Re: The Bat and Mac computing

2009-08-18 Thread Geoff Lane
On 17 August 2009, 21:51, Jens Franik wrote: I wouldn't do this, check out http://www.virtualbox.org which is smaller, easier, faster and more stable (my opinion). The exported Machines can be run on other Platforms too. It's availiable for Win, Linux, Unix, Mac. ~~~ FWIW I've switched from

Re[2]: The Bat and Mac computing

2009-08-18 Thread Jim Kyle
On Tuesday, August 18, 2009, at 3:07:30 AM, Geoff Lane wrote: However, I do have one issue with VirtualBox, which is that I have to keep the user account on the host machine logged in. I've not had that problem with VMWare Server at either version 1.5 or 2; it runs round the clock here with no

Re: The Bat and Mac computing

2009-08-18 Thread Jens Franik
Guten Tag Jim Kyle, am Dienstag, 18. August 2009 um 16:14 schrieben Sie: I've not had that problem with VMWare Server at either version 1.5 or 2; it runs round the clock here with no users logged into the host system. And with which System do you access to the Virtual Machine? There is no

Re[2]: The Bat and Mac computing

2009-08-18 Thread Jim Kyle
On Tuesday, August 18, 2009, at 9:27:15 AM, Jens Franik wrote: And with which System do you access to the Virtual Machine? There is no Operating System running and no User logged in? The host system is running with no users logged in; it's sitting at the login screen. The VM, of course, is

Re: The Bat and Mac computing

2009-08-18 Thread Jens Franik
Guten Tag Jim Kyle, am Dienstag, 18. August 2009 um 16:37 schrieben Sie: The host system is running with no users logged in; it's sitting at the login screen. The VM, of course, is running with my single user logged in, and TB! running as is normal. And who gives the Virtual Machine access

Re: The Bat and Mac computing

2009-08-18 Thread Geoff Lane
On 18 August 2009, 15:37, Jim Kyle wrote: The difference you cite between server and workstation implementation may explain why I have no problem with VMWare Server; I've not attempted to use VMWare's Workstation package. Virtualbox may well be simply a workstation implementation. That

Re[2]: The Bat and Mac computing

2009-08-18 Thread Jim Kyle
On Tuesday, August 18, 2009, at 10:01:10 AM, Jens Franik wrote: And who gives the Virtual Machine access to the Graphic Card and Screen? If there is an X System running, this needs to be started with an Account - even if it is unprivileged. I didn't mention that the host system uses GDM, the

Re: Answer to an Mail without Quoting Characters

2009-08-18 Thread MFPA
Hi On Monday 17 August 2009 at 11:54:35 PM, in mid:1261260692.20090818005...@gmx.de, Jens Franik wrote: I only need it for _one_ Mail which comes regularly but not that often... Not entirely sure why you would need this at all even for one occasional contact but obviously people all use

Re: The Bat and Mac computing

2009-08-18 Thread MFPA
Hi On Tuesday 18 August 2009 at 4:11:06 PM, in mid:309835686.20090818101...@jimkyle.com, Jim Kyle wrote: Re[2]: The Bat and Mac computing You could avoid those untidy little numbers in your subject lines by including in your reply template for TBUDL the following line:- %SingleRe%- --

text colour for incoming html messages

2009-08-18 Thread MFPA
Hi I have a couple of contacts that send HTML emails formatted with some of the text in black. As I read my email with white text on a black background, I miss this bit of the text unless spacing suggests there is something there to highlight. There are no longer separate places to set PTV

Re: The Bat and Mac computing

2009-08-18 Thread Roelof Otten
Hallo MFPA, On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:34:42 +0100GMT (18-8-2009, 18:34 +0200, where I live), you wrote: M You could avoid those untidy little numbers in your subject lines by M including in your reply template for TBUDL the following line:- M %SingleRe%- Or by unchecking the matching option

Missing hyperlinks in plaintext version of HTML messages

2009-08-18 Thread MFPA
Hi Can anybody confirm or refute? Links that are written as a URL to click in the HTML version of a message are also available in the plaintext version. Links where the text you click in the HTML version differs from the URL are not present as links at all in the plaintext version. -- Best

Re[2]: The Bat and Mac computing

2009-08-18 Thread Jim Kyle
Tuesday, August 18, 2009, at 11:34:42 AM, MFPA wrote: You could avoid those untidy little numbers in your subject lines by including in your reply template for TBUDL the following line:- Thanks for reminding me! I keep the numbers in most of my messages, because so many of my correspondents

Re: The Bat and Mac computing

2009-08-18 Thread MFPA
Hi On Tuesday 18 August 2009 at 6:33:11 PM, in mid:638133103.20090818123...@jimkyle.com, Jim Kyle wrote: I keep the numbers in most of my messages, because so many of my correspondents use Outlook and other programs that do not provide proper threading data and the numbers help me manually

Re: text colour for incoming html messages

2009-08-18 Thread MFPA
Hi On Tuesday 18 August 2009 at 6:18:51 PM, in mid:736350988.20090818181...@my_localhost, MFPA wrote: Hi I have a couple of contacts that send HTML emails formatted with some of the text in black. As I read my email with white text on a black background, I miss this bit of the text

Re[2]: The Bat and Mac computing

2009-08-18 Thread Jim Kyle
Tuesday, August 18, 2009, at 1:05:18 PM, MFPA wrote: How difficult can it be for an email client to send the message-id of the email it replies to in a follow-up header? And does that mean you get messages with subjects starting, Re: Re[2]: (-; Not difficult at all, but it's all up to the

Re: The Bat and Mac computing

2009-08-18 Thread MFPA
Hi On Tuesday 18 August 2009 at 7:50:10 PM, in mid:1112923263.20090818135...@jimkyle.com, Jim Kyle wrote: Yes, I do get such messages, and drag them to the proper spot for re-threading in the message list. I get a few, too. (-; As for what is happening with the header in this message,

Re: Answer to an Mail without Quoting Characters

2009-08-18 Thread Jens Franik
Guten Tag MFPA, am Dienstag, 18. August 2009 um 18:24 schrieben Sie: I only need it for _one_ Mail which comes regularly but not that often... Not entirely sure why you would need this at all even for one occasional contact but obviously people all use things differently. I need it to fill

Re[2]: The Bat and Mac computing

2009-08-18 Thread Jim Kyle
Tuesday, August 18, 2009, at 4:18:42 PM, MFPA wrote: I suggest re-evaluating whether your new template is working as expected; my messages do not contain the [2] in their subject line. Here's the template, just copied (of course the signature break is part of the template). Still the numbers

Re: The Bat and Mac computing

2009-08-18 Thread Jim Kyle
Tuesday, August 18, 2009, at 4:18:42 PM, MFPA wrote: I suggest re-evaluating whether your new template is working as expected; my messages do not contain the [2] in their subject line. No matter what I tried (putting in an address book template for the list, setting a folder template per my

Re: The Bat and Mac computing

2009-08-18 Thread tracer
Hello Jim, Wednesday, August 19, 2009, at 8:23:18 AM, Jim Kyle wrote: JK Tuesday, August 18, 2009, at 4:18:42 PM, MFPA wrote: I suggest re-evaluating whether your new template is working as expected; my messages do not contain the [2] in their subject line. JK No matter what I tried