Jay R. Wren – lazy dawg evarlast
babblings of a computer loving fool
I just submitted art of the mix number 93116. I cannot wait to rock out to some good music while driving.
Some of this music is unbeleivably amazing. It sounds like there could be 2-3 guitars, but there is really only one. The talent and skill of these players is unparred.
This one is whiprush inspired.
I’ve been using Thunderbird primarily and continuously for 18 months and off and on since much its inception. I’ve obviously thought it great since January of 2004, since that is when I made it my primary mail application.
I’ve just run into something that it cannot do. My sister-in-law mailed me pictures of her kids and I cannot “save all attachments”. Why is there no ability to save all the attachments with one command? Worse yet, I can’t even tell there are attachments. The message is being displayed inline and the images are just inline. The only way for me to save the images are to right click each one and click “save image as…”. How does that make my life easier? Where is the inovation? How does it scale? (I know for sure that it doesn’t scale.)
I think I shall try evolution… Maybe in 18 months, I will have a status report. Stay tuned until December of 2006.
Update:
Wow, both schweeb (via IM) and whiprush (via comments) replied very quick to point out that if I switch message viewing mode to plain text (View->Message Body As->Plain Text) then I will get the attachments toolbar and I can right click a message and “Save All”.
Thanks guys.
I’m still complaining about usability, but at least what I wanted to do is possible.
One of the worst things about working in IT is logging into many computers. In IT, computers that aren’t 100% under your control as a programmer or administrator often don’t have the tools you are used to. Worse, often you aren’t supposed to install extra software on these computers. After all, they might be production servers!
Citrix MetaFrame and Microsoft Remote Desktop(Terminal Server) both support mounting your desktops local drives to the remote system. In my case, Citrix was doing it by default. I connect and the v: is actually the c: on my laptop. I have cygwin on my c:\cygwin directory on the laptop. The normal way the cygwin bash prompt is invoked is via the cygwin.bat script. This script makes some assumptions that aren’t true in a MetaFrame/Terminal Server environment. Invoking this script directly on the remote server won’t work, but here is a work around.
Run bash.exe directly via cmd.exe. To do this, launch cmd.exe, then run bash by calling its full path, which is now v:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe. Once you do this, you will have a bash prompt, but you will immediately notice that “nothing works”. Well, somethings do work, and with a little more configuration you will have a fully functional cygwin.
Run /cygdrive/v/cygwin/bin/mount and notice that the normal /, /usr/bin, and /usr/lib are not mounted. Mount them by running these commands:
/cygdrive/v/cygwin/bin/mount -f c:/cygwin /
/cygdrive/v/cygwin/bin/mount -f c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin
/cygdrive/v/cygwin/bin/mount -f c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib
Now your mount points will be set, but you will notice that your path doesn’t include the usual /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, etc. No problem, just restart the bash shell.
exec /usr/bin/bash --login -i
Now you will notice you get your pretty prompt, and a note about /etc/passwd and /etc/group. I don’t go to the trouble of configuring the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, so just ignore the instructions to run mkpasswd.
Next time you want to start cygwin, you won’t need to follow the mount steps, just run cmd (or start->run), and then v:\cygwin\bin\bash –login -i.
Well, they are podcasts, so they are when I listened to today, which are usually from the day before, a couple days before, or last week.
OMG TOO FUNNY The kid who submitted a new song for Adam Curry was hilarious. I nearly burst out in laughter while at my cube at work. Adam Curry’s Podcast XML Feed This was the 6/17/2005 episode. Also hilarious was the tap dancing news caster.
My biggest gripe with Opera is that it doesn’t support drag and drop for pretty much anything! Having used a Mac for a year and a half, I really got used to drag on drop. When I moved back to using Linux and Windows I was pleasantly surprised that most applications supported Drag and Drop in the ways that I had grown accustomed on the Mac. Opera, however, doesn’t support these things. Mainly, I wish I could drag urls and links out of the browser to other applications. Dragging a url to a text box when adding an RSS feed or torrent url just seems more natural to me than copy and paste. When I have to revert to copy and paste because Opera limits me, I get angry. I should not be limited by technology. I still use Opera. It is far faster than Firefox or Internet Explorer.
OMG 7 hr podcast: http://www.ipmradio.com/ IPM has been around for years, but 7 hrs doesn’t translate to a good podcast for me. Maybe someone out there loves a 7hr podcast, but not me.
I stole the link from “tim” (is it orielly?) at radar.oreilly.com
Better than Drew and Dawn, even better than Adam Curry, with quotes like “When Susan B. Anthony look at you getting your ass pinched by the high rollers and be like ‘That is what we were fighting for! Thats it!'” It is the best generic vareity themed podcast I’ve heard in my short time listening.
my shit is here:
OMG best stupid quiz in a long time:
“If we fucked would I like it?”
If we fucked… we would never stop fucking
OMG! Where the fuck have you been all my life! I want you… no I need you now! You are amazing… If we fucked, I would tie you to my bed, and make you my personal sex slave. You make me scream “Oh God”, “Oh yes harder”, and all the good fucking shit… you are probally the best sex of my fucking life.. So get out that condom, pull down your pants, and lets fuck already… I told you I am very very horny and I just found my perfect sex match! GRRRR ::jumps you::
I’m depressed and disgusted with both MTV and myself.
I don’t recall if it was The Sureal Life, or The Best Week Ever, or some equally horrible VH1/MTV production, BUT (hugest but ever, mixalot would love it) as background music to their over hyped shit was a Wumpscut track. I’d have to dig through my discs to know which track exactly, but it was unmistackably Wumpscut. Actually, it was one of my favorites. It has no lyrics, but has a sample of a man saying “I’m in love with you, from the first moment I saw you, like in a dream. Is there any hope that you could love me?” And then a woman saying “I don’t think so.” And then BAM, the music kicks it up a notch and that was the part that I herd on VH1. I hope Rudy got megabucks.
I’m not going to tell you what I googled for out of boredom that led me to this link.