My speed on QWERTY is limited primarily by vendors' differing key pitches.
At one point I purchased three loud old IBM keyboards with identical key-spacings. I installed them on my home machine and two work machines. This worked great, and for two years I was in heaven. I could bang out code and letters faster than ever before.
Then, I got assigned part-time admin duty, and had to work on about 20 different machines. At the end of the day, I'd go back to my home machine, and my fingers had been retrained to whatever idiot's keybaord I'd been working on that day.
Since then, I've just given up. But what I really would like from a keyboard is an ISO standard key size and pitch, and laws forcing compliance.:)
So, to beat the slashdotting, I rushed out and upgraded through Red Carpet. Now my contact lists are broken, the task and calendar components won't launch, and I've got six year old emails showing up in weird vfolders without having been setup.
I love Evolution (it was XEmacs VM before this, which renders HTML in non-Internet time), but I think they need a 1.2.1 pretty fast.
BTW - anyone know how to get the filters' script invocations to process message text? I've been wanting to hack in a working inline PGP decoder for months! I know they've been discussing this option (i.e. filter-invoked shell scripting), but I can't find a reference to how to pass message text into the shell script.
It's too bad that they're spending money on redevelopment here. Desktop holy war considerations aside, it would be nice to see their efforts go to extending Evolution's *existing* interoperability with their target systems.
Even if the fees are kept "reasonable", I'm concerned about managing the subscriptions.
At this point, I've got accounts with so many vendors, download sites, auction houses, news sites, and etc., that I simply cannot keep track. Some of them I only know I have because of the spam I receive from their hosts. Some are managed by cookies that I permit, but when some lame site wants to set ten cookies on my box and I know they're just trolling for data, they're out. Every one of these sites will suggest something like "But WE provide a valuable service - surely you understand that we require a bit of work on your part". Thousands of them later, you're swamped.
If there are access privileges and fees associated with these accounts, I'll be forced to keep records on every one. They become valuable assets in and of themselves - shoot, some may even be tax deductible.
Has any thought been given to management systems? Perhaps a central clearinghouse or one of these distributed micropayment schemes I don't hear about anymore? If they're going to make me pay, I want them to work for me. In addition to the supposed benefits of membership, I'd like it if they don't overcomplicate my life. Think there's any chance that'll happen?
Not everything you pursue during your professional career will be sexy, exciting, or fun. Some of it is complete drudgery. You'll fight OBOB's till the end of time, in one form or another. They'll always be boring and stand in the way of your true goals. But they are mere obstacles - don't overemphasize their importance. Just learn to endure them and you'll be better prepared for the real world. My experience is that things don't stay in the drudgery realm forever. You get past the hurdles and then get to focus again on architecting your masterpieces! Be patient.
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My speed on QWERTY is limited primarily by vendors' differing key pitches.
:)
At one point I purchased three loud old IBM keyboards with identical key-spacings. I installed them on my home machine and two work machines. This worked great, and for two years I was in heaven. I could bang out code and letters faster than ever before.
Then, I got assigned part-time admin duty, and had to work on about 20 different machines. At the end of the day, I'd go back to my home machine, and my fingers had been retrained to whatever idiot's keybaord I'd been working on that day.
Since then, I've just given up. But what I really would like from a keyboard is an ISO standard key size and pitch, and laws forcing compliance.
That explains it. Many thanks!
Any ideas on the scripting?
So, to beat the slashdotting, I rushed out and upgraded through Red Carpet. Now my contact lists are broken, the task and calendar components won't launch, and I've got six year old emails showing up in weird vfolders without having been setup.
I love Evolution (it was XEmacs VM before this, which renders HTML in non-Internet time), but I think they need a 1.2.1 pretty fast.
BTW - anyone know how to get the filters' script invocations to process message text? I've been wanting to hack in a working inline PGP decoder for months! I know they've been discussing this option (i.e. filter-invoked shell scripting), but I can't find a reference to how to pass message text into the shell script.
It's too bad that they're spending money on redevelopment here. Desktop holy war considerations aside, it would be nice to see their efforts go to extending Evolution's *existing* interoperability with their target systems.
Even if the fees are kept "reasonable", I'm concerned about managing the subscriptions.
At this point, I've got accounts with so many vendors, download sites, auction houses, news sites, and etc., that I simply cannot keep track. Some of them I only know I have because of the spam I receive from their hosts. Some are managed by cookies that I permit, but when some lame site wants to set ten cookies on my box and I know they're just trolling for data, they're out. Every one of these sites will suggest something like "But WE provide a valuable service - surely you understand that we require a bit of work on your part". Thousands of them later, you're swamped.
If there are access privileges and fees associated with these accounts, I'll be forced to keep records on every one. They become valuable assets in and of themselves - shoot, some may even be tax deductible.
Has any thought been given to management systems? Perhaps a central clearinghouse or one of these distributed micropayment schemes I don't hear about anymore? If they're going to make me pay, I want them to work for me. In addition to the supposed benefits of membership, I'd like it if they don't overcomplicate my life. Think there's any chance that'll happen?
Not everything you pursue during your professional career will be sexy, exciting, or fun. Some of it is complete drudgery. You'll fight OBOB's till the end of time, in one form or another. They'll always be boring and stand in the way of your true goals. But they are mere obstacles - don't overemphasize their importance. Just learn to endure them and you'll be better prepared for the real world. My experience is that things don't stay in the drudgery realm forever. You get past the hurdles and then get to focus again on architecting your masterpieces! Be patient.