Posts by Stevie

Re: doesn't Thunderbird have similar features

Pretty much, with add-ons for the non-mail stuff like calendars.

Thunderbird could be better at some stuff (it is still a developer-friendly rather than user-friendly tool in a lot of ways) but scores big for me over Outlook in that when I'm playing with mail filters (which I use *a lot* to pidgeonhole the reams of crap I get) the pop-up windows are not modal in Thiundebird - so I'm never in the position of having to close a cascade of windows and abort a filter edit because I can't see the new address I want to add to a filter.

This is a common Outlook thing and leads me to believe that either the idiots at MS think I should filter on a one-message, one-filter basis (can't thanks to quotas) whereas I think I should have cascades of very inclusive filters to sort out the chaff, or that the bods who design OPutlook "features" don't actually use the product in any meaningful way.

And don't get me started on the filters that the Outlook wizard builds with a (sensible) "stop processing more filters" command, but that produce a whining error/warning message whenever the filter is re-committed from edit because the filters under it won't get seen in the event this filter triggers. Very annoying, but I have no doubt I could kill this message somewhere in the configuration if I truly cared enough.

There are times when I'm ready to shoot someone, but it is always the marketing gimps who send me mail from stupidly different mail adresses seemingly just to defeat my filters and make life harder for me. One filter I use to steer mail from a business now has over seventeen different mail addresses to recognize what is actually three different departments in the same business.

Thunderbird is actually quite nice from my point of view.

As for doing all the mail in a cloudy way, that's nice but I like to address my mail on my commute where I do not have a persistent internet connection. I need to grab the mail in bursts as and when I get a signal and work *despite* the net. For me, a downloading mail client is pretty much essential.

Actually, because the quotas were killing everyone, I recently got switched to Outlook 365 at work and, apparently because the network provisioning did not include this new cloudy mail scenario, it now takes about twenty seconds from selecting mail to being able to read it during the day. The only time that the thing becomes anything like real-time is after hours - unless there's a big problem when the same network is crunched again by people remoting in.

Re: I'm no fan of Trump but

Yes, but this is a man who said he wouldn't attend the morning security breifing because blither drool etc.

Now he needs two trillion words on his desk each morning?

Re: Plus a bill for your time

If you can't afford the time, don't do the crime.

Easy peasy puddin' and pie.

Re: You think thats bad.

You think that's bad. Wait until you set off the plastic explosive scanner alerts with the arthritis in your joints.

"Would you mind stepping into the body scanner sir?"

"Not at all."

Buzz Buzz Whoosh Whoosh

"Er ... officer, could you inspect the passenger's knees and thighs please?"

"Wait, what? Doesn't someone have to offer me candy first?"

Re: So, if physical presence is so vital ...

Isn't that the cornerstone of The Trump Employment Plan?

Re: “teapots”

Flying Teapots.

The Return of Radio Gnome Invisible.

Re: El Reg missed the headline...

These are not mutually exclusive projects.

Re: I tried to order a pizza last night...

Apparently not enough pizza in the wrong places.

http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/pizza-mexicana/28730bfb-97bf-4abd-bbb9-834132162ab9

http://www.pizzafeed.org/dominos-menu/american-hot-pizza/

Since the only decent pizza is New York pizza, I'll refrain from commenting on either of these recipes. Trying to make non-NY pizza taste right is an exercise in futility.

*Thinks* Although the pizza we had in Edmonton that was one pizza with a crust made of another pizza came close to being NY good.

Re: Early stage dementia

I tweeted on this very concern some weeks before the election.

But then, no-one in their right mind would read any tweet blithered by me, so no harm done.

Re: google maps and streetview are so out of date

Did you report this to Google to see if they would fix it?

My mantra at work: I can't fix what I don't know is broke.

Re: I strongly doubt this

Ahem. The internet ...

Also: Concorde.

Also: Teflon.

Also: GPS.

I could go on (atomic power, digital watches, CA adhesives) but I have other things to do today.

Peaceout.

Re: I loved the film but what an intro 4 Dave 126

That is the verson Lynch had his name pulled from. Basically an attempted Director's Cut using unfilmed scenes replaced with color drawings based on the story boards and footage lacking the required post-production to make work properly - such as in the Big Battle Scene where guns and Weirding Modules recoil and hit their targets but lack any "Zap" and "Flash" FX.

For all its faults I'm fond of the Lynch movie. It had many good ideas buried in amongst the naffery. As did. The Sci Fi Channel's take on it.

Funny that each fell over the same stupid mistake - burning valuable footage time on showing the space travel in graphic detail. In the story it is elided entirely, as the point is not the spectacle but the understanding of how the Spacing Guild's monopoly works in terms of resources and remoteness of same.

Re: So...

"Now you can get you [insert any computer software] hacked if its running old "vulnerable" versions OR the latest, greatest version."

There; fixed that for you.

PS All your blog are belong to lightbulb.

Re: Genius 4 Rich 11

Sweet Azathoth on an enormously large and nebulous bike!

Please tell me the chip-infested foil still deflects psychotronic mind-control rays!

Re: Important nitpick...

"Oxygen promotes burning but requires a fuel source"

I own a chemistry textbook from the mid 1930s which depicts the apparatus needed and the procedure required to demonstrate simultaneously:

a) Hydrogen burning in a pure oxygen atmosphere and

2) Oxygen burnng in a pure hydrogen atmosphere.

Don't have the book to hand so I can't give you the title etc, (I'm about 1200 miles away from the trunk it is stored in right now).

Minor glass blowing is required in addition to the makings of hydrogen (acid and zinc granules probably but I can't remember off the top of my head) and the oxygen by heating some cooperative chemical. Electrolysis was not convenient when the book was compiled, it seems.

Re: The return of the high horse @Stevie Right Back @ PTW

You didn't write "voter" you used the more inclusive "tories" and "conservatives", and I class running roughshod over the constitution, wantonly overturning legislation in the face of solid reasons not to do so and abrogating a publicly-funded public duty as "smashing shit up".

So I'm afraid that I'm going to have to put you in the FOAD box there, PTW.

In you go.

Re: You're taking the piss

No, because the problem is that with that amount of caffeine the kidneys shut down and you can't, in fact, take the piss. Did you not see that bit in the article about dialysis?