Yes, however, Miranda is based on ICQ (it's the only protocol you don't need a plugin for - personally if i'd been in charge, I would have made it entirely modular and non-protocol specific), and only lets you set your status to one of ten different status modes, whose message you can configure, but you cannot add several custom away modes like in Trillian. That is to say your away mode will have one message and your N/A mode will have another. You can have Miranda prompt you to change the away message when you set your status to Away, though.
While you cannot block Hotmail's corporate addresses from spamming you with their really really handy newsletters about using their paid service to, erh, fight spam... you can set a custom filter to block any mail where the from name contains Hotmail.
I'm not sure, but I think that would block spam posing as Hotmail newsletters. It certainly keeps my newest Hotmail account clean.
I would do the same with my old (Pre-microsoft era, old enough to be comprised of my first name initial and full last name -- try that one today!), but I am using more custom filters than you can technically have for the free service since the introduction of the paid service. If I tried to change one of the filters to the aforementioned, half of my other custom filters would go out the window, but as long as I don't touch anything, it seems I can keep my filters... for now. I miss the pre-MSN days.
My uni runs Redmond on most departments, but the School of Computing uses Linux exclusively, and it's a requirement to learn it, and for a good reason. As a double-degree student with BBA being one of the diplomas I will hopefully get, I will most likely make damn sure not to employ anybody without academic or professional experience with a POSIX operating system.
Sensibly, the school does not require anyone to buy any software licenses. In fact, it is not even a requirement to have a computer. The school has 24-7 swipe-card access labs with plenty of machines. Obviously, regardless of any Microsoft discounts, with $0 extra per machine running Linux, having more machines is more feasible if one does not use proprietary software. Also, the machines are not the fanciest things around (a lot of them are Pentium-based from a generation or two ago, or Celery-based). Another thing you couldn't do with Windows, unless you wanted to run 3.11.
The nice thing is that this won't work, because $20 is a bigger deal to a poor uni student than $100 (or whatever Windows currently ships at, or will ship at) is to a university graduate with a well-paid job. And after all, $20 is still more than $0. When adjusted for a student's budget, M$ discounts really aren't discounts at all.
the Australian courts have ruled that online material is published in the nation of the reader
And boy will they regret that when Holland makes it illegal to publish information on techniques for obstructing the sale of crack cocaine.
And boy will they regret that when their government gets a one way ticket to Iran with included beheading for what Iran would, according to their own arbitrary standards, consider unislamic propaganda.
And boy will they regret it when Moneygrabistan, finding itself in need for money, passes a law to levy insane taxes on any information published in Moneygrabistan, payable to the Moneygrabistan government by the publisher's government.
WTF? I call moderators on dope on this... 40% redundant? I couldn't care less about the karma, but find me a post that stated that the original poster should care about problems with the metric system even though he uses inches, feet, and yards because those units are defined in terms of metric units posted before mine.
If I were you, I'd call a good lawyer on my on and have a little chat to them about this, asking if these clauses can even be legally enforced in your state. If not, I wouldn't be surprised if you can turn this against them big-time and sue their sorry heinekens to hell and back for harassment and/or attempted fraud, or somesuch.
There seems to be a very negative trend towards escalation of commitment as part of the organizational culture at NASA, the first shuttle explosion in the face of the knowledge of the o-ring problem being every management textbook's favorite example.
Let's face it, people don't care about other people's lives, especially if they go up in smoke way above the earth and come down as clean dust. They care about covering their own arses.
With this in mind, I think the problem is the fact that it is a severely under-funded and over-bureaucratized government organization. The combination of lack of entrepreneurship and the miles and miles of red tape means that there are too few negative consequences for bad decision-makers and too many people to absorb the impact of the blame.
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That is what I was (jokingly) referring to, yes. At least someone got it;)
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Come on, don't tell me you didn't see that one coming from miles away. Then again, seeing the setting for our highly civilized discussion, I suppose I should have seen your come-back coming as well.
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The 'I was just doing research' defense. Now where have I heard that before?
To be completely fair, you should ask the same thing about Microsofts products. Right now I can think of a freaking annoying paperclip, randomly arbitrarily disappearing menu items, the infinite meta-security-update (the update to the patch to the service release to the security fix to the upgrade to the whatnot), the 5000-slide wizard with one dumb-ass question (that doesn't make sense out of context and seen without the associated questions) on each slide, the RIAA alliance, the everything-is-prefixed-with-"My" paradigm, the idea of torturing users with the most hideous colors known to mankind, and the refusal to run programs not personally approved by Bill the Overlord. Granted, that's a lot of innovation.
I am unsure of whether to credit Redmond with treating customers like morons as the foundation of your product. I am sure Newscorp thought of this one first.
That's actually exactly what I do. I haven't bought a CD since I received one as a gift that wouldn't play on my computer's CD-RW drive - both the CD and the drive (which was the only player I had) carried the CD logo, but the CD had been broken by IFPI (I have since come across another such disc (how about that, they can't even spell disk properly), borrowed from a friend. Of course, the loss in sales is just more fuel for the distribution industry's crusade, so I think us `revolutionaries' are a bit fsck'd anyway.
Oh, we need to tell the music distribution industry we want their products delivered in another way and at a lower price. Why didn't anybody think of that? I am going to inform the conglomerates of this right away; I am sure they will be delighted to listen to my input. I am sure their current mode of operation is only due to the fact that nobody told them their business model is outdated, so how could they know?
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Yes, however, Miranda is based on ICQ (it's the only protocol you don't need a plugin for - personally if i'd been in charge, I would have made it entirely modular and non-protocol specific), and only lets you set your status to one of ten different status modes, whose message you can configure, but you cannot add several custom away modes like in Trillian. That is to say your away mode will have one message and your N/A mode will have another. You can have Miranda prompt you to change the away message when you set your status to Away, though.
While you cannot block Hotmail's corporate addresses from spamming you with their really really handy newsletters about using their paid service to, erh, fight spam... you can set a custom filter to block any mail where the from name contains Hotmail.
I'm not sure, but I think that would block spam posing as Hotmail newsletters. It certainly keeps my newest Hotmail account clean.
I would do the same with my old (Pre-microsoft era, old enough to be comprised of my first name initial and full last name -- try that one today!), but I am using more custom filters than you can technically have for the free service since the introduction of the paid service. If I tried to change one of the filters to the aforementioned, half of my other custom filters would go out the window, but as long as I don't touch anything, it seems I can keep my filters... for now. I miss the pre-MSN days.
Mmm... another reason not to study in the U.S. :)
My uni runs Redmond on most departments, but the School of Computing uses Linux exclusively, and it's a requirement to learn it, and for a good reason. As a double-degree student with BBA being one of the diplomas I will hopefully get, I will most likely make damn sure not to employ anybody without academic or professional experience with a POSIX operating system.
Sensibly, the school does not require anyone to buy any software licenses. In fact, it is not even a requirement to have a computer. The school has 24-7 swipe-card access labs with plenty of machines. Obviously, regardless of any Microsoft discounts, with $0 extra per machine running Linux, having more machines is more feasible if one does not use proprietary software. Also, the machines are not the fanciest things around (a lot of them are Pentium-based from a generation or two ago, or Celery-based). Another thing you couldn't do with Windows, unless you wanted to run 3.11.
The nice thing is that this won't work, because $20 is a bigger deal to a poor uni student than $100 (or whatever Windows currently ships at, or will ship at) is to a university graduate with a well-paid job. And after all, $20 is still more than $0. When adjusted for a student's budget, M$ discounts really aren't discounts at all.
The Homepage of God ranks fifth. Sure, it's not perfect, but it's not that bad either, considering some people spend all their lives looking for God.
Operator! Give me the number for 911!
And boy will they regret that when Holland makes it illegal to publish information on techniques for obstructing the sale of crack cocaine.
And boy will they regret that when their government gets a one way ticket to Iran with included beheading for what Iran would, according to their own arbitrary standards, consider unislamic propaganda.
And boy will they regret it when Moneygrabistan, finding itself in need for money, passes a law to levy insane taxes on any information published in Moneygrabistan, payable to the Moneygrabistan government by the publisher's government.
The first one is called ATX. The second one, I'm not so sure. Built-in UPS?
WTF? I call moderators on dope on this... 40% redundant? I couldn't care less about the karma, but find me a post that stated that the original poster should care about problems with the metric system even though he uses inches, feet, and yards because those units are defined in terms of metric units posted before mine.
My question is, how do they measure it? Using a non-decaying meter stick? How do you measure the definition of a measure?
And since the inf^H^Hmperior^H^Hal system is now defined in terms of the metric system (an inch is 2.54 cm), your strange units change as well.
If I were you, I'd call a good lawyer on my on and have a little chat to them about this, asking if these clauses can even be legally enforced in your state. If not, I wouldn't be surprised if you can turn this against them big-time and sue their sorry heinekens to hell and back for harassment and/or attempted fraud, or somesuch.
There seems to be a very negative trend towards escalation of commitment as part of the organizational culture at NASA, the first shuttle explosion in the face of the knowledge of the o-ring problem being every management textbook's favorite example.
Let's face it, people don't care about other people's lives, especially if they go up in smoke way above the earth and come down as clean dust. They care about covering their own arses.
With this in mind, I think the problem is the fact that it is a severely under-funded and over-bureaucratized government organization. The combination of lack of entrepreneurship and the miles and miles of red tape means that there are too few negative consequences for bad decision-makers and too many people to absorb the impact of the blame.
That is what I was (jokingly) referring to, yes. At least someone got it ;)
Come on, don't tell me you didn't see that one coming from miles away. Then again, seeing the setting for our highly civilized discussion, I suppose I should have seen your come-back coming as well.
The 'I was just doing research' defense. Now where have I heard that before?
And this is why Slashdot should not be your only source of news.
So what you're saying is, we're going to see closed source supremacist movements? The Closed Code Clan? Interesting.
You forgot to mention that they play the accordion. Or is that covered by 'terrorism'?
Not to mention all those awful 'In Soviet Russia' jokes he kept telling... I mean what was up with that?
He better hide the viagra ads well out of sight of his cellmate Bubba!
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Spammers - dead or... dead will do.
To be completely fair, you should ask the same thing about Microsofts products. Right now I can think of a freaking annoying paperclip, randomly arbitrarily disappearing menu items, the infinite meta-security-update (the update to the patch to the service release to the security fix to the upgrade to the whatnot), the 5000-slide wizard with one dumb-ass question (that doesn't make sense out of context and seen without the associated questions) on each slide, the RIAA alliance, the everything-is-prefixed-with-"My" paradigm, the idea of torturing users with the most hideous colors known to mankind, and the refusal to run programs not personally approved by Bill the Overlord. Granted, that's a lot of innovation.
I am unsure of whether to credit Redmond with treating customers like morons as the foundation of your product. I am sure Newscorp thought of this one first.
That's actually exactly what I do. I haven't bought a CD since I received one as a gift that wouldn't play on my computer's CD-RW drive - both the CD and the drive (which was the only player I had) carried the CD logo, but the CD had been broken by IFPI (I have since come across another such disc (how about that, they can't even spell disk properly), borrowed from a friend. Of course, the loss in sales is just more fuel for the distribution industry's crusade, so I think us `revolutionaries' are a bit fsck'd anyway.
Oh, we need to tell the music distribution industry we want their products delivered in another way and at a lower price. Why didn't anybody think of that? I am going to inform the conglomerates of this right away; I am sure they will be delighted to listen to my input. I am sure their current mode of operation is only due to the fact that nobody told them their business model is outdated, so how could they know?