Yea, I know exactly what you mean. I've used my Gmail account to send precisely one email message. The only reason I even have one is because a friend gave me an invite about a week after it was opened to invites. I just have no use for it.
I never give it out, don't use it anywhere, and don't send email with it, yet at the time of my writing this, my spam inbox numbers over 300.
I don't even get that on my ISP email any more (blueyonder.co.uk) despite having that email address for some four years.
Having said that, though, they recently introduced spam filtering on their email servers. Now I get 8-10 spams per day as opposed to ~400.
>> Try using things like capitalization, pronouns, and verbs. This is not IRC, k1dd13.
Most places I frequent on IRC would immediately excommunicate a person for such horriffic prose (:
Ever needed to tail a file in windows? It's there. Yes, there is a tail app for windows, and it's free. The point here is that this doesn't need to be installed. Grep? same thing.
Neither does the Windows version. It's a non-installing.exe file. I use it daily; it's a great application.
One must also into account the massive popularity of mobile phones. I know plenty people who eschew landlines in favour of mobile devices. Not because they are poor, but because they prefer the convenience. Myself included. Having to remember one number is better than two or three different ones.
I don't know what you managed to do to it then, but I just recently had to dispose of mine after 12 years' exemplary service. It met its end falling out of a window, 4 storeys up. A sad day indeed.
>> need to be able to limit each daughter to e.g. 1Gb of traffic [...]After that, they can either experience the joys of 28kb/s
If your ISP caps your download, I can see the point of that. But if not, why would you limit them? It's not as if storage is expensive any more. Limiting their downloads for a spurious reason is an incredibly shitty thing to do.
And reducing them to 28.8k? The only word I can think of to describe that is "lame."
I can understand why parents what to censor their kids' time on the net, of course. However taking such measures as reducing their bandwidth if they go over their download limits, well.. that's just fucked up.
No, it's their choice and that's up to them. All I wish is that people would actually try and learn a bit about {insert subject} before they dismiss it out of hand because of heresy, spurious reports, etc.
I would apply that to any situation, not just IRC.
That is entirely my point. Some people read about IRC and, without ever taking the time to investigate it for themselves, declare that it's the preserve of "hackers", and decide to purely stick to IMs.
My girlfriend, for example, absolutely refuses to use IRC because she's scared of being "hacked" (her words, not mine) despite the fact that I offered her a shell on my box. She read something about it, doesn't trust it, and thinks I'm crasy for touching it.
I guess some people feel safe using IMs, which is fine for them if that's what they like. I know what I prefer though.
I've heard and read of Bitlbee, and from what I read it seems pretty good. Especially how I can run it from with Irssi. I like the ability to SSH into my IM sessions from anywhere.
This weekend I am going to try it out properly; to be honest I have only given it a cursory look in the past.
I mainly use IRC. Because.. well.. I like it the best.
I use AIM/MSN/Yahoo (thank god for CenterICQ and Trillian) because a lot of people I know refuse to come on IRC, because "that's for hax0rs, you know...". So I need to have an account with every shitty IM network.
If it were up to me, everyone would use IRC. But if I had to choose an IM protocol over any others, I'd choose Yahoo's.
I have used my Gmail account to send precisely one (yes, ONE) email. Currently my spam folder is at 75. I never use my Gmail account for/anything/ yet I still get spam.
Who was bragging? What I said was well within the context of the discussion. I don't go around wearing an "I'm in MENSA" shirt on. Heh.
The "monkey tricks" with my writing are purely for my own amusement. I daresay your reply would not have been so spiteful had I not said I was in MENSA, which is exactly why I hardly ever reveal that I am.
I agree. IQ testing would have been interesting too, since the only IQ tests I have sat were after my injury.
I daresay forcing one's brain/body to learn something completely alien would have a positive impact on brain capacity, but that is only a guess. Before/after IQ tests together with MRI scans would have been ideal.
I'm ambidextrous, and I'm in MENSA. Admittedly I was forced to learn to use my left hand while taking several years to recover from an injury to my right hand, so it's not 100% natural. Does that count?
It's fun to be writing something in front of someone who doesn't know, and switch hands and continue perfectly. The look on their faces is priceless;)
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They are? I recently spent three months in Canada and I distinctly remember seeing adverts for prescription drugs, several times.
Yea, I know exactly what you mean. I've used my Gmail account to send precisely one email message. The only reason I even have one is because a friend gave me an invite about a week after it was opened to invites. I just have no use for it.
I never give it out, don't use it anywhere, and don't send email with it, yet at the time of my writing this, my spam inbox numbers over 300.
I don't even get that on my ISP email any more (blueyonder.co.uk) despite having that email address for some four years.
Having said that, though, they recently introduced spam filtering on their email servers. Now I get 8-10 spams per day as opposed to ~400.
Much love to blueyonder.co.uk
I absolutely agree. I love my Model-M and wouldn't use anything else. Stylish? Well that's a matter of opinion. Classic? No doubt about it.
>> Try using things like capitalization, pronouns, and verbs. This is not IRC, k1dd13. Most places I frequent on IRC would immediately excommunicate a person for such horriffic prose (:
I'm really glad to see that I'm not the only one who is very particular about correctly naming their mp3s. ID3 tags too, for that matter.
Now I can packet that kid who always seems to sit behind me, kicking my seat. 0wned!
We need an article to tell us this?
Ever needed to tail a file in windows? It's there. Yes, there is a tail app for windows, and it's free. The point here is that this doesn't need to be installed. Grep? same thing.
Neither does the Windows version. It's a non-installing .exe file. I use it daily; it's a great application.
One must also into account the massive popularity of mobile phones. I know plenty people who eschew landlines in favour of mobile devices. Not because they are poor, but because they prefer the convenience. Myself included. Having to remember one number is better than two or three different ones.
I don't know what you managed to do to it then, but I just recently had to dispose of mine after 12 years' exemplary service. It met its end falling out of a window, 4 storeys up. A sad day indeed.
>> need to be able to limit each daughter to e.g. 1Gb of traffic [...]After that, they can either experience the joys of 28kb/s
If your ISP caps your download, I can see the point of that. But if not, why would you limit them? It's not as if storage is expensive any more. Limiting their downloads for a spurious reason is an incredibly shitty thing to do.
And reducing them to 28.8k? The only word I can think of to describe that is "lame."
I can understand why parents what to censor their kids' time on the net, of course. However taking such measures as reducing their bandwidth if they go over their download limits, well.. that's just fucked up.
I (am forced to) use Outlook at work. The latest version. And rest assured, it still does that. ):
No, it's their choice and that's up to them. All I wish is that people would actually try and learn a bit about {insert subject} before they dismiss it out of hand because of heresy, spurious reports, etc.
I would apply that to any situation, not just IRC.
That is entirely my point. Some people read about IRC and, without ever taking the time to investigate it for themselves, declare that it's the preserve of "hackers", and decide to purely stick to IMs.
My girlfriend, for example, absolutely refuses to use IRC because she's scared of being "hacked" (her words, not mine) despite the fact that I offered her a shell on my box. She read something about it, doesn't trust it, and thinks I'm crasy for touching it.
I guess some people feel safe using IMs, which is fine for them if that's what they like. I know what I prefer though.
That's why I'm glad to be Scottish.
So am I. Have you ever heard of the Stonner Kebab? It's a "delicacy" being served up in some Glasgow chippies.
I've heard and read of Bitlbee, and from what I read it seems pretty good. Especially how I can run it from with Irssi. I like the ability to SSH into my IM sessions from anywhere.
This weekend I am going to try it out properly; to be honest I have only given it a cursory look in the past.
Trillian Pro uber alles! Well, for win32 clients. I like CenterICQ when I'm not in Windows.
But a better idea is CenterICQ
;)
http://konst.org.ua/centericq/
I mainly use IRC. Because.. well.. I like it the best.
I use AIM/MSN/Yahoo (thank god for CenterICQ and Trillian) because a lot of people I know refuse to come on IRC, because "that's for hax0rs, you know...". So I need to have an account with every shitty IM network.
If it were up to me, everyone would use IRC. But if I had to choose an IM protocol over any others, I'd choose Yahoo's.
I have used my Gmail account to send precisely one (yes, ONE) email. Currently my spam folder is at 75. I never use my Gmail account for /anything/ yet I still get spam.
...nothing will ever surpass the greatness that was Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
One can't expect every single attachment, unless people are requested to call or email you in advance to say that they will be mailing an attachment.
Do you do that?
Who was bragging? What I said was well within the context of the discussion. I don't go around wearing an "I'm in MENSA" shirt on. Heh.
The "monkey tricks" with my writing are purely for my own amusement. I daresay your reply would not have been so spiteful had I not said I was in MENSA, which is exactly why I hardly ever reveal that I am.
I agree. IQ testing would have been interesting too, since the only IQ tests I have sat were after my injury.
I daresay forcing one's brain/body to learn something completely alien would have a positive impact on brain capacity, but that is only a guess. Before/after IQ tests together with MRI scans would have been ideal.
I'm ambidextrous, and I'm in MENSA. Admittedly I was forced to learn to use my left hand while taking several years to recover from an injury to my right hand, so it's not 100% natural. Does that count?
;)
It's fun to be writing something in front of someone who doesn't know, and switch hands and continue perfectly. The look on their faces is priceless