Posted by Els on 08/27/05 11:33

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> __/ On Saturday 27 August 2005 07:14, [Els] wrote : \__
>
> Where have you been darling? Me missed you...

I've been sleeping actually - it was night here between last night and
this morning :-)

[too many tabs open]
>> Yup. I actually like it to, in the end of the day, look at all the
>> open tabs one by one, and leave the interesting ones open while
>> dismissing the rest. In the morning Opera only shows good information
>> and funny pages :-)
>
> See earlier message. I have some risk of losing my tabs when extensions
> interfere with one another. *frown*

So I read. So far I haven't had any clashing extensions, but I must
admit I don't use many.

[keymarks in Firefox]
> Yes, I heard about it, but keymarks will not 'travel' with me. I discussed
> that with John Bokma yesterday. The portal is more -- shall we say --
> universal.

True.

>> I never even got into mouse gestures. Sometimes I make some funny
>> move, and Opera will ask if I want to start using mouse gestures. I
>> like the "no" button :-)
>
> Keyboard is quicker. Gestures are more admirable.

:-)

>>> Excuse my freaky browsing obsessions... I hope I don't give the wrong
>>> impression. Honestly.
>>
>> That all depends on what impression you wanna give. You mean you wanna
>> come accross as someone who doesn't care about how he's using the
>> browser? Failed <g>
>
> Use of the browser is very important to me. I haven't written some code to
> track and /summarise/ my usage (getting close though <
> http://www.schestowitz.com/Utilities/Complete/Linux/Display_Grabber/ > ),

Incidentally, I had just looked at that page, and copied the code -
still have to go through the rest of the steps though.

> but I imagine that I use the browser 70% of the time (this includes mailing
> lists and remote mail), newsgroups reader about 20%, feeds reader under 5%
> at the moment and I hope to reach 0% when it comes to personal E-mail
> messages (I recently get annoyed when that little icon comes up).

You can just make the icon disappear I think. Even when you do get
mail :-)

> I use Wikis to correspond with friends and family, parents included.

How? Like you just edit the same file online? Doesn't that mean you
never have any archive of what you wrote, if someone else deletes it?

>> Had never heard of RSSOwl, so I just downloaded and installed it. Now
>> I just have to see if it has any advantages over Awasu and/or
>> Feedreader :-)
>
> It might not, but it's Open Source and cross-platform (import/export
> included, hence 'cross-application'...

True. Forgot that Awasu isn't.

> did I just coin that term?).

Not sure, but I don't think so :-)

>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> It becomes problematic if sites are broad or when you visit foreign
>>> sites.
>>
>> Why? Not sure what either the width of the site or the origins have to
>> do with the width of the tab?
>
> I was thinking about site breadth, i.e. number of pages, levels, complexity.
> One domain = one icon (usually), but one domain = many pages/sections.

Ah yes. Indeed.

> I gave up on dedicating my whole to convince people that Windows-bundled is
> not always best. I think my mom still uses Firefox because it supports
> Hebrew fonts.

Other browsers don't?

> One of the main purposes of the new machine is to server as a storage area,
> thereby helping me sleep well at night. Not bad for a powerful box that
> cost around $300... it was a rational choice. Nytol is more expensive.
> *grin*

I think I'm more ignorant: I sleep well, even though I hardly ever
backup anything. Stuff I have that matters is also on a server online,
so there's already two copies anyway, and the only thing I do backup
is photos and occasionally mail.
If my pc crashed today, it would really only mean that I get rid of a
lot of excess baggage, and that I'll have the most up-to-date versions
of all the downloaded software I use :-)

Hmm.. reading that, it might actually be a good idea to let it
crash... ;-)

>> So, why did you get Mandrake and not SuSE again?
>
> It comes pre-installed. I enquired a few hours ago to see which distro will
> serve me best. I might wipe it in favour of Ubuntu or SuSE 10 beta 3, which
> one of the gurus (Alan) argued should be highly compatible. It is so
> wonderful to have choice.

Very true.

>>> With 3 Linux boxes (home, work, university) I can now have my triple
>>> backup. Can't beat that! *smile*
>>
>> Indeed. I'd have to go back to school, and start work somewhere else
>> than at home to be able to do that <g>
>
> School is for suckers, but industry over-evaluates it. Nothing /useful/ that
> I learned was acquired at school.

You spelling is very good. Didn't you learn to read and write in
school? But yes, school isn't as useful as it could be. It does
however train the brain, which in itself is enough reason to let kids
attend school imo :-)

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Sonhos vem. Sonhos vão. O resto é imperfeito.
- Renato Russo -

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