I use gmail popmail with Thunderbird mostly as an archiver. Every once in a while I fire up thunderbird and tell it to get all the new popmail since the last time.
I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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DCJensen - Oct 16, 2006 5:19:07 pm PDT #9248 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Polter-Cow - Oct 16, 2006 6:04:00 pm PDT #9249 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
There's a reason most people don't bother to use IMAP and it's because it's only very slightly better with much more overhead.
Really? What sort of overhead? It's seemed pretty fabulous and simple.
§ ita § - Oct 16, 2006 10:28:16 pm PDT #9250 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What's the closest thing to iTunes for Linux? Or some MP3 player that's seriously idiot-proof?
evil jimi - Oct 16, 2006 11:01:09 pm PDT #9251 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
XMMS is very much like Winamp and I had no problems with it.
Gudanov - Oct 17, 2006 5:49:19 am PDT #9252 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Banshee is a good Linux MP3 player for GNOME integration, the one I use.
Amarok is the primary KDE MP3 player.
Beep Media Player is another popular one and based on XMMS.
Gris - Oct 17, 2006 7:31:48 am PDT #9253 of 10003
Hey. New board.
What sort of overhead?
The overhead's on the server end. Keeping a "continuous" connection to each client, rather than only connecting only occasionally, is more of a pain. Or so I gather, though I've never personally implemented one.
Cashmere - Oct 17, 2006 5:33:06 pm PDT #9254 of 10003
Now tagless for your comfort.
We're having trouble getting the progrm Vongo off of our new laptop. I ran the "remove programs" protocol on Windows XP and it worked for my profile. With DH, we can't seem to get the fucker gone and every time he logs on, Vongo tries to install. When I do the remove program thingy, I get a fatal error message and it just sits there, mocking me.
What can I do to get rid of this stupid, useless program?
Cashmere - Oct 17, 2006 6:08:24 pm PDT #9255 of 10003
Now tagless for your comfort.
I think I figured it out. It seems to be a problem with the installshield update manager. I uninstalled that and hope it does the trick.
dcp - Oct 17, 2006 6:12:38 pm PDT #9256 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Does it (or something similar) show up under the Startup tab when you run msconfig?
One of my peeves with RealPlayer was that it kept re-installing "TkBellExe" (its self-launcher) whenever I played a .rm file. It was a real nuisance (pun not intended) when I was on dial-up, because it kept interrupting what I was doing and demanding access to the internet, even when I wasn't running RealPlayer.
eta: Ooops, looks like I was too late.
le nubian - Oct 18, 2006 7:28:36 am PDT #9257 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
can someone tell me the difference between locking a tab in firefox and protecting a tab? I can't find the answer to this.