To clarify: I say that way of arguing is stupid because people can have myriad of reasons to put something like that in an online profile, almost all of them having *nothing* to do with any aggression problems they may or may not have IRL.
Really? You think posting angry comments on your facebook profile shouldn't be considered evidence that a person has anger management issues? It sounds like the very definition of anger management issues to me.
I consider it an attempt to make a funny remark, and would not consider even remotely to take it seriously.
I understand where you're coming from, I just don't get *why* people (not only you) approach remarks in a profile from the serious side. A comment like the one mentioned in a "tell something about yourself" section of a FB profile sounds pretty harmless to me. I take it as an attempt to make a funny statement. Maybe at most an overstatement to be interpret as "don;t mess with me, or I'll block/de-friend/ignore you." But certainly not as a threat to physically beat me up. I see it as nothing more than that $150k everybody seems to be making;).
*insert "you only make 150k a year, hey, I make XXXXX"-jokes*
When somebody would start yelling stuff like that in a discussion, I'd take it he's a bad debater, and has to resort to an attempt at bullying in order to make a point. Still, I'd not see that as a physical threat.
What I'd like to know is when people started to take all that stuff so damn seriously. People lie, and try to impress others. It's human nature, live with it. Either it's driving a bigger car than you can reasonably afford, lying about your income in the singles-bar or putting statements like "I'll beat your ass into submission" in a facebook profile.
Personally, I think it's one of the charms of the internet. Strong statements bring a bit of panache, without bringing any real harm whatsoever. (Other than a bruised ego) Besides that, the problem with assuming people will interpret your comments for the worse, and adjusting them accordingly, is that you'll end up with a big goo of blanket-statements, because everybody is just too afraid to say anything that might even remotely offend somebody else. I prefer to assume strong remarks are harmless, unless I have a very good reason to believe otherwise.
"And that amounts to..." quite obviously refers to the conclusions *IN THAT ARTICLE*, and should be interpreted as such. The 'WTF' infers a WTF to the statements in that article.
In short: The WTF is the fact that a lawyer apparently thinks it's normal to use that kind of 'evidence'
Now please stop with nitpicking syntaxes, and interpret comments in the right context.
Over the years I've had plenty of quotes like that in my profile. Either because they struck me as funny, or just to see how many idiots take it seriously. Asserting any hard, real life 'truths' from online profiles like that is IM(not so)HO just plain stupid.
Apparently you missed the "IF TRUE, THEN..." statement in my second paragraph. A very much needed statement that I could not find in the report that asserts the usage of FB profile data in court.
Sorry, but no. It doesn't even do that. It's the same false reasoning as assuming that playing war-games supports a theory that somebody is a violent person. It's even far worse than that, and comes IMHO more to the level of confusing the character an actor plays with the actual person. Online profiles are *riddled* with 'funny', witty and over-exaggerated remarks. Using those as even the remotest idea of 'evidence' proves only one thing: The one using them as such doesn't have even a beginning of a clue.
If even half of what's mentioned in the article is really true, and the 'evidence' taken at the face value the article leads you to believe, then the legal system in the USA is in a far worse shape than I could possibly imagine.
"-- Husband goes on Match.com and declares his single, childless status while seeking primary custody of said nonexistent children."
And THAT amounts to some degree of 'evidence' in court? Really, WTF? Since he's eeking custody, the being 'single' part is assumably correct. As for the childless status. Debatable, since he obviously does not have custody (yet). Besides that, I'm not going to buy drinks for every 'childless' single in a random bar who turns out to have at least one.
And then: "-- Husband denies anger management issues but posts on Facebook in his "write something about yourself" section: "If you have the balls to get in my face, I'll kick your ass into submission." " If that, in court, is evidence of 'anger management issues' then I'm VERY glad I live on the other side of the pond. Taking remarks in a profile THAT serious is simply retarded.
Well put..
My first thought was something along the lines of "Why is/. showing me a cached page of a year old?"
Man.. This is old as hell. And when I flipped through the review, some important points were missing as well. For example on how to improve the quality beyond what the default settings give you. Or that the MPEG-3 audio encoding through Flask often sucks. (synchronisation problems). It's better to decode the audio the the PCM, and convert (and sync it correctly) by using virtualdub on the resulting file.
And there's an error too: With the settings in the Global Properties, Audio Tab, you do *not* set the encoding method, that is done by selecting the output formats. Different menu alltogether.
In short: This article is far below the quality I'm used to from Tom's Hardware. And not news either, not by a long shot.
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'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we,
but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant
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The funny thing is, that there is still no mention of this on the M$ security site.. None, nothing, nada. If the string would indicate a username/password combination to gain development access to pages hosted on servers with the frontpage extensions, I'd expect a more prompt reaction. And even though Russ Cooper (NTBugTraq) is being quoted, and the hole is supposedly discovered by Rain Forest Puppy (RFP), a well known name, the NTBugTraq mailinglist is strangely quiet about it all.... I find that at least slightly suspicious...
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The.dll in question is part of the Frontpage extensions:
The FrontPage Extensions manage design-time web permissions using the underlying security model of the host operating system on the server. Here we consider only the case where this operating system is Windows NT 4.0 with the NTFS file system. FP manages administer and author access to a web using the same technique. In the web's root directory, FP creates a directory named _vti_bin. Within this directory it creates two sub-directories, _vti_adm and _vti_aut. Within _vti_adm FP places a file, admin.dll, and within _vti_aut it places two files, author.dll and dvwssr.dll. These DLLs are ISAPI extensions. During design-time, client requests arrive over HTTP at the server and are routed to one of these ISAPI DLLs. A request to perform an administrative function, for example, change permissions on a web, is handled by that web's admin.dll. A request to perform an authoring function, for example, open a web, is handled by that web's author.dll. A request to fetch the source code for an ASP file without processing, for example, to view the links in that file, is handled by that web's dvwssr.dll. In the request, the client provides credentials that identify the user who is logged in to the client workstation. This user must have read permission (equivalent to read and execute individual permissions) for the DLL handling the request, otherwise the request is denied. Thus FP restricts who may perform a given request by controlling read permission on the directories in _vti_bin. Whenever a change is made to a web's permissions via the Web Permissions dialog box, the FP Extensions on the server modify the ACLs on the directories _vti_adm and _vti_aut in that web's _vti_bin directory accordingly. Note: FP does not change ACLs on content files to manage design-time security; it only changes ACLs on the directories which contain the gatekeeper files admin.dll, author.dll, and dvwssr.dll. FP manipulates content file ACLs to manage run-time security. ---------- 'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we, but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant ----------
(CNN) -- Fire erupted in the sky over Auckland at the stroke of midnight, ushering in the Year 2000 over the New Zealand's largest city, the world's first major metropolitan area to see the new year Looking at the posting time: December 31, 1999 Web posted at: 5:22 a.m. EST (1022 GMT) Excuse me? First Time zone to hit Y2K is GMT +12. (according to CNN's own T ime-zone displayer) That makes it 22:22 (10:22pm) in that zone at the time this article was posted.
And I thought journalism was about reporting events, not making them up. Well.. Welcome to 1984^WY2K:-)
---------- 'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we, but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant ----------
*grmbl* Since this was about RC5... Forgot to mention the macine does an average of 1,445 MKeys/s
Yes.. I know... I shouldn't be posting this late and in thise state.. Yada Yada Nag Nag Whine Whine Shit happens...... ---------- 'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we, but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant ----------
Just my 2 cents, see what you do with it... My system: Chaintech 6BTM mainboard, Matrox Marvel G200, 128MB mem, WD 10.something GB harddisk. Celeron466 Proc. (7*66MHz).. The Chaintech board can be tweaked to run at 66, 68,75 or 88 MHz. (or forced to 100MHz bus and then even more tweaked to 100+MHz... But for Celerons this is nice to try for a few seconds, see that the CPU won't hold up and then abandon this). Currently I have my board running at 75MHz. Which means the CPU does a cool 525MHz, the AGP bus runs at 75MHz, with which the Matrox card doesn't seem to have a problem with. Neither do any of the PCI cards. (SCSI controller for my CD ROM and CD Writer, soundcad and network card) It has been running 24/7 now for two weeks without a problem. And that's even with doing some video-grabbing. I did try to crank the bus up to 88MHz, but during the POST, after seeing the CPU the system halts... Since there are no components I can ditch, I didn't bother to find out what exactly caused the halt in the POST. Running the board at 100MHz bus (which would mean the proc would be running at 7*100MHz) the board didn't even see the CPU. Not even at a real "cold" start. (room temperature system, not turned on for at least an hour) But anyway... I wish I'd bought the ABit dual Celeron board now... That would have given me a 2*525MHz machine.... (if that board supports the 75MHz bus-freq...)
Why am I telling this... Hell, I don't know.. It's late and I'm babbling...:-) ---------- 'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we, but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant ----------
I assume you mean Exchange server, outlook is merely the client. From my experience, the most problems with badly performing client connectivity to exchange servers can be found in the priority of the protocol bindings on the client. More often than not, I found clients using some protocol that was not used on the server, and having that protocol as #1 in the bindings. That's where problems start.:-) But back to the original question. Should you use exchange for a large amount of users connection with POP3? Simple answer would be No. Exchange is a powerfull tool, but if you only use it for the e-mail functionality you are wasting resources and money. When you start thinking about sharing calenders, assigning tasks (to-do's) to other users, workflow management and stuff like that, then I'd say to go for exchange. In my experience, an exchange server is one of MickeySofts least trouble-causing applications. In the 2 1/2 years that I managed a WAN of about 20 locations with some 25 exchange servers in them, I have done migrations, splits, moves etc. with not much of a problem. Only once I had to pull out the backup tape and restore the entire server. Which was due to a corrupt HDD, corrupting the database in such a way that it wasn't repairable anymore.
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And I wonder when companies catch on to that when they are having these kinds of promotions..
I wouldn't mind paying a bit more for the overseas shipping, but excluding the non USA/Canada web-community is insane.
And, IMO, shows that said companie(s) don't have a friggin' clue about the net anyway. ---------- 'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we, but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant ----------
I sync my mail with my Palm, so that I can play^H^H^H^Hwork a bit while commuting. Using encryption limits working with encrypted mails till I reach my desktop.
Does anybody know of a Palm version? I'd settle for just being able to *read*
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That too is covered in a FAQ. To be exact, it's covered in the StatsFAQ
Is it really that hard to just go to the main distributed.net page, and type "change email" in the search box on the bottom-left? First result that popped up. Took me about 10 seconds to find it.
Really... READ those FAQ's please people. USE the search engines. It makes life so much easier. Cheers. ---------- 'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we, but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant ----------
Slashdot Mirror
To clarify: I say that way of arguing is stupid because people can have myriad of reasons to put something like that in an online profile, almost all of them having *nothing* to do with any aggression problems they may or may not have IRL.
Really? You think posting angry comments on your facebook profile shouldn't be considered evidence that a person has anger management issues? It sounds like the very definition of anger management issues to me.
I consider it an attempt to make a funny remark, and would not consider even remotely to take it seriously.
I understand where you're coming from, I just don't get *why* people (not only you) approach remarks in a profile from the serious side. A comment like the one mentioned in a "tell something about yourself" section of a FB profile sounds pretty harmless to me. I take it as an attempt to make a funny statement. Maybe at most an overstatement to be interpret as "don;t mess with me, or I'll block/de-friend/ignore you." But certainly not as a threat to physically beat me up. I see it as nothing more than that $150k everybody seems to be making ;).
*insert "you only make 150k a year, hey, I make XXXXX"-jokes*
When somebody would start yelling stuff like that in a discussion, I'd take it he's a bad debater, and has to resort to an attempt at bullying in order to make a point. Still, I'd not see that as a physical threat.
What I'd like to know is when people started to take all that stuff so damn seriously. People lie, and try to impress others. It's human nature, live with it. Either it's driving a bigger car than you can reasonably afford, lying about your income in the singles-bar or putting statements like "I'll beat your ass into submission" in a facebook profile.
Personally, I think it's one of the charms of the internet. Strong statements bring a bit of panache, without bringing any real harm whatsoever. (Other than a bruised ego) Besides that, the problem with assuming people will interpret your comments for the worse, and adjusting them accordingly, is that you'll end up with a big goo of blanket-statements, because everybody is just too afraid to say anything that might even remotely offend somebody else. I prefer to assume strong remarks are harmless, unless I have a very good reason to believe otherwise.
I'm not taking it too seriously, but I think that if this kind of nonsense is finding its way into courtrooms it is far from trivial too.
(And I'm still glad I'm on the other side of the pond :P)
*yawn*
Not everybody you disagree with is a troll, you know.
Oh, please. This is getting tiresome
"And that amounts to..." quite obviously refers to the conclusions *IN THAT ARTICLE*, and should be interpreted as such. The 'WTF' infers a WTF to the statements in that article.
In short: The WTF is the fact that a lawyer apparently thinks it's normal to use that kind of 'evidence'
Now please stop with nitpicking syntaxes, and interpret comments in the right context.
Over the years I've had plenty of quotes like that in my profile. Either because they struck me as funny, or just to see how many idiots take it seriously. Asserting any hard, real life 'truths' from online profiles like that is IM(not so)HO just plain stupid.
Apparently you missed the "IF TRUE, THEN..." statement in my second paragraph. A very much needed statement that I could not find in the report that asserts the usage of FB profile data in court.
HTH, HAND.
Sorry, but no. It doesn't even do that. It's the same false reasoning as assuming that playing war-games supports a theory that somebody is a violent person. It's even far worse than that, and comes IMHO more to the level of confusing the character an actor plays with the actual person. Online profiles are *riddled* with 'funny', witty and over-exaggerated remarks. Using those as even the remotest idea of 'evidence' proves only one thing: The one using them as such doesn't have even a beginning of a clue.
If even half of what's mentioned in the article is really true, and the 'evidence' taken at the face value the article leads you to believe, then the legal system in the USA is in a far worse shape than I could possibly imagine.
"-- Husband goes on Match.com and declares his single, childless status while seeking primary custody of said nonexistent children."
And THAT amounts to some degree of 'evidence' in court? Really, WTF? Since he's eeking custody, the being 'single' part is assumably correct. As for the childless status. Debatable, since he obviously does not have custody (yet). Besides that, I'm not going to buy drinks for every 'childless' single in a random bar who turns out to have at least one.
And then:
"-- Husband denies anger management issues but posts on Facebook in his "write something about yourself" section: "If you have the balls to get in my face, I'll kick your ass into submission." "
If that, in court, is evidence of 'anger management issues' then I'm VERY glad I live on the other side of the pond. Taking remarks in a profile THAT serious is simply retarded.
...for when I get around to building that video-wall.
Well put.. My first thought was something along the lines of "Why is /. showing me a cached page of a year old?"
Man.. This is old as hell. And when I flipped through the review, some important points were missing as well. For example on how to improve the quality beyond what the default settings give you. Or that the MPEG-3 audio encoding through Flask often sucks. (synchronisation problems). It's better to decode the audio the the PCM, and convert (and sync it correctly) by using virtualdub on the resulting file.
And there's an error too: With the settings in the Global Properties, Audio Tab, you do *not* set the encoding method, that is done by selecting the output formats. Different menu alltogether.
In short: This article is far below the quality I'm used to from Tom's Hardware. And not news either, not by a long shot.
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but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant
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As you can read in the final report from rfp, available here, this .dll is only needed for interaction with Visual InterDev 1.0.
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'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we,
but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant
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Forgot to mention that the above is quoted from TechNet April 2000, Visual InterDev technical notes.
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'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we,
but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant
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The funny thing is, that there is still no mention of this on the M$ security site.. None, nothing, nada. If the string would indicate a username/password combination to gain development access to pages hosted on servers with the frontpage extensions, I'd expect a more prompt reaction.
And even though Russ Cooper (NTBugTraq) is being quoted, and the hole is supposedly discovered by Rain Forest Puppy (RFP), a well known name, the NTBugTraq mailinglist is strangely quiet about it all....
I find that at least slightly suspicious...
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'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we,
but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant
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The .dll in question is part of the Frontpage extensions:
The FrontPage Extensions manage design-time web permissions using the underlying security model of the host operating system on the server. Here we consider only the case where this operating system is Windows NT 4.0 with the NTFS file system.
FP manages administer and author access to a web using the same technique. In the web's root directory, FP creates a directory named _vti_bin. Within this directory it creates two sub-directories, _vti_adm and _vti_aut. Within _vti_adm FP places a file, admin.dll, and within _vti_aut it places two files, author.dll and dvwssr.dll. These DLLs are ISAPI extensions. During design-time, client requests arrive over HTTP at the server and are routed to one of these ISAPI DLLs.
A request to perform an administrative function, for example, change permissions on a web, is handled by that web's admin.dll.
A request to perform an authoring function, for example, open a web, is handled by that web's author.dll.
A request to fetch the source code for an ASP file without processing, for example, to view the links in that file, is handled by that web's dvwssr.dll.
In the request, the client provides credentials that identify the user who is logged in to the client workstation. This user must have read permission (equivalent to read and execute individual permissions) for the DLL handling the request, otherwise the request is denied. Thus FP restricts who may perform a given request by controlling read permission on the directories in _vti_bin. Whenever a change is made to a web's permissions via the Web Permissions dialog box, the FP Extensions on the server modify the ACLs on the directories _vti_adm and _vti_aut in that web's _vti_bin directory accordingly. Note: FP does not change ACLs on content files to manage design-time security; it only changes ACLs on the directories which contain the gatekeeper files admin.dll, author.dll, and dvwssr.dll. FP manipulates content file ACLs to manage run-time security.
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'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we,
but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant
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GMT+13 is still only 23:22.
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'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we,
but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant
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excerpt from this CNN article:
:-)
(CNN) -- Fire erupted in the sky over Auckland at the stroke of midnight, ushering in the Year 2000 over the New Zealand's largest city, the world's first major metropolitan area to see the new year
Looking at the posting time:
December 31, 1999
Web posted at: 5:22 a.m. EST (1022 GMT)
Excuse me? First Time zone to hit Y2K is GMT +12. (according to CNN's own T ime-zone displayer) That makes it 22:22 (10:22pm) in that zone at the time this article was posted.
And I thought journalism was about reporting events, not making them up. Well.. Welcome to 1984^WY2K
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'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we,
but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant
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That's what my translator said...
I think I need some more coffee and try again...
Cheers!
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'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we,
but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant
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*grmbl* Since this was about RC5... Forgot to mention the macine does an average of 1,445 MKeys/s
Yes.. I know... I shouldn't be posting this late and in thise state.. Yada Yada Nag Nag Whine Whine Shit happens......
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'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we,
but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant
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Just my 2 cents, see what you do with it... My system: Chaintech 6BTM mainboard, Matrox Marvel G200, 128MB mem, WD 10.something GB harddisk. Celeron466 Proc. (7*66MHz).. The Chaintech board can be tweaked to run at 66, 68,75 or 88 MHz. (or forced to 100MHz bus and then even more tweaked to 100+MHz... But for Celerons this is nice to try for a few seconds, see that the CPU won't hold up and then abandon this). Currently I have my board running at 75MHz. Which means the CPU does a cool 525MHz, the AGP bus runs at 75MHz, with which the Matrox card doesn't seem to have a problem with. Neither do any of the PCI cards. (SCSI controller for my CD ROM and CD Writer, soundcad and network card) It has been running 24/7 now for two weeks without a problem. And that's even with doing some video-grabbing.
:-)
I did try to crank the bus up to 88MHz, but during the POST, after seeing the CPU the system halts... Since there are no components I can ditch, I didn't bother to find out what exactly caused the halt in the POST.
Running the board at 100MHz bus (which would mean the proc would be running at 7*100MHz) the board didn't even see the CPU. Not even at a real "cold" start. (room temperature system, not turned on for at least an hour)
But anyway... I wish I'd bought the ABit dual Celeron board now... That would have given me a 2*525MHz machine.... (if that board supports the 75MHz bus-freq...)
Why am I telling this... Hell, I don't know.. It's late and I'm babbling...
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'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we,
but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant
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I assume you mean Exchange server, outlook is merely the client. :-)
From my experience, the most problems with badly performing client connectivity to exchange servers can be found in the priority of the protocol bindings on the client. More often than not, I found clients using some protocol that was not used on the server, and having that protocol as #1 in the bindings. That's where problems start.
But back to the original question. Should you use exchange for a large amount of users connection with POP3? Simple answer would be No. Exchange is a powerfull tool, but if you only use it for the e-mail functionality you are wasting resources and money. When you start thinking about sharing calenders, assigning tasks (to-do's) to other users, workflow management and stuff like that, then I'd say to go for exchange.
In my experience, an exchange server is one of MickeySofts least trouble-causing applications. In the 2 1/2 years that I managed a WAN of about 20 locations with some 25 exchange servers in them, I have done migrations, splits, moves etc. with not much of a problem. Only once I had to pull out the backup tape and restore the entire server. Which was due to a corrupt HDD, corrupting the database in such a way that it wasn't repairable anymore.
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'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we,
but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant
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And I wonder when companies catch on to that when they are having these kinds of promotions..
I wouldn't mind paying a bit more for the overseas shipping, but excluding the non USA/Canada web-community is insane.
And, IMO, shows that said companie(s) don't have a friggin' clue about the net anyway.
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'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we,
but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant
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I sync my mail with my Palm, so that I can play^H^H^H^Hwork a bit while commuting. Using encryption limits working with encrypted mails till I reach my desktop.
Does anybody know of a Palm version? I'd settle for just being able to *read*
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'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we,
but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant
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That too is covered in a FAQ. To be exact, it's covered in the StatsFAQ
Is it really that hard to just go to the main distributed.net page, and type "change email" in the search box on the bottom-left? First result that popped up. Took me about 10 seconds to find it.
Really... READ those FAQ's please people. USE the search engines. It makes life so much easier. Cheers.
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'We have no choice in what we are. Yet what are we,
but the sum of our choices.' --Rob Grant
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