Posted by Els on 08/26/05 23:28

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

[tabbing between tabs]
>> 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 :-)
>
> Do you not suffer from that spatial clutter? I bet you cannot read
> the tab titles, not even with a high-resolution dual-head.

Only in Opera I have so many open at the same time. Basically cause
it opens every link from Usenet in a new tab. Occasionally it happens
that I want to check a page again, after opening four more, but
holding down the CTRL key after one 'CTRL-tab' gives me a vertical
list of all the open pages, so it's easy to find it back.

> Firefox doesn't allow for vertical alignment of tabs, yet. Must be
> like hell working on your browser...
> CTRL+W+W+W+W+W+W+W+W+W+W+W+W+W+W+W+W+W+W+W, which luckily in
> Firefox requires 2 persistent keystrokes (Linux at the least).

I never use CTRL+W :-)

In Firefox I like the fact that the cross for closing a tab is not on
the tab itself, but to the right. The usual amount of tabs open in
Firefox for me is about 6 to 10. And usually pages I'm accustomed to,
I recognize the favicons if I can't read the titles.

>>> 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.
>
> It's usually quite consistent too, which serves as a mnemonic. When
> I come to think of it, it is reminiscent of my placement of
> applications on the display. XMMS between screen 1 and 2, desktop
> junk on the left, browser on the right screen (which has better
> definition) and the rest is tossed at the left.

Two screens... I can only wish :\ ;-) I have a sidebar on my desktop,
and use alt-tab (with some XP power tool) between progs. Dialog and
OE are always full screen, Opera on about 1000x950, and Firefox on
whichever size I'm checking pages in. Apache minimized, chatwindows
about 500x900, Textpad and Ace-FTP almost fullscreen.

[personal portal]
> At risk of crossing the line onto self-promotion, many things I
> learned from experience are here <
> http://www.schestowitz.com/Portal/ >.

That looks very interesting. Especially the way you grouped the
links. I'll be sure to have another look at it when I revise my own.
Thanks :-)

> Hmmmm... if only I could find shareware beer...

Isn't that what you have when you're playing quarters?

>> (and I was asking for it - using OE! <g>)
>
> I am just as guilty as you are. I have just set up a professor with
> OE. I told him that he should use Thunderbird, but sitting here at
> the office downloading and installing it would have been bad use of
> my time. *grin*
>
> ...at least I told him it was cr*p... same about Windows...

You did good. <g>

[mail]
>> Anything I
>> need archived goes in subfolders, which I occasionally store
>> elsewhere on the HD, or on CD.
>
> CD's are hard to mirror,

What do you mean by that?

> so I keep everything on a single physical
> hard-drive. My obsession with archives sometimes scares me.

With such an obsession for archives, I'd be scared of a crashing
hard-drive.

>>> 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?
>
> It outputs rich HTML. Then again, by importing OE to Thunderbird,
> which is a non-lossy conversion, you get MBOX archives, which
> MHonArc, for instance, handles gracefully.

Okay, thanks.

> As time goes by, I am beginning to lean towards Web-based because I back my
> webspace up very frequently, it backs 'itself' up and it keeps mail away
> from me. I remember the days when I woke up looking forward to mail in my
> box. I am the complete opposite now.

I still like getting mail. Get disappointed about 20 times a day, but
that's okay ;-)

>> I hate Thunderbird's 'extra line' bug. (extra empty line between
>> different quoted bits)
>
> I never noticed that one. Perhaps it got fixed?

Doubt it.
Some time ago someone said it was fixed, so I downloaded the latest
version. It wasn't.

>>> Good luck with SuSE. I tried many distros, but SuSE (which I use most of
>>> the time) is king.
>>
>> Queen ;-)
>
> *LOL*
>
> http://www.schestowitz.com/IMG/roysuse.gif

I never saw that one, but it proves I'm right :-)
(well, unless I have the wrong impression of you <g>)

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