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Interesting - I hadn't realised they were caching the images and modifying the emails! Clever chaps, those google folk!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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I wonder if Google could just open emails when their servers receive them rather than when a user views them (caching them images on their server, of course). That would essentially mean the sender would always see the images as loading right after the emails are sent, making that metric useless.
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That appears to be essentially what they are doing - although they are modifying your email to point to their cached image rather than just opening it and throwing the image away.
I just hope they keep the original URL in the email somewhere so, if I want to, I can see where the original image came from.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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It would still let the spammers confirm that your email address is "live".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Couldn't users just do this[^]?
/ravi
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They can, but how obvious is this going to be to Joe Average?
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True, but Joe Average prolly never filtered images anyway.
I think their stance on cached images actually helps novice users because it prevents spammers from knowing that they've reached a legit email address.
/ravi
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It aint great...
Win7 64bit
4GB
500GB
Quad Core
Pretty standard fare all round.
However, and this is where it is sexy, It is clean!
It only has the Accounts package, Office, Thunderbird, Filezilla, Firefox and VS.
Nothing else!
I am going to try to keep it as clean as I can for as long as I can.
Obviously there will be odds and sods added over time, but no dross or dead wood.
It took bloody ages to get everything installed and updated.
(2 days in fact!)
I am looking forward to the weekend when I can get in and do some work on it.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Don't use it!!!
I fear it will quickly be load with heaps of stuff as soon as you start using it!!!
And don't connect to the internet! It's much more secure that way!
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It should perform pretty well without a lot of extra stuff on it.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Dalek Dave wrote: I am going to try to keep it as clean as I can for as long as I can.
Dalek Dave wrote: I am looking forward to the weekend when I can get in and do some work on it.
That sounds contradicting. 
Signature construction in progress. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Damn you have the perfect signature - CBadger
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I just got done (just now) converting my main desktop over to RAID 1, so my specs are:
AMD Phenom X4 3.4 Ghz Black Edition (actually an X3 unlocked to an X4)
12GB RAM
1TB Main RAID Disk
3TB Backup Disk
1TB Secondary Disk
Windows 7 x64
750W Modular Power Supply
GeForce GTX460 4gb Graphics Card
I wanted to build a new one, but I couldn't justify the entire expense. The base hardware on mine is still pretty good, and my wishlist was over $1500
Computers run pretty damn fast, until you start updating them
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2 days for those few packages ? 
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Throw the dog a bone man.....it is Dalek after all. 
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Thanks for that.
Remember I have a day job too, this is just the stuff running whilst I am at home of an evening.
And VS took hours alone.
Then there was the office stuff, plus all the configuration for 6 different email accounts.
Probably about 12 hours in total.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Did I get a bite.....
Fek me, I'm gonna need a bigger boat!
I know what you mean though.
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Admittedly a lot of the time was spent playing Battlefield 4 as I was waiting, hardly the most vexatious of tasks.
BTW, the PS4 is Super-bloody-duper!
If you can get one, do so.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I probably will next year.
I have hardly touched my PS3 or Xbox in the last 6-9 months due to being too busy, so don't see the point in getting one now, probably wait till around easter when prices have eased and issues resolved, more games available etc.
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On Wednesday I got my system at work upgraded from 4GB to 16 GB RAM. It's also a Win7 64 bit.
A fairly sweaty i7 CPU, but the 4GB RAM was killing me. It was sooooo slow when working in Visual Studio. Granted, the main workspace is a monster with 203 projects, but the extra memory has truly made a huge difference, so NotSoMad right now  .
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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No McAfee? No Norton? Your machine is deprived of the very software that gives it its identity and purpose.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I would happily burn in hell for all eternity than stick that steaming pile of sauropod dung on my machine!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Me too, ten times over.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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My new PC
64 Gb Ram
512 SSD for Op Sys
Intel i7 3930k (6 Cores, 12 Logical Processors Running at 3.2ghz)
2 Tb Raid
AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
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I dream of such specs!
[Wipes dribble from chin]
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Company bought for home use
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