For the sake of portability I turn features like that off, that and it makes it harder for me to loose my attachments and manual maintenance easier.
I don't think you can turn it off, at least in the version I use. Most of the attachments are viruses, Word docs, or "funny" photos. I want to lose most of these if not the message they came with.
Sometimes I open an attached Word doc with Quickview (to avoid any macro virus), select and copy the text, paste it into the original text message, then I can delete the doc and have the text neatly filed as plain text (since that's sufficient for the kind of correspondence I do). Wish that could be automated. Otherwise, I'm exchanging large pdf or doc files while working on publishing projects. I move these to a project-specific folder.
And really, the huge bloat of attachments in mbx files would be a problem for me if they were kept encoded.In just using up 20 times as much space, and in making searching slow or impossible.
Eudora (Win and Mac)handles encoded attachments by decoding them and storing them in an attachments folder, replacing the encoded text in the mesage with a line like
This keeps the actual text in the mbox file lean. I've got almost a decade of correspondence that totals about 20 MB, if it included all the attachments it'd be much more.
Also it allows you to edit messages after receipt, (this might trouble some people, but it just simplifies what I used to do by opening the mbx file in a text editor). I can select all the text, then paste it back in. This has the effect of removing all the HTML coding that is especially crufty from Word generated mail -- a 20k message reduces to 1k.
Who the fuck modded up all the gun/antigun nuts' to +1, +2, +3?
I gave up entire usenet groups because of these morons who sniff out any mention of the word "gun" and hijack the discussion.(I have strong personal views on this, but I wouldn't bring it up in a discussion of fonts, for God's sake). Go and play somewhere else. NO ONE EVER CHANGES THEIR MINDS ON THIS. IT'S POINTLESS.
Solution: develop a mail server module that uses OpenOffice. When a mail going out of the network has an OpenOffice word processing document attached, the module automatically creates a version of the document converted to MS Word and adds it as an attachment. Conversely, mail coming into the network automatically converts Word->OpenOffice adds the attachments
Add an option to convert Word attachments to plain text (or some form of rich text if you choose) and paste them into the mail message. Alternatively convert Word docs to RTF.
I do something like this manually with Eudora: view the attached Word doc in Quickview, select all, copy, open the mail message and click the pencil to modify it, paste int the text, which invariably is a couple of paragraphs that didn't need to be in a Word file.
VMware images are now supported, together with hoards of new hardware.
That's HORDES, as in the Golden Horde of Genghis Khan, meaning lots, not HOARDS as in a secret treasury. Also, for future reference, probably LOSE not LOOSE, and FAZE not PHASE are the words intended.
If he allowed it once, he wouldn't be able to fight true piracy in the courts later on.
GOD DAMNIT! WHY DO PEOPLE BELIVE THIS!?
That's just not true. If you don't protect a trademark, you can lose it. The same is not true w.r.t copyrights or patents!!
That's true. However, you'll notice that Lucas has trademarked and registered every name and thing in Star Wars ®, so if he allowed pople to write stories mentioning the Millenium Falcoln ®, Han Solo ®, jedi ® etc etc he could lose the trademarks on these, and so all the action model and lunchbox market would be open to imitators.
Is anyone reminded of The Italian Job, the novel an more famously movie that had a computer hacker (Benny Hill! as Professor Simon Peach) 0wn the Milan traffic computer, causing an immense gridlock, except for one path for the armoured car robbers to escape (the cops turned that off, so the crooks, led by Michael Caine) went on a merry chase in their Mini Coopers across rooftops and stairways to escape....
Selling stuff by ramming it into discussion groups where it's totally OFF TOPIC is not a revolutionary idea.
Katz's argument "If the Net and the Web can be used to communicate content like books apart from entities like big publishes, big media (big software manufacturers), that's very newsworthy" is EXACTLY what Kantor and Seigal said. From this it's a short step to Make Money Fast and links to "Lolita sex" sites.
The most important conclusion (apart from SETI being a huge waste of resources)...
"Huge waste"???
I don't know what the total amount spent on SETI is, but for instance Arecibo's entire annual budget is US$11m (Google tells me). Multiply that by 10, which is probably way too much, and how is that "huge"? It's about what Bill Gates spent decorating his house. It's about what one A-list movie star "earns" in a year. It's trivial. For something with literally cosmic implications to science, philiosphy, religion and EVERYTHING, it's beneath contempt to claim this is something unaffordable, no matter even if these geeks are right and the chance is vanishingly small. Not to look when we have the capability should be a crime against humanity.
FAST has some other disturbing ideas.
See their press release on their site dated 19 February 2002, 'Data Protection A "Safe Harbour" For Software Pirates?', which complains that "the Data Protection legislation causes some ISPs to be reluctant to release personal data of Internet businesses to third parties without the consent of the pirate or a court order," and goes on to say the "US Digital Millennium Copyright Act's 'take down' procedure [is a]a model for the future."
Most users don't have the patience or the reason to download a 13MB Mozilla browser over a modem and install it.
True, but it would allow any retailer to build his own bundle, including Moz instead of IE, WinAmp instead of Media Player, etc, etc. And if the user wanted to roll his own, he could do that, save a few dollars maybe. Probably he could pick up most stuff on CDs included in magazines rather than download over a modem.
Another advantage, one of those cited for using 98lite, eg, is that if you actually do want IE and co. you don't have to uninstall an old version you were forced to install with the OS before putting the current one in. Cleaner that way.
Keep in mind, though, that large sections of the world do not have a copyright system for music like ours, or do not enforce it at all. From what I understand, many parts of China and Eastern Europe have open bazaars where music is sold in open markets on burned CD's. I would not be surprised if those areas become known as hotbeds of artistic activity, and give birth to innovative new economic models for music distribution.
No, while it is easy to find fake CDs (audio, video, software) in China, it IS illegal and sporadic crackdowns (as for instance in the run up to China's entry to the WTO) shut them down.
As for encouraging artistic activity, I don't think so. Anything that's at all popular is pirated. Chinese software companies have a very hard time to get anyone to pay for their software. (especially as pirated western software is available, all at about US$1/disk).Here, (in Hong Kong) bootleg video CDs are on the street within a week of a movie opening.
Any e-mail sent through Yahoo's SMTP gateway gets a little ad slapped onto the bottom of the message. The ad is usually for a Yahoo service, but it's an ad anyway you slice it.
Even if you're using POP3, someone still gets to view an ad.
POP3 is for RECEIVING mail; SMTP for SENDING.
I am using Yahoo now, I receive it through their POP mailbox, I send using my ISP's SMTP server, no ads to anyone either way.(When I subscribed I agrreed to get some spam, but profiled myself as retired, uneducated and broke, so that may be why in the last sxi months or so I didn't get oine piece of junk.)
Thinking about whether to cough up to keep using it for POP mail. There's web2pop to do it free by sucking it from the web mail page. Or maybe finally buy my own domain.
freedos -> windows emulation -> msword 6.0 for win3.1?
everyone could just save their docs in word 6.0 format and everyone would be able to read it.
Actually, There was Word 6 for DOS, file compatible with the Windows version. No need for Win emu.
However, you can just save your files in RTF (supported by most word-processors, though it's an MS format). Give the file a.doc extension and Word opens it without complaint.
Most chinese keyboards are very, very different. from Roman Char. keyboards. Chinese keyboards contain hundreds of different component symbols to make up the language. Which means that the average web programmer would either have to remap his keyboard for roman characters to program in HTML or switch keyboards all together.
Who told you this rubbish? In China they use exactly the same 102/4 key QWERTY keyboards. The only difference is that on the keycap aside from the Latin letter will be some Chinese characters or radicals that are used in one of several input methods.
I worked on a website run by a Beijing company. The editors use MS Word for both Chinese and English text. The programmers used Windows, C, Visual Basic atc (they love MS software), the designers used Dreamweaver. They couldn't comment their code intelligibly, which is also exactly the same.
I haven't seen a registry corruption in years (not since win95, actually). And the reason for that was me mucking around in regedit before I had an idea of what I was doing. Otherwise, smooth sailing all the way.
I've reinstalled Win98SE twice because of registry rot, and now again there are weird things happening that are impossible to localise. You could assume I'm a moron, of course.
In my mind, the registry is better than a pant load of.ini files. Everything's in one place, so you know that if you need to find something, you just have to fire up regedit (and the trees are generally setup pretty logically, though
you can't fault Microsoft for idiot third-party developers).
So as long as you only install MS products you'll be fine. I CAN blame MS for creating a system that crashes if you dare to install products from other companies.
I'd MUCH rather have a pantsload of ini files. Then I can sort them by date and find the most recently changed ones and fix/delete/restore them. I use an installer tracker and find the average large app inserts hundreds of entries in the registry, many just cryptic strings. It's beyond human understanding.
Let the porn site wither away.
Google lists 297 pages with links to the old domain. Go through these and get as many as possible updated to the new one. It'd take a few man-days, but any legal recourse will take months and cost much more of your time, let alone money.
Every hotel has a safe, either in the room or at the reception. Carrying all your valuables on your body all the time is hardly safe, convenient or sensible anyway. And if something does disappear from your room, the staff with access know they're the first suspects.
Why put up with the threat of 404 errors with long timeouts
How on earth does google save you here? If the original server is dead, you're going to get *longer* timeouts, as it tries to load *each* image from the original server. If you'd gone direct to the site, you'd only get one timeout.
Google lets you read the page -- if the cache appears to be frozen trying to get images, just click images off and you can see the text. I do this a lot, eg sites.netscape.net which seems particularly bad now. (One really nice feature of Opera is that it has the image load option on the main toolbar, and also on ^G key; Netscape pissed me off when it moved that down two levels into its preferences last time I used it.)
Some stupidities though, if a cached page has a refresh 0 seconds header on it it disappears -- then grab the source, edit it and view it locally.
webmasters are going to become tempted to disable caching of their content to avoid lost page hits and ad revenue
Google doesn't cache images*, the cached html it displays refers to the original server (if available), so ad impressions still go to the original site. (Sometimes a hassle if the page fails to display, then just turn images off).
* For images.google.com the origanal page is displayed in a frame, so again the origina site gets all its hits.
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Amazing that he can implement a "lameness filter" but not a spellcheck, or ever bother to check the links.
I don't think you can turn it off, at least in the version I use. Most of the attachments are viruses, Word docs, or "funny" photos. I want to lose most of these if not the message they came with.
Sometimes I open an attached Word doc with Quickview (to avoid any macro virus), select and copy the text, paste it into the original text message, then I can delete the doc and have the text neatly filed as plain text (since that's sufficient for the kind of correspondence I do). Wish that could be automated. Otherwise, I'm exchanging large pdf or doc files while working on publishing projects. I move these to a project-specific folder.
And really, the huge bloat of attachments in mbx files would be a problem for me if they were kept encoded.In just using up 20 times as much space, and in making searching slow or impossible.
Attachment Converted: "C:\EUDORA\ATTACH\NEW YORK.pps"
Click on that in Eudora and the attachment opens.
This keeps the actual text in the mbox file lean. I've got almost a decade of correspondence that totals about 20 MB, if it included all the attachments it'd be much more.
Also it allows you to edit messages after receipt, (this might trouble some people, but it just simplifies what I used to do by opening the mbx file in a text editor). I can select all the text, then paste it back in. This has the effect of removing all the HTML coding that is especially crufty from Word generated mail -- a 20k message reduces to 1k.
I gave up entire usenet groups because of these morons who sniff out any mention of the word "gun" and hijack the discussion.(I have strong personal views on this, but I wouldn't bring it up in a discussion of fonts, for God's sake). Go and play somewhere else. NO ONE EVER CHANGES THEIR MINDS ON THIS. IT'S POINTLESS.
PLEASE someone mod the whole thread off topic.
Add an option to convert Word attachments to plain text (or some form of rich text if you choose) and paste them into the mail message. Alternatively convert Word docs to RTF.
I do something like this manually with Eudora: view the attached Word doc in Quickview, select all, copy, open the mail message and click the pencil to modify it, paste int the text, which invariably is a couple of paragraphs that didn't need to be in a Word file.
That's HORDES, as in the Golden Horde of Genghis Khan, meaning lots, not HOARDS as in a secret treasury. Also, for future reference, probably LOSE not LOOSE, and FAZE not PHASE are the words intended.
GOD DAMNIT! WHY DO PEOPLE BELIVE THIS!?
That's just not true. If you don't protect a trademark, you can lose it. The same is not true w.r.t copyrights or patents!!
That's true. However, you'll notice that Lucas has trademarked and registered every name and thing in Star Wars ®, so if he allowed pople to write stories mentioning the Millenium Falcoln ®, Han Solo ®, jedi ® etc etc he could lose the trademarks on these, and so all the action model and lunchbox market would be open to imitators.
Is anyone reminded of The Italian Job, the novel an more famously movie that had a computer hacker (Benny Hill! as Professor Simon Peach) 0wn the Milan traffic computer, causing an immense gridlock, except for one path for the armoured car robbers to escape (the cops turned that off, so the crooks, led by Michael Caine) went on a merry chase in their Mini Coopers across rooftops and stairways to escape....
Katz's argument "If the Net and the Web can be used to communicate content like books apart from entities like big publishes, big media (big software manufacturers), that's very newsworthy" is EXACTLY what Kantor and Seigal said. From this it's a short step to Make Money Fast and links to "Lolita sex" sites.
"Huge waste"???
I don't know what the total amount spent on SETI is, but for instance Arecibo's entire annual budget is US$11m (Google tells me). Multiply that by 10, which is probably way too much, and how is that "huge"? It's about what Bill Gates spent decorating his house. It's about what one A-list movie star "earns" in a year. It's trivial. For something with literally cosmic implications to science, philiosphy, religion and EVERYTHING, it's beneath contempt to claim this is something unaffordable, no matter even if these geeks are right and the chance is vanishingly small. Not to look when we have the capability should be a crime against humanity.
See their press release on their site dated 19 February 2002, 'Data Protection A "Safe Harbour" For Software Pirates?', which complains that "the Data Protection legislation causes some ISPs to be reluctant to release personal data of Internet businesses to third parties without the consent of the pirate or a court order," and goes on to say the "US Digital Millennium Copyright Act's 'take down' procedure [is a]a model for the future."
"I am the Law," -- Judge Dredd
True, but it would allow any retailer to build his own bundle, including Moz instead of IE, WinAmp instead of Media Player, etc, etc. And if the user wanted to roll his own, he could do that, save a few dollars maybe. Probably he could pick up most stuff on CDs included in magazines rather than download over a modem.
Another advantage, one of those cited for using 98lite, eg, is that if you actually do want IE and co. you don't have to uninstall an old version you were forced to install with the OS before putting the current one in. Cleaner that way.
No, while it is easy to find fake CDs (audio, video, software) in China, it IS illegal and sporadic crackdowns (as for instance in the run up to China's entry to the WTO) shut them down.
As for encouraging artistic activity, I don't think so. Anything that's at all popular is pirated. Chinese software companies have a very hard time to get anyone to pay for their software. (especially as pirated western software is available, all at about US$1/disk).Here, (in Hong Kong) bootleg video CDs are on the street within a week of a movie opening.
Even if you're using POP3, someone still gets to view an ad.
POP3 is for RECEIVING mail; SMTP for SENDING.
I am using Yahoo now, I receive it through their POP mailbox, I send using my ISP's SMTP server, no ads to anyone either way.(When I subscribed I agrreed to get some spam, but profiled myself as retired, uneducated and broke, so that may be why in the last sxi months or so I didn't get oine piece of junk.)
Thinking about whether to cough up to keep using it for POP mail. There's web2pop to do it free by sucking it from the web mail page. Or maybe finally buy my own domain.
Pretty likely MS would give free licenses and probably hardware to kill the Linux project and get any MS version running in its place.
everyone could just save their docs in word 6.0 format and everyone would be able to read it.
Actually, There was Word 6 for DOS, file compatible with the Windows version. No need for Win emu.
However, you can just save your files in RTF (supported by most word-processors, though it's an MS format). Give the file a .doc extension and Word opens it without complaint.
Who told you this rubbish? In China they use exactly the same 102/4 key QWERTY keyboards. The only difference is that on the keycap aside from the Latin letter will be some Chinese characters or radicals that are used in one of several input methods.
I worked on a website run by a Beijing company. The editors use MS Word for both Chinese and English text. The programmers used Windows, C, Visual Basic atc (they love MS software), the designers used Dreamweaver. They couldn't comment their code intelligibly, which is also exactly the same.
I've reinstalled Win98SE twice because of registry rot, and now again there are weird things happening that are impossible to localise. You could assume I'm a moron, of course.
In my mind, the registry is better than a pant load of .ini files. Everything's in one place, so you know that if you need to find something, you just have to fire up regedit (and the trees are generally setup pretty logically, though
you can't fault Microsoft for idiot third-party developers).
So as long as you only install MS products you'll be fine. I CAN blame MS for creating a system that crashes if you dare to install products from other companies.
I'd MUCH rather have a pantsload of ini files. Then I can sort them by date and find the most recently changed ones and fix/delete/restore them. I use an installer tracker and find the average large app inserts hundreds of entries in the registry, many just cryptic strings. It's beyond human understanding.
Let the porn site wither away. Google lists 297 pages with links to the old domain. Go through these and get as many as possible updated to the new one. It'd take a few man-days, but any legal recourse will take months and cost much more of your time, let alone money.
Every hotel has a safe, either in the room or at the reception. Carrying all your valuables on your body all the time is hardly safe, convenient or sensible anyway. And if something does disappear from your room, the staff with access know they're the first suspects.
Some stupidities though, if a cached page has a refresh 0 seconds header on it it disappears -- then grab the source, edit it and view it locally.
Google doesn't cache images*, the cached html it displays refers to the original server (if available), so ad impressions still go to the original site. (Sometimes a hassle if the page fails to display, then just turn images off).
* For images.google.com the origanal page is displayed in a frame, so again the origina site gets all its hits.