Hold your main hand like a gun, pointing at the target, with your thumb sticking up and the other fingers curled up. Loop one end of the band over the tip of the pointed finger (pop it under the nail to hold it there if you want). Stretch the band around the base of your thumb and down to your little (pinky) finger. Hook the other end around the little finger to hold it there.
Now you're loaded. You can walk around one-handed like this indefinitely. To shoot, point the "gun" and release the end held by the little finger. It's quite accurate too.
You can rewrite the auto-responses to be as friendly and explanatory as you like.
In any case, all emails that are awaiting confirmation are stored on your system in a pending folder. You can easily scan the logs looking for pending mails from friends that were never confirmed.
Think back, there actually is hardly any computer wankery evident on screen... sure there were a few impressive scenes (like the green absinthe fairy) but most of it was just wacky sets, great angles, lightning fast editing and filters. Just like Romeo and Juliet.
This is a long way from "done almost entirely via spectacular computer animation".
Exactly. The whole.biz idea is flawed from the start... What a scam... I wish everyone would boycott it but unfortunately as soon as SOME people start using it then we all have to, to protect our namespaces.
And.info... gawd... how incredibly lame that is. *Everything* is "info".
I want to see some mainstream news articles that point these things out.
I stumbled across some interesting software
for Home Automation recently. It looks very
cool and is totally open source. The site
has lots of other practical ideas and links
regarding setting one up:
Have you seen Black and White yet? Imagine that
with the detail scaled up by another 1000 or 10,000, with 1000 players all playing together over the net, creating a world together for
work or fun. Yes, you'd need big bandwidth,
but the sheer number of variables to
realistically simulate a useful world will
take BIG GRUNTY HARDWARE.
I've been saying this for years now to anyone who'll listen.
Hotmail is not free mail.
By using the service, you are giving Microsoft the right to use your mail.
I would be VERY suprised if there were not some sort of data harvesting software behind hotmail (and other passport sites) that is looking for keywords, extracting useful stock tips, marketing
data (eg what the kids are into this week) and
so on and so forth.
-- The net is now a legitimate medium, in that it is neither rare nor well done.
This is exactly the tactic I took with
my own PhD candidacy just this month.
My software includes Open Source software,
and so is bound to be Open Source.
My University was happy with that, as long as
I attached a document to my candidacy proposal explaining the situation
and just exactly what it applied to.
There's a cool electronic board game described in that book which I tried to program (in Pascal around 1985).
I never really finished (it was one of my first ever programs), but I wonder if anyone else has ever tried it? Or is willing to try it now! Probably easy to do in a single Java applet I would think.
Typically, a more reasonable approach is to figure out what it is that users are trying to accomplish and design an interface to assist with it. More and more, the real purpose of KDE seems to be as a way to configure and fiddle with KDE.
I have to disagree with this. In general the interfaces you're talking about belong to applications, not the desktop.
The "desktop" can be seen as equivalent to the GUI equivalent of the "shell" in the console world. It helps you use multiple applications to manipulate data in an efficient way, as flexibly as possible.
I want to be able to customise the shell, to let me use my applications smoothly.
Personally I like KDE because I can forget I'm using it.
Wow, amazing responses. Thank you to everyone writing such thoughtful, varied and experienced replies and links. It's really helping me think about the issues.
Here's some more requirements that may help explain the situation better.
Requirements:
scalable from 7000 users (now) to 25000 users (later).
IMAP4, POP3 and web access
needs to integrate with existing Novell NDS (possibly via LDAP) so that mail accounts are the same as existing file/print accounts.
needs to be able to integrate with some type calendaring/meeting/scheduling software with compatible clients on Windows/Mac/Linux
needs to support lots of attachments and mailing list traffic (ie 'shared mail')
needs to have a SIMPLE interface for all users (ie servers appear as a single address for all POP, IMAP and web users, such mail.organisation.edu, and email addresses are always I.Surname@organisation.edu )
At the moment the most talked-about local solution has changed from Exchange to a Novell Groupwise system of at least 20 Novell boxes, with a big sendmail system as the main gateway.
I would really like to work out a complete open source system that can do the same job cheaper and better.
Slashdot Mirror
I second that. TMDA is working incredibly well for me.
Get TMDA and put a whitelist on your mail.
With the way I mentioned the band doesn't hit the finger at all, and I think it also imparts spin as it whips around the thumb.
... I can't detect any difference in accuracy or power.
I just did some experiments
I like this way better:
Hold your main hand like a gun, pointing at the target, with your thumb sticking up and the other fingers curled up. Loop one end of the band over the tip of the pointed finger (pop it under the nail to hold it there if you want). Stretch the band around the base of your thumb and down to your little (pinky) finger. Hook the other end around the little finger to hold it there.
Now you're loaded. You can walk around one-handed like this indefinitely. To shoot, point the "gun" and release the end held by the little finger. It's quite accurate too.
Of course!
Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator -> Tabbed Browsing
You can rewrite the auto-responses to be as friendly and explanatory as you like.
In any case, all emails that are awaiting confirmation are stored on your system in a pending folder. You can easily scan the logs looking for pending mails from friends that were never confirmed.
I'm finding that TMDA actually works really well.
This is very handy to remind yourself who
and where you are at all times.
if ( $?prompt ) then
set prompt="%B%S%m%s:`whoami`%b \!> "
endif
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This is a long way from "done almost entirely via spectacular computer animation".
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I can't figure out why Katz wrote that unless he hadn't seen the movie.
Still very much worth seeing the film though.
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Can he be serious?
What is Katz on?
Shrek and Final Fantasy - THAT is computer animation.
Mouline Rouge is very much live action in sets and models with plenty of touchups and some fancy editing.
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Exactly. The whole .biz idea is flawed from the start ... What a scam ... I wish everyone would boycott it but unfortunately as soon as SOME people start using it then we all have to, to protect our namespaces.
And .info ... gawd ... how incredibly lame that is. *Everything* is "info".
I want to see some mainstream news articles that point these things out.
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http://misterhouse.net/
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One big one is virtual realities.
Have you seen Black and White yet? Imagine that with the detail scaled up by another 1000 or 10,000, with 1000 players all playing together over the net, creating a world together for work or fun. Yes, you'd need big bandwidth, but the sheer number of variables to realistically simulate a useful world will take BIG GRUNTY HARDWARE.
We are nowhere near close enough yet.
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Hotmail is not free mail.
By using the service, you are giving Microsoft the right to use your mail.
I would be VERY suprised if there were not some sort of data harvesting software behind hotmail (and other passport sites) that is looking for keywords, extracting useful stock tips, marketing data (eg what the kids are into this week) and so on and so forth.
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The net is now a legitimate medium, in that it is neither rare nor well done.
The Tangible Media group at the MIT Media Lab have been working on this sort of thing for quite a while, and deserve a mention. http://tangible.www.media.mit.edu/groups/tangible/ projects.html
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Just rename it to Beaver and watch the hits roll in. :-)
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Memory sticks used to be more expensive, when they first came out, but now they are usually cheaper than compact flash cards.
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My software includes Open Source software, and so is bound to be Open Source.
My University was happy with that, as long as I attached a document to my candidacy proposal explaining the situation and just exactly what it applied to.
No problem! :-)
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I never really finished (it was one of my first ever programs), but I wonder if anyone else has ever tried it? Or is willing to try it now! Probably easy to do in a single Java applet I would think.
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Freshmeat.net is good enough for me.
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eg http://koffice.kde.org/faq/koffi ce-faq.html#KPARTS
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The "desktop" can be seen as equivalent to the GUI equivalent of the "shell" in the console world. It helps you use multiple applications to manipulate data in an efficient way, as flexibly as possible.
I want to be able to customise the shell, to let me use my applications smoothly.
Personally I like KDE because I can forget I'm using it.
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I hope the publicity generated from this court case causes lots more mail servers to start using MAPS (and ORBS) to block spammers.
Since I switched to using their realtime blocking lists on my server my spam has dwindled to a tenth.
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Has the role played by Universities and schools in building the Internet already been forgotten?
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This whole fiasco sounds like the result of adding marketing executives to something that was simple and good (mostly).
Ah, Dilbert.
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Wow, amazing responses. Thank you to everyone writing such thoughtful, varied and experienced replies and links. It's really helping me think about the issues.
Here's some more requirements that may help explain the situation better.
Requirements:
At the moment the most talked-about local solution has changed from Exchange to a Novell Groupwise system of at least 20 Novell boxes, with a big sendmail system as the main gateway.
I would really like to work out a complete open source system that can do the same job cheaper and better.
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