reason they decided to ignore line breaks in plain text by default, which makes plain text a broken mess There's an option in Outlook to turn that "feature" off, but of course, nobody does. It's a horrible, terrible default feature of Outlook.
  - ams6110 10y ago
    It's also their problem. They send me HTML and I have to deal with that. I send them plain text, so they can do likewise.
- MichaelGG 10y ago
  That reason probably is good. Some mail clients wrap at 78 chars. Result is that the text doesn't flow. Larger window and text doesn't fill, smaller and you get staggered lines. For most Outlook users, it makes sense to convert this into something more readable. I think there is an option to change its behaviour.
berntb 10y ago
Good luck, "forest brother". Where should I leave stashes with food and ammo? :-) :-(
bitwize 10y ago
You're pretty much the equivalent of the Japanese soldier who got stranded in the Philippines and kept fighting WWII until the 1970s. HTML mail won. If you work in an office they will use either Exchange or Google Apps; Exchange's default configuration is a fuck you to text-based mail clients. <o:p> </o:p>Hope you like all your email looking like this, because the only response you’ll get from your sysadmin should you decide to complain is a snippy remark along the lines of “try using an email client from this century”. Don’t worry, with enough practice you won’t even see the code — just blonde, brunette, redhead₀ J The war is over, friend. Come on home.
- Retric 10y ago
 You can just pipe your email through something that removes HTML. Outlook seems to just ignore line breaks by default. But, there is probably a mime type to get around that.
 - jeremysmyth 10y ago
 HTML ignores line breaks. If you're using plain text, the format=flowed header is what ignores line breaks. Not all clients support it.
 - bitwize 10y ago
 It's not just Outlook. Exchange adds this mush to emails which were sent in plain text.
- Styx- 10y ago
 Thanks for the laugh, that was well done.
- tremendo 10y ago
 Perhaps, but why give up if you're not missing any benefit? I still pretty much can rely on something not being readable as plain text also not being worth my time.
Freak_NL 10y ago
A lot of mail clients actually send both HTML and text (as they should), so if you configure your mail client to prefer text, almost all incoming mail will be presented to you as text. Now configure it to only send out plain text, and you are no longer part of the problem. :)

lillesvin 10y ago

> E-Mail before we lost the "text should be text and not goddamn HTML" war. Keep fighting the good fight. I still use Mutt and haven't gotten around to finding a way to handle Office365 meeting invites and such. I'm also the only one in the company that connects to Slack via an IRC client (irssi).

copperx 10y ago
Programmers ought to get together and create CLI versions of clients of popular protocols (Exchange, for one).
- Karunamon 10y ago
  Davmail can get you most of the way there for Exchange. Definitely a product I would buy if it were commercialized.
- ams6110 10y ago
  I manage my email in emacs, though it's delivered to the Exchange server at work. I deliver it to a local maildir with fetchmail, and use notmuch to index it. Searching is better and faster than GMail IMO.
- lillesvin 10y ago
  There's actually a surprising number of CLI implementations of popular protocols out there. I recently started using Hangups (https://github.com/tdryer/hangups https://github.com/tdryer/hangups) for Hangouts. And there's one for Play Music too although I can't recall its name at the moment. Only thing I'm really, really missing now is a CLI for KeePass, but I'm considering writing one myself in Go, since I've been looking for something to do for practice in Go anyway.
- jeauxlb 10y ago
  Check out Davmail (http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ http://davmail.sourceforge.net/). I use this with offlineimap to run mutt with an Exchange installation; apart from calendar invitations, it works quite well.

akerro 10y ago

>Everything not being 4:3 screens. I found it better for programming than everything being cinematic screens. This! I concentrate much better on old laptop with 4:3 screen. I have one single window open, no browser, not documentation, no chat windows, no email. The laptop wouldn't even handle all programs at the same time, 512MB of RAM.

pmontra 10y ago

4:3 screens: yes, but on laptops. Given an equally wide laptop 4:3 gives much more space to work on. I wonder if there would be space for large touchpads but the Thinkpad/stick fans won't care. My personal sweetspot on laptops was 16:10. For standalone monitors, nobody was making screens as wide (in cm) as the ones we have now, at a reasonable price. You could have two 4:3 monitors side by side which is 8:3 or 16:6, worse than 16:9 for the same width. I add: 15" laptops without numberpads (Macs don't count, I don't like OSX and their keyboards and the buttonless touchpad)

paol 10y ago
My sweet spot for laptops is 4:3 @ 14in, but 16:10 @ 15.6in is a reasonable choice as well. 16:9 on the other hand has no place in anything but very large desktop monitors (say 27in and above). Whenever I have to use someone's 13in notebook - inevitably 16:9, even expensive ones - it makes me want to scream. It's like peering through a mailbox slot.
- r00fus 10y ago
  One of the great things about Mac laptops... The default 16:10 everywhere (with the exception of the mba11").

davb 10y ago

> Console gaming when it Just Worked. Nowadays when I pop in a game it's update this and update that, long loading times etc. This might be about to change with Nintendo's upcoming NX system rumoured to use ROM cartridges rather than optical media. The cart-based 3DS has loading times comparable to the Mega Drive or SNES (negligible). And the cartridge distribution model is great for this with sub-par internet connections.

ZenoArrow 10y ago
I strongly suspect the NX will be based on a game streaming service like OnLive. If you look at most of the rumours with that in mind, they make more sense.
- davb 10y ago
  I very much doubt it. They'd be cutting off massive markets where internet connectivity isn't consistently good (most of the world). Sure, Nintendo are struggling to find their place in the home console market right now but they're more conservative when it comes to changing the distribution/sales model.
  - ZenoArrow 10y ago
    > "They'd be cutting off massive markets where internet connectivity isn't consistently good (most of the world)." With all due respect, countries without decent Internet infrastructure are unlikely to be places where there are plenty of people with the spare cash to blow on a console. Furthermore, Nintendo has said that the NX is not designed to be a replacement for the Wii U, meaning that Nintendo may still plan to sell the Wii U, and therefore would have a product to sell in emerging markets (in addition to their handheld devices). http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-05/15/nintendo-nx-not-wii-u-3ds-replacement http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-05/15/nintendo-nx-n... "Following a Nintendo investor briefing, officially translated here, president Satoru Iwata says that although the NX will be "a dedicated video game platform with a brand new concept," he does not "intend it to become a simple "replacement" for Nintendo 3DS or Wii U."" Carrying on, consider the following points from the GFK Research Group leak: http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/rumored-nintendo-nx-specs-leaked-could-support-4k-streaming-1313462 http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/rumored-nintendo-nx-spe... "Connect with other Nintendo players around the world via the Nintendo Network" "Gameplay flows between Nintendo NX console and Nintendo NX handheld device" "Supports 4K/60fps video streaming" "Gameplay graphics at 900p/60fps" > "Sure, Nintendo are struggling to find their place in the home console market right now but they're more conservative when it comes to changing the distribution/sales model." Nintendo have been slow to develop their online offerings, but they're increasingly working in that direction. Nintendo is also keen to get into the mobile gaming market, which a game-streaming platform would help with: http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/17/nintendo-and-dena-announce-a-business-and-capital-alliance/ http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/17/nintendo-and-dena-announce... Furthermore, even if such a move to a streaming, subscription-based service would be innovative for Nintendo, the sort of 'Netflix for gaming' approach is nothing new in the market. Aside from OnLive as mentioned before, Sony are already doing it with PlayStation Now. Nintendo can learn from earlier attempts in the market, they don't have to go in blind. http://www.techradar.com/reviews/gaming/playstation-now-1213666/review http://www.techradar.com/reviews/gaming/playstation-now-1213... Lastly, if you believe some of the rumoured specs (which I personally think are mostly driven by wishful thinking), the NX is meant to be 3x more powerful than the PS4. That sort of power only makes sense if it's a streaming platform.

nickjj 10y ago

I still use a Dell FP2007 20" 1600x1200 monitor [1] as a second monitor. I remember making sure the serial numbers matched the IPS version too. I've been using it full time for 8 years and it still runs flawlessly. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Ultrasharp-1600x1200-Monitor-Height-Adjustable/dp/B000UVDONY http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Ultrasharp-1600x1200-Monitor-Heig...

altano 10y ago
6 months ago I bought 6 of these off ebay for ~$300 and a cheap 3x2 monitor stand. It's a pretty awesome, if tenuous, setup.

jlgaddis 10y ago

This is one of my two biggest pet peeves when it comes to e-mail. Top posting is the other. > E-Mail before we lost the "text should be text and not goddamn HTML" war.

ams6110 10y ago
I have mostly succumbed to top-posting, but I do generally try to trim the quoted message history to only the one I'm responding to. That way in a long thread I don't end up sending a ten-page message that only include one sentence of new content.

digi_owl 10y ago

Heh, i recall when Apple started shipping everything with 16:9. You could tell when a web dev was using Mac, as invariably the site layout would produce a scroll bar at the bottom of the screen on 4:3 screens.

superdude 10y ago
Actually, Apple has only used 16:10 screens for their laptops (11" Air is an exception) while almost everyone else uses 16:9. The iPad has a 4:3 screen while so many other Android tablets have used 16:9 (thankfully there are more choices now).
- digi_owl 10y ago
  16:9, 16:10, potato, potato. Point was that said web devs could not be assed to consider that there was a world outside of Apple.

Figs 10y ago

I've found that I actually really like using rotated 9:16 portrait mode monitors for writing code in a dual or triple monitor setup. It's very helpful to be able to see 80+ lines at a time.

qb45 10y ago
But 1080x1920 is stupidly narrow. On 1440x1920 (4:3) you could place two windows side by side without much effort. It barely becomes possible at 1200 (16:10), though not with the font size I'd be long-term comfortable with.

mcculley 10y ago

> E-Mail before we lost the "text should be text and not goddamn HTML" war. It didn't work. To this day, if you begin a plain text email message with the word "From", you'll confuse mail programs because there wasn't a proper encoding of the body of the message separate from the headers.

Freak_NL 10y ago
> To this day, if you begin a plain text email message with the word "From", you'll confuse mail programs […] RFC 5322: > […] The body is simply a sequence of > characters that follows the header section and is separated from the > header section by an empty line (i.e., a line with nothing preceding > the CRLF). What brain dead mail program interprets anything after the first empty line as a header?
- mcculley 10y ago
  Various MUAs have failed this over the years. RFC 5322 is dated 2008. Plenty of users moved to HTML payloads inside MIME attachments because of the mangling that would happen otherwise. Many MUAs would prepend a > before the word From at the beginning of a line so that it wouldn't cause problems for recipients. Some that I used that I remember such problems with include the MUA inside Netscape Navigator and mutt.

Millennium 10y ago

I miss 4:3 screens for coding on laptops and all-in-ones. But on anything where the screen can be rotated, I love them.

parenthesis 10y ago

The annoyingness of cinematic screens is increased futher if your favourite TV shows are from the 80s and 90s, and your favourite movies from the 30s, 40s and 50s.

grogenaut 10y ago

Get a monitor like a Dell u2715 and turn it sideways. Basically a double tall square resolution monitor.

grogenaut 10y ago

Get a monitor like a Dell u2715 and turn it sideways. Basically a double tall square resolution monitor.

rsync 10y ago

"Everything not being 4:3 screens. I found it better for programming than everything being cinematic screens." It may interest you to know that there is a new, modern, 1:1 screen for sale from a reputable company, today - the EIZO FlexScan EV2730QFX: http://www.amazon.com/FlexScan-EV2730QFX-Monitor-1920x1920-EV2730QFX-BK/dp/B00R58MLSY http://www.amazon.com/FlexScan-EV2730QFX-Monitor-1920x1920-E... Please, please buy one (or three) of these, as I did, and place your dollar votes for screen innovation like this.

rayiner 10y ago
But wide-screen laptops are just the right size for side-by-side 80x25 emacs windows.
J_Darnley 10y ago
Thank you for the suggestion. If I ever have that kind of money for a display I will get one.

SixSigma 10y ago

My xbox 360 has never been connected to the internet And I'm a top poster!