With all the ajax hype about web applications eventually subplanting desktop applications, it seems rather ironic to see web based email moving into a desktop application. Of all the possible applications, Email is traditionally most suited to the web. This isn't to say that I think web email will disappear because obviously it will not. My point is that there is a certain value in "real" desktop applications that web apps just can't match... with or without ajax.
The simplest way to fix a broken MBR is to boot a DOS disk (assume you have one for Win95) and run "fdisk/mbr". But if you can boot Win95, I don't know how the MBR could be currupt. To get Linux to rewrite the MBR, make sure the installer puts the boot loader (GRUB or LILO) in/dev/hda and not/dev/hda1. Although I am not sure if that is an option with Ubuntu.
That isn't really a "market" solution. That is more along the line of activism. And isn't that essentially what is happenign now? People writting letters/articles to let others know that AOL/Hotmail is charging.
The difference is that, as a user, you're never prevented from getting content. If a site can afford it, they can buy and SSL cert. If they can't afford it but still want encryption, they can sign their own SSL cert. If they don't want to bother the user with a warning and they don't care about encryption, they can use regular HTTP. See, the control is in the hands of the "sender" of the information and the consumer is, at no point, cut out. With Goodmail, the only way to guarantee delivery is to pay. All other options become unreliable.
And what happens when Goodmail isn't the only certifier in town? AOL uses Goodmail, Hotmail uses Bonded Sender (or whatever), Google decides to use some other service, etc, etc. Should senders have to register with every known verifcation service just to be sure their email is getting delivered??
Don't get me started on the arbitrariness of women's dress codes in the workplace. They basically get to wear anything they want because few people have the guts (or knowledge) to criticize their clothing. And when you do, they just dazzle you will fancy terms for their clothing. "Oh, this isn't a t-shirt. It's a blouse." And I love it when they pass off shorts as "skorts." It's like a skirt, 'cept different. Heck, I've seen women come in wearing summer dresses. Nobody cares! But if I'm missing a collar, all hell breaks loose.:-P
I dunno, maybe because the person has the skills to get the job done? Huh, imagine that. An employer seeking skilled employees.
And what do you mean exactly by "dresses like a child? Are you talking about a little hat with a propeller? Diapers? Is putting on jeans and a t-shirt dressing "like a child?"
I have amblyopia and I often wonder what the value is in having both eyes work together if one is inferior (and can't be corrected). The brain is ignoring the bad eye for a reason. The images just don't match up. What purpose does it serve to force your brain to match the images up? Is it cosmetic? Does it not reduce the overall quality of vision? Seem to for me.
I'm guessing it might have more to do with his use of terms such as "Tunic of Unpromotability +5" rather than the clothing itself, but I could be wrong.
Ok, now remove all the operating systems from that like which are are aimed at the consumer and are not redundant (same OS, different CPU) and what do you have? 1. Windows XP. I'm pretty sure the GP was talking about the consumer desktop.
I have a P5-100Mhz Toshiba laptop running Linux which does hibernation through the BIOS. One command (apm -s) and the BIOS writes the contents of RAM to disk (special reserved part of the disk)and shuts the computer off. Actually, it doesn't turn it off initially. It is just asleep. But if you remove the battery and put it back, you can still recover and continue right where you left off. And it works flawlessly. This is how it should be. For the life of me i haven't figured out why PC manufacturers make the OS do all the hibernation/sleep work. It should be handled at the firmware level. Is the Toshiba Libretto a fluke? Are there other PC laptops out there which handle hibernation through the BIOS?
My God, man! What kind of dating life do you have when 150,000 is not enough to choose from? Besides, it is about the ratios, not the absolute values. As long as there is at least 1 woman for every man, you should be good to go.
As mentioned in the article, Novell was doing hierachal directories long before (and better than) Win2k. LDAP in and of itself wouldn't count because it wasn't use to centralize network management like NDS and AD were. Even today, generic LDAP based network management pales in comparison to NDS (now eDirectory).
They did mention open source, so that kinda covers Linux and FreeBSD. But yeah, I don't really see why Windows 2000 was so special. It had active directory, well Netware was doing directories years before Win2k. The article did mention CodeRed, so I guess that is Win2k's contribution.. the Internet crippling worm.
I think the Sendmail cf file made more sense back when computers were slower. It is easier for a computer to parse for routing. At least that's how someone once explained it to me. I honestly don't know how it remained dominant as long as it did. I ditched Sendmail the day I tried Postfix.
I'm hardly an MS fan (or office suite user), but MS Office for OS X isn't bad. Of course, I didn't have to pay for it, so it is an easy choice.
I refuse to run any X11 applications under OS X unless I absolutely have to. It kinda ruins who whole OS X experience. And OO.o in particular is a bloated pig. I won't run it on Linux either.
Well duh, you're not supposed to start your applications more than once. Once started, you never shut down or log out. Just put your iBook to sleep (No! Don't euthanize it!)
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Then you should try to be more interesting so we don't get so bored by comments such as this.
With all the ajax hype about web applications eventually subplanting desktop applications, it seems rather ironic to see web based email moving into a desktop application. Of all the possible applications, Email is traditionally most suited to the web. This isn't to say that I think web email will disappear because obviously it will not. My point is that there is a certain value in "real" desktop applications that web apps just can't match... with or without ajax.
-matthew
Same here. I just can't decode those 1's and 0's in my head fast enough.
-matthew
The simplest way to fix a broken MBR is to boot a DOS disk (assume you have one for Win95) and run "fdisk /mbr". But if you can boot Win95, I don't know how the MBR could be currupt. To get Linux to rewrite the MBR, make sure the installer puts the boot loader (GRUB or LILO) in /dev/hda and not /dev/hda1. Although I am not sure if that is an option with Ubuntu.
-matthew
Next time I am in the market for a new lawnmower, I know which one I'm going to look at first. This is my kind of company.
-matthew
That isn't really a "market" solution. That is more along the line of activism. And
isn't that essentially what is happenign now? People writting letters/articles to let others know that AOL/Hotmail is charging.
-matthew
The difference is that, as a user, you're never prevented from getting content. If a site can afford it, they can buy and SSL cert. If they can't afford it but still want encryption, they can sign their own SSL cert. If they don't want to bother the user with a warning and they don't care about encryption, they can use regular HTTP. See, the control is in the hands of the "sender" of the information and the consumer is, at no point, cut out. With Goodmail, the only way to guarantee delivery is to pay. All other options become unreliable.
And what happens when Goodmail isn't the only certifier in town? AOL uses Goodmail, Hotmail uses Bonded Sender (or whatever), Google decides to use some other service, etc, etc. Should senders have to register with every known verifcation service just to be sure their email is getting delivered??
-matthew
Don't get me started on the arbitrariness of women's dress codes in the workplace. They basically get to wear anything they want because few people have the guts (or knowledge) to criticize their clothing. And when you do, they just dazzle you will fancy terms for their clothing. "Oh, this isn't a t-shirt. It's a blouse." And I love it when they pass off shorts as "skorts." It's like a skirt, 'cept different. Heck, I've seen women come in wearing summer dresses. Nobody cares! But if I'm missing a collar, all hell breaks loose. :-P
-matthew
I dunno, maybe because the person has the skills to get the job done? Huh, imagine that. An employer seeking skilled employees.
And what do you mean exactly by "dresses like a child? Are you talking about a little hat with a propeller? Diapers? Is putting on jeans and a t-shirt dressing "like a child?"
-matthew
I have amblyopia and I often wonder what the value is in having both eyes work together if one is inferior (and can't be corrected). The brain is ignoring the bad eye for a reason. The images just don't match up. What purpose does it serve to force your brain to match the images up? Is it cosmetic? Does it not reduce the overall quality of vision? Seem to for me.
-matthew
Not a skilled worker, I take it?
I'm guessing it might have more to do with his use of terms such as "Tunic of Unpromotability +5" rather than the clothing itself, but I could be wrong.
-matthew
Question is, why would you want to work with people who lack the ability to distinguish between a sharp dresser and a skillful worker?
-matthew
Ok, now remove all the operating systems from that like which are are aimed at the consumer and are not redundant (same OS, different CPU) and what do you have? 1. Windows XP. I'm pretty sure the GP was talking about the consumer desktop.
-matthew
I have a P5-100Mhz Toshiba laptop running Linux which does hibernation through the BIOS. One command (apm -s) and the BIOS writes the contents of RAM to disk (special reserved part of the disk)and shuts the computer off. Actually, it doesn't turn it off initially. It is just asleep. But if you remove the battery and put it back, you can still recover and continue right where you left off. And it works flawlessly. This is how it should be. For the life of me i haven't figured out why PC manufacturers make the OS do all the hibernation/sleep work. It should be handled at the firmware level. Is the Toshiba Libretto a fluke? Are there other PC laptops out there which handle hibernation through the BIOS?
-matthew
My God, man! What kind of dating life do you have when 150,000 is not enough to choose from? Besides, it is about the ratios, not the absolute values. As long as there is at least 1 woman for every man, you should be good to go.
-matthew
As mentioned in the article, Novell was doing hierachal directories long before (and better than) Win2k. LDAP in and of itself wouldn't count because it wasn't use to centralize network management like NDS and AD were. Even today, generic LDAP based network management pales in comparison to NDS (now eDirectory).
-matthew
Are you 14 years old or what?
-matthew
They did mention open source, so that kinda covers Linux and FreeBSD. But yeah, I don't really see why Windows 2000 was so special. It had active directory, well Netware was doing directories years before Win2k. The article did mention CodeRed, so I guess that is Win2k's contribution.. the Internet crippling worm.
-matthew
So you could write a better mail system?
-matthew
I think the Sendmail cf file made more sense back when computers were slower. It is easier for a computer to parse for routing. At least that's how someone once explained it to me. I honestly don't know how it remained dominant as long as it did. I ditched Sendmail the day I tried Postfix.
-matthew
Demand paging support would imply that it does something at least similar to mmap().
-matthew
I'm hardly an MS fan (or office suite user), but MS Office for OS X isn't bad. Of course, I didn't have to pay for it, so it is an easy choice.
I refuse to run any X11 applications under OS X unless I absolutely have to. It kinda ruins who whole OS X experience. And OO.o in particular is a bloated pig. I won't run it on Linux either.
-matthew
Ugh! OO.o on a Mac? Isn't that like towing an RV with a Porche?
-matthew
Well duh, you're not supposed to start your applications more than once. Once started, you never shut down or log out. Just put your iBook to sleep (No! Don't euthanize it!)
-matthew