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  1. Re:How to proceed? by croddy · · Score: 1 · on Businesses Urged To Use Unofficial Windows Patch

    There's no need to run a Windows-based virus scanner to scan for Windows-based viruses -- after all, what other sort of viruses are there? :-) Run Aegis Virus Scanner natively on your home directory.

  2. Re:I still have hope for gnome. by Jodrell · · Score: 1 · on Feature Preview of Gnome 2.8
    8. Give me an "advanced mode" to turn on all kinds of extra GUI configuration bells and whistles like keybindings, autoraise, MIME types, etc.
    gconf-editor and GNOME Hacks are your friend :)
    I should also add that GNOME has had dialogs for key bindings and MIME types since version 2.0.
  3. Re:I still have hope for gnome. by Jodrell · · Score: 1 · on Feature Preview of Gnome 2.8
    8. Give me an "advanced mode" to turn on all kinds of extra GUI configuration bells and whistles like keybindings, autoraise, MIME types, etc.
    gconf-editor and GNOME Hacks are your friend :)
    I should also add that GNOME has had dialogs for key bindings and MIME types since version 2.0.
  4. Re:I still have hope for gnome. by Jodrell · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Feature Preview of Gnome 2.8
    1. Jettison the whole gconf/registry thing in favor of a tree of plain text config files in .gnome or something

    If you're a system administrator, gconf is a godsend. You can "lock down" certain preferences so your users can't break things or waste time playing with useless preferences. Another win from using GConf is that it's "process transparent." This means that if I change a setting from one application, it instantly updates in all other applications that are interested in that setting. This technology is vital for the snazzy "instant apply" UI of GNOME, and vital for writing applications made up of multiple out-of-process components.

    3. Give me a default window manager with the ability to select focus-follows-mouse mouse


    GNOME Menu -> Preferences -> Windows, then select the "Select windows when the mouse moves over them".

    5. Choose: either a) reincorporate gecko into Nautilus for Web browsing or b) go lightweight and jettison Nautilus for the old gmc


    Nautilus isn't a web browser, use Epiphany for that. Nautilus's performance has come on leaps and bounds in the last couple of years, particular between 2.4 and 2.6.

    6. Create a base distribution of official GNOME applications from a lot of the GTK stuff out there, based on which authors agree to follow a rigidly follow a GNOME style guide and use the GNOME API rather than just GTK, so that there is more desktop consistency


    More and more of the GNOME API is moving into Gtk+ - the icon theme implementation, for example, and the new UI Manager system. But GNOME can't coerce other developers into following their guidelines, they can only encourage them.

    You may also find that things like the GNOME Fifth Toe has what you want.

    7. Add compatibility with KDE themes to GTK, since they seem superior (ability to change colors, not just widget styles, etc.)


    Check out this project for a Gtk-Qt unifying theme.

    8. Give me an "advanced mode" to turn on all kinds of extra GUI configuration bells and whistles like keybindings, autoraise, MIME types, etc.


    gconf-editor and GNOME Hacks are your friend :)
  5. Short on solutions bar list admins clueing up by ffub · · Score: 5, Informative · on Volunteering for OSS == Sign Up for Spam?

    Try using simply foss@domain for lists, and them filter ad filter and filter it. I do agree this is very annoying, and although some listservs do respect this and change the email addresses on list servers, this can't be relied apon. I can't choose my participation based on which projects are going to give my email away.

    The only solution that will effectively work (until we fix the spam problem all round) is for list admins to be more careful about munging email addresses to some degree.

    The default setting for programs such as pipermail should be one where email addresses are not explicitly displayed.

    The best solution I've found to solve problems with email addresses online is Jodrell's mailto php script which renders the address obfuscated but displays it correctly in the browser using JavaScript.

    http://jodrell.net/projects/mailto

  6. Re:I've always thought by andih8u · · Score: 3, Informative · on Baffling the Spam Bots

    I've been using this http://jodrell.net/projects/mailto which puts your mailto link into a coupla hundred character long javascript. People can still click on the mailto link as per norm, but getting the address from the source is a different matter.

  7. Mirror by Jodrell · · Score: 1 · on Translucent Windows for X using OpenGL

    http://jodrell.net/files/mirrors/www.stud.uni-karl sruhe.de/

  8. Re:obligatory /.-ted remark by Jodrell · · Score: 3, Informative · on Cross-Site-TRACE

    Just in case, here's a mirror. No PDF but bzipped versions of the HTML and text versions.

  9. Screenshot by Jodrell · · Score: 5, Informative · on Mozilla Jumps on 'Lean Browser' Bandwagon

    Here's a screenshot of Phoenix (mirrored here), if you're interested (via Google).