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Opera 9 has been under development for a while, and preview builds have been available -- but for those too cautious to use pre-beta software but not cautious enough to avoid betas, Opera 9 beta is now out.

Opera Software today announced the first public Beta of Opera 9. This version includes Widgets, small Web programs running in their own windows that are fun, easy-to-use and live on users' desktops. The Opera 9 Beta also features support for BitTorrent, a popular file downloading technology, in addition to an easy-to-use content blocker and thumbnail previews of tabbed sites.

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I made an admittedly simplistic widget for it.

wr975 -- As I understand it,  the plan was to have a custom dictionary to suit the person encrypting the message. That just hasn't been implemented yet.

Yup, that's how *I* got here. Don't know exactly what I'll find because I'm not very advanced, but I'm trying to educate myself. Thanks for the nice welcome.

Welcome to town You don't have to be advanced to join in -- and I'm sure you'll have no problem finding someone to answer any questions you may have.

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I don't have a mic -- is a 3 minute silent segment acceptable as an artistic, humorous approach to computing without a microphone?

Isn't kd lang from Alberta?

Sure is.  And a Leonard Cohen fan, to boot KD is great.

Welcome, Tricia!

I was just being utilitarian -- as for decoder ring fun . . . most of the things I do are pointless or at least counter intuitive -- so I'm not one to say "Don't do it"

The problem is, you'd have to explicitly define all potential characters -- unless you want to support only US 26 character alphabet (which would be 52 if you differentiate among lower/upper case) -- wouldn't it be easier to just encrypt a block of text with a password and share the password with those you wanted to be able to read it?   It would, perhaps, but less fun than the decoder-ring approach but it would certainly be easier to implement and more flexible/extensible.

fsekrit would be ideal for sharing such messages.

As far as actually being a competitor for gmail, lycos isn't one -- the only significant competition I see is Yahoo/MSN -- both of whom are seriously overhauling their webmail clients.

Allen,

Have you noticed that Yahoo has a new email beta out now?

Yeah, that was the overhaul I was referring to . . . unfortunately, it hates opera.

Had I known consoles were allowed in this discussion, I might have had a little longer list I've always preferred console to computer gaming.  Metroid, Legend of Zelda, the uber-hyped Mario Bros 3 -- and all the sequels still following . . .

I never got to play on a 2600, with the exception of once or twice at a friends house--which usually amounted to watching my friends' big brother play it.  He wasn't big on sharing.  I barely got to jump on the NES wave -- my parents weren't entirely sold on the whole video game thing.  Fortunately, grandma and grandpa were aiming to please.

My parents, who never did admit to understanding my being drawn to games, sat up late at night playing Super Mario Bros. -- I think they made it to world 4 or 5 once, which they didn't have the heart to tell me until they were certain I'd done it myself

A step up for you, it's still functional.  Well, it was.  Now, it's more or less an unstraight wire. Had something stuck in my teeth, and . . .

I have a silver paper clip . . .

my only request is that i be able to bring up a toolbar by hotkey and be able to navigate it by keyboard.

I am totally behind you on that -- though, FRR almost entirely eliminates the need for LBC on my system . . . yet, I run both

Yup, use dreamhost--have for years and can't imagine I'd host with anyone else.  They offer everything -- from unlimited domains/subdomains/e-mail aliases to full shell accounts (for 2nd level and up plans, I think).  They provide pretty much everything -- and the control panel makes for easy editing of pretty much all of it.  So whether you know what you're doing or not, you should be able to find your way around.  In the near decade I've been with them, there have only been two significant outages -- one was caused by the California brownouts and the other a massive DoS attack, which they've since taken great strides to prevent from happening again.  Pretty good record, in my book.

Included are all the basics; php, mysql, ruby, perl, squirrelmail, formmail, miva merchant, some 1-click install software (blog, wiki, etc.), the typical apache goodies--cron,.htaccess.  There are also some interesting things -- they're big supporters of Jabber. If you're a fan of the protocol, you can have jabber@yourdomain.  Taking a queue from google, dreamhosts bandwidth and disk space are increased steadily by the day.  The longer you're with them, the bigger your account gets.  Right now, I have a hosting cap of nearly 72,000 MB -- and 1991GB bandwidth. Like I can use all that.

The closest thing to a complaint I have is that the control panel can be a bit slow at times -- which in the grand scheme of things isn't much of an issue.

RE-Downloading is one very nice thing about emusic!

Definitely -- it came in real handy after reformatting my hard drive.  Didn't even bother backing up my emusic

I love office supply stores, though I have very little use for them in real world -- pens are my favorite. I've been using uniball vision pens since junior high -- love 'em.



My favorite pen, though I had only a relatively brief affair with it -- ending when it was stolen by my ignoramus computer teacher -- put about 80 bucks into the pen/pencil set by Rotring.  That pen is heavy, double as an effective, albeit small, bludgeon.


(I had the pen/pencil versions of the first in that picture.)

I forgot to include a link, but the attachment should be there -- I can see it . . .

Blummy is a bookmarklet that unifies all your bookmarklets (and other JavaScripts, like pageRank for example) in a single bookmarklet -- launch it and you get a central control panel to all of them, remotely hosted for universal access and highly configurable.  You can drag and drop "blumlets" from their library of user created items or create your own -- whether just a quick search or a full blown bookmarklet.

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I'm also glad to report that it works just fine with Opera, for the most part -- occasionally there'll be little cosmetic issues, but usually a reload or relaunch of blummy will fix it.

Blummy

I've got a group for launching xplorer2 in a couple different modes.  The regex matches fine, the launcher matches fine, but I'm having trouble with the text display.  I'm assuming I'm missing an error somewhere, but . . . I can't find it, so:

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Explore $$1|c:\Program Files\zabkat\xplorer2\xplorer2_UC.exe "$$1"
Flatten $$1|c:\Program Files\zabkat\xplorer2\xplorer2_UC.exe "$$1" /F:1
Find $$1|c:\Program Files\zabkat\xplorer2\xplorer2_UC.exe "$$1" /F:1 /L

If I remove the $$1 from the names, it works fine -- it displays explore/flatten/find.  But with the variable inserted, it truncates things as shown in this screencapture:

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No matter what size I make the column, it gets trimmed like that.  Is it a bug or user error?

This is really cool -- I know version tracker offers this, but it's not cheap.  I'm downloading now.  I wish they had such a thing for my palm . . . they don't, do they?

PC - Grim Fandango

I'd forgotten all about that little gem!

Hey, you leave my sent folder out of this!

I loved Crusader: No Remorse, eventually . . . of course, I got my introduction playing Number Munchers and Math Blasters.
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Around 50,000 -- give or take.

Opera M2 behaves very much in the same way as Gmail (rather, M2 did it first so one could argue that should be stated inversely -- with the labels rather than true folders, contacts being virtual folders themselves, single flat data base, etc. -- and it really does work quite well.  Because of Opera's keyboard-power-user-friendliness, the Mail client is inherently keyboard friendly as well.  And something can really be said for Opera's adaptive filters -- they work brilliantly when trained properly.

The only problem, for me -- is presently, a large enough mail base in M2 can result in dramatic performance issues.  Especially when the mail panel is active and a large view is open.  It seems one can work around this by taking care to always leave the last mail view one of a smaller nature.  This is one argument for users having separate mail/browser software -- one doesn't drag the other down

For average mail bases or general use, though, M2 is highly competent.  As for it not having a rich text editor, I see that as a feature not a shortcoming