Two things that caught my eye were the Office-like shortcut toolbar on the left side, and the calendar page, which copies every single mundane detail from Outlook's interface, especially the date-book stacking (i.e., squishing more than one day's view on the screen). Even the positioning of the Calendar and Tasks list.
But then again, Evolution is meant to be an alternative to Outlook, with the least user training required to transition.
But like I said, I'm surprised that they haven't been sued yet. Maybe cause it's freeware.
I use Gnome, as I think its usability surpasses that of KDE. KDE 2 has trouble doing the simplest of things -- like storing my font configuration correctly. For some reason, it decides to set all my system fonts to a cursive calligraphy font one day after I changed the fonts to helvetica. Some are stuck like that, like the fonts in the control menus. That when I had it up to here with KDE.
I've turned off all the graphical toys in GNOME like font antialiasing, file previewing, and anything else that I could think of, but Nautilus + Sawfish is still as slow as poop through molasses compared to Windows.
I'm talking XDM. Using something like Exceed to render the desktop on a Windows box.
Also, one thing that I'd like to see improvement in the X area is the refresh rate settings. Up till now, I have had quite a time getting a decent refresh rate that didn't produce a wack image on an old machine/monitor that I have. Windows 2000 will display a normal image, but X has trouble with this.
And on this same network, there are two headless Slackware 8 servers on which I often log in to KDE remotely. This is only a 10 megabit network and yet the KDE desktop works wonderfully;
You either didn't read my message, or you consider a 10 Mb network as a "slow network link" -- something that I don't. I thinking more along the lines of DSL.
Sorry, but this is just not right. Outlook (9x or 200x) is at least as vulnerable as Outlook Express, and probably more so. More often than not the MIME header, buffer overflow or Windows scripting host exploits that affect OE work just as well in Outlook too. And then it's also susceptible to malicious VBA code.
WARNING: FUD ALERT!!
I use Outlook 2002 (XP) (which has the same security as 2000 + SP1) and absolutely nothing is allowed to execute. I got the Klez virus sent to me. Just for yuks, I opened the message, carefully watching and using McAfee to trap anything in case Outlook let it slip through. Nothing. Nada. Zip.
I think you're making up the buffer overflow stuff (can I see a link, please?) and no script and/or executable extensions are even allowed to be detached from the message w/o changing a registry key or having your Exchange admin change the group policy. The only (Microsoft suggested) way to open an EXE is to have the sender ZIP it first (that is, if you haven't made the tweaks previously described).
Lotus Notes has been heralded as the "world's least hacked e-mail system." Maybe cause it sucks so bad that no one uses it anymore! Remember, security troubles follow something that is used a lot!
A possible "SSL Problem" is Outlook's tendency to bitch if the SSL certificate is not signed by a trusted certificate authority. But that's what it's supposed to do.
So far, we have great 3D acceleration, direct video, anti-aliasing,
Okay, I'll buy that.
and now dynamic sizing/resizing in X.
Everyone is treating this like it's some super great accomplishment. Windows has allowed this since Windows 95, and the Mac since System 7.x.
And all with excellent performance that is equal to or better than the performance offered by Windows.
Ok, that is where I'm starting to laugh. X11 is S.L.O.W. slow. Windows GDI is lightning fast. I can click the start menu and it draws instantly. I can still see Gnome and KDE menus paint across the screen chunkily -- yes, this is on a P-4 machine with whizzy graphics cards, a gig of RAM, etc. And don't blame it on the graphics card manufacturers for releasing no or shitty drivers for Linux. (I didn't say you did, but that's the usual excuse around here.) Windows can wipe my ass too, but the capability to do that well hasn't been written into it. Yet.
And we retain the network-centric features and flexible, modular configuration that make X so powerful.
True, but when Windows Terminal Server came out, that takes a back seat. Try running an X11 session over a slow network link vs. a Windows terminal server session (especially over Citrix ICA) and let me know how it goes. You may want to stop after the 3-4 minutes it takes to partially transfer all the KDE graphics over the line. X11 needs to really work on this big time. Makes you wonder why all those thin clients that boot Linux + X11 do it not to connect to an X server, but to run Citrix's ICA client for Linux to connect to a Windows 2000 server.
Personally, I don't think they'd give a shit as you stated it didn't work. That being said, I think they'd ask you why that mission critical server was not in a redundant load-balanced cluster/farm.
I have heard, however, that there are special versions of Solaris that, when coupled with the correct special Sun hardware, let you pull out the processor while the OS is up. Now that's cool, but _why_ would you want to do such a thing?
The MacOS Bomb is analagous to the BSOD on Win9x -- lack of protected memory caused some serious shit to happen. (Funny, the Win9x "BSOD" really isn't the official "Blue Screen of Death" anyway -- it's just a blue error message. The real BSOD originated on WinNT and only occurred when some serious shit happened -- like yanking out expansion cards with the power on, or some nasty corrupted driver.)
Now for some snapshots I took myself. My personal favs include KDE's "Sound Server fatal error: cpu overload, aborted" (sorry no pic), this priceless one from Outlook, (I can't make this shit up) KDE's 3D take on the Mac's age-old bomb concept, GNOME doing what it does best, and you can't forget Linus' famous "Aiee!" message when the Linux kernel panics.
Hahahaha! Read here and here. I love the part where it says "all these dirty old men confessing about lusting over this 14-year old girl." Hahaha priceless.
The administrative interface to manage services on Windows sucks bollocks
Maybe you just don't know how to use it.
I could never figure out the point of personal firewalls...it turns out they *don't* have a point, as long as you're on Linux.
That's cause you guys don't call it a "personal firewall" -- you call it "ipchains/iptables." ANY machine -- Windows, Linux, Solaris, ANYTHING, is Swiss cheese on the Internet w/o a firewall.
It's this complacent thinking ("my 1337 Linux box is the most-est secure-est!! -- hah, who needs a firewall!?!") that causes security vulnerabilities in the first place.
Tell me personal firewalls don't have a place on Linux and tell me you're running X11 and I'll tell you that you're full of shit.
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That was rejected instantly, by the way.
See here -- it's GOT to be silent.
Also, ever hear of that new lampy thing called an 'iMac'?? Yeah, they're silent.
Two things that caught my eye were the Office-like shortcut toolbar on the left side, and the calendar page, which copies every single mundane detail from Outlook's interface, especially the date-book stacking (i.e., squishing more than one day's view on the screen). Even the positioning of the Calendar and Tasks list.
But then again, Evolution is meant to be an alternative to Outlook, with the least user training required to transition.
But like I said, I'm surprised that they haven't been sued yet. Maybe cause it's freeware.
According to WMP: Indeo® video 4.4 Decompression Filter
I do hardly any editing, and I run XP.
The problem I had was with RH 7.2 as well. Possible correlation?
Now that's funny (and complete bullshit)!
I save you some time looking for that 'admission of guilt' since your entire claim is false. Get a grip on reality, buddy.
I use Gnome, as I think its usability surpasses that of KDE. KDE 2 has trouble doing the simplest of things -- like storing my font configuration correctly. For some reason, it decides to set all my system fonts to a cursive calligraphy font one day after I changed the fonts to helvetica. Some are stuck like that, like the fonts in the control menus. That when I had it up to here with KDE.
I've turned off all the graphical toys in GNOME like font antialiasing, file previewing, and anything else that I could think of, but Nautilus + Sawfish is still as slow as poop through molasses compared to Windows.
This is KDE2, and misconfiguration is possible (not my machine, lab machines we're talking about here). But I'm not making this shit up.
I haven't seen KDE3, so I can't talk about that, sorry.
I'm talking XDM. Using something like Exceed to render the desktop on a Windows box.
Also, one thing that I'd like to see improvement in the X area is the refresh rate settings. Up till now, I have had quite a time getting a decent refresh rate that didn't produce a wack image on an old machine/monitor that I have. Windows 2000 will display a normal image, but X has trouble with this.
And on this same network, there are two headless Slackware 8 servers on which I often log in to KDE remotely. This is only a 10 megabit network and yet the KDE desktop works wonderfully;
You either didn't read my message, or you consider a 10 Mb network as a "slow network link" -- something that I don't. I thinking more along the lines of DSL.
Sorry, but this is just not right. Outlook (9x or 200x) is at least as vulnerable as Outlook Express, and probably more so. More often than not the MIME header, buffer overflow or Windows scripting host exploits that affect OE work just as well in Outlook too. And then it's also susceptible to malicious VBA code.
WARNING: FUD ALERT!!
I use Outlook 2002 (XP) (which has the same security as 2000 + SP1) and absolutely nothing is allowed to execute. I got the Klez virus sent to me. Just for yuks, I opened the message, carefully watching and using McAfee to trap anything in case Outlook let it slip through. Nothing. Nada. Zip.
I think you're making up the buffer overflow stuff (can I see a link, please?) and no script and/or executable extensions are even allowed to be detached from the message w/o changing a registry key or having your Exchange admin change the group policy. The only (Microsoft suggested) way to open an EXE is to have the sender ZIP it first (that is, if you haven't made the tweaks previously described).
Lotus Notes has been heralded as the "world's least hacked e-mail system." Maybe cause it sucks so bad that no one uses it anymore! Remember, security troubles follow something that is used a lot!
A possible "SSL Problem" is Outlook's tendency to bitch if the SSL certificate is not signed by a trusted certificate authority. But that's what it's supposed to do.
What does Outlook have that Outlook Express doesn't and isn't really just the client end of Exchange?
Umm, the whole PIM part of it. Like the calendar, tasks, notes thing.
It would be possible to make mozilla act as described, wouldnt it?
No. Not even close. Not trolling here, just talking reality, my friend.
Think Ximian Evolution -- but that's such a verbatim copycat of Outlook that I'm very surprised that they haven't been sued yet.
So far, we have great 3D acceleration, direct video, anti-aliasing,
Okay, I'll buy that.
and now dynamic sizing/resizing in X.
Everyone is treating this like it's some super great accomplishment. Windows has allowed this since Windows 95, and the Mac since System 7.x.
And all with excellent performance that is equal to or better than the performance offered by Windows.
Ok, that is where I'm starting to laugh. X11 is S.L.O.W. slow. Windows GDI is lightning fast. I can click the start menu and it draws instantly. I can still see Gnome and KDE menus paint across the screen chunkily -- yes, this is on a P-4 machine with whizzy graphics cards, a gig of RAM, etc. And don't blame it on the graphics card manufacturers for releasing no or shitty drivers for Linux. (I didn't say you did, but that's the usual excuse around here.) Windows can wipe my ass too, but the capability to do that well hasn't been written into it. Yet.
And we retain the network-centric features and flexible, modular configuration that make X so powerful.
True, but when Windows Terminal Server came out, that takes a back seat. Try running an X11 session over a slow network link vs. a Windows terminal server session (especially over Citrix ICA) and let me know how it goes. You may want to stop after the 3-4 minutes it takes to partially transfer all the KDE graphics over the line. X11 needs to really work on this big time. Makes you wonder why all those thin clients that boot Linux + X11 do it not to connect to an X server, but to run Citrix's ICA client for Linux to connect to a Windows 2000 server.
How would ones microsoft friends feel on that?
Personally, I don't think they'd give a shit as you stated it didn't work. That being said, I think they'd ask you why that mission critical server was not in a redundant load-balanced cluster/farm.
I have heard, however, that there are special versions of Solaris that, when coupled with the correct special Sun hardware, let you pull out the processor while the OS is up. Now that's cool, but _why_ would you want to do such a thing?
It's ok though, all of these problems can be taken care of fairly easily with the New Microsoft Keyboard, at a store near you!
;)
That'll just bring up the Windows Security dialog box
Oops, I mangled the KDE bomb-in-the-gear link in the above post.
The MacOS Bomb is analagous to the BSOD on Win9x -- lack of protected memory caused some serious shit to happen. (Funny, the Win9x "BSOD" really isn't the official "Blue Screen of Death" anyway -- it's just a blue error message. The real BSOD originated on WinNT and only occurred when some serious shit happened -- like yanking out expansion cards with the power on, or some nasty corrupted driver.)
Now for some snapshots I took myself. My personal favs include KDE's "Sound Server fatal error: cpu overload, aborted" (sorry no pic), this priceless one from Outlook, (I can't make this shit up) KDE's 3D take on the Mac's age-old bomb concept, GNOME doing what it does best, and you can't forget Linus' famous "Aiee!" message when the Linux kernel panics.
Here's one.
Hahahaha! Read here and here. I love the part where it says "all these dirty old men confessing about lusting over this 14-year old girl." Hahaha priceless.
Well I guess they can't use the excuse that "well she looked like she was high, so we can't really hold it against her..."
Correct, messsenger works through RPC.
Eh?
The administrative interface to manage services on Windows sucks bollocks
Maybe you just don't know how to use it.
I could never figure out the point of personal firewalls...it turns out they *don't* have a point, as long as you're on Linux.
That's cause you guys don't call it a "personal firewall" -- you call it "ipchains/iptables." ANY machine -- Windows, Linux, Solaris, ANYTHING, is Swiss cheese on the Internet w/o a firewall.
It's this complacent thinking ("my 1337 Linux box is the most-est secure-est!! -- hah, who needs a firewall!?!") that causes security vulnerabilities in the first place.
Tell me personal firewalls don't have a place on Linux and tell me you're running X11 and I'll tell you that you're full of shit.