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On Sunday 04 January 2004 13:35, Simon Waters wrote:
Anton Channing wrote:I currently work in Norwich as a programmer (using, boo hiss, M$ stuff, like c# and asp.net) but plan to return to Plymouth (where all my family live, and where I grew up) at some point in 2004 (hense I am on this list and not ALUG)Being from Thorpe St Andrew originally, I have to regard moving from Norwich to Plymouth as a suspect plan. You must miss your family a lot ;)
Bah! I guess the grass is always greener. I've lived in Norwich 11 1/2 years now, starting at UEA, then Heigham Street, back to UEA, the Bowthorpe, then UEA Village, then Drayton Road, then St Benedicts and finally wound up here in Thorpe Hamlet. I've had enough of this place and want to move on. Its not just my family I miss. I have lots of friends in Plymouth, I miss the sea, (and Yarmouth just doesn't compete with the Hoe), I miss decent Pasties and Clotted Cream.
We aren't worried about geography, but ALUG does have Mark doing lots of work arranging meetings in Norwich and elsewhere, be a pity not to take advantage of the opportunities presented. I fear we don't have anyone prepared to dedicate quite so much effort as Mark, although we are grateful for those that try.
I did get to an ALUG meeting once, in which a friend failed to install debian on my machine. Incompatible graphics card or something. So I'm currently running SuSE which I installed myself later.
I'm sure if I did it properly, we would all be able to see our email regardless of what pc we are on, instead of there being one machine that has it on.Yeap - works here using UW IMAP nicely. Although some mail clients are easier to configure with IMAP than others.
Okay thanks to all who recommend IMAP, I will look into this AFTER I move to plymouth. At the moment I've got too much to get ready with the move to want to rearrange the network.
Have been thinking of trying out Mozilla's mail client, but am not really sure that it will be better?Mozilla has better IMAP (and LDAP support to make the address book follow you around the network as well as your emai) support but otherwise I don't think there is much to choose between them. GnuPG support is easier to set up in Mozilla, Kmail will overtake it when Werner and friends have the Aegypten project in a more stable state.
I'm currently on version KMail 1.4.3. Will have to check to see if any upgrades are available. I have noticed a bug where mine doesn't seem to open URLs in emails correctly.
Last ftp I did, I did with KDE3 and Konqueror, I clicked a link that opened up the ftp site as a window, and just lasso'ed the files I wanted and dragged and dropped. I know very GUI based, but the windows were already open.
Actually that sounds handy. Is it possible to set up such a link with ftp username and password built in (to put on an page that never goes live obviously)? The only protocols I've used from html links are http, https and mailto.
It was noticably slow on administrative data but since it was 70 odd big files, so command line restarts and the like woud have been tiresome. But then I prefer Konqueror as a browser, and Mozilla as a mail client, so I'm kind of the exact opposite of you applicationwise.
Do you? I find that some sites just don't load in Konqueror, whereas they do in Mozilla. Of course, I may not be on latest versions. In fact, I strongly suspect I've made quite a mess of the way things are set up in Linux.
Although I'm becoming a Kmail convert slowly, the thing is Kmail is doing a lot of growing up at the moment, so whenever I think of switching my laptop I find a new Kmail update and another nice new feature.
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