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Change quoting level in Outlook 2007

When replying to an HTML email, the original message has a blue bar to the left (which replaces the traditional > symbol). I've seen in previous versions of Outlook that pressing enter on this line takes you to a new line without the blue line ("paragraph unindent") and allows you to write a reply inline. That's fine and what I'd expect.

But currently that doesn't work and I can't easily get rid of the blue line, meaning all my inline replies look like they're part of the original message! Quite odd. Here's how to work around the problem:

  • Change the message format from HTML to Rich-text
  • Type Ctrl-Q where you want to add a reply
  • Type your reply
Voila


Why not to use a pop-up window

If you're using a pop-up window on your website, you're doing it wrong.
It's akin to using nested tables for display, fer chrissakes!

Reasons why it's wrong:

  • It's a poor user experience because the user doesn't get any of the usual browser functionality in the pop-up window, like the back button or the icon that tells you the page is loading.
  • I'm sure I'll think of some more later

Testing Catalyst

Notes:

Catalyst::Test - you get a context object back

Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst - you don't have to run a separate server

Change timezone in Linux

Change this link:

$ ls -l /etc/localtime

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     dwebadm        34 Dec  2 01:12 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Singapore*

Cannot install Java JDK: semicolon found in selected path

There's no semi colon in the install path. But you still get the error:

        semicolon found in selected path

Solution is to move the install .exe to c:\ and run it again.

Possibly with command line switches: /v"/L c:\install.log"

(Search results show that this same issue has existed for 11 years!)