On the otherhand if I was a past OS/2 customer I would be pretty happy with the length of support by IBM so far. You gotta hand it to IBM on this one, they supported the product as long as the customers needed, and that's pretty rare in this day and age of forced upgrades.
I mean, they even have OS/2 Mozilla - at least they weren't told their systems were out of date and force them to upgrade every 18 months. (Oracle/Microsoft).
to gain customer trust (as my A+ and Network Security certificate is)
"Certifications" like A+ are the reason our industry is plagued by morons.
An auto mechanic cert has to be half-way decent, since lives depend on it. But as long as you can buy a computer cert from an infomercial on TV, they're worthless.
Too bad that the last five years have seen the decline of the original intent of the internet to degrade to a cesspool of spam, RIAA/MPAA crap, popups, overmarketization, the ZD "stupidity factor" and other pure bullshit that we put up with every day.
Anyone else harking for the days of gopher and html 3.2? Sure, the "market capitilization" was horrible, but you know what, NNTP was actually useful back then. No google? Some industrous person on would point you to the right place, as a common courtesy. Sharing of knowledge. Ahhhh... the good old days.
Now we're deluged with a flash-crippled web with no regards to any kind of standards, where any moron can masquerade as a "developer" and make a ton of money for being an idiot. yeah, I may sound stupid in today's context, but someone like Alan Ralsky was impossible back in the day.
Bring back the meritocracy of the internet - you remember? The place where you were entitled to an opinion if you were intelligent enough to actually learn and connect.
Discriminatory? Hell yes, mod me down. Being more intelligent than the average Joe never hurt anyone....
My spamassassin-tagged mail usually scores between 1 and 1.5 ( a 5 is needed for a **SPAM** tag) - which in the grand scheme of things seems to be enough of a weigh for the value of an RBL. Don't absolutely trust it's value, but don't ignore it completely either.
I don't really see why anyone would use RBLs just by themselves. Personally, I have spamassassin catching the "big spams", you know the ones with webbugs, html-only, forged headers, etc. etc. I occasionally tag those as junk in my Mozilla Mail, while tagging my normal mail as not-junk. The Bayesian filter takes care of the occasionally sneaky spam. Once trained it's an awesome combination.
If someone expects to be able to sit down in front of their computer, put a Linux CD in, click "ok" a few times, and be up and running, doing everything they had been able to do in Win, they'll be disappointed, and are likely to give up.
This is why I love Knoppix linux. Literally a new user can hit enter twice and be in a full blown KDE or GNOME desktop w/ the standard linux apps in 2 minutes. Experienced users can type "knx-hdinstall" in a root window and have a Debian sid install in 20 minutes.
I've burned quite a few copies and have been handing them out to colleagues and the like to try linux. Even if they don't like it, they can at least be more educated on linux instead of taking the typical "Linux can't do $you_name_it" comment as truth from the MCSE at work.
If you want slower, more tested releases, then RH offers their Advanced Server product with a lifetime of at least 18 months, or you can use Debian which has a slower lifecycle.
There's no reason why their normal distribution should sit around on its laurels, when there's GTK2/XFT Mozilla and new glib changes for the rest of us to play with.
Last week, Secret Service agents in New York arrested three men and seized 35,000 illegally copied music discs, 10,000 movies on DVD and 421 compact disc burners that are used to make the counterfeit products.
I guess the "equivalent of 421 compact disc burners" has now officially become 421 compact disc burners.
So does this mean tha mozilla compiled with the intel compiler would run comparable to it's windows counterpart?
I would like to see a test with real desktop applications and desktops, ie. gcc GNOME/KDE vs. icc GNOME/KDE. Would these projects see significant performance improvements from the Intel compiler?
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Me too, their 8.x series was embarrassing. To quote someone off of IRC:
MDK's QA Process:
Guy #1: "Is this the latest version of the software? I mean the very latest?"
Guy #2: "Yeah, except this one package, it had some bug I think, so we just created the package from CVS and we think it might be fixed there."
There are plenty of user made mods that free the camera, along with tons of other mods that expand and extend the game. The _usermade_ Pool of Radiance mod is better than the recent standalone game!
This is exactly the kind of thing that makes NWN great, and probably why LucasArts is so interested.
That's great and all until Joe Traveler asks why he can't get his calendar that way. And they're going to demand that they have access to those 2GB worth of "important archives" - you know, the same lame jokes and pictures that are clogging the system to begin with. I've always wondered what is up with people insisting on saving every email, along with it's attachment. People don't feel compelled to record their voice mails to cassette tape, why is email different?
Outlook Web Access would handle the calendaring function. That, plus your IMAP suggestion would give them the most flexibility, but that would add a training overhead. They could use IMAP when they're on the road, and, when they need to use the calendar they can fire up OWA. Of course, you can get masochistic and copy their PST over for them to their laptop before every trip, but that introduces all sorts of problems.
For the address book, I know Mozilla Mail has an option to download LDAP directories for offline use, I'm sure Outlook has similar functionality.
It's an Oracle killer based on the fact that 80% of Oracle installations out there are overkill.
Seriously, look at the amount of Oracle installations out there. Now how many of them _need_ any of those features? Is it worth the extra cost of Oracle? More than likely it's all some marketing crap that eveyrone is led to believe than "only Oracle can do this".
My PHB is like this. He insists we use Oracle because we need an "industrial strength database", for a db with 40,000 records. Argh! Oracle is freaking expensive, we got Larry Ellison crusing around in some damn yacht race on our bill. In our case, Postgre would be an Oracle-killer, it's just getting people past that fact that Oracle is unnecessary for alot of applications.
I'm cheap, so I usually hang up some of the funnier ads from the linux mags. "Hello Mr. Gates, I'll be your server today!" from Penguin Computing is pretty cool. The Sun one is kind of neat too, "What Windows has done for your network, the Sun LX50 undoes". Heh.
Another doomsayer, give me a break, the Internet is going to fall apart in $random years, we'll be swimming in spam and popup ads, hackers will wage "cyberwar" on our "infostructure" unless we do something about it. Whatever. Use the propertools. By now if you're still swamped in spam/popups/adware, then you're an idiot.
The moron who cut me off on the road this morning is a danger to motorists, highways are doomed to failure!
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On the otherhand if I was a past OS/2 customer I would be pretty happy with the length of support by IBM so far. You gotta hand it to IBM on this one, they supported the product as long as the customers needed, and that's pretty rare in this day and age of forced upgrades.
I mean, they even have OS/2 Mozilla - at least they weren't told their systems were out of date and force them to upgrade every 18 months. (Oracle/Microsoft).
to gain customer trust (as my A+ and Network Security certificate is)
"Certifications" like A+ are the reason our industry is plagued by morons.
An auto mechanic cert has to be half-way decent, since lives depend on it. But as long as you can buy a computer cert from an infomercial on TV, they're worthless.
Except for the fact that IE renders things different from version to version. So "just coding for IE" isn't as simple. Which version?
Fry him ... sure, it only takes 3 minutes to reboot, but my tivo is a linux box - sacrificing uptime makes baby jesus cry.
Quick google searches/FAQs would have helped me understand more of those obtuse subjects.
What the professor is really thinking is "Crap, this lesson is a one page 'for dummies' FAQ online, I better pad this with some bullshit."
Too bad that the last five years have seen the decline of the original intent of the internet to degrade to a cesspool of spam, RIAA/MPAA crap, popups, overmarketization, the ZD "stupidity factor" and other pure bullshit that we put up with every day.
... the good old days.
Anyone else harking for the days of gopher and html 3.2? Sure, the "market capitilization" was horrible, but you know what, NNTP was actually useful back then. No google? Some industrous person on would point you to the right place, as a common courtesy. Sharing of knowledge. Ahhhh
Now we're deluged with a flash-crippled web with no regards to any kind of standards, where any moron can masquerade as a "developer" and make a ton of money for being an idiot. yeah, I may sound stupid in today's context, but someone like Alan Ralsky was impossible back in the day.
Bring back the meritocracy of the internet - you remember? The place where you were entitled to an opinion if you were intelligent enough to actually learn and connect.
Discriminatory? Hell yes, mod me down. Being more intelligent than the average Joe never hurt anyone....
Well duh, it's hard to make make cards out of vapor. :)
My spamassassin-tagged mail usually scores between 1 and 1.5 ( a 5 is needed for a **SPAM** tag) - which in the grand scheme of things seems to be enough of a weigh for the value of an RBL. Don't absolutely trust it's value, but don't ignore it completely either.
I don't really see why anyone would use RBLs just by themselves. Personally, I have spamassassin catching the "big spams", you know the ones with webbugs, html-only, forged headers, etc. etc. I occasionally tag those as junk in my Mozilla Mail, while tagging my normal mail as not-junk. The Bayesian filter takes care of the occasionally sneaky spam. Once trained it's an awesome combination.
Yes, except that if the IP pigeons drink the IP water, the universe will explode.
Inline WYSIWYG content editors. Built in editor (IE Only), and integrated support for Real Objects Edit-On Pro.
Wow, IE-specific features. Good to see that stupidity crosses all license barriers.
If someone expects to be able to sit down in front of their computer, put a Linux CD in, click "ok" a few times, and be up and running, doing everything they had been able to do in Win, they'll be disappointed, and are likely to give up.
This is why I love Knoppix linux. Literally a new user can hit enter twice and be in a full blown KDE or GNOME desktop w/ the standard linux apps in 2 minutes. Experienced users can type "knx-hdinstall" in a root window and have a Debian sid install in 20 minutes.
I've burned quite a few copies and have been handing them out to colleagues and the like to try linux. Even if they don't like it, they can at least be more educated on linux instead of taking the typical "Linux can't do $you_name_it" comment as truth from the MCSE at work.
If you want slower, more tested releases, then RH offers their Advanced Server product with a lifetime of at least 18 months, or you can use Debian which has a slower lifecycle.
There's no reason why their normal distribution should sit around on its laurels, when there's GTK2/XFT Mozilla and new glib changes for the rest of us to play with.
Ugh, never call wincvs a nice client.
tortoise cvs if you're ever in a win environment.
Last week, Secret Service agents in New York arrested three men and seized 35,000 illegally copied music discs, 10,000 movies on DVD and 421 compact disc burners that are used to make the counterfeit products.
I guess the "equivalent of 421 compact disc burners" has now officially become 421 compact disc burners.
+1 for the RIAA spinmeister team.
-1 for truth.
So does this mean tha mozilla compiled with the intel compiler would run comparable to it's windows counterpart?
I would like to see a test with real desktop applications and desktops, ie. gcc GNOME/KDE vs. icc GNOME/KDE. Would these projects see significant performance improvements from the Intel compiler?
Me too, their 8.x series was embarrassing. To quote someone off of IRC:
MDK's QA Process:
Guy #1: "Is this the latest version of the software? I mean the very latest?"
Guy #2: "Yeah, except this one package, it had some bug I think, so we just created the package from CVS and we think it might be fixed there."
Guy #1: "Ok, burn the gold CD!"
You can find just about every mod, hack, and expansion on NWVault.
Until they fix the camera angle...
There are plenty of user made mods that free the camera, along with tons of other mods that expand and extend the game. The _usermade_ Pool of Radiance mod is better than the recent standalone game!
This is exactly the kind of thing that makes NWN great, and probably why LucasArts is so interested.
I've been using this package:
http://people.debian.org/~eric/debian/i386
That's great and all until Joe Traveler asks why he can't get his calendar that way. And they're going to demand that they have access to those 2GB worth of "important archives" - you know, the same lame jokes and pictures that are clogging the system to begin with. I've always wondered what is up with people insisting on saving every email, along with it's attachment. People don't feel compelled to record their voice mails to cassette tape, why is email different?
Outlook Web Access would handle the calendaring function. That, plus your IMAP suggestion would give them the most flexibility, but that would add a training overhead. They could use IMAP when they're on the road, and, when they need to use the calendar they can fire up OWA. Of course, you can get masochistic and copy their PST over for them to their laptop before every trip, but that introduces all sorts of problems.
For the address book, I know Mozilla Mail has an option to download LDAP directories for offline use, I'm sure Outlook has similar functionality.
Don't allow them to distribute .NET and Java with Windows and let the market decide.
It's an Oracle killer based on the fact that 80% of Oracle installations out there are overkill.
Seriously, look at the amount of Oracle installations out there. Now how many of them _need_ any of those features? Is it worth the extra cost of Oracle? More than likely it's all some marketing crap that eveyrone is led to believe than "only Oracle can do this".
My PHB is like this. He insists we use Oracle because we need an "industrial strength database", for a db with 40,000 records. Argh! Oracle is freaking expensive, we got Larry Ellison crusing around in some damn yacht race on our bill. In our case, Postgre would be an Oracle-killer, it's just getting people past that fact that Oracle is unnecessary for alot of applications.
Pretty sure this is him.
I'm cheap, so I usually hang up some of the funnier ads from the linux mags. "Hello Mr. Gates, I'll be your server today!" from Penguin Computing is pretty cool. The Sun one is kind of neat too, "What Windows has done for your network, the Sun LX50 undoes". Heh.
Another doomsayer, give me a break, the Internet is going to fall apart in $random years, we'll be swimming in spam and popup ads, hackers will wage "cyberwar" on our "infostructure" unless we do something about it. Whatever. Use the proper tools. By now if you're still swamped in spam/popups/adware, then you're an idiot.
The moron who cut me off on the road this morning is a danger to motorists, highways are doomed to failure!