The Windows keys are also modifiers: Win+E, Win+R... BTW, pressing (and releasing) the Alt key alone also results in an action (at least on windows), namely it selects the menu bar of the foreground app. Ok, maybe that's not as bad as pressing the Win key accidentally while playing your favorite FPS:)
By GSM he probably meant GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS. But there also exceptions, like them. They offer CDMA in the ex-NMT 450 MHz band. The downside, limited set of phones, and you can leave your phone at home if you travel outside the country (and take your GSM with you)... kinda like in the US:)
Aww, Bill haven't we been through this already. Remember how much Vista cost us? There's no way we can afford to write the damn thing ourselves. We are morons, Bill, but we know how to spend money. We must spend every penny possible to FUCKING KILL GOOGLE. KILL! -drool-... *throws chair*
How about this: I work at a big dotcom. In our team we found some open-source software we wanted to use in a project. That piece of software also happened to have a commercial "full-featured" version. The documentation wasn't really good, so I sign up with my company email to the product's forum to look around, post some questions, etc. Guess what? After a few days I get a mail from a sales guy at that product (having seen my @bigfamousdotcom.com email address) if there is any way they can help me, etc, etc. Of course, I was not in the position to decide if we buy their stuff or not, so I forwarded it to my boss right away.
So the bottom line is, you work for them, your work email is theirs. The sales guy obviously didn't want to talk to me... he wanted to talk to bigfamousdotcom.com...
That's right. My KDE 3.5.8 just flies on Gentoo, while it seemed sluggish on openSuSE. (on a 3-year old AMD Sempron) And it took less then a day to compile all of it:)
They do the same only-HTTP(S)/FTP-proxy-to-the-outside-world where I work. (large multinational, btw, you probably know about it:)) BUT, the proxy (I don't know which one, since I go through a few until I reach out), cuts any HTTPS connection after a few minutes (around 5), regardless if it's active or not. E.g. Skype (whose usage, of course, is a violation of the IT policy:P, but the funny thing is, many are using it inside the company to cut down on phone costs) disconnects every few minutes and then reconnects again. That makes using it for SSH/VPN etc tunnels pretty annoying...
Well, maybe there was a win.exe too, but I'm sure the loader was win.com. As I said, I'm not sure it was a "real".com executable (i.e. max 64 kb). Anyway, windows was (and is) built up of a lot of executables, the role if this was just lo load the rest (and display that Win 3.x splash while they were loading;). The reason why is was called a.com might be that, if you typed just "win" on the DOS command line, and both an.exe and a.com existed in the %PATH% with that name, the.com would be launched, not the exe.
As an interesting thing, if you check the system32 folder on WinXP (that's what I have, but it might be present also on other NT-based windows), there actually is a win.com:) and if you check its properties, the description says: "WIN.COM for compatibility":)
Anyway, this getting way too offtopic, so I think it's enough of remembering the good old DOS/Win 3.x (on those shiny 386s, of course:D) days:)
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...they put this also in the "classic" mail interface, not the new one, which is just crap.
Otherwise, that's right.
Then, when PCs came along, I was actually looking at the keyboard and asking: "So you actually have to type all of those commands? That sucks!"
The Windows keys are also modifiers: Win+E, Win+R... BTW, pressing (and releasing) the Alt key alone also results in an action (at least on windows), namely it selects the menu bar of the foreground app. Ok, maybe that's not as bad as pressing the Win key accidentally while playing your favorite FPS :)
"the iphone is so nice, but does it run Linux?"
By GSM he probably meant GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS. But there also exceptions, like them. They offer CDMA in the ex-NMT 450 MHz band. The downside, limited set of phones, and you can leave your phone at home if you travel outside the country (and take your GSM with you)... kinda like in the US :)
Aww, Bill haven't we been through this already. Remember how much Vista cost us? There's no way we can afford to write the damn thing ourselves. We are morons, Bill, but we know how to spend money. We must spend every penny possible to FUCKING KILL GOOGLE. KILL! -drool- ... *throws chair*
You've got it.
Of course I'm new here. I forgot to "post anonymously".
The broadband connections will already be slower, due to the filtering/processing overhead needed to identify copyrighted content.
sorry, i had to do it. i'm new here.
Any physicists around? :)
Uh, yes, gravity.
How about this: I work at a big dotcom. In our team we found some open-source software we wanted to use in a project. That piece of software also happened to have a commercial "full-featured" version. The documentation wasn't really good, so I sign up with my company email to the product's forum to look around, post some questions, etc. Guess what? After a few days I get a mail from a sales guy at that product (having seen my @bigfamousdotcom.com email address) if there is any way they can help me, etc, etc. Of course, I was not in the position to decide if we buy their stuff or not, so I forwarded it to my boss right away.
So the bottom line is, you work for them, your work email is theirs. The sales guy obviously didn't want to talk to me... he wanted to talk to bigfamousdotcom.com...
Does it run Linux?
That's not IMAP-based, but Gmail-API based. (i.e. works only on GMail, it's from the early days of Gmail, when obviously there was no IMAP on Gmail)
That's right. My KDE 3.5.8 just flies on Gentoo, while it seemed sluggish on openSuSE. (on a 3-year old AMD Sempron) And it took less then a day to compile all of it :)
KeePass Password Safe is even better. There's also a Linux and OS X port.
"His family belongs to the Swedish-speaking minority (roughly 6%) of Finland's population." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
Just as I am a Hungarian-speaking Romanian citizen.
Linus Torvalds is Swedish. Born/lived in Finland.
They do the same only-HTTP(S)/FTP-proxy-to-the-outside-world where I work. (large multinational, btw, you probably know about it :)) BUT, the proxy (I don't know which one, since I go through a few until I reach out), cuts any HTTPS connection after a few minutes (around 5), regardless if it's active or not. E.g. Skype (whose usage, of course, is a violation of the IT policy :P, but the funny thing is, many are using it inside the company to cut down on phone costs) disconnects every few minutes and then reconnects again. That makes using it for SSH/VPN etc tunnels pretty annoying...
It can run at least for two days. See JerkBoB's comment above. It was started on Oct 9th. It just uses a few hundred MB's of RAM :P
Well, maybe there was a win.exe too, but I'm sure the loader was win.com. As I said, I'm not sure it was a "real" .com executable (i.e. max 64 kb). Anyway, windows was (and is) built up of a lot of executables, the role if this was just lo load the rest (and display that Win 3.x splash while they were loading ;). The reason why is was called a .com might be that, if you typed just "win" on the DOS command line, and both an .exe and a .com existed in the %PATH% with that name, the .com would be launched, not the exe.
As an interesting thing, if you check the system32 folder on WinXP (that's what I have, but it might be present also on other NT-based windows), there actually is a win.com :) and if you check its properties, the description says: "WIN.COM for compatibility" :)
Anyway, this getting way too offtopic, so I think it's enough of remembering the good old DOS/Win 3.x (on those shiny 386s, of course :D) days :)