The problem with Yahoo's bill paying service is that it's not free (not free as in beer nor speech). From their page, it lists $2/month, which is way more than a postage stamp.
However, I pay most of my bills online anyway.. If your credit card is through MBNA, like mine, you can pay your credit card bill online for free. And, that's just one example -- I'm sure that many (most?) other credit card companies also have similar facilities to pay online.
Then, there's also the other utilities. Where I'm living now, heat and water are included in the rent. But, I've arranged for my phone bill to be automatically paid from my bank account; your utlility/phone companies might have a similar service, but you'd have to ask them.
I'm now going to be dropping my copy of Norton AV (Symantec's AV software, for those cave dwellers
That's not a bad idea, but what AV would you recommend? A product with the ability to auto-update its virus definitions at regular intervals would be a plus.
Oh one other note, David Bialick sells these for the best price when I bought mine, and the service is also excellent. His site is http://www.dmb-ergonomics.com/.
And, it's only $32 with free shipping (but not free handing) from eCost.
Hmm, it's seems that my direct link to eCost's Adesso Tru-Form page didn't work.. Well, in that case, if you're interested, it's just a matter of going to the main eCost page and searching for "Adesso".
And, no, I don't work for them -- I'm just a satisfied customer:).
I must concur, that Adesso keyboards are top-notch. Myself, I own their "Tru-Form" keyboard, which does have the ridge ("tenting") in the middle. I really value it for that featrue; in fact, I upgraded to this Adesso because my old ergo keyboard didn't have the raised middle. And, the Adesso also has a split spacebar (a rarity on ergo keyboards, it seems)
As a bonus, the "Windows" keys don't have the "Windows logo" on them -- rather, they have a simple drawing of a four-paned square window. Of course, there are stickers for the keys that come with the keyboard, to "upgrade" to the Windows logo, but I threw those out:).
And, it's only $32 with free shipping (but not free handing) from eCost.
Also, I'd like to mention Dvortyboards. They're regular keyboards, but with both Qwerty and Dvorak letters on the keycaps. Best of all, though, you can switch between which mode (Dvorak or regular) simply through a switch on the keyboard (no software changes needed).
Until recently, Dvortyboards only sold a non-ergo keyboard. However, they now sell an ergo one too. The funny thing is, though, is that the Dvorty ergo keyboard looks suspiciously like my Adesso, even with the split space bar;).
I figured that if I didn't bring this up, someone else would (as this comment seems to be posted to every Xfree story on Slashdot).
Most of us are looking forward to antialiasing for fonts, somehow. Unfortunately, the server returns fonts as a 2-dimensional binary array (if I'm understanding things correctly). That's means pixels are either "on" or "off" (no greys).. So, it would seem that antialiasing would not be possible without a major rewrite of the API or something.
That's my question, though. Is a rewrite of the API likely? Or, do you think that a competing display technology to XFree taking hold would be more probable?
Maybe it's just me, but a blender is not necessarily a tool of good food making. That is, I like meat, potatoes, and corn. However, I don't want them all mixed together; I prefer to eat/taste them separately. Or, am I just crazy?
You know, one of these days I'm just going to put up a clock "Days till Redhat acquires Mandrake"...
I dunno about you, but I sure hope that Red Hat never acquires Mandrake. Currently, Mandrake is one of my favourite distros; in many ways, I consider it to be a "better Red Hat than Red Hat".
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like Mandrake is always a step ahead of Red Hat, in terms of its extra enhancements and such (DrakX, DiskDrake, DrakConf, etc). And, if Red Hat acquries Mandrake, I'm honestly not sure if those type of innovations would continue.
Here's my understanding of the situation. Mandrake is literally Red Hat, plus enhancements (DiskDrake, Pentium optimizations, etc). This is, and always was, its own distro: "Linux Mandrake".
The reason that there's so much Red Hat stuff in there is that, at the heart of it, it is Red Hat.
I keep hearing allusions to this hot-grits-down-pants thing.. It sounds like quite an amusing thread -- but, which story featured the original hot-grits thread that started all of this?
When I use Windows, I primarily use Eudora.. Is there any way to force Eudora to ignore HTML formatting? In addition to the potential security flaws, I just find HTML formatting (in e-mail) to be annoying:-/.
Alternatively, is there any way to connect Eudora to an "e-mail proxy" to get the same functionality?
I last tried Junkbuster about six months ago. At that time, the Windows client didn't have the functionality to replace ad-images with clear gifs (it would replace them with "broken image" instead) -- is that "fixed" in the latest release?
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But, is there a time-table for these changes? Has anyone even started coding this, or is all this really just pre-coding hype?
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Metallica - need I say more?
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However, I pay most of my bills online anyway.. If your credit card is through MBNA, like mine, you can pay your credit card bill online for free. And, that's just one example -- I'm sure that many (most?) other credit card companies also have similar facilities to pay online.
Then, there's also the other utilities. Where I'm living now, heat and water are included in the rent. But, I've arranged for my phone bill to be automatically paid from my bank account; your utlility/phone companies might have a similar service, but you'd have to ask them.
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- Check out AntiVir
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- It's called Live Update. It is schedulable.
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- (Let's not even get into McAfee)
eh? What's wrong with McAfee? I was actually considering switching to them (from my current Norton AV).Alex Bischoff
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- I'm now going to be dropping my copy of Norton AV (Symantec's AV software, for those cave dwellers
That's not a bad idea, but what AV would you recommend? A product with the ability to auto-update its virus definitions at regular intervals would be a plus.Alex Bischoff
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- Oh one other note, David Bialick sells these for the best price when I bought mine, and the service is also excellent. His site is http://www.dmb-ergonomics.com/.
Office Organix seems to have even better prices:- Kinesis Essential:
- $202.50 @ DMB
- $180 @ Office Organix
- Kinesis Professional:
- $319.50 @ DMB
- $253.95 @ Office Organix
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- And, it's only $32 with free shipping (but not free handing) from eCost.
Hmm, it's seems that my direct link to eCost's Adesso Tru-Form page didn't work.. Well, in that case, if you're interested, it's just a matter of going to the main eCost page and searching for "Adesso".And, no, I don't work for them -- I'm just a satisfied customer :).
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As a bonus, the "Windows" keys don't have the "Windows logo" on them -- rather, they have a simple drawing of a four-paned square window. Of course, there are stickers for the keys that come with the keyboard, to "upgrade" to the Windows logo, but I threw those out :).
And, it's only $32 with free shipping (but not free handing) from eCost.
Also, I'd like to mention Dvortyboards. They're regular keyboards, but with both Qwerty and Dvorak letters on the keycaps. Best of all, though, you can switch between which mode (Dvorak or regular) simply through a switch on the keyboard (no software changes needed).
Until recently, Dvortyboards only sold a non-ergo keyboard. However, they now sell an ergo one too. The funny thing is, though, is that the Dvorty ergo keyboard looks suspiciously like my Adesso, even with the split space bar ;).
Alex Bischoff
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Most of us are looking forward to antialiasing for fonts, somehow. Unfortunately, the server returns fonts as a 2-dimensional binary array (if I'm understanding things correctly). That's means pixels are either "on" or "off" (no greys).. So, it would seem that antialiasing would not be possible without a major rewrite of the API or something.
That's my question, though. Is a rewrite of the API likely? Or, do you think that a competing display technology to XFree taking hold would be more probable?
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- > (and no, I won't say what it is)
Ah, yes... Security through obscurity. Gotta love that <g>.Alex Bischoff
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- You know, one of these days I'm just going to put up a clock "Days till Redhat acquires Mandrake"...
I dunno about you, but I sure hope that Red Hat never acquires Mandrake. Currently, Mandrake is one of my favourite distros; in many ways, I consider it to be a "better Red Hat than Red Hat".Maybe it's just me, but it seems like Mandrake is always a step ahead of Red Hat, in terms of its extra enhancements and such (DrakX, DiskDrake, DrakConf, etc). And, if Red Hat acquries Mandrake, I'm honestly not sure if those type of innovations would continue.
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The reason that there's so much Red Hat stuff in there is that, at the heart of it, it is Red Hat.
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You can hear it in wav format as well (from this page).
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Alternatively, is there any way to connect Eudora to an "e-mail proxy" to get the same functionality?
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