The problem with GMail is that you have to use a web browser to read your e-mail. What I want is the ability to use a normal client like Thunderbird to read my mail, but have the search capabilities of GMail. I can't find a way to accomplish this even though I own and run my own Linux mail server.
Is there any way of indexing my Maildir mailstore, or perhaps replacing my IMAP server with something more powerful that could give me a Gmail type search? If not, why not?!:)
Using the fake picture scanner backwards gives you a proofing tool to make sure you've perfected your fake picture before it's released. It won't take too long before these detection tools get on to eMule - and once there there, everyone will be able to fine tune their picture until the proofing tool no longer thinks it's a fake... Once in this state - they can release it knowing that the experts will be on *their* side. So such tools will have little use... It kind of works in the same way that you can use unix 'crack' to make sure your users have secure passwords.
Yes... Here in the UK, we pay some ridiculous fee (£120 or something) to simply own a television or video (or anything that is capable of utilising the terrestrial television transmissions). Most of the money goes to fund the BBC Television channels (which have *NO* adverts!) but I think a lot of people would rather it was free to own a TV and would be happy to put up with a few adverts to support the BBC channels.
Licensing per core or per processor is just as stupid as licensing per FLOP (speed of the processor). It should be up to you how much hardware and processing power you want to throw at your software - after all, it only really affects how fast it runs or perhaps how many connections it can handle.
If I want to speed up my database by giving it more processors or more RAM - I don't see why I should have to pay Oracle more money for the privilage. After all, if it was a faster database, I wouldn't necessarily *need* to purchase more licenses for it would I?:) Maybe per-core licensing discourages them from speeding up the single core implementation as they are keen to sell more multi-core licenses:)
> So you plan on trying to run ASP.NET on linux then? > If you run your web server on Winodws it isn't free.
What a load of rubbish. I do not have to buy a copy of Windows for EACH application I install! Windows is an operating system - not part of ASP.NET!
Extending your argument - how exactly is Linux free if it requires a computer to run?? Does linux come with a free computer? Unless you can get computers for free then Linux isn't any more free (as in beer) than using Windows using your argument. EVERY system has prerequisites of some sort or another...
You're talking rubbish. Unless you are forced to buy an operating system with EACH and EVERY piece of software you install then you cannot factor it into the cost. I might ALREADY have the operating system. It might have come with my computer. It does not cost me any EXTRA money if I suddenly decide I want to use ASP.
And what if I WAS planning to run ASP.NET on Linux? It's possible with the Mono project. Then it would be free. And it would still be better than PHP IMHO - at least for anyone wanting to do anything more complicated than a pet project.
How on earth has the parent got to +4 when it's totally off-topic and irrelevant to this article?
This ignorant poster obviously hasn't realised that this article is about ASP.NET and NOT ASP (which is in NO WAY comparable to ASP.NET apart from the letters in it's name!).
Why is everyone so concerned with the programming language and framework being cross platform? Has everyone forgotten that both PHP and ASP.NET are web development frameworks? I strongly suspect that the vast majority of people will NEVER suddenly need to host their website on an entirely different platform. Most people develop a single website for a specific customer (or themselves) and know the platform in advance.
Also, in what parallel universe is PHP faster than ASP.NET? It certainly isn't in any benchmarks or reviews I've seen. Google around and have a look. I suspect the author managed to create a few very basic (ie not real world) examples of where he managed to get PHP to perform better than ASP.NET.
You also do NOT have to pay for ASP.NET - you can download the SDK and deploy a commercial website without paying a penny. Some of the posts above make it sound like ASP.NET is more expensive. It's no more expensive than running PHP if keep the other variables (ie platform) the same.
Very frustrating to keep seeing so many biassed articles around written by Open Source evangelists with mimimal real-world coding experience.
I don't see how you can even compare PHP with ASP.NET. It's not even fully OO. It's much more accurate and sensible to compare it to the obsolete legacy ASP than it is to compare it to ASP.NET. It's in a different league.
In the UK we've changed our license plate (VIN) scheme several times in the last 20 years. It hasn't really been a major problem and each time it happens, it barely makes the news. I'm not really sure what all the fuss is about. Has the US used the same system for a very long time or something?
As for all the silly suggestions above about using case sensitive characters - in the UK at least, license plates need to be computer readable over CCTV and adding more characters makes this harder. They also need to be memorable to people as well. I can hardly see how a license plate that has strange symbols or mixed case letters is going to be memorable...
The best bet would to simply use ONLY alphabetical characters and exclude. The problem with numbers is that there are only 10 of them.
Imagine if all your credit cards actually *were* the size of this "credit card sized" device... Your wallet would be more like a laptop case and would weigh about 30lbs. I wish they wouldn't keep exaggerating the sizes of products...
They can't even get 512k ADSL running at full speed yet, so why a company is bothering to pursue 200mbit DSL is beyond me. Until ISPs sort their act out and get rid of (or reduce) the ridiculous contention ratios (often up to 50:1 in the UK) then there's no point in increasing the 'last mile' speed.
Is it just me, or has Firefox 0.9 changed it's radio buttons so that they are now really ugly? I don't remember them displaying that badly before - they look as bad as they do on old linux browsers.
No, because by the time you've finished building it in 2048, AMD with have released the 16 core Athlon 256-FX/2.4Thz processor, which would be faster than the whole cluster.
> 3. A possible sign that Valve should hire more people so they can > release it sooner.
Err, clearly you're not a software developer if think it works like that...
> 4. What moron allows an email to install a keyboard sniffer on his computer. > Anti-virus and patches take care of a lot of that.
Anti-virus only work for viruses that are already in the definition files. Virues only get into the definition files after a few people have sent the virus to the AV labs. ie a *LOT* of people get a virus before it's in their definitions - no matter how good they are at keeping their definitions up to date.
I would expect that if a true hacker really wanted the source, they would write their *own* keyboard logger/trojan and release it ONLY to Valve. That way - no anti-virus program could possibly know it's a virus.
> Not to mention the network guys should have caught that one quick.
Yeah - they could firewall out e-mail. Great solution.
It's no more a robot than a Corby trouser press and requires extensive human intervention to actually start and complete the ironing process.
An ironing robot would be one that notices when my wash has finished and goes and gets all the ironing to be done from the machine, irons it all, and puts it in my wardrobe in my preferred order. Nothing short of that will impress me.
He said "Sasser, unlike a virus which travels through e-mails and attachments"...
He did not say "Sasser is unlike a virus."
It's as though you'd never read past the word virus. There was no comma after the word virus. Perhaps you should read the post properly before flaming it...
Cool - now I can have a "You've got mail" banner scroll across my field of view and cool rotatey vector envelope icon will appear at bottom right of everything I look at...
It's not like he just posted the raw links... He'd written quite a comprehensive post and the books were directly related to the post and were on-topic. I see nothing wrong with him using affiliate links.
If affiliation with amazon means people are more likely to post links to relevant books - then I don't really see a problem with that.
What the hell was wrong with him using his affiliate link?
Does the link still work? (yes) Are the goods the same price? (yes) Can you even tell that you arrived via a referrer link? (no) Does it affect you in any way that he used that type of link and made a few cents out of it? (no).
Does it make much difference what the materials of the pot are? I know they used clay pots, but do they need to be glazed, unglazed etc? Would plastic pots work (it's not just the 3rd would that has a use for battery free fridges).
I was thinking that perhaps it might work best if the external pot was slightly porus, to aid evaporation, but perhaps all the evaporation occurs at the top, so it doesn't make much difference.
What is with Americans stealing other people's colloqualisms and then missing out fundamental parts of them like the fact that APRIL FOOLS JOKES END AT MIDDAY. It's 18:05 in the timezone of the poster...
<sigh!>
If you don't understand the tradition then don't get involved in another role other than that of The Fool.
That post is dated 8pm. Don't slashdot realise that April Fools day jokes END AT MIDDAY. Why are they still posting these incredibly non funny stories? Last years were way better. They'll never match the 4 dupes of the evil-bit story ever again...
Probably the main reason that it ends at midday is that everyone's bored of the jokes by then (I certainly am).
Put a good wireless access point in your car with the same SSID/WEP key that you were using before it was stolen, then drive around and see if you can get your stolen laptop to connect to it.
Better still - get everyone else to do it too.
I'm there must be a tool called stumblenetter that could do this...
The same way you encrypt mail sent to anyone else perhaps? I don't think any encryptions care if the message is to yourself or not. PGP doesn't anyway.
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The problem with GMail is that you have to use a web browser to read your e-mail. What I want is the ability to use a normal client like Thunderbird to read my mail, but have the search capabilities of GMail. I can't find a way to accomplish this even though I own and run my own Linux mail server.
:)
Is there any way of indexing my Maildir mailstore, or perhaps replacing my IMAP server with something more powerful that could give me a Gmail type search? If not, why not?!
Using the fake picture scanner backwards gives you a proofing tool to make sure you've perfected your fake picture before it's released. It won't take too long before these detection tools get on to eMule - and once there there, everyone will be able to fine tune their picture until the proofing tool no longer thinks it's a fake... Once in this state - they can release it knowing that the experts will be on *their* side. So such tools will have little use... It kind of works in the same way that you can use unix 'crack' to make sure your users have secure passwords.
Yes... Here in the UK, we pay some ridiculous fee (£120 or something) to simply own a television or video (or anything that is capable of utilising the terrestrial television transmissions). Most of the money goes to fund the BBC Television channels (which have *NO* adverts!) but I think a lot of people would rather it was free to own a TV and would be happy to put up with a few adverts to support the BBC channels.
Nick...
Licensing per core or per processor is just as stupid as licensing per FLOP (speed of the processor). It should be up to you how much hardware and processing power you want to throw at your software - after all, it only really affects how fast it runs or perhaps how many connections it can handle.
:) Maybe per-core licensing discourages them from speeding up the single core implementation as they are keen to sell more multi-core licenses :)
If I want to speed up my database by giving it more processors or more RAM - I don't see why I should have to pay Oracle more money for the privilage. After all, if it was a faster database, I wouldn't necessarily *need* to purchase more licenses for it would I?
> So you plan on trying to run ASP.NET on linux then?
> If you run your web server on Winodws it isn't free.
What a load of rubbish. I do not have to buy a copy of Windows for EACH application I install! Windows is an operating system - not part of ASP.NET!
Extending your argument - how exactly is Linux free if it requires a computer to run?? Does linux come with a free computer? Unless you can get computers for free then Linux isn't any more free (as in beer) than using Windows using your argument. EVERY system has prerequisites of some sort or another...
You're talking rubbish. Unless you are forced to buy an operating system with EACH and EVERY piece of software you install then you cannot factor it into the cost. I might ALREADY have the operating system. It might have come with my computer. It does not cost me any EXTRA money if I suddenly decide I want to use ASP.
And what if I WAS planning to run ASP.NET on Linux? It's possible with the Mono project. Then it would be free. And it would still be better than PHP IMHO - at least for anyone wanting to do anything more complicated than a pet project.
How on earth has the parent got to +4 when it's totally off-topic and irrelevant to this article?
This ignorant poster obviously hasn't realised that this article is about ASP.NET and NOT ASP (which is in NO WAY comparable to ASP.NET apart from the letters in it's name!).
Why is everyone so concerned with the programming language and framework being cross platform? Has everyone forgotten that both PHP and ASP.NET are web development frameworks? I strongly suspect that the vast majority of people will NEVER suddenly need to host their website on an entirely different platform. Most people develop a single website for a specific customer (or themselves) and know the platform in advance.
Also, in what parallel universe is PHP faster than ASP.NET? It certainly isn't in any benchmarks or reviews I've seen. Google around and have a look. I suspect the author managed to create a few very basic (ie not real world) examples of where he managed to get PHP to perform better than ASP.NET.
You also do NOT have to pay for ASP.NET - you can download the SDK and deploy a commercial website without paying a penny. Some of the posts above make it sound like ASP.NET is more expensive. It's no more expensive than running PHP if keep the other variables (ie platform) the same.
Very frustrating to keep seeing so many biassed articles around written by Open Source evangelists with mimimal real-world coding experience.
I don't see how you can even compare PHP with ASP.NET. It's not even fully OO. It's much more accurate and sensible to compare it to the obsolete legacy ASP than it is to compare it to ASP.NET. It's in a different league.
How is it "considerably" tweaked? It looks pretty much identical and few new features.
In the UK we've changed our license plate (VIN) scheme several times in the last 20 years. It hasn't really been a major problem and each time it happens, it barely makes the news. I'm not really sure what all the fuss is about. Has the US used the same system for a very long time or something?
As for all the silly suggestions above about using case sensitive characters - in the UK at least, license plates need to be computer readable over CCTV and adding more characters makes this harder. They also need to be memorable to people as well. I can hardly see how a license plate that has strange symbols or mixed case letters is going to be memorable...
The best bet would to simply use ONLY alphabetical characters and exclude. The problem with numbers is that there are only 10 of them.
Imagine if all your credit cards actually *were* the size of this "credit card sized" device... Your wallet would be more like a laptop case and would weigh about 30lbs. I wish they wouldn't keep exaggerating the sizes of products...
They can't even get 512k ADSL running at full speed yet, so why a company is bothering to pursue 200mbit DSL is beyond me. Until ISPs sort their act out and get rid of (or reduce) the ridiculous contention ratios (often up to 50:1 in the UK) then there's no point in increasing the 'last mile' speed.
Is it just me, or has Firefox 0.9 changed it's radio buttons so that they are now really ugly? I don't remember them displaying that badly before - they look as bad as they do on old linux browsers.
No, because by the time you've finished building it in 2048, AMD with have released the 16 core Athlon 256-FX/2.4Thz processor, which would be faster than the whole cluster.
> 3. A possible sign that Valve should hire more people so they can
> release it sooner.
Err, clearly you're not a software developer if think it works like that...
> 4. What moron allows an email to install a keyboard sniffer on his computer. > Anti-virus and patches take care of a lot of that.
Anti-virus only work for viruses that are already in the definition files. Virues only get into the definition files after a few people have sent the virus to the AV labs. ie a *LOT* of people get a virus before it's in their definitions - no matter how good they are at keeping their definitions up to date.
I would expect that if a true hacker really wanted the source, they would write their *own* keyboard logger/trojan and release it ONLY to Valve. That way - no anti-virus program could possibly know it's a virus.
> Not to mention the network guys should have caught that one quick.
Yeah - they could firewall out e-mail. Great solution.
The NATS London Area Control Center is of course, at Swanwick - not "Swanage" as stated in the original post.
How is that in any way a Robot?
It's no more a robot than a Corby trouser press and requires extensive human intervention to actually start and complete the ironing process.
An ironing robot would be one that notices when my wash has finished and goes and gets all the ironing to be done from the machine, irons it all, and puts it in my wardrobe in my preferred order. Nothing short of that will impress me.
No - YOU are not reading what he wrote.
He said "Sasser, unlike a virus which travels through e-mails and attachments"...
He did not say "Sasser is unlike a virus."
It's as though you'd never read past the word virus. There was no comma after the word virus. Perhaps you should read the post properly before flaming it...
Cool - now I can have a "You've got mail" banner scroll across my field of view and cool rotatey vector envelope icon will appear at bottom right of everything I look at...
It's not like he just posted the raw links... He'd written quite a comprehensive post and the books were directly related to the post and were on-topic. I see nothing wrong with him using affiliate links.
If affiliation with amazon means people are more likely to post links to relevant books - then I don't really see a problem with that.
What the hell was wrong with him using his affiliate link?
Does the link still work? (yes)
Are the goods the same price? (yes)
Can you even tell that you arrived via a referrer link? (no)
Does it affect you in any way that he used that type of link and made a few cents out of it? (no).
What a loser...
Does it make much difference what the materials of the pot are? I know they used clay pots, but do they need to be glazed, unglazed etc? Would plastic pots work (it's not just the 3rd would that has a use for battery free fridges).
I was thinking that perhaps it might work best if the external pot was slightly porus, to aid evaporation, but perhaps all the evaporation occurs at the top, so it doesn't make much difference.
What is with Americans stealing other people's colloqualisms and then missing out fundamental parts of them like the fact that APRIL FOOLS JOKES END AT MIDDAY. It's 18:05 in the timezone of the poster...
<sigh!>
If you don't understand the tradition then don't get involved in another role other than that of The Fool.
That post is dated 8pm. Don't slashdot realise that April Fools day jokes END AT MIDDAY. Why are they still posting these incredibly non funny stories? Last years were way better. They'll never match the 4 dupes of the evil-bit story ever again...
Probably the main reason that it ends at midday is that everyone's bored of the jokes by then (I certainly am).
Drivewarring - like wardriving, but backwards.
Put a good wireless access point in your car with the same SSID/WEP key that you were using before it was stolen, then drive around and see if you can get your stolen laptop to connect to it.
Better still - get everyone else to do it too.
I'm there must be a tool called stumblenetter that could do this...
The same way you encrypt mail sent to anyone else perhaps? I don't think any encryptions care if the message is to yourself or not. PGP doesn't anyway.