28 Oct
2020
28 Oct
'20
5:41 p.m.
On Wednesday 28 October 2020 10:16:24 Gene Heskett via tde-users wrote:
I personally hate forums. Why? Because you HAVE to goto them, log in and
in general mess around 4 or 5 minutes just to see the list, which on
some forums like for the rpi's, several hundred screen fulls let alone
search thru it to find something interesting, or even any reply's to
your plea for help.
Email just drops in at 2 minute intervals courtesy of takeing the email
suckage away from kmail with fetchmail running as a background daemon,
then a wrapper script I wrote years ago that uses inotify-wait to tell
kmail to go get the mail that procmail just dumped into /var/mail/ and
it uses dbus to tell kmail to go get it. And a quick glance determines
whether I answer, or hit the + key for the next one. So other than this
typeing, my email is a 2 click operation, once to select the type of
reply, and once to send it when I've rattled the current cage
sufficiently. Computers should DO work FOR you, not make work. Way too
many think jumping thru all those hoops in how it works, to me the
challenge is to just make it work FOR you.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Yeah, don't get me wrong. Without computers, I could never have collected and
organized so much material, and probably would never have been able to make
connections between seemingly unrelated subjects. So that's a good thing, I
have to concede.
On the other hand, if I had just kept all my materials in hard copy, then I
would still have it somewhere; although I suppose it could have been
destroyed in a fire or something. Also, I would need a warehouse in which to
keep it all. It was just a strange bit of bad luck, that my hard drive and my
flash drive both failed at the same time, and before I could make backups of
this material (which I had saved for last, as I was redistributing this data,
to keep like with like).
Anyway, it is what it is. Now I need to figure out how to move forward with my
project.
Bill