I do all my stuff in text mode emacs, on the server. I can get stuff done incredibly faster than anyone else I work with, whose general mentality would be to be ftping files back and forth and using a Windows based GUI I guess.
I just can't understand why I would want to be working in a pretty GUI when I can ssh in to the servers and edit the code in emacs, with php syntax highlighting, etc. Changes take affect immediately, whether it is a production site or in development. I can edit any file very fast, create symlinks on the server, change permissions, copy my common base classes I use in nearly every client project that requires form input.
The sites are designed by others using pretty adobe products and then I come in and can do something like write an emacs macro to rename all their.html files to.php, strip out the common header & footer html and change it to standard includes, and take the content and put it in a simple content editor so we don't have to be bothered again by the client, and do this by recording some keystrokes.
For example, I can't convince some of these people we are working with to switch to XML, Latex, or something for publishing their articles, instead they want to do everything in Ms Word. But they also want it in HTML. When you export you get a horrible mess and it totally becomes apparent how messy and inconsistent the formatting is when formatted with the GUIs.
So for example right now I have the option of taking either a.doc or.pdf of a medical journal article and making an.html version. The word export is horrid even after cleaned up by tidy, etc, so I find myself copying & pasting raw text from xpdf and doing macros in emacs for the simple formatting.
For example 10 minutes before starting this comment I had to take the references and convert them from the plain text pasted from xpdf to html format.
In emacs I can do a simple macro like:
Ctrl-a (go to beginning of line) Ctrl-o (insert blank line) <tr> (type <tr>) Ctrl-n (go to next line) C-a (go to begging of this line) <td> (type td, which is before the 1. or 2. etc) Esc-f (jump forward a word, ie over the number) Arrow-Right (move over the period) </td>(type the closing td after the reference number) <td> (type <td> for start next cell) Alt-x search-forward-regexp ^[0-9] (regular expression to move to the next line starting with a number) Ctrl-a (move to beggining of line) Enter Arrow-Up (essentially insert new line) </td> </tr> Enter Ctrl-n (goto next line, ie back to the 2.( Ctrl-a (goto the begging of the line, ie the final position and ready for the next interation of the macro).
What I just described was to automatically change the plain text copy and pasted from the pdf like:
23. Ravussin, E., S. Lillioja, T.E. Anderson, L. Christin, and C. Bogardus. 1986. Determinants of 24-hour energy expenditure in man. Methods and results using a respiratory chamber. J. Clin. Invest. 78:1568
to the following html:
<td>23.</td><td>Ravussi n, E., S. Lillioja, T.E. Anderson, L. Christin, and C. Bogardus. 1986. Determinants of 24-hour energy expenditure in man. Methods and results using a respiratory chamber. J. Clin. Invest. 78:1568</td>
But in a macro that can be executed once to fix all 23+ reference entries (Esc-2-3 Ctrl-x e).
I would very much appreciate if someone could explain how the same thing could be done in Visual Studio IDE, with the exact same logic that I used to be able to automatically move to the next line starting with a number, etc, because of the references that have more than one or two lines, etc.
I admittedly have never used Visual Studio nor used anything besides Internet Explorer & MSN on Windows for several years and I am wondering whether the same things can be accomplished just as easily. Again, this was the last thing I had to do a few minutes ago, not the only type of stuff I do.
Cable internet in Zihuatanejo is $27US (290mxn) / month. Maximum download speed is about 8 - 10kbps. I have never seen the official bandwidth rating that they are supposed to supply. TV cable is not required.
In Morelia, a Mexican city with over 1,000,000 people, 64kbps cable costs $34US (360mxn) / month. TV cable is required on top of this. The service in Zihuatanejo, 70,000 people, is actually faster, cheaper, and more reliable than in Morelia which has 1,000,000 people.
It is not particularly fast at all, but the always on makes it well worth it versus dialup with the local telephone companies charging for local calls.
Unless all domain registrars begin doing background checks before handing out domains (which isn't going to happen), you will have no way of knowing if a particular domain that you have never received mail from is generating spam or not.
But you will be able to have domain blocklists less likely to be blocking valid email.
You can get lots of spam that says it is coming from yahoo.com, but you can't blacklist that domain, because it has so many valid users. Whereas if spammers are forced to be sending from their own domain names, you can block those, getting the blocklists using the current methods.
You'll find me in Zihuatanejo right now. I work remotely, basically over SSH, with Emacs, PHP, Qmail, basically web programming stuff in PHP, with people in Canada looking after the clients, graphics, etc. This week my top priority is tweaking or enhancing our spam filtering for the clients.
All this stuff can be done remotely, if you are working for another business in your own country who is dealing with the clients, etc.
You just need to lower your rates a little. You'll still be able to live very well, even if you are charging less than at home.
For example, rent here, 3 minutes walking from the beach in downtown Zihuatanejo, 2500 pesos / month, or $295 cdn. Cable internet is $290 pesos / month.
For me, I don't know what else I could ask for.
I get lonely, and somewhat depressed when working on larger, more time consuming projects. But if you are going to be working remotely anyway, you might as well do it somewhere cheap, fun, and warm, instead of freezing your rear end off couped up in a small apartment in Canada, for example.
Besides, MSN messenger is bottom rung anyway. If you're really concerned about having a an instant messenger for Linux, why not use ICQ?
Because my employment requires me to use MSN messenger?
The other people in our small organization had already more or less standardized on MSN before I came along. They are already very accomodating to my needs by letting MSN be our primary means of communication aside from email, and there is no way I could ever expect them to switch messaging programs. Its bad enough they can't pick up the phone and call me.
I do contract web development jobs, which are all passed on to me by one specific company, in Canada. But after doing this for a while up there, I decided there was no reason I couldn't do the exact same thing from Mexico, with a high speed cable connection. The only problem is that the long distance is prohibitively expensive, at about 76 cdn cents / minute.
For this reason MSN messenger is very important for me. Plus, I have been using Linux exclusively for 6 years, come this labour day weekend. Everything I do work wise is 100% Linux related, mostly MySQL & PHP on Linux servers. I need Linux running locally, I could never go back to Windows.
So what do you suggest I do? Ask everyone else I work with, albeit remotely, to switch to another service just for me??
Right now I use Gaim. For me, the message logging is also another very important benefit of using Gaim as oppossed to the Microsoft version. I need the logs to remember the conversations and what ever little things they asked to have done, although of course big descriptions are sent through email but the little modifications they mention over MSN, I need to remember these. And as far as I know the Microsoft version does not support any logging features.
When they refer to security, it wouldn't surprise me if they are concerned about the third party clients having these logging features. I know some people are pretty surprised when I quote old conversations. Could it not be thought of as a security concern if people don't think their conversations can be logged, when in fact they can be by third party clients?
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Speaking as a Canadian, There is no way you can say we speak British english, it ain't even close with the exception of a few spellings. For example metre instead of meter, etc, but as far everything else goes we speak much more Americanly than Britishly.
If it were really about airline security, they would make a special strip search screening line. So you go through into a little room, they completely search you, not necessarily a strip search but completely search you and your carry on luggage, and let you go. Really, I don't think the government has any right to even know your name. You should be able to fly where ever you want, when ever you want, without being tracked. As long as you pass the security screening before you get onto the plane, what the fuck right does the government have to know anything else about you?
You stated that the Windows NUL device was equivalent in functionality to the Unix/dev/null. And now I am showing you that no, it doesn't necessarily provide the same functionality.
Personally, I would compare the ingredients with tylenol to the ingredients with the no-name product beside it, and after realizing its the same damn thing, purchase the cheaper of the two.
No matter how you rationalize it, if you buy a diamond, Canadian, from DeBeers, estate sale, or otherwise, you are perpetuating this apparent tradition.
So while you think you got a got deal, and are not supporting the diamond cartels, you in fact are. Every time another women looks at your fiancees ring, the apparent traditional will be reinforced in another persons mind.
I think of it like this, and can't believe I haven't seen it anywhere else yet.
You can run around downloading warezed copies of Windows 2000 and Microsoft Office, and declare that you feel good about not giving a god damned penny to those evil Microsoft people. But every time you download and use a Windows product, every time you accept an emailed Microsoft Word document, every time you tell people you use Windows, every time you don't tell people your believes about why Microsoft is bad but use Windows anyway, during all these situations you are further perpetuating the Microsoft monopoly. And I see diamonds in the exact same way.
It's a given that people drive faster than the current speed limits. Right now they have to deal with just the odd ticket. But if it becomes widespread and everyone starts getting a lot of tickets, then there will be widespread unrest and if it starts costing people a lot of money, then it will indeed be worth their while to complain.
I refer you to the other thread about Photo Radar being repealed in Ontario for evidence.
In the future there might not always be those people working in the toll booths, and this sets a bad precedent.
Take the new 407 Highway in Toronto Ontario. It is completely automated. It uses transponders, and if you don't have a trasponder it snaps pictures of your license plates. There is no stopping anywhere to pay tolls, whether or not you have a transponder.
So while you may think its an option to just use the pay booths right now, wait a few years down the road until your state goes completely automated like Toronto, and then you won't have a choice at all. Don't let the precedents be set now.
I just went to conduct this same test. After clicking sign-up hotmail told me by browser wasn't supported. I'm using Mozilla. Now I'm wondering why this isn't news.
Maybe because that something else dotcom will be bankrupt in 6 months, and they'd be stuck in that situation where you have to go and tell all your friends about your new email address.
That happened to me with zxmail.com, and I was quite pissed off. They wanted $100 or something for one year of service upfront, to keep the account. From then on I vowed never to use another small webmail service.
This is exactly what I did. I created a hotmail account in January, just for Messenger (my boss insists). I've never received spam. I used to think Hotmail sold the addresses, but now I'm more inclined to believe its just spammers sending to the common addresses. My name is scott, and it wouldn't surprise me if the accounts scott1, scott2, scott3, etc all get spammed regularly, but mine which is scott_81mx is cryptic enough not to be assumed as something people would choose, by the spammers.
If so much effort wasn't spent fixing the problems beforehand, than something catastrophic very well could have happened. Booting up a PC wasn't the issue.
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"don't go" is an imperative command, ie. "No te vayas".
I do all my stuff in text mode emacs, on the server. I can get stuff done incredibly faster than anyone else I work with, whose general mentality would be to be ftping files back and forth and using a Windows based GUI I guess.
.html files to .php, strip out the common header & footer html and change it to standard includes, and take the content and put it in a simple content editor so we don't have to be bothered again by the client, and do this by recording some keystrokes.
.doc or .pdf of a medical journal article and making an .html version. The word export is horrid even after cleaned up by tidy, etc, so I find myself copying & pasting raw text from xpdf and doing macros in emacs for the simple formatting.
I just can't understand why I would want to be working in a pretty GUI when I can ssh in to the servers and edit the code in emacs, with php syntax highlighting, etc. Changes take affect immediately, whether it is a production site or in development. I can edit any file very fast, create symlinks on the server, change permissions, copy my common base classes I use in nearly every client project that requires form input.
The sites are designed by others using pretty adobe products and then I come in and can do something like write an emacs macro to rename all their
For example, I can't convince some of these people we are working with to switch to XML, Latex, or something for publishing their articles, instead they want to do everything in Ms Word. But they also want it in HTML. When you export you get a horrible mess and it totally becomes apparent how messy and inconsistent the formatting is when formatted with the GUIs.
So for example right now I have the option of taking either a
For example 10 minutes before starting this comment I had to take the references and convert them from the plain text pasted from xpdf to html format.
In emacs I can do a simple macro like:
Ctrl-a (go to beginning of line)
Ctrl-o (insert blank line)
<tr> (type <tr>)
Ctrl-n (go to next line)
C-a (go to begging of this line)
<td> (type td, which is before the 1. or 2. etc)
Esc-f (jump forward a word, ie over the number)
Arrow-Right (move over the period)
</td>(type the closing td after the reference number)
<td> (type <td> for start next cell)
Alt-x search-forward-regexp
^[0-9] (regular expression to move to the next line starting with a number)
Ctrl-a (move to beggining of line)
Enter
Arrow-Up (essentially insert new line)
</td>
</tr>
Enter
Ctrl-n (goto next line, ie back to the 2.(
Ctrl-a (goto the begging of the line, ie the final position and ready for the next interation of the macro).
What I just described was to automatically change the plain text copy and pasted from the pdf like:
23. Ravussin, E., S. Lillioja, T.E. Anderson, L. Christin, and C. Bogardus.
1986. Determinants of 24-hour energy expenditure in man. Methods and results
using a respiratory chamber. J. Clin. Invest. 78:1568
to the following html:
<td>23.</td><td>Ravussi n, E., S. Lillioja, T.E. Anderson, L. Christin, and C. Bogardus.
1986. Determinants of 24-hour energy expenditure in man. Methods and results
using a respiratory chamber. J. Clin. Invest. 78:1568</td>
But in a macro that can be executed once to fix all 23+ reference entries (Esc-2-3 Ctrl-x e).
I would very much appreciate if someone could explain how the same thing could be done in Visual Studio IDE, with the exact same logic that I used to be able to automatically move to the next line starting with a number, etc, because of the references that have more than one or two lines, etc.
I admittedly have never used Visual Studio nor used anything besides Internet Explorer & MSN on Windows for several years and I am wondering whether the same things can be accomplished just as easily. Again, this was the last thing I had to do a few minutes ago, not the only type of stuff I do.
Why don't you just click on the whitespace directly before the link and start your highlighting there.
Cable internet in Zihuatanejo is $27US (290mxn) / month. Maximum download speed is about 8 - 10kbps. I have never seen the official bandwidth rating that they are supposed to supply. TV cable is not required.
In Morelia, a Mexican city with over 1,000,000 people, 64kbps cable costs $34US (360mxn) / month. TV cable is required on top of this. The service in Zihuatanejo, 70,000 people, is actually faster, cheaper, and more reliable than in Morelia which has 1,000,000 people.
It is not particularly fast at all, but the always on makes it well worth it versus dialup with the local telephone companies charging for local calls.
Unless all domain registrars begin doing background checks before handing out domains (which isn't going to happen), you will have no way of knowing if a particular domain that you have never received mail from is generating spam or not.
But you will be able to have domain blocklists less likely to be blocking valid email.
You can get lots of spam that says it is coming from yahoo.com, but you can't blacklist that domain, because it has so many valid users. Whereas if spammers are forced to be sending from their own domain names, you can block those, getting the blocklists using the current methods.
I think that must be the theory.
You'll find me in Zihuatanejo right now. I work remotely, basically over SSH, with Emacs, PHP, Qmail, basically web programming stuff in PHP, with people in Canada looking after the clients, graphics, etc. This week my top priority is tweaking or enhancing our spam filtering for the clients.
All this stuff can be done remotely, if you are working for another business in your own country who is dealing with the clients, etc.
You just need to lower your rates a little. You'll still be able to live very well, even if you are charging less than at home.
For example, rent here, 3 minutes walking from the beach in downtown Zihuatanejo, 2500 pesos / month, or $295 cdn. Cable internet is $290 pesos / month.
For me, I don't know what else I could ask for.
I get lonely, and somewhat depressed when working on larger, more time consuming projects. But if you are going to be working remotely anyway, you might as well do it somewhere cheap, fun, and warm, instead of freezing your rear end off couped up in a small apartment in Canada, for example.
Besides, MSN messenger is bottom rung anyway. If you're really concerned about having a an instant messenger for Linux, why not use ICQ?
Because my employment requires me to use MSN messenger?
The other people in our small organization had already more or less standardized on MSN before I came along. They are already very accomodating to my needs by letting MSN be our primary means of communication aside from email, and there is no way I could ever expect them to switch messaging programs. Its bad enough they can't pick up the phone and call me.
I do contract web development jobs, which are all passed on to me by one specific company, in Canada. But after doing this for a while up there, I decided there was no reason I couldn't do the exact same thing from Mexico, with a high speed cable connection. The only problem is that the long distance is prohibitively expensive, at about 76 cdn cents / minute.
For this reason MSN messenger is very important for me. Plus, I have been using Linux exclusively for 6 years, come this labour day weekend. Everything I do work wise is 100% Linux related, mostly MySQL & PHP on Linux servers. I need Linux running locally, I could never go back to Windows.
So what do you suggest I do? Ask everyone else I work with, albeit remotely, to switch to another service just for me??
Right now I use Gaim. For me, the message logging is also another very important benefit of using Gaim as oppossed to the Microsoft version. I need the logs to remember the conversations and what ever little things they asked to have done, although of course big descriptions are sent through email but the little modifications they mention over MSN, I need to remember these. And as far as I know the Microsoft version does not support any logging features.
When they refer to security, it wouldn't surprise me if they are concerned about the third party clients having these logging features. I know some people are pretty surprised when I quote old conversations. Could it not be thought of as a security concern if people don't think their conversations can be logged, when in fact they can be by third party clients?
Speaking as a Canadian, There is no way you can say we speak British english, it ain't even close with the exception of a few spellings. For example metre instead of meter, etc, but as far everything else goes we speak much more Americanly than Britishly.
I read on cbc.ca a few days ago that Canada has dropped to 8th place on the UN list.
That way if a legitimate site is blocked, everyone will know why and be able to appeal its inclusion on the list. Seems fine to me.
And who is going to stand up publicly and declare they are upset because they can't get to a site listed on the kiddie porn list?
If it were really about airline security, they would make a special strip search screening line. So you go through into a little room, they completely search you, not necessarily a strip search but completely search you and your carry on luggage, and let you go. Really, I don't think the government has any right to even know your name. You should be able to fly where ever you want, when ever you want, without being tracked. As long as you pass the security screening before you get onto the plane, what the fuck right does the government have to know anything else about you?
Thats not because of incompatible versions. Its a security consideration, configurable in the configuration file.
You stated that the Windows NUL device was equivalent in functionality to the Unix /dev/null. And now I am showing you that no, it doesn't necessarily provide the same functionality.
Well whatever, but if you can't symlink cookies.txt , for example, to this windows null device, then it doesn't have equivalent functionality.
How do you create a symlink to this NUL device?
My area code, 519 from London, Ontario, works just fine and in fact returned 623 results. The site iA only.
Personally, I would compare the ingredients with tylenol to the ingredients with the no-name product beside it, and after realizing its the same damn thing, purchase the cheaper of the two.
No matter how you rationalize it, if you buy a diamond, Canadian, from DeBeers, estate sale, or otherwise, you are perpetuating this apparent tradition.
So while you think you got a got deal, and are not supporting the diamond cartels, you in fact are. Every time another women looks at your fiancees ring, the apparent traditional will be reinforced in another persons mind.
I think of it like this, and can't believe I haven't seen it anywhere else yet.
You can run around downloading warezed copies of Windows 2000 and Microsoft Office, and declare that you feel good about not giving a god damned penny to those evil Microsoft people. But every time you download and use a Windows product, every time you accept an emailed Microsoft Word document, every time you tell people you use Windows, every time you don't tell people your believes about why Microsoft is bad but use Windows anyway, during all these situations you are further perpetuating the Microsoft monopoly. And I see diamonds in the exact same way.
She needs a ring that apparently most other married women have to make her feel special?
It's a given that people drive faster than the current speed limits. Right now they have to deal with just the odd ticket. But if it becomes widespread and everyone starts getting a lot of tickets, then there will be widespread unrest and if it starts costing people a lot of money, then it will indeed be worth their while to complain.
I refer you to the other thread about Photo Radar being repealed in Ontario for evidence.
In the future there might not always be those people working in the toll booths, and this sets a bad precedent.
Take the new 407 Highway in Toronto Ontario. It is completely automated. It uses transponders, and if you don't have a trasponder it snaps pictures of your license plates. There is no stopping anywhere to pay tolls, whether or not you have a transponder.
So while you may think its an option to just use the pay booths right now, wait a few years down the road until your state goes completely automated like Toronto, and then you won't have a choice at all. Don't let the precedents be set now.
I just went to conduct this same test. After clicking sign-up hotmail told me by browser wasn't supported. I'm using Mozilla. Now I'm wondering why this isn't news.
Maybe because that something else dotcom will be bankrupt in 6 months, and they'd be stuck in that situation where you have to go and tell all your friends about your new email address.
That happened to me with zxmail.com, and I was quite pissed off. They wanted $100 or something for one year of service upfront, to keep the account. From then on I vowed never to use another small webmail service.
This is exactly what I did. I created a hotmail account in January, just for Messenger (my boss insists). I've never received spam. I used to think Hotmail sold the addresses, but now I'm more inclined to believe its just spammers sending to the common addresses. My name is scott, and it wouldn't surprise me if the accounts scott1, scott2, scott3, etc all get spammed regularly, but mine which is scott_81mx is cryptic enough not to be assumed as something people would choose, by the spammers.
If so much effort wasn't spent fixing the problems beforehand, than something catastrophic very well could have happened. Booting up a PC wasn't the issue.