First, the post you responded to was actually suggesting getting rid of "summer time" in the sense of making it "summer time" all-year-round: "Keep it summer time year round if you ask me.".
Secondly:
always thought it was for the farmers to have more light for chores before kids went to school in the morning
DST moves the clock forward by one hour. This has the effect of making sunrise one hour LATER than it would otherwise have been (so instead of sunrise when the clock says 6am, it happens when the clock says 7am). DST is about making it stay light for longer (in the evening), for after-work activities. I think most rural folk dislike DST because they need to get up early for various farm-related things (something to do with milking cows or somesuch), and go to bed early so they can get up early. Daylight savings means it stays later longer, which can make it harder to sleep.
Duh, the parent was responding to a post that suggested using "DST" ALL YEAR ROUND.: "Keep it summer time year round if you ask me." That means every day of the year would be on what is now called summer time.
Never mind. Whoever modded you informative obviously didn't bother to read and/or understand what was being said either, so you're not alone.
And if they did "just change it" like their clocks on their microwave and VCR, then they've probably actually set their computer's clock forward one hour, rather than setting the timezone correctly.
This has the nice affect that any time their computer tries to communicate with another device, it's now announcing it has the wrong time. The most obvious effect will be in the Date: header in emails which will be an hour out; it could also have some affect on things like HTTP caching (the Last-Modified and Expires headers specify a time in UTC).
Computers and other network-connected devices are not "just another clock", and most people don't realise you need to adjust the timezone, not just the time shown by the clock in system tray.
I'm in Western Australia which last summer* had DST for the first time in ages, and this was a significant problem -- made worse by the fact that Microsoft apparently didn't give a shit. We had problems with Exchange appointments for a long time because MSFT couldn't be bothered updating part of the system (it seems Exchange uses some other way of determining timezones other than the system timezone database..?).
* - our summer being Dec-Feb, and our first DST trial period just ended.
They're not really a monopoly in the mobile space, except possibly in country areas where the other telcos may not have sufficient coverage. But we've got Optus, Virgin, and a few smaller players as well who compete pretty strongly with Telstra.
Heck, the WA state government moved all their mobiles to Optus a year or two ago.
I was about 30 in the early 90s. What's more, RTSes are among my favorite genre. I have never played and never even seen a copy of Dune II.
I think you're missing the point: you say RTSes are among your favourite genres, but when Dune 2 came out there was no "RTS" genre. It didn't exist. Another poster in this thread mentioned that they actually put "real time strategy" on the box in quotes, because it wasn't a term anyone would understand. It's not hugely surprising that a game which virtually created a genre would not be well known amongst the masses (at least, pre-internet).
I was in high school and I got a copy of Dune 2 from a friend, so I'm aware of its significance. But I never got into Warcraft at all, despite being aware of its existence and having played it, and despite liking RTS games in general.
Ah, fair enough. I hadn't even noticed that it exposed the Rules via OWA. Learn something new every day! I hear using those rules for forwarding sucks, anyway.
You missed a ® for Exchange® Server 2003, by the way.:)
If you're going C++ for performance reasons, take a look at tntnet. It's a web application framework in C++, and provides sessions, thread-safe operations, and things like database connection pooling. You can even create web pages with C++ embedded right in, similar to e.g. PHP or ASP. And it's fast.
Just to clarify, I wasn't actually saying I don't believe in the greenhouse effect or that CO2 emissions don't contribute to it, etc. I was merely responding to this:
IWannaBeAnAC: The bottom line is the correlation between greenhouse gases and temperature is well known (you can reproduce it in a simple lab experiment)
Dun Malg: You should go look up the definition of the word correlation.
IWannaBeAnAC: Why? This is something that is easily measured in a lab experiment. What are you driving at?
I think the initial response -- that IWannaBeAnAC should use a dictionary -- was simply pointing out that "correlation" is the wrong word to use when talking about something that can be proven by lab experiments. Two values being correlated does not make for convincing evidence; reproducible experiments demonstrating that increased greenhouse gasses directly causes increased temperature, on the other hand, does.
Thus, my response: the oft-repeated mantra that "correlation does not imply causation". Just trying to explain what Dun Malg meant, not argue the existence of the greenhouse effect (if it didn't exist, how could we make greenhouses?).
I'm not sure what you're getting at -- Outlook Web Access (Exchange's webmail) works fine in other browsers. Yes, it is better in Internet Explorer, but it's usable in most other browsers.
I wouldn't like running Exchange for college student mail though. That just sounds weird. It's pretty good for corporate use, but that's a highly controlled environment with tight integration, and students probably need more flexibility.
Mind you, if you're going to be using Outlook anyway, RPC over HTTPS gives you the full Exchange integration from anywhere on the internet, and that beats web mail any day.
Well, it is easier for our users - they just send an email to the helpdesk.:)
Of course, very few of our accounts are forwarded externally, and that's probably the case for the vast majority of Exchange installations. That's just not its strong point. On the other hand, most other mail systems don't make it especially easy to allow other people to see particular mail folders in your own mailbox, or to share your calendar and contacts with others, and so on.
Another poster did reply to this, but the explanation they gave was a little terse and probably meaningless to someone who doesn't actually use Exchange.
We use Exchange at work, and there's basically two ways to forward mail to another user outside the domain. Firstly, if all you want to do is forward user@exchangedomain.com to user@gmail.com, you can create a contact which has the address user@exchangedomain.com in its list of email addresse (on the E-mail Addresses tab of the contact's properties in Active Directory Users and Computers). Then you set their real SMTP address to user@gmail.com in the Exchange General tab. With this setup, Exchange will accept mail for them using any of the addresses listed in the E-mail Addresses list, and forward it to user@gmail.com.
The second way is if you want to forward email for a user's Active Directory account (i.e. a user object rather than a contact object). In this case, you go to the Exchange General tab, click on the Delivery Options button, and then select another user or contact to forward their mail to. This has to exist in the directory, so to forward it to an external address you still need to create a contact (as above).
Yes, it's a little convoluted but it works fine. However, it's not really end-user accessible. You could of course set up an OU which users can create contacts in, and give them permission to modify their own forwarding options [altRecipient and deliverAndRedirect], and then make a nice pretty GUI around the whole process. It's probably not worth the hassle to most organisations (and likely there's commercial products which provide this functionality for those who need it).
Probably just that correlation doesn't imply causation. There's a strong (negative) correlation between the number of pirates plying the seas and global warming, too, but that doesn't mean the solution to global warming is to increase piracy on the high seas.
if an app isn't responding and you try to kill it, Windows asks you if you'd like to wait for it to come back to the light or if you'd like to hack it to bits
Is it more responsive to this than XP? It always really shits me that you have to wait for Windows to realise an app "isn't responding" before you can actually kill it. Although, if you keep clicking the End Process button when Windows finally responds you get a crapload of "Would you like to kill this process?" dialogs. And closing dozens of dialogs is fun fun fun.
No idea why you're having problems, mine updated and re-opened the tabs and is working fine. Do you have any extra extensions installed? I only have a half-dozen or so.
Why doesn't firefox have an "uninstall" link in the start menu?
Why should it? That's what Add/Remove programs is for.
I heard it as "Technology Without An Interesting Name", but I also heard that they're all just backronyms, and it was really from Kipling's "...and never the twain shall meet", referring to the disparity between interface designers and driver programmers.
Wikipedia agrees with me, but also confirms Toolkit is the most correct expansion (although Important instead of Interesting).
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First, the post you responded to was actually suggesting getting rid of "summer time" in the sense of making it "summer time" all-year-round: "Keep it summer time year round if you ask me.".
Secondly:
DST moves the clock forward by one hour. This has the effect of making sunrise one hour LATER than it would otherwise have been (so instead of sunrise when the clock says 6am, it happens when the clock says 7am). DST is about making it stay light for longer (in the evening), for after-work activities. I think most rural folk dislike DST because they need to get up early for various farm-related things (something to do with milking cows or somesuch), and go to bed early so they can get up early. Daylight savings means it stays later longer, which can make it harder to sleep.
Duh, the parent was responding to a post that suggested using "DST" ALL YEAR ROUND.: "Keep it summer time year round if you ask me." That means every day of the year would be on what is now called summer time.
Never mind. Whoever modded you informative obviously didn't bother to read and/or understand what was being said either, so you're not alone.
And if they did "just change it" like their clocks on their microwave and VCR, then they've probably actually set their computer's clock forward one hour, rather than setting the timezone correctly.
This has the nice affect that any time their computer tries to communicate with another device, it's now announcing it has the wrong time. The most obvious effect will be in the Date: header in emails which will be an hour out; it could also have some affect on things like HTTP caching (the Last-Modified and Expires headers specify a time in UTC).
Computers and other network-connected devices are not "just another clock", and most people don't realise you need to adjust the timezone, not just the time shown by the clock in system tray.
I'm in Western Australia which last summer* had DST for the first time in ages, and this was a significant problem -- made worse by the fact that Microsoft apparently didn't give a shit. We had problems with Exchange appointments for a long time because MSFT couldn't be bothered updating part of the system (it seems Exchange uses some other way of determining timezones other than the system timezone database..?).
* - our summer being Dec-Feb, and our first DST trial period just ended.
Err.. telnet? In 2007? I think you need to go back to your cave.
They're not really a monopoly in the mobile space, except possibly in country areas where the other telcos may not have sufficient coverage. But we've got Optus, Virgin, and a few smaller players as well who compete pretty strongly with Telstra.
Heck, the WA state government moved all their mobiles to Optus a year or two ago.
javascript does not belong in a web browser, end of story.. beyond that, it is a... well... it's better than VBscript?
I think you're missing the point: you say RTSes are among your favourite genres, but when Dune 2 came out there was no "RTS" genre. It didn't exist. Another poster in this thread mentioned that they actually put "real time strategy" on the box in quotes, because it wasn't a term anyone would understand. It's not hugely surprising that a game which virtually created a genre would not be well known amongst the masses (at least, pre-internet).
I was in high school and I got a copy of Dune 2 from a friend, so I'm aware of its significance. But I never got into Warcraft at all, despite being aware of its existence and having played it, and despite liking RTS games in general.
Ah, fair enough. I hadn't even noticed that it exposed the Rules via OWA. Learn something new every day! I hear using those rules for forwarding sucks, anyway.
You missed a ® for Exchange® Server 2003, by the way. :)
If you're going C++ for performance reasons, take a look at tntnet. It's a web application framework in C++, and provides sessions, thread-safe operations, and things like database connection pooling. You can even create web pages with C++ embedded right in, similar to e.g. PHP or ASP. And it's fast.
Just to clarify, I wasn't actually saying I don't believe in the greenhouse effect or that CO2 emissions don't contribute to it, etc. I was merely responding to this:
I think the initial response -- that IWannaBeAnAC should use a dictionary -- was simply pointing out that "correlation" is the wrong word to use when talking about something that can be proven by lab experiments. Two values being correlated does not make for convincing evidence; reproducible experiments demonstrating that increased greenhouse gasses directly causes increased temperature, on the other hand, does.
Thus, my response: the oft-repeated mantra that "correlation does not imply causation". Just trying to explain what Dun Malg meant, not argue the existence of the greenhouse effect (if it didn't exist, how could we make greenhouses?).
I'm not sure what you're getting at -- Outlook Web Access (Exchange's webmail) works fine in other browsers. Yes, it is better in Internet Explorer, but it's usable in most other browsers.
I wouldn't like running Exchange for college student mail though. That just sounds weird. It's pretty good for corporate use, but that's a highly controlled environment with tight integration, and students probably need more flexibility.
Mind you, if you're going to be using Outlook anyway, RPC over HTTPS gives you the full Exchange integration from anywhere on the internet, and that beats web mail any day.
Well, it is easier for our users - they just send an email to the helpdesk. :)
Of course, very few of our accounts are forwarded externally, and that's probably the case for the vast majority of Exchange installations. That's just not its strong point. On the other hand, most other mail systems don't make it especially easy to allow other people to see particular mail folders in your own mailbox, or to share your calendar and contacts with others, and so on.
Another poster did reply to this, but the explanation they gave was a little terse and probably meaningless to someone who doesn't actually use Exchange.
We use Exchange at work, and there's basically two ways to forward mail to another user outside the domain. Firstly, if all you want to do is forward user@exchangedomain.com to user@gmail.com, you can create a contact which has the address user@exchangedomain.com in its list of email addresse (on the E-mail Addresses tab of the contact's properties in Active Directory Users and Computers). Then you set their real SMTP address to user@gmail.com in the Exchange General tab. With this setup, Exchange will accept mail for them using any of the addresses listed in the E-mail Addresses list, and forward it to user@gmail.com.
The second way is if you want to forward email for a user's Active Directory account (i.e. a user object rather than a contact object). In this case, you go to the Exchange General tab, click on the Delivery Options button, and then select another user or contact to forward their mail to. This has to exist in the directory, so to forward it to an external address you still need to create a contact (as above).
Yes, it's a little convoluted but it works fine. However, it's not really end-user accessible. You could of course set up an OU which users can create contacts in, and give them permission to modify their own forwarding options [altRecipient and deliverAndRedirect], and then make a nice pretty GUI around the whole process. It's probably not worth the hassle to most organisations (and likely there's commercial products which provide this functionality for those who need it).
Probably just that correlation doesn't imply causation. There's a strong (negative) correlation between the number of pirates plying the seas and global warming, too, but that doesn't mean the solution to global warming is to increase piracy on the high seas.
"An" an "a" have nothing to do with plural or singular forms. You use "an" when it precedes a vowel sound.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/a.htm l
Nothing to add, that post was perfect as is. Someone needs to mod it up so it's not invisible to most people...
From the post above yours:
And then immediately after reading that, I read your post:
Now that's confusing. I don't know who to believe! Fortunately for me, I don't actually care one iota about Vista pre-SP1.
Hmm, you are indeed correct. Thank you for that. I guess it never clicked that "End Task" and "End Process" were two different functions.
Is it more responsive to this than XP? It always really shits me that you have to wait for Windows to realise an app "isn't responding" before you can actually kill it. Although, if you keep clicking the End Process button when Windows finally responds you get a crapload of "Would you like to kill this process?" dialogs. And closing dozens of dialogs is fun fun fun.
Well, what did you expect them to make the tea out of?
Welcome to the world of portable, multi-platform code!
No idea why you're having problems, mine updated and re-opened the tabs and is working fine. Do you have any extra extensions installed? I only have a half-dozen or so.
Why should it? That's what Add/Remove programs is for.
I heard it as "Technology Without An Interesting Name", but I also heard that they're all just backronyms, and it was really from Kipling's "...and never the twain shall meet", referring to the disparity between interface designers and driver programmers.
Wikipedia agrees with me, but also confirms Toolkit is the most correct expansion (although Important instead of Interesting).
I'd prefer ponies...
Wow. I think that might be the best thing I've ever seen. Thanks!