They need a format that can unambiguously contain several whole emails exactly as they were. Full headers, text/html vs text/plain parts, etc.
In that case, Message -> Redirect will send a copy that is exactly the same as the original except for the addition of a few informational headers (Resent-date, Resent-from, and Resent-to).
I am impressed that you managed to follow my hyperlink to something you'd claimed to have read anyway on only the second try. Keep it up.
No, I don't think it's useful at all. Where on earth did you get that from? While I think forwarding messages is tremendously useful, I think forwarding them as attachments is an abomination before God and man. In fact it's the Carrot Top of email features.
And how do you know you'll never forward me a message? Maybe I'm your boss. Or your next boss.
I do. My point in this case was to echo the sentiments of the others who posted, lest you come to the erroneous conclusion that they represented smaller numbers than they do.
In so doing I hope to reduce the chance that you or anyone else would ever again do the grave disservice of forwarding me a message as an attachment.
Small ones are, but not necessarily large ones - depends on what you're doing.
Sounds like the work you do is a lot of B&W where the bulk of data is text positioning.
My experience comes from the glossy magazine world (managed transfer to all-digital production at a magazine on almost every newsstand in the USA). Worked with documents of similar size to yours, but fewer pages I'm sure. Most of the data was color images, which don't necessarily get much smaller in PDF unless you're throwing away quality (which we couldn't, and if we did, it was done in Photoshop long before any PostScript was generated). Also some processes don't generate compressed PS, but there's no good reason not to.
Anyway, the nightmare never came. We used PDFs for proofing and rarely if ever encountered problems.
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They're using PDFlib under Perl (as the PDF preamble clearly states)
Nice solution but is it elegant? Is it efficient? I can tell you for experience that going through Postscript to get to PDF will sooner or later turn into a nightmare.
When? Why? It's worked great for me for a decade, including documents of substantial size and complexity.
Yeah, but, to be fair, Pogue writes books about the operating system that he's reviewing. It's in his best financial interest for people to adopt the new OS. I've always found it really dubious that the Times lets him report on the Mac since he's not exactly what you'd call a neutral observer.
Yeah, those bastards. Next thing they'll start allowing war correspondents to report from Iraq, even though they have a financial interest in the war continuing since it's their job to report about it. I agree with you and propose that nobody who writes about something for a living should be allowed to write about it. New golden age of objectivity, here we come!
Most (all?) of the towers around my area are now solar-cell powered, with the exception of some really big telco microwave towers, which have a diesel generator (mostly because the equipment needs to be air-conditioned).
I don't know much about this since I consider snow to be the worst sort of poison (i.e., the cold kind) but it seems as if in heavy-snow mountainous areas there might be a problem with buildup on the solar panel in the winter months.
Assuming you could still see the same satellite, there's probably no technical reason (although I'm sure it's prohibited both by contract and maybe even encryption export laws). If you can't see the same satellites, then it wouldn't work.
Does anyone know the footprint of the satellite you'd be assigned to if you were to subscribe in, for instance, Brownsville, TX? On the web site they say you need a view of the southern sky. Would that same satellite be visible from Nicaragua? That's less far south from Browsville than Indianapolis is north.
...but I gotta say, that's one damn cool setup you've described. Kinda curious why you don't do line-of-sight radio to the top of the mountain, though. Running the wire must have cost a bundle.
Maybe they needed to run it anyway to get power up there, so people didn't have to climb the mountain in the snow to change batteries all the time.
Sattelite Internet service may also be an option, although possibly expensive.
Slightly off-topic, but a question about satellite internet...
Imagine you were in a not-so-rich country within, say, 1500 miles of the continental US, in which high speed internet access outside of the capital city is VERY expensive.
Among the few options available there is Hughes Direcway, except at about 15 times the going price in the USA.
Assuming the availability of expert personnel to mount the dish, is there anything stopping someone from subscribing in the USA and then bringing the dish there? The cost of the flight would be covered in about 2 months' service fees.
Does anyone know what the resolution is of an external monitor connected to one of these?
I'd love to get the 12" Powerbook but ONLY if I can connect my 19" monitor when at home and get at least 1280x1024. Otherwise I'm sticking with the clunky old desktop; screen real estate is more important than speed to me.
You are completely wrong. You don't have to have reverse DNS set up to set up a host. You can do it with a semi-static IP, as long as you are willing to lose mail for a day or two whenever you have to change your NS records.
You're showing your youth and inexperience here. What he's talking about is a host record with the registry, which is the structure that stores information about authoritative name servers for a domain.
Some registrars require reverse DNS for these and some don't.
You definitely cannot use a dynamic ("semi-static") IP address (well, I guess you could, but it would be a massive hassle and your domains would fail to resolve half the time).
What you're thinking of is the target of a non-NS DNS RR.
"It just works" because you've already put the effort into setting up your network, NOT because of some fad named "rendezvous"
Sorry dude, you don't know what you're talking about here. Not everyone lives in the Windows world of Merit Through Misery.
Rendezvous with Macs works as follows:
Remove Macintoshes from original boxes.
Physically connect their network interfaces to each other with some sort of cables (crossover or regular, doesn't matter) and hubs/switches if necessary - OR - just stick wireless cards in them.
Turn them on. Each computer will ask you to give it a name, if it hasn't been named yet.
That's it, you're done. They all find each other and you can immediately start sharing files and services. At any time you can add or remove machines and they will all play nicely. Should you want to fine-tune the configuration to accommodate specialized local needs, you have available the GUI control panels plus a comprehensive suite of Unix command-line tools; whichever you prefer.
yeah gimp can't handle raster graphics !
Do you know what your saying ?
I know exactly what I'm saying. Of course it can handle raster graphics, that's what it's for. However it is not "a decent 2-D vector or raster graphics app," to the standard set by the commercial alternatives. It is a toy and a proof-of-concept and the basis for a lot of embarrassing arguments by zealots who do not do serious professional graphics work.
Our graghics people are gettting The Gimp for Windows instead of Photoshop.
I sure hope they don't do anything more professional than the internal company newsletter.
I'm all in favor of open source and use it for almost every task. But the fact is that the gimp is simply not up to the job. For twiddling a few web buttons or snapshots, sure. But for correcting and preparing images for quality print work? No sir. Open source has yet to come up with a decent 2-D vector or raster graphics app and I don't see anything on the horizon. Either it's too hard or the open source developers just completely fail to grasp the requirements. Gimp, for instance, doesn't seem to fail for lack of trying. It fails for lack of "getting it."
Because I disagree strongly with the RIAAs tactics, I want to put some versions of popular songs online on my webpage. What are the legalities associated with making my own interpretations of existing songs (my own voice, musical accompaniment)?
While I strongly support what you intend to do, within the realm of interaction with the RIAA (I've always found this sort of baiting perversely satisfying as either a participant or observer), you should know that you're trading one adversary for another.
When you perform music that was written by someone else, you have to deal with the owner of the copyright to the lyrics (as opposed to the copyright on a specific performance, which is represented by RIAA). In most cases that's a member of ASCAP.
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In that case, Message -> Redirect will send a copy that is exactly the same as the original except for the addition of a few informational headers (Resent-date, Resent-from, and Resent-to).
Thank you for the encouragement.
Duh. View -> Show All Headers and then Message -> Forward. Presto, headers forwarded.
No, I don't think it's useful at all. Where on earth did you get that from? While I think forwarding messages is tremendously useful, I think forwarding them as attachments is an abomination before God and man. In fact it's the Carrot Top of email features.
And how do you know you'll never forward me a message? Maybe I'm your boss. Or your next boss.
I do. My point in this case was to echo the sentiments of the others who posted, lest you come to the erroneous conclusion that they represented smaller numbers than they do.
In so doing I hope to reduce the chance that you or anyone else would ever again do the grave disservice of forwarding me a message as an attachment.
Here in the USA:
A messenger bag is a single-strap bag usually worn on a person's back.
A pannier is a bag mounted next to a bicycle wheel.
Thank God for that. It's annoying as hell.
Small ones are, but not necessarily large ones - depends on what you're doing.
Sounds like the work you do is a lot of B&W where the bulk of data is text positioning.
My experience comes from the glossy magazine world (managed transfer to all-digital production at a magazine on almost every newsstand in the USA). Worked with documents of similar size to yours, but fewer pages I'm sure. Most of the data was color images, which don't necessarily get much smaller in PDF unless you're throwing away quality (which we couldn't, and if we did, it was done in Photoshop long before any PostScript was generated). Also some processes don't generate compressed PS, but there's no good reason not to.
Anyway, the nightmare never came. We used PDFs for proofing and rarely if ever encountered problems.
They're using PDFlib under Perl (as the PDF preamble clearly states)
Keep in mind that PDFlib is non-free except for personal use.
When? Why? It's worked great for me for a decade, including documents of substantial size and complexity.
Yeah, those bastards. Next thing they'll start allowing war correspondents to report from Iraq, even though they have a financial interest in the war continuing since it's their job to report about it. I agree with you and propose that nobody who writes about something for a living should be allowed to write about it. New golden age of objectivity, here we come!
I don't know much about this since I consider snow to be the worst sort of poison (i.e., the cold kind) but it seems as if in heavy-snow mountainous areas there might be a problem with buildup on the solar panel in the winter months.
Does anyone know the footprint of the satellite you'd be assigned to if you were to subscribe in, for instance, Brownsville, TX? On the web site they say you need a view of the southern sky. Would that same satellite be visible from Nicaragua? That's less far south from Browsville than Indianapolis is north.
Maybe they needed to run it anyway to get power up there, so people didn't have to climb the mountain in the snow to change batteries all the time.
Slightly off-topic, but a question about satellite internet...
Imagine you were in a not-so-rich country within, say, 1500 miles of the continental US, in which high speed internet access outside of the capital city is VERY expensive.
Among the few options available there is Hughes Direcway, except at about 15 times the going price in the USA.
Assuming the availability of expert personnel to mount the dish, is there anything stopping someone from subscribing in the USA and then bringing the dish there? The cost of the flight would be covered in about 2 months' service fees.
Gotta take the bad with the good, eh?
1. You go to site.
2. Site redirects you to gator
3. You click 'back'
4. You go back to first site
5. First site immediately redirects you to gator again.
Does anyone know what the resolution is of an external monitor connected to one of these?
I'd love to get the 12" Powerbook but ONLY if I can connect my 19" monitor when at home and get at least 1280x1024. Otherwise I'm sticking with the clunky old desktop; screen real estate is more important than speed to me.
You're showing your youth and inexperience here. What he's talking about is a host record with the registry, which is the structure that stores information about authoritative name servers for a domain.
Some registrars require reverse DNS for these and some don't.
You definitely cannot use a dynamic ("semi-static") IP address (well, I guess you could, but it would be a massive hassle and your domains would fail to resolve half the time).
What you're thinking of is the target of a non-NS DNS RR.
Sorry dude, you don't know what you're talking about here. Not everyone lives in the Windows world of Merit Through Misery.
Rendezvous with Macs works as follows:
Remove Macintoshes from original boxes.
Physically connect their network interfaces to each other with some sort of cables (crossover or regular, doesn't matter) and hubs/switches if necessary - OR - just stick wireless cards in them.
Turn them on. Each computer will ask you to give it a name, if it hasn't been named yet.
That's it, you're done. They all find each other and you can immediately start sharing files and services. At any time you can add or remove machines and they will all play nicely. Should you want to fine-tune the configuration to accommodate specialized local needs, you have available the GUI control panels plus a comprehensive suite of Unix command-line tools; whichever you prefer.
I know exactly what I'm saying. Of course it can handle raster graphics, that's what it's for. However it is not "a decent 2-D vector or raster graphics app," to the standard set by the commercial alternatives. It is a toy and a proof-of-concept and the basis for a lot of embarrassing arguments by zealots who do not do serious professional graphics work.
I sure hope they don't do anything more professional than the internal company newsletter.
I'm all in favor of open source and use it for almost every task. But the fact is that the gimp is simply not up to the job. For twiddling a few web buttons or snapshots, sure. But for correcting and preparing images for quality print work? No sir. Open source has yet to come up with a decent 2-D vector or raster graphics app and I don't see anything on the horizon. Either it's too hard or the open source developers just completely fail to grasp the requirements. Gimp, for instance, doesn't seem to fail for lack of trying. It fails for lack of "getting it."
While I strongly support what you intend to do, within the realm of interaction with the RIAA (I've always found this sort of baiting perversely satisfying as either a participant or observer), you should know that you're trading one adversary for another.
When you perform music that was written by someone else, you have to deal with the owner of the copyright to the lyrics (as opposed to the copyright on a specific performance, which is represented by RIAA). In most cases that's a member of ASCAP.
Really? I always thought it was Diana Ross.
Then it would be skewed by the equal-and-opposite force of male Hollywood stars, most of whom are about 5' tall.