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by bwarp 15y ago
I don't need to search. My inbox (my only folder) is 4 items at the moment. I rarely initiate an email conversation but whe I do it's simply select the addres from the text file and paste with the right mouse button. Mutt has an autocomplet
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by bwarp 15y ago
Some of it is actually pretty close unfortunately.
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by bwarp 15y ago
The middle at the moment. There's no point in owning anything with wheels larger than shirt buttons in the south.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Yes - it's very simple: contacts.txt - in order of surname, firstname Surname, FirstName, Primary telephone number with code, Email address so: Joe, Bloggs, 02033345545, joe@bloggs.com I only keep a single number for people, but you
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by bwarp 15y ago
This is what I do. My ISP has a relay which I send all non local email from postfix to. I have a static IP address.
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by bwarp 15y ago
If I want i.e. I can download offline gmail if I want to. If you see my follow up reply, I did trial Google Apps but it didn't cut it. Part of that trial was to use the MIDP version of Google Mail. I don't use it now but it's there if I wan
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by bwarp 15y ago
That's never happened to me. Perhaps I use more reputable commerce sites (so far anyway).
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by bwarp 15y ago
Some more info... Email augments my life but does not control it. That's where the distinction is. Much as writing letters is a tool, so is email. If it went away, the world would not end for me and I intend to keep it that way. Availabilit
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by bwarp 15y ago
I'm in the UK!
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by bwarp 15y ago
OpenSPARC is not open believe it or not. You still need a license to fab it or use it. I went through this a while ago with someone who likes SPARC and wanted an implementation on FPGA. Ended up with a licensed MIPS core because it was sign
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by bwarp 15y ago
My 1978 Land Rover Series III doesn't have a single computer! It's the mechanical equivalent of the GNU project.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I took "the pragmatic UNIX way" about 15 years ago with email. It works. I've not had to change it and don't feel compelled to bother changing it. I host my own mail server. It's not hard regardless of the platform you use. I use debian+pos
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by bwarp 15y ago
That has actually made my day!
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by bwarp 15y ago
I find this stream (stuffed through some Sennheiser HD25 SP headphones to block everything else out) improves my productivity considerably! http://bluemars.org/cryosleep.php The noise of humans or machines doesn't however.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Well that's a silly comment. Is your entire life based around percieved relevance? Zuckerberg could be considered "more relevant", but that doesn't make him a good person with morals.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Ironically, Microsoft tend to make sure that this never happens inside the Windows API.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Excellent idea. I'd also like to see less proportional charts i.e. with areas representing cash rather than proportion as well. Then we can see how much more or less one division in one company makes than another in the other company.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I'm working on a project with about 5000 HTTP endpoints and over 2 million lines of code. We don't need a precompiler!
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by bwarp 15y ago
I bet that was heard from Notes consultants...
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by bwarp 15y ago
Ha that took a minute to work out. Well played.
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by bwarp 15y ago
You just listen for keypresses. Trivial to defeat!
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by bwarp 15y ago
That's only because people are widely "stuck with it". I've not seen a single organisation in the last 10 years that has done a new deployment. It's always been hanging on by a thread, usually along with some Netware and occasionally DEC e
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by bwarp 15y ago
I'd actually completely forgotten about those hieroglyphic things! That and the three stars appearing when you hit a key. That was greeted with a massive WTF.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Small and disturbing flashback... I worked at an organisation which implemented Lotus Notes across everything. All I remember is EXCRUCIATING PAIN and armies of suited, gold decorated consultants who could barely get their own bodies into t
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by bwarp 15y ago
I think the word "Lotus" on this is going to kill it dead before it even gets of the ground. There is almost universal hatred for that brand (other than from a few people who paid for it and don't have to use products from that division of
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by bwarp 15y ago
He's not a user facing staff member and this is a blog aimed at very technical users only. Why would he make the posts nice and cuddly? We're grown-ups and should be able to take it. I have a lot of respect for Raymond Chen and have learned
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by bwarp 15y ago
They did a good job of hiding it all from the user if you ask me. Windows' security model is actually extremely robust and handles this sort of stuff really well. Take a look at this for a description of how it all works underneath the hood
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by bwarp 15y ago
I'll explain further: I used it extensively for about 3 months on a project and ended up binning it and going back to plain CSS. I experienced utterly unhelpful parse errors resulting in head scratching for literally hours. Small behavioral
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by bwarp 15y ago
Jump ship and do it soon! Firstly some background: I'm a solution architect in the UK who deals with .Net 90% of the time and has done for the last 10 years i.e. since day one. It was a bad decision to go down this route for me. I'd have be
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by bwarp 15y ago
I won't use LESS CSS for anything. Why? Because it's another layer of abstraction which is a pain in the arse to debug when it goes wrong, which it does regularly. It's ok for about 3 months which is enough to build some false confidence in

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