You forgot iCal or any other syncMl compliant software.
I got a pocket PC and tried to read my email from an imap server using outlook and it'd insist on downloading all headers and taking forever, then crash (ok, I should trim my 4000 msg inbox down)
Now that they didn't get a patent for their creature, it means other people can run out and build their own without having to worry about getting sued. Open source creatures are safe!
Tis always interesting to read about the nightmare of the privitized British rail system and then listen to people here claim how all of Amtrak's problems could be solved if we just privitized it.
I know the subscriber paying for all calls, incoming and outgoing, is a bit bizarre to non-US users, but it is definitely better. If I dial a mobile in another country, I have no competitive bargaining power for what I'll be charged, right?
In the U.S. about all operators now offer unlimited free weekend and night minutes, plus free mobile-to-mobile minutes (providing both are on same carrier). THe bucket of "peak" minutes is so large that effectively all airtime is pretty darn cheap now. Competition has driven down the per minute costs.
Also, since incoming and outgoing SMS messages are also charged, it allows more varied service offerings, like you can email an SMS message to the phone for no cost. In other countries, expensive SMS gateways are needed to ensure who sends the message pays the toll. That allows me to set up my hosts to SMS page me when there's a problem without need to hire an SMS gateway service to provide the transport and billing charges. Since like 1,000 text messages can be had for $5.00 -- who the hell cares if I get charged for incoming?
An interesting thing I've noticed since I got a laptop running OS X is that it seems every new release and patch for it "improves performance" in some area.
So Apple is bucking the trend, or their first versions of OS X were an inefficient piece of crap and they are just now optomizing it.
Anyone got any tips for remote updating office installs? SUS only works for Windows updates.
There's various methods for updating office, some that appear to require the user to have admin privs, keeping a local copy of office install source on the computer at all times, etc, etc...
It's all a mess if you have various versions of office out there...:-(
People want choices. They want to choose what music download service to use. They want to choose what music player to use. They should have this choice -- as long as they have no choice in the OS they use.
Nice, I made the same association when I saw the pics. I remember pics of the early 747s with a grand piano upstairs in the first class lounge.
No one is going to want to support non-revenue space if they don't have to. Now those fold-flat sleeping areas are popular, but they probably only take up twice the space as coach and cost four times as much so it's worthwhile to them.
(I hate having to be back in peasant class trying to sleep and looking at those people sleeping like babies up in Club World!)
Maybe the price point wasn't firm yet...
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I can imagine something like this.
Jobs tells crew to make a $500 iMac.
Apple personnel set out to design and produce a cheap iMac with that goal in mind
Rumor leaks to press
Everyone gets excited
Financial people sit down to figure out how to sell it without going bankrupt based on current costs to make it
Find out they can't sell it cheaper than $750 and set a price there
Jobs announces it at macworld, the audience boos, the press rip them a new ass, all the while missing the fact that it's a damn good computer for the price
I've been wanting a nice big LCD TV but was not going to blow four grand on a TV and have to deal with a few dead pixels. Now I probably will.
I know it makes them more expensive because it's hard to get zero defects with LCDs but I'm guessing Samsung's manufacturing process has gotten to the point where cranking out perfect displays happens far more often than it used to.
I've driven all the way across Montana on both 90 and 94 and I don't remember much "straight" interstate at all. The state is in the Rockies. The portion in the west half of the state is quite curvy with loads of 6% grades to deal with. Now North Dakota, there's some straight and desolate Interstate, even in the middle of the summer.
I went with T-mobile and a Nokia 6600 specifically because of this busted-by-design decision regarding bluetooth and Verizon. While I doubt they lose more customers than they generate through the revenue they soak out of people, it *does* matter to a significant amount of people.
(btw, the Nokia bluetooth isn't as nice as the bluetooth on Sony phones like the t610, but I think that is due to bad coding more than by design.)
Yeah really. You still need a real email address, so imagine some legit company you deal with gets your contact info with your permission. Then some employee within that company sells it to a spammer. All over, back to same hell as we have now.
Re:The entire 1 gigabyte size issue....
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It's a good question. Disk space isn't all that cheap in a data center. I know google uses a lot of commodity stuff, but you'd still have to have some level of RAID as well as other type of backup.
An interesting exercise nonetheless. I'm still amazed these search engines can find stuff as quick as they do. When altavista first came on the scene I was in awe of it!
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It wouldn't work so easily for e-mails. If nothing else, the date and TO: address is going to be different, so no two messages will be identical... Well, a few will, but not many.
Right. I would think the headers would be stored literally and the body and attachments would just be a reference to the actual data stored in a common cesspool.
The entire 1 gigabyte size issue....
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A lot of emails are duplicated, results of cc lists, mailing lists, etc. Since google is already good at indexing web pages and caching stuff, if they applied the same sort of index/cache issue to emails and your gmail account was just really a list of references to the stashed messages, I bet they could reduce the space even further.
The same goes for attachments. Somehow index them and store them seperately.
For example, I was sent an Ashley Simpson 3mb attachment when that first came out, and I noticed 4 others on that message that had gmail accounts. How many other gmail users got that same attachment?
Does attaching an msi to a user gpo install it ok on stations where you don't have administrative or power user permissions? Does it do some sort of privileged escalation?
I know I could probably look this up, but through many experiences in the past, I've learned that the docs often don't match real world realities.
I find having a media player as part of my server OSes very valuable. Gives you something to do while running chkdsk over large file systems that just seem to randomly corrupt themselves.
There are numerous exchanges in the U.S. that start with 999. To dial it as a local call, you just enter 999-nnnn.
That's one reason I like gsm phones. No matter what country you are in with yours, just dialing 112 gets you to emergency services -- even in the U.S.!
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I got a pocket PC and tried to read my email from an imap server using outlook and it'd insist on downloading all headers and taking forever, then crash (ok, I should trim my 4000 msg inbox down)
The mail app on Sybian is pretty damn good.
Hate to see Nokia abandon all of that.
Better sue google next.
Can't wait to get started on my perfect pet!
Tis always interesting to read about the nightmare of the privitized British rail system and then listen to people here claim how all of Amtrak's problems could be solved if we just privitized it.
In the U.S. about all operators now offer unlimited free weekend and night minutes, plus free mobile-to-mobile minutes (providing both are on same carrier). THe bucket of "peak" minutes is so large that effectively all airtime is pretty darn cheap now. Competition has driven down the per minute costs.
Also, since incoming and outgoing SMS messages are also charged, it allows more varied service offerings, like you can email an SMS message to the phone for no cost. In other countries, expensive SMS gateways are needed to ensure who sends the message pays the toll. That allows me to set up my hosts to SMS page me when there's a problem without need to hire an SMS gateway service to provide the transport and billing charges. Since like 1,000 text messages can be had for $5.00 -- who the hell cares if I get charged for incoming?
So Apple is bucking the trend, or their first versions of OS X were an inefficient piece of crap and they are just now optomizing it.
There's various methods for updating office, some that appear to require the user to have admin privs, keeping a local copy of office install source on the computer at all times, etc, etc...
It's all a mess if you have various versions of office out there... :-(
For example, the url linked from this article is (includes slashdot space insertion goodness):
This url works just as well....
For that, it has to be Windows, by Microsoft.
No one is going to want to support non-revenue space if they don't have to. Now those fold-flat sleeping areas are popular, but they probably only take up twice the space as coach and cost four times as much so it's worthwhile to them.
(I hate having to be back in peasant class trying to sleep and looking at those people sleeping like babies up in Club World!)
I know it makes them more expensive because it's hard to get zero defects with LCDs but I'm guessing Samsung's manufacturing process has gotten to the point where cranking out perfect displays happens far more often than it used to.
Dead Pixels Policy: Replacement or Refund for 8 or more DEAD PIXELS ONLY!
Now I admit, maybe they haven't gotten "the memo" yet.
I've driven all the way across Montana on both 90 and 94 and I don't remember much "straight" interstate at all. The state is in the Rockies. The portion in the west half of the state is quite curvy with loads of 6% grades to deal with. Now North Dakota, there's some straight and desolate Interstate, even in the middle of the summer.
(btw, the Nokia bluetooth isn't as nice as the bluetooth on Sony phones like the t610, but I think that is due to bad coding more than by design.)
True that, but there are commerical products that use OSS stuff that they didn't mention, like Roaring Penguin Software
Yeah really. You still need a real email address, so imagine some legit company you deal with gets your contact info with your permission. Then some employee within that company sells it to a spammer. All over, back to same hell as we have now.
An interesting exercise nonetheless. I'm still amazed these search engines can find stuff as quick as they do. When altavista first came on the scene I was in awe of it!
Right. I would think the headers would be stored literally and the body and attachments would just be a reference to the actual data stored in a common cesspool.
The same goes for attachments. Somehow index them and store them seperately.
For example, I was sent an Ashley Simpson 3mb attachment when that first came out, and I noticed 4 others on that message that had gmail accounts. How many other gmail users got that same attachment?
It doesn't make up all of the difference but you should allow for that.
I know I could probably look this up, but through many experiences in the past, I've learned that the docs often don't match real world realities.
I find having a media player as part of my server OSes very valuable. Gives you something to do while running chkdsk over large file systems that just seem to randomly corrupt themselves.
Up to a 3 year retention on alt.binaries.* groups? Dudes, I am so moving to EU. Incompletes can bite my pale white ass.
That's one reason I like gsm phones. No matter what country you are in with yours, just dialing 112 gets you to emergency services -- even in the U.S.!