Posted by Els on 08/26/05 17:08

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

>>> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2004/11/26/test/
>>
>> Well, I knew of that possibility already. (I was one of the technical
>> reviewers for "Firefox and Thunderbird Garage")
>
> I am sincerely impressed, yet by no means surprised.

Thank you :-) </blush>

>> But I don't like it much, as I have then to count which number the
>> wanted tab has. After having more than 6 tabs open, this is too much
>> hassle. I prefer Opera's method in that: ctrl-tab will switch between
>> the last two openened, regardsless of how many tabs are physically
>> between them.
>
> I guess it is all a matter of habit. I think I would have spent a lot of
> 'brain RAM' keeping track of which tab I opened last. I then risk getting
> that information overload threshold, which distracts me.

Well, I ususally only switch between two, max 3 at one time - so the
brain power is saved by not having to deal with the 20-odd other tabs
that are open at the same time :-)

> In practice, I
> only navigate using the digits for tabs 1 to 3, maybe 4. That's where I
> usually have fundamental stuff like my portal and a CMS.

Big difference - only using 1 to 4 tabs, yes, easy to remember which
tab number you need.

> CTRL+Home gets me to my portal where everything remains in the same position
> -- all 300 or so links that are logically categorised. I can't use the
> Internet without my portal anymore. When my site is down, I must use a
> local copy of it.

I have started such a page, for the most used links. Still should add
more links to it really. Much easier than relying on the browser,
especially when you use different computers. I now have
favourites/bookmarks spread over three browsers - note to self: really
should get them on that portal page...

>>>> Outlook Express...
>>>
>>> You, madam, made me spill my Coke.
>>
>> That should have been rum&coke really - and thanks for reminding me, I
>> need to buy some coke today to go with my rum :-)
>
> See comment that begs to be made... yet to be articulated below...
>
>> And I didn't even do it on purpose - I really use OE for mail.
>
> People should spend money on rum, not expensive operating systems and
> commercial software.

:-)

Well, rum could easily become the more expensive of the two. I bought
WinXP, and Trillian Pro. I've got a 'borrowed' copy of an expensive
graphic program, and the rest is all open source and share- and
freeware.

>> Well, I did misinterpret it: I really thought I had you spill your
>> coke... you shouldn't have spoiled it by saying it was a joke ;-)
>
> I was fairly sure it would be offensive. Text is too ambiguous -- no tone of
> voice.

I'm not easily offended :-)
(and I was asking for it - using OE! <g>)

>>> I used OE myself until last year.
>>
>> Why did you ditch it? Thunderbird? I've done that for a short while,
>> but didn't like it.
>
> Until I moved to Thunderbird, I had to manually export all my monthly
> archives on the 1st of each month.

Either you have a small harddisk, or you get a very big lot of mail to
archive! Last time I archived is months ago, and my inbox currently
holds 743 messages (including today's spam). Anything I need archived
goes in subfolders, which I occasionally store elsewhere on the HD, or
on CD.

> I chose to export it to HTML using a Ruby script.

Is that easy to do? My mails are in flat text, but there are HTML
attachments and pics and sound files and stuff. How is that all stored
then?

> Having your mail locked in a proprietary format is risky.
> Thunderbird with all the enhancements gives me more than Outlook (not
> Express) has ever offered me. Oh, and it's free...

I wouldn't pay for Outlook either - but I'm happy with OE. I'd prefer
Dialog to take care of my mail though, but it lacks a couple of things
to be useful as a mailclient for me.
I hate Thunderbird's 'extra line' bug. (extra empty line between
different quoted bits)

> Good luck with SuSE. I tried many distros, but SuSE (which I use most of the
> time) is king.

Queen ;-)

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