Alternatively you could also flip that on its head and proactively add new accounts as required, which is what I do.
Another approach that requires less maintainance is to have a subdomain for each person. Set a catch-all for that subdomain to forward to you. Every time you give out a new address, give out XXXX@subdomain.example.com. It will, by default, go to you. If any problems arise, you can redirect that address to the bitbucket. The advantages of this approach are that 1) you don't have to create a million aliases (assuming most sites are responsible with your info), 2) you don't have to dig through a catchall, and 3) most sales@example.com spam never gets sent to subdomains.
Just two days ago, a marketing VP I know called to bash Microsoft. He'd lost "thousands of e-mail addresses" (he's not a spammer, just well-connected) because he had answered "Ok" when Windows asked if he wanted to "repair" something.
Details? I'm an Exchange admin and support home users of Outlook and Outlook Express. Nothing like this has ever happened to me or my clients without them doing something really dumb (no "repair" thing). Also, the "finding" of the address book file sounds rather dubious. Is this post actually saying that this user screwed up his or her address book on Windows and started using Linux (as a complete newbie) and found and imported the address book file from a probably proprietary Microsoft format into a Linux mail client? All this, from a user that thinks Linux natively runs Outlook? Also, I assume this person didn't have recent Linux install disks sitting on their desk, so the parent post author waited for the user to download and burn a CD (even a minimal one)?
You assert (in an earlier post) that XP's settings are probably good for newbies but not for power users.
You assert (in the parent post) that only a non-newbie would know how to change the setting.
You don't like the usability of a system, but don't use it enough to go to the trouble of customizing the settings.
So, newbies can't change it to a setting that's not intended for them anyway.* This seems like a non-problem to me, save a bit of wasted screen real-estate. Furthermore, it's a bit arrogant to assume what you like should be the default. I keep my taskbar at the top of the screen, but I don't whine that public computers have it at the bottom.
*This is backed up with extensive usability testing by Microsoft.
...so far I am finding the Windows XP start menu on my wife's laptop to be extremely counter-intuitive and way to heavy on realestate usage.
It appears to me that they designed it for the first-time user, which is ok, but once you have time and experience on a system you don't need the extra layer of dumbed-downedness.
On the other hand I found Win2K's start menu to be quite efficient when using it. [...]
Then change XP to the "classic" Start Menu and disable autohiding. (You people are impossible to please.) Also, screen real estate is relative. The increasing screen resolution over the years means XP's menu takes up the same space as 95/98/ME/NT/2000's did.
Finally, I don't see what's "dumbed down" about XP's start menu. I like how settings is no longer a submenu and exists fully expanded in the right column. "Pin to start menu" is also well-implemented.
It would have been fine if the start menu had been essentially normal and simply had an extra "Recent Programs" that did the collapsed menu as an ADDITIONAL PARALLEL feature, but no, the had to make a mess.
That's exactly what Windows XP has. Recent programs are on the menu you immediately pull up, and all programs are under a menu called "All Programs" at the bottom.
Also, you can disable that feature in Windows 2000.
The most hated cell phone companies (their customer service has something to do with it, I think):
- T-Mobile
Say what you want, but when I called T-Mobile about overage charges (they were legit), they cut them in half without any questions, just to be nice. Also, I've been able to talk to their data network engineers to get good information about best way to use their data network.
However, I think perks customer service can provide should be considered separately from good knowledgability.
Unfortunately, the default in windows doesn't require Ctrl-Alt-Del
XP Pro defaults to having the Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence on logon and when unloaking the system. You are, however, correct about the Run As... feature. On a related note, I have noticed that people don't usually care whether the OS asks for the BIOS-level key sequence or not. If I wanted someone's password, I could just fake a login box without any request for Ctrl-Alt-Del.
With existing infrastructure all restrictions are placed in the access control list on the CMTS router.
You're incorrect, at least about the technical side. Comcast already has the capability to control port blocking per user. I know because they specifically blocked a port on my parents' connection and sent them a letter why with instructions on how to unblock it.
Again, what's the deal with Microsoft and huge buttons and icons?
Try running XP with 1600x1200 with 20.1" diagonal (my flat panel) or 1400x1050 with 14.1" diagonal (my laptop). Anything smaller than the "huge" icons is quite tiny.
I keep searching for "Professor Edward Kasner" on Google but nothing comes up. I guess he must not exist.
This, of course, raises deep philosophical questions about existence. Do things not listed on Google exist? Did anything exist before Google? Does Slashdot exist on a higher plane of being than I do because it yields more results?
It's not "reality"...the "U.S." is yet another non-sentinent entity.
By your standard (the U.S. isn't tangible, and thus, its legal recognition of entities is irrelevent), no laws have any force. Do you pay your parking tickets? If you do, you're recognizing the government's recognition of the local law enforcement agency. Do you pay your taxes? Same thing. The IRS is just another entity recognized by the government. Finally, do you use cash? Its value is primarily based on the government's recognition of it.
Sprint does this; I wouldn't be surprised if other carriers do as well, but when I get my statement, I get a list of the phone calls and time used, but I don't get a total.
T-Mobile gives me the total time and better: if I type *MIN* on my phone and hit send, it sends me a text message with the time accrued, broken down into categories. This is a free service, too.
Can we really trust anything that RAND (FAR right think tank) says?
What an organization researches is very different than bias towards the establishment. RAND advocates relaxing drug policy, especially for marijuana. They were the original group who said (and with evidence) that Vietnam was a bad idea. They said this even before we got involved in any significant way. Finally, RAND recommends a moderate Islamic state for middle eastern states we "liberate," which doesn't jive with the religious right's plans. Just because RAND researches for the military doesn't mean it's obligated to make things sound good to warmongers and Republicans (are they different?). RAND is damn objective for the politically sensitive work they perform.
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Slashdot is a news site. If you post a link to a website thats 12 days old chances are its not going to have the information you expected it to have.
You must be new here, or you would know the the news is old here.
Wasn't TurboLinux bought by SCO? A quick Google search brings up the snip- SCO has announced a number of professional services offerings around TurboLinux's TurboLinux and SuSE's Linux
By that logic, SuSE Linux would also be an SCO product, but it's not. Novell owns SuSE, and SuSE was independent before Novell's purchase. Thus, your logic must be faulty because it reaches an incorrect conclusion when applied to SuSE in the same context.
With the advances in disk drive capacity and network speed, imagine being able to sync your company's entire set of PDF files/engineering drawings/(pr0n?;-) ) to a laptop for use on site.
You can already to this with offline files. My documents are stored this way.
Why can't M$ just supply a win9x emulator like the OS9 emulator for osX? Yeah it sucks, but eventually the old stuff phases out and the potential for properly working new stuff grows tremendously. C'mon, how many times a year do you pull out some old DOS version of WordPerfect(I still have mine) and try to run it?
They do. It's called "Windows on Windows." You'll see it as wow.exe when you run old binaries.
.NET inet scripting is the problem. I have seen disabled kids heart broken, because their parents spent thousands on MS software, and.NET garbage.
What does a server-side scripting language have to do with making a site "screen reader friendly"? And what about XML too? I work on sites for politicians, and we try to make our sites screen reader friendly. Our efforts have nothing to do with the server side (.NET) or data exchange mechanism (XML).
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Couldn't help but note that that old dying technology Bluetooth is an option.;-)
I'll have you know that I'm posting this via GPRS over Bluetooth on a bus traveling on an interstate.
Actually, T-Mobile's service is pretty fast. If you're getting consistant speeds of 5-10 kilobytes per second, you're doing well. Really, it's the latency that worries me. I always get 800 to 1000ms in that department. That's fine for some things, but it seems to make intolerant programs time out, and multiplayer gaming is out of the question.
P.S. Look into T-Mobile's Unlimited Internet VPN service. It's no more expensive than the normal unlimited, but you have to actually ask for it. You get a public IP, although incoming connections are blocked.
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Now I have to actually add any new aliases that I want to use into my user account.
The best solution to this is to use a prefix with an asterisk. I set up david.*@endeavorcomputing.com as one of my addresses. I stuck the applicable site name in place of the * when signing up for accounts. This routed all mail that fits the template to the right address and allows you to create new addresses on the fly without updating your aliases.
Just make sure that you don't set the dynamic alias as your primary address. If you do, your outgoing mail will be messed up, as Exchange uses your primary address as the originating account and reply-to address.
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Another approach that requires less maintainance is to have a subdomain for each person. Set a catch-all for that subdomain to forward to you. Every time you give out a new address, give out XXXX@subdomain.example.com. It will, by default, go to you. If any problems arise, you can redirect that address to the bitbucket. The advantages of this approach are that 1) you don't have to create a million aliases (assuming most sites are responsible with your info), 2) you don't have to dig through a catchall, and 3) most sales@example.com spam never gets sent to subdomains.
Details? I'm an Exchange admin and support home users of Outlook and Outlook Express. Nothing like this has ever happened to me or my clients without them doing something really dumb (no "repair" thing). Also, the "finding" of the address book file sounds rather dubious. Is this post actually saying that this user screwed up his or her address book on Windows and started using Linux (as a complete newbie) and found and imported the address book file from a probably proprietary Microsoft format into a Linux mail client? All this, from a user that thinks Linux natively runs Outlook? Also, I assume this person didn't have recent Linux install disks sitting on their desk, so the parent post author waited for the user to download and burn a CD (even a minimal one)?
So, newbies can't change it to a setting that's not intended for them anyway.* This seems like a non-problem to me, save a bit of wasted screen real-estate. Furthermore, it's a bit arrogant to assume what you like should be the default. I keep my taskbar at the top of the screen, but I don't whine that public computers have it at the bottom.
*This is backed up with extensive usability testing by Microsoft.
Then change XP to the "classic" Start Menu and disable autohiding. (You people are impossible to please.) Also, screen real estate is relative. The increasing screen resolution over the years means XP's menu takes up the same space as 95/98/ME/NT/2000's did.
Finally, I don't see what's "dumbed down" about XP's start menu. I like how settings is no longer a submenu and exists fully expanded in the right column. "Pin to start menu" is also well-implemented.
That's exactly what Windows XP has. Recent programs are on the menu you immediately pull up, and all programs are under a menu called "All Programs" at the bottom.
Also, you can disable that feature in Windows 2000.
- T-Mobile
Say what you want, but when I called T-Mobile about overage charges (they were legit), they cut them in half without any questions, just to be nice. Also, I've been able to talk to their data network engineers to get good information about best way to use their data network.
However, I think perks customer service can provide should be considered separately from good knowledgability.
XP Pro defaults to having the Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence on logon and when unloaking the system. You are, however, correct about the Run As... feature. On a related note, I have noticed that people don't usually care whether the OS asks for the BIOS-level key sequence or not. If I wanted someone's password, I could just fake a login box without any request for Ctrl-Alt-Del.
You're incorrect, at least about the technical side. Comcast already has the capability to control port blocking per user. I know because they specifically blocked a port on my parents' connection and sent them a letter why with instructions on how to unblock it.
Try running XP with 1600x1200 with 20.1" diagonal (my flat panel) or 1400x1050 with 14.1" diagonal (my laptop). Anything smaller than the "huge" icons is quite tiny.
This, of course, raises deep philosophical questions about existence. Do things not listed on Google exist? Did anything exist before Google? Does Slashdot exist on a higher plane of being than I do because it yields more results?
By your standard (the U.S. isn't tangible, and thus, its legal recognition of entities is irrelevent), no laws have any force. Do you pay your parking tickets? If you do, you're recognizing the government's recognition of the local law enforcement agency. Do you pay your taxes? Same thing. The IRS is just another entity recognized by the government. Finally, do you use cash? Its value is primarily based on the government's recognition of it.
U.S. law considers companies non-natural persons, which have almost all the inherent rights of a natrual person. It's not extremism. It's reality.
T-Mobile gives me the total time and better: if I type *MIN* on my phone and hit send, it sends me a text message with the time accrued, broken down into categories. This is a free service, too.
What an organization researches is very different than bias towards the establishment. RAND advocates relaxing drug policy, especially for marijuana. They were the original group who said (and with evidence) that Vietnam was a bad idea. They said this even before we got involved in any significant way. Finally, RAND recommends a moderate Islamic state for middle eastern states we "liberate," which doesn't jive with the religious right's plans. Just because RAND researches for the military doesn't mean it's obligated to make things sound good to warmongers and Republicans (are they different?). RAND is damn objective for the politically sensitive work they perform.
You must be new here, or you would know the the news is old here.
Maybe for most users. I would (and have before) had a server with a USB 802.11b adapter and have the server share it.
By that logic, SuSE Linux would also be an SCO product, but it's not. Novell owns SuSE, and SuSE was independent before Novell's purchase. Thus, your logic must be faulty because it reaches an incorrect conclusion when applied to SuSE in the same context.
...and my CS professor StephenKeckler was just awarded the GraceHopper award.
Are you an overworked sysadmin? Do you manually assign so many logins that you normalize all full names?
You can already to this with offline files. My documents are stored this way.
They do. It's called "Windows on Windows." You'll see it as wow.exe when you run old binaries.
Macromedia has an entire section in Flash MX 2004's help about making accessible applications.
What does a server-side scripting language have to do with making a site "screen reader friendly"? And what about XML too? I work on sites for politicians, and we try to make our sites screen reader friendly. Our efforts have nothing to do with the server side (.NET) or data exchange mechanism (XML).
I'll have you know that I'm posting this via GPRS over Bluetooth on a bus traveling on an interstate.
Let the flame wars begin.
Actually, T-Mobile's service is pretty fast. If you're getting consistant speeds of 5-10 kilobytes per second, you're doing well. Really, it's the latency that worries me. I always get 800 to 1000ms in that department. That's fine for some things, but it seems to make intolerant programs time out, and multiplayer gaming is out of the question.
P.S. Look into T-Mobile's Unlimited Internet VPN service. It's no more expensive than the normal unlimited, but you have to actually ask for it. You get a public IP, although incoming connections are blocked.
Now I have to actually add any new aliases that I want to use into my user account.
The best solution to this is to use a prefix with an asterisk. I set up david.*@endeavorcomputing.com as one of my addresses. I stuck the applicable site name in place of the * when signing up for accounts. This routed all mail that fits the template to the right address and allows you to create new addresses on the fly without updating your aliases.
Just make sure that you don't set the dynamic alias as your primary address. If you do, your outgoing mail will be messed up, as Exchange uses your primary address as the originating account and reply-to address.