They are randomly blocking whole netblocks without having any clue about what is really going on. That way they blacklisted whole countries like China, Hong Kong, etc.. While it is arguable if a random geek in the US needs to receive mails from China, any bigger corporation with any contacts to foreign companies does.
In short, spews is USELESS for any serious business, and any admin that is using that blacklist for tagging should other BL lists (e.g. Spamcop.net)... any admin in a bigger company using that BL for killing mails should go to look for a new job, because he is obviously highly incompetent.
We had many cases where we were unable to deliver our mails because some moron admin in a big international company with worldwide suppliers and customers was using spews for rejecting mails.
btw. I am currently export manager for a manufacturer in china, and have to deal with such shit everyday. We host the servers by our self, because the ISPs here are incompetent. There are no other alternatives though, so we have to live with that. Pressuring the has NO effect. We still have after six months, three different isps, pressuring and detailed step-by-step instructions no r-DNS. Companies like SPEWS blocking whole countries upset me because of their pure ignorance.
If you need a good BL, use Spamcop.net, kills nearly almost all spam here, the rest is done by spamassassin.
I do not get your point. DVD drives are perfectly usable for installing Tiger from a DVD, duh. Unless of course you plan to "upgrade" from a torrent (and have not preordered Tiger or do not plan to buy tiger on 29th), then you need a superdrive or an external drive or an ipod.... but in that case you are just a moron for using warez while having no idea how to actually use warez.
Anbody who bought a computer with a CD-Rom drive only in the last three years is a moron and should sodomise himself for being such a dumbass.
They SHARE TV with the neighbours? Man someone must alert the MPAA since they are showing American Shows. Sharing is so wrong. The TV set must strictly be for the consumption of the ORIGINAL buyer. If we don't stop these sharing commies, where will the world end?
So I went through the suggested Word processors, mostly I had tested the apps before already.... Here are the results:
(totally unscientific test, mostly based on personal preferences)
Testing on my wifes iBook G3 700, everything that needs three times longer than MS Word, fails (Thinkfree office, Nisus)
MS takes ~8sec launch and open a file with 21 pages, several images, some text is highligted. Header, footer and page counter. The file has been created with v.X and then tortured by MS Office 2000 on windows.
Three formats saved in Word v.X:.doc 337kb (the original).doc Word 95 compatible mode 272kb.rtf 2.2mb
NeoOffice/J is disqualified. It's over 100MB, based on OO.org and using Java - no chance it can start and load a file in less than 25sec.
koffice qt/mac is pre-alpha and last time I checked it was a load of files to dl and it too quite a while to load on a Powerbook...
TextEdit: ~4 sec. Pros: opens all pages in the DOCs and the RTF, the result is acceptable. Cons: No headers/footers or images. No highlight in rtf and 95 compatibility mode. Original v.X save does have highlight. Core functionality.
AbiWord v2.1.1 ~12sec Cons: RTF fails totally to open, resulting in a crash. both doc files end after the 3rd page for no reason. The toolbar is OSX unlike fixed under the menu bar... destroys the overall good look. The file opening process has no indicator and looks broken ugly until suddenly the file opens.
Pros: The opened 3 pages look good, nearly like they are supposed to look like. The icons in the toolbar look simple nice the toolbar is usable.
Nisus Writer Express: ~26sec (rtf:14sec) cons: converts docs to rtf. no highlighting, some images are missing slightly too simplistic toolbar. rtf looks more broken than the doc>rtf conversion, all images loaded however
pros: result looks good except for the mentioned things, good use of the OS.X drawer. big plus for functional thesaurus. I would use it if it had better MS rtf/doc support.
Mellel ~6sec uses that safari metal interface - basically TextEdit with usable interface around it. pro: cute floating functions thingie cons: does not open.doc (TextEdit does!), Does handle rtf same as TextEdit. (no images, etc..)
Papyrus ~16sec (plus bugging me to replace missing fonts? whatever.) cons: no images, Ugly toolbar. Confusing icons. Need to use menus a lot. did not open both.docs pros: best import of header/footer and pagecouter so far. Slightly better than TextEdit.
Thinkfree ~36sec cons: takes too long to startup and load the file it's actually unacceptable to wait this long. pros: loaded text looked acceptable... RTF: TextEdit quality with some images. DOC: good text import with some images and some were cut/misplaced. Windows Office like toolbar. not the prettiest interface
Vi: ~3sec pros: opened all files.
Conclusion: Vi loaded the fastest and opened all files. Nisus performed ok, took it's time to load docs, but I would like to highlight the interface. I really liked how they use the drawer, the thesaurus functionality was nice and I have not seen it before in any other app. It would be my personal favorite if it opened files like AbiWord did to the first three pages, the toobar might have some more icons/functions to add too... My second choice would be AbiWord (if you ignore the rtf crash), I hope future updates can fixed that cut document bug and somebody can make it more native. eg take the interface from Nisus;)
Everything else was not so ok... partially TextEdit was better.
Overall, I am still waiting. My bets would go on the AbiWord project.
Let's face it - MS compatibility is important. I think I will keep Nisus on the disk to play with until it expires and check out future releases of AbiWord.
I was using it on Linux daily, I have not used MS Office for years. When I switched 20 months ago, I had to learn that OO.org is sucking on OS X and nobody really cares about it. It does not look native, slow, big and buggy. Suddenly it just sucked. Macs spoiled me. OS X spoiled me. And it's a good thing. I have changed from hardcore geek to somebody wo does not want to use slow unusable crap.
I wanted the ultimative usability experience and OO.org could not satisfy any of that. Since 20 months I am on search for The Office package. Haven't found one yet. I hope Apple is coming up with one soon, my another hope goes to the KDE + Qt/Mac porting project especially the koffice part of it. I gave AbiWord a shot, but it did not performe well. And there is no matching Spreadsheet app.
OO.org is dead for me. Big, slow, and too many of itch-scratch people working on it. No innovations.
I did. Today. Mandrake 9.2. Now I am back to windows. My Apple Powerbook needs some servicing, so I am using a borrowed windows box.
Installed Mandrake with full KDE desktop. I wanted to have Firefox with Java support. After nstalling a load of some sort of stdlibc crap and other library stuff I got it running. Except for the applets, which were running absolutely unstable and were crashing quite often, flickering and unpredictable. My Wheelmouse did not scroll, although it did during the installation. For whatever I wanted to install I had to get a load of other libs. I do not want to care about what an app needs, I want to run it. Overall, after two hours of fighting with Linux I was back to Windows.
I do not think "Joe Sixpack" want's to go through this kind of shit. He wants to launch his browser and have all the necessary plugins already there. He wants to doubleklick on that stupid setup for his app and after it is finished, the app is running and the setup also created a cute icon in his start menu. Try that with Mandrake or any other "Desktop" Linux. It sucks. Did you try to create an icon in your kde-"start"-menu?..no comment.
Get OS X and play around with it for a while, that's a Desktop OS.
Well, since you are already hacking around in some files, why not just create a user style sheet? No "...series of hacks on top of Apple's WebKit framework...", just pure CSS.
Create a css file somewhere with a text editor, put following inside (Not made by me, just found it somewhere and made some additions):
/*
* This file can be used to apply a style to all web pages you view
* Rules without !important are overruled by author rules if the
* author sets any. Rules with !important overrule author rules.
*/
/*
* turns off "blink" element blinking
*/ blink { text-decoration: none ! important; }
/*
* hides many ads by preventing display of images that are inside
* links when the link HREF contans certain substrings.
*/
A:link[HREF*="ad."] IMG { display: none ! important } A:link[HREF*="ads."] IMG { display: none ! important } A:link[HREF*="/ad"] IMG { display: none ! important } A:link[HREF*="/A="] IMG { display: none ! important } A:link[HREF*="/click"] IMG { display: none ! important } A:link[HREF*="?click"] IMG { display: none ! important } A:link[HREF*="?banner"] IMG { display: none ! important } A:link[HREF*="=click"] IMG { display: none ! important } A:link[HREF*="/ar.atwo"] IMG { display: none ! important } A:link[HREF*="spinbox."] IMG { display: none ! important } A:link[HREF*="transfer.go"] IMG { display: none ! important } A:link[HREF*="adfarm"] IMG { display: none ! important } A:link[HREF*="bluestreak"] IMG { display: none ! important } A:link[HREF*="doubleclick"] IMG { display: none ! important }
/* disable ad iframes */ IFRAME[SRC*="ad."] { display: none ! important } IFRAME[SRC*="ads."] { display: none ! important } IFRAME[SRC*="/ad"] { display: none ! important } IFRAME[SRC*="/A="] { display: none ! important } IFRAME[SRC*="/click"] { display: none ! important } IFRAME[SRC*="?click"] { display: none ! important } IFRAME[SRC*="?banner"] { display: none ! important } IFRAME[SRC*="=click"] { display: none ! important } IFRAME[SRC*="/ar.atwo"] { display: none ! important } IFRAME[SRC*="spinbox."] { display: none ! important } IFRAME[SRC*="transfer.go"] { display: none ! important } IFRAME[SRC*="adfarm"] { display: none ! important } IFRAME[SRC*="bluestreak"] { display: none ! important } IFRAME[SRC*="doubleclick"] { display: none ! important }
xIMG[usemap] { display: none ! important }
/* turning some false positives back off */
A:link[HREF*="download."] IMG { display: inline ! important } A:link[HREF*="click.mp3"] IMG { display: inline ! important }
/*
* For more examples see http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html
*/
Add this file as your Stylesheet in safari: Preferences/Advanced/Style Sheet.... there you go...
Most tips for the Mozilla userContent.css file work also with Safari, so search on google for userContent.css for more examples.
Cool, now they just need to start replacing those crappy white square power adapters with something ugly but unbreakable ones, like those included with any cheapo windows Notebook.
the end that plugs into the computer, breaks the wires inside and develops shorts and funky sparks after few months of regular use.
Do not forget, that the Powerbook has one year warranty, you can get the AppleCare later during that first year.
I bought mine on the phone while requesting a replacement for my battery. I thing the two years additional warranty are really worth for a laptop (LCD!).
Of course if you have the chance to buy the PB together with a discounted/free AppleCare from a distributor or your university, well then it is different story...
how can store the setting of all the toolbars? I just want to have the plain terminal without anything around, the settings are only for the current window and I do not see any option to disable them forever.
Hmm, as with all others there is no mouse support for stuff like w3m or at least I did not get it running over ssh to a linux box.
Why is it building the scripts menu each time I run mactelnet? The font list caching is nice...
I guess I will get the source later for kicking out the toolbars...
I didn't even think about it, but I press command + option with only one finger too. But the only function I can think of off hand also includes the Escape key.
There are quite a lot of applications with rather long key shortcuts: Being web/it-developer I use Photoshop a lot, my favourite shortcut is: Comand+Option+Shift+S (Save for Web).
View Source in Safari: Cmd+Opt+V
BBEdit has quite a bunch of those shortcuts as well.
BUT...;)...looking at the layout(which I hope is not final), why is the function key replaced with shift? When I reach out for the fn key on my current keyboard I have trouble accessing the other keys covered by the left hand. I know I have small hands, but come on... leave it where it is at the current size (two keys wide).
Same for return... umm enter... where is return??? I know quite some apps, where return and enter have different functions... take Fire for example: return sends out, enter makes a new line in the message... I do not think I would want to use additional shift for this. And it IS far too small, leave it at the current size, it was already difficult enough for me to stop hitting back-slash all the time...
Overall: the whole right part of the keyboard is messed up and will require you to get used to the new layout.
Too much self advertisement... use it for bigger keys instead, although the hand is quite cute.
Can I press command + option with one finger only? I hope so.
NO IBOOK?
What about the heat? I have 1GHz and it gets quite hot already. If you look at the current keyboard, it is designed to provide better air circulation. You think it is not important? Buy the hoover TiBook, wait until the fans go on, lift the keyboard and wait for a while... the fans go off. With the keyboard it takes longer time for the fans to go off, I dunno about MacNTouch with no holes at all.
I do not think I will buy it, maybe I would for my iBook, but it has IMO too many design/usability flaws. I had to try it out first.
All you have to do now is to browse through the sites and have a peek at the license. Mostly you will have to give them some credit somewhere. If it is not clear from the license if you can use the images in a free software then contact the archive owner directly.
You do not get automatically right to use some image on your site/app only because everybody else is doing it.
The license was simple, Don't Steal Music, but still some people did not manage to understand it. Streaming was nice and innocent until some really smart people started ripping the streams and do other funny things.
If you abuse it, they will shut it down - simple and easy.
In the end Apple ist just a company and has its responsibilites. You want to steal music? Fine, get Kaaza/Limewire/What ever, why abuse iTunes?
Thank you guys, just another neat feature disappears...
Slashdot Mirror
Whoops. I think spamhouse.org write spamcop.
:p
We use sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org for killing and spamcop.net for tagging in spamassassin at a low level, sorry
They are randomly blocking whole netblocks without having any clue about what is really going on. That way they blacklisted whole countries like China, Hong Kong, etc.. While it is arguable if a random geek in the US needs to receive mails from China, any bigger corporation with any contacts to foreign companies does.
In short, spews is USELESS for any serious business, and any admin that is using that blacklist for tagging should other BL lists (e.g. Spamcop.net)... any admin in a bigger company using that BL for killing mails should go to look for a new job, because he is obviously highly incompetent.
We had many cases where we were unable to deliver our mails because some moron admin in a big international company with worldwide suppliers and customers was using spews for rejecting mails.
btw. I am currently export manager for a manufacturer in china, and have to deal with such shit everyday. We host the servers by our self, because the ISPs here are incompetent. There are no other alternatives though, so we have to live with that. Pressuring the has NO effect. We still have after six months, three different isps, pressuring and detailed step-by-step instructions no r-DNS.
Companies like SPEWS blocking whole countries upset me because of their pure ignorance.
If you need a good BL, use Spamcop.net, kills nearly almost all spam here, the rest is done by spamassassin.
I do not get your point. DVD drives are perfectly usable for installing Tiger from a DVD, duh. Unless of course you plan to "upgrade" from a torrent (and have not preordered Tiger or do not plan to buy tiger on 29th), then you need a superdrive or an external drive or an ipod.... but in that case you are just a moron for using warez while having no idea how to actually use warez.
Anbody who bought a computer with a CD-Rom drive only in the last three years is a moron and should sodomise himself for being such a dumbass.
Any questions left?
They SHARE TV with the neighbours? Man someone must alert the MPAA since they are showing American Shows. Sharing is so wrong. The TV set must strictly be for the consumption of the ORIGINAL buyer. If we don't stop these sharing commies, where will the world end?
You will find this site interesting:
...not many animals left for new O'Reilly books.
Images in the Public Domain... The Badger.
So I went through the suggested Word processors, mostly I had tested the apps before already.... Here are the results:
.doc 337kb (the original) .doc Word 95 compatible mode 272kb .rtf 2.2mb
.doc (TextEdit does!), Does handle rtf same as TextEdit. (no images, etc..)
.docs
;)
(totally unscientific test, mostly based on personal preferences)
Testing on my wifes iBook G3 700, everything that needs three times longer than MS Word, fails (Thinkfree office, Nisus)
MS takes ~8sec launch and open a file with 21 pages, several images, some text is highligted. Header, footer and page counter. The file has been created with v.X and then tortured by MS Office 2000 on windows.
Three formats saved in Word v.X:
NeoOffice/J is disqualified. It's over 100MB, based on OO.org and using Java - no chance it can start and load a file in less than 25sec.
koffice qt/mac is pre-alpha and last time I checked it was a load of files to dl and it too quite a while to load on a Powerbook...
TextEdit: ~4 sec.
Pros: opens all pages in the DOCs and the RTF, the result is acceptable.
Cons: No headers/footers or images. No highlight in rtf and 95 compatibility mode. Original v.X save does have highlight. Core functionality.
AbiWord v2.1.1 ~12sec
Cons: RTF fails totally to open, resulting in a crash. both doc files end after the 3rd page for no reason. The toolbar is OSX unlike fixed under the menu bar... destroys the overall good look. The file opening process has no indicator and looks broken ugly until suddenly the file opens.
Pros: The opened 3 pages look good, nearly like they are supposed to look like. The icons in the toolbar look simple nice the toolbar is usable.
Nisus Writer Express: ~26sec (rtf:14sec)
cons: converts docs to rtf. no highlighting, some images are missing slightly too simplistic toolbar. rtf looks more broken than the doc>rtf conversion, all images loaded however
pros: result looks good except for the mentioned things, good use of the OS.X drawer. big plus for functional thesaurus. I would use it if it had better MS rtf/doc support.
Mellel ~6sec
uses that safari metal interface - basically TextEdit with usable interface around it.
pro: cute floating functions thingie
cons: does not open
Papyrus ~16sec (plus bugging me to replace missing fonts? whatever.)
cons: no images, Ugly toolbar. Confusing icons. Need to use menus a lot. did not open both
pros: best import of header/footer and pagecouter so far. Slightly better than TextEdit.
Thinkfree ~36sec
cons: takes too long to startup and load the file it's actually unacceptable to wait this long.
pros: loaded text looked acceptable... RTF: TextEdit quality with some images. DOC: good text import with some images and some were cut/misplaced. Windows Office like toolbar. not the prettiest interface
Vi: ~3sec
pros: opened all files.
Conclusion:
Vi loaded the fastest and opened all files. Nisus performed ok, took it's time to load docs, but I would like to highlight the interface. I really liked how they use the drawer, the thesaurus functionality was nice and I have not seen it before in any other app. It would be my personal favorite if it opened files like AbiWord did to the first three pages, the toobar might have some more icons/functions to add too... My second choice would be AbiWord (if you ignore the rtf crash), I hope future updates can fixed that cut document bug and somebody can make it more native. eg take the interface from Nisus
Everything else was not so ok... partially TextEdit was better.
Overall, I am still waiting. My bets would go on the AbiWord project.
Let's face it - MS compatibility is important. I think I will keep Nisus on the disk to play with until it expires and check out future releases of AbiWord.
I was using it on Linux daily, I have not used MS Office for years. When I switched 20 months ago, I had to learn that OO.org is sucking on OS X and nobody really cares about it. It does not look native, slow, big and buggy. Suddenly it just sucked. Macs spoiled me. OS X spoiled me. And it's a good thing. I have changed from hardcore geek to somebody wo does not want to use slow unusable crap.
I wanted the ultimative usability experience and OO.org could not satisfy any of that. Since 20 months I am on search for The Office package. Haven't found one yet. I hope Apple is coming up with one soon, my another hope goes to the KDE + Qt/Mac porting project especially the koffice part of it. I gave AbiWord a shot, but it did not performe well. And there is no matching Spreadsheet app.
OO.org is dead for me. Big, slow, and too many of itch-scratch people working on it. No innovations.
I did. Today. Mandrake 9.2. Now I am back to windows. My Apple Powerbook needs some servicing, so I am using a borrowed windows box.
..no comment.
Installed Mandrake with full KDE desktop. I wanted to have Firefox with Java support. After nstalling a load of some sort of stdlibc crap and other library stuff I got it running. Except for the applets, which were running absolutely unstable and were crashing quite often, flickering and unpredictable. My Wheelmouse did not scroll, although it did during the installation. For whatever I wanted to install I had to get a load of other libs. I do not want to care about what an app needs, I want to run it. Overall, after two hours of fighting with Linux I was back to Windows.
I do not think "Joe Sixpack" want's to go through this kind of shit. He wants to launch his browser and have all the necessary plugins already there. He wants to doubleklick on that stupid setup for his app and after it is finished, the app is running and the setup also created a cute icon in his start menu. Try that with Mandrake or any other "Desktop" Linux. It sucks. Did you try to create an icon in your kde-"start"-menu?
Get OS X and play around with it for a while, that's a Desktop OS.
On the other hand, Linux is fine as a server....
I found the tip in the original posting at: http://www.floppymoose.com/
Create a css file somewhere with a text editor, put following inside (Not made by me, just found it somewhere and made some additions):Add this file as your Stylesheet in safari: Preferences/Advanced/Style Sheet.... there you go...
Most tips for the Mozilla userContent.css file work also with Safari, so search on google for userContent.css for more examples.
Cool, now they just need to start replacing those crappy white square power adapters with something ugly but unbreakable ones, like those included with any cheapo windows Notebook.
the end that plugs into the computer, breaks the wires inside and develops shorts and funky sparks after few months of regular use.
check here for more info: Broken power adapters
Do not forget, that the Powerbook has one year warranty, you can get the AppleCare later during that first year.
I bought mine on the phone while requesting a replacement for my battery. I thing the two years additional warranty are really worth for a laptop (LCD!).
Of course if you have the chance to buy the PB together with a discounted/free AppleCare from a distributor or your university, well then it is different story...
weeeeed
Hi,
how can store the setting of all the toolbars? I just want to have the plain terminal without anything around, the settings are only for the current window and I do not see any option to disable them forever.
Hmm, as with all others there is no mouse support for stuff like w3m or at least I did not get it running over ssh to a linux box.
Why is it building the scripts menu each time I run mactelnet? The font list caching is nice...
I guess I will get the source later for kicking out the toolbars...
weeeee
I didn't even think about it, but I press command + option with only one finger too. But the only function I can think of off hand also includes the Escape key.
There are quite a lot of applications with rather long key shortcuts: Being web/it-developer I use Photoshop a lot, my favourite shortcut is: Comand+Option+Shift+S (Save for Web).
View Source in Safari: Cmd+Opt+V
BBEdit has quite a bunch of those shortcuts as well.
Weeeee
BUT... ;) ...looking at the layout(which I hope is not final), why is the function key replaced with shift? When I reach out for the fn key on my current keyboard I have trouble accessing the other keys covered by the left hand. I know I have small hands, but come on... leave it where it is at the current size (two keys wide).
Same for return... umm enter... where is return??? I know quite some apps, where return and enter have different functions... take Fire for example: return sends out, enter makes a new line in the message... I do not think I would want to use additional shift for this. And it IS far too small, leave it at the current size, it was already difficult enough for me to stop hitting back-slash all the time...
Overall:
the whole right part of the keyboard is messed up and will require you to get used to the new layout.
Too much self advertisement... use it for bigger keys instead, although the hand is quite cute.
Can I press command + option with one finger only? I hope so.
NO IBOOK?
What about the heat? I have 1GHz and it gets quite hot already. If you look at the current keyboard, it is designed to provide better air circulation. You think it is not important? Buy the hoover TiBook, wait until the fans go on, lift the keyboard and wait for a while... the fans go off. With the keyboard it takes longer time for the fans to go off, I dunno about MacNTouch with no holes at all.
I do not think I will buy it, maybe I would for my iBook, but it has IMO too many design/usability flaws. I had to try it out first.
weeeee
Instead of using images.google.com, why do you not go to websites specialized on this topic?
Go to dmoz.org and browse through the categories a little bit, you will come up with following categories:
All you have to do now is to browse through the sites and have a peek at the license. Mostly you will have to give them some credit somewhere. If it is not clear from the license if you can use the images in a free software then contact the archive owner directly.
You do not get automatically right to use some image on your site/app only because everybody else is doing it.
Oh, I forgot Spymac, the dirty bas****s of the Apple community.
The license was simple, Don't Steal Music, but still some people did not manage to understand it. Streaming was nice and innocent until some really smart people started ripping the streams and do other funny things.
If you abuse it, they will shut it down - simple and easy.
In the end Apple ist just a company and has its responsibilites. You want to steal music? Fine, get Kaaza/Limewire/What ever, why abuse iTunes?
Thank you guys, just another neat feature disappears...
Weeeee