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Not that I expect spambots to pick up the e-mail address or anything.:)
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There was a time when people would merely PREVIEW a message (not even click any attachments) and it would infect their system, via Outlook. It's not just blind attachment clickers.
Solution: don't run Outlook. I don't. I use Kmail on my Linux machines, Eudora on the Windows machines. At work I have no choice, I have to use Lookout, but like all smart companies, we run antivirus software on the mail server.
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The more it goes, the more I think that the main issue of online security is not the protocols (SSL, SET...) but the security of the endpoints, and particularly of the clients.
Which includes brain damaged users. I own two Linux boxes and several Windows machines and have yet to get a single virus on any of them.
That's because I only download software from known, trusted sources, carefully inspect attachments I wasn't expecting and NEVER open them directly from the e-mail package. It's OBVIOUS if an attachment is an e-mail virus, EVEN IN OUTLOOK. Only people who blindly click on attachments have this problem.
I mean people need more common sense. The Internet is a LARGE, UNTRUSTED NETWORK. You should be VERY CAUTIOUS of ANY transmissions you get from the Internet, because ultimately, you probably have no idea where they came from or where they've been, nor is there (for the most part), any way to really tell.
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Prosecutor: "How did that copy of Unreal Tournament 2003 end up on your computer?" Me: "It was a virus! It downloaded it along with all the other pirated stuff on my computer and it even downloaded the DeCSS code! I don't even know how it got there!" Prosecutor: "So how did you get that account on fragism.com?" Me: "The virus stole my credit card # and signed me up! I had nothing to do with it!"
Yes, Russia is nominally capitalist now, but the Communist Party is still in a position of some power. Remember that while Boris Yeltsin was thought to have rid Russia of the Communist Party, he did not. So it's not quite that simple.
The country didn't become broke by turning capitalist. The country became broke because they lost the Cold War. They spent all of their resources trying to keep up with United States, and the U.S. just basically outspent them, particularly during the Reagan Administration.
To my knowledge, there are no communist countries that don't have money. Surely you know that China has currency, right? And China, by any accounting today, is the largest communist country in the world. Most people in China have a much lower standard of living then elsewhere in the world, particularly in comparison to the U.S.
Chinese citizens recieve only about US$35 a month from the Chinese government. This is expected to meet the basic needs of those in poverty. Could *you* live on $35 a month? Anyway, according to the article, there are about 14 million impoverished city residents in the country, and only about 4 million of those recieve even the minimum allowance.
I like my e-mail client and my calendar separate, thank you very much, just like I like my e-mail client and my browser separate, and my e-mail client and my text editor separate. It's good that they can talk to one another, yes; but gluing them together is a lousy idea.
So long as that stupid theme music doesn't come up when the suite starts. o/~ No one told you life was gonna be this wayyyyyyyyyyyyy! o/~ I don't need to be reminded that my job is a joke and that I'm broke.:)
I clicked next on the welcome picture. I immediately noticed that this is a non-standard windows application..
Looks fine to me on NT 4.0.:)
The first thing I tried was simple outlook behaviour. It shows the calendar, but it does not feature any clicking in the calendar (like adding appointments etc). But the weeks are displayed correctly.
You can create an appointment by click-dragging on a day in the weekly calendar view. You type your appointment into the green box. Then you can resize the green box to make the appointment longer or shorter. You can also drag and drop the appointment to a different day/time slot.
I don't think it's intended to be a clone of Outlook as far as UI, I think they're going for *easier* to use than Outlook. Which is good, because we need to IMPROVE on closed source ideas, not play catchup.
Maybe he lives in a communist country. You know, one that has a community..
Yeah, 'cause I'm sure they care about people in communist countries. I mean look at Russia, once the very model of communism. It's not like their people are starving over there or that their entire economy has collapsed or anything.
I do wonder if the spacial thing might be why one of my female friends prefers to print out her programs to work on.
I'm a guy and I like to print out my programs sometimes when I'm debugging them. Sometimes it helps just to see the source code on a different medium when you're looking for bugs, especially when you're frustrated with a particularly annoying one. It think it's more a psychological thing than a spatial thing.
So long as data + applications physical RAM you won't have a problem. I often have to deal with files that are several hundred megabytes in size and grow once in RAM. Your setup wouldn't work for at me.
Won't a wider aspect ratio will give you a wider angle of view?
Anyway, if what you're doing is primarily page-oriented, then yes a paper-sized monitor capable of doing portrait full-sized sheets is appropriate.
But for stuff like CAD or programming or music creation or video editing or watching it doesn't make much sense, IMHO. Something that's sized like a TV seems to make more sense in these cases.
Remember where we came from: using computers for WYSIWYG page layout wasn't always the norm.
Now, is that comparison counting the 150MB of KDE libs that have to be loaded just to start Noatun, or not?
Yeah, I know this is flamebait... but...
Since I like to work in KDE (after all, the apps I use most are Quanta, KATE, Konqueror and Kmail and Korganizer), no I'm not counting the KDE libs.
If I'm not working in KDE, I use XMMS...on the odd occasion I need the extra memory to compile big stuff or something, I use Blackbox as it is small and fast and XMMS does use less memory compared to loading all those KDE libs just to launch Noatun.
So don't get me wrong, I *like* XMMS. I think it's a cool app. But when I'm working, I like to have a full desktop and I've got plenty of RAM and CPU power to support it. So I use KDE extensively because as a full desktop it is more stable, more mature, and just generally nicer than GNOME.
The primary issue of the civil war wasn't slavery - it was the balance of power between the federal government and individual states.
True enough. In fact, this was the very balance of power struggle we had been fighting from the very beginning days of the republic, and interestingly enough it was still mostly a division between the north and south. It was also, as futurists Alvin and Heider Toeffler point out in their books, a struggle in the balance of power between the agrarian elites of the south and industrial elites of the north. The economy was changing from one based on agriculture to one based on industry. And the south was still primarily agriculture-based while the north was moving to a more industrial-based economy. The slavery issue was simple: the agrarian elites depended on slaves for their large cotton and tobacco plantations, while the industrial north needed the new class of freed slaves to work for low wages in the factories.
I work as a CAD systems administrator, and it's true that when women see some of the wide screens that are available, they immediately want one. Guys tend to think they're cool, too, and they may want one, but women almost seem to demand them.
Of course the number of women as opposed to men who are in the automotive design and engineering fields is disproportionately low, and this may actually be one of the reasons. Interesting...:)
With amazing reviews like this one, how could I resist buying this product.
Product: ETHNIC CLEANSING
From: Billy Joe McVeigh
Date: Monday 24 February, 2003
Review:
Woo-hoo!
The shere quality of this game proves that we are up to the task ahead of us boys! If we got the brains to make these fancy computer games then we are just a step away from the revolution! I didn't think we had no educated boys with us, but damn was I wrong! And if we don't get em with our superior programming abilities, our creativity will!
Only problem is that other guy was right, the niggers do keep winning. Caint we make it easier?
We use SecurIDs where I work. They're used on AutoWeb. Social engineering on those would only work for one time. OTOH, they're still susceptible to other forms of cracking that passwords are susceptible to, such as man-in-the-middle.
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You mean THIS whois data?
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felstein, mark mefels@aol.com
P.O.Box 667933
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United States
9542887575 Fax --
Not that I expect spambots to pick up the e-mail address or anything.
There was a time when people would merely PREVIEW a message (not even click any attachments) and it would infect their system, via Outlook. It's not just blind attachment clickers.
Solution: don't run Outlook. I don't. I use Kmail on my Linux machines, Eudora on the Windows machines. At work I have no choice, I have to use Lookout, but like all smart companies, we run antivirus software on the mail server.
The more it goes, the more I think that the main issue of online security is not the protocols (SSL, SET...) but the security of the endpoints, and particularly of the clients.
Which includes brain damaged users. I own two Linux boxes and several Windows machines and have yet to get a single virus on any of them.
That's because I only download software from known, trusted sources, carefully inspect attachments I wasn't expecting and NEVER open them directly from the e-mail package. It's OBVIOUS if an attachment is an e-mail virus, EVEN IN OUTLOOK. Only people who blindly click on attachments have this problem.
I mean people need more common sense. The Internet is a LARGE, UNTRUSTED NETWORK. You should be VERY CAUTIOUS of ANY transmissions you get from the Internet, because ultimately, you probably have no idea where they came from or where they've been, nor is there (for the most part), any way to really tell.
Prosecutor: "How did that copy of Unreal Tournament 2003 end up on your computer?"
Me: "It was a virus! It downloaded it along with all the other pirated stuff on my computer and it even downloaded the DeCSS code! I don't even know how it got there!"
Prosecutor: "So how did you get that account on fragism.com?"
Me: "The virus stole my credit card # and signed me up! I had nothing to do with it!"
So it's entirely likely that Rudolf Diesel was killed off by big oil interests?
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In other news, psychic experts claim that Rudolf Diesel was actually reincarnated as an Iraqi Baath party leader
Yes, Russia is nominally capitalist now, but the Communist Party is still in a position of some power. Remember that while Boris Yeltsin was thought to have rid Russia of the Communist Party, he did not. So it's not quite that simple.
The country didn't become broke by turning capitalist. The country became broke because they lost the Cold War. They spent all of their resources trying to keep up with United States, and the U.S. just basically outspent them, particularly during the Reagan Administration.
To my knowledge, there are no communist countries that don't have money. Surely you know that China has currency, right? And China, by any accounting today, is the largest communist country in the world. Most people in China have a much lower standard of living then elsewhere in the world, particularly in comparison to the U.S.
Chinese citizens recieve only about US$35 a month from the Chinese government. This is expected to meet the basic needs of those in poverty. Could *you* live on $35 a month? Anyway, according to the article, there are about 14 million impoverished city residents in the country, and only about 4 million of those recieve even the minimum allowance.
The yearly per capita disposable income of the average Chinese person is about $620 for urban residents and $250 for rural dwellers, compared with the national U.S. average of $25,000. (Disposable income is the amount of money available for spending or saving.) Considering China has something like the 4th or 5th largest GDP in the world, this sucks. So if you measure the success of a sociopolitical/economic system by the standard of living of its people, the U.S.-style capitalism beats Chinese-style communism hands down. The results are similar for other communist countries.
Quite honestly, your post comes off as quite naive. Just guessing, but I'd have to guess you're a high school student right?
Know, KI kdon't. 'K? :-P
Even with syn cookies and the various types of protections shut off, FreeBSD and Linux are many, many times more robust in handling bad traffic.
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Must be that RFC 3514 compliance. (Sorry, couldn't resist.
I like my e-mail client and my calendar separate, thank you very much, just like I like my e-mail client and my browser separate, and my e-mail client and my text editor separate. It's good that they can talk to one another, yes; but gluing them together is a lousy idea.
Three words: KMail, KOrganizer, KATE.
So long as that stupid theme music doesn't come up when the suite starts. o/~ No one told you life was gonna be this wayyyyyyyyyyyyy! o/~ I don't need to be reminded that my job is a joke and that I'm broke. :)
I clicked next on the welcome picture. I immediately noticed that this is a non-standard windows application..
:)
Looks fine to me on NT 4.0.
The first thing I tried was simple outlook behaviour. It shows the calendar, but it does not feature any clicking in the calendar (like adding appointments etc). But the weeks are displayed correctly.
You can create an appointment by click-dragging on a day in the weekly calendar view. You type your appointment into the green box. Then you can resize the green box to make the appointment longer or shorter. You can also drag and drop the appointment to a different day/time slot.
I don't think it's intended to be a clone of Outlook as far as UI, I think they're going for *easier* to use than Outlook. Which is good, because we need to IMPROVE on closed source ideas, not play catchup.
Maybe he lives in a communist country. You know, one that has a community..
Yeah, 'cause I'm sure they care about people in communist countries. I mean look at Russia, once the very model of communism. It's not like their people are starving over there or that their entire economy has collapsed or anything.
I do wonder if the spacial thing might be why one of my female friends prefers to print out her programs to work on.
I'm a guy and I like to print out my programs sometimes when I'm debugging them. Sometimes it helps just to see the source code on a different medium when you're looking for bugs, especially when you're frustrated with a particularly annoying one. It think it's more a psychological thing than a spatial thing.
So long as data + applications physical RAM you won't have a problem. I often have to deal with files that are several hundred megabytes in size and grow once in RAM. Your setup wouldn't work for at me.
That's why we still have swapfiles.
Won't a wider aspect ratio will give you a wider angle of view?
Anyway, if what you're doing is primarily page-oriented, then yes a paper-sized monitor capable of doing portrait full-sized sheets is appropriate.
But for stuff like CAD or programming or music creation or video editing or watching it doesn't make much sense, IMHO. Something that's sized like a TV seems to make more sense in these cases.
Remember where we came from: using computers for WYSIWYG page layout wasn't always the norm.
Now, is that comparison counting the 150MB of KDE libs that have to be loaded just to start Noatun, or not?
... but ...
Yeah, I know this is flamebait
Since I like to work in KDE (after all, the apps I use most are Quanta, KATE, Konqueror and Kmail and Korganizer), no I'm not counting the KDE libs.
If I'm not working in KDE, I use XMMS...on the odd occasion I need the extra memory to compile big stuff or something, I use Blackbox as it is small and fast and XMMS does use less memory compared to loading all those KDE libs just to launch Noatun.
So don't get me wrong, I *like* XMMS. I think it's a cool app. But when I'm working, I like to have a full desktop and I've got plenty of RAM and CPU power to support it. So I use KDE extensively because as a full desktop it is more stable, more mature, and just generally nicer than GNOME.
Cut 'em some lack! At least they didn't write just a Windows Media Player plugin and they've *thought* about an XMMS plugin.
:)
Of course I'd be much happier with a native Noatun plugin ('cause XMMS is a memory pig), but whatever.
I'm not a citizen of the net. I'm a citizen of my country. Most of the people on the net could really care less about me and my well-being.
I don't know what country *you* live in, but in the country *I* live in, most people couldn't really care less about me and my well-being, either.
That's gonna be the same in any population of people. Most people don't know you, and hence don't care.
The primary issue of the civil war wasn't slavery - it was the balance of power between the federal government and individual states.
True enough. In fact, this was the very balance of power struggle we had been fighting from the very beginning days of the republic, and interestingly enough it was still mostly a division between the north and south. It was also, as futurists Alvin and Heider Toeffler point out in their books, a struggle in the balance of power between the agrarian elites of the south and industrial elites of the north. The economy was changing from one based on agriculture to one based on industry. And the south was still primarily agriculture-based while the north was moving to a more industrial-based economy. The slavery issue was simple: the agrarian elites depended on slaves for their large cotton and tobacco plantations, while the industrial north needed the new class of freed slaves to work for low wages in the factories.
What you have to do in democratic societies is to educate the masses enough so that they don't vote for fascist/non-democratic/extremist parties.
How would we do that? I mean, we don't even have THAT part down for ourselves! (Think "Homeland Security")
I work as a CAD systems administrator, and it's true that when women see some of the wide screens that are available, they immediately want one. Guys tend to think they're cool, too, and they may want one, but women almost seem to demand them.
:)
Of course the number of women as opposed to men who are in the automotive design and engineering fields is disproportionately low, and this may actually be one of the reasons. Interesting...
Yeah, but it isn't very difficult to produce hard copies of online newspapers is it?
Once it's paper, it can go into a library, no problem.
We use SecurIDs where I work. They're used on AutoWeb. Social engineering on those would only work for one time. OTOH, they're still susceptible to other forms of cracking that passwords are susceptible to, such as man-in-the-middle.
It looks like the re-entry orbital vehicle borrowed heavily from the NASA program on rentry. Cool to see another application of the technology!
Because as we can all tell, it works very well...never blows up or anything!