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Re:Outlook is the bane of email
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Those who don't RTFM are the bane of my existence. Outlook has had conversation view since at least Outlook 2000. In Outlook 2003, do View->Arrange By->Conversation. This mode is similar to but not the same as GMail's.
Re:History of the term: Snail Mail?
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You had me wondering about that so I did a search of Usenet posts on Google Groups. I see several references to "snail mail" in 1982 but the archive doesn't go back much further.
The least expensive 250GB ATA drive I can find on pricewatch is $167. $300 wouldn't quite get you two drives at retail. Of course, this box could sell for less than the cost of the components, like the Xbox did when it came out, with the idea that profit is generated elsewhere. Perhaps a user with seven tuners would pay for more pay-per-view shows than someone with fewer tuners, for example.
Looking at the photos, I see some sort of black box, maybe a drive enclosure or subwoofer (sorry, fuzzy photo), that takes up about as much space as a tower PC enclosure. If the former, then the drives would probably fit in a tall enough PC enclosure. If the latter, well, put the sub on the floor. Is this guy really saving any space for all his trouble?
By the way, I mean no insult to our Canadian brothers. We all prioritize our news as we see fit. America does not have a monopoly on this. Open up any sampling of international news web sites and you will see biases towards their readership's target audience.
I see you are from Canada. I was watching your Canadian TV network the other day on cable. I couldn't believe it. Most of the stories were about events that took place in Canada. That just exemplifies stereotypes about Canadians, that they care more about their own country than what happens to folks in other countries. They are SO self-centered! There are murders happening on the streets of Buenos Aires and Manilla and Canadian TV shrugs that off, instead choosing to use airtime to cover lifestyle stories and such. Shocking! When I hear of folks suffering outside the U.S. due to a natural disaster or whatever, of course I am saddened. I am sure as much as you are. Please don't insult me like that without doing your homework. I laugh at your ignorance.
>But I ask you this, how significant is the/. central CA posse? 70%? 40%? I bet it is a lot lot less.
I bet it's significantly greater than the Gujerat posse. Also, based on the large number of posts from local folks here in the Bay Area, there seems to be significant interest in this story.
Slashdot is simply targeting its coverage to its technical audience. Much of the readership is either based in the SF Bay Area or directly affected by what happens there. That isn't as true for Gujerat, thus something happening in Gujerat is not as newsworthy for this site. For a site like CNN, with a broader scope, it would be a different story entirely.
I live in the SF Bay Area. I'd suggest that the closest analogy for an East Coast person to understand is thunder and lightening. Perhaps once a year we get what you folks would call a real thunderstorm. To see lightning or hear thunder is a fantastic curiosity for me. I admit that because it's so unusual an experience for me, I get a little paranoid, even nervous, during a thunderstorm. I know it's irrational. It's hard for me to imagine having to go through this with any regularity like many folks in other parts of the country. I'm sure I'd get used to it if it wasn't such a novelty for me. I also stepped in real snow (not just barely-there powder) for the first time at the age of 31. I travel a lot both domestically and abroad, but I just never seem to be anywhere when it's snowing.
It must be a slow news day on Slashdot. I was in a cafe here near San Jose when this 5.2 quake hit. I was reading a book at the time and I thought I felt someone nudging my chair but I wasn't sure. I had to ask the guy next to me if he felt something. He said yes. The other guy next to him thought we were joking. That's how minor this one was.
I think many of us have extra PC hardware laying around or that can be obtained cheaply that we can put together to make a decent enough MP3 player. My question is, does anyone have any suggestions for *software* to do something like this? Yes, I could open up an ssh session and play songs from a CLI or run Winamp or whatever is the *nix equivalent. But I'd rather get away from a keyboard/mouse interface to play music. I've searched around on Google but the solutions I've found seem to be more on the level of a hack rather than something nearly as elegant as one of these out-of-the-box players. What are you folks using? I've considered rolling my own but there always seems to be something more important around here that needs to get done, ha.
I disagree. I found it interesting at a meta level to hear that Linus says he does not care about many marketing driven things. That tells me that he would more likely lean towards siding with technical merit over marketing merit when faced with a critical decision. He'd rather do something "right" than rush something to market. At least that's what I got out of it.
"The FreeBSD kernel-scheduled entity (KSE) project is striving to implement new kernel facilities that allow the implementation of SMP-scalable high-performance userland threading, as well as a new userland POSIX threads library (libpthread). KSEs are heavily based on a technology referred to as scheduler activations, and differ only to the degree necessary to support features that the original research does not address. The new libpthread uses as much of libc_r as is reasonably possible."
Consider one of Dillon's points: "A great deal of what people label as 'Linux' isn't actually Linux."
As a long-time FreeBSD user, I am fascinated when Linux users go to bat citing so many popular open source applications as Linux applications. Very few of the thousands of applications out there need to run in Linux "emulation" mode on FreeBSD. Almost all applications build and run similarly on FreeBSD as Linux.
I read print magazines such as Linux Journal and visit many Linux web sites, knowing that the content is very much applicable to my OS of choice.
This might be brute force, but how about add the capability to transfer data over two or more phone lines simultaneously, in parallel, if they exist at a location?
I wish there was a full-featured alternative to Netscape for Linux. I dual-boot Windows 2000 and Redhat 7.0 on my 400mHz Pentium II with 320MB RAM and ADSL. I've duplicated all my IE 5.5 Favorites as Netscape bookmarks. When I run through all these URLs, it's obvious that Netscape 6 and Mozilla M18 lag far behind IE 5.5 in performance. It's truly a sad state of affairs. I wish I had the choice of running IE on Linux.
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Those who don't RTFM are the bane of my existence. Outlook has had conversation view since at least Outlook 2000. In Outlook 2003, do View->Arrange By->Conversation. This mode is similar to but not the same as GMail's.
You had me wondering about that so I did a search of Usenet posts on Google Groups. I see several references to "snail mail" in 1982 but the archive doesn't go back much further.
It is official; digicraft.com now confirms it: Intel is dying.
OK, I couldn't help it.
Congratulations to AMD.
Good, now I don't need to delete my spam.
The least expensive 250GB ATA drive I can find on pricewatch is $167. $300 wouldn't quite get you two drives at retail. Of course, this box could sell for less than the cost of the components, like the Xbox did when it came out, with the idea that profit is generated elsewhere. Perhaps a user with seven tuners would pay for more pay-per-view shows than someone with fewer tuners, for example.
Looking at the photos, I see some sort of black box, maybe a drive enclosure or subwoofer (sorry, fuzzy photo), that takes up about as much space as a tower PC enclosure. If the former, then the drives would probably fit in a tall enough PC enclosure. If the latter, well, put the sub on the floor. Is this guy really saving any space for all his trouble?
By the way, I mean no insult to our Canadian brothers. We all prioritize our news as we see fit. America does not have a monopoly on this. Open up any sampling of international news web sites and you will see biases towards their readership's target audience.
I see you are from Canada. I was watching your Canadian TV network the other day on cable. I couldn't believe it. Most of the stories were about events that took place in Canada. That just exemplifies stereotypes about Canadians, that they care more about their own country than what happens to folks in other countries. They are SO self-centered! There are murders happening on the streets of Buenos Aires and Manilla and Canadian TV shrugs that off, instead choosing to use airtime to cover lifestyle stories and such. Shocking!
When I hear of folks suffering outside the U.S. due to a natural disaster or whatever, of course I am saddened. I am sure as much as you are. Please don't insult me like that without doing your homework.
I laugh at your ignorance.
>But I ask you this, how significant is the /. central CA posse? 70%? 40%? I bet it is a lot lot less.
I bet it's significantly greater than the Gujerat posse. Also, based on the large number of posts from local folks here in the Bay Area, there seems to be significant interest in this story.
>You must be an American.
Yes, I'm lucky.
Slashdot is simply targeting its coverage to its technical audience. Much of the readership is either based in the SF Bay Area or directly affected by what happens there. That isn't as true for Gujerat, thus something happening in Gujerat is not as newsworthy for this site. For a site like CNN, with a broader scope, it would be a different story entirely.
I live in the SF Bay Area. I'd suggest that the closest analogy for an East Coast person to understand is thunder and lightening. Perhaps once a year we get what you folks would call a real thunderstorm. To see lightning or hear thunder is a fantastic curiosity for me. I admit that because it's so unusual an experience for me, I get a little paranoid, even nervous, during a thunderstorm. I know it's irrational. It's hard for me to imagine having to go through this with any regularity like many folks in other parts of the country. I'm sure I'd get used to it if it wasn't such a novelty for me. I also stepped in real snow (not just barely-there powder) for the first time at the age of 31. I travel a lot both domestically and abroad, but I just never seem to be anywhere when it's snowing.
It must be a slow news day on Slashdot. I was in a cafe here near San Jose when this 5.2 quake hit. I was reading a book at the time and I thought I felt someone nudging my chair but I wasn't sure. I had to ask the guy next to me if he felt something. He said yes. The other guy next to him thought we were joking. That's how minor this one was.
I think many of us have extra PC hardware laying around or that can be obtained cheaply that we can put together to make a decent enough MP3 player. My question is, does anyone have any suggestions for *software* to do something like this? Yes, I could open up an ssh session and play songs from a CLI or run Winamp or whatever is the *nix equivalent. But I'd rather get away from a keyboard/mouse interface to play music. I've searched around on Google but the solutions I've found seem to be more on the level of a hack rather than something nearly as elegant as one of these out-of-the-box players. What are you folks using? I've considered rolling my own but there always seems to be something more important around here that needs to get done, ha.
Basilisk emulates a 680x0 processor, not a PowerPC. Thus, it will not work.
I disagree. I found it interesting at a meta level to hear that Linus says he does not care about many marketing driven things. That tells me that he would more likely lean towards siding with technical merit over marketing merit when faced with a critical decision. He'd rather do something "right" than rush something to market. At least that's what I got out of it.
FreeBSD is 80x24 based? I'm running XFree86-4 just fine on dual monitors. Darn newbies!
KSE = Kernel-Scheduled Entities
"The FreeBSD kernel-scheduled entity (KSE) project is striving to implement new kernel facilities that allow the implementation of SMP-scalable high-performance userland threading, as well as a new userland POSIX threads library (libpthread). KSEs are heavily based on a technology referred to as scheduler activations, and differ only to the degree necessary to support features that the original research does not address. The new libpthread uses as much of libc_r as is reasonably possible."
Consider one of Dillon's points: "A great deal of what people label as 'Linux' isn't actually Linux."
As a long-time FreeBSD user, I am fascinated when Linux users go to bat citing so many popular open source applications as Linux applications. Very few of the thousands of applications out there need to run in Linux "emulation" mode on FreeBSD. Almost all applications build and run similarly on FreeBSD as Linux.
I read print magazines such as Linux Journal and visit many Linux web sites, knowing that the content is very much applicable to my OS of choice.
This might be brute force, but how about add the capability to transfer data over two or more phone lines simultaneously, in parallel, if they exist at a location?
Just kidding.
OK, I see some analogies here:
FreeBSD vs. Linux. Common enemy: Windows
Mutt vs. Pine. Common enemy: Outlook
Vi vs. Emacs. Common enemy: Word
Every time I see someone editing code in Word,
I want to smack them upside the head.
I wish there was a full-featured alternative to Netscape for Linux. I dual-boot Windows 2000 and Redhat 7.0 on my 400mHz Pentium II with 320MB RAM and ADSL. I've duplicated all my IE 5.5 Favorites as Netscape bookmarks. When I run through all these URLs, it's obvious that Netscape 6 and Mozilla M18 lag far behind IE 5.5 in performance. It's truly a sad state of affairs. I wish I had the choice of running IE on Linux.