Only spammers send HTML-only messages these days. In two years, I have received only one useful HTML-only message. BTW, rejecting HTML-only messages is a good way to reduce amount of incoming spam.
You can compose message in HTML and then use lynx to create text/plain part of message.
I am working for local internet shopping centre. Most prices are generated automatically based on wholesale prices and competitor retail prices. Sometimes glitches in this process lead to funny prices on website. When this happens sales reps are ready to kill us IT guys.
Similar law exists in Latvia. We pay tax for every CD-R, HDD or USB storage. Our neighbors (Estonia and Lithuania) have no such tax. If someone needs large amount of CD-R it's better to go to Lithuania and buy media there.
This law is really stupid because I have to pay them even if I use media to store my own files (I am amateur photographer). Large enterprises and state authorities have to pay tax even if they use HDDs for their databases.
I have seen such server two or three years ago. It was one of main Latvian nameservers. Its misbehaviour made serious damage to our business. Their admins ignored my complaints.
This winter, another very important nameserver was sure that our domain doesn't exist at all and ignored any changes (which is defined in SOA). 1/3 of Latvian users couldn't visit our site. I've called their admins five or six times! The server was fixed next morning. That day we lost some customers.
WinXP updates break Canon Multipass devices. This happened to my client. Their devices mystically stopped to work one day. After reinstalling WinXP, they resumed their operation for one or two days. Uninstalling "hotfixes" helped!
Now they have to use SP2. Say goodbye to canon multipass... Canon refuses to fix drivers.
Noone has asked me... But here is my opinion. Insecure: Windows. Secure: Linux, FreeBSD. Very secure: NetBSD, OpenBSD. Nothing but my own statistics...
I've tried Arch last year. Mostly good distro but their i18n support was very poor. First, I have to rebuild ncurses with utf-8 support (Looks like this one is fixed by judd). Second, glibc comes with reduced locale set. I had to build ru_RU.KOI8-R myself. Debian, for example, provides nice frontend for doing this. Slackware comes with huge number of locales by default.
Slackware for example comes without libtheora. Yes, I use mplayer but it can't play theora without libtheora. I still have to download, build libtheora and then recompile mplayer. All this for playing only one file from art.gnome.org.
> It wasn't until 1989 that someone had the bright idea that the power of a luggable and the portability of a laptop didn't have to be mutually exclusive.
Ten years ago, I owned an old PC laptop manufactured in 1987. I don't remember its name but in was 8088 (4.77 MHz) equipped with 512k of RAM and 720k 3.5'' floppy drive. The last OS that worked on it was MS DOS 6.22. Qbasic was amazing:) Borland Turbo C and FoxBase worked too. Batteries were completely dead in 1996.
I live in Riga, Latvia. Paid public WiFi access is available in many places such as "Double Coffee", "Coffee Nation", "Statoil", "Lido" etc. etc. Wireless service is provided by Lattelekom. Coffee shop customers can buy prepaid cards with username and password for Lattelkom Radius server. Alternatively, login/pass can be obtained by SMS. Coffee and Internet access can be purchased together or separately. When there are no more free seats waitress will ask WiFi-only customers to leave.
There have been suggestions that some multicore desktop chips will support the ability to run a separate OS on one of the cores. If you could run a separate set of applications on that separate core, sandboxed as much as possible, then it might insultate the other functionality against problems.
IBM does it all the time since 1964 on uniprocessors. I mean their VM and LPAR. Having multiple cores is not essential.
When you run multiple OSes on the same hardware you have to share some resources between them, and schedule input/output. The problem remains the same.
Luckily upcoming dual core processors should help with some of the insulation between tasks.
Most contemporary processors are powerful enough for tasks you have described. These problems can be caused by bad multitasking and I/O scheduling of OS. Additionally, some programs are written assuming that CPU and IO subsystem are mostly idle. That's all...
CPU speed have increased dramatically in last ten years. Has OS response become better?...
The PC has more software, more competition, more richness than anything else. So making it simple and rich, that means the PC will be the key device.
What common people need is a digital video recorder/player, MP3 jukebox and device for web browsing. I am professional user and my needs are slightly different. I need things like kernel, multitasking, virtual memory, networking protocols, compilers, linkers, interpreters, statistical software, computational software, numerical analysis tools, journaling FS etc. etc. etc.
The problem of Microsoft is that they are pushing one OS, one environment for everyone. That's why (nearly) no one is really happy with them. IMO, their environment is really good only for office workers. It's still too complex for "common people" (a.k.a. "home users") and inconvenient for many professional users.
Yesterday, I was asked by my friends (blacksmith artist and his wife) to help them with their computer running Windows XP (and a whole bunch of viruses and troyans). The only choice was to reinstall OS and most of software from scratch. While performing this task, I realized that Windows XP usage requires tons of knowledge. You have to know about partitions, registry, services, drivers and other mysteries. That's not what most people want or can.
Some people criticize Linux (which is my current OS of choice) for complexity. In fact, complexity of Windows is nearly the same. It requires lots of knowledge even for everyday use. People learn many years how to use it and some facts become obvious to them. Anything different seems too complex then.
Looks like MacOS X is the only mostly intuitive OS these days. At least people start using it without asking too much questions or reading any manuals. MacOS is simple for non-professionals while offers rich underlying structure for professionals. Mac mini makes me think of switching to MacOS X. Relatively simple for family and friends, functional and convenient for me.
Standards are very unclear when you have to encode utf-8 'subject' header. Looks like there is no distinction between bytes and characters. I had to write automatic UTF-8 mailer last year. There were many, many issues with UTF-8 headers in different MUA. Especially with mix of english and non-neglish words in 'Subject'. Finally we decided to send two separate messages in two different 8-bit encodings.
Members of Latvian Open Source Association (LAKA) work together with our MoJ on software patents problem. I've discussed this issue with them last friday. It turns out that EU authorities had very little information on software patents before we started this anti-patent company. Now they understand (we hope) how harmful SW patents can be for entire SW industry here in Europe.
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Just put your new fonts to ~/.fonts directory.
There was very poor shortwave propagation yesterday. Now I see why...
"multipart/alternative" is your friend.
Only spammers send HTML-only messages these days. In two years, I have received only one useful HTML-only message. BTW, rejecting HTML-only messages is a good way to reduce amount of incoming spam.
You can compose message in HTML and then use lynx to create text/plain part of message.
I am working for local internet shopping centre. Most prices are generated automatically based on wholesale prices and competitor retail prices. Sometimes glitches in this process lead to funny prices on website. When this happens sales reps are ready to kill us IT guys.
Similar law exists in Latvia. We pay tax for every CD-R, HDD or USB storage. Our neighbors (Estonia and Lithuania) have no such tax. If someone needs large amount of CD-R it's better to go to Lithuania and buy media there.
This law is really stupid because I have to pay them even if I use media to store my own files (I am amateur photographer). Large enterprises and state authorities have to pay tax even if they use HDDs for their databases.
...there were "soviet" OSes for IBM 360 and 370 clones. Of course, they were just repackaged VM and VMS.
I have seen such server two or three years ago. It was one of main Latvian nameservers. Its misbehaviour made serious damage to our business. Their admins ignored my complaints.
This winter, another very important nameserver was sure that our domain doesn't exist at all and ignored any changes (which is defined in SOA). 1/3 of Latvian users couldn't visit our site. I've called their admins five or six times! The server was fixed next morning. That day we lost some customers.
Looks like they released new driver in december! I called Canon last time in october or november. Thank you!
WinXP updates break Canon Multipass devices. This happened to my client. Their devices mystically stopped to work one day. After reinstalling WinXP, they resumed their operation for one or two days. Uninstalling "hotfixes" helped!
Now they have to use SP2. Say goodbye to canon multipass... Canon refuses to fix drivers.
Noone has asked me... But here is my opinion. Insecure: Windows. Secure: Linux, FreeBSD. Very secure: NetBSD, OpenBSD. Nothing but my own statistics...
I've tried Arch last year. Mostly good distro but their i18n support was very poor. First, I have to rebuild ncurses with utf-8 support (Looks like this one is fixed by judd). Second, glibc comes with reduced locale set. I had to build ru_RU.KOI8-R myself. Debian, for example, provides nice frontend for doing this. Slackware comes with huge number of locales by default.
Slackware for example comes without libtheora. Yes, I use mplayer but it can't play theora without libtheora. I still have to download, build libtheora and then recompile mplayer. All this for playing only one file from art.gnome.org.
> It wasn't until 1989 that someone had the bright idea that the power of a luggable and the portability of a laptop didn't have to be mutually exclusive.
:) Borland Turbo C and FoxBase worked too. Batteries were completely dead in 1996.
Ten years ago, I owned an old PC laptop manufactured in 1987. I don't remember its name but in was 8088 (4.77 MHz) equipped with 512k of RAM and 720k 3.5'' floppy drive. The last OS that worked on it was MS DOS 6.22. Qbasic was amazing
I live in Riga, Latvia. Paid public WiFi access is available in many places such as "Double Coffee", "Coffee Nation", "Statoil", "Lido" etc. etc. Wireless service is provided by Lattelekom. Coffee shop customers can buy prepaid cards with username and password for Lattelkom Radius server. Alternatively, login/pass can be obtained by SMS. Coffee and Internet access can be purchased together or separately. When there are no more free seats waitress will ask WiFi-only customers to leave.
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http://www.lattelekom.lv/ltk/content/?lng=en&ca
The idea is that any establishment can use Lattelekom service to grant paid WiFi access to their customers.
Don't think extra 200 MHz are worth breaking your mac. As well as any other overclocking of any other computer.
BTW, has anyone tried things like LAPACK or LINPACK (or other numerical benchmarks) on mac mini?
There have been suggestions that some multicore desktop chips will support the ability to run a separate OS on one of the cores. If you could run a separate set of applications on that separate core, sandboxed as much as possible, then it might insultate the other functionality against problems.
IBM does it all the time since 1964 on uniprocessors. I mean their VM and LPAR. Having multiple cores is not essential.
When you run multiple OSes on the same hardware you have to share some resources between them, and schedule input/output. The problem remains the same.
Luckily upcoming dual core processors should help with some of the insulation
between tasks.
Most contemporary processors are powerful enough for tasks you have described. These problems can be caused by bad multitasking and I/O scheduling of OS. Additionally, some programs are written assuming that CPU and IO subsystem are mostly idle. That's all...
CPU speed have increased dramatically in last ten years. Has OS response become better?...
The PC has more software, more competition, more richness than anything else. So making it simple and rich, that means the PC will be the key device.
What common people need is a digital video recorder/player, MP3 jukebox and device for web browsing. I am professional user and my needs are slightly different. I need things like kernel, multitasking, virtual memory, networking protocols, compilers, linkers, interpreters, statistical software, computational software, numerical analysis tools, journaling FS etc. etc. etc.
The problem of Microsoft is that they are pushing one OS, one environment for everyone. That's why (nearly) no one is really happy with them. IMO, their environment is really good only for office workers. It's still too complex for "common people" (a.k.a. "home users") and inconvenient for many professional users.
Yesterday, I was asked by my friends (blacksmith artist and his wife) to help them with their computer running Windows XP (and a whole bunch of viruses and troyans). The only choice was to reinstall OS and most of software from scratch. While performing this task, I realized that Windows XP usage requires tons of knowledge. You have to know about partitions, registry, services, drivers and other mysteries. That's not what most people want or can.
Some people criticize Linux (which is my current OS of choice) for complexity. In fact, complexity of Windows is nearly the same. It requires lots of knowledge even for everyday use. People learn many years how to use it and some facts become obvious to them. Anything different seems too complex then.
Looks like MacOS X is the only mostly intuitive OS these days. At least people start using it without asking too much questions or reading any manuals. MacOS is simple for non-professionals while offers rich underlying structure for professionals. Mac mini makes me think of switching to MacOS X. Relatively simple for family and friends, functional and convenient for me.
The problem with this new keyboard is that it doesn't have enough keys to be converted to cyrillic. I will never use it.
Of course, I know it. The problem is that MIME-encoding (Base64 or QP) of UTF-8 is tricky...
Standards are very unclear when you have to encode utf-8 'subject' header. Looks like there is no distinction between bytes and characters. I had to write automatic UTF-8 mailer last year. There were many, many issues with UTF-8 headers in different MUA. Especially with mix of english and non-neglish words in 'Subject'. Finally we decided to send two separate messages in two different 8-bit encodings.
Google cache:
: su pport.bbc.co.uk/support/+site:support.bbc.co.uk+in url:support&hl=en
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:KiH513c0cEcJ
Looks like most cams are effectively slashdotted right now...
The only problem I see here is that I will need much more disk space for mail archives and their backup copies. Guess who will pay for it...
Members of Latvian Open Source Association (LAKA) work together with our MoJ on software patents problem. I've discussed this issue with them last friday. It turns out that EU authorities had very little information on software patents before we started this anti-patent company. Now they understand (we hope) how harmful SW patents can be for entire SW industry here in Europe.