Dell's Inspiron line of laptops all ship with both a touchpad and pointing stick. The 5000/7500 line, which only had a touchpad, has been discontinued.
You can still load the distro of your choice once you get it, they just won't be shipping with RedHat any more (a lot of people prefer other distros anyway).
It does indeed send documents - they're just embedded in the attachment. Running one I got through 'strings' showed that one particular document contained the sender's name, address, phone number, and social security number.
Because when you get down to it, that's really all those companies care about - their bottom line, not benefiting the consumer. Serving the consumer is just one of their means to the end of making money.
That's correct. To really annoy Win9x users, just put an tag in your websites with the SRC set to "file://c:/con/con" like this:
<IMG SRC="file:/c://con/con">
Earthlink did implement that a while ago. It was the reason I finally set up my own mail server, to not deal with their restrictions. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if other customers complained and they removed it.
You have to
wonder if an ISP will ever try to implement both the From: field restriction and the blocking of port 25, all in the name of
"preventing spam..."
1. It's annoying for people who legitimately want to use a different return address. For example, I have Earthlink and I've never used the email address they provided. That has received tons of spam from day one and Earthlink doesn't have the same sort of filtering you can get elsewhere.
2. Actually, many ISPs *are* preventing you from running your own mail servers. Earthlink and Mindspring started this a long time ago - you can't connect to port 25 on any machine besides their own mail servers. I had to set up a mail server elsewhere on the net and create a tunnel from my network to it to get my functionality back. Earthlink/Mindspring also did the 'our email address only' thing quite some time ago.
4 platters? Certainly in a full-height (~1 1/4") 3.5" drive. Those can hold 6 platters. Not in a standard (~5/8") high 3.5" drive, though. 2 is the most I've seen there.
Of course touchpad/pointing stick is a personal preference, and usually quite a strong one at that. That's why it's too bad Apple doesn't offer both options to satisfy both groups of users.
And while the pointing devices that are built into laptops can be deficient (it's a PITA to do much Photoshop or Gimp work with either) they're just fine for average work and there are plenty of times where a mouse would be inconvenient to use because of lack of a surface to use it on. And of course, it's yet another thing to carry around.
640x480? You're telling us that that's functional? Sure, it was great back when I used Win3.1 and didn't even know anything higher was possible, but now nobody will ever be able to take away my 21" Trinitron @ 1600x1200. Bigger *is* better.
Powerbooks are fine, if you don't mind being forced to use a touchpad and being limited to ONE mouse button on the laptop itself. PC laptop users get the option of pointing sticks and dual buttons is the standard.
The important difference between government programs and the GPL is choice. Citizens are forced to contribute to government programs such as Social Security when they pay taxes. However, developers are not forced to release new programs under the GPL, and users aren't forced to use GPL software.
Very freaking trival matter. They just found out about SETI@HOME over a year on some production boxes? If security was thier main concern, why didn't they use network security management software?
Being incompetent in the past means someone is forbidden to start doing the right thing?
So AOL/Time Warner doesn't want Microsoft to control internet media. Probably all we're like to see come out of this is another proprietary format that's designed to limit the consumer's rights and focus on making money for AOL/Time Warner.
just remove and destroy the hard drives from all systems? I'm sure there are plenty of places that would much rather buy a cheap hard drive for a govt surplus system then buy an entire machine of the same spec.
Your logic is flawed. "B&W LCD's exist for thigns like PDA's but nobody makes them big" First you state that 8 dead pixels might not be a problem on a 1600x1200 display. Then you say that on a small screen even one bad pixel can be a problem. This contradicts the logic of your initial statement.. if bad pixels (an unavoidable part of the manufacturing process) are less of a problem on large displays, then manufacturers would focus on those rather than smaller displays which you say need to be perfect.
Oh, and learn to spell/punctuate properly. A few errors usually aren't a big deal, but you post was almost incomprehensible.
KVMs are actually OK. I've got a really cheap mechanical one (~$15 from Roger's Systems Specialists and it only gets fuzzy when I run 1600x1200 video through it. I'm sure the more expensive eletronic ones would be just fine at high resolutions/refresh rates.
And FWIW, you can disable floppy booting in the BIOS and not lose any functionality. Just add a password-protected entry in lilo for the floppy drive - it'll save you from having to enter the bios when you need to boot from a floppy, or from having to reboot if you want to boot from a floppy but don't stick it in soon enough.
Not if you know enough to set a boot password in your BIOS and/or disable booting from floppy. It's also a good idea to take advantage of lilo's features to prevent adding things to the boot command (like 'init=/bin/sh') unless the appropriate password is entered.
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Dell's Inspiron line of laptops all ship with both a touchpad and pointing stick. The 5000/7500 line, which only had a touchpad, has been discontinued.
You can still load the distro of your choice once you get it, they just won't be shipping with RedHat any more (a lot of people prefer other distros anyway).
It does indeed send documents - they're just embedded in the attachment. Running one I got through 'strings' showed that one particular document contained the sender's name, address, phone number, and social security number.
Because when you get down to it, that's really all those companies care about - their bottom line, not benefiting the consumer. Serving the consumer is just one of their means to the end of making money.
That's correct. To really annoy Win9x users, just put an tag in your websites with the SRC set to "file://c:/con/con" like this:
<IMG SRC="file:/c://con/con">
Earthlink did implement that a while ago. It was the reason I finally set up my own mail server, to not deal with their restrictions. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if other customers complained and they removed it.
Several years ago? Didn't DeCSS come out around October, 1999, not even two years ago?
You have to wonder if an ISP will ever try to implement both the From: field restriction and the blocking of port 25, all in the name of "preventing spam..."
Earthlink already did, months ago.
1. It's annoying for people who legitimately want to use a different return address. For example, I have Earthlink and I've never used the email address they provided. That has received tons of spam from day one and Earthlink doesn't have the same sort of filtering you can get elsewhere.
2. Actually, many ISPs *are* preventing you from running your own mail servers. Earthlink and Mindspring started this a long time ago - you can't connect to port 25 on any machine besides their own mail servers. I had to set up a mail server elsewhere on the net and create a tunnel from my network to it to get my functionality back. Earthlink/Mindspring also did the 'our email address only' thing quite some time ago.
4 platters? Certainly in a full-height (~1 1/4") 3.5" drive. Those can hold 6 platters. Not in a standard (~5/8") high 3.5" drive, though. 2 is the most I've seen there.
Of course touchpad/pointing stick is a personal preference, and usually quite a strong one at that. That's why it's too bad Apple doesn't offer both options to satisfy both groups of users. And while the pointing devices that are built into laptops can be deficient (it's a PITA to do much Photoshop or Gimp work with either) they're just fine for average work and there are plenty of times where a mouse would be inconvenient to use because of lack of a surface to use it on. And of course, it's yet another thing to carry around.
640x480? You're telling us that that's functional? Sure, it was great back when I used Win3.1 and didn't even know anything higher was possible, but now nobody will ever be able to take away my 21" Trinitron @ 1600x1200. Bigger *is* better.
Powerbooks are fine, if you don't mind being forced to use a touchpad and being limited to ONE mouse button on the laptop itself. PC laptop users get the option of pointing sticks and dual buttons is the standard.
IIS is a webserver. Exchange is MS's email server product.
The important difference between government programs and the GPL is choice. Citizens are forced to contribute to government programs such as Social Security when they pay taxes. However, developers are not forced to release new programs under the GPL, and users aren't forced to use GPL software.
Gaim came out ages before the official AOL client for Linux. Tik (AOL-sanctioned *nix client) was out before that, though.
Very freaking trival matter. They just found out about SETI@HOME over a year on some production boxes? If security was thier main concern, why didn't they use network security management software?
Being incompetent in the past means someone is forbidden to start doing the right thing?
So AOL/Time Warner doesn't want Microsoft to control internet media. Probably all we're like to see come out of this is another proprietary format that's designed to limit the consumer's rights and focus on making money for AOL/Time Warner.
It's certainly possible - maybe not on a Timex, but I don't think there's any reason why someone couldn't port the client to IBM's Linux watch.
just remove and destroy the hard drives from all systems? I'm sure there are plenty of places that would much rather buy a cheap hard drive for a govt surplus system then buy an entire machine of the same spec.
Oh, and learn to spell/punctuate properly. A few errors usually aren't a big deal, but you post was almost incomprehensible.
Just one, with two more free ports. It's a VT420 on a MicroVAX 3100-80. The VAX is technically on a shelf, though, not in a closet.
KVMs are actually OK. I've got a really cheap mechanical one (~$15 from Roger's Systems Specialists and it only gets fuzzy when I run 1600x1200 video through it. I'm sure the more expensive eletronic ones would be just fine at high resolutions/refresh rates.
And FWIW, you can disable floppy booting in the BIOS and not lose any functionality. Just add a password-protected entry in lilo for the floppy drive - it'll save you from having to enter the bios when you need to boot from a floppy, or from having to reboot if you want to boot from a floppy but don't stick it in soon enough.
Not if you know enough to set a boot password in your BIOS and/or disable booting from floppy. It's also a good idea to take advantage of lilo's features to prevent adding things to the boot command (like 'init=/bin/sh') unless the appropriate password is entered.