So what is so hard about, uh, using your own mail server configured securely with auth and TLS...that server then forwards to your ISP's server? If you are smart enough to host your own server, and you understand the problem of your 'roaming laptop', it's not too hard to solve. Not trivial, but not incredibly difficult. Or you could just set up a VPN to your home network. There are many ways to solve this particular problem. Businesses do it every day.
I use IMAPS too so that I can easily wander around with Sylpheed on my laptop, but in a bind I could simply just tunnel everything over SSH if I had to.
And OO has the coreldraw-like drawing program. Last I checked, M$ Office didn't have this (unless you count visio, which is a separate component to buy, and is more specific-purpose for flowcharts).
Same as with music. If people are going to buy it, they will. Just charge a fair price. Use youtube as advertisement for commercial interests (daily show, colbert report, robot chicken, anyone?)
But youtube is a little different in that many of the things people go there for are unique or one-time things that the only way you'll ever get a chance to see them again is if you recorded it yourself, or somebody else does and you are lucky enough to find it online.
The biggest issue I have is stuff that you'll NEVER BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY BUY OR SEE AGAIN being taken down. My favorite example is prince performing at half time for the superbowl. Now, not only are the videos gone from youtube, but also all of the comments (which IMHO are equally as valuable to the community) about the videos.
Taking things like this down erodes our culture and destroys valuable records of what has gone on in our lives.
People on dynamic ranges should probably smart-relay through their ISP's mail server anyway. The last 2 I'ved been able to host my own mail server with didn't allow outbound SMTP forcing me to do that anyway. I eventually just spent the money on a business class line to avoid any problems.
I reject on these in mimedefang's filter_sender routine, since they provide straightforward methods for removal. For other lists, spamassassin will raise score accordingly, and will raise score based on any blacklisted stuff in the headers (not just the server handing off to you) which is nice.
I wrote all of my papers on a TRS-80 color computer using a word processor (more of a line editor) that I wrote myself, printed on the old dot matrix okidata.
If teachers must get things in electronic format, why not PDF? Let the students then use whatever tools they like. The point is the paper or lab report. Not the tools used to create it (which shouldn't be part of any curriculum at all, IMNSHO. If kids must do it by hand, that should be just fine).
That's exactly the problem that I have with electronic voting. Sure, you or I may be able to comfortably 'certify' an electronic process, but what about those not in the field? And make no mistake, the entire *PROCESS* is also important, not just the way the votes are cast.
Citizens should feel confident that they know what is going on when tney 'pull the lever' If they do not, then the voting method is flawed.
With paper, there's less chance for confusion if the ballots and method to cast the vote are designed properly (no 'hanging chads'). The voter can see the 'technology' and how it is working. Not so with a touch screen on a magic box.
I was very uncomfortable with the electronic voting that occured here last election. I was given an RFID card which I used to identify myself to the machine and then returned that card when done. No idea WTF was going on or if my ID was stolen or anything.
If we were still dealing with 60Hz monitors, I bet we'd see more light on dark pages. Remember when browsers first hit the market, everything was black/blue on grey.
Without the annoying flicker, you can get away with the larger amount of light color. Why it is preferred, I'm not really sure. Perhaps it is better contrast and easier to read (again, only since the flicker is now gone).
...on the radio, the word 'shit' is bleeped out. Yet the other day, the chumbawumba song "I get knocked down" was on the radio. "pissing the night away" was there in all its glory. Now how is 'shit' offensive and 'piss' not? I think the latter is more offensive in the way it is used.
I've had the opposite experience. VIA chipsets / processors are very well supported in Linux, and there are a lot of multi-ethernet-port motherboards based on their stuff that kick ass as branch office linux-based firewall/vpn endpoints vs. shelling out money for checkpoint/nokia licenses.
I was going to do this (configure the ISP's router as a bridge) for my dad, then realized if he ever had problems and called the ISP, it would be painful. Instead, I left the DSL router alone, and let the ISP do whatever they want with it, including PPPoE configuration, and then just configured the real router to get its external address via DHCP from the ISP device. Basically just a double nat. I thought it would be problematic, but everything is working fine for him, and if he has problems with his connection, the ISP can still muck with the gear they sold him without actually getting in to his LAN. It's been over a year, and I haven't gotten a phone call from him yet:)
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Bitstream Vera Sans displays fine on every page I look at....
So what is so hard about, uh, using your own mail server configured securely with auth and TLS...that server then forwards to your ISP's server? If you are smart enough to host your own server, and you understand the problem of your 'roaming laptop', it's not too hard to solve. Not trivial, but not incredibly difficult. Or you could just set up a VPN to your home network. There are many ways to solve this particular problem. Businesses do it every day.
I use IMAPS too so that I can easily wander around with Sylpheed on my laptop, but in a bind I could simply just tunnel everything over SSH if I had to.
There were enough comments about what you just said on youtube when the video was up...oh wait, you can't see those comments anymore...
And OO has the coreldraw-like drawing program. Last I checked, M$ Office didn't have this (unless you count visio, which is a separate component to buy, and is more specific-purpose for flowcharts).
OODraw kicks ass for doing CD Labels.
well, with IPV6, there won't be a need to NAT anymore, so all servers do, indeed, become 'public' Publically addressed, at least.
Bingo! I already posted, or I would mod you up.
Same as with music. If people are going to buy it, they will. Just charge a fair price. Use youtube as advertisement for commercial interests (daily show, colbert report, robot chicken, anyone?)
But youtube is a little different in that many of the things people go there for are unique or one-time things that the only way you'll ever get a chance to see them again is if you recorded it yourself, or somebody else does and you are lucky enough to find it online.
The biggest issue I have is stuff that you'll NEVER BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY BUY OR SEE AGAIN being taken down. My favorite example is prince performing at half time for the superbowl. Now, not only are the videos gone from youtube, but also all of the comments (which IMHO are equally as valuable to the community) about the videos.
Taking things like this down erodes our culture and destroys valuable records of what has gone on in our lives.
>_ -- my new favorite :-)
People on dynamic ranges should probably smart-relay through their ISP's mail server anyway. The last 2 I'ved been able to host my own mail server with didn't allow outbound SMTP forcing me to do that anyway. I eventually just spent the money on a business class line to avoid any problems.
Greylisting kills a lot of stuff too.
I wrote all of my papers on a TRS-80 color computer using a word processor (more of a line editor) that I wrote myself, printed on the old dot matrix okidata.
If teachers must get things in electronic format, why not PDF? Let the students then use whatever tools they like. The point is the paper or lab report. Not the tools used to create it (which shouldn't be part of any curriculum at all, IMNSHO. If kids must do it by hand, that should be just fine).
That's exactly the problem that I have with electronic voting. Sure, you or I may be able to comfortably 'certify' an electronic process, but what about those not in the field? And make no mistake, the entire *PROCESS* is also important, not just the way the votes are cast.
Citizens should feel confident that they know what is going on when tney 'pull the lever' If they do not, then the voting method is flawed.
With paper, there's less chance for confusion if the ballots and method to cast the vote are designed properly (no 'hanging chads'). The voter can see the 'technology' and how it is working. Not so with a touch screen on a magic box.
I was very uncomfortable with the electronic voting that occured here last election. I was given an RFID card which I used to identify myself to the machine and then returned that card when done. No idea WTF was going on or if my ID was stolen or anything.
If we were still dealing with 60Hz monitors, I bet we'd see more light on dark pages. Remember when browsers first hit the market, everything was black/blue on grey.
Without the annoying flicker, you can get away with the larger amount of light color. Why it is preferred, I'm not really sure. Perhaps it is better contrast and easier to read (again, only since the flicker is now gone).
Hopefully you'll hit a garbage truck instead of a cyclist, then.
http://bicycleuniverse.info/cars/cellphones.html
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-6090342-7.html
It is sickening to me that the interests of corporations are held above the will of the citizens. Oh wait, we aren't citizens, we are consumers.
'u' requires 2 key hits. I think a morse coder can certainly dot dot dash much faster.
They won't let me bring my parachute as a carry on, unfortunately.
No. But after reading the introduction, I did think it was a review of an old game I used to play on my tandy 1000.
...on the radio, the word 'shit' is bleeped out. Yet the other day, the chumbawumba song "I get knocked down" was on the radio. "pissing the night away" was there in all its glory. Now how is 'shit' offensive and 'piss' not? I think the latter is more offensive in the way it is used.
Enjoy!
http://www.vimeo.com/78881
attacking armed forces is not terrorism.
I've had the opposite experience. VIA chipsets / processors are very well supported in Linux, and there are a lot of multi-ethernet-port motherboards based on their stuff that kick ass as branch office linux-based firewall/vpn endpoints vs. shelling out money for checkpoint/nokia licenses.
Ok, I had mod points earlier today. This is funny :)
I was going to do this (configure the ISP's router as a bridge) for my dad, then realized if he ever had problems and called the ISP, it would be painful. Instead, I left the DSL router alone, and let the ISP do whatever they want with it, including PPPoE configuration, and then just configured the real router to get its external address via DHCP from the ISP device. Basically just a double nat. I thought it would be problematic, but everything is working fine for him, and if he has problems with his connection, the ISP can still muck with the gear they sold him without actually getting in to his LAN. It's been over a year, and I haven't gotten a phone call from him yet :)