That was indeed a massive, massive problem with older versions of Outlook. But 2010 has been rock-solid for years, and has remained surprisingly fast as well.
Nevertheless, my.PST file is backed up on a journaling file system very frequently. If Outlook shits the bed at 50 gigabytes or whatever, I'll roll it back and split off an archive. No biggie.
And yet, like I said, I'm the only one of my peers who ever seems to actually be able to retrieve stuff when it's needed. It's probably a good thing I don't work at the White House.
There always seems to be a reason why IMAP users can't put their hands on the message they're looking for. Usually it's somebody else's fault, which I guess is the whole idea.
Yes. I use a desktop mail client precisely because I like to maintain my own archive. My.PST file is about 22 GB in size at the moment, consuming about 80 cents' worth of disk space at current prices. It doesn't go back to 1999, but it goes back about 12 years.
People are always trying to sell me on everything from IMAP to GMail, telling me how great the experience of using server-side email is compared to Outlook. It's funny, though... whenever somebody needs to know what X said in an email from Y months or years ago, they always come to me.
Have you seen the way people drive? They (we) suck.
You said you drive like a grandma. The guy in the McLaren you saw the other day? He can't drive much faster than you do most of the time, due to congestion, speed limits and road-hogging morons in the left lane. Even if he could, some other moron with a texting addiction will eventually swerve into him or push him through a red light at a busy intersection.
It's inconceivable to me that we couldn't double our traffic capacity and halve travel times if we had the necessary combination of political and technical leadership to do self-driving cars right. All while saving tons of energy, not to mention about 30,000 lives a year. Instead, our best and brightest techies ride a bus to their workplace where they are tasked with finding new and better ways to sell ads on the Internet. Meanwhile, our best and brightest automakers are busy building half-assed "autopilots" that will only encourage people to text each other while camping out in the left lane. To this motly mix, we've added yet more morons who think choo-choo trains are somehow the answer.
Oh, well. The important thing is how easy it is to feel superior to everyone involved.:-P
A fleet of networked self-driving cars *is* a train. It's a bad idea to build a new new fixed-rail system from scratch. It will cost a ton of money, take forever... and even when finished, it will be just another choo-choo train, good for transporting people from one place where they don't want to be to another place where they don't want to be.
For some reason, people around here only like trains if they run on dedicated railbeds. Weird.
And the truth is, I agree with your point of view entirely. I like driving as much as anybody. If I listed the cars I've owned it would sound like a pointless exercise in online douchebraggery.
But our "hobby" -- and make no mistake, that's what it is -- gets about 30,000 people killed every year in the US alone. There will be immense social and political pressure to fix this as soon as technology allows. And as usual, we Americans will do the right thing only after trying everything else first.
... that we will not realize the full benefit of self-driving cars unless they are networked to communicate with each other and with the regional traffic control infrastructure. This is not a good area for individual empowerment. Rogue vehicles that don't play by the rules -- whatever those rules turn out to be -- will ruin it for everybody else.
In most sane societies, it would be the role of the government to regulate many aspects of automated vehicle development and deployment, from communication and navigation protocols to congestion avoidance to the standardized swappable battery packs that (should) power those vehicles. But we've collectively decided that government should be run by the weakest and dumbest among us. That leaves corporations to supply the necessary leadership.
So, don't blame Uber and Lyft for taking a self-interested authoritarian stance. Blame the voters who put Bible-thumping idiots in charge of the interests that we all share.
Yeah, a real American success story. "Wait, I've got it. I'll go bankrupt several times, stiffing everyone from banks and bondholders to Joe the Plumber. Eventually, nobody but the Russian mob will do business with me. Then, defying both common sense and self-preservation, I'll apply for the most highly-scrutinized job position in human history."
What exactly did this idiot think was going to happen if he won the election, anyway?
Just because it took 20 years to be discovered doesn't mean that it is going to take long for hacking toolkits to include exploits based on the PROOF OF CONCEPT CODE RELEASED BY THE DISCOVERERS.
Still waiting for a PoC that isn't just a rigged video that someone says is a PoC.
Show me a rogue Web page that reads passwords or other private data, and I'll panic.
Or, the structure is designed to capture more energetic radiation at the expense of IR.
It's always amusing to read authoritative declarations from eminent scientists regarding how a Kardashev Type-II civilization might or might not take care of business.
Gawker's specialty was muckraking - investigating the powerful and revealing the stuff they didn't want you to know.
There are a lot of things that wealthy and powerful people don't want us to know. But you know what? When it comes to Hulk Hogan's sex life -- or Peter Thiel's for that matter -- I'm OK with that.
Good journalists have always understood the difference between investigative reporting and gratuitous shitstirring. Clickbait farmers like Gawker generally don't.
It's completely irrelevant when the DOE was created, or by whom. What's relevant is that it is the agency currently responsible for matters pertaining to the management, utilization, and disposition of nukular stuff.
Point is, the Trump administration wants to destroy things they don't even understand. This is not a good position for any political party or candidate to adopt.
If that's part of the plan then we'll hear about it, the federal government frowns on unlicensed reactors under their jurisdiction.
That was before Trump handed the keys to the Department of Energy to a guy who wanted to shut the whole department down, if he could only remember its name.
I say let Gates give it a shot. He can hardly make things worse than they'll be soon enough anyway, given the current bunch of drooling stooges in charge.
People always want to run off to the government to supposedly solve things; it does not work. If you have a problem with Facebook, stop using it. Delete your account. Block their trackers. If everyone who complains all the time about Facebook privacy, who still is USING Facebook, took these steps then it would force the company to change or go under.
Translation: I have no idea what Facebook is or how it works
If only it weren't against every principle of modern UI design to, you know, actually ALLOW PEOPLE TO TURN FEATURES ON AND OFF.
Because if it were, those who find a given feature useful could turn it on (or leave it turned on), and those who don't want it could simply turn it off (or leave it turned off), all without starting a massive Twitstorm.
But of course, it's no longer fashionable to trouble the user with such responsibilities. Google Knows What's Best For Us All(tm)... and if they don't, Apple and Microsoft will be happy to take on the burden of making decisions on our collective behalf.
You're not wrong. Most of us just live in an imperfect world where compromises have to be made. Right now, Win8+ClassicShell is the best of several bad options available to those of us who still have to run Windows for business reasons.
Once your OS vendor becomes part of your threat model, as Microsoft has, life is bound to be full of compromises. I can't afford to ditch Windows at this point in my career -- and yes, I do consider that to be both a personal and professional failing.
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Outlook versions prior to 2010 were terrible, all right. 2010 is great. When/if the .PST file becomes corrupt, it should be easy enough to deal with.
That was indeed a massive, massive problem with older versions of Outlook. But 2010 has been rock-solid for years, and has remained surprisingly fast as well.
Nevertheless, my .PST file is backed up on a journaling file system very frequently. If Outlook shits the bed at 50 gigabytes or whatever, I'll roll it back and split off an archive. No biggie.
And yet, like I said, I'm the only one of my peers who ever seems to actually be able to retrieve stuff when it's needed. It's probably a good thing I don't work at the White House.
There always seems to be a reason why IMAP users can't put their hands on the message they're looking for. Usually it's somebody else's fault, which I guess is the whole idea.
Yes. I use a desktop mail client precisely because I like to maintain my own archive. My .PST file is about 22 GB in size at the moment, consuming about 80 cents' worth of disk space at current prices. It doesn't go back to 1999, but it goes back about 12 years.
People are always trying to sell me on everything from IMAP to GMail, telling me how great the experience of using server-side email is compared to Outlook. It's funny, though... whenever somebody needs to know what X said in an email from Y months or years ago, they always come to me.
Great. Now that we've heard from the designated APC representative, we can get on with the thread.
Have you seen the way people drive? They (we) suck.
You said you drive like a grandma. The guy in the McLaren you saw the other day? He can't drive much faster than you do most of the time, due to congestion, speed limits and road-hogging morons in the left lane. Even if he could, some other moron with a texting addiction will eventually swerve into him or push him through a red light at a busy intersection.
It's inconceivable to me that we couldn't double our traffic capacity and halve travel times if we had the necessary combination of political and technical leadership to do self-driving cars right. All while saving tons of energy, not to mention about 30,000 lives a year. Instead, our best and brightest techies ride a bus to their workplace where they are tasked with finding new and better ways to sell ads on the Internet. Meanwhile, our best and brightest automakers are busy building half-assed "autopilots" that will only encourage people to text each other while camping out in the left lane. To this motly mix, we've added yet more morons who think choo-choo trains are somehow the answer.
Oh, well. The important thing is how easy it is to feel superior to everyone involved. :-P
A fleet of networked self-driving cars *is* a train. It's a bad idea to build a new new fixed-rail system from scratch. It will cost a ton of money, take forever... and even when finished, it will be just another choo-choo train, good for transporting people from one place where they don't want to be to another place where they don't want to be.
For some reason, people around here only like trains if they run on dedicated railbeds. Weird.
How does Quicken benefit from a governmental assault on AirBnB?
*This is more a case of big brother saying centralized approach is the only way, more like single payer health care than anything.*
I'm very confused. Are you agreeing with me, or disagreeing?
And the truth is, I agree with your point of view entirely. I like driving as much as anybody. If I listed the cars I've owned it would sound like a pointless exercise in online douchebraggery.
But our "hobby" -- and make no mistake, that's what it is -- gets about 30,000 people killed every year in the US alone. There will be immense social and political pressure to fix this as soon as technology allows. And as usual, we Americans will do the right thing only after trying everything else first.
... that we will not realize the full benefit of self-driving cars unless they are networked to communicate with each other and with the regional traffic control infrastructure. This is not a good area for individual empowerment. Rogue vehicles that don't play by the rules -- whatever those rules turn out to be -- will ruin it for everybody else.
In most sane societies, it would be the role of the government to regulate many aspects of automated vehicle development and deployment, from communication and navigation protocols to congestion avoidance to the standardized swappable battery packs that (should) power those vehicles. But we've collectively decided that government should be run by the weakest and dumbest among us. That leaves corporations to supply the necessary leadership.
So, don't blame Uber and Lyft for taking a self-interested authoritarian stance. Blame the voters who put Bible-thumping idiots in charge of the interests that we all share.
Yeah, a real American success story. "Wait, I've got it. I'll go bankrupt several times, stiffing everyone from banks and bondholders to Joe the Plumber. Eventually, nobody but the Russian mob will do business with me. Then, defying both common sense and self-preservation, I'll apply for the most highly-scrutinized job position in human history."
What exactly did this idiot think was going to happen if he won the election, anyway?
Also, wasn't this question settled by the 2600 Magazine case?
Just because it took 20 years to be discovered doesn't mean that it is going to take long for hacking toolkits to include exploits based on the PROOF OF CONCEPT CODE RELEASED BY THE DISCOVERERS.
Still waiting for a PoC that isn't just a rigged video that someone says is a PoC.
Show me a rogue Web page that reads passwords or other private data, and I'll panic.
Or, the structure is designed to capture more energetic radiation at the expense of IR.
It's always amusing to read authoritative declarations from eminent scientists regarding how a Kardashev Type-II civilization might or might not take care of business.
But it's apparently very important to educate users to ignore yet another legitimate warning indication.
Gawker's specialty was muckraking - investigating the powerful and revealing the stuff they didn't want you to know.
There are a lot of things that wealthy and powerful people don't want us to know. But you know what? When it comes to Hulk Hogan's sex life -- or Peter Thiel's for that matter -- I'm OK with that.
Good journalists have always understood the difference between investigative reporting and gratuitous shitstirring. Clickbait farmers like Gawker generally don't.
Slogan: "Government. Don't turn it on, take it apart!"
It's completely irrelevant when the DOE was created, or by whom. What's relevant is that it is the agency currently responsible for matters pertaining to the management, utilization, and disposition of nukular stuff.
Point is, the Trump administration wants to destroy things they don't even understand. This is not a good position for any political party or candidate to adopt.
If that's part of the plan then we'll hear about it, the federal government frowns on unlicensed reactors under their jurisdiction.
That was before Trump handed the keys to the Department of Energy to a guy who wanted to shut the whole department down, if he could only remember its name.
I say let Gates give it a shot. He can hardly make things worse than they'll be soon enough anyway, given the current bunch of drooling stooges in charge.
People always want to run off to the government to supposedly solve things; it does not work. If you have a problem with Facebook, stop using it. Delete your account. Block their trackers. If everyone who complains all the time about Facebook privacy, who still is USING Facebook, took these steps then it would force the company to change or go under.
Translation: I have no idea what Facebook is or how it works
You mean, "So, stats were overstated around the time they had their IPO. Sad!"
If only it weren't against every principle of modern UI design to, you know, actually ALLOW PEOPLE TO TURN FEATURES ON AND OFF.
Because if it were, those who find a given feature useful could turn it on (or leave it turned on), and those who don't want it could simply turn it off (or leave it turned off), all without starting a massive Twitstorm.
But of course, it's no longer fashionable to trouble the user with such responsibilities. Google Knows What's Best For Us All(tm)... and if they don't, Apple and Microsoft will be happy to take on the burden of making decisions on our collective behalf.
You're not wrong. Most of us just live in an imperfect world where compromises have to be made. Right now, Win8+ClassicShell is the best of several bad options available to those of us who still have to run Windows for business reasons.
Once your OS vendor becomes part of your threat model, as Microsoft has, life is bound to be full of compromises. I can't afford to ditch Windows at this point in my career -- and yes, I do consider that to be both a personal and professional failing.
There's nothing wrong with Windows 8, as long as you install ClassicShell and disable all the Metro crap.