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Comment Re:Possible Replacement (Score 1) 125

I've been using zone edit for about 8 years, and I've never had any issue with them. In fact, I had forgotten my password, and the original email I was using with them was an email I stopped using years ago, but I was still able to get my account information easily. I've never once been hassled by them about anything, and other than the fact that you do need some knowledge of what an IP is, and what to do with DNS server information, there's really nothing better. Same disclosure, just a happy customer.

Comment Re:The only problem... is PEBKAC? (Score 1) 727

Dolphin is a bit clunky in KDE, but if you open it in GNOME is seems to run fine. I've tried F-Spot, but I found it a bit awkward and slow when processing 8+ gigs of pictures. Perhaps I'll fool around with DigiKam a little bit. I'm a gnome fanboy, so I haven't really tried much of the K stuff since.. Slackware 8 or 9.

As for the woman thing, I'm particularly speaking of the one that rules my roost, not in general. I suppose I was a bit vague ;)

Comment Re:The only problem... is PEBKAC? (Score 1) 727

Her default email application is Thunderbird, and it seems Thunderbird uses a simplified file manager to open documents. I know Nautilus works well for thumbnails (I'm actually really liking dolphin for that right now), but I can't figure out how to resize the pictures to send. Each picture is almost 2mb, so sending 20 odd pictures just doesn't work.

Gimp is fast, and it's pretty easy to create a script to automatically make resized copies, but of course, that's silly, and has too many steps.

Also, you have to realize I'm talking about a WOMAN here. There's no logic in this.

Perhaps I'll figure out a way to write some kind of bash script or something that she can drag/drop pictures to it, then it'll open a new message with the pictures already attached. Women.

Comment The only problem (Score 1) 727

With converting my fiancee, is that when she emails pictures, she doesn't have the option of 'thumbnail view' in gnome, as well as the option to pick multiple pictures and being able to right click them and email them as resized copies.

This sounds trivial, but because of this, she is vehemently opposed to adopting Linux in general. I find it's all in the details for most people. It may seem like a 'Windows' thing, but really, it's a matter of simplicity, which she values.

And so I'm not off topic here, she IS a power windows user.

Comment Re:Ha ha (Score 1) 300

I'm a Winnipeger, and MTS is a garbage company. I don't own a single piece of their merchandise for reasons such as this. They are supposed to call you (from experience) if you have excessive long distance, but since MTS was sold years ago, things like this happen all the time.
In '98 there was a kid stuck with 20k in long distance charges to the US because he registered with a dial-up provider and picked 'nearest location', and not checking the outgoing number. Stupid, I know, but when you know nothing of computers, this kind of thing can happen.

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