Was the internet around in 1984 when America OnLine (then called Quantam Computer Services) was running a C64 BBS and getting ready to roll out PC-Link? I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
Yes, the internet was around far before that. It has been available since the 60's... I add this:
Add it up... that is, if you spend your money. It may be less if you horde it into a mutual fund or some other tax deferment.
Let's take a nice round number likd 50K a year. That's around 4000 a month before taxes. Take 30% off of that for state/federal/FICA/Medicare/Social Security. (it depends on how many dependants you have and so forth, so just stay with me) Let's round it down to 25% just for safe numbers.
$1,200 skimmed from the top of your check a month, that's alot. Now, for the real sticker shock. Everything you buy is then taxed. Let's take Pennsylvania sales tax: I think it's 6% now? (nice national average too) Say you buy $200-$300 of stuff at the store, which isn't alot for a month. Another $12-$18 bucks in taxes. You go to buy gas, and that is an extaordinary amount of tax attached to it that is completely hidden in the cost. Normal fill-up: 12 gallons average. For every gallon of fuel pumped there is at least a.12 tax already on it. At the very least. So that's another 1.44 in taxes for a tank of gas. Most average about a tank a week, going back and forth to work, so that's 4 tanks of gas, $5.76 total. Then, you have the tax on your car, which is some wierd abstraction of numbers that is never quite the same. Most newer cars are in the HUNDREDS of dollars per year just to own them. A rather cheap car my wife owns, a 98 Mercury Tracer with a market value of $4,500 had a tax of around $300 this past year. My 91 Mercury Capri ($2000 market value), $75 bucks. That's yearly, just for owning it. If I purchased the car through a legal company, I would have been charged $170 just in taxes alone for driving it away. Heaven forbid you should fall upon hard times, because the money that is "given" to you by the government which they call Unemployment Insurance Compensation is also taxed. If your feeling up on your luck, 40% (or more) of any gambling earnings (lotto also) goes to the government. Heaven fobid someone dies, and there is stuff left over. Inheritance tax is very harsh, also.... 40-60%. Everything you do is taxed!
How can you exagerrate it, I can't even speak loud enough about it. I know other countries have it worse, but I for one don't look at a fire and feel lucky I'm only being branded.
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On the other hand, nobody ever said prison was supposed to be all Tea and Crumpets, either: it's punishment for crimes committed and convicted..
The punishment is incarceration, it is NOT sodomy. I have never heard a judge say in his/her verdict, "and I convict the defendant to 5 years of incarceration, with the occasional guy holding him down and taking him anally". NO. It's against the law. Just because it's prison, it doesn't mean it's alright to break laws. Gee, if that's the case, you could slip small boys into the prison for the whole yard to have a little fun with, jesus.
Back about 2 years ago I was driving down I-17 through Phoenix. I had a whistler brand 3-band radar detector. (laser included.. but thats irrelevant) I noticed that one day I was driving and my detector was pegged hard. I was going the speed limit so *shrug*. I then noticed it wasn't going down. It stayed that way for nearly half of the city! (I looked around, there weren't any officers anywhere near me on the freeway, no plain clothed either) I noticed that it continued like this everytime I hit I-17.... so, my guess was they did what you said. Either that, or they are pounding the interstate with a billion and a half radar guns from space.
I don't have a radar detector anymore, the heat warped the one I have about a year ago after leaving it in my car for 3 days straight, forgetting it was 115+ F. outside:) But it was definately interesting.
I've gotten a whole lot better at just using my vision to look for police now, since I drive on a fairly flat and open freeway.
Wouldn't it be more redundant and just as fast to have two regular IDE controllers and just use the RAID capability of the OS? I always thought that when the drive goes, there's a fair probability that it will take the controller down with it.
YOu can do that... that would maximize the raid bandwidth, also. (well, on those boards that don't divide the IDE channel bandwidth between the two channels)
Though, every harddisk failure I've seen wasn't something where fire and brimstone shot out of it. You simply have read/write errors, or hear ticking from the armature sometimes... other times you will hear the bearings making a high pitched whirring/grinding sound. I've never lost a controller because of a drive going out. Not to say that by some astronomical anomoly it wouldn't happen, but I've had a number of drives die on me through the years and never had a controller die. Neither have any of my collegues that I keep in touch with.
Really? My disks spin constantly unless I issue an hdparm call to tell them to sleep. Thats the default behaviour out of the box, at least for slackware 9. Though frankly it doesnt matter if they're spinning or idle.
Disk spin is different than access. Of coure your disks spin until you put them to sleep.. otherwise you'd have access times in the seconds.
The truth of the matter is that Windows does access (read: access, not SPIN) the disks more. On this same machine I run Windows 2000 dual boot. (Command & Conquor Generals, need I say more?:) )and just doing simple maneuvering makes the disk access heavily. I run Linux, and the memory is used for the buffering, and data is written in a very optimized fashion.
No zealotry, just plain hard fact. Sure hardware fails under all OS's, it's just that most OS's don't try to beat it down like Windows:P
You know, I actually had respect for you until I read the last line.
It's a shame... WTF does your religion have to do with anything on Slashdot? Reminds me of the many cases of homosexuals just out of the blue spouting off that they're gay. So? Just move the chess piece, already.
The human brain functions on pattern recognition. A consistant interface allows the brain to function at a 'higher' level.
That's not higher level thinking, that's the cerebellum picking up motor functions to do a certain task. Much like knowing to move your arm a certain amount of distance to reach your gear shifter in your car. Go into another car, and it's an automatic, you just need to do it for a while and then the cerebellum picks up the new activity and "reprograms" itself accordingly.
That's not understanding computers, that's learning to move to do the right task. A monkey can do that, and does do it on a daily basis.
LOL Let's not start becoming the master word twister here.
Did a spam filter tool is a prerequiste to write a mail client?
This is hilarious.. it's like stomping on the ground or something when someone points out the truth:) I'll requote what the person said for clarity so you can reflect upon it introspectively: 3. Microsoft Outlook has no spam filter." -- Bullshit. Look up the Rules Wizard some time. It's far more robust than any other solution I've seen out there. If you really want to tinker with it, fire up VBA and write fancier rules.
Let's dissect this for a second. The first statement by another person: Microsoft Outlook has no spam filter. Well, technically it doesn't, so the statement is right. Then, another person (the grandparent) retorted with the ever so professional "bullshit" line, further stating that the Rules Wizard held magical spam-fighting p0wArZ. Then, logic prevailed!@ I inserted common sense once again, stating that rules filters are not spam filters. Though they work for static dumb stuff, it's the wrong tool for the job.
The RFC (request for comment....) do not require a spam filter. Of course, in this day and age it's becoming a growing standard.
This is based on discussions with people at other universities as well.
I rest my case....
And I wouldn't call its userbase "huge," at least not compared to MSN, AIM, or Yahoo. It's basically only used by open-source types.
When inherently is... (wait for it) huge. Compared to MSN, AIM, and Yahoo, I'd guess it wouldn't be.. but then again I don't see how they've suddenly become the standard bar on just what huge means. Huge to me is relative to 0, and the further it goes up, the bigger it gets. Once it gets to a relatively high number it goes to alot of people, then after that, the ever so technical hellevalotta people, further progressing towards the "huge" scale.
MSN, AIM, they've both reached the "HOLY CHRIST" stage. Well, maybe not MSN, but AIM has reached that even before they provided it outside AOL.
Why "should" it last longer than that? Because you want it to? The idea here is that you're getting products with a lower lifespan for a lower cost. If you'd wanted a machine that would run without failure for 10 years, you should have gotten one.
The thing is, I purchased WHAT WAS AVAILABLE. They didn't even have anything that said "hey, if you buy me, I will last 5 years longer, for only 100 dollars more!" or something like that. Do you realize just how silly you sound saying that? I realize that if I want something to have better quality (read: redundant... not really 'better quality') then I have to pay more money. But, we're talking about lower lifespans of systems in the future versus the lifespans of them today. If I buy a Pentium6-8.5Ghz system with 10Gigs of ram, put it together with Linux and sit it on a desk in my closet (with proper ventilation and cooling of course), I should reasonably expect that machine to putt along for at the very least 3-5 years. Barring harddisk failures and dust buildup which are totally different animals all together.
People say we're becoming a "throw-away" society. I say so what? It's good for companies because it's a steadier income stream (would you rather get weekly paychecks or just 1 lump sum at the end of the year?), it's good for consumers because of lower prices, and done properly it's not really wastefull (I realize the third point has some problems).
A throw-away society is a wasteful, self-indulgent one, also. I for one am not all for increasing the revenue of companies, thank you. I'd rather it be like back in the 50's or so. When something was designed back then, it was designed to last, and last it did. Craftsman tools were a fine example of this.
Lower prices don't always come with this throw-away society thing... look around you once:)
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I was gonna just skim over this, but I have to point out a few things:
Not much cheaper, doesn't allow you to run other devices, and is a lot of work for something you'll be using less than once every 5 years.
eh? I picked mine up for like 30 bucks or so, probably less considering I'm cheap. It's not alot of work to use, just screw on the propane tank (5 seconds of work), light a match, turn the handle and boom.. light. Admittedly you can't plug electrical appliances in, but then again our goal isn't to emulate electricity, it's to exist confortably.
Indeed, mine is very powerful, but it doesn't use normal gasoline, and most stores where you can buy fuel for it are going to be shut-down in a power outage.
You're right, it uses propane... and you can pick up containers of this quite easily beforehand and store it, unlike gasoline. I personally have 5 containers ready. Each container lasts a very long time, as you know.
I like my coleman lantern very much, but I only use it for camping, because you have much more flexibility in your home if you use electricity (and gasoline to generate the electricity).
If you go the full route and get electicity throughout your house while the grid is down, then yes, by all means it's far more flexible to use electricity. But, we're not talking about having electicity flowing through the house, we're talking about the fundamental difference between being prepared and able to live comfortably autonomously, versus plugging an inverter to your cars electrical system and risk overheating due to sitting and running forever. (and having a very limited amount of items plugged in) It's far better to look at alternative methods than to try to emulate when the outcome isn't the same as desired. In other words: running your car to power a radio, 2 lights, and a television. (let's say you don't have DirecTV, you have cable) The cable company may well be down from the outage, and the local stations would more than likely be effected.... so television is only an option if you have Satellite TV and it's a local blackout. Now, your down to radio and lights. Using alternative methods, you can have light and radio all running on their own little self-contained power source without having a carbon monoxide pipe right outside your door. Need a more stable lifestyle during an outage, then we're outside of the context of our conversation. You'd definately go with a generator at that point. We've started by talking about cheap alternatives to going gridless and somehow a cars electical system came into it, when alternatives exist that don't destroy the family transportation. Gas can only be pumped when there is electicity, also...... Please tell me your not one of the people on here that spout off about SUV gas usage?:)
An inverter or UPS is a LOT cheaper than a good crank-powered radio.
An inverter or UPS costs less than 10-20 bucks? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI tem&item =3042618198&category=294 Or 30 in this case: http://21st-century-goods.com/Merchant2/mer chant.m v?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=21st&Product_Code=SM889&C ategory_Code=SPTcellular
Get a cell phone charger while your at it: http://21st-century-goods.com/Merchant2/merch ant.m v?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=21st&Product_Code=AHPG&Ca tegory_Code=SPTcellular
I'm not trying to say your wrong, it's obvious we have 2 different ideas of comfort during an electrical outage. I personally would *prefer* the electricity off. (yes, even the computer, I'd go through withdrawals but it'd be worth it) The only bad part about that is our food storage would be a little more primitive:)
"3. Microsoft Outlook has no spam filter." -- Bullshit. Look up the Rules Wizard some time. It's far more robust than any other solution I've seen out there. If you really want to tinker with it, fire up VBA and write fancier rules.
I hate to break it to you, but filtering subject/message for certain text doesn't really count as spam filter... That's just a normal filter that can be used for the task, much like a screwdriver handle can be used as a hammer in certain instances.
Mostly because of the integration it has with Exchange. The managers (and project managers are included) love the ability to book meetings and other things through the same interface. There are other features, but that's all I have been told about by my manager. Oh yes.. the file sharing is a great feature too. Granted, it can be done other ways, but since an Exchange server is already setup, having everything in one interface is an extra goodie. I personally use Evolution at work, and only use outlook to access our shared resource documents.
BUT, we're switching soon to a Linux solution. Probably either Samsung Contact, or Communigate Pro. We're still weighing the options.
From my undertanding, it also scours the harddrive for email addresses.
I wasn't hit by it, thank god, but the corp I work for was. The Windows admin is seriously thinking about replacing all the desktops with Linux after this fiasco.
One of my favorites is the day I logged into my Small Business Server only to find an ad on the desktop! Who would have thought that a LAN messaging protocol was left listening on the Internet? Knowing that, however, I would have damned sure bet that enterprising spammers would eventually take advantage of it.
Wait.. you don't run a firewall between your Small Business Server and the 'Net?
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ARPANET didn't cease existing until 1990. Though, the 'net used TCP/IP in 1982.
There was a transition period of course from NCP to TCP.
Here's a brief timeline of Internet history:
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/ti
Kinda makes me just sit and blink a little when I realize just how quickly it all developed into what we know today.
Was the internet around in 1984 when America OnLine (then called Quantam Computer Services) was running a C64 BBS and getting ready to roll out PC-Link? I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
Yes, the internet was around far before that.
It has been available since the 60's...
I add this:
You're new here, aren't you?
I meant to add sustain into that sentence.
He means we can't multiple other people's businesses.
Said in a certain way, it sounds right. It's not bad grammer, it's just that you thought it wrong.
I think you missed the "good" and "solid" part of that sentence.
Add it up... that is, if you spend your money. It may be less if you horde it into a mutual fund or some other tax deferment.
.12 tax already on it. At the very least. So that's another 1.44 in taxes for a tank of gas. Most average about a tank a week, going back and forth to work, so that's 4 tanks of gas, $5.76 total. Then, you have the tax on your car, which is some wierd abstraction of numbers that is never quite the same. Most newer cars are in the HUNDREDS of dollars per year just to own them. A rather cheap car my wife owns, a 98 Mercury Tracer with a market value of $4,500 had a tax of around $300 this past year. My 91 Mercury Capri ($2000 market value), $75 bucks. That's yearly, just for owning it. If I purchased the car through a legal company, I would have been charged $170 just in taxes alone for driving it away. Heaven forbid you should fall upon hard times, because the money that is "given" to you by the government which they call Unemployment Insurance Compensation is also taxed. If your feeling up on your luck, 40% (or more) of any gambling earnings (lotto also) goes to the government. Heaven fobid someone dies, and there is stuff left over. Inheritance tax is very harsh, also.... 40-60%. Everything you do is taxed!
Let's take a nice round number likd 50K a year. That's around 4000 a month before taxes.
Take 30% off of that for state/federal/FICA/Medicare/Social Security. (it depends on how many dependants you have and so forth, so just stay with me) Let's round it down to 25% just for safe numbers.
$1,200 skimmed from the top of your check a month, that's alot.
Now, for the real sticker shock. Everything you buy is then taxed. Let's take Pennsylvania sales tax: I think it's 6% now? (nice national average too) Say you buy $200-$300 of stuff at the store, which isn't alot for a month. Another $12-$18 bucks in taxes. You go to buy gas, and that is an extaordinary amount of tax attached to it that is completely hidden in the cost. Normal fill-up: 12 gallons average. For every gallon of fuel pumped there is at least a
How can you exagerrate it, I can't even speak loud enough about it.
I know other countries have it worse, but I for one don't look at a fire and feel lucky I'm only being branded.
Just in case your an idio and don't realize.
Or the feds will just fabricate information, give it to Canada's officials, and they'll hand him over.
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Like Leonard Peltier.
http://www.freepeltier.org/
http://www.geociti
This is a sick nation we live in.
On the other hand, nobody ever said prison was supposed to be all Tea and Crumpets, either: it's punishment for crimes committed and convicted. .
The punishment is incarceration, it is NOT sodomy. I have never heard a judge say in his/her verdict, "and I convict the defendant to 5 years of incarceration, with the occasional guy holding him down and taking him anally". NO. It's against the law. Just because it's prison, it doesn't mean it's alright to break laws. Gee, if that's the case, you could slip small boys into the prison for the whole yard to have a little fun with, jesus.
Back about 2 years ago I was driving down I-17 through Phoenix. I had a whistler brand 3-band radar detector. (laser included.. but thats irrelevant) I noticed that one day I was driving and my detector was pegged hard. I was going the speed limit so *shrug*. I then noticed it wasn't going down. It stayed that way for nearly half of the city! (I looked around, there weren't any officers anywhere near me on the freeway, no plain clothed either) I noticed that it continued like this everytime I hit I-17.... so, my guess was they did what you said. Either that, or they are pounding the interstate with a billion and a half radar guns from space.
:) But it was definately interesting.
I don't have a radar detector anymore, the heat warped the one I have about a year ago after leaving it in my car for 3 days straight, forgetting it was 115+ F. outside
I've gotten a whole lot better at just using my vision to look for police now, since I drive on a fairly flat and open freeway.
I'd have to agree with you on the ECS bit. I picked up an ECS P4s5a motherboard for my p4 processor, and it's been nothing but reliable.
Of course the only gripe I have about this particular board is the bios... but that's another company all together.
Wouldn't it be more redundant and just as fast to have two regular IDE controllers and just use the RAID capability of the OS? I always thought that when the drive goes, there's a fair probability that it will take the controller down with it.
YOu can do that... that would maximize the raid bandwidth, also. (well, on those boards that don't divide the IDE channel bandwidth between the two channels)
Though, every harddisk failure I've seen wasn't something where fire and brimstone shot out of it. You simply have read/write errors, or hear ticking from the armature sometimes... other times you will hear the bearings making a high pitched whirring/grinding sound. I've never lost a controller because of a drive going out. Not to say that by some astronomical anomoly it wouldn't happen, but I've had a number of drives die on me through the years and never had a controller die. Neither have any of my collegues that I keep in touch with.
Really? My disks spin constantly unless I issue an hdparm call to tell them to sleep. Thats the default behaviour out of the box, at least for slackware 9. Though frankly it doesnt matter if
:) )and just doing simple maneuvering makes the disk access heavily. I run Linux, and the memory is used for the buffering, and data is written in a very optimized fashion.
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they're spinning or idle.
Disk spin is different than access. Of coure your disks spin until you put them to sleep.. otherwise you'd have access times in the seconds.
The truth of the matter is that Windows does access (read: access, not SPIN) the disks more. On this same machine I run Windows 2000 dual boot. (Command & Conquor Generals, need I say more?
No zealotry, just plain hard fact.
Sure hardware fails under all OS's, it's just that most OS's don't try to beat it down like Windows
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You know, I actually had respect for you until I read the last line.
It's a shame...
WTF does your religion have to do with anything on Slashdot? Reminds me of the many cases of homosexuals just out of the blue spouting off that they're gay. So? Just move the chess piece, already.
The human brain functions on pattern recognition. A consistant interface allows the brain to function at a 'higher' level.
That's not higher level thinking, that's the cerebellum picking up motor functions to do a certain task. Much like knowing to move your arm a certain amount of distance to reach your gear shifter in your car. Go into another car, and it's an automatic, you just need to do it for a while and then the cerebellum picks up the new activity and "reprograms" itself accordingly.
That's not understanding computers, that's learning to move to do the right task. A monkey can do that, and does do it on a daily basis.
LOL
:) I'll requote what the person said for clarity so you can reflect upon it introspectively:
Let's not start becoming the master word twister here.
Did a spam filter tool is a prerequiste to write a mail client?
This is hilarious.. it's like stomping on the ground or something when someone points out the truth
3. Microsoft Outlook has no spam filter." -- Bullshit. Look up the Rules Wizard some time. It's far more robust than any other solution I've seen out there. If you really want to tinker with it, fire up VBA and write fancier rules.
Let's dissect this for a second. The first statement by another person: Microsoft Outlook has no spam filter. Well, technically it doesn't, so the statement is right. Then, another person (the grandparent) retorted with the ever so professional "bullshit" line, further stating that the Rules Wizard held magical spam-fighting p0wArZ.
Then, logic prevailed!@ I inserted common sense once again, stating that rules filters are not spam filters. Though they work for static dumb stuff, it's the wrong tool for the job.
The RFC (request for comment....) do not require a spam filter. Of course, in this day and age it's becoming a growing standard.
To put it a more casual way: The Columbo effect :D
How the FUCK did this get moderated OFFTOPIC?
I was answering the damn guys question.
This is based on discussions with people at other universities as well.
I rest my case....
And I wouldn't call its userbase "huge," at least not compared to MSN, AIM, or Yahoo. It's basically only used by open-source types.
When inherently is... (wait for it) huge.
Compared to MSN, AIM, and Yahoo, I'd guess it wouldn't be.. but then again I don't see how they've suddenly become the standard bar on just what huge means. Huge to me is relative to 0, and the further it goes up, the bigger it gets. Once it gets to a relatively high number it goes to alot of people, then after that, the ever so technical hellevalotta people, further progressing towards the "huge" scale.
MSN, AIM, they've both reached the "HOLY CHRIST" stage. Well, maybe not MSN, but AIM has reached that even before they provided it outside AOL.
Why "should" it last longer than that? Because you want it to? The idea here is that you're getting products with a lower lifespan for a lower cost. If you'd wanted a machine that would run without failure for 10 years, you should have gotten one.
:)
The thing is, I purchased WHAT WAS AVAILABLE. They didn't even have anything that said "hey, if you buy me, I will last 5 years longer, for only 100 dollars more!" or something like that. Do you realize just how silly you sound saying that? I realize that if I want something to have better quality (read: redundant... not really 'better quality') then I have to pay more money. But, we're talking about lower lifespans of systems in the future versus the lifespans of them today. If I buy a Pentium6-8.5Ghz system with 10Gigs of ram, put it together with Linux and sit it on a desk in my closet (with proper ventilation and cooling of course), I should reasonably expect that machine to putt along for at the very least 3-5 years. Barring harddisk failures and dust buildup which are totally different animals all together.
People say we're becoming a "throw-away" society. I say so what? It's good for companies because it's a steadier income stream (would you rather get weekly paychecks or just 1 lump sum at the end of the year?), it's good for consumers because of lower prices, and done properly it's not really wastefull (I realize the third point has some problems).
A throw-away society is a wasteful, self-indulgent one, also. I for one am not all for increasing the revenue of companies, thank you. I'd rather it be like back in the 50's or so. When something was designed back then, it was designed to last, and last it did. Craftsman tools were a fine example of this.
Lower prices don't always come with this throw-away society thing... look around you once
I was gonna just skim over this, but I have to point out a few things:
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Not much cheaper, doesn't allow you to run other devices, and is a lot of work for something you'll be using less than once every 5 years.
eh? I picked mine up for like 30 bucks or so, probably less considering I'm cheap. It's not alot of work to use, just screw on the propane tank (5 seconds of work), light a match, turn the handle and boom.. light. Admittedly you can't plug electrical appliances in, but then again our goal isn't to emulate electricity, it's to exist confortably.
Indeed, mine is very powerful, but it doesn't use normal gasoline, and most stores where you can buy fuel for it are going to be shut-down in a power outage.
You're right, it uses propane... and you can pick up containers of this quite easily beforehand and store it, unlike gasoline. I personally have 5 containers ready. Each container lasts a very long time, as you know.
I like my coleman lantern very much, but I only use it for camping, because you have much more flexibility in your home if you use electricity (and gasoline to generate the electricity).
If you go the full route and get electicity throughout your house while the grid is down, then yes, by all means it's far more flexible to use electricity. But, we're not talking about having electicity flowing through the house, we're talking about the fundamental difference between being prepared and able to live comfortably autonomously, versus plugging an inverter to your cars electrical system and risk overheating due to sitting and running forever. (and having a very limited amount of items plugged in) It's far better to look at alternative methods than to try to emulate when the outcome isn't the same as desired. In other words: running your car to power a radio, 2 lights, and a television. (let's say you don't have DirecTV, you have cable) The cable company may well be down from the outage, and the local stations would more than likely be effected.... so television is only an option if you have Satellite TV and it's a local blackout.
Now, your down to radio and lights. Using alternative methods, you can have light and radio all running on their own little self-contained power source without having a carbon monoxide pipe right outside your door.
Need a more stable lifestyle during an outage, then we're outside of the context of our conversation. You'd definately go with a generator at that point. We've started by talking about cheap alternatives to going gridless and somehow a cars electical system came into it, when alternatives exist that don't destroy the family transportation. Gas can only be pumped when there is electicity, also......
Please tell me your not one of the people on here that spout off about SUV gas usage?
An inverter or UPS is a LOT cheaper than a good crank-powered radio.
An inverter or UPS costs less than 10-20 bucks?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View
Or 30 in this case:
http://21st-century-goods.com/Merchant2/me
Get a cell phone charger while your at it:
http://21st-century-goods.com/Merchant2/merc
I'm not trying to say your wrong, it's obvious we have 2 different ideas of comfort during an electrical outage. I personally would *prefer* the electricity off. (yes, even the computer, I'd go through withdrawals but it'd be worth it)
The only bad part about that is our food storage would be a little more primitive
"3. Microsoft Outlook has no spam filter." -- Bullshit. Look up the Rules Wizard some time. It's far more robust than any other solution I've seen out there. If you really want to tinker with it, fire up VBA and write fancier rules.
I hate to break it to you, but filtering subject/message for certain text doesn't really count as spam filter... That's just a normal filter that can be used for the task, much like a screwdriver handle can be used as a hammer in certain instances.
Mostly because of the integration it has with Exchange. The managers (and project managers are included) love the ability to book meetings and other things through the same interface. There are other features, but that's all I have been told about by my manager.
Oh yes.. the file sharing is a great feature too. Granted, it can be done other ways, but since an Exchange server is already setup, having everything in one interface is an extra goodie.
I personally use Evolution at work, and only use outlook to access our shared resource documents.
BUT, we're switching soon to a Linux solution. Probably either Samsung Contact, or Communigate Pro. We're still weighing the options.
From my undertanding, it also scours the harddrive for email addresses.
I wasn't hit by it, thank god, but the corp I work for was. The Windows admin is seriously thinking about replacing all the desktops with Linux after this fiasco.
The definition of functionally illiterate:o nary/function ally+illiterate
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dicti
Definition: [adj] having reading and writing skills insufficient for ordinary practical needs
Synonyms: illiterate
One of my favorites is the day I logged into my Small Business Server only to find an ad on the desktop! Who would have thought that a LAN messaging protocol was left listening on the Internet? Knowing that, however, I would have damned sure bet that enterprising spammers would eventually take advantage of it.
Wait.. you don't run a firewall between your Small Business Server and the 'Net?