"1. Evolution deletes mail by putting it into a virtual folder and hiding the original message in your inbox. This is ok and seamless to the end user UNLESS you happen to also use webmail. In which case your inbox will be cluttered by messages you thought you'd gotten rid of ages ago. The evolution team has flat out refused to address this issue and has been calling this 'not a bug' (which is true) since 2001."
Holy crap. I have a similar problem with Mozilla, where I organize my mail into folders my Inbox never loses the message but it is hidden. My Inbox grows to a couple of GB and I move it to something like Inbox-11-05.
What you are saying is that Evolution never actually creates files / folders / directories for organization of my mail, so I can never go in command line and grep vi my folders? That is nuts and wrong. Good thing I have not switched to evolution.
I tried out thunderbird a while back, but it made a backup of my nsmail directory. I have 5-6 GBs of mail, so that hosed me a bit and I never tried it again. (Yes, I keep old trash folders, sent mail, old inbox, everything including SPAM, you never know when you might need it)
I was talking more about ICBM coverage. Patriot and Thaad are pretty small scale protection, local battlefield area.
ICBM may end up being multi tiered, with orbiting lasers/brilliant pebbles in space, multiple rounds of ground launched ICBM intercept possibly with multiple methods (nuke vs kinetic) plus some air based laser systems as last resort.
Right now, I think only kinetic ground based is online, but the other star wars programs have languished in various stages of development.
And there are some ICBM systems that deal with thousand mile range. Not sure what the acronym is, but they exist and some are deployed in Alaska as we speak.
Just like patriot, they shoot stuff out of the sky.
Pretty freaking amazing.
Thad is the medium range system, patriot is the small range system. There is a ICBM system that is now deployed, I think they have two intercepters in Alaska.
Going to his ling, I got a normal looking george harrison / beatles site when I clicked in.
Just to check to see if they were rotating site I opened 50 or so tabs and they were all the same. I did not see any obvious advertising on the site even.
Now, if everyone at/. hit his site for 50-100 page loads, he might learn not to mess around.
Back about a decade ago the Unix systems at Purdue had some semblance of rm with a cache / recycle bin. You would think it would not be that difficult to do, but we still have the same old rm command.
The Earth will not lose the ability to support life. Even all out USSR USA nucular war would not remove the ability to support life, as cockroaches would still be around...
What you are worried about is significant change in the balance. We already have that. Think about the change in world population in the last 1000 years, from millions to billions. That is disruptive, as we are not currently self-sustaining.
You want to lock us in to one point in time and make sure nobody is hurting too bad. Guess what, bad things may happen and a lot (millions) of people may die until things settle out to a sustainable level.
I hope our tech can hold off major change for a few generations, but you never know...
RH started wanted to charge me for support. Even at academic rates, this amounts to hundreds of dollars per year for a few machines for what basically is a few security patches.
Knoppix-> Debian installs for me. Forget RH.
Tried using FC core for a while, but they kept pestering me for accounts. I should not need an account to do security updates. apt-get update or apt-get install for me.
The classic Compaq was a great luggable. Size of a suitcase with two 5.25" drives. We got a 30 MB add-on drive and that was awesome. 1 MB RAM but DOS only used the first 640k effectively. Clear 7 inch green CRT. Keyboard folded up into bottom of machine, full sized with real key depth.
That was a luggable machine. 15 pounds is nothing.
Phone encryption devices have been illegal in the US for ages, I believe. My mexican buddy claims they used to use them down south of the border, little boxes you would strap on a phone that was coupled to a mate on the other end.
All the Fed have to do is outlaw encrypted internet traffic. How hard could that be?
If they really want you, they will get you. Few people are Tempest-proof, so they can just park a van out front and screen read whatever you do.
You have no privacy outside your home or on the internet. Always assume someone is reading your email.
Just for fun, google "private jet" or "fur coat" and open the google ads in a new tab. Each ad makes a few bucks for google and drains the high end advertisers.
Seems like we have had dupes back-to-back or nearly so, maybe one article between.
You would think they would have two people sign off on stories unless it was very time sensitive.
I don't feel cheated since I don't pay, but advertisers and paying members might be pissed.
This also makes me want to take any legitimate story and submit it over and over, just to see if I could get a dupe story in. Maybe people are doing that, and that is one reason we still get dupes.
Even watching it live, I can't parse what they are talking about. So much of the language is totally different, I need something to translate it for me.
Maybe they could do Shakespeare with little LCDs like at the Met for foreign opera, plays with subtitles.
Plus, it always felt like work. I thought plays should be entertaining? I like live theater in general, but the activation energy for me and Shakespeare was always too high.
The only way I got through the Bard's plays were Cliff's Notes.
The Cliff Notes were usually longer than the play itself, but you could follow the cliff notes.
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Exactly. Slashdot still has some level of humor and cutting edge technology. The news slant just helps focus the community around a topic. Nobody can really expect/. to have real news or real articles. Even the reviews are pretty sketchy. It is a nice list of current events with some expert comment (and idiot comments) as well as some humor periodically.
How many times has Apply been on the verge of going out of business? At least once, when MS gave them a cash infusion to prop up some competition. If they die, what happens to your encrypted music collection?
I honestly did not know you could make a CD from iTunes, but that feature could also be removed in future versions. Even so, you are making a CD from a digital stream that would have to be ripped again, so you would lose something. iTunes music is not full CD quality, I assume.
You are going to lose using an encrypted lossy format.
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"1. Evolution deletes mail by putting it into a virtual folder and hiding the original message in your inbox. This is ok and seamless to the end user UNLESS you happen to also use webmail. In which case your inbox will be cluttered by messages you thought you'd gotten rid of ages ago. The evolution team has flat out refused to address this issue and has been calling this 'not a bug' (which is true) since 2001."
Holy crap. I have a similar problem with Mozilla, where I organize my mail into folders my Inbox never loses the message but it is hidden. My Inbox grows to a couple of GB and I move it to something like Inbox-11-05.
What you are saying is that Evolution never actually creates files / folders / directories for organization of my mail, so I can never go in command line and grep vi my folders? That is nuts and wrong. Good thing I have not switched to evolution.
I tried out thunderbird a while back, but it made a backup of my nsmail directory. I have 5-6 GBs of mail, so that hosed me a bit and I never tried it again. (Yes, I keep old trash folders, sent mail, old inbox, everything including SPAM, you never know when you might need it)
I was talking more about ICBM coverage. Patriot and Thaad are pretty small scale protection, local battlefield area.
ICBM may end up being multi tiered, with orbiting lasers/brilliant pebbles in space, multiple rounds of ground launched ICBM intercept possibly with multiple methods (nuke vs kinetic) plus some air based laser systems as last resort.
Right now, I think only kinetic ground based is online, but the other star wars programs have languished in various stages of development.
It is not perfect, but the fact that it can be done is amazing.
I would take a 50% effective defense over no defense at all.
With full deployment and multiple levels of defense you could essentially get to near 100% coverage.
And there are some ICBM systems that deal with thousand mile range. Not sure what the acronym is, but they exist and some are deployed in Alaska as we speak.
My dad works on this stuff.
Just like patriot, they shoot stuff out of the sky.
Pretty freaking amazing.
Thad is the medium range system, patriot is the small range system. There is a ICBM system that is now deployed, I think they have two intercepters in Alaska.
Going to his ling, I got a normal looking george harrison / beatles site when I clicked in.
/. hit his site for 50-100 page loads, he might learn not to mess around.
Just to check to see if they were rotating site I opened 50 or so tabs and they were all the same. I did not see any obvious advertising on the site even.
Now, if everyone at
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I opened like 50 FF tabs and a couple actually connected and worked.
/. to open 50-100 tabs on their site, but if it works....
I hate to encourage
Back about a decade ago the Unix systems at Purdue had some semblance of rm with a cache / recycle bin. You would think it would not be that difficult to do, but we still have the same old rm command.
I keep a konsole window open with 5-10 shells open. shift-left shift-right to swith between.
Stay logged in on multiple machines and it is easy to swap between.
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Helps me at work...
The Earth will not lose the ability to support life. Even all out USSR USA nucular war would not remove the ability to support life, as cockroaches would still be around...
What you are worried about is significant change in the balance. We already have that. Think about the change in world population in the last 1000 years, from millions to billions. That is disruptive, as we are not currently self-sustaining.
You want to lock us in to one point in time and make sure nobody is hurting too bad. Guess what, bad things may happen and a lot (millions) of people may die until things settle out to a sustainable level.
I hope our tech can hold off major change for a few generations, but you never know...
Has that always been true? I thought FC1 / FC2 used up2date be default. I could be wrong.
I would be happy paying RH a one-time fee per box, assuming we get free security updates.
RH started wanted to charge me for support. Even at academic rates, this amounts to hundreds of dollars per year for a few machines for what basically is a few security patches.
Knoppix-> Debian installs for me. Forget RH.
Tried using FC core for a while, but they kept pestering me for accounts. I should not need an account to do security updates. apt-get update or apt-get install for me.
BTW, Taco, if you don't stop the popups...
Found a link to that classic luggable Compaq, from back in the day when real men used laptops.
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Yeah, but I also remember hearing IBM made more off each Apple laptop sold than apple. The chip, the HD, and the screen were all IBM...
The classic Compaq was a great luggable. Size of a suitcase with two 5.25" drives. We got a 30 MB add-on drive and that was awesome. 1 MB RAM but DOS only used the first 640k effectively. Clear 7 inch green CRT. Keyboard folded up into bottom of machine, full sized with real key depth.
That was a luggable machine. 15 pounds is nothing.
Phone encryption devices have been illegal in the US for ages, I believe. My mexican buddy claims they used to use them down south of the border, little boxes you would strap on a phone that was coupled to a mate on the other end.
All the Fed have to do is outlaw encrypted internet traffic. How hard could that be?
If they really want you, they will get you. Few people are Tempest-proof, so they can just park a van out front and screen read whatever you do.
You have no privacy outside your home or on the internet. Always assume someone is reading your email.
Just for fun, google "private jet" or "fur coat" and open the google ads in a new tab. Each ad makes a few bucks for google and drains the high end advertisers.
I pop my mail to my desktop (download it there and back it up).
I use a web based client on my laptop or while out of the office.
I used to also pop but leave messages on the server from desktop at home and laptop. That works ok, but web clients are now pretty good.
If you want all your mail with you, rsync your nsmail directory to your laptop.
In the old days, every dot release on the kernel was a story.
Every new version of a major distro was a story.
We had comments, but there was no moderation, and we liked it.
Now, if we could just get this story accepted again for a threepete, our evil plan will be complete.
Seems like we have had dupes back-to-back or nearly so, maybe one article between.
You would think they would have two people sign off on stories unless it was very time sensitive.
I don't feel cheated since I don't pay, but advertisers and paying members might be pissed.
This also makes me want to take any legitimate story and submit it over and over, just to see if I could get a dupe story in. Maybe people are doing that, and that is one reason we still get dupes.
Even watching it live, I can't parse what they are talking about. So much of the language is totally different, I need something to translate it for me.
Maybe they could do Shakespeare with little LCDs like at the Met for foreign opera, plays with subtitles.
Plus, it always felt like work. I thought plays should be entertaining? I like live theater in general, but the activation energy for me and Shakespeare was always too high.
The only way I got through the Bard's plays were Cliff's Notes.
The Cliff Notes were usually longer than the play itself, but you could follow the cliff notes.
Exactly. Slashdot still has some level of humor and cutting edge technology. The news slant just helps focus the community around a topic. Nobody can really expect
I think you mean "analog".
How many times has Apply been on the verge of going out of business? At least once, when MS gave them a cash infusion to prop up some competition. If they die, what happens to your encrypted music collection?
I honestly did not know you could make a CD from iTunes, but that feature could also be removed in future versions. Even so, you are making a CD from a digital stream that would have to be ripped again, so you would lose something. iTunes music is not full CD quality, I assume.
You are going to lose using an encrypted lossy format.