Re: Web candy

2009-03-05 Thread Matthew King
Joshua Juran jju...@gmail.com writes: Incidentally, it appears that Google News has stopped auto-updating. This wasn't using a lot of CPU time, but it did have the irritation that it trashed any embedded video you might have been watching. I'm glad to see it go. Google Web apps have a

Re: Web candy

2009-03-05 Thread peter f miller
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:45:05AM -0800, Joshua Juran wrote: On Mar 5, 2009, at 12:49 AM, Matthew King wrote: Google Web apps have a solid record of actually becoming *more usable* over time. Woah woah woah. Hate. Please. Sorry, I

Re: Web candy

2009-03-05 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Nicholas Clark wrote: Given that entropy is only allowed to increase, I was wondering what extra software Hate Google was perpetuating elsewhere to comply with the second law of thermodynamics. code.google.com Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch d...@dotat.at http://dotat.at/

Re: Web candy

2009-03-05 Thread Adam Atlas
On 4 Mar 2009, at 07:56, Peter da Silva wrote: My Macbook Pro just piped up and started complaining about the temperature. Both cores running at 80%, for I don't know how long. So I go to see who's responsible. Safari. Why? Well, because I don't have a Flashblock for Safari (need to look

Windows File Protection

2009-03-05 Thread Peter da Silva
Files that are required for system stability have been replaced by unrecognized versions... [More Information] OK, let's see what the problem is. You may have inserted the wrong CD [Retry] [Cancel] NO, YOU LYING FUCKER, A COMPLETELY BOGUS SUGGESTION AS TO HOW WHATEVER YOU MIGHT BE

Re: annoying mailing lists

2009-03-05 Thread Omry Yadan
you are right, the hate should be directed to other such mailing lists that lack even that header. was not aware of this header. Michael Poole wrote: Omry Yadan writes: this means a filter rule must contain no less than 6 cases! why, oh why can't the wretched mailing list add a

Re: annoying mailing lists

2009-03-05 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Omry Yadan o...@yadan.net [2009-03-05 06:45]: the hate should be directed to other such mailing lists that lack even that header. ezmlm uses `Mailing-List` instead. I have no idea what purpose this aspiration to individuality serves, but hey, at least there's a header, so ultimately the

Re: annoying mailing lists

2009-03-05 Thread Philip Newton
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 08:09, Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote: Tangentially related hate: mailing lists run by broken software that WON'T LET YOU UNSUBSCRIBE. Seriously. I have been routing that list's mail to /dev/null for years. I recently removed that filter rule, and

Re: annoying mailing lists

2009-03-05 Thread Roger Burton West
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:09:23AM +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: If *both* are missing, then it is probably a mailing list run by scripting TheBat! (Win32 GUI MUA) or something of the sort. And those are *truly* hateful. I don't believe I have ever seen a non-spam message with that MUA header

Re: annoying mailing lists

2009-03-05 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org [2009-03-05 10:15]: I don't believe I have ever seen a non-spam message with that MUA header in it. I used to use it back when I was on Win95. It was the best Win32 GUI MUA around, by a margin. (The next best choice was Outlook Express...) Regards, --

Re: annoying mailing lists

2009-03-05 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:50:23AM +0100, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote: Aristotle Pagaltzis: I used to use it back when I was on Win95. It was the best Win32 GUI MUA around, by a margin. (The next best choice was Outlook Express...) You???re forgetting Pegasus Mail.

Re: annoying mailing lists

2009-03-05 Thread Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)
Your Mutt munges my Mutt’s UTF-8. Hate. Bruce Richardson: On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:50:23AM +0100, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote: Aristotle Pagaltzis: I used to use it back when I was on Win95. It was the best Win32 GUI MUA around, by a margin. (The next best choice was Outlook

Re: annoying mailing lists

2009-03-05 Thread Matt McLeod
Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote: Bruce Richardson: Pegasus Mail had (and still has) one of the most hateful UIs ever seen on a Win32 application. Almost any useful feature you might think of has both its configuration and its implementation scattered across multiple menus and combo boxes.

Re: annoying mailing lists

2009-03-05 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:36:37PM +1100, Matt McLeod wrote: I'm sure Eudora had plenty to hate, but from this distance -- I haven't touched it in something like a decade -- I don't recall it being particularly awful. Certainly less horrific than either Pegasus (my gods I hated that Borland

Re: annoying mailing lists

2009-03-05 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) s...@hot.pl [2009-03-05 11:55]: You’re forgetting Pegasus Mail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_Mail Good mercy, why must you remind me? I tried that and tried hard to like it because it was technically so much better than Outlook Express. Unfortunately its UI

Re: annoying mailing lists

2009-03-05 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org [2009-03-05 10:15]: I don't believe I have ever seen a non-spam message with that MUA header in it. I used to use it back when I was on Win95. It was the best Win32 GUI MUA around, by a margin. (The next best choice was

Re: annoying mailing lists

2009-03-05 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:34:49 +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote: * Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org [2009-03-05 10:15]: I don't believe I have ever seen a non-spam message with that MUA header in it. I used to use it back when I was on Win95. It was the best Win32 GUI

Re: annoying mailing lists

2009-03-05 Thread Matthew King
Michael G Schwern schw...@pobox.com writes: Speaking of hateful, BEHOLD! http://www.qmail.org/ Rather than waste precious computing power and possible minute mistakes on choosing a good mirror for you, qmail.org turns their users into a massively parallel failputer! And for your efforts,