Not that I think anyone will read down this far...
For those interested in knowing about HIV immunity in humans, google for "CCR5 HIV immune" (or CKR5 as it is sometimes called).
The basics, as I understand them (for which I'm sure I will be corrected and flamed), is that CCR5 is the gene responsible for the development of the cell receptors most strains of HIV use to enter cells. A mutant gene-pair hinders the development of the receptors and the virus cannot enter cells to reproduce itself. [Note to the liberal art majors: virii reproduce by entering a cell and making it do all the work -- no enter, no nookie.]
Current research theorizes that the mutation was put to the test during the bubonic plague. It also posits that approx. 10% of the population of humans of European descent have the mutated gene.
I could be mistaken on the little details, but I believe that "Expunge" is used with IMAP accounts. With IMAP, you can mark messages as deleted, but they won't actually be deleted from the folder until they are expunged.
This is true for any of Evolution's folders local and IMAP Trash folders are actually vFolders. The difference is "Expunge" removes moved/deleted items from the folder open currently and "Empty Trash" removes moved/deleted items from all folders. (crf. Evolution Help, Chapter 3. Using Evolution for Email, Section Reading Mail, Subsection Deleting Mail.)
Boy that looks like Windows with different colors. Not trying to be a troll here, but what's the point of striving harder and harder to make Linux interfaces as close to Windows as possible?
GNOME 'n' KDE panels and window manager themes are much more configurable than the Windows taskbar and locked in windowing interface. Dockable applets for one, that look much better when included in a side panel than do toolbars in taskbars moved to the side.
It comes down to configurability. A Windows user, an Apple user and a Solaris/CDE user can log in to their individual GNOME sessions and make their environment something comfortable to them. And the really wackball users can go wild with minimalist or really complex panel arrangements. All done with the same set of installed libraries and apps. Wonderful if you're running remote X workstations or thin clients.
if this is such a great product, why can't i just upgrade to the e-trust version they are offering now? It has the same charm as InoculateIT, and the price is a little less than $10 each year.
eTrust Antivirus ($19.95, $9.95 annual renewel)
will give you what InoculateIT Personal Edition did. eTrust EZArmor ($49.95, $19.95 annual renewel) is a broader package providing the features of their Antivirus, Personal Firewall and Content Inspection offerings. I haven't worked with EZArmor, yet, but I've used Inoculan, InoculateIT and eTrust Antivirus, liked them all (and the improvements made over the years) and expect good things from Armor.
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the ease of use of installation and maintainance is pretty big the ease of use of installation and maintainance is pretty big
I have to say the Win32 GIMP 1.2 install was mind-bogglingly simple. If the OS X install is anywhere near as easy, it'll be a cakewalk.
Through its Internet connection, the device's internal software can be upgraded to add new features, support next-generation audio formats, change its operation, fix bugs, etc.
How about current generation audio formats? OggVorbis!
Sun isn't using any GPL'd code in a product, they're releasing a product that takes GPL'd code and modifies it such that their products can make use of it. It's not necessarily very nice, but nice means squat.
Is this any different in spirit than taking hardware whose drivers were written for a Windows-only environment and building a set of Linux drivers for it? Companies kick and scream about copyright violations when a Linux user hacks together a driver for their hardware. Now we're kicking and screaming about Sun providing a tool to use open sourced code to provide drivers for Solaris?
Is this any different than the adverts that get stuffed into textbooks? Credit card companies renting space in student unions for application gathering? Corporate sponsorships for BBQs on the quad?
How about this: A burglar uses my neighbor's lawn gnome to get into a first story window I inadvertently left unlocked. Am I accountable for the gnome's crushed cap?
That's the hitch. Scanning it currently stores the scanned document as a bitmap which doesn't know "text" from "pr0n". Converting the scan to PDF makes a big PDF bitmap, also not recognizing any of the content as text to process. That's missing link the article is talking about...
In the purely corporate world, maybe. But when an organization handles confidential information about people/places/things (e.g. credit bureaus, child exploitation issues, etc.), I'd like to think that the organization would run a criminal background check on the employees actually handling the information. That includes technology staff (especially sysadmins) who have a priveledged level of access to the information.
The eLink service from Motient (formerly American Mobile) has impressed me so far. They use the RIM 850. Nice service. Decent coverage for our needs. The service does store and forward pages/messages so you don't lose info when you're out of a coverage zone. Motient also offers an "Agent" on your eLink account to pull mail from another POP/IMAP box on the internet and send it to the device. (If you reply to a message redirected this way, your From address is that of your POP/IMAP account.) The "Agent" provides flexible filters for what e-mail gets forwarded on to the unit, the polling period for POP/IMAP checks, etc. etc. Haven't used the other fellas, so I can't attest to their service. Like the RIM 850, though.
A lot of stuff changed with those service packs, it would have been worth spending $$$ on NT 4.1 just to get documentation that was up to date.
Having spent the money for NT 4, I rather like that I can download the most recent service pack and its release notes for free. Granted, I would prefer not to wait until the third service pack for a stable product.
I think, though, that the reason Linux can have such a frequent release schedule is that it doesn't have a marketing behemoth behind it. It's target audience is largely comprised of technophiles who can pick up a new release, apply it correctly and troubleshoot the possible interoperability problems that arise with existing installed software. The Windows family is largely aimed at users who can't.
The vehicle for distribution is different, too. The fact that Joe Windows User buys a box of software means that he does not want to have to buy another box of software in six months when the "new release" (read: service pack) comes out. Linux is mostly downloaded. Download the product. Download the updates. Because Windows is packaged, vast amounts of money would be wasted on repackaging for every service pack while older "releases" sat on the shelf never to be bought. (Example: do stores stock Windows95 next to Windows98 boxes? If they did, would anyone buy 95?)
Getting back to the original post, yes, I believe Open Source could shift things in the business world. I agree the "rewriting" bit was a little disingenuous. Open Source could affect change in the quality of released software. If distribution of the product involves less marketing (packaging, sales, etc.) releasing new versions would be easier and more frequent. The suits' attention would then shift to handling the marketing of services and put pressure on developers for new features to be added as their clients' needs changed. Because releasing new versions is made easier by less marketing hokey-pokey, those changes can be implemented (and then fixed, then re-fixed) faster.
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Not that I think anyone will read down this far ...
For those interested in knowing about HIV immunity in humans, google for "CCR5 HIV immune" (or CKR5 as it is sometimes called).
The basics, as I understand them (for which I'm sure I will be corrected and flamed), is that CCR5 is the gene responsible for the development of the cell receptors most strains of HIV use to enter cells. A mutant gene-pair hinders the development of the receptors and the virus cannot enter cells to reproduce itself. [Note to the liberal art majors: virii reproduce by entering a cell and making it do all the work -- no enter, no nookie.]
Current research theorizes that the mutation was put to the test during the bubonic plague. It also posits that approx. 10% of the population of humans of European descent have the mutated gene.
I could be mistaken on the little details, but I believe that "Expunge" is used with IMAP accounts. With IMAP, you can mark messages as deleted, but they won't actually be deleted from the folder until they are expunged.
This is true for any of Evolution's folders local and IMAP Trash folders are actually vFolders. The difference is "Expunge" removes moved/deleted items from the folder open currently and "Empty Trash" removes moved/deleted items from all folders. (crf. Evolution Help, Chapter 3. Using Evolution for Email, Section Reading Mail, Subsection Deleting Mail.)
Boy that looks like Windows with different colors. Not trying to be a troll here, but what's the point of striving harder and harder to make Linux interfaces as close to Windows as possible?
GNOME 'n' KDE panels and window manager themes are much more configurable than the Windows taskbar and locked in windowing interface. Dockable applets for one, that look much better when included in a side panel than do toolbars in taskbars moved to the side.
It comes down to configurability. A Windows user, an Apple user and a Solaris/CDE user can log in to their individual GNOME sessions and make their environment something comfortable to them. And the really wackball users can go wild with minimalist or really complex panel arrangements. All done with the same set of installed libraries and apps. Wonderful if you're running remote X workstations or thin clients.
if this is such a great product, why can't i just upgrade to the e-trust version they are offering now? It has the same charm as InoculateIT, and the price is a little less than $10 each year.
eTrust Antivirus ($19.95, $9.95 annual renewel) will give you what InoculateIT Personal Edition did. eTrust EZArmor ($49.95, $19.95 annual renewel) is a broader package providing the features of their Antivirus, Personal Firewall and Content Inspection offerings. I haven't worked with EZArmor, yet, but I've used Inoculan, InoculateIT and eTrust Antivirus, liked them all (and the improvements made over the years) and expect good things from Armor.
I have to say the Win32 GIMP 1.2 install was mind-bogglingly simple. If the OS X install is anywhere near as easy, it'll be a cakewalk.
a) x509 support for a linux client that isn't netscape
b) pgp support for netscape under windows and linux
A little Googling around came up with Bear Software's PGP Plugin for Netscape Messenger. I don't have a user testimonial for you, though.
How about current generation audio formats? Ogg Vorbis!
Is this any different in spirit than taking hardware whose drivers were written for a Windows-only environment and building a set of Linux drivers for it? Companies kick and scream about copyright violations when a Linux user hacks together a driver for their hardware. Now we're kicking and screaming about Sun providing a tool to use open sourced code to provide drivers for Solaris?
Is this any different than the adverts that get stuffed into textbooks? Credit card companies renting space in student unions for application gathering? Corporate sponsorships for BBQs on the quad?
How about this: A burglar uses my neighbor's lawn gnome to get into a first story window I inadvertently left unlocked. Am I accountable for the gnome's crushed cap?
That's the hitch. Scanning it currently stores the scanned document as a bitmap which doesn't know "text" from "pr0n". Converting the scan to PDF makes a big PDF bitmap, also not recognizing any of the content as text to process. That's missing link the article is talking about ...
Therein lies the catch.
In the purely corporate world, maybe. But when an organization handles confidential information about people/places/things (e.g. credit bureaus, child exploitation issues, etc.), I'd like to think that the organization would run a criminal background check on the employees actually handling the information. That includes technology staff (especially sysadmins) who have a priveledged level of access to the information.
The eLink service from Motient (formerly American Mobile) has impressed me so far. They use the RIM 850. Nice service. Decent coverage for our needs. The service does store and forward pages/messages so you don't lose info when you're out of a coverage zone. Motient also offers an "Agent" on your eLink account to pull mail from another POP/IMAP box on the internet and send it to the device. (If you reply to a message redirected this way, your From address is that of your POP/IMAP account.) The "Agent" provides flexible filters for what e-mail gets forwarded on to the unit, the polling period for POP/IMAP checks, etc. etc.
Haven't used the other fellas, so I can't attest to their service. Like the RIM 850, though.
Having spent the money for NT 4, I rather like that I can download the most recent service pack and its release notes for free. Granted, I would prefer not to wait until the third service pack for a stable product.
I think, though, that the reason Linux can have such a frequent release schedule is that it doesn't have a marketing behemoth behind it. It's target audience is largely comprised of technophiles who can pick up a new release, apply it correctly and troubleshoot the possible interoperability problems that arise with existing installed software. The Windows family is largely aimed at users who can't.
The vehicle for distribution is different, too. The fact that Joe Windows User buys a box of software means that he does not want to have to buy another box of software in six months when the "new release" (read: service pack) comes out. Linux is mostly downloaded. Download the product. Download the updates. Because Windows is packaged, vast amounts of money would be wasted on repackaging for every service pack while older "releases" sat on the shelf never to be bought. (Example: do stores stock Windows95 next to Windows98 boxes? If they did, would anyone buy 95?)
Getting back to the original post, yes, I believe Open Source could shift things in the business world. I agree the "rewriting" bit was a little disingenuous. Open Source could affect change in the quality of released software. If distribution of the product involves less marketing (packaging, sales, etc.) releasing new versions would be easier and more frequent. The suits' attention would then shift to handling the marketing of services and put pressure on developers for new features to be added as their clients' needs changed. Because releasing new versions is made easier by less marketing hokey-pokey, those changes can be implemented (and then fixed, then re-fixed) faster.