Hold your horses partner... I believe the rows of icons on a desktop metaphor started with the Apple II in the '80s. 10 years later it was "borrowed" by Microsoft for Win95 (or was in Win3.1), and they use something eerily similar to this day. Its been around.
Windows Phone seems to have quite a bit of innovation in it, probably the most innovation since iPhone was launched (Android is just a copycat of that, sorry Android fans[1]). So they're not completely dead yet.
If they keep up that kind of innovation, they will eventually run out of money (and customers). It may be "innovative" but nobody cares, which is a different kind of innovation to what Apple is known for.
Re: Android don't forget voice actions first, over the air updates first, multi-tasking first (no?), and being much more open with the entire apps process (apps allowed, side loading, etc).
Total nonsense. I've done it for years, and the very high majority of the mail rejected is junk. The ones that aren't are mis-configured.
Also, cloud servers can certainly have rDNS configured. At least the ones I've dealt with. But sending mail directly from cloud servers like amazon and rackspace is bad for other reasons unrelated to DNS. What the reverse DNS check does (at least on Postfix) is check that there *is* reverse DNS, and then reverses that back to the original ip. If either tests fail, its rejected. It does not have to resolve to any particular domain, it just has to resolve.
Nice try. You have to have some kind of MS account to view that page.
Somewhere, I feel pretty sure that this would only support the very limited MS product line, and I could not control my home Linux system from my work Linux system (not that I need to anyway... courtesy of ssh).
.NET and C# pretty much took over Java. Sure, Java supports more platforms, but it's resource and memory hog, insecure (there's tons of Java exploits out there but none for.NET!) and Java development is light years behind.NET and C#.
You live in a small, closed world. Glad if works for you. As long as you stay on MS desktops and friends it probably works OK. But for mobile, web and other stuff that is happening, it kinda sucks.
The biggest problem with Visual Studio is its a MS product. Which means you get locked into the (inferior) MS world. Not to mention the inevitable bloat and odd behaviors, etc that seem to come with any MS desktop product.
Sorry but the world is slowly moving past desktops. iPads don't have IE, Android devices don't have IE, etc. That's why MS is in such a panic over mobile. They have lost their leverage in those segments. They might regain some of that, if they can stop shooting themselves in the foot long enough. Desktops won't completely die for a good while, but their relevance slowly erodes.
Sorry... strongly disagree. Ubuntu has a self contained LAMP environment already. No need to go outside the distro for core functionality. Its in the meta package called lamp-server. IIRC, its an option during the server installation, so its one stop shopping. If you miss it, then its 'sudo apt-get install lamp-server', or somesuch, and off you go. Also, you get integrated security updates with the built-in apt features. Stuff in/usr/local complicates all that and introduces the possibility of conflicts with native package management.
It ain't necessarily so. The homeless guy was using a Macbook from Starbucks. It was later pawned. The FBI found it while searching all Pawn shops in the area. There was DNA evidence from a number of homeless people on it. The other ones couldn't type.
What then? Unable to support oneself, and sleeping under an underpass, or maybe in a shelter somewhere? Or is it possible in America where words don't always mean what they seem, that homeless people own/rent homes?
I really don't think its them... at least not to that extent.
I did at one time have an issue. I would occasionally at home (only, not at work) get notifications that said 'Can't reach mail.google.com, check your internet connections'. I assumed it was Google or some routing issue twixt them and me. These got much more frequent, and for the hell of it, I tried a different browser. No problem whatsoever. Its a steenkin browser problem. The "problem" browser was the development version of Chrome, which is ironic that the only destination it ever complained about was Gmail. Anyway, I downgraded that to the beta version, and no more problems. Software does wierd stuff sometimes.
I looked at Gmail for business last week - there's an SLA of 99.9%.
I am going to have to say that it must be "just you". I've run the gmail accounts for a business organization, plus my personal gmail and am not aware of any outage effecting anybody in that group for.... hmmm, a year, two years, whatever. Nada. I would start by checking your OS is lying to you, router/connection, service provider and so on, as you definitely have a problem, but its not on the google end of things.
And quoting from the article: “We ran the screenshots by three networking and cloud experts at major companies,” the story noted. “All three said that the screenshots did not conclusively show how iCloud was utilizing the Amazon and Microsoft technologies, if at all."
Did you even read the thing you posted?
".... It’s also possible that, once iOS 5 and iCloud come out of beta and Apple’s own datacenters are completely ready, Apple will stop using these other cloud services altogether. We’ll just have to wait and see."
Hardly proof of anything.
To quote Bill Gates, "that's the stupidest fucking thing I ever heard". If they are so obvious where are the exploits in Facebook and Wikipedia? You are just spreading the same FUD that MS started when trying to promote their "more secure" apps. What drivel.
There are 53 million sites running Wordpress, and what fraction have a problem?
Yea, the short answer is that what he wants, does not exist. At least not the way its described. And as has been pointed out, running mail servers ca be a right royal PITA. I've done it for businesses and for my own personal domain. Most of those, including mine, have been moved to Google Apps accts. Everyone is happier, including me. And nothing quite like gmail mobile apps for any and all devices. Why would someone not want that kind of cross platform / easy as dirt to install magic? The only way to do this, is to invest some serious time and be willing to do without a ton of functionality.
I know that saying really stupid stuff is not a surprise on slashdot, but the "whole system" is not php. The front end code is. The backend is hybrid of various languages. And in fact, if php handles the 2nd heaviest traffic site on the internet without issues, what makes it so bad? The counter argument will be Facebook, of cousr. Or is it just a theoretical issue of some kind that does not really pertain to real world situations?
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Hold your horses partner ... I believe the rows of icons on a desktop metaphor started with the Apple II in the '80s. 10 years later it was "borrowed" by Microsoft for Win95 (or was in Win3.1), and they use something eerily similar to this day. Its been around.
To quote Bill Gates "that's the stupidest fucking idea I ever heard".
And I bet there are more people riding bicycles than golf carts.
MS hasn't innovated in 20 years.
Windows Phone seems to have quite a bit of innovation in it, probably the most innovation since iPhone was launched (Android is just a copycat of that, sorry Android fans[1]). So they're not completely dead yet.
If they keep up that kind of innovation, they will eventually run out of money (and customers). It may be "innovative" but nobody cares, which is a different kind of innovation to what Apple is known for. Re: Android don't forget voice actions first, over the air updates first, multi-tasking first (no?), and being much more open with the entire apps process (apps allowed, side loading, etc).
Total nonsense. I've done it for years, and the very high majority of the mail rejected is junk. The ones that aren't are mis-configured. Also, cloud servers can certainly have rDNS configured. At least the ones I've dealt with. But sending mail directly from cloud servers like amazon and rackspace is bad for other reasons unrelated to DNS. What the reverse DNS check does (at least on Postfix) is check that there *is* reverse DNS, and then reverses that back to the original ip. If either tests fail, its rejected. It does not have to resolve to any particular domain, it just has to resolve.
Nice try. You have to have some kind of MS account to view that page. Somewhere, I feel pretty sure that this would only support the very limited MS product line, and I could not control my home Linux system from my work Linux system (not that I need to anyway ... courtesy of ssh).
.NET and C# pretty much took over Java. Sure, Java supports more platforms, but it's resource and memory hog, insecure (there's tons of Java exploits out there but none for .NET!) and Java development is light years behind .NET and C#.
You live in a small, closed world. Glad if works for you. As long as you stay on MS desktops and friends it probably works OK. But for mobile, web and other stuff that is happening, it kinda sucks. The biggest problem with Visual Studio is its a MS product. Which means you get locked into the (inferior) MS world. Not to mention the inevitable bloat and odd behaviors, etc that seem to come with any MS desktop product.
Agreed. Losing large sums of money online is a Microsoft forte. They do it well. They do it right. Its all part of a grand plan.
Sorry but the world is slowly moving past desktops. iPads don't have IE, Android devices don't have IE, etc. That's why MS is in such a panic over mobile. They have lost their leverage in those segments. They might regain some of that, if they can stop shooting themselves in the foot long enough. Desktops won't completely die for a good while, but their relevance slowly erodes.
Sorry ... strongly disagree. Ubuntu has a self contained LAMP environment already. No need to go outside the distro for core functionality. Its in the meta package called lamp-server. IIRC, its an option during the server installation, so its one stop shopping. If you miss it, then its 'sudo apt-get install lamp-server', or somesuch, and off you go. Also, you get integrated security updates with the built-in apt features. Stuff in /usr/local complicates all that and introduces the possibility of conflicts with native package management.
It ain't necessarily so. The homeless guy was using a Macbook from Starbucks. It was later pawned. The FBI found it while searching all Pawn shops in the area. There was DNA evidence from a number of homeless people on it. The other ones couldn't type.
The ip address was traced to a homeless shelter, and his fingerprints were on the keyboard. :/
What then? Unable to support oneself, and sleeping under an underpass, or maybe in a shelter somewhere? Or is it possible in America where words don't always mean what they seem, that homeless people own/rent homes?
Shirley, you jest. You forgot the smilie.
Time to wake up. A good part of the world runs on Linux, starting with Google, Facebook, Android ...
I really don't think its them ... at least not to that extent.
I did at one time have an issue. I would occasionally at home (only, not at work) get notifications that said 'Can't reach mail.google.com, check your internet connections'. I assumed it was Google or some routing issue twixt them and me. These got much more frequent, and for the hell of it, I tried a different browser. No problem whatsoever. Its a steenkin browser problem. The "problem" browser was the development version of Chrome, which is ironic that the only destination it ever complained about was Gmail. Anyway, I downgraded that to the beta version, and no more problems. Software does wierd stuff sometimes.
I looked at Gmail for business last week - there's an SLA of 99.9%.
I am going to have to say that it must be "just you". I've run the gmail accounts for a business organization, plus my personal gmail and am not aware of any outage effecting anybody in that group for .... hmmm, a year, two years, whatever. Nada. I would start by checking your OS is lying to you, router/connection, service provider and so on, as you definitely have a problem, but its not on the google end of things.
And quoting from the article: “We ran the screenshots by three networking and cloud experts at major companies,” the story noted. “All three said that the screenshots did not conclusively show how iCloud was utilizing the Amazon and Microsoft technologies, if at all."
Did you even read the thing you posted? " .... It’s also possible that, once iOS 5 and iCloud come out of beta and Apple’s own datacenters are completely ready, Apple will stop using these other cloud services altogether. We’ll just have to wait and see."
Hardly proof of anything.
Trojanned? By what, do we know? I hope the dumb fuck wasn't running windows.
Does no one use less any more?
You can tell he hasn't a clue what he's talking about by the ridiculous 'register_globals' statement.
To quote Bill Gates, "that's the stupidest fucking thing I ever heard". If they are so obvious where are the exploits in Facebook and Wikipedia? You are just spreading the same FUD that MS started when trying to promote their "more secure" apps. What drivel. There are 53 million sites running Wordpress, and what fraction have a problem?
Yea, the short answer is that what he wants, does not exist. At least not the way its described. And as has been pointed out, running mail servers ca be a right royal PITA. I've done it for businesses and for my own personal domain. Most of those, including mine, have been moved to Google Apps accts. Everyone is happier, including me. And nothing quite like gmail mobile apps for any and all devices. Why would someone not want that kind of cross platform / easy as dirt to install magic? The only way to do this, is to invest some serious time and be willing to do without a ton of functionality.
I know that saying really stupid stuff is not a surprise on slashdot, but the "whole system" is not php. The front end code is. The backend is hybrid of various languages. And in fact, if php handles the 2nd heaviest traffic site on the internet without issues, what makes it so bad? The counter argument will be Facebook, of cousr. Or is it just a theoretical issue of some kind that does not really pertain to real world situations?