On 01/05/2013 03:01 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:20:19 -0500
Matthew Caron <matt.ca...@redlion.net> wrote:
On 01/02/2013 04:18 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
Why would you need to? If your mail store is IMAP, just let it
rebuild.
I don't store email on the server, I store it locally.
I gave that up years ago when I ended up with more than one device.
Too much "did I get that email on my laptop or my desktop?" And now
with tablet, phone, laptop, desktop, and several kiosk machines
around the house (because how else do you watch Firefly whilst
loading custom hunting ammunition in the gun room?) and then the
device proliferation continues...
Turn off "Delete email from server ten seconds after downloading it".
Either increase it to a sane time period, or disable delete-from-server
entirely. Problem solved. Worked fine for me.
Isn't this just "leave email on the server", which is what I suggested?
Of course, what you're saying is "use POP with leave on server enabled".
A better solution is to just use IMAP.
Accessing *sent* messages can be a different story though, but using
your email client's setting for "BCC outgoing messages to..." to send
to a special "messages I sent" address works well enough. Unless you
need to use some shitty Fisher-Price email client like the one in iOS,
because then you're just fucked. (But if you need to rely on iOS,
you'll probably have bigger problems anyway.)
Or, you just use IMAP.
Windows is only
suitable for playing video games, and I'm looking forward to Steam's
release for Linux such that I can power on the Wintendo less and
less.
Steam on Linux? That's like installing hydraulics on a Formula 1
or a rusty nail in a jock strap. Nothing that involves "Steam" is
suitable for playing videogames, whether Win/Lin or anything else.
It's view it as an online shop which allows you to buy and install games
for your platform. I have no issue with this. I don't use all the fancy
extra social video game crap.
I'd be willing to *release* a game, *non-exclusively*, on steam just
for the visibility and for the subset of PC gamers that are
unfortunately dumb enough to think steam isn't DRM, but that's all
steam is good for. Gabe can suck the shit out of my ass for destroying
the last non-orwellian gaming platform in existence and
essentially turning it into a goddamn iPhone.
You don't have to use it, you know. There are other games. GOG.com has a
pile, and many of them run just fine under Wine and or DosBOX. I'd like
to see them do more Linux, and I hope that the Steam port will be the
beginning of more entries on to the platform.
(Of course, I thought the same thing about Loki)
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Matthew Caron, Software Build Engineer
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