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  1. Re:software dumping on Seven Open Source Business Strategies · · Score: 1

    How long did it take OpenOffice to load the equivalent file in native OpenOffice format?

  2. Re:Not quite on Hardened PHP · · Score: 1

    Can you suggest a language that is more secure and is designed for creating interactive web pages?

  3. Re:Let us Americans** contribute to it! on Mirror.ac.uk to Scale Back Operations · · Score: 1

    Words have a different meaning in different parts of the world. Thus for instance the British comedian Peter Cooke when he was in the US said that he was rarely seen without a fag in his mouth. People familiar with the UK understood this as a reference to his smoking habits.

  4. Re:DIY on Struts Survival Guide · · Score: 1

    Well I guess that makes you a very, very clever person. But for the rest of the population of just fairly bright people, frameworks can be very handy indeed.

  5. Re:Why the surprise? on American Airlines Is Third Company To Share Data · · Score: 1

    In what way is train or plane travel risky? Surely if you want to track risky travel you keep tabs on those traveling by automobile?

  6. Re:GPL? on Element Computer: ION Linux on Linux Hardware · · Score: 1

    The GPL does not oblige you to share your improvements and it does not restrict you from getting monetary compensation from your improvements.

  7. Re:the joy of js on Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser · · Score: 1

    My understanding was that almost all Java applications are based on the Sun implementation and the world of applets has moved towards the Sun Java Plugin which is available for all your favorite web browsers.

  8. Re:A small step forward... on Israeli Ministry of Commerce Picks OO.org Over MS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where might the Isrealis download a tried and tested version of Gnumeric for Windows, or have they standardised on Linux as an operating system?

  9. Re:Metric and Imperial on More Linux Activity in German Government · · Score: 1

    Although most distance is still measured in miles there is a strong move away from imperial in the UK. Fuel (gas,petrol, diesel) is measured in litres, weights are in KG and g.

  10. Re:Just use Java Web Applications ;-) on Sweden Crunches Cookies · · Score: 1

    So its not a case of "just use Java Web Applications", it is a case of writing your code in such a way that the URL's are re-written. Also exactly which version of taglibs supports this and how widely implemented is it on commercial ISP's at the moment.

  11. Re:Whitlisting alternative on Trustic Anti-Spam Service To Close · · Score: 1

    Hmm and it seems that it is working very well indeed for me. OK, this is how it works, I am expecting a response from Amazon OK?, I check the queue of emails waiting for a response (you know the stuff, bigger penis, cheap loans, pr0n that type of stuff). Ohh look the response I was expecting from Amazon, click whitelist, don't have to do that with amazon again.

    A few months later and I am expecting something similar from another online retailer (not amazon cos they have been whitelisted) so I check the queue again. Note how I get to browse list of spam looking for one specific email every month or so rather than search for any relevant email in a sea of junk every single day.

    Of course I could just have a spare Yahoo or Hotmail account for the purposes of online commerce, then I would never ever look at the list of queued junk, but I prefer to do it this way.

    Marcus.

  12. Re:Whitlisting alternative on Trustic Anti-Spam Service To Close · · Score: 1

    Legitmate email from humans who want to contact me does reach me. So long as they click reply and send when they get the challenge. If they don't then I they don't contact me and I can live with that.

    As for machine generated email (a very small percentage of my email receipts), I can deal with that through pre or post whitelisting, i.e. if I know the email to start off with I whitelist it, if I don't know where it is coming from I can check the pending queue and look for the machine generated stuff and then whitelist the address. It is a once only chore.

    I have gone from 99% junk to something like 0.0xx percent junk.

    The thing that really made me go for it was when I realised I had missed an email that was quite important because it was buried within all the viagra/penis extension crap. I was spending 5 to 10 minutes every day to try to find the real stuff, now it is 0 minutes.

    For me it has worked extreemly well.It may not be perfect, but I believe it is as close as it is going to get to perfect for my requirements.

    Marcus

  13. Whitlisting alternative on Trustic Anti-Spam Service To Close · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have been using an outfit that supplies a whitelisting service (port995.com). The idea being that the first time anyone sends you an email, it gets put into a queue and they get a response asking them to reply. Once they reply they get put on the whitelist, the message goes through and all future messages pass through without further messing.

    As only a teeny tiny percentage of spammers supply genuine return addressess or read the responses the upshot in my case seems to be "new spray on no more spam"..

    Inevitably some people don't read the first response or cannot be bothered to respond, but I guess those folks didn't want to contact me that badly anyway, so I don't want to read their messages that badly.

    Marcus

  14. Re:Hopefully this fulfills the Exchange Need on Kroupware Komplete · · Score: 1

    I have been using the Mozilla Calendar for about 6 months and it seems fine to me, I'd go so far as to say very nice indeed.I am curious to know in what way it appears to suchk these balls for you.

  15. Re:Just use Java Web Applications ;-) on Sweden Crunches Cookies · · Score: 1

    I'd be interested to know how you can use JSP to automatically do URL rewriting without modifying code. Last time I looked you appeared to need to write code to ensure URL re-writing occured.

  16. Re:OpenOffice writer is not ready on OpenOffice.org Resource Kit · · Score: 1

    I have been using Star/Open office for about 3 years to create long complex documents (270 words plus) and have found it to be very stable.

  17. Re:Easy on Special Edition Using Star Office 6.0 · · Score: 1

    You are right, Star Office and Open Office can screw up word documents. In over two years of use and having opened thousands of MS Word documents from multiple versions of Word I have had about three scrambled Word documents. Yes three, and they included seriously complex tables.I have had "corrupt" documents that word would not open but Star/Open office would open.

    I have authored three books with it so far, but perhaps I have not been looking closely enough to spot the flaws that require me to buy MS Office instead.

  18. Re:he's clueless... or not on Microsoft Orange SPV Phone Review · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I had a Psion 5MX (uses a version of the Symbian OS) for about 5 years. It went about 3 years without crashing and I used it every day. Other people have reported similar or better experiences with the version of the Symbian OS built into phones.

    Seems to me that this is cause to suggest that Symbian phone is likely to be more stable than an MS based phone.

  19. Another (more balanced?) review of this phone on Microsoft Orange SPV Phone Review · · Score: 1

    http://www.computerweekly.co.uk/articles/article.a sp?liArticleID=121069&liArticleTypeID=20&liCategor yID=1&liChannelID=7&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1

    (paste that long URL link together if it wraps)

  20. Re:No news for me... on UK ISP Imposes Download Limits · · Score: 1

    According to one of the links NTL are only going to be concerned if the user exceeds an average of over 1GB per day per month. Not too much of a worry for most people.

  21. Oh yes you are.. on PostgreSQL 7.3 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    OK so you have found software that addresses your problems and that accounts for the conditions that are vital for about 0.0001% of people who are looking for a database. For everyone else who is looking for a database solution PostGres, MySQL etc might just be worth a look in.

  22. Re:This is really a great thing on Indian Government Chooses Linux for Academia · · Score: 1

    I run GNU emacs under windows to be exceptionally emacs-a-like.

  23. Re:You say you are a what? on Kazaa And Exportation of U.S. Copyright Laws · · Score: 1

    Remember, guns don't kill people, people kill people. If you magically turned every hand gun in the USA into a banana exactly the same number of homicides would occur (or possibly not)

  24. Re:C++ in demand? on Building Java Enterprise Applications, Volume I · · Score: 1

    As I mentioned I was basing my statement on searches at Job website, what are you basing your comment on?

  25. Re:java? on Building Java Enterprise Applications, Volume I · · Score: 1

    The No 1 most in demand programming skill by job adverts is C++, just behind C++ the Number 2 most in demand skill is Java so I guess that means some people still use Java.

    If you doubt this statement, try some searches at job websites. Always handy to do a little research to keep your thoughts matching reality.