Comments for Ciaran's Random Writings http://ciarang.com Random things I've written about stuff Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:48:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Evolution by Striker http://ciarang.com/posts/evolution/comment-page-1#comment-58853 Striker Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:48:25 +0000 http://ciarang.com/?p=1205#comment-58853 I'd like to add that I reported DOZENS of bugs for evolution over the years, some of them being strikingly obvious and easy to fix. Almost none of them never got a fix, some not even a single answer. I don't expect the situation to improve, now that Evolution has been kicked off Ubuntu by Canonical, a move thats probably sided by an according HR drain. I’d like to add that I reported DOZENS of bugs for evolution over the years, some of them being strikingly obvious and easy to fix. Almost none of them never got a fix, some not even a single answer. I don’t expect the situation to improve, now that Evolution has been kicked off Ubuntu by Canonical, a move thats probably sided by an according HR drain.

]]> Comment on Evolution by Striker http://ciarang.com/posts/evolution/comment-page-1#comment-58852 Striker Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:42:54 +0000 http://ciarang.com/?p=1205#comment-58852 Dito. Sorry to say but I predict your gripes wont go away at all, just be shifted a little. Evolution also does answer to meeting invitations only with the Mail Addess marked as default. If that does not happen to be the invited one, though luck for you. The NNTP client is a sad, sad story and essentially a bag full of bugs. After 7+ years of constant use, the local search has stopped to work for me completely, it always returns an empty result instantly. It is a memory hog like I've never seen one before, especially if you dare to try using dynamic folders (search folders). But that actually has become a low pri issue for me over the years, since RAM has become so unbelievably cheap and fast nowadays. The calendar sometimes works and sometimes doesnt. CalDAV makes it crash VERY often. When you upgrade from Evo2.x to 3.x you often end up with a virtually unusable result. There are broken local calendars that can NOT be deleted but inhibit you from accepting any meeting invitation with an error if you try to do so. This is because the local URI *and* URI formats changed but Evo does not always upgrade its own config correctly during update. This is extremely hard to fix manually, other than by wiping everything and starting over from scratch. Also, during the Upgrade, custom mail folder URIs (e.g. for sent mail folder etc) are not upgraded und you end up with having to fix them all manually for every singe account in your config. Very often, the evolution data daemon will crash on you in the background, freeze everything and drive you crazy while you need to get that super urgent business mail sent - until you find out that there is a "killev" command hidden somewhere outside the usual command paths (use locate to find it) - and you'll find yourself using it at least twice a day. When moving mails with attachments from local to imap folders, prepare to end up with crippled attachments. Actually, the mails still are fine on the server, but in your local cache the MIME format breaks on the move and evolution has no means to force a rebuild (which is a pain with big folders anyway). These are just some of the more prominent annoyances you will encounter. Good luck. Dito. Sorry to say but I predict your gripes wont go away at all, just be shifted a little. Evolution also does answer to meeting invitations only with the Mail Addess marked as default. If that does not happen to be the invited one, though luck for you. The NNTP client is a sad, sad story and essentially a bag full of bugs. After 7+ years of constant use, the local search has stopped to work for me completely, it always returns an empty result instantly. It is a memory hog like I’ve never seen one before, especially if you dare to try using dynamic folders (search folders). But that actually has become a low pri issue for me over the years, since RAM has become so unbelievably cheap and fast nowadays.
The calendar sometimes works and sometimes doesnt. CalDAV makes it crash VERY often. When you upgrade from Evo2.x to 3.x you often end up with a virtually unusable result.
There are broken local calendars that can NOT be deleted but inhibit you from accepting any meeting invitation with an error if you try to do so. This is because the local URI *and* URI formats changed but Evo does not always upgrade its own config correctly during update. This is extremely hard to fix manually, other than by wiping everything and starting over from scratch. Also, during the Upgrade, custom mail folder URIs (e.g. for sent mail folder etc) are not upgraded und you end up with having to fix them all manually for every singe account in your config. Very often, the evolution data daemon will crash on you in the background, freeze everything and drive you crazy while you need to get that super urgent business mail sent – until you find out that there is a “killev” command hidden somewhere outside the usual command paths (use locate to find it) – and you’ll find yourself using it at least twice a day. When moving mails with attachments from local to imap folders, prepare to end up with crippled attachments. Actually, the mails still are fine on the server, but in your local cache the MIME format breaks on the move and evolution has no means to force a rebuild (which is a pain with big folders anyway).

These are just some of the more prominent annoyances you will encounter. Good luck.

]]> Comment on Map Control in C# by marcelo http://ciarang.com/posts/csharp-map-control/comment-page-1#comment-58007 marcelo Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:50:42 +0000 http://ciarang.com/?p=937#comment-58007 http://greatmaps.codeplex.com/ : don´t have any documentation and examples don´t work, very dificult to work so i´m looking for other solution http://greatmaps.codeplex.com/ : don´t have any documentation and examples don´t work, very dificult to work so i´m looking for other solution

]]> Comment on Toilet Phobia? by Anonymous http://ciarang.com/posts/toilet-phobia/comment-page-1#comment-57812 Anonymous Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:19:46 +0000 http://blog.ciarang.com/index.php/archives/37#comment-57812 Its OK REALLY. Ive pooped in my pants by accident on a couple of occasions and people are really supportive and helpful. Don't let it effect your life. I mean pooping your pants isn't that big of a deal anyways. I mean its really not that bad. Paul Its OK REALLY. Ive pooped in my pants by accident on a couple of occasions and people are really supportive and helpful. Don’t let it effect your life. I mean pooping your pants isn’t that big of a deal anyways. I mean its really not that bad. Paul

]]> Comment on Converting EMF to SVG by CiaranG http://ciarang.com/posts/converting-emf-to-svg/comment-page-1#comment-56604 CiaranG Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:08:03 +0000 http://ciarang.com/?p=1219#comment-56604 lol, ok, but don't expect me to answer. lol, ok, but don’t expect me to answer.

]]> Comment on Converting EMF to SVG by Bill http://ciarang.com/posts/converting-emf-to-svg/comment-page-1#comment-56355 Bill Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:54:38 +0000 http://ciarang.com/?p=1219#comment-56355 Why did you need to do this in the first place? Why did you need to do this in the first place?

]]> Comment on Evolution by basshead http://ciarang.com/posts/evolution/comment-page-1#comment-51929 basshead Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:03:46 +0000 http://ciarang.com/?p=1205#comment-51929 Well I hope it works for you, as I have moved the other way. Evolution for me was slow and rendered slow. Thunderbird appears to be quicker for me, but I do not have any addons installed yet. So time will tell if it was the right move. Well I hope it works for you, as I have moved the other way. Evolution for me was slow and rendered slow. Thunderbird appears to be quicker for me, but I do not have any addons installed yet. So time will tell if it was the right move.

]]> Comment on Map Control in C# by radioman http://ciarang.com/posts/csharp-map-control/comment-page-1#comment-50826 radioman Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:08:09 +0000 http://ciarang.com/?p=937#comment-50826 check http://greatmaps.codeplex.com/ check http://greatmaps.codeplex.com/

]]> Comment on Design for Reading by CiaranG http://ciarang.com/posts/design-for-reading/comment-page-1#comment-50655 CiaranG Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:44:38 +0000 http://ciarang.com/?p=1195#comment-50655 Spot on, yes - Chromium on Linux. And the article is perfectly readable now, thanks. :) Spot on, yes – Chromium on Linux. And the article is perfectly readable now, thanks. :)

]]> Comment on Design for Reading by Brent Simmons http://ciarang.com/posts/design-for-reading/comment-page-1#comment-50485 Brent Simmons Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:32:11 +0000 http://ciarang.com/?p=1195#comment-50485 More research tells me that it's a Chromium bug that can happen when text-rendering: optimizeLegibility appears in the CSS. I’ve turned that off for now. (Wonderful irony, isn’t it?) http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=96936 More research tells me that it’s a Chromium bug that can happen when text-rendering: optimizeLegibility appears in the CSS. I’ve turned that off for now. (Wonderful irony, isn’t it?)

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=96936

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