I think the idea is that on a regular basis you connect an IMAP client (or POP3, but leaving messages on the server) and download all new emails (headers and content and attachments) to your client, then make a backup of that local data. So even if your online mailbox is emptied of emails and you connect your client…

Well I hope they're recovered from backup, but as a general rule I think we should all create an environment/mindset for ourselves where losing things like emails doesn't actually matter. Either by doing appropriate backups if the emails are so vital, or simply not bothering that we lost them — it's kind of…

Yeah, that one's super-helpful. I mean what is the point of telling me how far you are through one of dozens of sub-tasks? Just give me an estimate of your progress against the whole list. Lazy developers.

Ah, I see. Maybe something that does keyboard/mouse broadcasting, like multibox.

You need something that does keyboard/mouse broadcasting, like multibox. See [code.google.com]

Why don't you go out there and ask modern people the same question. Bet the answers would be pretty much the same. I think those folks actually did pretty well at describing it, with the terms that they actually had available to them back then.

Why's that?

If the laptop is in a different room then synergy is the wrong solution. Synergy transports your keyboard/mouse input to adjacent machines that (typically) each have their own screens, so that you can control all of them from one keyboard/mouse. What you presumably want is to transport your keyboard/mouse input to…

You'd probably need to configure any firewalls to allow the relevant inbound/outbound access. Or place the client/server IP addresses in the appropriate trusted zones.

Agree, that would be a nice feature. I usually just close the synergy server when I want to disable it (like when I'm remoting into the synergy server itself so cannot physically see its neighboring synergy clients).

Er, use synergy. Or VNC.

Yeah, Ikea is deliberately designed that way, of course. Nothing subtle about what they're doing to maximize your time/expense. See [www.digitaljournal.com]

I don't know how often they injure other people, and neither do you. But I'd be interested in a full economic study of the subject, taking into account both the costs and the benefits. You're focused solely on the costs, which in some cases are terrible, I'll grant you. But you're not paying enough attention to the…

That's a little naive, don't you think? If you give people incentives to run from the police (the incentive being a significantly reduced chance of being apprehended, served and convicted) and they'll run much more often. Clearly it's much easier for the miscreant to successfully claim in court that it was not…

Maybe there's an outstanding warrant for his arrest. Or he's fearful of the police for some other reason. Or he has a major attitude/respect problem. I'm going with the latter, especially in light of his choice of parking location. They'll catch up with him shortly. How many burgundy Corvettes in ATL have an ED…

No, he didn't pursue because of the parking ticket. It was for the secondary offense of resisting an officer, and it's liable to be a felony.

Negative. Nor can you perform wildcard searches, yet. Someone (Sequoia) believes in this company enough to front them $4m. I find it hard to believe that people are going to want to pay $50- per year for this service (it's $50, not $45). And with that option their index needs to be below 500MB, or you need to bump…

I think the suggestion here is that the login dialog should have a checkbox that says "Keep me signed in for 15 minutes". It would be checked by default and this would exactly match the current behavior. If you unchecked it prior to sign-in then your credentials would immediately expire the moment you exited the App…

Yes, I suppose you should run away from these virus-laden sites ;-)

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