Okay, so if anyone needs to know how to download IMAP email folders quickly, Mozilla's Thunderbird works a whole lot better than Eudora.
Does anybody else miss the Mayor? 'I just want to be a big snake.'
Xander ,'End of Days'
Buffistechnology 2: You Made Her So She Growls?
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le nubian - Dec 16, 2004 11:32:36 am PST #599 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
DXMachina - Dec 16, 2004 11:49:24 am PST #600 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Avenue Media said DirectRevenue's tactics have caused it to lose about 1 million customers--about half its installed base--and as much as $10,000 a day in revenue.
Interesting how they refer to the victims who've unwittingly downloaded their spyware as "customers."
aurelia - Dec 16, 2004 1:22:50 pm PST #601 of 10003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Anyone know how to outsmart an internet form that insists on adding a backslash in front of an apostrophe?
tommyrot - Dec 16, 2004 1:30:48 pm PST #602 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What sort of form? Does it add the backslash when you type the apostrophe? Or when the form reloads after you've entered stuff?
If it's the latter... then it's a bug in the display of the page you're on, but whatever you entered should be OK.
Databases such as MySQL will add a backslash to "escape" an apostrophe to avoid confusion with the apostrophes that are used to delineate the beginning and end of a field. (Otherwise, if you enter "Bob's Drive In" it would be stored as 'Bob's Drive In' and the software would think it should just be 'Bob') When the saved data is presented to the user the backslash should be stripped out by the code of the page you're on, but it's still stored with the backslash.
eta: but if you have to resubmit the form, you should still take the backslash out.
eta2: gotta run....
aurelia - Dec 16, 2004 1:35:27 pm PST #603 of 10003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
It is the latter. Okay, I'll submit it as is.
tiggy - Dec 16, 2004 3:32:02 pm PST #604 of 10003
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
Free Tivos
waaah! i want one. why can't they be doing that here?
tommyrot - Dec 17, 2004 6:01:04 am PST #605 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
NYT comparison between iPod Mini and its competitors. [link]
The gist? iPod Mini is more expensive and has less capacity, but the overall user experience is far better. OK, that's not really news, but I posted this in case someone was considering an iPod Mini alternative....
§ ita § - Dec 17, 2004 7:21:23 am PST #606 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
iPod has some of the most viral marketing.
Does anyone know how I can find a list of sites blocked by NetNanny? Apparently they've started blocking provocateuse.com.
tommyrot - Dec 17, 2004 7:25:21 am PST #607 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
iPod has some of the most viral marketing.
So I'm a viral marketer. Cool!
Betsy HP - Dec 17, 2004 7:52:15 am PST #608 of 10003
If I only had a brain...
ita, see here. [link]