David:
"in the beginning, there was WriteRoom (Mac OS X, $24.95). WriteRoom is .just about you and your text.. WriteRoom begat DarkRoom (Windows + .NET, $0), which is also .just about you and your text. but requires a 22 MB runtime environment. DarkRoom begat JDarkRoom (Java, $0), which is just about you, your text, and somebody else.s multi-megabyte runtime environment. (Depending on your platform, it may be as small as 13 MB, which is what the kids these days would call
....an improvement..)"
azz:
Yeah, I ran across these the other day, and couldn't understand why you wouldn't use a real text editor in a full-screen terminal.
The idea's sound enough, but being stuck with the utter lack of features that all three of these offer would just make writing too painful for me to be of any use.
Plus -- why on earth would anybody pay money for a crippled text editor? Only in the Mac world...
(It's perhaps worth noting that my regular environment actually looks pretty much like one of these editors to start with -- and those on my laptop and my work machine even more so!)
azz:
It looks like the vast increase in the amount of spam I was receiving toward the end of last year has abated a bit.
It peaked around 1400 messages per day in December, and it's now back at 900 or so.
Does this match what anyone else is seeing?
David:
Please don't tempt me to write a tool to parse my MailLog file to find out!
Hmm. It probably wouldn't be all that helpful anyway. A few months ago I started rejecting mail to ${unknown}@dorward.me.uk before it hit procmail, so that would skew the results a fair bit.
azz:
You can probably hack my script around a bit without much effort.
I really ought to make it understand procmail logs at some point too, so I can do a graph that covers all the email I've ever received.
azz: Yay! Finally they've got around to releasing 4.4.0.