To get rid of those older monster e-mails, the Outlook team suggests running Conversation Cleanup, a new feature of Outlook 2010, which moves all the older, redundant messages in the user's e-mail conversations to the Deleted Items folder. Cleanup keeps the most recent message around, Microsoft says, ensuring users have all the content in the conversation while allowing them to delete the redundant messages.
I hope this "feature" has the intelligence to scan all the earlier messages in the thread to make sure that all the people in the conversation are clueless and have blindly quoted the entire conversation in each of their posts.
I wonder how it handles branches in the conversation? Does it keep the final message in each branch?
because it is used by the most popular office application out there
Really?! At the time OOXML was approved as a "standard", no conforming implementation existed. Microsoft expressed an intention of implementing it at some point in the future, but AFAIK they haven't yet done so. They also announced that they'd be supporting import/export of ODF before they supported OOXML. Have they changed this?
Google is secretive, but the system's inner workings were apparently divulged by University of Tokyo researchers
Surely the whole point of the patent system is to grant exclusive use for a period in return for publishing full details of how whatever it is works? How can you have a patent without divulging the crucial information?
Speaking as someone that works for an actual software company, and not in an IT shop, it has over the years become my opinion that the primary reason for the continued failure of Linux on the desktop is because Linux is a hostile environment for commercial software developers to target. DLL Hell,
Huh?! DLL Hell is a 100% Windows phenomenon. It just doesn't exist on the Linux platform.
different packaging formats between distributions,
Granted, that is a slight hassle, but building different packages is pretty straightforward, provided you haven't made nasty distribution-specific assumptions within your actual application.
unacceptable licenses for basic libraries that are 100% free (as in beer) to use on Windows and OSX,
Licences for Linux development tools and libraries are almost invariably *more* free than those for corresponding commercial platforms. Can you give an example of one where the Windows solution gives you more freedom?
The Linux community does not get this at all, and the Windows community sometimes forgets it.
On this front, the Linux experience is worlds better than the Windows one. My biggest frustration when trying to sort out problems on other people's Windows boxes is the frequency with which one gets an error message which amounts to "Something went wrong, but we're not telling you what." The big mistake which the Windows developers make is hiding information from the user so even if you are capable of understanding the technical aspects of the problem, you're not allowed to see them.
It's true that the average user either ignores technical information in an error message, or goes into a panic when it appears, but there should always be *some* way of getting at it. Windows is dreadful in this respect.
My ISP currently allocates (and routes) me 18446744073709551616 IPv6 addresses. They will increase this on demand up to a maximum of 1208925819614629174706176 addresses. Once I've used those I'll start to look for a new ISP.
This message coming to you from 2001:8b0:e9:1:21c:bfff:fe92:17c9
But it's a story about UK banks phasing out something, and the something which they're phasing out is "cheques". When UK banks talk about "checks" they're talking about the precautions they take against money-laundering and the like. I don't think they're going to phase out those any time soon.
That's really impractical, though, unless the person you're installing it for only wants email and to occasionally surf some websites. We live in a commercial OS world. You think you get lots of calls for computer help from family now? Wipe their drive and install Linux. After they figure out that they can't install games or Microsoft Office, they'll be asking you to put Windows right back on.
That's the exact opposite of my experience. I've converted quite a few non-paying support-seeking relatives to Linux-only systems, and after a short bedding-in period the support requests drop to pretty much nothing. It helps a bit that I put all their systems on a VPN, so when they do have a problem I can connect to them and do remote diagnosis.
Your standard non-technical home user wants:
Web E-mail Office software Music Videos
and all that is there out of the box with a modern Linux installation. Once they get past the idea that they need to buy a new bit of software for every new thing they want to do, they're happy as a guinea pig with one tail.
The only people I haven't been able to convert are those who want to use their PC as a games console. I leave them to their own devices.
Incidentally - not one of my convertees has asked to revert.
A federal judge on Thursday ordered a Santa Cruz company to immediately quit selling Beatles and other music on its online site, setting aside a preposterous argument that it had copyrights on songs via a process called 'psycho-acoustic simulation.'
Who'd have thought it? Preposterous arguments from a Santa Cruz Organisation.
Very happy with the performance. I was already experienced with ARM kit and so knew that the performance was not one-to-one, but it's plenty fast enough for everything which I use it for. The obvious exception is floating point, but I don't use much of that on my server. It's easily as good as, say, a 1GHz VIA processor, although quite a way short of a 1.6GHz CORE 2.
It's funny really. When the ARM first came out it could knock spots off the contemporary x86 processors with a much lower CPU clock. For example, an 8 MHz ARM was much, much faster than a 33MHz 80386, mostly because it did much more in a clock cycle. They were blindingly fast (for the time) at moving large chunks of data. AFAIC, the ARM based machines were the first to offer solid window drags. At the time, most systems had you just dragging and outline of a window.
I bought the UK version and it's actually just a US version with an adaptor. I knew beforehand that you could pull the mains pins off, revealing a figure-of-eight mains connector and assumed when they started offering a UK version that it would come with an alternative pull-off piece. Instead it comes with the same US mains pins and a shaving adaptor. I didn't use either because I don't want it perched high on top of a mains outlet - instead I used the alternative mains lead.
All versions are voltage-agnostic. They'll work equally well on American 110V or rest-of-the-world 220-240V.
85W for a Mac mini? Nothing like that. I tested an old one a few weeks back and it pulled less than 20W. The latest ones claim rather less (can't remember the figures, but look at Apple's web site if you want to know).
I've spent quite a few years working towards having a capable low-power home server. I've worked steadily downwards but up until now I've been forced to trade off capability against power consumption. For instance, an NSLU2 is great on power consumption, but its 32M of RAM means there are many things which it just can't do.
The Sheevaplug has been the answer to my prayers. I now have one of these with an external 350G USB HDD attached and the total power consumption of the pair at idle is a mere 3W. It also seems to be capable of doing anything I ask of it. It runs a MySQL server, handles all my local file services, and provides a public NTP server in the pool.ntp.org pool, managing to keep a constant score of 20.
It's a wonderful device. Nothing else comes close if you're after power savings.
You miss the point. The SI system originally called for prefixes which go up and down in factors of 10^3. Micro, milli, kilo, mega, etc. This was found to be unworkable, particularly because of the metre being a difficult size, and so centi was introduced. It is still a second class citizen though - we don't talk about centi-grams, centi-ohms, centi-litres etc. If the metre were a more useful size we wouldn't need centimetres either.
As for the meter being too long, well most people here in Sweden don't seem to have any trouble "just knowing" how long a meter is, and there's also the decimeter (0.1 m), centimeter (0.01 m) and millimeter (0.001 m).
You've put your finger exactly on the problem. According to the SI system, these extra units shouldn't exist - there should be just the metre and the millimetre, with nothing in between. But as the previous poster said, the metre is too long and the millimetre is too short so we end up having to invent extra units which fit the actual scales on which we work. Describing something as being 342mm long isn't visualisable when you start from just knowing what a mm is. You need to translate it into something else (e.g. cm) and then you can start picturing it.
The inch is a much more comfortable natural size to work with then either the metre or the millimetre, but the arithmetic is a bit harder if you're not used to it.
Or maybe it's a slightly earlier monument, and its blue stones were recycled when a larger one was built nearby? People have been nicking stone from existing constructions to use for new ones for millennia.
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To get rid of those older monster e-mails, the Outlook team suggests running Conversation Cleanup, a new feature of Outlook 2010, which moves all the older, redundant messages in the user's e-mail conversations to the Deleted Items folder. Cleanup keeps the most recent message around, Microsoft says, ensuring users have all the content in the conversation while allowing them to delete the redundant messages.
I hope this "feature" has the intelligence to scan all the earlier messages in the thread to make sure that all the people in the conversation are clueless and have blindly quoted the entire conversation in each of their posts.
I wonder how it handles branches in the conversation? Does it keep the final message in each branch?
Bad news for the story writer - global warming is so far advanced that the North Sea is no longer glaciated.
And the land bridge between England and France has been swept away by the melt water!
because it is used by the most popular office application out there
Really?! At the time OOXML was approved as a "standard", no conforming implementation existed. Microsoft expressed an intention of implementing it at some point in the future, but AFAIK they haven't yet done so. They also announced that they'd be supporting import/export of ODF before they supported OOXML. Have they changed this?
upgrade their browsers to pretty much anything else
What an appropriate assessment of IE6.
Google is secretive, but the system's inner workings were apparently divulged by University of Tokyo researchers
Surely the whole point of the patent system is to grant exclusive use for a period in return for publishing full details of how whatever it is works? How can you have a patent without divulging the crucial information?
Speaking as someone that works for an actual software company, and not in an IT shop, it has over the years become my opinion that the primary reason for the continued failure of Linux on the desktop is because Linux is a hostile environment for commercial software developers to target. DLL Hell,
Huh?! DLL Hell is a 100% Windows phenomenon. It just doesn't exist on the Linux platform.
different packaging formats between distributions,
Granted, that is a slight hassle, but building different packages is pretty straightforward, provided you haven't made nasty distribution-specific assumptions within your actual application.
unacceptable licenses for basic libraries that are 100% free (as in beer) to use on Windows and OSX,
Licences for Linux development tools and libraries are almost invariably *more* free than those for corresponding commercial platforms. Can you give an example of one where the Windows solution gives you more freedom?
the list goes on.
Do go on...
The Linux community does not get this at all, and the Windows community sometimes forgets it.
On this front, the Linux experience is worlds better than the Windows one. My biggest frustration when trying to sort out problems on other people's Windows boxes is the frequency with which one gets an error message which amounts to "Something went wrong, but we're not telling you what." The big mistake which the Windows developers make is hiding information from the user so even if you are capable of understanding the technical aspects of the problem, you're not allowed to see them.
It's true that the average user either ignores technical information in an error message, or goes into a panic when it appears, but there should always be *some* way of getting at it. Windows is dreadful in this respect.
Will ISP give more then one IPv6 IP?
My ISP currently allocates (and routes) me 18446744073709551616 IPv6 addresses. They will increase this on demand up to a maximum of 1208925819614629174706176 addresses. Once I've used those I'll start to look for a new ISP.
This message coming to you from 2001:8b0:e9:1:21c:bfff:fe92:17c9
Why type either? You should look at getting DNS up and running on your systems. It's a bit cutting edge, but well worth it.
Have you ever heard an American freak out when a Brit on /. uses a British colloquialism?
Well, you for one.
But it's a story about UK banks phasing out something, and the something which they're phasing out is "cheques". When UK banks talk about "checks" they're talking about the precautions they take against money-laundering and the like. I don't think they're going to phase out those any time soon.
Yay! I'm still young!
Well, youngish...
No, it was - "Kids and grown ups love it so, the happy world of Arecibo"
That's really impractical, though, unless the person you're installing it for only wants email and to occasionally surf some websites. We live in a commercial OS world. You think you get lots of calls for computer help from family now? Wipe their drive and install Linux. After they figure out that they can't install games or Microsoft Office, they'll be asking you to put Windows right back on.
That's the exact opposite of my experience. I've converted quite a few non-paying support-seeking relatives to Linux-only systems, and after a short bedding-in period the support requests drop to pretty much nothing. It helps a bit that I put all their systems on a VPN, so when they do have a problem I can connect to them and do remote diagnosis.
Your standard non-technical home user wants:
Web
E-mail
Office software
Music
Videos
and all that is there out of the box with a modern Linux installation. Once they get past the idea that they need to buy a new bit of software for every new thing they want to do, they're happy as a guinea pig with one tail.
The only people I haven't been able to convert are those who want to use their PC as a games console. I leave them to their own devices.
Incidentally - not one of my convertees has asked to revert.
A federal judge on Thursday ordered a Santa Cruz company to immediately quit selling Beatles and other music on its online site, setting aside a preposterous argument that it had copyrights on songs via a process called 'psycho-acoustic simulation.'
Who'd have thought it? Preposterous arguments from a Santa Cruz Organisation.
Very happy with the performance. I was already experienced with ARM kit and so knew that the performance was not one-to-one, but it's plenty fast enough for everything which I use it for. The obvious exception is floating point, but I don't use much of that on my server. It's easily as good as, say, a 1GHz VIA processor, although quite a way short of a 1.6GHz CORE 2.
It's funny really. When the ARM first came out it could knock spots off the contemporary x86 processors with a much lower CPU clock. For example, an 8 MHz ARM was much, much faster than a 33MHz 80386, mostly because it did much more in a clock cycle. They were blindingly fast (for the time) at moving large chunks of data. AFAIC, the ARM based machines were the first to offer solid window drags. At the time, most systems had you just dragging and outline of a window.
I bought the UK version and it's actually just a US version with an adaptor. I knew beforehand that you could pull the mains pins off, revealing a figure-of-eight mains connector and assumed when they started offering a UK version that it would come with an alternative pull-off piece. Instead it comes with the same US mains pins and a shaving adaptor. I didn't use either because I don't want it perched high on top of a mains outlet - instead I used the alternative mains lead.
All versions are voltage-agnostic. They'll work equally well on American 110V or rest-of-the-world 220-240V.
There may be a distro available somewhere though.
Installing Debian on the Sheevaplug is simple, straightforward and well documented (thank you Martin). An unbeatable combination.
85W for a Mac mini? Nothing like that. I tested an old one a few weeks back and it pulled less than 20W. The latest ones claim rather less (can't remember the figures, but look at Apple's web site if you want to know).
Under 30W !? Miles under 30W.
I've spent quite a few years working towards having a capable low-power home server. I've worked steadily downwards but up until now I've been forced to trade off capability against power consumption. For instance, an NSLU2 is great on power consumption, but its 32M of RAM means there are many things which it just can't do.
The Sheevaplug has been the answer to my prayers. I now have one of these with an external 350G USB HDD attached and the total power consumption of the pair at idle is a mere 3W. It also seems to be capable of doing anything I ask of it. It runs a MySQL server, handles all my local file services, and provides a public NTP server in the pool.ntp.org pool, managing to keep a constant score of 20.
It's a wonderful device. Nothing else comes close if you're after power savings.
You miss the point. The SI system originally called for prefixes which go up and down in factors of 10^3. Micro, milli, kilo, mega, etc. This was found to be unworkable, particularly because of the metre being a difficult size, and so centi was introduced. It is still a second class citizen though - we don't talk about centi-grams, centi-ohms, centi-litres etc. If the metre were a more useful size we wouldn't need centimetres either.
HTH
John
As for the meter being too long, well most people here in Sweden don't seem to have any trouble "just knowing" how long a meter is, and there's also the decimeter (0.1 m), centimeter (0.01 m) and millimeter (0.001 m).
You've put your finger exactly on the problem. According to the SI system, these extra units shouldn't exist - there should be just the metre and the millimetre, with nothing in between. But as the previous poster said, the metre is too long and the millimetre is too short so we end up having to invent extra units which fit the actual scales on which we work. Describing something as being 342mm long isn't visualisable when you start from just knowing what a mm is. You need to translate it into something else (e.g. cm) and then you can start picturing it.
The inch is a much more comfortable natural size to work with then either the metre or the millimetre, but the arithmetic is a bit harder if you're not used to it.
Couldn't you have put some sort of warning on that link? NSFTheLiving or something like that?
Or maybe it's a slightly earlier monument, and its blue stones were recycled when a larger one was built nearby? People have been nicking stone from existing constructions to use for new ones for millennia.
My Peugeot 405 Estate gets over 600 miles from a tank - over 700 if you're on a long run. Admittedly it doesn't use anything as outmoded as petrol.