I just tried that in Safari and it worked. In fact it worked by zoom fading the tab into a thumbnail that grew to the parent window size on mouse up. Wow.
Scared me so bad I cmd-w closed it without thinking! Context menu on a tab reveals "Move Tab to New Window." I can see how this would be handy- especially if you wanted to change views to view entabbed pages simultaneously. Maybe a FF extension is out? Anyone?
Works as intended. The job is on the servers side to tell the browser what kind of content is coming. Let's make sure we get our headers right.
Still I agree that by default the user should be prompted about downloads.
I prefer not to have to install little patches that have many dependencies on other patches and require restarts individually when I have a fresh Windows install.
It would be nice if Microsoft bundled their updates quarterly and let you download one blob and then select the updates to install in one shot.
SP3 was in the oven for a long time and I'm so glad it's here now, but getting an SP2 or earlier system up to date was a huge pain in March.
Quarterly updates (delta and combo version) are helpful. They would reduce my work building slipstream disks by a lot.
You don't miss bug fixes because you just do quarterly+other updates as they come- but for new installs combo updates are wonderful.
We send out [lots of] reservation confirmations via smtp.gmail.com and use it on our domain for all company email. Gmail's app service is designed for this. Their limits are explicitly stated but as long as you fall into the TOS you're good to go.
Registration for using your domain asks question like "how many users in your organization?" This isn't personal email revisited- this is deployed managed free small business email.
Dreamhost will not kill their email services. They're shoddy hosting at times, but they're also smart, nerdy and honest. As long as Google offers a better webmail experience, IMAP, POP and as long ast they don't add ads to my emails, and as long as I can use my domain names with them Gmail is the best solution for me.
I run all my small business email straight to gmail's service and it's been great ever since. Everyone (as in my clients and their employees) prefers it. I also have a dreamhost account and I like it.
Umm WildBlue is hardly a solution. 1200ms ping times...let me rephrase that 1.2 second ping times and low usage quotas (7.5GB/mo) make it a non-starter. Wireless to a neighbor's should be really easy with a pair or directional antennas- you could even throw a parabolic behind a rubber ducky and hit 300 meters at 11mbit- I've done it over 2km at 100mw tx power.
You might have a look at Engenius's outdoor APs. A pair of EOC-3220s should work well. Cheaper than most outdoor gear, supports POE, stable (at least mine has been rock solid, I have the external antenna version). And it support bridging natively!
For a guy whose looking for a F/OSS app you sure have a lot of non-open requirements. You wanna make a private-only database on Vista?
I don't mean to be a total downer (in coach-z's words) Why is F/OSS even a requirement for you?
On a more helpful note you might consider that mySQL doesn't take much to run if your dataset isn't huge and as long as you've outgrown notepad you might consider it for super easy manipulation of data, versatility, ubiquity and simplicity. It meets all of your requirements except !sql. It's not overkill- it's easy. Setting up a local database is really really simple. If you were on a Mac I'd recommend MAMP- it's a self contained installation that includes and Apache/PHP for easy web interfaces.
Or use Python. And if it scares you, have a look at Google's App Engine. It include the GQL database API that will write to a local database in the development environment. The local database is persistent until you erase it.
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You have not because you ask not.
I find this is true with many developers. There's few things better in the world than responsive developers, open source or otherwise.
UAC jokes ensue...
Point taken- just FYI, Adobe Flash is 1.4MB and installs in less than 5 seconds from clicking accept on the license.
And if you don't believe me, let's put it to a vote.
Javascript to Ruby? And I thought we were all finally getting over the idea that XML is a great way to to do asynchronous apps. Json etc..
Scared me so bad I cmd-w closed it without thinking! Context menu on a tab reveals "Move Tab to New Window." I can see how this would be handy- especially if you wanted to change views to view entabbed pages simultaneously. Maybe a FF extension is out? Anyone?
The modern Dell XP rig in our office takes about 40 seconds to desktop and then about a full minute to actually do the things tell it to.
Remember the Computer on Fire function in the BeOS kernel?
Cheers ;)
Works as intended. The job is on the servers side to tell the browser what kind of content is coming. Let's make sure we get our headers right. Still I agree that by default the user should be prompted about downloads.
Maybe the OS should keep track of when a program is first executed and if it has rights?
In other news Graphics cards are good at . . . graphics.
No, Apple is the most successful computer maker because they're making computers that THEY LIKE to use.
This is success.
Yeah- or a connection to the internet.
I design sites to that when Javascript fails the site still works. Same with CSS.
I agree about DNS poisoning though. It's a pity that we haven't fixed DNS yet.
Or just write a quick script to detect when the google scripts are blocked and use a local copy.
Should take two minutes.
I prefer not to have to install little patches that have many dependencies on other patches and require restarts individually when I have a fresh Windows install.
It would be nice if Microsoft bundled their updates quarterly and let you download one blob and then select the updates to install in one shot.
SP3 was in the oven for a long time and I'm so glad it's here now, but getting an SP2 or earlier system up to date was a huge pain in March.
Quarterly updates (delta and combo version) are helpful. They would reduce my work building slipstream disks by a lot.
You don't miss bug fixes because you just do quarterly+other updates as they come- but for new installs combo updates are wonderful.
I always rent my mod points.
This looks like a job for Google App Engine!
We send out [lots of] reservation confirmations via smtp.gmail.com and use it on our domain for all company email. Gmail's app service is designed for this. Their limits are explicitly stated but as long as you fall into the TOS you're good to go.
Registration for using your domain asks question like "how many users in your organization?" This isn't personal email revisited- this is deployed managed free small business email.
It's excellent.
Dreamhost will not kill their email services. They're shoddy hosting at times, but they're also smart, nerdy and honest. As long as Google offers a better webmail experience, IMAP, POP and as long ast they don't add ads to my emails, and as long as I can use my domain names with them Gmail is the best solution for me.
I run all my small business email straight to gmail's service and it's been great ever since. Everyone (as in my clients and their employees) prefers it. I also have a dreamhost account and I like it.
Spend some time documenting an open source project.
Prolific Slashdot Poster,
Umm WildBlue is hardly a solution. 1200ms ping times...let me rephrase that 1.2 second ping times and low usage quotas (7.5GB/mo) make it a non-starter. Wireless to a neighbor's should be really easy with a pair or directional antennas- you could even throw a parabolic behind a rubber ducky and hit 300 meters at 11mbit- I've done it over 2km at 100mw tx power.
You might have a look at Engenius's outdoor APs. A pair of EOC-3220s should work well. Cheaper than most outdoor gear, supports POE, stable (at least mine has been rock solid, I have the external antenna version). And it support bridging natively!
Cheers,
For a guy whose looking for a F/OSS app you sure have a lot of non-open requirements. You wanna make a private-only database on Vista?
I don't mean to be a total downer (in coach-z's words) Why is F/OSS even a requirement for you?
On a more helpful note you might consider that mySQL doesn't take much to run if your dataset isn't huge and as long as you've outgrown notepad you might consider it for super easy manipulation of data, versatility, ubiquity and simplicity. It meets all of your requirements except !sql. It's not overkill- it's easy. Setting up a local database is really really simple. If you were on a Mac I'd recommend MAMP- it's a self contained installation that includes and Apache/PHP for easy web interfaces.
Or use Python. And if it scares you, have a look at Google's App Engine. It include the GQL database API that will write to a local database in the development environment. The local database is persistent until you erase it.