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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> meh, thunderbird sucks. Even Outlook Express had way better newsgroup
> handling. Thunderbird doesn't keep a cache at all. You have two options:
> get messages deleted from the cache shortly after you read them, or
> download ALL the damned messages of the newsgroup. You can't make it
> cache what you already saw and only what you already saw.
>
> Also, it has a horrible way to handle messages with attachments. It
> seems to first download the whole message, attachments included. Shows
> only text. Then for each attachment present, it re-downloads the whole
> message again...
It does, however, have a number of useful features.
It wraps text *in the compose window*, so you can see what it will look
like when posted. Text written between stars comes out in bold.
Superscripts work. [and other misc features] It has [some] emoticons.
It's doesn't top-post.
OTOH, the compose editor is rather buggy, especially regarding quoted
text. (Especially if it's in HTML mode!) And you have to utter voodoo
enchantments to make the spell checker work properly.
And how could anyone forget - IT WON'T THREAD MESSAGES CORRECTLY!
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible wrote:
> And how could anyone forget - IT WON'T THREAD MESSAGES CORRECTLY!
<Warp> You should demand your money back. </Warp>
;-)
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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Darren New wrote:
> </Warp>
"End Warp"?
This concept appeals to me...
> ;-)
...indeed.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
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>> </Warp>
>
> "End Warp"?
It means you're now operating like a standard User :o
--
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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> 47d93f4d$1@news.povray.org...
>> BTW, the little story wasn't about "how stupid are users" but rather how
>> I, inconsciously, thought that "text file" was equal to "ascii" for
>> anyone (which is natural and obvious for geeks). I can't say she's wrong
>> if she thinks "text file" == ".doc", of course.
>
> Also, if she was coming from a corporate environment, it's quite possible
> that she was using Word as an email editor, including Word's built-in
> signature editor.
They do very surprising things, in corporate environments !
In fact, people in geek-less environments tend to do very surprising things,
it seems.
Most architectural firms around here uses PhotoShop (the free version, which
comes on a CD-R) to crop and resize Jpegs...
I'm somewhat distorted, because 1) I've never worked in another place than
my current one, and 2) the local geek, that's me !
latest news :
Yesterday, I've discovered that, although she wrote a thesis and numerous
wordprocessing stuff, as a student and during her first work experience,
she didn't knew about "search and replace" feature. Ah, reality...
(it seems that, today, she discovered the TAB key,...)
Fabien.
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> It does, however, have a number of useful features.
>
> It wraps text *in the compose window*, so you can see what it will look
> like when posted. Text written between stars comes out in bold.
> Superscripts work. [and other misc features] It has [some] emoticons.
> It's doesn't top-post.
For myself, TB's "killer" feature, might it seem ridiculous, is "edit as new mail",
which can be performed on mail you sent or received; saves a lot of dirty
copy-paste when I send almost-the-same-mail-with-two-words-changed.
Fabien.
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> (it seems that, today, she discovered the TAB key,...)
And yesterday I discovered a few shortcuts I didn't know. F4 opens a
dropdown menu (I knew this one, but hadn't used it for a long while). In
CHM help viewer, F6 changes focus between the sidebar (with search,
contents, etc) and the actual content. In Firefox, Ctrl + and Ctrl - not
only change font size, but also change between full and "fit to screen"
when you're viewing a big image directly. Ctrl-T on mIRC changes focus
to the list of channels (treeview).
Easy method for finding all this. I unplugged my mouse for an hour. You
should try it with your colleague just to have some fun >:)
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> F4 opens a dropdown menu.
So it *is* possible?! I *knew* it...
Why is this stuff not written down anywhere?
> Easy method for finding all this. I unplugged my mouse for an hour. You
> should try it with your colleague just to have some fun >:)
I spent a day trying to set up this new Dell PC. However, it has no PS/2
ports, so my KVM switch wouldn't work. The guy watching me thought it
was terribly amusing each time I tried to use the PS/2 keyboard to
control it, instead of the USB one sat beside me. GRRR!
--
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
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>> F4 opens a dropdown menu.
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> So it *is* possible?! I *knew* it...
Try it in Windows Explorer. There it doesn't matter what GUI element is
focused, always works.
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:44:23 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
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>> F4 opens a dropdown menu.
>
>So it *is* possible?! I *knew* it...
>
>Why is this stuff not written down anywhere?
Try http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126449
Regards
Stephen
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