I would absolutely love to have a really good Outlook Express clone. Why, you ask? Well, here's my setup:
POP Server: I just want to be able to enter my pop3 server, username, and password. Bang! I can download my mail into a nice, graphical inbox folder.
SMTP: Again, enter my smtp server, and there ya go, you can send e-mail.
Auto-view window: click on a message and read it, press a few hotkeys to delete it or move to it's respective folder.
**Graphical** filters: Click on a menu option, click "add new filter" use dialog boxes and scroll-down menus to enter, e.g. "When" "Sender" "contains" "spam" "move to" "/dev/null... oops, I meant Trash"
Simple address book: Just name, alias, and e-mail address... only have to type in the alias, and there ya go. As an optional bonus, perhaps it could have an auto-complete feature for e-mail addresses I've previously sent to.
And maybe a built-in usenet client on the side, though Pan pretty much fills this niche for me.
There ya go, e-mail is ready.
Now, show me a currently available mail client for linux that can do all that without involving a cryptic (for a complete newbie like me) interface like Sendmail, and I'll be eternally grateful. Until then, I'll stick with Netscape Mail.
I'm constantly seeing people saying "I'll probably be moderated into oblivion, but..." before a post supporting Microsoft, and yet I constantly see posts like the one above being moderated up! It's not like you can browse at a moderation level of 2 or 3 and not see anything but anti-ms FUD, people. The pro-MS voice *is* being heard on Slashdot.
Neither do I. I do, in fact feel a little guilty about using junkbuster, because, as you say, they pay for a lot of sites. In fact, every so often I turn it off out of the "kindness of my heart =P". The problem is, and the reason I always turn it back on, that far too many ad servers are really slow, and when you use netscape, they makes you have to wait that much longer just to view the page. I've come across ad servers that take up to a minute just to contact. End result: I turn junkbuster back on, and I *do* find that it speeds up my web access.
Sorry, I should have been more clear: I don't use AOL myself anymore. I did try it for a while, then stopped because of their ads. It was a horror story getting them to cancel my account.
BTW, excuse the spelling errors, I'm away from a spell checker.
Here's the major difference between/. ads and AOL ads: I don't pay for Slashdot. CmdrTaco needs to get money somehow, and so he uses banner ads. This is fine, they're relatively small banner ads at the top and bottom of the page that don't annoy me. This is similar with most of the magazines I read. They have lots of ads, but they don't especially get in the way of what I'm doing, and the few magazines that I had subscribed to that did I stop subscribing to. However, I pay for AOL. I shell out the cast monthly, and still they force ad upon ad at me, with pop-up windows everywhere I turn, and money-making business partnerships up the wazoo that just generally interfere with what I'm doing. I'm sorry, but when I'm already paying you on a monthly basis, you should not be forcing ads on your readers in the name of "just being paid."
Let's face it, if we coordinated the worlds resources so there weren't thousands of children dying every day, in a couple of decades we'd reach the point that there were thousands of children dying every day again. And the world would be a lot more crowded.
Nobody likes pain, misery, and death, but they are always going to be there. You can shift them around to someone else, or save them up for the next generation, but you can never really reduce them. Everyone must die, and most will go kicking and screaming.
**Clearing Throat**
At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge,'said the gentleman, taking up a pen, `it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and Destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.'
`Are there no prisons?' asked Scrooge.
`Plenty of prisons,' said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
`And the Union workhouses?' demanded Scrooge.
`Are they still in operation?'
`They are. Still,' returned the gentleman, `I wish I could say they were not.'
`The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?' said Scrooge.
`Both very busy, sir.'
`Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course,' said Scrooge. `I'm very glad to hear it.'
**Moving On**
`If they would rather die,' said Scrooge, `they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
**I think you can see where I'm going with this...**
A soldier's job is not to die for his country. His job is to make the other poor bastard die for his. Well, this phrase and its origin explains everything about your position. This sentence was written by Patton. He was one of the craziest american general in WWII. Maybe some of us don't know but after the surrender of Germany he pressed the american president to launch a nuclear and conventional attack, with the help of the surviving german troops(who hated above all the russians), against Soviet Union.
Wait a second... If I use something that someone else said as an argument for what I think, then I am therefore stating that I believe in everything else that person said or did? Huh?
Question: If I write a program, release it under the GPL, someone takes that program, incorporates it, makes it look different, and sells the end-program as closed-source, how would I tell/prove that they had taken my source in the first place?
Okay, so the GPL is basically the same concept as communism. On paper, communism can work, but in a real world situation it eventually leads to corruption in government. This does not mean that it can not work for software.
Fuck Christian society? Nah, fuck intolerant Christians; to do otherwise would merely be more intolerance (I'm Jewish, so I agree whole-heartedly with the rest of your comment).
That's like saying that Microsoft doesn't deserve any recognition for ushering in mainstream acceptance of the computer, and this is heresy, but microsoft does make good products every so often. Edison was a "FUD master," but he did do some great things.
Actually, I'm not sure if you meant this to be funny...it's usually a good idea to check out newsgroups to find out if there are any problems with something before you buy it, and I usually do use deja to get "word-on-the-street" info.
Speaking of Gartnet, just saw this article over at nytimes.com... My favorite quote is:
"Shareholders will want to hear convincing reasons for spending on this scale. Lawyers will be urging action for companies to seek compensation if huge sums were judged to have been spent unnecessarily."
Gee, and I wonder how they're going to prove that... Maybe they'll bring in some "expert " witness and ask her to stare into her crystal ball...
I lived in Moscow for approximately 1/2 year, and I think that the thing that worried me most was the climate of corruption that surrounded the Kremlin. The truth is, very few Russians actually liked Yeltsin, he was just better than everyone else out there, and everyone knew it. Last I had heard, one of his competitors for presidency was the corrupt mayor of Moscow, who probably had more ties to the mafia than Al Capone.
Granted, this is actually the first I've heard of Putin, and I'm curious and a little bit anxious to see what he does and can do.
I have a friend who not-so-nostalgically refers to it as "plug-n-pray"
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Rest assured, I'm sure some die-hard/.'er "First Post" d00d will be out there on the Kiribati Islands hitting reload every few seconds on his satelite connected laptop so that his "First Post of The Millenium" will go down in/. lowest moderation history.
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I would absolutely love to have a really good Outlook Express clone. Why, you ask? Well, here's my setup:
POP Server: I just want to be able to enter my pop3 server, username, and password. Bang! I can download my mail into a nice, graphical inbox folder.
SMTP: Again, enter my smtp server, and there ya go, you can send e-mail.
Auto-view window: click on a message and read it, press a few hotkeys to delete it or move to it's respective folder.
**Graphical** filters: Click on a menu option, click "add new filter" use dialog boxes and scroll-down menus to enter, e.g. "When" "Sender" "contains" "spam" "move to" "/dev/null... oops, I meant Trash"
Simple address book: Just name, alias, and e-mail address... only have to type in the alias, and there ya go. As an optional bonus, perhaps it could have an auto-complete feature for e-mail addresses I've previously sent to.
And maybe a built-in usenet client on the side, though Pan pretty much fills this niche for me.
There ya go, e-mail is ready.
Now, show me a currently available mail client for linux that can do all that without involving a cryptic (for a complete newbie like me) interface like Sendmail, and I'll be eternally grateful. Until then, I'll stick with Netscape Mail.
"I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Reic..I mean Lewinsky."
Here's what I don't understand:
I'm constantly seeing people saying "I'll probably be moderated into oblivion, but..." before a post supporting Microsoft, and yet I constantly see posts like the one above being moderated up! It's not like you can browse at a moderation level of 2 or 3 and not see anything but anti-ms FUD, people. The pro-MS voice *is* being heard on Slashdot.
This reminds me of a quote I saw on /. once:
"Let's kill all radicals!"
=)
-Ateran
Tsk, tsk...been reading too many Colin Powell reviews lately, haven't we? =P.
Neither do I. I do, in fact feel a little guilty about using junkbuster, because, as you say, they pay for a lot of sites. In fact, every so often I turn it off out of the "kindness of my heart =P". The problem is, and the reason I always turn it back on, that far too many ad servers are really slow, and when you use netscape, they makes you have to wait that much longer just to view the page. I've come across ad servers that take up to a minute just to contact. End result: I turn junkbuster back on, and I *do* find that it speeds up my web access.
-Ateran
Sorry, I should have been more clear: I don't use AOL myself anymore. I did try it for a while, then stopped because of their ads. It was a horror story getting them to cancel my account.
BTW, excuse the spelling errors, I'm away from a spell checker.
Here's the major difference between /. ads and AOL ads: I don't pay for Slashdot. CmdrTaco needs to get money somehow, and so he uses banner ads. This is fine, they're relatively small banner ads at the top and bottom of the page that don't annoy me. This is similar with most of the magazines I read. They have lots of ads, but they don't especially get in the way of what I'm doing, and the few magazines that I had subscribed to that did I stop subscribing to. However, I pay for AOL. I shell out the cast monthly, and still they force ad upon ad at me, with pop-up windows everywhere I turn, and money-making business partnerships up the wazoo that just generally interfere with what I'm doing. I'm sorry, but when I'm already paying you on a monthly basis, you should not be forcing ads on your readers in the name of "just being paid."
Let's face it, if we coordinated the worlds resources so there weren't thousands of children dying every day, in a couple of decades we'd reach the point that there were thousands of children dying every day again. And the world would be a lot more crowded.
Nobody likes pain, misery, and death, but they are always going to be there. You can shift them around to someone else, or save them up for the next generation, but you can never really reduce them. Everyone must die, and most will go kicking and screaming.
**Clearing Throat**
At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge,'said the gentleman, taking up a pen, `it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and Destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.'
`Are there no prisons?' asked Scrooge.
`Plenty of prisons,' said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
`And the Union workhouses?' demanded Scrooge.
`Are they still in operation?'
`They are. Still,' returned the gentleman, `I wish I could say they were not.'
`The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?' said Scrooge.
`Both very busy, sir.'
`Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course,' said Scrooge. `I'm very glad to hear it.'
**Moving On**
`If they would rather die,' said Scrooge, `they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
**I think you can see where I'm going with this...**
-Quote taken from Project Gutenberg
A soldier's job is not to die for his country. His job is to make the other poor bastard die for his. Well, this phrase and its origin explains everything about your position. This sentence was written by Patton. He was one of the craziest american general in WWII. Maybe some of us don't know but after the surrender of Germany he pressed the american president to launch a nuclear and conventional attack, with the help of the surviving german troops(who hated above all the russians), against Soviet Union.
Wait a second... If I use something that someone else said as an argument for what I think, then I am therefore stating that I believe in everything else that person said or did? Huh?
Who the hell moderated this to "troll?"
This was damn funny.
Question: If I write a program, release it under the GPL, someone takes that program, incorporates it, makes it look different, and sells the end-program as closed-source, how would I tell/prove that they had taken my source in the first place?
Okay, so the GPL is basically the same concept as communism. On paper, communism can work, but in a real world situation it eventually leads to corruption in government. This does not mean that it can not work for software.
Fuck Christian society? Nah, fuck intolerant Christians; to do otherwise would merely be more intolerance (I'm Jewish, so I agree whole-heartedly with the rest of your comment).
That's like saying that Microsoft doesn't deserve any recognition for ushering in mainstream acceptance of the computer, and this is heresy, but microsoft does make good products every so often. Edison was a "FUD master," but he did do some great things.
Actually, I'm not sure if you meant this to be funny...it's usually a good idea to check out newsgroups to find out if there are any problems with something before you buy it, and I usually do use deja to get "word-on-the-street" info.
Were you the same person who wrote "fucking jew bastards" up above?
My, my, my.. from anti-gay to anti-semitism, quite a piece of work, aren't you?
introduced telecommunication; 'nuff said.
Speaking of Gartnet, just saw this article over at nytimes.com... My favorite quote is:
"Shareholders will want to hear convincing reasons for spending on this
scale. Lawyers will be urging action for companies to seek compensation if
huge sums were judged to have been spent unnecessarily."
Gee, and I wonder how they're going to prove that... Maybe they'll bring in some "expert " witness and ask her to stare into her crystal ball...
Don't kid yourself; we'd probably have a very different situation today if that money hadn't been spent.
Question: Will NT 5 actually have full directx support?
I lived in Moscow for approximately 1/2 year, and I think that the thing that worried me most was the climate of corruption that surrounded the Kremlin. The truth is, very few Russians actually liked Yeltsin, he was just better than everyone else out there, and everyone knew it. Last I had heard, one of his competitors for presidency was the corrupt mayor of Moscow, who probably had more ties to the mafia than Al Capone.
Granted, this is actually the first I've heard of Putin, and I'm curious and a little bit anxious to see what he does and can do.
-Sam Black
I have a friend who not-so-nostalgically refers to it as "plug-n-pray"
Rest assured, I'm sure some die-hard /.'er "First Post" d00d will be out there on the Kiribati Islands hitting reload every few seconds on his satelite connected laptop so that his "First Post of The Millenium" will go down in /. lowest moderation history.
But, suddenly Linux won't have the advantage of competing with patched-up 3-year old software.
WIN2000 will still run under WIN32, no?
WIN2000 will still run under DOS, no?
Disclaimer: I'm probably wrong, so flame me before I mess up again.
-Sam Black