Yes, and this is exactly what I do! It is great. I like the possibility of changing the From address and being able to pop email off of Gmail.
I suppose, what would be nice is to have a robust server to accept MX connections (I do not have my MX records pointed to home, it is pointed to a third party place, but given my experience with Google, they seem to be quite robust and would love to point my MX at them).
It has always made me nervous having an email address which I can not control. Gmail is great, by far the best I have seen out there, and I do use it, but my main email address is through a domain I own. Hopefully, that way there is less chance of this type of thing happening.
The other thing that never made much sense to me was the fact that of the millions (or more) of people using email, why restrict it to just <somebody>@gmail.com. There have been many calls for gmail to allow MX records pointing at them so that I can do <me>@<mydomain>.<tld> (which I do think would be great) and it would allow for more people to use the Gmail interface.
Why not just open it up to the community, at least access to the telemetry. I am guessing there are other things that need to be done, but surely some sort of open access could be worked out.
The number of lines of code continues to creep up as the weeks go by...
It reminds me of the story in the Guiness book of world records which talks about the greatest election fraud. Something like 1000% of the voters turned out and therefore the leader was voted in unanimously. Not sure where he got the other voters... This leader did not seem to be able to count...
Yeah, but, surely it wouldn't be that hard to parse through a list of email addresses and MD5 and see which ones you can "trust". We do that everyday with spam filters.
I honestly can't say Vancouver is one of the best Geek areas, but it sure is beautiful. Part way through your Geek trip, you can take some time out and just enjoy the beautiful areas...
Great mountains: Seymour, Grouse (try the Grouse grind, a hike up the mountain), and of course the Whistler area
Interesting areas: Go down to Granville Island (market type area, but so much more), Stanley Park, Chinatown
I have been looking into exactly this idea. My personal desire was to have something on the web so I can access it from whereever.
A great one is oddmuse. It is a single perl script you put in a directory and it sets everything up. It is a wiki, but also has a journal idea. You can put text, latex and images. Quite nice and very simple to "install".
A couple others along that idea... check out Wikipedia. They have software there, more difficult to install, but a very nice look to it. MySQL based. You can also do Latex (or some subset) of it.
The other one I will mention is Noosphere (which runs the Planetmath site. This I have found a little more difficult to enter stuff into, but it has many nice features.
All of them allow you to grab previous versions of the HTML document and they track who made what changes. Also, you can see my bent is toward more mathematical ones.
For what you say, I would grab the oddmuse and try that. Very easy to install.
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I really like Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh. Relatively easy read and I found it inspiring.
I have no idea where my brain was but I read the title as "Microsoft One Step From World's Greatest Company". I need to drink more coffee.
Yes, and this is exactly what I do! It is great. I like the possibility of changing the From address and being able to pop email off of Gmail. I suppose, what would be nice is to have a robust server to accept MX connections (I do not have my MX records pointed to home, it is pointed to a third party place, but given my experience with Google, they seem to be quite robust and would love to point my MX at them).
It has always made me nervous having an email address which I can not control. Gmail is great, by far the best I have seen out there, and I do use it, but my main email address is through a domain I own. Hopefully, that way there is less chance of this type of thing happening.
The other thing that never made much sense to me was the fact that of the millions (or more) of people using email, why restrict it to just <somebody>@gmail.com. There have been many calls for gmail to allow MX records pointing at them so that I can do <me>@<mydomain>.<tld> (which I do think would be great) and it would allow for more people to use the Gmail interface.
Just my thoughts.
Why not just open it up to the community, at least access to the telemetry. I am guessing there are other things that need to be done, but surely some sort of open access could be worked out.
It reminds me of the story in the Guiness book of world records which talks about the greatest election fraud. Something like 1000% of the voters turned out and therefore the leader was voted in unanimously. Not sure where he got the other voters... This leader did not seem to be able to count...
SCO does not seem to be able to count...
Yeah, but, surely it wouldn't be that hard to parse through a list of email addresses and MD5 and see which ones you can "trust". We do that everyday with spam filters.
Surely, there aren't that many dishonest people, and if there were, then it would be hard for them all to get together and come up with the same MD5.
Great mountains: Seymour, Grouse (try the Grouse grind, a hike up the mountain), and of course the Whistler area
Interesting areas: Go down to Granville Island (market type area, but so much more), Stanley Park, Chinatown
Beaches and Forests: Spanish banks, UBC endowment lands, Seymour demonstration forest
Vancouver is a very beautiful place and a great area to take a break from the geekiness...
A great one is oddmuse. It is a single perl script you put in a directory and it sets everything up. It is a wiki, but also has a journal idea. You can put text, latex and images. Quite nice and very simple to "install".
A couple others along that idea... check out Wikipedia. They have software there, more difficult to install, but a very nice look to it. MySQL based. You can also do Latex (or some subset) of it.
The other one I will mention is Noosphere (which runs the Planetmath site. This I have found a little more difficult to enter stuff into, but it has many nice features.
All of them allow you to grab previous versions of the HTML document and they track who made what changes. Also, you can see my bent is toward more mathematical ones.
For what you say, I would grab the oddmuse and try that. Very easy to install.