Improvements are happening to your webmail all the time, it's just they are for the advertisers and buyers of your personal data;)
Now Google sends ads to your Gmail inbox, and claims you opted into that. You can go to settings and turn it off, but then it displays ads at the top of the screen. This is obviously going to get worse and worse. Like Youtube, where ad infestation is nearly intolerable already and rapidly deteriorating. And it is just downright creepy when Google snoops my mail and runs the same pushy, stupid ad in Youtube over and over. Moral: there is no such thing as a free lunch. Second Moral: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Third Moral: the writing is on the wall, the way of Google is the way of pain for the average netizen. Something needs to be done. Not sure what. Google is rapidly becoming what Microsoft always wanted to be: proprietor of the internet. We're probably saved from a worse fate if Microsoft or horrors, Apple managed to secure that position, but it's still bad. This kind of infrastructure needs to be a kind of commons like the highways, power grid, sewage system and so on. A life under the gaze of Google, dancing on Google's string, is just not a life I can accept, and by now it is abundantly clear, that is just where this is all heading, veneer of benevolence notwithstanding.
Zimbra has a very slick, Ajaxy web interface that looks and feels a lot more like a traditional email client than Gmail does. I haven't tried to install it yet, but I will. I can't yet comment on whether it is easy or hard to make it work with my existing exim setup.
Keep using Thunderbird, It works. Try add ons if you want more features.
When I set a Windows 7 machine for my mother and discovered Microsoft's new "Windows Live Mail" agenda, I wiped that an put in Thunderbird, which was judged as "just like the old computer". So now she spends nearly all her computer time using Thunderbird and Firefox, and a little bit of LibreOffice, so the obvious next step is step is, boot to KDE with an autologin and that will be one more soul saved from the grasping tentacles of Microsoft.
For my part, I suffered through the nasty port of Kmail to Akonadi, which was a truly awful experience, but I got through it with my folders intact and it's finally back to a state resembling usability, though not nearly as fast or solid as the original. The Kmail user interface is still the best going, and one day I might actually see some benefit from the new database backend, instead of just pain, races and nonsensical warnings.
lease don't dismiss a step forward from return value checking just because you're unfortunate enough to have never worked with anyone who uses it properly.
+1. An exception mechanism is absolutely necessary to being able to contruct sane error reporting and recovery in a nontrivial code base, without unduly obfuscating the code. Whether this powerful tool is used or abused depends on the the quality of the programmer, as nearly every aspect of software development does.
One issue with exception handling: you generally lose the ability to get a traceback at the point of throw. So it is often difficult to find out where an exception came from. This can fairly be regarded as a flaw in the language implementation: there should be a way to tell the compiler to always generate a traceback before the throw. Or better, there should be an easy way to capture the traceback as, say, an array of strings, that can be logged or stored in the exception object. In absence of a facility like this, I typically add a macro to generate a trap to the debugger at any throw point where the call chain is not immediately obvious. Then there has to be a way to turn that off in production code, and then the ability to know the call chain for an exception in production code is lost. It's very much an unresolved issue. Funny, I haven't seen any of the language gods take note of this important point.
...nearly all newspapers are in decline, and many if not most will go down the drain...
True, however at least there is some satisfaction watching corrupt old billionaires buying them up at what they think is bargain prices, only to watch the value just continue to circle the drain. I also think paywall newspapers are doomed. Just as Encylopedia failed against crowd-sourced Wikipedia, so will the old line newspapers trying to survive on paying subscribers. Not completey fail, but fade away to organizations more closely resembling newsletters than the glorious public opinion arbitors of yore. Sad in some ways, but liberating in more ways. The future is millions of amateur reporters who collectively do a better job of reporting the truth than the old line newspapers ever did. Think Citizen Kane who subsidized his newspaper with the profits of an inherited silver mine so he could distort facts and incite wars. Now think about the real people on the ground in Syria reporting the verifiable truth, and directly uploading it to Youtube. Which is a better source of truth? The future is not only crowd-sourced news, but crowd-funded news. PBS is a shining example, and yes, PBS funds original research.
Thanks for that. You would think the top 500 guys would be anxious to get this on Linux and put some muscle behind it, wouldn't you? Or maybe they already are. There are a few big clusters running Radeon GPUs.
Nothing says professional like slow load times and a blurred out stock photo in the banner... I mean, it literally took me 3 minutes to load the page. And now it's down.
Slashdotted I'd say. And that's a good thing. I wish these guys the best.
ATI, where the open drivers are a little better, but the closed ones needed for most stuff don't even provide all functionalities of the open ones, and yeah, they crash a lot too.
Smells like FUD, it must be FUD. Catalyst has never crashed on me, even once, in a few years of using it. The main annoyance is, you need to reinstall on every kernel update, which is why I now use the Xorg Radeon driver. Less than half the 3D performance, but that's still more performance than I need. 3D cards are ridiculously powerful these days.
Have you looked at System76? They make laptops preloaded with Ubuntu. www.system76.com
I just ordered one from The Linuxlaptop. It's basically a Dell Inspiron. I could have gotten it faster and paid a little less directly from Dell, but I'm getting lazy, I want to just turn it on and have it work. I think, from now on I will only order from companies that pre-install Linux. It says something about their commitment.
Your experience does seem a little out of date. Try a Radeon 6450 for example, it's solid as a rock under both the open source and Catalyst drivers and for $40 you can't complain about the performance.
Well, AMD is looking good too, with currently shipping Fusion parts for laptops all being Evergreen or Northern Islands, both supported by the open source xorg Radeon driver, with a few exceptions such as full screen antialiasing, which seems to be getting close but currently requires the Catalyst driver. See here for the current xorg driver state. Notice that everything you need for 2D and 3D graphics is there, up to but not including Southern Islands. Just taking a quick look around, it looks like the latest budget AMD laptops are Trinity, which is Northern Islands, which should work fine with the current Xorg driver. But definitely google the specific chipset. Power management... good question. I'm getting solid results with Ivy Bridge, I haven't tried AMD's laptop parts recently.
Any dead tree newspaper that fails to make the transition to new media is just as dead as Encyclopedia Brittanica, regardless of the quality of its journalism. It's sad to see LA Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post wither away, but wither they will under the dead hands of Murdoch and Buffet. Winners: trees. Losers: senile billionaires.
Apple will be in business some time yet, the immediate question, how much time do they have left to bask in the glory of being the world's most valuable company? Down $170 since the introduction of the iPhone 5.
For a while Steve Jobs made his living peddling "blue boxes" that got free long distance calls by hacking the telco switching equipment. He even stole money from his friend Steve Wozniak. And made a habit of parking in the handicap space. And smelled bad, which is some kind of crime against those in the immediate vicinity.
I'll have to call you an Apple zealot. I seriously doubt your home has no Linux devices, even now. Do you have a stereo receiver? Not that you would tell the truth if you did have a Linux device in your Apple toady zone.
Other than doing everything an order of magnitude slower than Git/Mercurial? And being very lame for developing on multiple branches? What's with this "a branch is just a subdirectory" nonsense? Branches aren't subdirectories. Why is every subdirectory polluted with Subversion hidden files, which cause Subversion to fail horribly if not present?
If your Subversion repository goes offline you are dead in the water. With Git, it's business as usual. When you get working with Git you will be amazed at how the concept of cheap branches changes your workflow for the better. Not sure you really want to do a big change a certain way? No problem, new branch. If it works out you continue, otherwise delete, branches are cheap. Quite starkly different from SVN, where you'd be nuts to have more than half a dozen branches or so, and you think very very carefully before opening a new one or deleting one. It goes on and on. You'll see.
It was a joke, perhaps not a great one. Nitrogen is nearly the same weight as air, being its main component. In any case, it's hard to view a balloon full of hydrogen as more dangerous than a tank full of jet fuel. They're both pretty scary to tell the truth. Just put hydrogen in it and don't take passengers.
I've always found Dog Crap in a Box(TM) to be both economical AND effective at communicate feelings of loathing and hatred. It's really easy to get book rates on the postage, too.
Practical and frugal indeed, but you're only talking about halfhearted hate. In cases of serious visceral hate you will need to go to the Microsoft product in order to achieve a satisfactory level of long term torture.
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Only governments can do this sort of thing properly. Pity Americans don't trust their government.
Pity the governement is flat broke and in debt up to its ears. Look to Korea for how to do this right.
Improvements are happening to your webmail all the time, it's just they are for the advertisers and buyers of your personal data ;)
Now Google sends ads to your Gmail inbox, and claims you opted into that. You can go to settings and turn it off, but then it displays ads at the top of the screen. This is obviously going to get worse and worse. Like Youtube, where ad infestation is nearly intolerable already and rapidly deteriorating. And it is just downright creepy when Google snoops my mail and runs the same pushy, stupid ad in Youtube over and over. Moral: there is no such thing as a free lunch. Second Moral: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Third Moral: the writing is on the wall, the way of Google is the way of pain for the average netizen. Something needs to be done. Not sure what. Google is rapidly becoming what Microsoft always wanted to be: proprietor of the internet. We're probably saved from a worse fate if Microsoft or horrors, Apple managed to secure that position, but it's still bad. This kind of infrastructure needs to be a kind of commons like the highways, power grid, sewage system and so on. A life under the gaze of Google, dancing on Google's string, is just not a life I can accept, and by now it is abundantly clear, that is just where this is all heading, veneer of benevolence notwithstanding.
Zimbra has a very slick, Ajaxy web interface that looks and feels a lot more like a traditional email client than Gmail does. I haven't tried to install it yet, but I will. I can't yet comment on whether it is easy or hard to make it work with my existing exim setup.
Keep using Thunderbird, It works. Try add ons if you want more features.
When I set a Windows 7 machine for my mother and discovered Microsoft's new "Windows Live Mail" agenda, I wiped that an put in Thunderbird, which was judged as "just like the old computer". So now she spends nearly all her computer time using Thunderbird and Firefox, and a little bit of LibreOffice, so the obvious next step is step is, boot to KDE with an autologin and that will be one more soul saved from the grasping tentacles of Microsoft.
For my part, I suffered through the nasty port of Kmail to Akonadi, which was a truly awful experience, but I got through it with my folders intact and it's finally back to a state resembling usability, though not nearly as fast or solid as the original. The Kmail user interface is still the best going, and one day I might actually see some benefit from the new database backend, instead of just pain, races and nonsensical warnings.
lease don't dismiss a step forward from return value checking just because you're unfortunate enough to have never worked with anyone who uses it properly.
+1. An exception mechanism is absolutely necessary to being able to contruct sane error reporting and recovery in a nontrivial code base, without unduly obfuscating the code. Whether this powerful tool is used or abused depends on the the quality of the programmer, as nearly every aspect of software development does.
One issue with exception handling: you generally lose the ability to get a traceback at the point of throw. So it is often difficult to find out where an exception came from. This can fairly be regarded as a flaw in the language implementation: there should be a way to tell the compiler to always generate a traceback before the throw. Or better, there should be an easy way to capture the traceback as, say, an array of strings, that can be logged or stored in the exception object. In absence of a facility like this, I typically add a macro to generate a trap to the debugger at any throw point where the call chain is not immediately obvious. Then there has to be a way to turn that off in production code, and then the ability to know the call chain for an exception in production code is lost. It's very much an unresolved issue. Funny, I haven't seen any of the language gods take note of this important point.
...nearly all newspapers are in decline, and many if not most will go down the drain...
True, however at least there is some satisfaction watching corrupt old billionaires buying them up at what they think is bargain prices, only to watch the value just continue to circle the drain. I also think paywall newspapers are doomed. Just as Encylopedia failed against crowd-sourced Wikipedia, so will the old line newspapers trying to survive on paying subscribers. Not completey fail, but fade away to organizations more closely resembling newsletters than the glorious public opinion arbitors of yore. Sad in some ways, but liberating in more ways. The future is millions of amateur reporters who collectively do a better job of reporting the truth than the old line newspapers ever did. Think Citizen Kane who subsidized his newspaper with the profits of an inherited silver mine so he could distort facts and incite wars. Now think about the real people on the ground in Syria reporting the verifiable truth, and directly uploading it to Youtube. Which is a better source of truth? The future is not only crowd-sourced news, but crowd-funded news. PBS is a shining example, and yes, PBS funds original research.
Thanks for that. You would think the top 500 guys would be anxious to get this on Linux and put some muscle behind it, wouldn't you? Or maybe they already are. There are a few big clusters running Radeon GPUs.
I wonder if CUDA can be done with intel cards.
No, never, CUDA is nVidia only. But Intel supports OpenCL.
Bear in mind that AMD leaves Intel way back in the dust in GPU performance, including embedded GPUs.
Nothing says professional like slow load times and a blurred out stock photo in the banner... I mean, it literally took me 3 minutes to load the page. And now it's down.
Slashdotted I'd say. And that's a good thing. I wish these guys the best.
ATI, where the open drivers are a little better, but the closed ones needed for most stuff don't even provide all functionalities of the open ones, and yeah, they crash a lot too.
Smells like FUD, it must be FUD. Catalyst has never crashed on me, even once, in a few years of using it. The main annoyance is, you need to reinstall on every kernel update, which is why I now use the Xorg Radeon driver. Less than half the 3D performance, but that's still more performance than I need. 3D cards are ridiculously powerful these days.
Have you looked at System76? They make laptops preloaded with Ubuntu. www.system76.com
I just ordered one from The Linuxlaptop. It's basically a Dell Inspiron. I could have gotten it faster and paid a little less directly from Dell, but I'm getting lazy, I want to just turn it on and have it work. I think, from now on I will only order from companies that pre-install Linux. It says something about their commitment.
Your experience does seem a little out of date. Try a Radeon 6450 for example, it's solid as a rock under both the open source and Catalyst drivers and for $40 you can't complain about the performance.
However you label it, it's still fraud.
Well, AMD is looking good too, with currently shipping Fusion parts for laptops all being Evergreen or Northern Islands, both supported by the open source xorg Radeon driver, with a few exceptions such as full screen antialiasing, which seems to be getting close but currently requires the Catalyst driver. See here for the current xorg driver state. Notice that everything you need for 2D and 3D graphics is there, up to but not including Southern Islands. Just taking a quick look around, it looks like the latest budget AMD laptops are Trinity, which is Northern Islands, which should work fine with the current Xorg driver. But definitely google the specific chipset. Power management... good question. I'm getting solid results with Ivy Bridge, I haven't tried AMD's laptop parts recently.
You seem to be having difficulty understanding the notion of toll fraud.
Any dead tree newspaper that fails to make the transition to new media is just as dead as Encyclopedia Brittanica, regardless of the quality of its journalism. It's sad to see LA Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post wither away, but wither they will under the dead hands of Murdoch and Buffet. Winners: trees. Losers: senile billionaires.
Blue boxes were created to explore phone networks.
"Explore" as in getting free long distance phone calls. Say, you would be an Apple employee, wouldn't you? Your attitude matches perfectly.
Apple will be in business some time yet, the immediate question, how much time do they have left to bask in the glory of being the world's most valuable company? Down $170 since the introduction of the iPhone 5.
Apple would have filed a patent on distinguishing right from wrong, except they never got that one to work.
For a while Steve Jobs made his living peddling "blue boxes" that got free long distance calls by hacking the telco switching equipment. He even stole money from his friend Steve Wozniak. And made a habit of parking in the handicap space. And smelled bad, which is some kind of crime against those in the immediate vicinity.
t things move very slow there, and they're afraid that changing the versioning software will slow down the development cycle for too long...
It sounds like it's already going as slow as possible.
I'll have to call you an Apple zealot. I seriously doubt your home has no Linux devices, even now. Do you have a stereo receiver? Not that you would tell the truth if you did have a Linux device in your Apple toady zone.
Other than doing everything an order of magnitude slower than Git/Mercurial? And being very lame for developing on multiple branches? What's with this "a branch is just a subdirectory" nonsense? Branches aren't subdirectories. Why is every subdirectory polluted with Subversion hidden files, which cause Subversion to fail horribly if not present?
If your Subversion repository goes offline you are dead in the water. With Git, it's business as usual. When you get working with Git you will be amazed at how the concept of cheap branches changes your workflow for the better. Not sure you really want to do a big change a certain way? No problem, new branch. If it works out you continue, otherwise delete, branches are cheap. Quite starkly different from SVN, where you'd be nuts to have more than half a dozen branches or so, and you think very very carefully before opening a new one or deleting one. It goes on and on. You'll see.
It was a joke, perhaps not a great one. Nitrogen is nearly the same weight as air, being its main component. In any case, it's hard to view a balloon full of hydrogen as more dangerous than a tank full of jet fuel. They're both pretty scary to tell the truth. Just put hydrogen in it and don't take passengers.
I've always found Dog Crap in a Box(TM) to be both economical AND effective at communicate feelings of loathing and hatred. It's really easy to get book rates on the postage, too.
Practical and frugal indeed, but you're only talking about halfhearted hate. In cases of serious visceral hate you will need to go to the Microsoft product in order to achieve a satisfactory level of long term torture.