「朱72」　shu72.com » notepad replacement http://shu72.com the personal website of Sonya C. Wheeler Mon, 17 May 2010 04:43:42 +0000 en hourly 1 Micro$coff XP: Attack of the Notepad Clones… and more http://shu72.com/2002/12/27/microscoff-xp-attack-of-the-notepad-clones-and-more/ http://shu72.com/2002/12/27/microscoff-xp-attack-of-the-notepad-clones-and-more/#comments Fri, 27 Dec 2002 05:30:30 +0000 Sonya http://shu72.com/2002/12/27/microscoff-xp-attack-of-the-notepad-clones-and-more/ Still cruising around the XP system on my new notebook. Seems as if Microsoft really doesn’t care about security in XP. No way to preview the e-mails in Outlook Express message source without actually opening it. Bad idea! Before I could just right click the message title get the menu and go to Properties You could get the full headers this way and view the text of the message… again, with out opening the e-mail. Gone. Completely gone with XP’s SP1 patch. Update: January 8, 2004. Tried it again and can now view the “Message Source” Microsoft got it’s roots from practically ripping off Apple Macintosh’s idea of GUI (clickable icons, etc.). Now it seems that Microsoft has dumbed up the system with XP. Maybe it’s to gain more buyers by trying to lure Apple’s customers. Do we really need another Apple?

I tried to remove, replace, rename Notepad so I could replace it with a better alternative. The damn Microsoft sucker kept cloning. I tried renaming a copy of the program I want to use as a replacement as “notepad” and dragged it in the folder where the original is at. It asked me did I want to replace with the newer one I said yes. Icon changed to my replacement but soon changed BACK to Microsoft’s Notepad icon and program. I deleted MS’s Notepad. Another appeared in its place. I renamed Notepad and moved my renamed alternative to the folder. It told me there was already a file by that name. What’s a girl to do? This is getting annoying. I suppose this could be readjusted with a Registry hack.

Well, time to test out Mozilla further and may be try out Endora. Last I checked Mozilla’s mail client didn’t have the view source option, but it gives indepth headers. After all this so far with XP, Linux is looking mighty fine right now. Time to load up on the caffeine and put my researching more on Linux in hyper drive. That way I can have Linux and XP installed. (Good thing my desktop has Win98). When I really want to have some fun and actually use my brain cells, I can boot up Linux… and use XP when I want to slack and be a like a drooling vegetable. Then, one of Bill Gate’s lackeys can change my bedpan and spoon feed me. Update: August 21, 2004. I’ve been fully switched over to Mozilla for quite a while now and recently was able to install Gentoo Linux on my Toshiba Satellite 1415-S173 with a dual-boot to XP without even using Partition Magic, which is far too expensive for me. To partition the way I did it meant having to backup and completely reinstall Windows and using fdisk to change the one large Windows partition to a smaller one. Haven’t installed any programs on Linux yet.

]]> http://shu72.com/2002/12/27/microscoff-xp-attack-of-the-notepad-clones-and-more/feed/ 0 Another Notepad replacement http://shu72.com/2002/12/11/another-notepad-replacement/ http://shu72.com/2002/12/11/another-notepad-replacement/#comments Wed, 11 Dec 2002 06:28:51 +0000 Sonya http://shu72.com/2002/12/11/another-notepad-replacement/ Previously I talked about needing to switch over to Motepad to replace Notepad:

Must switch over to using Motepad instead of Notepad for setting up the HTML of my web pages. For some reason Notepad is all of a sudden changing and moving all my structured text as soon as I save. For example:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
  <TITLE>That Loveable "Lorem ipsum" text</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diem nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut lacreet dolore magna aliguam erat volutpat. Ut wisis enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tution ullam corper suscipit lobortis nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

I type it that way but when it is saved the text moves and consolidates it to one big block:


<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>That Loveable "Lorem ipsum" text</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diem nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut lacreetdolore magna aliguam erat volutpat. Ut wisis enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tution ullam corper suscipit lobortis nisi ut aliqui ex ea commodo consequat.

Not good for structuring the source code to something easily readable….

Snip from: Doth Mote, I will…

Well I came across another Notepad replacement called Metapad. The “undo” function is not just for the last change made. Although I didn’t test to see how far in a documents history it would undo not just the last change but the one before that and the one before that! Nice featue. It’s more comparable to a Word/Wordpad type text editor. It opens larger files that Notepad. You can even turn on a feature that turns the “show hyperlinks” function on/off. When it’s over a hypertext link it can be clicked and your browser will bring up the page/file! When you open up a document in it you can even get little alert messages like, #8220;Some number of solitary carrage returns were detected and removed.” It even has the option of opening up .c, .cpp and .java extensions if you need to.

Instead of having Motepad AND Notepad, I completely replaced Notepad with Metapad and deleted Notepad. I haven’t gone back to using Motepad yet. Metapad also has the ability of changing text and background color like Motepad.

]]> http://shu72.com/2002/12/11/another-notepad-replacement/feed/ 0 Doth Mote, I will. http://shu72.com/2002/09/17/doth-mote-i-will/ http://shu72.com/2002/09/17/doth-mote-i-will/#comments Tue, 17 Sep 2002 07:36:46 +0000 Sonya http://shu72.com/2002/09/17/doth-mote-i-will/ Must switch over to using Motepad instead of Notepad for setting up the HTML of my web pages. For some reason Notepad is all of a sudden changing and moving all my structured text as soon as I save. For example:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
  <TITLE>That Loveable “Lorem ipsum” text</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diem nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut lacreet dolore magna aliguam erat volutpat. Ut wisis enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tution ullam corper suscipit lobortis nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

I type it that way but when it is saved the text moves and consolidates it to one big block:

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>That Loveable “Lorem ipsum” text</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diem nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut lacreetdolore magna aliguam erat volutpat. Ut wisis enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tution ullam corper suscipit lobortis nisi ut aliqui ex ea commodo consequat.

Not good for structuring the source code to something easily readable. Oh, well. Switching is no biggie. Besides you can change the color of the text and background with Motepad (if you also download and use “CfgMote” which is available at the creator’s website) and open larger documents. If you want more info or want to download it try c|net’s downloads.com (if the link doesn’t work try a search for “motepad” or at Raven Black’s (the creator) website.

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