Re: mutt.

2006-01-24 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 04:27:06PM +1300, Guy Thornley wrote: but nooo, not in mutt. Impossible. Using shell-fu to emit 'set record' hooks for all the mailboxes is gay, since it doesnt work for IMAP. I do not believe that to be correct. I have never had any problems setting hooks to be

Re: Argument list too long... again.

2007-08-14 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 05:17:09PM +0200, demerphq wrote: On 8/14/07, Michael G Schwern schw...@pobox.com wrote: Oh look .ccache has gotten confused and filled up with tmp files and disk space is running low. That's ok, I'll just delete them. 0 windhund ~/.ccache$ rm tmp.* -bash:

Re: Exception trying to run FYM on vista

2007-09-29 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:01:50AM -0700, Aaron J. Grier wrote: microsoft still doesn't have a concept of a home directory? XP uses C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\ Vista uses C:\Users\username\AppData\ is there at least a consistent registry entry that stores this

Re: head and tail

2008-02-25 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:36:30PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: On 2008-02-25, at 13:22, Jeremy Stephens wrote: I found myself needing to run awk on all the lines of a text file except the first one. I kind of have a teenie bit of software hate for things like foo | awk ... instead of

Re: Dear Firefox, the address of the loopback is not a useful information

2008-05-06 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:20:09PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: So I was writing a neat proxy.pac to put on my laptop so it could adjust what web proxy to use depending on my location. Basically, I wanted to do something like this : if (isInNet(myIpAddress(), 10.0.0.0, 255.0.0.0)) {

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 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: Excel.

2009-03-24 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:05:05AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: On 2009-03-24, at 06:43, Mads Ruben Rennemo wrote: Also, when I save you as a CSV, I expect a line break inside a cell to be removed or converted. I don't expect to see two 8-column lines in my 16-column CSV file. CSV supports

Re: Gnome focus-follows-mouse

2009-07-08 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 05:39:56PM +1200, Joe Mahoney wrote: OK then. If I click on a window I want it to raise up. If I simply put my mouse over a window I want it do do nothing at all. Any other behaviour is mindbogglingly annoying and most certainly implemented out of spite. Audio-cock

Re: Obligatory hate on the hates-software web archive

2010-06-27 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 04:12:07PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: On 2010-06-26, at 05:31, Joshua Juran wrote: P.S. This message was sent while wearing a Microsoft Office:mac 2004 t-shirt. This message was sent in my underpants. They seem to have come off en route. -- Bruce Bitterly it

Re: EDITING SUBJECT with gmail is POSSIBLE terrible

2010-10-25 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:50:34PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: And neither of these replies had In-Reply-To or References headers, at least by the time they reached me. The fiends! The people who create new threads by replying to something and polishing off all the visible parts of the

Re: This is why I gave up on Linux desktops

2010-12-21 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 04:56:57PM +0100, Marco Von Ballmoos wrote: And thus we have arrived at a familiar place: the good old chestnut -- oft-repeated even today -- of how Apple tries to force its users to accept a mouse with only one button. I know that they shipped single-button mice for