Tracy buys an iPod and a Dell desktop with Windows XP. She uses XPlay to get them working together. Tracy is happy.
Tracy loves how easy and intuitive the iPod is. The Dell and Windows annoy her though by just not flowing right.
An Outlook worm emails the private pictures of her and her boyfriends vacation to Hedonism II to her entire address book, including her grandparents, bookclub, and pastor. Tracy's Dell then explodes in a glorious ball of fire.
All that's left is the iPod. The angelic iPod. Tracy has to buy a new computer. Who do _you_ think Tracy will buy a computer from?
*shivers* Damn, I had forgotten about the lack of Forward Delete. It took me two months to get rid of that muscle memory.
I do have a few qualms with the keyboard. I've made some sacrifices, but I feel you make sacrafices no matter what computer/OS combo you run. In my case, the powerbook eliminated two desktops with loud fans, consolidated work in Windows and Linux onto one desktop, plus added a portability that lets me work in a more relaxing way (like on the couch during The Simpsons).
For me the convenience of Windows apps, combined with the CLI and stability of BSD, and the silence of a laptop make up for having to learn different keys for navigating in vi and doing w/o a forward delete key. Of course it's a personal choice.
It's very easy to get used to. I don't know about most people, but when I'm working on my laptop (a TiBook), both hands are on the keyboard.
When using the trackpad, a right hand finger moves the pointer. My left is still at the ASDF row. Moving the left hand down a little puts a finger over the CTRL key. CTRL-click is the equivalent of right clicking. It doesn't take long to get used to.
I could understand the complaint if it were $20 a month or $100 a year. I was annoyed when I received the email last night.
However, it is only $20/year. People are complaining about $1.67 a month. The average Slashdotter spends more on coffee/soda/candy/porn per week. If you truly need Yahoo! POP3 service, you'll find a way. Otherwise, you can still use their web interface.
The point of the post was that people are complaining about a free service that was maintained by other people and paid for by other people. It's contrary to the spirit of/..
As far as setting up your own mail server, check out http://www.lifewithqmail.org . It isn't hard.
I was vocal about expressing DIY (Do It Yourself) feelings on a site that caters to the Linux/BSD crowd who are DIY to their core, and I get modded as "Flamebait"?
I had Telocity till I moved out of there service area. They never blocked any port, even when the IIS worms were running rampant. I understand that there are many broadband services that block 25. Hell, my dialup ISP, EarthLink blocks you from connecting to port 25s outside of their network.
There was one month where they'd experience router problems once a week for a few hours, but after that, everything was fine.
The point was that there are alternatives and that to complain about a free service changing is contrary to the DIY spirit of Slashdot and the Linux Elite.
My god, all you people bitching about $20 a year. If you are on this site of "News for Nerds", then you should fit one of these categories:
1) *nix Geek. 2) Nerdy college person (student/grad student/prof/admin) 3) Admin at a business 4) Connected indivual (you have "friends") 5) Other Miscellaneous "I understand computers, then internet, and have a clue"
You are probably employed somehow. If you can afford $10 a month for the simplest dial-up ISP account, you can afford $20 a YEAR. If you can afford a six pack of coke/beer every few days, you can afford $20 a YEAR.
Better yet, buy a domain ($15/year) from a registrar that offers free email forwarding. Forward the domain's mail to your ISP account.
If you're on DSL/Cable, set up your own mail server.
Don't f***ing depend on Yahoo! for your free POP3 account then bitch when they ask you to pay so they can pay the bandwidth and the mail admins and the sys admins.
My god, all you invalids. I'm so sick of you. Where do I permantly disable user comments and stupid punk ass whiny "Why do things cost money" stories!
fire men Should be at the fire station if he's working
militairy Should be at the base
Joe Sicpack whose wife went into labour 2 weeks early... What lame ass husband goes to see a movie when his wife is in labor? Or were you saying his wife goes into labor while he's at the movie? Why wasn't she at the movie with him since it's going to be YEARS before they'll be seeing a movie together w/o the kid?
People survived without cell phones. Some were even happier before cell phones (I know I was). Blocking cell phone signals in some situations should be done - fine restraunts should do it. There are few things more grating than sitting at a table on a date and having someone at the next table ring and start a loud conversation... Of course he/she is having the loud conversation with someone on the phone while ignoring his/her dinner companions.
The problem is that people don't turn phones off/turn phone to vibrate in the proper situations. As this problem grows worse, I see no problem in the proprietors of movie theatre or restraunts or cafes blocking signals. They should put up a sign saying so, but it is THEIR business. Many of the places I frequent, the proprietor tries to maintain a certain atmosphere. If cell phones tings come too often, I'll leave. Just like tossing out obnoxious teenagers or drunk frat boys, asking someone to stop smoking, or whatever, there's nothing wrong with blocking cell phones if it becomes too troublesome.
Anyway, why do people have to be reachable 24/7? (Don't bother explaining that servers crash, accidents happen, blah blah blah... I know all that. I'm asking slightly rhetorical, deeper form of 'why'.) Wouldn't you enjoy sitting and finishing a nice dinner and movie out with a friend before you find out your mother was in a car accident?
I'd equate this to smoking in a way. Many places ban smoking not for health reasons but for quality of life reasons. Smokers do physically need nicotine, but they'll go without sometimes so that they can hang out with friends in a non-smoking section restraunt. Cell phone users do not NEED their phones. Why can't the proprietor ban cell phone use?
My personal rant because you/. people are starting to annoy me and haven't had enough coffee.
Yah, it's amazing what they can do with computers these days, but without an interesting story and quality acting and directing, you do not have a movie - You have a long stip of film with bland pictures.
Now, I could overlook your comment about CGI on a 40 screen and yada yada yada if you were talking about the latest movie mass produced by Hollywood (Resident Evil), but we're talking Star Wars here. Star Wars isn't about the CGI.... *ahem* Star Wars SHOULDN'T have been about the CGI, but looks like Lucas is just creaming himself again with what he can do with computers.
Moderators: I'm not trolling, I'm just pissed that Episode II is going to suck like Episode I did.
Why does all this matter? Everyone knows the Americas were originally settled by the Three Toed Ugabundas from Proxima 10. Humans call us sloths, but what you do know? You run around working and slaving, while we hang in a the trees and f***. You tell me who's the more advanced race?
I'm sure the 20 posts above me all point this out, but I feel the urge as a recent convert to point it out.
Pundits have been saying the Mac was dead since 1986? Maybe a little later. Either way, they've been saying it somewhere between 10 and 15 years, and yet Apple is still here. Apple is getting as much press as it did way back when in the good ol' days. Apple has name recognition. Apple has people converting to them. Apple has people *crabing* an iMac or a PowerBook. How many consumers *crave* a Dell or a Gateway?
Wow, for a company so obsessed with innovation, you'd think separating a piece of software from the OS would be a snap!
How in the world do Apple, Linux, Sun, and BSD all do it?
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You've made one of the classic blunders. The first is never get involved with a land war in Asia. The second is never debate an Anonymous Coward when your karma's on the line.
As well as our brothers, sisters, best friends, and parents. I'm sure as Hell not going to every relative's home, setting up there system to use an alternate DNS, just so they can send me email.
On a similiar note, when you live in older homes/apartment, especially smaller towns that were wired 50 to 75 years ago, you have trouble finding three prong plugs.
Usually my computer setup is dictated by where the three prong plug is - kitchen? dining room? Wherever.
Look into finding local HAMfests. These are usually weekend events sponsored by HAM radio operator clubs. HAMfests usually have a good bit of computer stuff to since many HAM operators tinker with computers and packet radio.
In your area, a big one happens (or at least happened while I still was in Virginia several years back) in Timonium, MD. HAMs would take over the fairgrounds and spread out all sorts of hardware - Radio, computer, and other. You could pick up used hardware, crazy home cooked gadgets, and just junk. Everything from high end components from retailers (the computer show crowd) to used 8088s from an old HAM.
Limiting one entity to one domain will only piss off more people and cause even more fraud.
For example, my last name is "Harvey." I'd love to have "harvey.org" or "harvey.net" for my extended family. It's the perfect site for gatherings, finding distant relatives, working on geneaology, and email addresses that mean something. With your idea, if I register that, then I can't register "twosunconsulting.com" for my sole-proprietorship. Legally, both would belong to the person, and I don't believe anyone would doubt my claim to both.
Legal rationing doesn't help much of anything. Look at China's rationing of children and the extreme "rationing" is even worse. Look back to the US's prohibition of all but medical alcohol. Fraud was rampant. If you ration domain names, then my dog and fish and grandmother will all own names that I have a legit right to.
And why shouldn't GM own both generalmotors.com and gm.com? They have a legal claim to both. In the US (who's laws pertain to.com,.net, and.org), they could probably wage a nice legal battle under the 1st Amendmant and copyright law.
Let's limit them to one phone number, too! The new area codes popping up all over the place and 10-digit dialling are bigger pains in the ass than someone not being able to register "redchucks.com."
How do you handle spin offs and mergers? Palm was an independent company. They had palm.com. What happens to palm.com when 3Com buys them? They have to sacrifice palm.com for 3com.com/palm. 3Com then spins them off into a separate company, but Joe Schmoe, having no domain names and seeing a good investment oppurtunity, bought palm.com when 3Com bought Palm. Now he wants $30 million.
One other thing: THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO RATION THAN !@#$% DOMAIN NAMES!!!!!!! Ration energy, ration gas, ration housing square footage. Ration all those things that people overconsume at the detriment of others and the environment.
I work for a registrar. Today during a meeting, we got sidetracked by all the bogus "trademarked" domains that've been submitted. Someone has a trade mark for 'sex', 'New Orleans', and 'beer'. . .
Hee hee heeee.... Guess I could lie about my trademark to 'god', 'root', and 'mis':)
I just bought one last week - light, water proof, several pockets the perfect size for cameras, cd players, Palms, several books, a notepad or two/laptop, a bottle of water, cell phone, etc . . .
Check out http://www.courierwareusa.com. They were couriers who designed their own bags. The bags are very high quality. They have many several different styles of bags, plenty of sizes, and they're open to suggestions from customers on how to improve their designs.
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Tracy buys an iPod and a Dell desktop with Windows XP. She uses XPlay to get them working together. Tracy is happy.
Tracy loves how easy and intuitive the iPod is. The Dell and Windows annoy her though by just not flowing right.
An Outlook worm emails the private pictures of her and her boyfriends vacation to Hedonism II to her entire address book, including her grandparents, bookclub, and pastor. Tracy's Dell then explodes in a glorious ball of fire.
All that's left is the iPod. The angelic iPod. Tracy has to buy a new computer. Who do _you_ think Tracy will buy a computer from?
There's a work around I found for this.
When you can't open your regular data file, create a new one, then merge the old in with the File->Merge command.
But, yah, hopefully the bug is fixed.
there is no way I'm going to spend two hours of my life listening to
/. - a whole lot of people with nothing to do, talk about things they don't really know about!
Ummmm..... Commentary sucks == Stop Button
Why should I care to hear your commentary on Roger Ebert's article?
It's like
*shivers* Damn, I had forgotten about the lack of Forward Delete. It took me two months to get rid of that muscle memory.
I do have a few qualms with the keyboard. I've made some sacrifices, but I feel you make sacrafices no matter what computer/OS combo you run. In my case, the powerbook eliminated two desktops with loud fans, consolidated work in Windows and Linux onto one desktop, plus added a portability that lets me work in a more relaxing way (like on the couch during The Simpsons).
For me the convenience of Windows apps, combined with the CLI and stability of BSD, and the silence of a laptop make up for having to learn different keys for navigating in vi and doing w/o a forward delete key. Of course it's a personal choice.
It's very easy to get used to. I don't know about most people, but when I'm working on my laptop (a TiBook), both hands are on the keyboard.
When using the trackpad, a right hand finger moves the pointer. My left is still at the ASDF row. Moving the left hand down a little puts a finger over the CTRL key. CTRL-click is the equivalent of right clicking. It doesn't take long to get used to.
I could understand the complaint if it were $20 a month or $100 a year. I was annoyed when I received the email last night.
/..
However, it is only $20/year. People are complaining about $1.67 a month. The average Slashdotter spends more on coffee/soda/candy/porn per week. If you truly need Yahoo! POP3 service, you'll find a way. Otherwise, you can still use their web interface.
The point of the post was that people are complaining about a free service that was maintained by other people and paid for by other people. It's contrary to the spirit of
As far as setting up your own mail server, check out http://www.lifewithqmail.org . It isn't hard.
I was vocal about expressing DIY (Do It Yourself) feelings on a site that caters to the Linux/BSD crowd who are DIY to their core, and I get modded as "Flamebait"?
I had Telocity till I moved out of there service area. They never blocked any port, even when the IIS worms were running rampant. I understand that there are many broadband services that block 25. Hell, my dialup ISP, EarthLink blocks you from connecting to port 25s outside of their network.
There was one month where they'd experience router problems once a week for a few hours, but after that, everything was fine.
The point was that there are alternatives and that to complain about a free service changing is contrary to the DIY spirit of Slashdot and the Linux Elite.
Try Squirrel Mail. It's a PHP IMAP web front end.
http://www.squirrelmail.org/
On the mail server side, use qmail. Try http://www.lifewithqmail.org and http://cr.yp.to/qmail for more info.
Thank you for taking the DIY approach instead of the "My GOD $20!!! What Cheats" approach.
My god, all you people bitching about $20 a year. If you are on this site of "News for Nerds", then you should fit one of these categories:
1) *nix Geek.
2) Nerdy college person (student/grad student/prof/admin)
3) Admin at a business
4) Connected indivual (you have "friends")
5) Other Miscellaneous "I understand computers, then internet, and have a clue"
You are probably employed somehow. If you can afford $10 a month for the simplest dial-up ISP account, you can afford $20 a YEAR. If you can afford a six pack of coke/beer every few days, you can afford $20 a YEAR.
Better yet, buy a domain ($15/year) from a registrar that offers free email forwarding. Forward the domain's mail to your ISP account.
If you're on DSL/Cable, set up your own mail server.
Don't f***ing depend on Yahoo! for your free POP3 account then bitch when they ask you to pay so they can pay the bandwidth and the mail admins and the sys admins.
My god, all you invalids. I'm so sick of you. Where do I permantly disable user comments and stupid punk ass whiny "Why do things cost money" stories!
a doctor oncall
/. people are starting to annoy me and haven't had enough coffee.
Shouldn't go see a movie
sysadmin oncall
Shouldn't go see a movie
fire men
Should be at the fire station if he's working
militairy
Should be at the base
Joe Sicpack whose wife went into labour 2 weeks early...
What lame ass husband goes to see a movie when his wife is in labor? Or were you saying his wife goes into labor while he's at the movie? Why wasn't she at the movie with him since it's going to be YEARS before they'll be seeing a movie together w/o the kid?
People survived without cell phones. Some were even happier before cell phones (I know I was). Blocking cell phone signals in some situations should be done - fine restraunts should do it. There are few things more grating than sitting at a table on a date and having someone at the next table ring and start a loud conversation... Of course he/she is having the loud conversation with someone on the phone while ignoring his/her dinner companions.
The problem is that people don't turn phones off/turn phone to vibrate in the proper situations. As this problem grows worse, I see no problem in the proprietors of movie theatre or restraunts or cafes blocking signals. They should put up a sign saying so, but it is THEIR business. Many of the places I frequent, the proprietor tries to maintain a certain atmosphere. If cell phones tings come too often, I'll leave. Just like tossing out obnoxious teenagers or drunk frat boys, asking someone to stop smoking, or whatever, there's nothing wrong with blocking cell phones if it becomes too troublesome.
Anyway, why do people have to be reachable 24/7? (Don't bother explaining that servers crash, accidents happen, blah blah blah... I know all that. I'm asking slightly rhetorical, deeper form of 'why'.) Wouldn't you enjoy sitting and finishing a nice dinner and movie out with a friend before you find out your mother was in a car accident?
I'd equate this to smoking in a way. Many places ban smoking not for health reasons but for quality of life reasons. Smokers do physically need nicotine, but they'll go without sometimes so that they can hang out with friends in a non-smoking section restraunt. Cell phone users do not NEED their phones. Why can't the proprietor ban cell phone use?
My personal rant because you
Ooooo.... CGI....
Yah, it's amazing what they can do with computers these days, but without an interesting story and quality acting and directing, you do not have a movie - You have a long stip of film with bland pictures.
Now, I could overlook your comment about CGI on a 40 screen and yada yada yada if you were talking about the latest movie mass produced by Hollywood (Resident Evil), but we're talking Star Wars here. Star Wars isn't about the CGI.... *ahem* Star Wars SHOULDN'T have been about the CGI, but looks like Lucas is just creaming himself again with what he can do with computers.
Moderators: I'm not trolling, I'm just pissed that Episode II is going to suck like Episode I did.
Why does all this matter? Everyone knows the Americas were originally settled by the Three Toed Ugabundas from Proxima 10. Humans call us sloths, but what you do know? You run around working and slaving, while we hang in a the trees and f***. You tell me who's the more advanced race?
All praise Gonzo, the Magificent Ugabunda!
I'm sure the 20 posts above me all point this out, but I feel the urge as a recent convert to point it out.
Pundits have been saying the Mac was dead since 1986? Maybe a little later. Either way, they've been saying it somewhere between 10 and 15 years, and yet Apple is still here. Apple is getting as much press as it did way back when in the good ol' days. Apple has name recognition. Apple has people converting to them. Apple has people *crabing* an iMac or a PowerBook. How many consumers *crave* a Dell or a Gateway?
Wow, for a company so obsessed with innovation, you'd think separating a piece of software from the OS would be a snap!
How in the world do Apple, Linux, Sun, and BSD all do it?
You've made one of the classic blunders. The first is never get involved with a land war in Asia. The second is never debate an Anonymous Coward when your karma's on the line.
Hell Yah!
/. tote bag.
Take a cue from PBS and public radio - every six months, run a real story then three "Oh what would your life be like without us?" stories.
But only for the freeloaders who won't pay. Once you pay your $60, the annoyance stories go away and are replaced with real stories.
For a $100 pledge you get this marvelous canvas
For those $1000 pledges, you get to throw rotten apples at Katz!
Keep out most of the idiots and most of the spam
As well as our brothers, sisters, best friends, and parents. I'm sure as Hell not going to every relative's home, setting up there system to use an alternate DNS, just so they can send me email.
Looks like it comes with a color co-ordinated Optical Pro mouse.
On a similiar note, when you live in older homes/apartment, especially smaller towns that were wired 50 to 75 years ago, you have trouble finding three prong plugs.
Usually my computer setup is dictated by where the three prong plug is - kitchen? dining room? Wherever.
Can't wait to get a PowerBook!
To the tune BTO's 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet':
You ain't seen Evil yet,
Baby, you just seen Evil yet.
Look into finding local HAMfests. These are usually weekend events sponsored by HAM radio operator clubs. HAMfests usually have a good bit of computer stuff to since many HAM operators tinker with computers and packet radio.
In your area, a big one happens (or at least happened while I still was in Virginia several years back) in Timonium, MD. HAMs would take over the fairgrounds and spread out all sorts of hardware - Radio, computer, and other. You could pick up used hardware, crazy home cooked gadgets, and just junk. Everything from high end components from retailers (the computer show crowd) to used 8088s from an old HAM.
Limiting one entity to one domain will only piss off more people and cause even more fraud.
For example, my last name is "Harvey." I'd love to have "harvey.org" or "harvey.net" for my extended family. It's the perfect site for gatherings, finding distant relatives, working on geneaology, and email addresses that mean something. With your idea, if I register that, then I can't register "twosunconsulting.com" for my sole-proprietorship. Legally, both would belong to the person, and I don't believe anyone would doubt my claim to both.
Legal rationing doesn't help much of anything. Look at China's rationing of children and the extreme "rationing" is even worse. Look back to the US's prohibition of all but medical alcohol. Fraud was rampant. If you ration domain names, then my dog and fish and grandmother will all own names that I have a legit right to.
And why shouldn't GM own both generalmotors.com and gm.com? They have a legal claim to both. In the US (who's laws pertain to .com, .net, and .org), they could probably wage a nice legal battle under the 1st Amendmant and copyright law.
Let's limit them to one phone number, too! The new area codes popping up all over the place and 10-digit dialling are bigger pains in the ass than someone not being able to register "redchucks.com."
How do you handle spin offs and mergers? Palm was an independent company. They had palm.com. What happens to palm.com when 3Com buys them? They have to sacrifice palm.com for 3com.com/palm. 3Com then spins them off into a separate company, but Joe Schmoe, having no domain names and seeing a good investment oppurtunity, bought palm.com when 3Com bought Palm. Now he wants $30 million.
One other thing: THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO RATION THAN !@#$% DOMAIN NAMES!!!!!!! Ration energy, ration gas, ration housing square footage. Ration all those things that people overconsume at the detriment of others and the environment.
I work for a registrar. Today during a meeting, we got sidetracked by all the bogus "trademarked" domains that've been submitted. Someone has a trade mark for 'sex', 'New Orleans', and 'beer'. . .
Hee hee heeee.... Guess I could lie about my trademark to 'god', 'root', and 'mis' :)
Or a bike courier satchel.
I just bought one last week - light, water proof, several pockets the perfect size for cameras, cd players, Palms, several books, a notepad or two/laptop, a bottle of water, cell phone, etc . . .
Check out http://www.courierwareusa.com. They were couriers who designed their own bags. The bags are very high quality. They have many several different styles of bags, plenty of sizes, and they're open to suggestions from customers on how to improve their designs.