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  1. Evolution is not enough on Mozilla Opens Thunderbird Email Subsidiary · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Evolution works with exchange, as does MS's Outlook Web Access.
    Evolution works with Exchange about as well as most cell phones work in an elevator shaft three floors below ground level. The connector is so fragile that it will hang or crash the whole app if you so much as breathe on the mail server, and even when it does work, it can't perform all the operations that a full Exchange client can. If it works well for you, consider yourself lucky.

    I happen to be one of the unfortunate masses whose employer insists on MS Exchange for all its scheduling needs. Since I work on a linux box, this is a constant source of frustration. My day job will become noticeably easier if the OpenChange project yields a solid and reasonably featured open source Exchange client.
  2. Re:What happened to the joystick? on Whatever Happened To The Joystick? · · Score: 1

    When I bought that Konix model, it was branded the Epyx 500xj. It was the only joystick I ever encountered that never broke, and always made it perfectly clear when a movement had registered. I picked up a couple on ebay for conversion to USB, for the next time I want to play my old Commodore games on an emulator.

  3. Re:Microsoft already did this on Hitachi Does Microsoft Surface Without the Table · · Score: 2, Informative

    Are you sure the whole tech was started off by Microsoft? I saw at least one project using this sort of tech before I had ever heard of Surface.

    http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReacTable

  4. Coral Cache Mirror on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon vs. Mac OS X Leopard · · Score: 1

    The article is loading, slowly, through this coral cache link:

    http://www.linux-mag.com.nyud.net:8090/id/4641/

  5. ListXP on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1

    Rick Brewster's ListXP is a very useful and fast text file viewer, designed to mimic Vernon D. Buerg's LIST.COM. It handles huge files just as easily as tiny ones, has a hex display mode, an optional context menu Explorer extension, and various other goodies.

  6. Re:See the difference on Mac Users' Internet Experience to Retain Same Fonts · · Score: 1

    Rebuild FreeType with the bytecode interpreter enabled, disable anti-aliasing, install the Microsoft Core Fonts, and reconfigure your desktop & apps to use those fonts.

    I used to do all that with every linux distribution I installed for my own use. This last time, I installed Ubuntu Feisty, and found that I didn't have to touch FreeType.

  7. reactable on A Look Beneath the 'Surface' · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of a (very cool) audio/visual project called reactable. Wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReacTable

  8. Taiyo Yuden FAQ on How To Choose Archival CD/DVD Media · · Score: 2, Informative

    Taiyo Yuden FAQ, for those who want guidance in finding these discs.

  9. Re:Availability of Source Code? Does it Matter? on Oracle and PostgreSQL Debate · · Score: 1
    I want to know who has a job where they have so much extra time on their hands that they can debug the source code of their database product.

    I can't say I debugged postgres, but I did read parts of the source to get a detailed explanation for some of its behavior. And yes, it was part of my job. When you have to give guarantees about the behavior of your systems, there is no substitute for reading the source code.
  10. Re:Worked for me on Do-Not-Call List, Two Years Later · · Score: 1

    I use the magic phrase regularly and politely.

    Nevertheless, just because it was legal for you to call those people, doesn't make your calls welcome or considerate. You took a job soliciting, so legal or not, you have no room to complain about people who express their feelings about your solicitations. If you don't like irritated people, stop irritating them. Find another line of work.

  11. Re:Okay, but what about the DVD ISO? on Fedora Core 4 Available · · Score: 1

    Here is an excerpt from the fedora-announce email list: (Take note of the last torrent link.)

    You can get Fedora Core 4 many ways:

    VIA FEDORA.REDHAT.COM

    * http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux /core/4/

    VIA BITTORRENT

    * http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/stentz-binary-i38 6.torrent
    * http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/stentz-binary-x86 _64.torrent
    * http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/stentz-binary-ppc .torrent

    For DVD and other formats, see http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

  12. Re:Now, let's all have a big Slashdot group hug on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 1
    "No matter how you slice it, he won this election."
    How do you know? Because the machines said so? Bush may have won as you say, and he may very well not have. Without a reliable verification process, there's no way to know for sure.
    "What exactly do you want to change in regards to the rules of the games?"
    I want a system that is verifiable, so that when tampering and errors occur, we can identify and correct the errors. I want a system that allows no single point of tampering or failure to misrepresent the voters' choices, without being detected and corrected. I want a system that considers more than just the two candidates with the most first-choice votes, so the least popular candidate can't win just because the popular vote is split between two or more others.

    Our system is horribly flawed, and some of our most widely used mechanisms are fatally flawed. Our system is therefore broken. I want it fixed.

  13. Re:Security, Usability, Reliability on NSA Security Guide for Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    I remember when people said the same thing regarding telnet and rsh. Now we have ssh with private key authentication. It's secure, reliable, and at least as usable as its predecessors. I know the combination is uncommon, but we can have all three if we apply enough thought and creativity.

  14. Want to see what it looked like before? on Massive Online ID Fraud Ring Busted · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think the site is now slashdotted, but the wayback machine reveals a bit of what it used to look like.

  15. Re:Will it support on Mozilla Releases Firefox 1.0 RC1 · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the bookmarklet. Another way to fix up a slashdot reflow problem page is to press Control- and then Control+ (or hold down control while you roll your mouse wheel up and then down a notch).

  16. Re:Exceptions are suddenly viable? on C++ In The Linux kernel · · Score: 1
    "Modern (ie, good) C++ compilers get this penalty down under 1%."
    Which ones, on which platforms? Can you post some references?
  17. Re:Approach -- and meet on C++ In The Linux kernel · · Score: 1
    "Even g++ can give the zero-overhead ideal for exceptions. It's heavily dependant on the platform and the platform-specific ABI. Linux on x86 ain't one of those platforms."
    References, please?
  18. Re:please bittorrent on Premiere of The Strangerhood · · Score: 1

    Here is a Coral Cache link to your mirrored divx file.

  19. Re:net traffic in Iceland fell 40 per cent on Iceland and USA Feel the Copyright Industry's Wrath · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "net traffic in Iceland fell 40 per cent, according to SMAIS (Iceland's association of film right holders)"

    I put about as much stock in that statistic as I do in Microsoft-sponsored comparisons between Windows and Linux. In other words, the number might conceivably be accurate, but we can't count on it, because the source has a (huge) conflict of interest.
  20. Re:BBC Radio Links on First of 6 new HHGG episodes, Tonight! · · Score: 1

    Is anyone else having trouble with that link in firefox?

  21. US Beer on Tempratech Self-Cooling Can · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but I think we also tend to have more alcohol per ml.

  22. Re:Highway: Home Server + DNS + SMS + Email Gatewa on Reading Slashdot From Strange Locations · · Score: 1
    "Google can trasform regular HTML pages into WML pages."
    It can? How?
  23. Re:First Doom3 review on Doom 3 Reaches Gold Master, Due August 5th · · Score: 1

    Anyone have a mirror? nvnews removed the article text from the post.

  24. Re:Hey boss... on Doom 3 Reaches Gold Master, Due August 5th · · Score: 1
  25. Re:I hate "whois". on Network Solutions Overhauls Whois Results · · Score: 1

    I use a tagged and auto-generated email address, which forwards to my real address, for my domain registration. When enough spam starts showing up on the tagged address, I delete it and create a new one. This happens every six months or so.