I have a a couple of Yahoo accounts in addition to my main personal account, and I have (so far) not received a single spam mail on either of them in over 18 months. That's quite a feat on Yahoo's part, and I'm impressed, given that both of those addresses are made up of standard dictionary words without resorting to mixtures of alpha/numeric characters. Compare that to hotmail, where I set up an account a few weeks ago (as an experiment) with all the so-called "privacy" options checked, and it was spammed to the brim within 24 hours. Conspiracy theory? I don't think so.
I know it's not currently trendy to bag metacity (and I am using it myself right now), but its memory footprint (from top) is currently 6.8 Mb. Last time I ran Sawfish it took up 5.6 Mb. Given that Metacity doesn't even remember window sizes (which pisses me off; since when would anybody want a default 3 inch wide window for Mozilla?), I don't think Metacity is doing very well with its no-bloat claims.
I think you've got a broken build somehow. I run Slackware 9 and it works fine for me with both the version that Pat V puts out as well as the Dropline version. The dropline builds seem to give slightly better fonts, very smooth. Did you upgrade on to an old installation? Mine was installed on to clean partitions (leaving/home in place, of course), I've always felt that tends to be cleaner.
I know the parent was modded funny, but there's a lot to what he says. I think I mentioned this in a previous discussion, but there's a useful way I've found for dealing with those intractable spammers for whom you do have a valid email address: simply put up a little web-page on some free server, saying that "I am willing to opt-in for all commercial and bulk mail at the following addresses..." then list them with mailto: links. Submit the URL to Google etc and those addresses will be crapflooded in no time.
It doesn't work for the random spammers, but it's an effective way of dealing with the sites that suck your acquaintances into the "mail this page to a friend" scam for trapping addresses.
First off, don't get me wrong: I'm a big fan of OpenOffice, and I use it every day, so this is not intended as flamebait.
Yes, they did get rid of that vile desktop that everybody hated (well, I did, anyway), but that didn't make the thing very much quicker to load.
Mileage varies, but on this 1GHz Athlon it takes 14 seconds to load swriter (I just checked). OK, this box is hardly stat of the art, but there are still plenty of people out there using 200 or 400 MHz boxen.
Here in the noughties, we should be able to fire up a WP app without needing to go and make a coffee while it loads.
You do know that you can change the toolbar fonts, don't you?
The first time I tried OO, I thought "Yuck" when I saw the default (just about the time when StarOffice was becoming non-free again, so I had the incentive to look) but you can select the TTF or T1 font of your choice through Tools-> Options -> Fonts -> Replacement Table.
If you want to make any other fonts available to OO, there's the spadmin utility to link them. Unless you need the database stuff, I can't think of anything to make it worthwhile coughing up shekels for SO any more.
There are a ton of workstations all across the corporate world that are running MS Office just for Access.
Is that an imperial long ton, i.e. 20 hundredweight (2,240 pounds) or a short ton (identical to the US ton at 2,000 pounds)? Or do you mean a metric tonne?
Seems to me that she's overstating her tech-savviness. I sympatise with her problems - it wasn't that easy for me to get Linux up and running back in the mid '90s, since I had a machine that was assembled solely with Windows in mind. That said, I managed it without having to load and discard 6 or more distributions to do so. If all she wants is a basic point-and-shoot system for simple WP, there's not much point in abandoning win95 if it does what she needs.
I believe the GIMP does do most of these things if you really know how to use it. Same goes, of course, for any of the higher-end graphics software available. There's a learning curve inherent in using any power tool. The GIMP is not for everybody, and I'm not going to be drawn into saying that it blows away any other product, but there are some things (e.g. scripting) where it really excels. Oh, and I believe there are routines available that allow you to use photoshop plugins, but I've never tried them, so as always, YMMV...
The best way I've found to make a Japanese waiter crack up is to loudly ask for a mawashi to go with your sashimi. It's a sumo wrestler's jock-strap. Not quite the same thing as wasabi, but it might make your eyes water all the same:-)
The trouble with this lady's argument is that as soon as anyone says "you can trust me", you can be damn sure they do not have your best interests at heart. It's the kind of platitude that ranks along with "God is on our side" or "if you've got nothing to hide..." or, for that matter, "my mother, drunk or sober".
I presume that means you're an American. One can be disorientated with impunity in the UK or disoriented in the US. Here in Australia, no-one seems to care too much how you do it:-)
...to make OpenOffice (or StarOffice) useable? There were a few things I was tearing my hair out about in 1.0.2, but they have all been fixed in the new 1.1beta.
My only real complaint about it is that it is still so slow to load (on Linux, anyway - dunno about the winbloze version).
I think the idea is that Minotaur will play nice as a mail client with phoenix when it's done. I haven't tried it yet, but I like the idea. However, it would be nice if there was some switch like Mozilla's -altmail= to tie it to your preferred mail client. Having said that, last time I looked, that switch was broken in Mozilla, but I guess that has probably been fixed by now. I was interested in using Evolution for a while, but that vile poo-brown theme of theirs put me off. I'll have another look when a GTK2 version hits the streets.
You're probably right. I remember back in 1987 (I think) I used to use dogpile a lot, as there was a really quick text-mode entry-point hosted (IIRC) by rutgers.edu. Hotbot also used to have a low-bandwidth advanced search that was really useful (and in terms of its search criteria, it's still quite good) but I rarely use anything other than google nowadays.
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I have a a couple of Yahoo accounts in addition to my main personal account, and I have (so far) not received a single spam mail on either of them in over 18 months. That's quite a feat on Yahoo's part, and I'm impressed, given that both of those addresses are made up of standard dictionary words without resorting to mixtures of alpha/numeric characters. Compare that to hotmail, where I set up an account a few weeks ago (as an experiment) with all the so-called "privacy" options checked, and it was spammed to the brim within 24 hours. Conspiracy theory? I don't think so.
You mean to say you married someone who likes Celine Dion? :-)
I know it's not currently trendy to bag metacity (and I am using it myself right now), but its memory footprint (from top) is currently 6.8 Mb. Last time I ran Sawfish it took up 5.6 Mb. Given that Metacity doesn't even remember window sizes (which pisses me off; since when would anybody want a default 3 inch wide window for Mozilla?), I don't think Metacity is doing very well with its no-bloat claims.
I think you've got a broken build somehow. I run Slackware 9 and it works fine for me with both the version that Pat V puts out as well as the Dropline version. The dropline builds seem to give slightly better fonts, very smooth. Did you upgrade on to an old installation? Mine was installed on to clean partitions (leaving /home in place, of course), I've always felt that tends to be cleaner.
It doesn't work for the random spammers, but it's an effective way of dealing with the sites that suck your acquaintances into the "mail this page to a friend" scam for trapping addresses.
Yes, they did get rid of that vile desktop that everybody hated (well, I did, anyway), but that didn't make the thing very much quicker to load.
Mileage varies, but on this 1GHz Athlon it takes 14 seconds to load swriter (I just checked). OK, this box is hardly stat of the art, but there are still plenty of people out there using 200 or 400 MHz boxen.
Here in the noughties, we should be able to fire up a WP app without needing to go and make a coffee while it loads.
This isn't strictly a Gnome or GTK port, but there is a Gnome2 icon theme available here . The next best thing :-)
The first time I tried OO, I thought "Yuck" when I saw the default (just about the time when StarOffice was becoming non-free again, so I had the incentive to look) but you can select the TTF or T1 font of your choice through Tools-> Options -> Fonts -> Replacement Table.
If you want to make any other fonts available to OO, there's the spadmin utility to link them. Unless you need the database stuff, I can't think of anything to make it worthwhile coughing up shekels for SO any more.
Is that an imperial long ton, i.e. 20 hundredweight (2,240 pounds) or a short ton (identical to the US ton at 2,000 pounds)? Or do you mean a metric tonne?
Seems to me that she's overstating her tech-savviness. I sympatise with her problems - it wasn't that easy for me to get Linux up and running back in the mid '90s, since I had a machine that was assembled solely with Windows in mind. That said, I managed it without having to load and discard 6 or more distributions to do so. If all she wants is a basic point-and-shoot system for simple WP, there's not much point in abandoning win95 if it does what she needs.
I believe the GIMP does do most of these things if you really know how to use it. Same goes, of course, for any of the higher-end graphics software available. There's a learning curve inherent in using any power tool. The GIMP is not for everybody, and I'm not going to be drawn into saying that it blows away any other product, but there are some things (e.g. scripting) where it really excels. Oh, and I believe there are routines available that allow you to use photoshop plugins, but I've never tried them, so as always, YMMV...
Well said. However, what I could somethimes really use is a "wtf?" category... :-)
I'm sorry, but if you reason like that, then you can't reason at all.
That's about the level of some of our illustrious leaders' arguments.
Given the way some people drive here in Perth, W. Australia, he would probably get around just fine. :-)
The best way I've found to make a Japanese waiter crack up is to loudly ask for a mawashi to go with your sashimi. It's a sumo wrestler's jock-strap. Not quite the same thing as wasabi, but it might make your eyes water all the same :-)
The trouble with this lady's argument is that as soon as anyone says "you can trust me", you can be damn sure they do not have your best interests at heart. It's the kind of platitude that ranks along with "God is on our side" or "if you've got nothing to hide..." or, for that matter, "my mother, drunk or sober".
OK, you're right, it uses Ghostscript to filter -> PDF. My bad...
You're right, my bad :-)
OpenOffice has had PDF output for at least a year now.
I presume that means you're an American. One can be disorientated with impunity in the UK or disoriented in the US. Here in Australia, no-one seems to care too much how you do it :-)
My only real complaint about it is that it is still so slow to load (on Linux, anyway - dunno about the winbloze version).
There's not much to be said for getting drunk in the company of marketroids, though. Boooooring. :-)
I think the idea is that Minotaur will play nice as a mail client with phoenix when it's done. I haven't tried it yet, but I like the idea. However, it would be nice if there was some switch like Mozilla's -altmail= to tie it to your preferred mail client. Having said that, last time I looked, that switch was broken in Mozilla, but I guess that has probably been fixed by now. I was interested in using Evolution for a while, but that vile poo-brown theme of theirs put me off. I'll have another look when a GTK2 version hits the streets.
You're probably right. I remember back in 1987 (I think) I used to use dogpile a lot, as there was a really quick text-mode entry-point hosted (IIRC) by rutgers.edu. Hotbot also used to have a low-bandwidth advanced search that was really useful (and in terms of its search criteria, it's still quite good) but I rarely use anything other than google nowadays.