And according to the article, this has one major problem in common Google Desktop and Copernic, as far as I can tell, none of them have a complete index of the files on disk.
This is my biggest complaint about Google Desktop. It only seems to know about the specific file types it can read.
For example, I can never find my 'hosts' file somewhere in the mess under c:\winnt. So I loaded up Google Desktop, type in 'hosts' and what do I get? Emails and word documents that have the word 'hosts' in it.
Does Google Desktop have this available somehow? I've looked through the help docs, but couldn't find anything. This seems like such low-hanging fruit!
I agree that it's extremely frustrating that Mozilla does not support MHTML.
When I'm working on an HTML document and want to make it available to coworkers for review, I don't want to have to post it to a web page, I just want to quickly drop it in a mail and send it out.
Because not all my coworkers use IE, my only choices are converting it to Word or PDF. I hate sending or receiving documents in these formats, but there's really no other good option...
They don't need to. Gmail was pretty unusable on my last trip to China, even in business centers of hotels where you're paying 20cents/minute for good bandwidth.
I could get to the index screen but then would keep getting that popup that says something about "please try again later." It wasn't a firewall, javascript or cookie issue since about 1 out of 50 clicks would finally get me into a message.
I spoke to another gmail user that who had the exact same experience in his month in China. No idea what it is.
I guess that once they have come out with the plain text version, it should be usable in internet cafes with unknown configurations.
It doesn't make sense to focus on the household use of water without considering how much gets used in irrigation.
In California, which is also considering desalination plants, 80 percent of the water supply is used for farming. This includes very high water use crops like rice, alfalfa and cotton.
It seems like it would be much more efficient to raise the price on water for irrigation to encourage farmers to switch to more water efficient crops.
Also false positives are common, so I am forced to check the last page of spam for legit messages before removing the full lot.
I agree, My Yahoo Mail very regularly get false positives. I can't imagine how some of them get tagged as spam (just simple emails from friends.)
There are some basic things that could be done to make it better. It at least should be smart enough to not tag an email as spam if it's from someone in your address book! And if you move an email from Bulk Mail to your Inbox, it should automatically tag that address as okay in the future. But I have to set up manual filters to ensure it gets into the Inbox.
But that said, the Bulk Mail does filter about 100 messages a day and only gets a few false positives a week. It's not too much of a burden to eyeball the Bulk Mail folder once a day.
I'd prefer a Tivo, but how about any DVR with a supported programming guide? (One that doesn't involve modifying an American one, I'm not too handy with a blowtorch...)
It does work well and it would be painful to live without, but it really needs some smarts.
The T9 system should be able to learn from previously entered words like proper names, foreign words and slang (my conversation is much limited by not being able to say jackass, bamboozle or hola amigo!) They should be added to the dictionary after a couple of uses.
Also previous choices should affect the sequence of the spelling guesses. If I'm an avid saxophonist, when I press 729 'sax' should come up high on the list instead of 7th place.
I wouldn't imagine that the new generation of phones would have much trouble storing a list of at least 500 or so commonly spelled words.
There are always people who admire strength. Today in Russia there are still people who admire Stalin. In a recent opinion poll (try google cache) 9 percent of Russians list Stalin as their favorite politition. And 28 percent think he was useful for Russia.
Freshmeat, CNN, and a few other sites have great sidebars that provide headlines and search facilities (in a compact, easy to use manner).
How does this work? Do you have to download something or does it just show up? I loaded up RC1, turned on the sidebar, went to cnn.com, but didn't get anything different. Am I missing something?
Now this is about the only thing I wish IE had. XP groups multiple windows, but it sucks. I hope MS adds this soon.
Try out NetCaptor. It uses the IE rendering engine and adds tabs and a few other goodies. It's commercial unfortunately (trial download available), but I got hooked and paid for it.
Like it or not, today a corporation has the same constitutional protections as a person. If Nike's freedom of speech is restricted it can set a legal precedent for similar restrictions for us non-corporate persons.
I don't agree with the treatment of a corporation as a person, but until that gets changed, I'm happy to have the ACLU helping to defend free speech.
You really think that the US government likes that fact that they're beholden to unstable Gulf countries which control more than 60% of the world's oil and virtually all of the world's easily obtainable oil?
Do you think they like that fact that our dependence on Gulf oil will only increase as non-OPEC supplies dwindle?
If you open two separate vim windows, then the only way to copy paste is with the mouse.
If you set guioptions=a the selected text is copied to the clipboard when the VISUAL mode is set or ends (such as with a yank). Then you can paste from the clipboard register in another instance of vim using '"*p'. So I can do all my copying and pasting between vims (and other applications) without ever touching the mouse.
I'm not sure what else you're hoping for. Do you really want one of those windows-within-a-window UI's? I've never seen what people liked about that, and I see that even MS Word is now going away from it in Word 2000. To each his own...
I'm pretty sure I remember using this feature in vim in 1995, so yes!
Also extremely useful is '[#' which brings you to the top of a preprocessor conditional you are in. These are absolutely critical to avoid going insane in painfully #ifdef'd code.
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Isn't the SFO runway configuration too small to handle the superjumbos?
And according to the article, this has one major problem in common Google Desktop and Copernic, as far as I can tell, none of them have a complete index of the files on disk.
This is my biggest complaint about Google Desktop. It only seems to know about the specific file types it can read.
For example, I can never find my 'hosts' file somewhere in the mess under c:\winnt. So I loaded up Google Desktop, type in 'hosts' and what do I get? Emails and word documents that have the word 'hosts' in it.
Does Google Desktop have this available somehow? I've looked through the help docs, but couldn't find anything. This seems like such low-hanging fruit!
How about this new one?
Do you have a reference for this? I couldn't find anything on google.
Thanks
I agree that it's extremely frustrating that Mozilla does not support MHTML.
When I'm working on an HTML document and want to make it available to coworkers for review, I don't want to have to post it to a web page, I just want to quickly drop it in a mail and send it out.
Because not all my coworkers use IE, my only choices are converting it to Word or PDF. I hate sending or receiving documents in these formats, but there's really no other good option...
They don't need to. Gmail was pretty unusable on my last trip to China, even in business centers of hotels where you're paying 20cents/minute for good bandwidth.
I could get to the index screen but then would keep getting that popup that says something about "please try again later." It wasn't a firewall, javascript or cookie issue since about 1 out of 50 clicks would finally get me into a message.
I spoke to another gmail user that who had the exact same experience in his month in China. No idea what it is.
I guess that once they have come out with the plain text version, it should be usable in internet cafes with unknown configurations.
In California, which is also considering desalination plants, 80 percent of the water supply is used for farming. This includes very high water use crops like rice, alfalfa and cotton.
It seems like it would be much more efficient to raise the price on water for irrigation to encourage farmers to switch to more water efficient crops.
Also false positives are common, so I am forced to check the last page of spam for legit messages before removing the full lot.
I agree, My Yahoo Mail very regularly get false positives. I can't imagine how some of them get tagged as spam (just simple emails from friends.)
There are some basic things that could be done to make it better. It at least should be smart enough to not tag an email as spam if it's from someone in your address book! And if you move an email from Bulk Mail to your Inbox, it should automatically tag that address as okay in the future. But I have to set up manual filters to ensure it gets into the Inbox.
But that said, the Bulk Mail does filter about 100 messages a day and only gets a few false positives a week. It's not too much of a burden to eyeball the Bulk Mail folder once a day.
-Bruce
Careful now
-Bruce
And how about Australia?
I'd prefer a Tivo, but how about any DVR with a supported programming guide? (One that doesn't involve modifying an American one, I'm not too handy with a blowtorch...)
Anything on the horizon?
The first basic rule of any aircraft design should be "can it glide back to earth in the event of a complete power failure?"
So what happens to a helicopter in the event of a complete power failure?
Which gives a better chance for clear skies than summer does in Sydney. (no joke)
Well if all Rock and Roll should be in English, and if Opera should be in Italian, then Rammstein has shown that all heavy metal should be in German!
Willst du bis der Tod euch scheidet
treu ihr sein für alle Tage...
I don't have clue what the hell it means, but it's good shit!
-Bruce
But where is Subversion? It seems to be forgotten on the Tigris.org backyard.
It seems to be under very active development. They have been getting out regular releases and have an alpha release planned for June.
Check out its status here
-Bruce
I was pretty impressed that the keyboard shortcuts do work in Mozilla.
And there is a version of the Google toolbar available here: http://googlebar.mozdev.org/
What else is missing?
-Bruce
It does work well and it would be painful to live without, but it really needs some smarts.
The T9 system should be able to learn from previously entered words like proper names, foreign words and slang (my conversation is much limited by not being able to say jackass, bamboozle or hola amigo!) They should be added to the dictionary after a couple of uses.
Also previous choices should affect the sequence of the spelling guesses. If I'm an avid saxophonist, when I press 729 'sax' should come up high on the list instead of 7th place.
I wouldn't imagine that the new generation of phones would have much trouble storing a list of at least 500 or so commonly spelled words.
-Bruce
There are always people who admire strength. Today in Russia there are still people who admire Stalin. In a recent opinion poll (try google cache) 9 percent of Russians list Stalin as their favorite politition. And 28 percent think he was useful for Russia.
-Bruce
I agree. It's funny, but I don't find it to be particularly compelling art.
Related but more interesting is this One Tree mural in San Francisco.
-Bruce
Agreed! Ctrl-Tab/Ctrl-Shift-Tab is a much better choice.
Is this configurable?
-Bruce
Freshmeat, CNN, and a few other sites have great sidebars that provide headlines and search facilities (in a compact, easy to use manner).
How does this work? Do you have to download something or does it just show up? I loaded up RC1, turned on the sidebar, went to cnn.com, but didn't get anything different. Am I missing something?
-Bruce
Now this is about the only thing I wish IE had. XP groups multiple windows, but it sucks. I hope MS adds this soon.
Try out NetCaptor. It uses the IE rendering engine and adds tabs and a few other goodies. It's commercial unfortunately (trial download available), but I got hooked and paid for it.
-Bruce
Like it or not, today a corporation has the same constitutional protections as a person. If Nike's freedom of speech is restricted it can set a legal precedent for similar restrictions for us non-corporate persons.
I don't agree with the treatment of a corporation as a person, but until that gets changed, I'm happy to have the ACLU helping to defend free speech.
-Bruce
You really think that the US government likes that fact that they're beholden to unstable Gulf countries which control more than 60% of the world's oil and virtually all of the world's easily obtainable oil?
Do you think they like that fact that our dependence on Gulf oil will only increase as non-OPEC supplies dwindle?
-Bruce
If you open two separate vim windows, then the only way to copy paste is with the mouse.
If you set guioptions=a the selected text is copied to the clipboard when the VISUAL mode is set or ends (such as with a yank). Then you can paste from the clipboard register in another instance of vim using '"*p'. So I can do all my copying and pasting between vims (and other applications) without ever touching the mouse.
I'm not sure what else you're hoping for. Do you really want one of those windows-within-a-window UI's? I've never seen what people liked about that, and I see that even MS Word is now going away from it in Word 2000. To each his own...
-Bruce
I'm pretty sure I remember using this feature in vim in 1995, so yes!
Also extremely useful is '[#' which brings you to the top of a preprocessor conditional you are in. These are absolutely critical to avoid going insane in painfully #ifdef'd code.
-Bruce
Okay, you've got Tivo, ReplayTV and others in the US. Now you've got VDR which can work in Europe.
Are there any reasonable options for a PVR in Australia (preferably with a schedule guide)?
Thanks,
-Bruce