Yah, I didn't actually take the quiz and I put a call in to them to call me back hoping that I can actually talk to a person that will destroy any record of it.
If you want to run linux on the desktop as a replacement for the normal computer user, SuSE or Mandrake will probably do a better job from what I've seen.
One of my friends bought a Wal-mart PC with Lindos pre-installed and it was awful.
From both the perspective of a linux user and a windows user. It failed at everything. It was tough to use, the menus were cluttered with software you didn't have but you could pay for. It was slow, it couldn't run windows programs the way it advertised.
I can't believe wal-mart would have agreed to let them ship it on their systems.
As someone who pays for his bandwidth...
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I don't want to filter, I want to block.
Speaking of spam, I wonder how much bandwidth all the spamcop reporting uses up.
Basically every piece of spam creates at least five times the bandwidth usage... 1. Send the full headers back to spamcop 2. receive a report link 3. visit the link 4. send reports out to X number of abuse addresses.
Since most of the people using Gnutella seem to be people trading music and warez, I'd really like to have a seperate Gnutella network for things like distribution ISOs, rpms, debs, tar.gz, etc.
I know exactly how you feel. I actually use linux quite a bit, but it's all precompiled suse packages for the most part except when I need oddball stuff like gif support for GD. Then it's time to compile php.
I'm blessed to have friends that know more than I do and are willing to help me out when I get stuck.
Compiling the kernel is something I haven't attempted since 386DX40 days.
If you secure your system it's really not that bad, I've never had a virus.
You can also get this $20 plugin from baxbex to disable HTML which I really like. Too bad they didn't come out with it a year ago as I'm getting ready to switch.
Outlook express is still to date the fastest startup of any GUI email client that I know of.
It's very flexible too. It doesn't have as much feature bloat as Outlook/Evolution but for email I don't need all those features.
Looks like everyone pretty much beat me to it for this thread so I doubt this will get read, but here goes...
Before I start, let me say that I WANT to switch to linux and I'm almost there.
I should also say that all of my servers except one are running some form of linux (usually SuSE). I keep one IIS server around for customers that need ASP and because I started on the Microsoft side.
Alright here goes... 1. The single biggest reason that I haven't switched 100% to linux is driver support. Windows has done this right, you plug in hardware and download a driver or pop in a CD and walah, your hardware works. I know this isn't 100% true, but it's at least 90% true. Linux hardware support has grown leaps and bounds over the past couple of years, but the problem is when you run into problems... If you've got an odd ball network card or other device that just doesn't want to work under linux. I think over time, companies will release linux drivers at the same time, but hopefully some of them will learn to release linux source for their drivers so that their products will rock.
2. Speed... Windows XP on my old 650 MHz Sony VAIO w/256 mb of ram runs circles around KDE for the most part. I've never tried Gnome just because I don't know how to easily switch using SuSE's built in management (yast). Anyone want to point me in the right direction for a how-to?
2. Macromedia Homesite... I really love how easy it is to use Macromedia homesite and have a nice easy global search and replace tool that doesn't require me to learn regular expressions but allows them if I know them. The color coding and various other features make it my ASP/PHP script editor of choice. Maybe it would run under Wine, but I want native speed and stability and macromedia hasn't announced a linux version yet. Zend Development Environment is the closest thing I've found that's acceptable but ironically I've never run it under linux.
3. I like Outlook Express. It's fast, it's easy, it has all the features I need (except the ability to disable html, but you can buy noHTML for $20). I would use Mozilla but it can't tie multiple email addresses to one identity. I found the feature request for this on bugzilla, but nothing has really happened with it yet. Once Mozilla gets that single feature, it will replace the Opera/Outlook Express combo I use now.
4. Gnucash is getting better, but there are a whole lot of things I need to do (Quicken) that it can't do such as recurring transactions and loan calculations.
5. Usability... There are times when things just don't work as expected. Windows software generally costs money, but most software works as expected (most of the time.)
A couple of the things I hate are that when I hit abort and nothing happens. Different applications behave this way. Sometimes I have this problem in windows as well, but on a slower linux system it's terrible!
Also, sometimes I'll be doing things like running GNUcash's QIF import and suddenly the window I was working with gets set behind the one I was formerly working with... Little stuff like that drives me bonkers.
I can't get Gnomemeeting to work... Ah, the list goes on and on. I like linux a lot, especially for server stuff, but on the desktop, it has potential and it really can do some great stuff (and the price is certainly right.) but I can't quite switch over yet...
Well, like the other guy said, we should at least try to be as compatible as possible.
w3c doesn't absolutely require a charset to be specified.
The errors that link came up with didn't deal with any of the items you listed, they're just plain improper html.
Fixing those problems wouldn't hurt anything. Probably wouldn't help either, but like I said in my original post, we should be setting an example and following the standards as much as possible.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow. What can I say?
Wish I could buy one.
Would it be possible to position mirrors perfectly to bounce sunlight around throughout the entire thing?
It would be kind of cool to have my server room under my backyard.
I would have liked to have seen a picture of this.
I haven't heard much about him lately.
Yah, I didn't actually take the quiz and I put a call in to them to call me back hoping that I can actually talk to a person that will destroy any record of it.
In the olden days, folks had to take the law into their own hands.
I say we crucify him!
This sucks, this guy signed me up on quizyourfriends.com using my personal email address. DANG IT.
No one has had that address for the past 3 years.
Senators Jump to Aimlessly Wire Broadband
If you want to run linux on the desktop as a replacement for the normal computer user, SuSE or Mandrake will probably do a better job from what I've seen.
One of my friends bought a Wal-mart PC with Lindos pre-installed and it was awful.
From both the perspective of a linux user and a windows user. It failed at everything. It was tough to use, the menus were cluttered with software you didn't have but you could pay for. It was slow, it couldn't run windows programs the way it advertised.
I can't believe wal-mart would have agreed to let them ship it on their systems.
I don't want to filter, I want to block.
Speaking of spam, I wonder how much bandwidth all the spamcop reporting uses up.
Basically every piece of spam creates at least five times the bandwidth usage...
1. Send the full headers back to spamcop
2. receive a report link
3. visit the link
4. send reports out to X number of abuse addresses.
Since most of the people using Gnutella seem to be people trading music and warez, I'd really like to have a seperate Gnutella network for things like distribution ISOs, rpms, debs, tar.gz, etc.
Does it create a set of mail folders for each email address?
I don't want four hundred sets of folders, I want all my email addresses to share the same inbox, outbox, sent, drafts, trash, etc.
I know exactly how you feel. I actually use linux quite a bit, but it's all precompiled suse packages for the most part except when I need oddball stuff like gif support for GD. Then it's time to compile php.
I'm blessed to have friends that know more than I do and are willing to help me out when I get stuck.
Compiling the kernel is something I haven't attempted since 386DX40 days.
I am a huge fan of all the other series, but I really disliked DS9. It was all politics to me.
It's odd because most fans I know didn't care for Voyager, but I thought it was great.
I like Enterprise a lot too. Took a little while to grow on me but it's not too bad.
More than anything I think I'd like to see a followup series AFTER STNG with Riker as Captain.
If you secure your system it's really not that bad, I've never had a virus.
You can also get this $20 plugin from baxbex to disable HTML which I really like. Too bad they didn't come out with it a year ago as I'm getting ready to switch.
Outlook express is still to date the fastest startup of any GUI email client that I know of.
It's very flexible too. It doesn't have as much feature bloat as Outlook/Evolution but for email I don't need all those features.
Looks really promising! I'll check it out.
Looks like everyone pretty much beat me to it for this thread so I doubt this will get read, but here goes...
Before I start, let me say that I WANT to switch to linux and I'm almost there.
I should also say that all of my servers except one are running some form of linux (usually SuSE). I keep one IIS server around for customers that need ASP and because I started on the Microsoft side.
Alright here goes...
1. The single biggest reason that I haven't switched 100% to linux is driver support. Windows has done this right, you plug in hardware and download a driver or pop in a CD and walah, your hardware works. I know this isn't 100% true, but it's at least 90% true. Linux hardware support has grown leaps and bounds over the past couple of years, but the problem is when you run into problems... If you've got an odd ball network card or other device that just doesn't want to work under linux. I think over time, companies will release linux drivers at the same time, but hopefully some of them will learn to release linux source for their drivers so that their products will rock.
2. Speed... Windows XP on my old 650 MHz Sony VAIO w/256 mb of ram runs circles around KDE for the most part. I've never tried Gnome just because I don't know how to easily switch using SuSE's built in management (yast). Anyone want to point me in the right direction for a how-to?
2. Macromedia Homesite... I really love how easy it is to use Macromedia homesite and have a nice easy global search and replace tool that doesn't require me to learn regular expressions but allows them if I know them. The color coding and various other features make it my ASP/PHP script editor of choice. Maybe it would run under Wine, but I want native speed and stability and macromedia hasn't announced a linux version yet.
Zend Development Environment is the closest thing I've found that's acceptable but ironically I've never run it under linux.
3. I like Outlook Express. It's fast, it's easy, it has all the features I need (except the ability to disable html, but you can buy noHTML for $20). I would use Mozilla but it can't tie multiple email addresses to one identity. I found the feature request for this on bugzilla, but nothing has really happened with it yet. Once Mozilla gets that single feature, it will replace the Opera/Outlook Express combo I use now.
4. Gnucash is getting better, but there are a whole lot of things I need to do (Quicken) that it can't do such as recurring transactions and loan calculations.
5. Usability... There are times when things just don't work as expected. Windows software generally costs money, but most software works as expected (most of the time.)
A couple of the things I hate are that when I hit abort and nothing happens. Different applications behave this way. Sometimes I have this problem in windows as well, but on a slower linux system it's terrible!
Also, sometimes I'll be doing things like running GNUcash's QIF import and suddenly the window I was working with gets set behind the one I was formerly working with... Little stuff like that drives me bonkers.
I can't get Gnomemeeting to work... Ah, the list goes on and on. I like linux a lot, especially for server stuff, but on the desktop, it has potential and it really can do some great stuff (and the price is certainly right.) but I can't quite switch over yet...
I wish they had supported wrap= for the textarea tag.
Other than that one, I haven't really found anything wrong with the spec.
Well, like the other guy said, we should at least try to be as compatible as possible.
w3c doesn't absolutely require a charset to be specified.
The errors that link came up with didn't deal with any of the items you listed, they're just plain improper html.
Fixing those problems wouldn't hurt anything. Probably wouldn't help either, but like I said in my original post, we should be setting an example and following the standards as much as possible.
Geez guys! Run it through the w3c validator!
We're suppossed to be promoting the standards right?
A feature request has been filed:
Mozilla feature request
(bugtracker sure is slow today!)
I don't see any reference to the lawsuits anymore. Did Nissan Motors finally back off?
In Outlook Express, I can setup 100 different email accounts and not have a giant list of mail folders.
In Mozilla (last I checked) for every account you setup it creates a new set of folders.
Since I've got a catchall account, I'd like to tie multiple email addresses to one set.
Anybody out there on the Mozilla team listening?
So obvious yet so simple!