The one annoying thing about TBird's IMAPSSL support is that you can't check a box when you create an account "Use SSL" or whatever right away like you can in Evolution.
So, you need to add the new account, finish the wizard, wait for it to sit there and go "the server says ssl only, fool", then go into the account settings, check the box, hit OK, quit thunderbird, relaunch thunderbird... then it'll connect via SSL.
How is your performance with IMAP IDLE in Courier? I tried it for a little while but found Dovecot to be much quicker (at just about everything). It'd be nice to find a benchmark of IMAP servers.
I agree on IMAP idle, it's just an excellent feature.
I have the same cable setup as the guy in the story, and it is trivial to hide those cables underneath existing panels and direct wire the power into the fusebox. I would guess that his cabling is inside that custom mold and then runs to the back of his radio.
The line in to CD changer cables are really good for this, a bit on the expensive side, around sixty bucks.
I've used the iTrip and the Belkin FM thing, and even in a car and with lossy MP3's the sound is remarkably worse than a direct line to the head unit.
Also, a neat feature that offline imap has is that it can copy from 2 remote IMAP servers without the need for an intermediate PC. It's awesome.
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Oh ok, then you'd be using Postgres then.;)
Seriously though, there's a niche there for selling to Oracle customers, given how expensive their software is the $2k for RHEL is almost nothing for large enterprises.
If large companies are going to spend a boatload money on Oracle and CA then why not Linux? Red Hat makes money, invests it in Fedora and GNOME, and I get a modern distro for free.
I don't see what people are so pissed about. Fedora is a better distribution than Red Hat Linux was, and with Fedora Legacy I don't have to upgrade unless I need to.
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If you're running Oracle on a multi-processor Linux system then the price of RHEL is insignificant.
Does it change/dev/psaux to/dev/input/mice for you in X for those systems that have it configured like that? You still need to configure and install ALSA if you weren't using it before. You still need to clean up/etc/modules and get rid of all your old module names (although the script is better these days).
Depending on the hardware there's umteen things that could not work when you upgrade major kernels revisions just because it worked for you once doesn't help the guy with a nonfunctional touchpad because he doesn't realize the module name has changed.
This guide to moving FC1 to 2.6 covers all the bases.
I think many people just grab Arjanv's RPMs or whatever, install them, and then wonder why the system blows up in their face, there is no easy answer to moving a 2.4-based box to 2.6 without a few modifications, regardless of distro.
It's tough to measure what the DPL does if you're not a Debian Developer. I've been using Debian since Potato and I still have no idea what the DPL really does. Should it matter to me? Not really, I don't vote, the DD's do.
We (as in users) depend on them to provide us with Debian the distribution, and as such they pick the DPL. The parent might see this effort as "nothing" but then again, why fix something that isn't broken? The only main problem with Debian is still the release process, which has been broken for years, some might even argue that it isn't broken at all, I guess it depends on your point of view.
All I know is that I've been using sid for years, and it has served me well, with over thirteen thousand packages working as well as they do, I hardly think anyone from the outside can call Debian anything other than a miraculous success.
Of course, those involved in the process can criticize all they wish, that's probably the reason it works so well in the first place.
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The last two weekly builds have had this turned on. Further information is in this thread.
The bugzilla number for this feature evades me at the moment. I've only used the windows builds provided, but it shouldn't be too difficult to make your own linux build with this stuff turned on.
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Thunderbird's latest builds have an improved spam filter using some ideas from SpamBayes, it's substantially improved from the older filter.
[development] name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fed ora/li nux/core/development
in/etc/yum.conf and then yum update. That worked for me. Look for "development" instead of "rawhide" on whichever mirror you use.
As always, there's no guarantee that any of that will work with test releases, although for FC1 I went from test1,2,3, and then to final using yum and had no issues.
I have a Directivo, and after one of the 3.x updates the need for the phone line went away. It will complain occassionally that it hasn't phoned in, but mine has been working flawlessly without a phone line for months.
They were in incoming earlier today and are already on my debian mirror.
They're still the January 14th CVS pulls, but at least they're in Sid now, along with gnome-sharp and gtk-sharp, so they're probably packaging.30 as we speak.
Except the fact that it's IE-only I've enjoyed using turbotax's web feature.
I remembers past years and it takes me about 10 minutes to do my taxes. I pay the 15 dollar fee or whatever it is and I have my refund in 2 days. Not bad and I can knock it out the day I get my W2's.
If you drink heavily afterward and try to remind yourself that it's not an ActiveX buttraping waiting to happen you get over it.
The last thing you need when crap gets broke is some phone jockey talking you through the elementary steps you tried 3 hours before.
"Yes I restarted the service." "I can mail you the apache config... what? What do you mean you can't accept my mail?" "Monday? It's 6pm on a Thursday!"
Sure lots of companies have great service contracts that will have people on site quickly, but whose company pays for that kind of support? Certainly not too many in today's cost concious environment.
Or worse yet, the boss chooses an expensive support option at the cost of an experienced admin who would have never let the thing break to begin with.
You can find most of the fixes to common problems on a usenet usegroup or one of the tons of mailing lists in about half the time it takes you to wait for someone on the phone. Sure it's not perfect, but if all else fails you can always fall back on the phone support if need be.
Yes it affects general users. Roxio get's bundled with lots of OEM PCs, and at least once a week some user here get's hosed when they send a DirectCD to someone without Roxio. Then you have to send a guy out to fix the problem, because "Easy CD Creator" confuses users into using their feature. "OMG, Explorer integration!!"
I'd love to see a study of the impact on support costs of DirectCD on businesses. The bundled ones even come with "CDR"s, but if you look at the labeling closely it says "Formatted for DirectCD", which means "another optical disc with some fucked up format that will break with the next version."
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As nice as it is, the iPod is pretty much a one-trick pony.
This is why I love my iPod so much and probably why it's so successful.
The one annoying thing about TBird's IMAPSSL support is that you can't check a box when you create an account "Use SSL" or whatever right away like you can in Evolution.
... then it'll connect via SSL.
So, you need to add the new account, finish the wizard, wait for it to sit there and go "the server says ssl only, fool", then go into the account settings, check the box, hit OK, quit thunderbird, relaunch thunderbird
How is your performance with IMAP IDLE in Courier? I tried it for a little while but found Dovecot to be much quicker (at just about everything). It'd be nice to find a benchmark of IMAP servers.
I agree on IMAP idle, it's just an excellent feature.
Ummm. I stick the RH8 discs in a RH7 box and choose "upgrade". Or I use yum or apt and take it right to FC1 or rawhide.
So he'd use apt-build instead.
If Debian zealots rant and rave like children, Gentoo zealots assume that they're the only distro that can compile things from source.
You're kidding right? You know you can do this in every other distro too.
Then go snag the sources and build it yourself.
I have the same cable setup as the guy in the story, and it is trivial to hide those cables underneath existing panels and direct wire the power into the fusebox. I would guess that his cabling is inside that custom mold and then runs to the back of his radio.
The line in to CD changer cables are really good for this, a bit on the expensive side, around sixty bucks.
I've used the iTrip and the Belkin FM thing, and even in a car and with lossy MP3's the sound is remarkably worse than a direct line to the head unit.
Also, a neat feature that offline imap has is that it can copy from 2 remote IMAP servers without the need for an intermediate PC. It's awesome.
Oh ok, then you'd be using Postgres then. ;)
Seriously though, there's a niche there for selling to Oracle customers, given how expensive their software is the $2k for RHEL is almost nothing for large enterprises.
If large companies are going to spend a boatload money on Oracle and CA then why not Linux? Red Hat makes money, invests it in Fedora and GNOME, and I get a modern distro for free.
I don't see what people are so pissed about. Fedora is a better distribution than Red Hat Linux was, and with Fedora Legacy I don't have to upgrade unless I need to.
If you're running Oracle on a multi-processor Linux system then the price of RHEL is insignificant.
Does it change /dev/psaux to /dev/input/mice for you in X for those systems that have it configured like that? You still need to configure and install ALSA if you weren't using it before. You still need to clean up /etc/modules and get rid of all your old module names (although the script is better these days).
Depending on the hardware there's umteen things that could not work when you upgrade major kernels revisions just because it worked for you once doesn't help the guy with a nonfunctional touchpad because he doesn't realize the module name has changed.
This guide to moving FC1 to 2.6 covers all the bases.
I think many people just grab Arjanv's RPMs or whatever, install them, and then wonder why the system blows up in their face, there is no easy answer to moving a 2.4-based box to 2.6 without a few modifications, regardless of distro.
There is also a ~30MB business-card netinstall that does the same thing.
It's tough to measure what the DPL does if you're not a Debian Developer. I've been using Debian since Potato and I still have no idea what the DPL really does. Should it matter to me? Not really, I don't vote, the DD's do.
We (as in users) depend on them to provide us with Debian the distribution, and as such they pick the DPL. The parent might see this effort as "nothing" but then again, why fix something that isn't broken? The only main problem with Debian is still the release process, which has been broken for years, some might even argue that it isn't broken at all, I guess it depends on your point of view.
All I know is that I've been using sid for years, and it has served me well, with over thirteen thousand packages working as well as they do, I hardly think anyone from the outside can call Debian anything other than a miraculous success.
Of course, those involved in the process can criticize all they wish, that's probably the reason it works so well in the first place.
The last two weekly builds have had this turned on. Further information is in this thread.
The bugzilla number for this feature evades me at the moment. I've only used the windows builds provided, but it shouldn't be too difficult to make your own linux build with this stuff turned on.
Thunderbird's latest builds have an improved spam filter using some ideas from SpamBayes, it's substantially improved from the older filter.
[development]d ora/li nux/core/development
/etc/yum.conf and then yum update. That worked for me. Look for "development" instead of "rawhide" on whichever mirror you use.
name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree
baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fe
in
As always, there's no guarantee that any of that will work with test releases, although for FC1 I went from test1,2,3, and then to final using yum and had no issues.
I have a Directivo, and after one of the 3.x updates the need for the phone line went away. It will complain occassionally that it hasn't phoned in, but mine has been working flawlessly without a phone line for months.
They were in incoming earlier today and are already on my debian mirror.
.30 as we speak.
They're still the January 14th CVS pulls, but at least they're in Sid now, along with gnome-sharp and gtk-sharp, so they're probably packaging
Spamassassin, postfix, and procmail developers - I sit here at home with a beer whilst my Exchange colleagues want to kill themselves right about now.
Thanks.
Except the fact that it's IE-only I've enjoyed using turbotax's web feature.
I remembers past years and it takes me about 10 minutes to do my taxes. I pay the 15 dollar fee or whatever it is and I have my refund in 2 days. Not bad and I can knock it out the day I get my W2's.
If you drink heavily afterward and try to remind yourself that it's not an ActiveX buttraping waiting to happen you get over it.
Support by google.
... what? What do you mean you can't accept my mail?"
The last thing you need when crap gets broke is some phone jockey talking you through the elementary steps you tried 3 hours before.
"Yes I restarted the service."
"I can mail you the apache config
"Monday? It's 6pm on a Thursday!"
Sure lots of companies have great service contracts that will have people on site quickly, but whose company pays for that kind of support? Certainly not too many in today's cost concious environment.
Or worse yet, the boss chooses an expensive support option at the cost of an experienced admin who would have never let the thing break to begin with.
You can find most of the fixes to common problems on a usenet usegroup or one of the tons of mailing lists in about half the time it takes you to wait for someone on the phone. Sure it's not perfect, but if all else fails you can always fall back on the phone support if need be.
Anyone else find it funny that "Just use Mozilla" would have taken care of over half of these?
Yes it affects general users. Roxio get's bundled with lots of OEM PCs, and at least once a week some user here get's hosed when they send a DirectCD to someone without Roxio. Then you have to send a guy out to fix the problem, because "Easy CD Creator" confuses users into using their feature. "OMG, Explorer integration!!"
I'd love to see a study of the impact on support costs of DirectCD on businesses. The bundled ones even come with "CDR"s, but if you look at the labeling closely it says "Formatted for DirectCD", which means "another optical disc with some fucked up format that will break with the next version."