Create a spreadsheet containing, say, entries for an invoice and formulae to calculate the line totals and overall totals given hourly rate and number of hours. Link to that spreadsheet from within a cover letter. Edit the sheet embedded within the letter and have those changes reflected in the original speadsheet file, so I don't have to update two files.
5. Allows creating simple Rules for filtering mail automatically
6. Option to view contacts in a sidebar for easy finding and insertion in compose window
I don't use Outlook Express and haven't for a long time, so excuse me if I'm talking rubbish. The last time I did encounter OE, though, was when I was fixing my stepdad's installation, and I'm fairly sure it did both of these.
Despite our "corporate software standards" I run Firefox as my default browser.
Same here, and in fact so do a lot of people in my office.
However, I have not found that I can replace Outlook 2003 with TB in an Exchange 2003 environment.
Yep, same here. I tried running Mozilla Mail as my primary e-mail client for a few months (a while ago now), but I found I had to manually update my Calendar, meaning that resource availability wasn't available.
I'm sure that Microsoft puts less effort into IMAP workings than they do integrating their client.
Well of course it does. If all those cool groupware features were available to just any old IMAP client, who would actually use Outlook?
Having said that, the comparison is invalid anyway -- Outlook is a groupware client, Thunderbird is an e-mail client. I still use Thunderbird at work for sending spam reports to SpamCop, as Outlook doesn't retain the full message headers when forwarding.
In NTL's defence, I switched over from BT three years ago thanks to their complete incompetence and several spurious charges that they held us responsible for. When I eventually decided to go for broadband a year later, I was pretty much forced to go with NTL as Demon (my dial-up ISP at the time) only dealt with BT lines. I've had two internet outages since, both related to the set-top box.
Their customer service has been excellent every time we've called them. We lost interactive TV for a couple of days once, so we phoned and had an engineer at the house the same day. He was there for half an hour, did some tests, fitted a new attenuator, our interactive service came back. Half an hour after he'd gone, Customer Services called us back to make sure everything was still OK.
Our STB completely died on another occasion. This time the engineer only arrived the following day, but he had a new STB with him (a newer model), wasn't there more than 20 minutes and left me with an instruction sheet for re-registering my MAC address with the STB.
People slate NTL, but I've found them to be excellent.
I don't think they're that far apart. Try it, if you like it, stick with it. If you don't then it's never going to change that much that you'll struggle to switch.
And to quote my own reply:
I'd go with that. I switched from the Mozilla Suite back when Firefox was Firebird (v0.6 I think) and I haven't looked back. Although there were problems with the options dialogue back then, I found the increased speed (both in loading and operation) really made a difference.
Sure, I could use apt and the others, but it just takes too much time, and you have to worry about various dependencies and what not.
Actually, if you use apt then it resolves the dependencies for you. And besides, you still have dependencies even with Windows -- have you never heard of DLL Hell?
.. and let me add that Jabber is, like most (not all) things OSS, nothing but a... copy of a commercial service.
While I'm sure it borrows ideas from commercial services, I'd hesitate to call it a copy. It's built from the ground up, based on open standards and both clients and servers are available in both open- and closed-source variants.
Where's video or audio IM
You mean like this? Currently making its way into a client near you.
buddy icons
By which I assume you mean avatars. Much discussion and experimentation has gone into how best to implement user avatars and I feel confident that the standard will be agreed upon soon. Not that it's exactly a "must-have" feature.
I've tried some of the Jabber client (e.g. GAIM) and they are awful... in terms of both ease of use and functionality.
I agree, GAIM is awful. Try Exodus, or better yet Psi. They're much better. There's also Pandion, but that's Windows-only and is based on Internet Explorer, which was more than enough to put me off.
1. On Win (which I must still use sometimes), ffox is the slowest of the 3 (especially re-draw), even though I'm always on the latest release.
I don't use IE much these days, so I can't really perform a comparison, but Firefox is plenty fast enough for me.
2. I can't get the other browsers to do the simplest, stupidest things I can do in IE, e.g.: drag/drop shortcuts between address-bar & folders, or File=>Send=>Shortcut To Desktop, or drag a link from a page to the address-bar (a sure-fire "use the same window, dammit").
I dunno, maybe I just didn't RTFM.
Odd... I just dragged a shortcut from my address bar and dropped it on my desktop, then again into a folder on my desktop, and again to a folder on my bookmarks toolbar. True, there's no File=>Send=>Shortcut To Desktop, but I don't need that if I can drag and drop it. And I dragged the link to your/. homepage from your post into the address bar. Works for me.
3. I make genuinely productive use of toolbars (e.g. Google) unavailable on other browsers.
4. I don't grok the excitement of tabbed windows. I much prefer being able to position pages independently in separate windows. And if one of those windows crashes or hangs, I don't lose the others (or their back-traces).
Personally, it works for me. I definitely prefer tabbed browsing most of the time, it saves having all those buttons in my task bar. I can't remember the last time Firefox crashed on me. I take your point about positioning windows independently, but the only reasons I can think of for wanting to do that would be to compare contents or cross-reference. Firefox doesn't stop you opening a new window, so you get the best of both worlds.
As for security, I do quite well with the combo of common sense, frequennt AV updates, SpyBot, AdAware, WebWasher, and very aggressive/paranoid firewall settings. (I love Agnitum Outpost, which lets me control cookies, ActiveX, JavaScript, etc. -- each *separately* -- on a per-domain basis.)
Sounds like a lot of work, but then it's better to be paranoid than hacked. Firefox does have a web developer toolbar that allows you to easily turn off things like cookies, but I'm not sure if it offers the same level of control as Agnitum Outpost (which I've never heard of).
When are people just going to accept that the Bible is just like the Daily Sport from 2,000 years ago? It's a collection of reports on events, written by people of the time, for people of the time.
There's every possibility that the reports are going to be exaggerated, so a large lake flooding gets reported as God flooding the earth. Don't forget that back then, they didn't have aeroplanes to zip across to the other side of the planet and see all the unaffected land down below. Hell, even now, the reports by Iraqi locals are grossly exaggerated -- just look at Comical Ali!
The funniest argument I've heard from a religious zealout was that God must have existed, otherwise who created the Earth? By the same argument, who existed to created God? And who existed to create whoever created God? Ad infinitum....
I "upgraded" from Outlook 2003 just last week, and I really can't see what all the fuss is about. I had to laugh at my colleagues when they said it was worth the upgrade just for the fading "toaster" pop-up you get when you receive a mail while Outlook is minimised. Big deal!
The only things I've noticed since the upgrade are:
The icons have more colours
The UI has a gradiant effect
The preview pane is like a print preview
Contacts, Calendar, Tasks and Notes are no longer listed as folders, but have their own buttons at the bottom of the folder list
I have two new icons in my system tray
The default is to group messages in folders by date
Assuming I set things up from Microsoft Internet Explorer first, I can save to Microsoft SharePoint
Intellisync no longer works
Well, that was worth the upgrade then. The only vaguely useful feature I've come across is the Favourite Folders, where you can group items that are unread, for follow-up or draft. That and the raft of "Critical Updates" I had to install.
...but can make your life hell if you don't qualify "can do". I think most people have said the same, but it boils down to letting the customer know your current commitments, letting them know that you can do it, but it has to be prioritised, and then letting the people who want each task done figure out the priority.
"No, I'm too busy" looks really bad. "Yes, but I'll have to squeeze you in between updating the Use Case Documentation and the deployment to the live environment" shows a willingness to do the work even though you're busy -- you're going the extra mile for them, and people like that.
Great, so I need to buy the machine and install Windows on it to find out if what I bought was what I wanted. Face it, it's another case of the industry trying to pull the wool over our eyes and making it easier for vendors to do so. Can you imagine the conversation in PC World:
"Does this PC have USB 2 onboard?"
"Yes sir, it does."
"Is that USB 2 as was USB 1.1, or USB 2 as was USB 2?"
"It's USB 2 sir, there is no USB 1.1."
"No, not any more there isn't. But is this USB 2 Full Speed or High Speed?"
"Full High Speed, sir. USB is very fast."
"Yes, I know that, but what version of USB is it?"
"By sending a malformed client key, the exploit opens a shell on the client machine, which is then used to upload the exploit source code in a uuencoded format. Using the same shell, it then uudecodes and compiles the source..."
Any sysadmin who deploys a public-facing production server with a full C compiler suite installed should be stood against a wall and shot.
Of course, this doesn't discount the countless home users running web servers on their desktop over their new ADSL connections....
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Create a spreadsheet containing, say, entries for an invoice and formulae to calculate the line totals and overall totals given hourly rate and number of hours. Link to that spreadsheet from within a cover letter. Edit the sheet embedded within the letter and have those changes reflected in the original speadsheet file, so I don't have to update two files.
So much for "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".
Oh yeah, and of course, Microsoft would never do that.
Not as much as his University's network administrators:
"ForbiddenAvailable bandwidth quota for this filesystem has been exceeded.
(/bkpeters/www/LEDBed/index.html)
Please, try again later."
In NTL's defence, I switched over from BT three years ago thanks to their complete incompetence and several spurious charges that they held us responsible for. When I eventually decided to go for broadband a year later, I was pretty much forced to go with NTL as Demon (my dial-up ISP at the time) only dealt with BT lines. I've had two internet outages since, both related to the set-top box.
Their customer service has been excellent every time we've called them. We lost interactive TV for a couple of days once, so we phoned and had an engineer at the house the same day. He was there for half an hour, did some tests, fitted a new attenuator, our interactive service came back. Half an hour after he'd gone, Customer Services called us back to make sure everything was still OK.
Our STB completely died on another occasion. This time the engineer only arrived the following day, but he had a new STB with him (a newer model), wasn't there more than 20 minutes and left me with an instruction sheet for re-registering my MAC address with the STB.
People slate NTL, but I've found them to be excellent.
Actually, if you use apt then it resolves the dependencies for you. And besides, you still have dependencies even with Windows -- have you never heard of DLL Hell?
Or your employees have never used a computer before and thus only need to learn, not re-learn, how things work.
When are people just going to accept that the Bible is just like the Daily Sport from 2,000 years ago? It's a collection of reports on events, written by people of the time, for people of the time.
There's every possibility that the reports are going to be exaggerated, so a large lake flooding gets reported as God flooding the earth. Don't forget that back then, they didn't have aeroplanes to zip across to the other side of the planet and see all the unaffected land down below. Hell, even now, the reports by Iraqi locals are grossly exaggerated -- just look at Comical Ali!
The funniest argument I've heard from a religious zealout was that God must have existed, otherwise who created the Earth? By the same argument, who existed to created God? And who existed to create whoever created God? Ad infinitum....
- The icons have more colours
- The UI has a gradiant effect
- The preview pane is like a print preview
- Contacts, Calendar, Tasks and Notes are no longer listed as folders, but have their own buttons at the bottom of the folder list
- I have two new icons in my system tray
- The default is to group messages in folders by date
- Assuming I set things up from Microsoft Internet Explorer first, I can save to Microsoft SharePoint
- Intellisync no longer works
Well, that was worth the upgrade then. The only vaguely useful feature I've come across is the Favourite Folders, where you can group items that are unread, for follow-up or draft. That and the raft of "Critical Updates" I had to install....but can make your life hell if you don't qualify "can do". I think most people have said the same, but it boils down to letting the customer know your current commitments, letting them know that you can do it, but it has to be prioritised, and then letting the people who want each task done figure out the priority.
"No, I'm too busy" looks really bad. "Yes, but I'll have to squeeze you in between updating the Use Case Documentation and the deployment to the live environment" shows a willingness to do the work even though you're busy -- you're going the extra mile for them, and people like that.
Great, so I need to buy the machine and install Windows on it to find out if what I bought was what I wanted. Face it, it's another case of the industry trying to pull the wool over our eyes and making it easier for vendors to do so. Can you imagine the conversation in PC World:
"Does this PC have USB 2 onboard?"
"Yes sir, it does."
"Is that USB 2 as was USB 1.1, or USB 2 as was USB 2?"
"It's USB 2 sir, there is no USB 1.1."
"No, not any more there isn't. But is this USB 2 Full Speed or High Speed?"
"Full High Speed, sir. USB is very fast."
"Yes, I know that, but what version of USB is it?"
"USB 2, sir."
Need I continue?
Late 80's == 1986 to 1989.
17 years older than 1986 == hey, gues what? 2003.
So this guy's been using computers since he was born!
Sorry, couldn't resist....
It might be a patched version of the old library. Try:
rpm -q --changelog openssl
And look for references to the buffer overflow vulnerabilities around July/August time.