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Search on Google for more details. http://www.simpy.com/user/era http://www.simpy.com/ http://www.simpy.com/img/simpy-icon-16x16.png http://www.simpy.com/user/era 1440 Tagged by era under firefox, extension, bug, blog, erablog, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:29:00 -0400 Tagged by era under 00tbd, download, emacs, extension, svn, 20060619-0123, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:25:00 -0400 Tagged by era under elisp, emacs, extension, site, svn, versionctrl, 20060619-0123, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:25:00 -0400 Tagged by era under 03a, browser, extension, firefox, security, usability, 20060619-0123, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:25:00 -0400 Tagged by era under 02a, download, extension, firefox, mirror, mozilla, 20060619-0123, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:24:00 -0400 (define-key vc-prefix-map "D" (function cvs-update)) (define-key vc-dired-mode-map "C-v" (function dired-view-file))) "My own hook for patching Dired under VC mode, and possibly other VC mode customizations. (Loaded in via `eval-after-load'.)") (eval-after-load "vc" `(run-hooks 'my-vc-dired-mode-load-hook)) Tagged by era under 03a, emacs, extension, howto, wiki, 20060619-0123, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:24:00 -0400 Tagged by era under 01a, collection, download, emacs, extension, site, wiki, 20060619-0123, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:24:00 -0400 Tagged by era under 02a, gui, linux, sawfish, unix, x11, 20060619-0123, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:23:00 -0400 Tagged by era under 01a, collection, download, extension, sawfish, site, wiki, 20060619-0123, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:23:00 -0400 Tagged by era under 03a, extension, fastmail, firefox, gui, html, usability, xul, 20060619-0123, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:23:00 -0400 Tagged by era under 00tbd, extension, firefox, howto, javascript, mozilla, ui, usability, 20060619-0123, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:23:00 -0400 Tagged by era under blog, bugs, erablog, experiences, gnome, ubuntu, usability, 20060619-0123, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:23:00 -0400 Tagged by era under blog, browser, erablog, extension, firefox, quips, security, www, 20060619-0123, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:23:00 -0400 Tagged by era under 02a, download, erablog, extension, firefox, forum, mozilla, 20060619-0123, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:23:00 -0400 Security > Encrypt this message, right there in the regular newbie interface. Granted, you need to set up keys etc. in order to actually use it, but I like the gesture. (Maybe it could be in a less weird place, though.) * Options > Quote message is really weird too. Apparently, I can quote an arbitrary message by selecting it in the folder and then switching to the composition window and selecting this menu item. I guess occasionally that's useful. It's still really weird. Which message? When I'm writing a new message, not responding to anything in particular? Just some message which happened to be selected when I chose "New Message", it seems. At least it would obviously belong in the Edit menu; maybe it would feel less weird already then. * I've always wondered why most clients make forwarding type a global or per-server preference. I would like to be able to select when I forward a message how exactly I want to do it (attach MIME message/rfc822, inline text/plain, inline plain old text, quoted, or what, maybe uuencode?), or at least given the opportunity to override the default. * Ouch, looks like it EHLOs as [172.16.0.4] (sic; that's the dynamic, private IP address I have on my internal network right now) when sending out a message. Not very un-spammy, is it? I would consider it to be a de facto standard to take the computer name from "My Computer" on Windows, and the obvious uname -n on *nix. * Furthermore, the Message-Id is generated based on my From: address, which also looks kind of spammy to me. Oh, maybe I'm overreacting. ... And there's that User-Agent: thingy, and that format=flowed thingy, and that charset=ISO-8859-15 but Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit thingy, and that MIME-Version: 1.0 being in completely a different place than the Content-Xxx headers, but ... I guess I'm getting too old. At least it has proper References: and In-Reply-To: when responding to a message (unlike, I discovered to my surprise, and that was a surprise in itself, because I should be pretty jaded by now ... unlike, I was saying, Microsoft Outlook, which completely hasn't ever heard about these headers, which have only existed since probably before the original RFC822 in 1982. Instead, Microsoft had to invent their own Thread-Index: and Thread-Topic: [identical to Subject: for all practical purposes]. Aargh, don't make me write about Outlook). Disclaimer: If you are anybody who is somebody, you are probably not at all like me when it comes to email. Heck, I would probably still be using VM, despite all its quirks, if it could cope with IMAP in a useful way. Disclaimer too: Hanging my head in shame, I confess that this was the Windows version I installed, on something like Windows XP SP2. Quite frankly, I would have expected the Linux version to crash or act erratically at least once during these initial tests. Oh well. Update / reference: I posted a teaser to the Mozillazine T'bird forums: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2248547#2248547 Update: I installed the Swedish spelling checker dictionary from http://dictionaries.mozdev.org/installation.html -- they don't seem to have Finnish, although e.g. Hungarian is available (technically, I would believe they are roughly as challenging to support with standard run of the mill 1970s spelling checking technologies, i.e. Hungarian must suck too). Anyway, it seems they have simply allowed unlimited synthetic compounds, meaning your average misspelling is just as likely to go unnoticed as most correctly spelled words. So "gambla" and "rambla" are not flagged (we speculate that they are synthesized from the proper words "gam" and "ram", and the onomatopoetic "bla"), nor is "tiodostonhallinta" (my old favorite "tiedostonhallinta" is flagged, but that's because "tie" -- informal for "tio" [ten] -- is not in the dictionary; this is Finnish for "file management", but it also oh so conveniently can be synthesized from 'ten' + 'dose' + 'hall' + 'occupy' [which in turn is formed from 'in' and 'take']). Oh well, it might still be marginally better than no spell checker (which is all we expect from a spell checker anyway, so). Pardon the digression, it just happens that I find this hilarious. More test cases: "teråratack" - unflagged (thanks to Lena for that one) - syntesized from "ter" (what's that??) + "åra" + "tack"; "gårilla" - unflagged - synthesized from "går" + "illa"; "applikationsprotokollis" - flagged; "moapplikationsprotokoll" - flagged; "apapplikationsprotokoll" - flagged; "applikationsprotokollte" - flagged. Hey, maybe it's better than I thought. Tagged by era under blog, download, erablog, imap, mail, mozilla, _notes, opensource, software, testing, 20060619-0123, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:23:00 -0400 Tagged by era under 03a, agile, article, development, software, 20060619-0123, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:23:00 -0400 Tagged by era under blog, bugs, deliriousbugs.fixed, delirioussiteblog, erablog, _fixed, rubric_0.08, rubric_0.09, 20060619-0123, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:23:00 -0400 Tagged by era under category, extension, 20060619-0123, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:23:00 -0400 Tagged by era under browser, css, design, development, extension, firefox, html, 20060619-0123, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:23:00 -0400 Tagged by era under audio, download, linux, opensource, reference, tool, unix, 20060619-0123, ]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:23:00 -0400