Good point! I'm sure I found a way to do that within KDE too, but I'll be buggered if I can find it. (and I don't mean vi in xterm!)
Perhaps matrox's power desktop thingy will catch on with the other vid-card peeps.
Well, it's a song lyric to start with. So dumb moderators into Placebo get excited, have a waz, then dish out the karma to a kins-man.
I think it's a line from a zillion and one poems too.
Unfortunately the functionality model is completely different, i.e. ms have never taken an interest in security. Their late "patch" for melissa was pathetic. iloveyou should never have been allowed to happen with updated software. It just emphasis the disrespect they have for their customers (hence why I spend a lot of time dumping their installations (if only there was a standard for sharing wordprocessing and spreadsheet data and formatting)). Here's what Lotus have to say about it (about half way down).
I know far more sites using Lotus than outlook/exchange. They're big site too, so the user base is pretty substatial, and yet I've not come across a single virus problem (yes, attachment in the mail can be opened/executed, so perhaps note users are wiser when it comes to non-script virus issues too). Those I know of (companies that is) that use the ms product have been crippled by the two big vb virii. Amazingly they're still using it, and will undoubtably get cripple on the next one. Boy, did their "techs" look fscking stupid after their "ms is great, it's the admin that the causes the problems" speeches.
I guess that just because a problem can be solved with a particular solution, doesn't mean that that solution should be used? And why should express have the same problems (along with a nice nntp client (pity about that "searching for url" cockup))?
Mailmerge processing merely needs an API, you don't need an email client, this is trivial. And if one loves the vb scripting, ms office already provides it (chap here does 2 gig of emails a month this way with no problems (other than excel crashing ever now and then)).
Databases should use unique, thus enforcing the rule and should not be left to the whim of any programmer, this is very basic.
Corp environments (not exactly sure to what you are refering), but I've been using similar sounding environments since '84. Conformity seems to be well down the more standard and somewhat flexible HTTP path in the sites that I've worked at over the last 5 or so years.
The non-express may offer more than email, but at the end of the day, its email client does not have to run a script. As another poster said, Lotus has similar functionality and suffers none of the security problems that ms does. Personally, I don't like the Lotus environment as it always feels clunky and bloaty! I'd guess that's IBM's influence.
It was quite a while ago when I read Hawking, but I'm pretty sure he spoke of something along the lines of bounces. These bounces wouldn't be the same, which conveniently allows for just about any expansion theory.
Pity the knowledgeable ones left splashbot last year...
Thee BBC does not carry adverts, other than the ones for their own services and merchandise. The BBC licence (about 100UKP a year) is required by anyone that owns a TV or a device that basically has a tuning circuit that could be used to receive TV signals. However, all that dosh goes to the BBC. They put out two (whooo) terrestrial TV channels (and shit-loads of radio), more recently they've been getting more channels on to the digital satellite/cable networks (generally the same programs as terrestrial). An awful lot of people complain about the licence, especially as there are two (actually three depending on where you live) other terrestrial channels, all of which carry adverts to pay for their programming.
In recent years we've had 60+ analogue channels (including the foreign stuff) just from the Astra satellites (as far as the UK is concerned, these are "Sky" (murdoch's media outlet for the UK)). We're now dropping the analogue satellite services ('cos they're on very old satellites that have reached their life expectancy) and going digital. Pretty much all the satellite channels (analogue and digital) require addition subscriptions fees. 15UKP per month for a basic package that has fsck all sport and films, a more common package will cost 30-40UKP a month. Except the film channels, there are masses of ad's on so-called subscriptions channels which generally take up about 20 minutes of each programming hour. Originally, the UK market was told that the ad's on the satellite channels were to subsidise the miniscule subscription base. Now the numbers are up and everyone has become used to the bloody things, sky have conveniently forgotten the original promise. Unfortunately the UK public is rather dumb and suffers from amnesia.
Personally, I find the US ad's less annoying. But I don't really give a poo these days, as I dumped the TV months ago!
go work in an office where there's a bigger sample base. then you'll see the blue screens, the failed shutdowns, the pissed off users having to power-off due to a frozen machine, the even more pissed-off users being told the NT server has to be rebooted again because there a looping task that the administration isn't "authorised" to cancel, or permissions are becoming bolloxed again.
In an office of 50, I see daily crashes and blue screens. Now scale that kind of reliability to the rest of the ms user world. Don't forget, office users bang the shite out of their desktops for 8 hours a day. ms os and apps ain't up to the job. and that's a fact of pc life.
Until I can hide processor units in a cupboard elsewhere in my house, I'm very aware of the noise PCs make, more so the fast ones (yes, I am aware of the g4 cube).
So has anyone actually seen a solution where I can have the input & output (i.e. keyboard, video & sound et al) at one end of the house, and the noisy crap at the other? Wireless stuff seems to be stuff around low-end network speeds.
Okay, I'll admit it. I'm crap at all these new fangled games. Left-right-fire, no problem. But these modern ones where you have to survive a massive onslaught for weeks on end before you can get remotely close to a save point are just getting silly (psx, that's you I'm talking about).
I feel rather peeved when I get to a point when due to the combination of my crapness, and the games' company not documenting how to oomph up the fire-power and energy levels, I effectively have to dump the title.
Okay children, calm down, I know I should keep practising. But my somewhat convoluted point being that I only get to see a small portion of the software I've purchased, and I know I ain't alone. The net effect is that I rarely bother with new games, and mooch around mame.dk when looking for pixel entertainment.
So how about the games' manufacturers adding a fsck me you're crap level to the 'ard, even 'arder and must be 13 years old levels?
doh! you mean I wasted 30 minutes putting this into a script thinking it was microsoft's latest cryptographic function designed to replace double ROT13?
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Hey, I like this post. It's just soooo true.
just wondering...
What am I missing here? Why isn't Britain or other close allies doing this? What does Israel think is going on here?
I am missing something, right?
I've never used a so-called ebook. Do they allow pages to be printed?
More appropriate to the original post, Uranus tilts at something like 97.9 degrees.
Now brace thyself for the zillion butt gags that get +5 funny...
I give up, I must have dreamt it...
Good point! I'm sure I found a way to do that within KDE too, but I'll be buggered if I can find it. (and I don't mean vi in xterm!) Perhaps matrox's power desktop thingy will catch on with the other vid-card peeps.
Well, it's a song lyric to start with. So dumb moderators into Placebo get excited, have a waz, then dish out the karma to a kins-man. I think it's a line from a zillion and one poems too.
Perhaps you should point your non-tech-savvy friends to KDE's control centre icon, instead of claiming KDE is difficult to personalise?
Try and get into on of Sun's offices. They have smart cards that you just swip and, bosh! there's your desktop - anywhere in the world!
Yup. Try here.
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Finally a subject that gets more responses than US immigration visas!
Unfortunately the functionality model is completely different, i.e. ms have never taken an interest in security. Their late "patch" for melissa was pathetic. iloveyou should never have been allowed to happen with updated software. It just emphasis the disrespect they have for their customers (hence why I spend a lot of time dumping their installations (if only there was a standard for sharing wordprocessing and spreadsheet data and formatting)). Here's what Lotus have to say about it (about half way down).
I know far more sites using Lotus than outlook/exchange. They're big site too, so the user base is pretty substatial, and yet I've not come across a single virus problem (yes, attachment in the mail can be opened/executed, so perhaps note users are wiser when it comes to non-script virus issues too). Those I know of (companies that is) that use the ms product have been crippled by the two big vb virii. Amazingly they're still using it, and will undoubtably get cripple on the next one. Boy, did their "techs" look fscking stupid after their "ms is great, it's the admin that the causes the problems" speeches.
I guess that just because a problem can be solved with a particular solution, doesn't mean that that solution should be used? And why should express have the same problems (along with a nice nntp client (pity about that "searching for url" cockup))?
Mailmerge processing merely needs an API, you don't need an email client, this is trivial. And if one loves the vb scripting, ms office already provides it (chap here does 2 gig of emails a month this way with no problems (other than excel crashing ever now and then)).
Databases should use unique, thus enforcing the rule and should not be left to the whim of any programmer, this is very basic.
Corp environments (not exactly sure to what you are refering), but I've been using similar sounding environments since '84. Conformity seems to be well down the more standard and somewhat flexible HTTP path in the sites that I've worked at over the last 5 or so years.
The non-express may offer more than email, but at the end of the day, its email client does not have to run a script. As another poster said, Lotus has similar functionality and suffers none of the security problems that ms does. Personally, I don't like the Lotus environment as it always feels clunky and bloaty! I'd guess that's IBM's influence.
What is all this ease of use crap? An email client does not get any fscking easier to use because it runs some wanky scripting language!
Jeeez...
It was quite a while ago when I read Hawking, but I'm pretty sure he spoke of something along the lines of bounces. These bounces wouldn't be the same, which conveniently allows for just about any expansion theory.
Pity the knowledgeable ones left splashbot last year...
I work at a far smaller company (< 500 employees) in the UK, and we've just been notified that the m$ tax boys and girls are paying us a visit.
Can't wait really, as I've got a whole bunch on unused doze licences due to a number of PC purchased to run linux!
Plus they don't refund your money when said software fails to perform as advertised.
Thee BBC does not carry adverts, other than the ones for their own services and merchandise. The BBC licence (about 100UKP a year) is required by anyone that owns a TV or a device that basically has a tuning circuit that could be used to receive TV signals. However, all that dosh goes to the BBC. They put out two (whooo) terrestrial TV channels (and shit-loads of radio), more recently they've been getting more channels on to the digital satellite/cable networks (generally the same programs as terrestrial). An awful lot of people complain about the licence, especially as there are two (actually three depending on where you live) other terrestrial channels, all of which carry adverts to pay for their programming.
/dev/null > /dev/brain
In recent years we've had 60+ analogue channels (including the foreign stuff) just from the Astra satellites (as far as the UK is concerned, these are "Sky" (murdoch's media outlet for the UK)). We're now dropping the analogue satellite services ('cos they're on very old satellites that have reached their life expectancy) and going digital. Pretty much all the satellite channels (analogue and digital) require addition subscriptions fees. 15UKP per month for a basic package that has fsck all sport and films, a more common package will cost 30-40UKP a month. Except the film channels, there are masses of ad's on so-called subscriptions channels which generally take up about 20 minutes of each programming hour. Originally, the UK market was told that the ad's on the satellite channels were to subsidise the miniscule subscription base. Now the numbers are up and everyone has become used to the bloody things, sky have conveniently forgotten the original promise. Unfortunately the UK public is rather dumb and suffers from amnesia.
Personally, I find the US ad's less annoying. But I don't really give a poo these days, as I dumped the TV months ago!
cat
so where the hell is it?
/dev/null > /dev/brain
cat
> It was once thought that there were only 9 planets
/dev/null > /dev/brain
Bummer! I thought there were nine including Pluto. Now where's me lardybird book of astronomy?
cat
go work in an office where there's a bigger sample base. then you'll see the blue screens, the failed shutdowns, the pissed off users having to power-off due to a frozen machine, the even more pissed-off users being told the NT server has to be rebooted again because there a looping task that the administration isn't "authorised" to cancel, or permissions are becoming bolloxed again.
/dev/null > /dev/brain
In an office of 50, I see daily crashes and blue screens. Now scale that kind of reliability to the rest of the ms user world. Don't forget, office users bang the shite out of their desktops for 8 hours a day. ms os and apps ain't up to the job. and that's a fact of pc life.
cat
Until I can hide processor units in a cupboard elsewhere in my house, I'm very aware of the noise PCs make, more so the fast ones (yes, I am aware of the g4 cube).
/dev/null > /dev/brain
So has anyone actually seen a solution where I can have the input & output (i.e. keyboard, video & sound et al) at one end of the house, and the noisy crap at the other? Wireless stuff seems to be stuff around low-end network speeds.
cat
Okay, I'll admit it. I'm crap at all these new fangled games. Left-right-fire, no problem. But these modern ones where you have to survive a massive onslaught for weeks on end before you can get remotely close to a save point are just getting silly (psx, that's you I'm talking about).
/dev/null > /dev/brain
I feel rather peeved when I get to a point when due to the combination of my crapness, and the games' company not documenting how to oomph up the fire-power and energy levels, I effectively have to dump the title.
Okay children, calm down, I know I should keep practising. But my somewhat convoluted point being that I only get to see a small portion of the software I've purchased, and I know I ain't alone. The net effect is that I rarely bother with new games, and mooch around mame.dk when looking for pixel entertainment.
So how about the games' manufacturers adding a fsck me you're crap level to the 'ard, even 'arder and must be 13 years old levels?
cat
doh! you mean I wasted 30 minutes putting this into a script thinking it was microsoft's latest cryptographic function designed to replace double ROT13?
/dev/null > /dev/brain
cat