Yes BUT, the kernel would fail to recognize that it could support my particular card, and hence would not. This made the kernel's "support" completely useless in my case.
I'm hoping that some of the rough edges on Kmail have been smoothed out.
I guess you didn't even look at the links. Sign of a true professional.
KMail: Maildir support KMail: Distribution lists and aliases KMail: SMTP authentication KMail: SMTP over SSL/TLS KMail: Pipelining for POP3 (faster mail download on slow responding networks) KMail: On demand downloading or deleting without downloading of big mails on a POP3 server KMail: Various improvements for IMAP KMail: Permanent header caching KMail: Header fetching is much faster KMail: Creating/removing of folders KMail: Drats/sent-mail/trash folders on the server KMail: Mail checking in all folders KMail: Automatic configuration of the POP3/IMAP/ SMTP security features KMail: Automatic encoding selection for outgoing mails KMail: DIGEST-MD5 authentication KMail: Identity based sent-mail and drafts folders KMail: Expiry of old messages KMail: Hotkey to temporary switch to fixed width fonts KMail: UTF-7 support KMail: Enhanced status reports for encrypted/signed messages
Think about how much time, money, and other resources the average person spends protecting their freedom: 2 minutes on Slashdot compaining. Now lets think about how much time, money and other resources these organizations spend trying to take away our freedon: 24/7/365, millions of dollars, any resource they can use (advertizing, lawyers, congress).
I, on the other hand, have had serious problems with 8.2.
I am a ex-Slackware Gentoo-convert, who has always felt that if I want something done right, I have to do it myself. I am aware of the passe quotability of that last comment, but I have found it to be true.
I have a new Compaq Evo N600C, and until 2.4.18, not all my hardware was kernel-supported. I had to tweak to get things to work. Relying on Mandrake's tools freezes X, or the network tool. Even the package manager has frozen on me. Everytime I boot, Mandrake thinks my mouse is new or has disappeared. Finally when I had things running, I was using KWord to do some work. It crashed twice in under an hour.
Installing and configuring Gentoo took WAY longer than Mandrake, and was much more demanding. But it works.
Now that I have spent many years tweaking and configuring Linux in a DIY fashion, I was REALLY hoping there would be a distro capable of working in such a way that I wouldn't have to bother.
Well, there are several of premature remarks here. "Java is slow", "it's not free", "it's not Office/StarOffice/KOffice", etc...
Just to let you all know. I actually tried it. I used it to whip up an updated version of my resume, and saved in in rtf, doc, and html. I then proceeded to open the doc and rtf in Word, and the html in various browsers, only to find they all looked exactly as expected.
This PDA is Linux and Java based. This makes it very easy to tailor it to your needs if you know what you're doing.
Take VB or Java/JFC. Not often do you see widely used commercial apps written in either of these. But the amount of "inside"or one-off specialty software written like this is huge. I think this PDA could find a niche in that sort of market. Dont think of it as a product so much a s a PDA "kit" that you have to might have to tweak a little.
Companies aren't allowed to sell, give away, or otherwise distribute hardware or software.
That way the sys-admin will really need to develop a cozy "relationship" with the harware he built from scratch, and the sofware he toiled over. Only through this type of "do-it-yourself" administration, can we be assured that sys-admins really know what's going on in their (literally) machines. </sarcasm>
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In a case like this, where there are only a few bits to "adjust" to achieve desired results, anyone with a little knowhow could just use a hex editor.
Of course hex editors have "substantial commercially significant use other than circumvention", but lawyers don't seem to care...
So the JDC interviewed James Gosling. Surely he [has] contributed to the JDC and has a log in, thus making him a part of the JDC collective...
Next week on Slashdot: Taco interviews himself.
Looked into it briefly on a couple of occasions.
I'm not so much interested in having Ruby and Java work together in any sense.
I'm just using Ruby as one of my tools to write Java.
Someone will surely correct my grammar if I don't.
Although I am a Java developer, I use alot of Ruby.
See "The Pragmatic Programmer", page 103, tip# 29: "Write Code That Writes Code"
(Ruby code that writes Java code).
Your comment is very insightful. Thanks. I'd mod you up if I could.
It's already been fixed. As of 2.4.18.
We do that
here and
here.
I will definately bookmark that for future reference.
Yes BUT, the kernel would fail to recognize that it could support my particular card, and hence would not. This made the kernel's "support" completely useless in my case.
This happened to me during an ADSL support call. They switched their DNSs and I wanted to know the new ones.
"..I'm running on Linux..."
"O.K. Go to Start... Settings... Control Panel..."
"No. I'm not running Windows, I use Linux".
"On a Mac?"
"I just need to know the DNS numbers."
"O.K. What's the problem again?"
"My connection has been working fine. I ping IP addresses but can't resolve domain names. I think you guys switched your DNSs IPs."
"......"
"Do you have some numbers beside something that says 'DNS' or 'Domain Name Server'"
"....... Oh yes."
"Can I have them."
...
My Compaq Evo n600c laptop had an eepro100 that wasn't supported by the kernel until 2.4.18.
Intel had a src download driver that compiled and worked flawlessly.
Meanwhile, artists of all stripes, from Byrd to Sheryl Crow, are challenging the status quo.
Sexy and a rebel.
Nice.
Just curious as to why this story was classified as PHP when Zope is Python . . .
You are aware that this is Slashdot right?
it was just my [bad] sense of humour.
...when these scientists later considered that the universe is composed of 74% hydrogen, they realized their "discovery" was somewhat moot.
Notepad upgrade.
Will we ever see a better text editor come with the os?
I'm hoping that some of the rough edges on Kmail have been smoothed out.
I guess you didn't even look at the links. Sign of a true professional.
KMail: Maildir support
KMail: Distribution lists and aliases
KMail: SMTP authentication
KMail: SMTP over SSL/TLS
KMail: Pipelining for POP3 (faster mail download on slow responding networks)
KMail: On demand downloading or deleting without downloading of big mails on a POP3 server
KMail: Various improvements for IMAP
KMail: Permanent header caching
KMail: Header fetching is much faster
KMail: Creating/removing of folders
KMail: Drats/sent-mail/trash folders on the server
KMail: Mail checking in all folders
KMail: Automatic configuration of the POP3/IMAP/ SMTP security features
KMail: Automatic encoding selection for outgoing mails
KMail: DIGEST-MD5 authentication
KMail: Identity based sent-mail and drafts folders
KMail: Expiry of old messages
KMail: Hotkey to temporary switch to fixed width fonts
KMail: UTF-7 support
KMail: Enhanced status reports for encrypted/signed messages
Think about how much time, money, and other resources the average person spends protecting their freedom: 2 minutes on Slashdot compaining. Now lets think about how much time, money and other resources these organizations spend trying to take away our freedon: 24/7/365, millions of dollars, any resource they can use (advertizing, lawyers, congress).
Who do you think will win this fight?
I, on the other hand, have had serious problems with 8.2.
I am a ex-Slackware Gentoo-convert, who has always felt that if I want something done right, I have to do it myself. I am aware of the passe quotability of that last comment, but I have found it to be true.
I have a new Compaq Evo N600C, and until 2.4.18, not all my hardware was kernel-supported. I had to tweak to get things to work. Relying on Mandrake's tools freezes X, or the network tool. Even the package manager has frozen on me. Everytime I boot, Mandrake thinks my mouse is new or has disappeared. Finally when I had things running, I was using KWord to do some work. It crashed twice in under an hour.
Installing and configuring Gentoo took WAY longer than Mandrake, and was much more demanding. But it works.
Now that I have spent many years tweaking and configuring Linux in a DIY fashion, I was REALLY hoping there would be a distro capable of working in such a way that I wouldn't have to bother.
Not yet.
Well, there are several of premature remarks here. "Java is slow", "it's not free", "it's not Office/StarOffice/KOffice", etc...
Just to let you all know. I actually tried it.
I used it to whip up an updated version of my resume, and saved in in rtf, doc, and html. I then proceeded to open the doc and rtf in Word, and the html in various browsers, only to find they all looked exactly as expected.
I thought that was rather nice.
Yes, and there is (or at least used to be) more C code and documentation then Java code and documentation.
From the sounds of it, getting a Java app running on this is almost a no-brainer.
This PDA is Linux and Java based. This makes it very easy to tailor it to your needs if you know what you're doing.
Take VB or Java/JFC. Not often do you see widely used commercial apps written in either of these. But the amount of "inside"or one-off specialty software written like this is huge. I think this PDA could find a niche in that sort of market. Dont think of it as a product so much a s a PDA "kit" that you have to might have to tweak a little.
Companies aren't allowed to sell, give away, or otherwise distribute hardware or software.
That way the sys-admin will really need to develop a cozy "relationship" with the harware he built from scratch, and the sofware he toiled over. Only through this type of "do-it-yourself" administration, can we be assured that sys-admins really know what's going on in their (literally) machines.
</sarcasm>
My CD came out upside-down. And although I was making a copy of Slackware, the copied CD was Men at Work.