My method of dealing with that for webmail accounts that don't speak POP3, is to simply forward stuff I want to keep to one of my POP3 accounts.
I see someone linked to the GMail popper below; I haven't tried that but I've been told the Hotmail and Yahoo poppers work fine, so likely so does this one.
I don't keep much there, but everything I expected to see at my Yahoo account is still there as of two minutes ago. The oldest message is dated 21 Aug 2002.
However, if some accounts are on a different server, maybe that one got nuked/restored and the restore didn't include mail archives??
Such a feature exists in some of the old BBS QWK-format offline mail readers. Rosereader could database and search a very large quantity of mail -- I know someone who has Rosemail-handled archives going back at least 10 years.
How well does it actually work, tho? I mean, yonder is M$, sitting on billions. (Give me just one of those billions, I can find all kinds of ways to invest it. I'll even pay taxes on it.:)
And it doesn't matter anyway, because any taxes a corporation pays are rolled into the cost of doing business, which in turn determines the prices they charge consumers (or other businesses, or whomever) for their product. So in effect all such taxes do is raise prices.:(
And if to pay your taxes, you have to raise prices so much that consumers balk at paying them, you go out of business.
I had a similar thought, except mine went to the effect that even a tool as simple as Notepad could be an "inducement to copyright infringement" -- merely by letting you type out a few too many words of someone else's printed works.
While I understand the desire to maintain a national identity, I think it says something about its *lack* (or at least its lack of real strength) if you need fear losing it to one of your nearest sister cultures. (To my eye, Canadian culture is more akin to British than to American, except in Quebec, where the identity isn't Canadian, but France-West.)
Re that spoken in jest... in my observation, Canadian TV is not as technically advanced as American TV (mainly in that lighting and SFX tend to be weak, tho I think this is mostly due to having relatively low budgets for such stuff). But this isn't necessarily a bad thing -- if you can't dazzle the viewer with glitter, you've got to consider having *gasp* plot, writing, and acting. Consequently, some of the most consistently interesting series of the past couple decades have been Canadian-made (whether by native Canadians, or by American production companies fleeing from the excesses of Hollywood spending).
While I agree with you about Dreyfuss (he's been grandstanding for one reason or another for *decades*), IMO the reason this is relevant is because censorship in one area is eminently extensible into another. Accept that it's okay to censor PBS, and perhaps somewhere on down the line you won't be able to express yourself as you wish on an open forum like Slashdot.
While I agree that PowerDVD's gimmicky *default* interface is stinky (as with ALL apps that try to emulate a meatspace device) -- I've found the best way to use it is in "fullscreen" mode, which makes the stinky interface go away entirely. Then just use RightClick to access the context menu during playback. Also there is an action-sensitive [self-hiding] topbar menu which contains all the other menus and options. So there's no need to use the stinky part.:)
While I haven't used other DVD playback apps, it's partly due to lack of motivation: PowerDVD proved very well-mannered and intuitive (do what seems obvious, and usually the expected happens), it hasn't crashed in hundreds of hours of use, and it doesn't overwhelm the poor old P3-500.
Anyway, I'm pleased that it's now available for linux, and hope to see both linux and Windows versions bundled with DVD drives in the future.
I think you're right -- a good deal of the perceived lack of market, thus lack of ports, is actually a perceived "what a bunch of cheapskates, why waste our time if they won't pay money for our product anyway?" Yeah, opensource is a Good Thing[tm]. But so are regular paychecks. In fact, one might say the latter are necessary if we're going to have the former.
PowerDVD for Windows comes with LiteOn DVD drives (and probably others, but I'm familiar with it from there -- nice well-behaved app at least on XP). What would be good is for the same version, ported to linux, to come on the PowerDVD CD provided by LiteOn. It would give both products, and the linux desktop, a nice boost.
I had exactly the same thought... this is kinda like those legendary Netware 2.0 servers people occasionally find walled up in former closets. I kept expecting the site to say "I see dead people":)
I also notice that the catcam is stopped as of 2002, and that "The Girl" link seems unfinished. Which, of course, is only fitting if he was a proper geek (as the cellar-dwelling server left to its own devices seems to imply;)
I am trying to migrate some "ordinary users" off IE, but they are used to Windows Update handling critical IE updates for them, and they certainly are NOT going to manually check some update site for another browser. How, if at all, are automatic security updates being handled for the Mozilla family?
Ya know, that brings up an ugly thought.. what if it were illegal to send mail through any mail server other than one controlled by an ISP (ie. one which can be readily snooped by law enforcement)??
Precisely (as this article also well illustrates) why I've occasionally looked at both Money and at Quicken for Windows, and rapidly go back to using old Quicken for DOS.
Actually, you can be, depending on circumstances. Frex, you can say "I am carrying a bomb" *here*, and no one cares. But go to an airport, say "I am carrying a bomb" and watch how fast you get arrested -- it is illegal to even JOKE about it in that venue. (There was a big sign up with all these regs at an air cargo depot I used to use, and having nothing better to do while waiting for a shipment, I read 'em over and over.)
I thought of that too (yes, the idea of grouping taskbar buttons came to me back in 1998)... I was quite irked to discover that I couldn't do the intuitive thing and drag them into whatever order I wished (preferably something saner than the order that various windows were opened).
So let's go eat steak together, and maybe someone will tell both of us some nifty trick for making 'em behave how we want.:)
I thought of the concept all by myself, back in 1998. I know when it was, cuz that's when I started using Win32, and I'm a horrible multitasking junkie so I always have a ton of windows open... leading to taskbar clutter. The solution of grouping 'em seemed obvious, at least to me.
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I'm an extrapolator, rather than creating from scratch. But get me started and gods know what will fall out of my brain. Most of my SF "Epic" was writ whilst cleaning kennels... the brain had nothing better to do. By now the main character is much like the filk character who ran away from his author and refused to come out of the tree... I have no control over him at all!!:) Been stalled a long time, tho, cuz I lost my wise reader and I just *don't* write without feedback. On another tentacle, I'm a damned good editor, if I do say so myself. Had some poetry pubbed years ago. There's a little of it up on my Sandpit site.
Maybe we could send Darl back in time... to, say, when microbes ruled the earth. [evil grin]
Slashdot is a timesink, for sure. So are usenet, mailing lists, and all their kin. I need a clone.. got your email, remind me if I don't get to it later. Brain is about fried for today. What's a "vacation"? How do I get one??
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Vaguely near the nominal topic: what if Darl were to take over Baen Books tomorrow?? What about all the freebies they've already given out? It would surely make for "interesting times"!! and the situation wouldn't really be that much different -- after all, Caldera was freely offering its linux and sources, before Darl & Co. came along. (And for a while afterward.)
I'll have to acquire those thar' Baen CDs. Haven't looked into the Bar yet; at 26k max (thanks, Verizon!) stuff like that is just too painfully slow.
If something sets me off, sometimes I'll spit out a partial filky thing, but other than the Oscar Meyer rejingle, don't think I have any finished products out there. I do write SF, tho (space opera sorta off in Bujold's end of the genre).
Likely we should go off to email (see my website for email links) before we get modded down to somewhere below dirt, but meanwhile...
My thought on the various "hybrids" mentioned -- I don't think they know what they're talking about. If it were that easy to do, ALL the wild feline species that have any contact at all would have long since homogenized into a single species, along with all the feral cat colonies in the world. I think more likely, feralized domestic cats have, over a space of a couple thousand years, been selected toward bigger/stronger types (better suited to survival), which are now being regionally mistaken as separate wild species by the tinfoil hatted feline fancier brigade. IOW, they're doing the equivalent of mistaking Great Danes and Pugs as different species, just because they look so different, and failing to realise that it's not at all unusual for a given species to have a very large variation in normal size (300% or so), especially if their home ranges are ecologically very different.
Note also that the Causeway DOS extender was released into the public domain a while back; this was the preferred extender per folk in the Watcom newsgroups.
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My method of dealing with that for webmail accounts that don't speak POP3, is to simply forward stuff I want to keep to one of my POP3 accounts.
I see someone linked to the GMail popper below; I haven't tried that but I've been told the Hotmail and Yahoo poppers work fine, so likely so does this one.
I don't keep much there, but everything I expected to see at my Yahoo account is still there as of two minutes ago. The oldest message is dated 21 Aug 2002.
However, if some accounts are on a different server, maybe that one got nuked/restored and the restore didn't include mail archives??
Such a feature exists in some of the old BBS QWK-format offline mail readers. Rosereader could database and search a very large quantity of mail -- I know someone who has Rosemail-handled archives going back at least 10 years.
Much as we suspected :(
[plaintively] Where do we average small business folk sign up for these loopholes??
How well does it actually work, tho? I mean, yonder is M$, sitting on billions. (Give me just one of those billions, I can find all kinds of ways to invest it. I'll even pay taxes on it. :)
And it doesn't matter anyway, because any taxes a corporation pays are rolled into the cost of doing business, which in turn determines the prices they charge consumers (or other businesses, or whomever) for their product. So in effect all such taxes do is raise prices. :(
And if to pay your taxes, you have to raise prices so much that consumers balk at paying them, you go out of business.
I had a similar thought, except mine went to the effect that even a tool as simple as Notepad could be an "inducement to copyright infringement" -- merely by letting you type out a few too many words of someone else's printed works.
While I understand the desire to maintain a national identity, I think it says something about its *lack* (or at least its lack of real strength) if you need fear losing it to one of your nearest sister cultures. (To my eye, Canadian culture is more akin to British than to American, except in Quebec, where the identity isn't Canadian, but France-West.)
Re that spoken in jest... in my observation, Canadian TV is not as technically advanced as American TV (mainly in that lighting and SFX tend to be weak, tho I think this is mostly due to having relatively low budgets for such stuff). But this isn't necessarily a bad thing -- if you can't dazzle the viewer with glitter, you've got to consider having *gasp* plot, writing, and acting. Consequently, some of the most consistently interesting series of the past couple decades have been Canadian-made (whether by native Canadians, or by American production companies fleeing from the excesses of Hollywood spending).
Ah, okay, that's good to know. Thanks!
While I agree with you about Dreyfuss (he's been grandstanding for one reason or another for *decades*), IMO the reason this is relevant is because censorship in one area is eminently extensible into another. Accept that it's okay to censor PBS, and perhaps somewhere on down the line you won't be able to express yourself as you wish on an open forum like Slashdot.
No, no, no, you had it right the first time... because that's some helluva bridge he's trying to sell us!!
:/
And sadly, "suing you for publishing his business plan" is no joke, given the direction the law is going.
While I agree that PowerDVD's gimmicky *default* interface is stinky (as with ALL apps that try to emulate a meatspace device) -- I've found the best way to use it is in "fullscreen" mode, which makes the stinky interface go away entirely. Then just use RightClick to access the context menu during playback. Also there is an action-sensitive [self-hiding] topbar menu which contains all the other menus and options. So there's no need to use the stinky part. :)
While I haven't used other DVD playback apps, it's partly due to lack of motivation: PowerDVD proved very well-mannered and intuitive (do what seems obvious, and usually the expected happens), it hasn't crashed in hundreds of hours of use, and it doesn't overwhelm the poor old P3-500.
Anyway, I'm pleased that it's now available for linux, and hope to see both linux and Windows versions bundled with DVD drives in the future.
I think you're right -- a good deal of the perceived lack of market, thus lack of ports, is actually a perceived "what a bunch of cheapskates, why waste our time if they won't pay money for our product anyway?" Yeah, opensource is a Good Thing[tm]. But so are regular paychecks. In fact, one might say the latter are necessary if we're going to have the former.
PowerDVD for Windows comes with LiteOn DVD drives (and probably others, but I'm familiar with it from there -- nice well-behaved app at least on XP). What would be good is for the same version, ported to linux, to come on the PowerDVD CD provided by LiteOn. It would give both products, and the linux desktop, a nice boost.
I had exactly the same thought... this is kinda like those legendary Netware 2.0 servers people occasionally find walled up in former closets. I kept expecting the site to say "I see dead people" :)
;)
I also notice that the catcam is stopped as of 2002, and that "The Girl" link seems unfinished. Which, of course, is only fitting if he was a proper geek (as the cellar-dwelling server left to its own devices seems to imply
In fact, I just had that very thought:
I am trying to migrate some "ordinary users" off IE, but they are used to Windows Update handling critical IE updates for them, and they certainly are NOT going to manually check some update site for another browser. How, if at all, are automatic security updates being handled for the Mozilla family?
Ya know, that brings up an ugly thought.. what if it were illegal to send mail through any mail server other than one controlled by an ISP (ie. one which can be readily snooped by law enforcement)??
Precisely (as this article also well illustrates) why I've occasionally looked at both Money and at Quicken for Windows, and rapidly go back to using old Quicken for DOS.
Actually, you can be, depending on circumstances. Frex, you can say "I am carrying a bomb" *here*, and no one cares. But go to an airport, say "I am carrying a bomb" and watch how fast you get arrested -- it is illegal to even JOKE about it in that venue. (There was a big sign up with all these regs at an air cargo depot I used to use, and having nothing better to do while waiting for a shipment, I read 'em over and over.)
Didn't someone patent putting USB ports on the front, or some such nonsense??
;)
And here you thought you were being funny. Funny is already patented, so either pay the royalty or be something else.
I thought of that too (yes, the idea of grouping taskbar buttons came to me back in 1998)... I was quite irked to discover that I couldn't do the intuitive thing and drag them into whatever order I wished (preferably something saner than the order that various windows were opened).
:)
So let's go eat steak together, and maybe someone will tell both of us some nifty trick for making 'em behave how we want.
I thought of the concept all by myself, back in 1998. I know when it was, cuz that's when I started using Win32, and I'm a horrible multitasking junkie so I always have a ton of windows open... leading to taskbar clutter. The solution of grouping 'em seemed obvious, at least to me.
I'm an extrapolator, rather than creating from scratch. But get me started and gods know what will fall out of my brain. Most of my SF "Epic" was writ whilst cleaning kennels... the brain had nothing better to do. By now the main character is much like the filk character who ran away from his author and refused to come out of the tree... I have no control over him at all!! :) Been stalled a long time, tho, cuz I lost my wise reader and I just *don't* write without feedback. On another tentacle, I'm a damned good editor, if I do say so myself. Had some poetry pubbed years ago. There's a little of it up on my Sandpit site.
Maybe we could send Darl back in time... to, say, when microbes ruled the earth. [evil grin]
Slashdot is a timesink, for sure. So are usenet, mailing lists, and all their kin. I need a clone.. got your email, remind me if I don't get to it later. Brain is about fried for today. What's a "vacation"? How do I get one??
Vaguely near the nominal topic: what if Darl were to take over Baen Books tomorrow?? What about all the freebies they've already given out? It would surely make for "interesting times"!! and the situation wouldn't really be that much different -- after all, Caldera was freely offering its linux and sources, before Darl & Co. came along. (And for a while afterward.)
I'll have to acquire those thar' Baen CDs. Haven't looked into the Bar yet; at 26k max (thanks, Verizon!) stuff like that is just too painfully slow.
If something sets me off, sometimes I'll spit out a partial filky thing, but other than the Oscar Meyer rejingle, don't think I have any finished products out there. I do write SF, tho (space opera sorta off in Bujold's end of the genre).
Likely we should go off to email (see my website for email links) before we get modded down to somewhere below dirt, but meanwhile...
My thought on the various "hybrids" mentioned -- I don't think they know what they're talking about. If it were that easy to do, ALL the wild feline species that have any contact at all would have long since homogenized into a single species, along with all the feral cat colonies in the world. I think more likely, feralized domestic cats have, over a space of a couple thousand years, been selected toward bigger/stronger types (better suited to survival), which are now being regionally mistaken as separate wild species by the tinfoil hatted feline fancier brigade. IOW, they're doing the equivalent of mistaking Great Danes and Pugs as different species, just because they look so different, and failing to realise that it's not at all unusual for a given species to have a very large variation in normal size (300% or so), especially if their home ranges are ecologically very different.
Note also that the Causeway DOS extender was released into the public domain a while back; this was the preferred extender per folk in the Watcom newsgroups.
q .h tm#Restrictions (beware the /. space)
http://www.devoresoftware.com/freesource/codefa
Yes, but with all those features, how do we tell it from the real thing? ;)