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I love my BareBones PAD.

too bad you can't get BBEdit for windows. I would love that.

Some will say - "just don't go to those sites" but the fact is that I receive dozens of SPAM messages with pornographic images each week. These are unsolicited, and unwelcome. They appear in all of the mailboxes that I have, whether or not I use those addresses to post to usenet groups or websites.

Fair enough. This one at least has a fix: use a different mailer. I switched to software that does POP-polling (grabs at least "from" and "subject") for my mail, and lets me delete it from the server without ever having seen it.

Windows:TheBat![RitLabs]
Macintosh:MailSmith[BareBonesSW]

Any Linux suggestions?

HTH, --jas

Even so, I still continue to use BBEdit to create my PHP/MySQL apps.

On the Mac side (classic & OS X native), BBEdit is the pro's choice... it does context-sensitive coloring, etc and is the hands-down favorite for any kind of program coding on the Mac -- and it recognizes SQL syntax as well.

Adobe just announced that Golive 6 for OS X would have the Zend debugger engine integrated within it, as well

Dreamweaver Ultradev is another good choice, but at this point in time PHP isn't exactly integrated into it unless you use 3rd party extensions or an abstraction layer like ADODB.

--dr00gy

Well then, you need one of these! They don't mention Linux drivers, though...

BBEdit.

What? You don't want to use a mac? I didn't think this was a religious war...

Indeed, the nice folks at Bare Bones Software have made DVD Player Helper, which lets Apple's DVD Player run even with MacsBug installed.

The obvious way to have software that doesn't suck is to use BBEdit .

Not for anyone running IE5 for MacOS (often described as the best browser yet). And before anyone accuses me of being a Mac weenie, I run the MacOS on my SuSE Linux box using Mac-on-Linux, so I can use things like IE5, Adobe Photoshop and BBEdit.

Not that it really matters; it's probably the same picture that I have here.

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But about making and selling applications with simpler, smaller feature sets, I think you're going to come up against two kinds of reality.

• The first is the fact that maintaining mostly essential features is a good thing (yay vi or bbedit) for the user and the programmer (especially in terms of memory, disk and cpu usage).
• The second is the fact that no average consumer is capable of passing up a feature, no matter how detrimental to their overall memory, disk, and cpu usage nor their stability. Besides the popularity of word, just take a look at an average permenently connected windows box, and see how many little pieces of crap software they're running at startup and in that little tray area that they jsut don't need, no longer understand, and often cause them to wonder why they keep getting error messages from this or that cryptic application name. They see a cool windows feature/extention on the net, they grab it, they forget.

-Daniel

Since you didn't say that you wanted it for Linux...

BBEdit for the Mac is fantastic. BBEdit 6.0 has PHP syntax highlighting, built-in FTP, and even breaks each page down into sections by function. If I could get a decent PHP editor (read as: BBEdit...I've tried lots of others) for Linux, I swear I'd switch to it as my primary desktop environment.

-Waldo

By contrast, even simple ASCII's line breaks get screwed up when sent to/from macs; in such cases, I have to edit the whole thing by hand before I can read it without cringing constantly.

Try using BBEdit

It is an awesome text/html editor for Mac.
Automatically converts mac/dos/unix line breaks and can save as any of them. Beats doing it by hand

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I can't normally run DVD player because i have macsbug installed and rebooting just for that seems kind of silly

The nice guys at Bare Bones came up with a fix... "DVD Player Helper" which you can download from http://www.barebones.com/free/free.html .

Apple does have a perfectly working MPEG-2 decoder in the Apple DVD player, but that won't run files off the hard drive

It's not perfect, but there is a software MPEG-2 player available for the Mac available at: http://fred.elma.fr/Soft_DVD/Soft_DVD.ht ml.

i personally think the $5000 and theimac should go to whoever manages to finally come out with some HFS+ support for linux/BSD. :P

*shrug* HFS+ filesystem support is opensource, in Darwin now, that's about as much help as I think people should need.
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Don't read HTML email. What's the point anyway?

Who needs bold when you have CAPS?

Who needs italics when you have /slashes/ and *asterisks*?

Who needs underline when you have _underscore_?

Personally, if I get HTML formatted email from someone I don't know I trash it immediately. If someone is dumb enough to use that garbage for email then I wont read it.

My email client of choice is Mailsmith (sorry, Mac only). It is the most comprehensive client I have found... and it doesn't have any bloat on it like HTML email (THANK GOODNESS). It also lets you do queries (grep if you want to) of your email database. Also has other cool things like text manipulation, assignable key commands, and full AppleScript integration that other mail clients don't have. All this, and Bare Bones Software has the best customer support in the world.

Beats the hell out of Microsoft Outlook Express that most of my friends use. Blech!

Too bad Apple killed Claris Emailer, it was kinda cool too.

Pine is still my favorite command-line email program. No need to worry about HTML email with that one either :)

Ben

I shall ignore the second part of your story because it is absurd. As other posters have noted, you should have examined the package before accepting it; the shipping company is liable for damages that occured in transit.

In the first part of your story you mentioned the flames over the unintended characters most of us see when you post stories you composed with MS Word. You do not need to "learn Linux" in order to remedy that. You only need to learn basic HTML and compose your posts using it. There are numerous 10 minute HTML tutorials on the Web to which you can turn. Download BBEdit Lite 4.1 an excellent freeware (i.e. gratis, but no source code provided) editor for the Mac; use it instead of MS Word.

You are on the Web. The Web came about precisely because of the myriad of incompatible document formats and the difficulty in retrieving them that Tim Berners-Lee found at CERN. If you are unwilling to learn even the slightest bit about the tools of this environment, then go back to the print world and take the rest of the clueless, sycophantic journalists with you.

How can you be so damn ignorant? no...wait I already have the answers:

1. As you have admitted, you have been a Mac user for 10 years;
2. You are a writer/journalist.

'Nuff said.

P.S. If you have a Mac, then why the bloody !@#$ are you not installing LinuxPPC?!!