Why I no more use Yahoo Mail

Ten years back, yahoo was best!
I used to use Yahoo for everything...and it had a wide variety of services - email, news, groups, photo, calendar, ...

But with today's standard it is pathetic.

I was using Google for search since 2000, so when I got an opportunity to get a gmail account in 2004, I didn't waste a minute. But it was in 2006 when I finally moved to gmail as primary email account. And after that the gap between gmail and yahoo mail has widened a lot.

As of today, Aug 7, 2010, there is no way to access emails in my yahoo inbox securely. Gmail has been offering this for years. Let me just put the facts...

Yahoo Mail:
1. Secure Login to desktop browser : always - good
2. Secure Access to emails on a desktop browser: not possible - sux big time
3. Secure Login to mobile browser (iphone safari): not possible - sux big time
4. Secure Access to email from mobile browser: not possible - sux big time
5. Iphone mail client secure login: not possible - sux big time
6. Iphone mail client secure access to emails: not possible - sux big time

Gmail:
1. Secure Login to desktop browser : always - good
2. Secure Access to emails on a desktop browser: always - good
3. Secure Login to mobile browser (iphone safari): always - good
4. Secure Access to email from mobile browser: always - good
5. Iphone mail client secure login: always - good
6. Iphone mail client secure access to emails: always - good

Of course, there are more than one hundred reasons other than those listed above why I no more use yahoo mail. Like...

• No distracting ads: gmail yes, yahoo sux
• No flash ads: gmail ys, yahoo sux
  
• More space for emails: gmail yes, yahoo sux
• No ads on email front page: gmail yes, yahoo sux
• More space for your emails in the browser: gmail yes, yahoo sux
  
• Fast web client: gmail yes, yahoo sux
• No clunky web interface: gmail yes, yahoo sux
• Simple interface: gmail yes, yahoo sux
• Check email in outlook: gmail yes, yahoo sux
• Forward your emails to other account: gmail yes, yahoo sux
• Access emails using POP3 and IMAP: gmail yes, yahoo sux
• First one to give GBs of space and keep updating UIs: gmail yes, yahoo sux
• Does not attach ads at the end of the email: gmail yes, yahoo sux
  

Yahoo mail is a big time sucker...

Yahoo mail is for fools and illiterate people...

A good post on building web apps for iphone

http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/ch02.html

C/C++ Debugging in Visual Studio 2010

This is a great resource:

http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/windev/visualstudio.html

Cygwin/X gvim font problem

Gvim under cygwin/X was looking weird with tiny font.

I added following line in .gvimrc file and it solved the problem:

set guifont=Lucida\ Sans\ Typewriter\ Semi-Condensed\ 12

Sometimes even that gives ugly text, then try this (which is not that good, but better than others):

set guifont=LucidaTypewriter\ 13

This one looks much better:

set guifont=Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono\ 13

Terminals for Cygwin

Following terminals don't need X server:

1. Cmd - the default where bash, or zsh shell runs in the Windows Command Window. The biggest problem with this is you can't stretch it horizontally without going into options. CTRL+Z does not work.

2. mintty - this is so far best for me. good font size, cut-n-paste, color controls, stretchable in all directions. It is based on putty. CTRL+Z works!

3. puttycyg - I haven't tried.


Terminals which need X server:

1. xterm - no scrollbar, no cut-n-paste, font too small.

2. rxvt - no cut-n-paste, font too small.

3. urxvt - no cut-n-paste, font too big.

Zsh: _main_complete: function definition file not found

If you get an error similar to this one:

zsh:5: _main_complete: function definition file not found

then check for the value of FPATH or fpath and make sure the paths in those variables are valid.

Cygwin: Unable to remap

If you try to launch cygwin processes (for example, zsh) and you get this error:

24295 [main] zsh 3104 C:\cygwin\bin\zsh.exe: *** fatal error - unable to remap C:\cygwin\lib\zsh\4.3.2\zsh\zle.dll to same address as parent(0xAB0000) != 0xC10000 12 [main] zsh 2020 fork: child 3104 - died waiting for dll loading, errno 11

Then follow the following steps:
1. Make sure rebase package is installed (use cygwin setup utitlity)
2. Exit all cygwin processes. Verify in Task Manager that there are no cygwin processes running.
3. Run 'cmd' from the run menu (Windows Key + R). Go to the cygwin bin directory and run ".\ash.exe".
4. Run "./rebaseall". This will take some time.