Try version 2.0 of Evolution. It's less like Outlook and more useful.
Plenty of people have wished for Evolution on Windows. Heck, just this morning my wife and I were bemoaning the lack of an integrated e-mail/calendar/task app for Windows that wasn't Outlook. And as far as I can, Novell has absolutely no plans to make the port.
I've heard rumors that people have managed to get Evolution working under Cygwin on Windows, but I've never been able to track down specifics.
I didn't say "mass media". I said "news". Go ahead and compare Fox News with something like Alternet, and then tell me that there's no substantial differences anywhere within the news.
That's right. Because by 2000, all of human knowledge was available on the Web (thanks to Colin Powell for pointing this out), and there was nothing in a book that couldn't be found in a printed book.
Oh, and all of the information on the Web is accurate and well researched, free of partisan or extremist spin, and all websites are permanent enough so that if I cite a website in a research paper, my professor or colleagues will have no problem tracking down my sources.
And Google, of course, has transformed our high schools into bastions of knowledge and original research.
...that the government has snooped into my e-mail conversation with my mother and now will tell my wife what I'm planning on getting her for Christmas. The bastards.
Actually, NPR was a bastion of left-think, until very recently when the right-thinkers kicked up a ruckus that public funds were fueling a partisan news outlet. That, and the fact that the Big Money from corporate sponsorships tends to frown on Left/Green perspectives.
I find it very interesting that you say that; I've met plenty of people who complain that NPR is and always has been too right-leaning, even in the days when it was still a left-leaning source (of course, I do live in a college town, so that might have a bearing on what people in my community have to say). I've always found it reasonably balanced myself, but I have noted a tendency of late to focus on the sensationalistic aspect of the news rather than on straight reporting. You don't have to be liberal to be sensationalistic, nor conservative. You just have to want the money.
I do look at Google News occasionally, since I find it refreshing to get an international perspective on some stories. For real fun, try reading Al Jazeera's perspective on the war in Iraq.
Pretty much. The news is so heavily skewed to the left OR the right (depending on your outlet) that you have to go to several different sources to get even a glimmer of the truth. Even NPR, that one-time bastion of somewhat impartial reporting, has started sliding toward sensationalism.
I, personally, have pretty much given up on the news. I dunno; maybe by averaging between Alternet and Fox News, you might be able to get at what the news really is.
Renaming the comment cgi handler worked for a little while until the spambot authors figured out a way around it. I've now added a hidden text field to the comment form, and the comment cgi handler will not accept the comment unless it includes that hidden form element. It's a temporary solution until the spammers figure it out and bypass that too, but for now it seems to work okay. I haven't gotten hit since I implemented it a couple of weeks ago -- before that I was getting a dozen comments from online poker sites every few minutes (none of them got posted, because I have comment moderation turned on by default -- still, playing whack-a-mole with the comments was really annoying).
I also have wp-blacklist installed, and that works great, though it seems to have issues with some of the earlier versions of WP.
Still a shame. It would be nice if public companies did concern themselves with providing services to the public. Of course they don't, which is a pity.
From the Computer World article: "After careful consideration, PeopleSoft's board decided that Oracle's latest offer provides good value for PeopleSoft's stockholders, the company said. The agreement ends a long, emotional struggle, it said."
I hate it when execs say things like this, because they don't mean a word of it. What they really mean is, "After careful consideration, PeopleSoft's board decided that they would make a hell of a lot of money, and screw the little guys -- like customers, employees, etc."
Oracle wants nothing with PeopleSoft except to destroy it utterly. They don't want any competition in the marketplace, and PeopleSoft is their only competition. Ellison, the madman, said so himself way back at the beginning of this fiasco.
My father-in-law and a very good friend of mine are both software consultants for PeopleSoft. They may get to keep their jobs, since Oracle doesn't currently have a CRM product, but I expect they're both going to be looking for work before 2005 is done with.
Simply more proof that the world is going to hell.
My first e-mail address was at the University where I worked. When I left the University, my e-mail account was deactivated. I worked outside of the University for two years. When I came back, I set up a new account, and decided to use the old account name I'd had before.
The first time I logged in to check my e-mail on the reactivated account, just four hours later, I had two spam messages in it; apparently the spammers had been sending mail to it anyway. Last time I checked, I had something like 1200 messages in that account, all spam. I don't even bother with it anymore.
I just did a Google search for Abu Ghraib. In the "News results" section at the top, the first headline was, "Google Censors Abu Ghraib Images - Slashdot - 2 hours ago".
I'm planning on patenting a method of using moist surface membranes in an interior environment to transfer oxygen from a gaseous environment to a liquid medium which can transport the oxygen to widespread locations throughout a biological organisms. The trick is that waste gases will also be transferred in the same mechanism, so that the same mechanism can be used to bring in oxygen yet also expel waste products such as carbon dioxide.
The OCSE has been watching over US elections for some time now; most recently, they oversaw California's gubernatorial recall election as well as the latest round of Congressional elections. What's special about this is that this is the first time they'll be monitoring a presidential election. The US has been part of the OCSE for several years, and other European nations with traditions of stable democracy have been monitored as well.
Although the liberal Kerry-votin' Democrat in me really wants to shove this in the faces of my Republican acquaintances ("See? Even Europe knows Florida 2000 was rigged!"), I know that it's one of those things that is not nearly as important as it's being made out to be.
Actually, with the User Agent Switcher extension, I've been able to set my UA string to "Internet Explorer 6" and get to almost all of the sites I regularly browse to that claim that they require IE. Many sites claim that they require IE, but they don't really.
For those sites that really DO require IE (and for testing purposes, since I'm a web developer at work and, sadly almost all of our customers still use IE), I use the IE View extension.
I work for an organization doing web-based distance learning. Yesterday my boss and I were reminiscing about how it used to be really easy to support users who used IE, since it was pretty much the same on every box. But nowadays with so much spyware around and so many IE plugins that install themselves silently, it's almost impossible to tell what a user's configuration is going to be like. On our "technical requirements" page, we now list Firefox as our number one recommended browser, followed by Netscape 7.1, then IE.
I haven't checked our usage stats, but I suspect we'll see that most people are still using IE.
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So, shining a laser directly at something is called painting?
Huh. I always thought it was called pointing.
Guess you learn something new every day.
Try version 2.0 of Evolution. It's less like Outlook and more useful.
Plenty of people have wished for Evolution on Windows. Heck, just this morning my wife and I were bemoaning the lack of an integrated e-mail/calendar/task app for Windows that wasn't Outlook. And as far as I can, Novell has absolutely no plans to make the port.
I've heard rumors that people have managed to get Evolution working under Cygwin on Windows, but I've never been able to track down specifics.
I didn't say "mass media". I said "news". Go ahead and compare Fox News with something like Alternet, and then tell me that there's no substantial differences anywhere within the news.
Sounds like the only true solution to the problem of spamming is not a reengineering of the Internet but a radical reconstruction of the human brain.
...and there was nothing in a book that couldn't be found in a printed book.
Obviously, I meant to say, "...and there was nothing online that couldn't be found in a printed book."
Serves me right for posting before I've had my second cup of coffee.
That's right. Because by 2000, all of human knowledge was available on the Web (thanks to Colin Powell for pointing this out), and there was nothing in a book that couldn't be found in a printed book.
Oh, and all of the information on the Web is accurate and well researched, free of partisan or extremist spin, and all websites are permanent enough so that if I cite a website in a research paper, my professor or colleagues will have no problem tracking down my sources.
And Google, of course, has transformed our high schools into bastions of knowledge and original research.
What a glorious world we live in!
...that the government has snooped into my e-mail conversation with my mother and now will tell my wife what I'm planning on getting her for Christmas. The bastards.
Actually, NPR was a bastion of left-think, until very recently when the right-thinkers kicked up a ruckus that public funds were fueling a partisan news outlet. That, and the fact that the Big Money from corporate sponsorships tends to frown on Left/Green perspectives.
I find it very interesting that you say that; I've met plenty of people who complain that NPR is and always has been too right-leaning, even in the days when it was still a left-leaning source (of course, I do live in a college town, so that might have a bearing on what people in my community have to say). I've always found it reasonably balanced myself, but I have noted a tendency of late to focus on the sensationalistic aspect of the news rather than on straight reporting. You don't have to be liberal to be sensationalistic, nor conservative. You just have to want the money.
I do look at Google News occasionally, since I find it refreshing to get an international perspective on some stories. For real fun, try reading Al Jazeera's perspective on the war in Iraq.
Pretty much. The news is so heavily skewed to the left OR the right (depending on your outlet) that you have to go to several different sources to get even a glimmer of the truth. Even NPR, that one-time bastion of somewhat impartial reporting, has started sliding toward sensationalism.
I, personally, have pretty much given up on the news. I dunno; maybe by averaging between Alternet and Fox News, you might be able to get at what the news really is.
Until it has a "reveal codes" function like WP, it still ain't imitating "the best". ;-)
Renaming the comment cgi handler worked for a little while until the spambot authors figured out a way around it. I've now added a hidden text field to the comment form, and the comment cgi handler will not accept the comment unless it includes that hidden form element. It's a temporary solution until the spammers figure it out and bypass that too, but for now it seems to work okay. I haven't gotten hit since I implemented it a couple of weeks ago -- before that I was getting a dozen comments from online poker sites every few minutes (none of them got posted, because I have comment moderation turned on by default -- still, playing whack-a-mole with the comments was really annoying).
I also have wp-blacklist installed, and that works great, though it seems to have issues with some of the earlier versions of WP.
Ah, in addition. My father-in-law is well into his fifties. Most companies will not want to hire someone his age.
That, also, is how tech works.
Still a shame. It would be nice if public companies did concern themselves with providing services to the public. Of course they don't, which is a pity.
From the Computer World article: "After careful consideration, PeopleSoft's board decided that Oracle's latest offer provides good value for PeopleSoft's stockholders, the company said. The agreement ends a long, emotional struggle, it said."
I hate it when execs say things like this, because they don't mean a word of it. What they really mean is, "After careful consideration, PeopleSoft's board decided that they would make a hell of a lot of money, and screw the little guys -- like customers, employees, etc."
Oracle wants nothing with PeopleSoft except to destroy it utterly. They don't want any competition in the marketplace, and PeopleSoft is their only competition. Ellison, the madman, said so himself way back at the beginning of this fiasco.
My father-in-law and a very good friend of mine are both software consultants for PeopleSoft. They may get to keep their jobs, since Oracle doesn't currently have a CRM product, but I expect they're both going to be looking for work before 2005 is done with.
Simply more proof that the world is going to hell.
My first e-mail address was at the University where I worked. When I left the University, my e-mail account was deactivated. I worked outside of the University for two years. When I came back, I set up a new account, and decided to use the old account name I'd had before.
The first time I logged in to check my e-mail on the reactivated account, just four hours later, I had two spam messages in it; apparently the spammers had been sending mail to it anyway. Last time I checked, I had something like 1200 messages in that account, all spam. I don't even bother with it anymore.
Why, Rehnquist's spot on the bench, of course!
The only thing scarier to me than "Attorney General John Ashcroft" is "Supreme Court Justice John Ashcroft".
Fortunately, the Democrats can probably block it. Either way, it'll be the noisiest supreme court justice hearings since Bork.
Remember, you saw it here first.
Well, we put Nixon in office twice. And Reagan. We managed to recover from both, so we'll recover from W as well.
I just did a Google search for Abu Ghraib. In the "News results" section at the top, the first headline was, "Google Censors Abu Ghraib Images - Slashdot - 2 hours ago".
Spiffy!
When did I move to China?
I'm planning on patenting a method of using moist surface membranes in an interior environment to transfer oxygen from a gaseous environment to a liquid medium which can transport the oxygen to widespread locations throughout a biological organisms. The trick is that waste gases will also be transferred in the same mechanism, so that the same mechanism can be used to bring in oxygen yet also expel waste products such as carbon dioxide.
All I need now is a name. Suggestions?
The OCSE has been watching over US elections for some time now; most recently, they oversaw California's gubernatorial recall election as well as the latest round of Congressional elections. What's special about this is that this is the first time they'll be monitoring a presidential election. The US has been part of the OCSE for several years, and other European nations with traditions of stable democracy have been monitored as well.
Although the liberal Kerry-votin' Democrat in me really wants to shove this in the faces of my Republican acquaintances ("See? Even Europe knows Florida 2000 was rigged!"), I know that it's one of those things that is not nearly as important as it's being made out to be.
Actually, with the User Agent Switcher extension, I've been able to set my UA string to "Internet Explorer 6" and get to almost all of the sites I regularly browse to that claim that they require IE. Many sites claim that they require IE, but they don't really.
For those sites that really DO require IE (and for testing purposes, since I'm a web developer at work and, sadly almost all of our customers still use IE), I use the IE View extension.
Don't you mean holey?
I work for an organization doing web-based distance learning. Yesterday my boss and I were reminiscing about how it used to be really easy to support users who used IE, since it was pretty much the same on every box. But nowadays with so much spyware around and so many IE plugins that install themselves silently, it's almost impossible to tell what a user's configuration is going to be like. On our "technical requirements" page, we now list Firefox as our number one recommended browser, followed by Netscape 7.1, then IE.
I haven't checked our usage stats, but I suspect we'll see that most people are still using IE.