The nicer you are the more it gives them the feeling that they can walk all over you.
I'm always professional but I'm not always nice.
Sprint has the a absolute worst customer service of any company I've ever had to deal with and I have a business account.
Americans are lazy (I'm an American I can say that) and automatically assume the customer is wrong. (maybe 99% of the time they are?) At least when you call and get Indians, you might not be able to understand a word they're saying but they are courteous and have been trained in basic manners.
While I'm used to the current paths, I have no hard feelings at all about ditching them.
I don't know if there's a linux standard for what kinds of files go in each directory but everyone I ask has a different answer.
I think switching to an updated naming scheme for directories and getting a common installation/uninstallation routine for applications that actually sticks items on the menus in the guis, etc. would be a huge move forward.
Not that I need either feature. I don't even use a linux gui. But someday maybe I will.
I see people bash bind and praise djbdns, but I personally have never had a problem with bind. It was relatively easy to setup and it's relatively easy to maintain and has a decent amount of power to it. Granted, I'm just doing simple tasks of dns for sites and nothing very complicated.
I'm not oppossed to switching but given that my time is already crunched, I will probably keep using bind so I don't have to spend the time learning how to setup djbdns.
Now if some huge security hole was discovered that affected me directly and there was an actual need to switch, I would spend the time and do it.
Until then I'll probably keep using bind since my distro gives me the choice to choose my dns server.
We'll run out of clean water before we run out of oil.
Research is being done right now on alternatives. Oil will be around for a long long time because by the time we start to run out we'll have a ton in reserve. The price will skyrocket but that will just force alternatives out. I have a feeling we won't come out with good alternatives until we really start to run out of oil regardless of whether it's 5 or 500 years.
And if it is 500 years we will have some other plan ready by then. More efficient windmills or solar cells or something.
I don't completely disagree with you, but instead of preaching doom, why not back up your claims with facts and cite sources?
Just how soon ARE we going to run out of fossil fuel? Next 5 years? Next 500 years? Next 500,000 years?
We're going to run out of water and light from the sun eventually too.
The general public is "so amazingly ignorant" because anyone can prove anything with numbers. Even the most accurate numbers we have are probably guesses at best.
If spammers started translating their emails into Snoop Dogg style languagizzle. Would it get past spam filters easier? I guess it wouldn't be too tough to block every email with the phrase izzle.
I have to disagree about Konquerer being the best browser because I've seen a ton of rendering problems. In fact, I would almost say it feels more like netscape 4 to me when I use it.
Oddly enough the Mac version (safari) doesn't seem to have as many rendering problems.
It's almost usable. I wish it was geared a bit towards multi-user being an outlook replacement. I have it setup right now for two users to get in and make changes, but there's no way to tell which user made the changes, etc. I'm sure it will improve over time.
Slashdot Mirror
Why create a list. WHO WANTS TO BE SPAMMED?!?
It's incredibly silly to make a list and try to maintain it, enforce it, keep it out of the wrong hands, etc.
Just make it completely illegal to send unsolicited garbage messages and start making money trails to follow and nail some people.
I hope that they potentially sacrifice backwards compatibility for the sake of quality.
I was watching the movie Miracle on a very nice widescreen TV and I could readily see jagged edges and compression.
I'm pretty sure it was the encoding and not a problem with the dvd player or TV.
'nuff said.
I wish I had never attempted college. I threw my money down the drain repeatedly.
The nicer you are the more it gives them the feeling that they can walk all over you.
I'm always professional but I'm not always nice.
Sprint has the a absolute worst customer service of any company I've ever had to deal with and I have a business account.
Americans are lazy (I'm an American I can say that) and automatically assume the customer is wrong. (maybe 99% of the time they are?) At least when you call and get Indians, you might not be able to understand a word they're saying but they are courteous and have been trained in basic manners.
I don't have one so I can't say for sure, but I'm assuming so.
Don't lead some newb astray...
Gator is spyware, KeePass is not.
Because when I port scan it, nothing responds.
It's a shame, because Netgear actually has the best wireless products I've tried between netgear, dlink, linksys, and smc.
I've had more stability and success with netgear by far. Luckily I'm not using this particular router.
Here's the windows equivalent: KeePass
I'm sure it's people masquerading as me and the headers confirm this. It sucks though, it's identity theft isn't it?
The cops don't care.
SPF is the best chance at stopping it, but you'll be waiting 5 years before it's implemented and accepted everywhere.
Very good info. That actually clears things up quite a bit.
While I'm used to the current paths, I have no hard feelings at all about ditching them.
I don't know if there's a linux standard for what kinds of files go in each directory but everyone I ask has a different answer.
I think switching to an updated naming scheme for directories and getting a common installation/uninstallation routine for applications that actually sticks items on the menus in the guis, etc. would be a huge move forward.
Not that I need either feature. I don't even use a linux gui. But someday maybe I will.
I see people bash bind and praise djbdns, but I personally have never had a problem with bind. It was relatively easy to setup and it's relatively easy to maintain and has a decent amount of power to it. Granted, I'm just doing simple tasks of dns for sites and nothing very complicated.
I'm not oppossed to switching but given that my time is already crunched, I will probably keep using bind so I don't have to spend the time learning how to setup djbdns.
Now if some huge security hole was discovered that affected me directly and there was an actual need to switch, I would spend the time and do it.
Until then I'll probably keep using bind since my distro gives me the choice to choose my dns server.
BTW, this same post could be used for sendmail.
"I'd gladly trade some spare CPU time in exchange for the coolness of seeing a few frames of Shrek 3 rendered on my screensaver!"
I wouldn't. What a waste.
We'll run out of clean water before we run out of oil.
Research is being done right now on alternatives.
Oil will be around for a long long time because by the time we start to run out we'll have a ton in reserve. The price will skyrocket but that will just force alternatives out. I have a feeling we won't come out with good alternatives until we really start to run out of oil regardless of whether it's 5 or 500 years.
And if it is 500 years we will have some other plan ready by then. More efficient windmills or solar cells or something.
Stop preaching doom.
I don't completely disagree with you, but instead of preaching doom, why not back up your claims with facts and cite sources?
Just how soon ARE we going to run out of fossil fuel? Next 5 years? Next 500 years? Next 500,000 years?
We're going to run out of water and light from the sun eventually too.
The general public is "so amazingly ignorant" because anyone can prove anything with numbers. Even the most accurate numbers we have are probably guesses at best.
If spammers started translating their emails into Snoop Dogg style languagizzle. Would it get past spam filters easier? I guess it wouldn't be too tough to block every email with the phrase izzle.
Just choose custom when you install it. (This is on the windows side, but I imagine it's on linux as welll.)
Ouch!
Paper? What's paper?
I have to disagree about Konquerer being the best browser because I've seen a ton of rendering problems. In fact, I would almost say it feels more like netscape 4 to me when I use it.
Oddly enough the Mac version (safari) doesn't seem to have as many rendering problems.
I say let them do whatever they want.
If nothing else it will encourage us to come up with our own standard that's open and better.
Have they ever predicted how much power has been used to search over the past 5 years?
It can be loaded standalone as an application or it can be a mozilla/firefox plugin.
Sunbird
It's almost usable. I wish it was geared a bit towards multi-user being an outlook replacement. I have it setup right now for two users to get in and make changes, but there's no way to tell which user made the changes, etc. I'm sure it will improve over time.