I got the Dell Latitude E5510 for my wife. The change from XP to Windows 7 was not a problem. Do not, repeat, do not bring up technical specs--that would be like her asking your opinion on nuances of fabric colors (assuming you really don't have a strong opinion about fabric colors). Just buy a good, business-grade laptop and leave it at that. "Honey, here is a new laptop that should last you at least five years or so..."
If port 25 is being blocked, perhaps you could configure your internal mail server to use a different port--say 587, which is another commonly used mail server port. Particularly if it is an internal mail server (and you have control over and knowledge of who uses it), then you can have everyone in your organization configure their email client applications to also use port 587.
True geeks do not know they are geeks and are not self-conscious about it. We are driven by curiosity to know everything knowable about a subject, for reasons we may not understand. Once the dust settles after a bout of feeding our undeniable intellectual hunger, we may look around and wonder what to do now with all these manuals, all this inter-operable software, all these unmarketable work products. But that is a passing moment, and then we are back to the next fascinating subject that must be fully understood...pop culture is only trying to hit an unaware, moving target in this case.
This is a plausible argument. For the many web programmers who likely frequent/., it should be possible to reverse engineer Facebook (and greatly improve on it). Doing so would be a fascinating experiment and one way to create a platform where this hypothesis could be tested. In fact, the amount of human energy that went into compiling all the the comments related to this particular post would be enough to develop the database and write at least some of the code to make this possible. That said, who is up for it?
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I got the Dell Latitude E5510 for my wife. The change from XP to Windows 7 was not a problem. Do not, repeat, do not bring up technical specs--that would be like her asking your opinion on nuances of fabric colors (assuming you really don't have a strong opinion about fabric colors). Just buy a good, business-grade laptop and leave it at that. "Honey, here is a new laptop that should last you at least five years or so..."
If port 25 is being blocked, perhaps you could configure your internal mail server to use a different port--say 587, which is another commonly used mail server port. Particularly if it is an internal mail server (and you have control over and knowledge of who uses it), then you can have everyone in your organization configure their email client applications to also use port 587.
True geeks do not know they are geeks and are not self-conscious about it. We are driven by curiosity to know everything knowable about a subject, for reasons we may not understand. Once the dust settles after a bout of feeding our undeniable intellectual hunger, we may look around and wonder what to do now with all these manuals, all this inter-operable software, all these unmarketable work products. But that is a passing moment, and then we are back to the next fascinating subject that must be fully understood...pop culture is only trying to hit an unaware, moving target in this case.
This is a plausible argument. For the many web programmers who likely frequent /., it should be possible to reverse engineer Facebook (and greatly improve on it). Doing so would be a fascinating experiment and one way to create a platform where this hypothesis could be tested. In fact, the amount of human energy that went into compiling all the the comments related to this particular post would be enough to develop the database and write at least some of the code to make this possible. That said, who is up for it?