Good to know. The hard case is the mailing list, where one's address rarely appears in the headers except perhaps in the Received array. This is where tieing the identity to the folder is useful.
I'm a data packrat and a voracious reader, and subscribe to tons of mailing lists for all the open source daemons I use. I don't know of any other mail client (including Thunderbird) that can manage this load as effectively, while allowing me to keep the mail in folders on the server so that I can view it from both home and office.
I initially switched from Evolution to Mulberry because I wanted a system that allowed me to preserve my filtering rules when changing mail clients. The result was my use of procmail server-side to do all my filtering, and IMAP to allow any client from anywhere to access it. But when researching IMAP-capable clients, Mulberry stood out as the most capable. Only Mulberry can quickly check dozens of folders for new mail without subscribing to all of them. (It's also important to use a fast IMAP server. Dovecot is serving that purpose pretty well for my small server with a handful of clients.)
I've considered using Thunderbird, but so far I've been unable to get it to check all unsubscribed folders for new mail, even after setting the undocumented mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new to true. And it lacks Mulberry's novel separation of the concepts of identity and account.
Some have critized Mulberry's appearance on Linux, as if that was a show-stopper. For me, it's sufficient that it run at all on Linux, as I switch between Win32 and Linux platforms. I don't need it to fit some desktop theme for it to be useful. Eye candy is a nice-to-have, but not essential.
Two features that are important to me and that I've not found elsewhere are the ability to rapidly check 100 folders for new mail (I subscribe to a lot of mailing lists, delivered by procmail to individual folders), and the inheritance of properties for folders, accounts, and identities.
Individually subscribing to hundreds of folders is the only way to monitor them in most IMAP clients, and then I have to remember to do so with each new folder I create. With Mulberry, I can use the subscribed flag to indicate a different frequency of checking and to use a different alert style for new mail. So "subscribed" to me means important mail (as opposed to low-priority list mail). I subscribe my boss, my customers, and close family, and Mulberry checks those folders every 5 minutes, while checking the unsubscribed folders every 20. Ordinary new mail just beeps, while I set subscribed new mail to say (via voice synthesis) "important mail arrived". (This can be extended to per-folder custom alerts.)
The inheritance feature is a powerful way of reducing configuration work by allowing one to group properties common to a set of folders or identities and then deriving a new one, changing only a single feature. For instance, many of my identities share the same accounts (servers and logins) and differ only in the name and email address. I set up a "base" identity with the common settings and then derive the others, specifying only their unique features. I can configure a subtree of my folders to always use the same identity for replies by tweaking a setting for the root of the subtree. All child folders inherit settings from their parent and the settings can be individually overridden.
The companies should just release the untested stuff instantly and frequently, instead of passing it through a layer of QA that clearly isn't accomplishing anything except holding up releases for a week or more.
Take a look at open source. The entire innovative Linux/BSD ecology exists in spite of the code being free for anyone to download. There are localized profit centers within that ecology, where for instance companies pay to develop enhancements to free software. But consider also incentives like ego. A lot of programmers (and artists) find more reward in the recognition the work creates.
Remember that we could communicate with astronauts on the Moon, a second and a half's latency away, with no trouble. You just have to put up with a bit of a pause between exchanges. It's no worse than talking to someone who actually thinks before he speaks. Or waiting for someone to type a reply in IRC.
A way to slow down the growth of government is to require the legislative body to read the proposed legislation in full, orally, before voting on it. And require a cooling-off waiting period before the vote so the people can review it. Such a rule has just been submitted to the US Congress. You can show your support here:
Agreed, requiring nude flying (and no carry-on luggage) will pretty much eliminate the whole issue of searches. Well, except for those daring enough to stuff body cavities with explosives and weapons.
I've been running 1.8 with the newer Gecko engine to be deployed in FF 1.1, and see no sign of a new release for it. Is 1.8b not vulnerable, is it being ignored, or is its patch just really slow in being released?
The objections here to a no-publisher model are surprising given the general SlashDot antagonism to the MPAA and RIAA and the publishers they represent. Game developers can work just like music and movie artists, mostly for the love of the work, and distributing under an indy label where they reap most of any profits. Moreover, they can follow the open source model and make frequent ongoing releases of beta material instead of waiting for just the right time in the game marketplace.
To see a relevant example, take a look at the Legends project, which uses the successor to the engine used for Tribes 2 to develop a new game. Legends is nowhere near retail quality, but that's mostly for lack of artists, which they now have (contributed from the Renegades project). Gamers have the ability to join the project and make this game what they truly want, just as open source users can extend an open source product to meet their own needs. Got a gaming itch that no retail game satisfies? Come scratch it by becoming a developer!
There are tens if not hundreds of millions of users in the world who use USB DSL modems, Windows-only winmodems, unsupported Broadcom wifi connections or password-protected proxies for whom this CD will be of absolutely no use whatsoever, except as a coffee mat.
Or they could use their USB DSL modems, Windows-only winmodems, and unsupported Broadcom wifi connections as coffee mats.
We have a Python script on our laptops that send netstat, ipconfig, route info via email when they boot.
Is this just for Linux? Any chance you could post the script for public consumption? This would be a nice addition to all executive laptops, the kind that get lifted when one's attention is diverted in a busy airport.
Lots of info about 3rd party firmware based on the original Linksys Linux code can be found at Linksysinfo.org. (I'm using the Sveasoft Satori release and am planning on upgrading shortly to get more port forward entries.)
This doesn't address security, but if the manufacturers used the MAC (which is supposed to be globally unique, and typically printed on a sticker on the router) as the SSID, then a user would have some assurance that his client was talking to the right access point. Prefix the MAC with the manufacturer and model name to make the SSID a little more user-friendly. (What's the limit for the number of characters in the SSID?)
I don't know what's worse: the fact that it could take a feature like that to stop CWS, or that I first mistook your punchline cusswords as sendmail.cf options.
Speaking as a sendmail admin, I wish I had moderator points today so I could mod that up funny.
I was checking out a database report generator yesterday and the installation instructions explicitly advise one to use the "force" option on the Linux package installers. Grrrr. One of my pet peeves. People who don't understand packaging systems should not be telling their users how to use them.
An effort is underway to require Congress to read laws in their entirety, and then allow a 7 day "waiting period" for public inspection and comment, before being able to pass them. The effort is being organized by Downsize DC. Currently the effort is in the research stage, so the website lacks any detailed information. One should subscribe to the mailing list to get updates.
Speakeasy continues to be the most enlightened of the ISP's, supporting home servers, Linux users, and bandwidth sharing. Here's a link to their Netshare program: Speakeasy Netshare
I wish I was close enough to my telco central office to order a Speakeasy DSL line.
You can check the status of the bill, subscribe to it, and send comments by going here and entering current (2005-2006) session, Assembly, and 1681 for the bill number.
I like to tell people that Windows is nice when everything is working the way you expect, but terrible to debug when the unexpected happens, because it's so hard to dig useful information out of the system.
The same applies to boot splash screens. The verbose screen lets you know exactly where a fault is occurring, so you have some hope of fixing it.
You also get a much better idea of how far you are from a useful desktop, by seeing the service names. A simple progress meter rarely updates consistently, so it doesn't really give a good estimate of how much time is left.
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The dog ate my router!
Good to know. The hard case is the mailing list, where one's address rarely appears in the headers except perhaps in the Received array. This is where tieing the identity to the folder is useful.
I'm a data packrat and a voracious reader, and subscribe to tons of mailing lists for all the open source daemons I use. I don't know of any other mail client (including Thunderbird) that can manage this load as effectively, while allowing me to keep the mail in folders on the server so that I can view it from both home and office.
I initially switched from Evolution to Mulberry because I wanted a system that allowed me to preserve my filtering rules when changing mail clients. The result was my use of procmail server-side to do all my filtering, and IMAP to allow any client from anywhere to access it. But when researching IMAP-capable clients, Mulberry stood out as the most capable. Only Mulberry can quickly check dozens of folders for new mail without subscribing to all of them. (It's also important to use a fast IMAP server. Dovecot is serving that purpose pretty well for my small server with a handful of clients.)
I've considered using Thunderbird, but so far I've been unable to get it to check all unsubscribed folders for new mail, even after setting the undocumented mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new to true. And it lacks Mulberry's novel separation of the concepts of identity and account.
Some have critized Mulberry's appearance on Linux, as if that was a show-stopper. For me, it's sufficient that it run at all on Linux, as I switch between Win32 and Linux platforms. I don't need it to fit some desktop theme for it to be useful. Eye candy is a nice-to-have, but not essential.
Two features that are important to me and that I've not found elsewhere are the ability to rapidly check 100 folders for new mail (I subscribe to a lot of mailing lists, delivered by procmail to individual folders), and the inheritance of properties for folders, accounts, and identities.
Individually subscribing to hundreds of folders is the only way to monitor them in most IMAP clients, and then I have to remember to do so with each new folder I create. With Mulberry, I can use the subscribed flag to indicate a different frequency of checking and to use a different alert style for new mail. So "subscribed" to me means important mail (as opposed to low-priority list mail). I subscribe my boss, my customers, and close family, and Mulberry checks those folders every 5 minutes, while checking the unsubscribed folders every 20. Ordinary new mail just beeps, while I set subscribed new mail to say (via voice synthesis) "important mail arrived". (This can be extended to per-folder custom alerts.)
The inheritance feature is a powerful way of reducing configuration work by allowing one to group properties common to a set of folders or identities and then deriving a new one, changing only a single feature. For instance, many of my identities share the same accounts (servers and logins) and differ only in the name and email address. I set up a "base" identity with the common settings and then derive the others, specifying only their unique features. I can configure a subtree of my folders to always use the same identity for replies by tweaking a setting for the root of the subtree. All child folders inherit settings from their parent and the settings can be individually overridden.
And a Coral Cache link for the home page. (Could an admin edit the link in the story proper to match, please?)
The companies should just release the untested stuff instantly and frequently, instead of passing it through a layer of QA that clearly isn't accomplishing anything except holding up releases for a week or more.
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Take a look at open source. The entire innovative Linux/BSD ecology exists in spite of the code being free for anyone to download. There are localized profit centers within that ecology, where for instance companies pay to develop enhancements to free software. But consider also incentives like ego. A lot of programmers (and artists) find more reward in the recognition the work creates.
Remember that we could communicate with astronauts on the Moon, a second and a half's latency away, with no trouble. You just have to put up with a bit of a pause between exchanges. It's no worse than talking to someone who actually thinks before he speaks. Or waiting for someone to type a reply in IRC.
http://www.downsizedc.org/read_the_laws.shtml
I love it. Excellent idea.
Agreed, requiring nude flying (and no carry-on luggage) will pretty much eliminate the whole issue of searches. Well, except for those daring enough to stuff body cavities with explosives and weapons.
made a gun that looked like a mouse. Or a joystick.
I've been running 1.8 with the newer Gecko engine to be deployed in FF 1.1, and see no sign of a new release for it. Is 1.8b not vulnerable, is it being ignored, or is its patch just really slow in being released?
To see a relevant example, take a look at the Legends project, which uses the successor to the engine used for Tribes 2 to develop a new game. Legends is nowhere near retail quality, but that's mostly for lack of artists, which they now have (contributed from the Renegades project). Gamers have the ability to join the project and make this game what they truly want, just as open source users can extend an open source product to meet their own needs. Got a gaming itch that no retail game satisfies? Come scratch it by becoming a developer!
Or they could use their USB DSL modems, Windows-only winmodems, and unsupported Broadcom wifi connections as coffee mats.
Is this just for Linux? Any chance you could post the script for public consumption? This would be a nice addition to all executive laptops, the kind that get lifted when one's attention is diverted in a busy airport.
Lots of info about 3rd party firmware based on the original Linksys Linux code can be found at Linksysinfo.org. (I'm using the Sveasoft Satori release and am planning on upgrading shortly to get more port forward entries.)
This doesn't address security, but if the manufacturers used the MAC (which is supposed to be globally unique, and typically printed on a sticker on the router) as the SSID, then a user would have some assurance that his client was talking to the right access point. Prefix the MAC with the manufacturer and model name to make the SSID a little more user-friendly. (What's the limit for the number of characters in the SSID?)
Speaking as a sendmail admin, I wish I had moderator points today so I could mod that up funny.
I was checking out a database report generator yesterday and the installation instructions explicitly advise one to use the "force" option on the Linux package installers. Grrrr. One of my pet peeves. People who don't understand packaging systems should not be telling their users how to use them.
An effort is underway to require Congress to read laws in their entirety, and then allow a 7 day "waiting period" for public inspection and comment, before being able to pass them. The effort is being organized by Downsize DC. Currently the effort is in the research stage, so the website lacks any detailed information. One should subscribe to the mailing list to get updates.
I wish I was close enough to my telco central office to order a Speakeasy DSL line.
Select item 5, "How to Comment on Bills", to submit a comment. Choose Assembly bill 1681.
You can check the status of the bill, subscribe to it, and send comments by going here and entering current (2005-2006) session, Assembly, and 1681 for the bill number.
The same applies to boot splash screens. The verbose screen lets you know exactly where a fault is occurring, so you have some hope of fixing it.
You also get a much better idea of how far you are from a useful desktop, by seeing the service names. A simple progress meter rarely updates consistently, so it doesn't really give a good estimate of how much time is left.