Can't you just filter out email from microsoft.com and bsa.org?
Actually, it's far more fun to set up a custom rule in/etc/smtpd_check_rules to give a custom bounce message from losers like this... I've got three companies whose software I did at one time use listed here with a message to the effect of "Spam from your company is not accepted at this site"...
Without microsoft the hardware woudnt have advanced, like is has, no one else has had a system that provided a basis to push the x86 architecture like windows.
How about OS/2? The last version of OS/2 I used was stable and fast. It looked a hell of a lot better than Win3.1 (the equivalent product of the day) and as an added bonus, would also run Win3.1 software.
How do you (or anyone) know that OS/2 would not have driven hardware development just as well, if not better, than Microsoft?
What, exactly, is the difference between the integration of Windows and IE vs the integration of KE and Konqueror?
Whoever modded this guy as a troll has missed the point altogether. If you install KDE, you install Konqueror and a whole host of other tools whether you want 'em or not. I still use Konqueror on my system because I've never figured out a way to get Mozilla or Opera to properly follow URL links - they *always* return a copy of the web page downloaded by kexec. It's irritating, and I probably *would* use Opera for everything if I could work this problem out.
Having said that, however, the primary difference is that KDE are not providing an *operating system*, they're providing a *desktop*. Big difference. KDE apps still work under Gnome or IceWM, as Gnome apps still work under KDE...
This isn't a surprise.
The US will do what they please, it is one of the reasons people get pissed off.
Got it in one. From where I sit (.au) it seems that quite a few Americans (politicans being among the worst) have a massive inferiority complex that manifests itself in feeling the need to control anything they possibly can.
US citizens and the US government want everyone to follow US laws and courts. They are using their power and influence to make countries comply (Ukraine).
Add to that every country that has a visa waiver agreement with the US - the US is now trying to force every one of these countries into supplying their citizens with biometric passports if they want the visa waiver to remain in place.
Although this is somewhat poorly worded it isn't intended as a troll, sorry I'm an engineer not an editor.
Neither is this post. The vast majority of Americans that I meet are decent, friendly people. As always, it's the minority that gives the majority a bad name. God knows the same thing applies to Australians - very, very few of us go around wrestling crocodiles or doing very stupid things with snakes, but God only knows the Crocodile Man (and Paul Hogan to a lesser extent) have given us that image.
(Sometimes I wonder if the crocodile man must have been American - he's certainly mad enough to be one...)
Scientology isn't as powerful as the Roman Catholic Church, of course, but then again, the Scientologists have never been able to pull off massive crusades or inquisitions.
If you're asking HOW to start off writing a large documentation project, then the method that always worked for me is simply to summarise the screens/forms, then to summarise the items/buttons/commands on each form, and (if necessary) to break down each item into each option. Once you've got this framework, it's quite easy to start filling in the blanks.
1. For a period of 10 years, Microsoft shall be prohibited from selling anyoperating system product directly or indirectly to a computer manufacturer.
Then how do companies such as HP/Compaq/Gateway et al preinstall operating systems for the users who wouldn't have a clue how to install an operating system? Perhaps not a bad idea in the abstract, it just doesn't work in the real world.
2. For a period of 10 years, Microsoft application products shall limit their file formats to an approved version of XML. Furthermore, for a period of 10 years, any changes to application file formats shall be announced and documented nine months prior to their commercial introduction.
This one I agree with, although a nine month lead-in time is probably a little excessive. It would establish the means for other companies to easily and fairly challenge MS Office - something which is sorely needed. Not only that, but it would also give other companies the chance to adapt themselves in advance.
3. Microsoft shall release upgrades to existing versions of applications to enable them to write the documented XML file format and to disable their ability to write the previous proprietary file formats. Their ability to read the previous proprietary format shall remain unchanged.
Less likely to work, I'm afraid. Having worked as a desktop support tech in the past, I know how rarely most people apply updates, patches and bugfixes - especially in small business.
The bacteria-seeding idea is an interesting one, although you'd probably be hampered by the lack of water.
Shouldn't that be liquid water? If memory serves, Venus has plenty of water - just in gaseous form. Any life-form capable of living at 100C+ would necessarily have to be able to use water in it's gaseous form.
That's half the point - she hasn't successfully subscribed for one yet because each time she tries, she ends up mangling her e-mail address, so the thing bounces.
Forgive me, but that's not what he was saying. I run a small domain for my Mother's dog breeding kennels, and it's a big stretch for her to understand what the difference is between her ISP's mail account and her kennel account. She continually tries to subscribe to Passport using a mangled combination of both addresses.
Before you guys complain about getting charged $80 per month for a broadband connection,
maybe you should take a look at the plight of Australian broadband users, particularly
those stuck with Telstra. A *basic* ADSL service is $60 per month - 300MB per month
download cap, limited to 256/64. You'll pay $95 for a half decent connection - 512/128
with a 3GB download cap. (each MB over the cap costs 11 to 15 cents)
Add that to a network that loves to imitate a yo-yo (up, down, up, down, up, down, up,
down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down) and you guys over in America
have *nothing* to complain about.
I also wasted hours and hours of time playing FreeCell as well. The only way I ever got
away from it was to install Linux...:-) Then I discover kpatience, which plays not only
FreeCell, but *lots* of other versions of Solitare as well, most of them even more
addictive.
Not quite... as I remember what people were making noise about was the feature that forced security updates down your throat, whether you wanted 'em or not.
Good idea for Aunt Ethyl, but not terribly realistic for those who like to review the patches *first* (especially considering M$'s habit of releasing patches that break things)
It's funny... OS/2 ran a number of multi-line BBS's in Victoria, Australia. I've got *many* memories of running my BBS... first running my own FTS mail network, then joining Fidonet... becoming a hub, then being elected N632C... then being involved in the Australian BBS Registry as Victorian Co-ordinator...
I was always a stirrer - particularly over the geographical net rule, which I saw no logic to in Australia, and getting myself into *real* trouble by publishing a FidoNews article proposing the abandonment of the rule just after the disasterous reorganisation of Germany's Fido networks...
Seeing FidoNet as it is today is somewhat depressing... last time I saw a nodelist, N632 had gone...:-( Melbourne, which used to have 5 networks was down to two, both with less than 10 nodes.
and now we bitch about it. Good grief, Us americans are a bunch of snotty spoiled brats. No wonder the rest of the world cant stand us.
{sarcasm}My God... an American that knows what Americans can be like!{/sarcasm}
In all seriousness, America does have things a lot better than other parts of the world when it comes to internet access... In Australia, your only real options for broadband is via Cable & Wireless Optus (about AU$60p/m (=US$30), approx 1.5mbit cable only) which has an incredibly complex method for a download cap (any more than 10 times the average use in any forteen day period, and you get canned) or Telstra (AU$78p/m (=US$39), 256mbit ADSL/Cable) with a 3000MB download limit, and an additional 18c/mb thereafter. Nothing to write home about.
Add to that a Government that passes every unenforcible law imaginable - from making ISPs responsible for the content that their users view to banning online gambling (only Australian sites - overseas sites are fine) and you can imagine just how much we'd love to have even *some* of the options available to us that those in the US do...
As I remember, one of the "security updates" to their software (to kill the open source version which they would not support) made the software dependant on "checking in" with their servers periodically. Unless this requirement was removed, then a shutdown of the parent company would be *quite* sufficient to kill file sharing using their client.
I'm a big cards player... and unfortunately KPatience is responsible for wasting *lots* of hours of time I should be spending doing other (useful) things.
Might be basic, but by god it's addictive!
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Because from what I read, that's not what he's asking for. What he wants is a way to directly access a linux box using a TN3270 client.
Actually, it's far more fun to set up a custom rule in
The point is, because of Microsoft's tactics, they never had a chance to.
How about OS/2? The last version of OS/2 I used was stable and fast. It looked a hell of a lot better than Win3.1 (the equivalent product of the day) and as an added bonus, would also run Win3.1 software.
How do you (or anyone) know that OS/2 would not have driven hardware development just as well, if not better, than Microsoft?
If somebody mentions "vi", I'm going to scream...
:-P
Everybody knows that pico is the best text editor around...
Whoever modded this guy as a troll has missed the point altogether. If you install KDE, you install Konqueror and a whole host of other tools whether you want 'em or not. I still use Konqueror on my system because I've never figured out a way to get Mozilla or Opera to properly follow URL links - they *always* return a copy of the web page downloaded by kexec. It's irritating, and I probably *would* use Opera for everything if I could work this problem out.
Having said that, however, the primary difference is that KDE are not providing an *operating system*, they're providing a *desktop*. Big difference. KDE apps still work under Gnome or IceWM, as Gnome apps still work under KDE...
Did Skylarov write his software on US territory?
Got it in one. From where I sit (.au) it seems that quite a few Americans (politicans being among the worst) have a massive inferiority complex that manifests itself in feeling the need to control anything they possibly can.
Add to that every country that has a visa waiver agreement with the US - the US is now trying to force every one of these countries into supplying their citizens with biometric passports if they want the visa waiver to remain in place.
Neither is this post. The vast majority of Americans that I meet are decent, friendly people. As always, it's the minority that gives the majority a bad name. God knows the same thing applies to Australians - very, very few of us go around wrestling crocodiles or doing very stupid things with snakes, but God only knows the Crocodile Man (and Paul Hogan to a lesser extent) have given us that image.
(Sometimes I wonder if the crocodile man must have been American - he's certainly mad enough to be one...)
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Scientology isn't as powerful as the Roman Catholic Church, of course, but then again, the Scientologists have never been able to pull off massive crusades or inquisitions.
Let's not give them any ideas, eh?
If you're asking HOW to start off writing a large documentation project, then the method that always worked for me is simply to summarise the screens/forms, then to summarise the items/buttons/commands on each form, and (if necessary) to break down each item into each option. Once you've got this framework, it's quite easy to start filling in the blanks.
Then how do companies such as HP/Compaq/Gateway et al preinstall operating systems for the users who wouldn't have a clue how to install an operating system? Perhaps not a bad idea in the abstract, it just doesn't work in the real world.
This one I agree with, although a nine month lead-in time is probably a little excessive. It would establish the means for other companies to easily and fairly challenge MS Office - something which is sorely needed. Not only that, but it would also give other companies the chance to adapt themselves in advance.
Less likely to work, I'm afraid. Having worked as a desktop support tech in the past, I know how rarely most people apply updates, patches and bugfixes - especially in small business.
Shouldn't that be liquid water? If memory serves, Venus has plenty of water - just in gaseous form. Any life-form capable of living at 100C+ would necessarily have to be able to use water in it's gaseous form.
...came the course management system - SMART - Student Management And Resource Tracking. Wonder how long they took to get that one to fit.
That's half the point - she hasn't successfully subscribed for one yet because each time she tries, she ends up mangling her e-mail address, so the thing bounces.
Forgive me, but that's not what he was saying. I run a small domain for my Mother's dog breeding kennels, and it's a big stretch for her to understand what the difference is between her ISP's mail account and her kennel account. She continually tries to subscribe to Passport using a mangled combination of both addresses.
Before you guys complain about getting charged $80 per month for a broadband connection, maybe you should take a look at the plight of Australian broadband users, particularly those stuck with Telstra. A *basic* ADSL service is $60 per month - 300MB per month download cap, limited to 256/64. You'll pay $95 for a half decent connection - 512/128 with a 3GB download cap. (each MB over the cap costs 11 to 15 cents) Add that to a network that loves to imitate a yo-yo (up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down) and you guys over in America have *nothing* to complain about.
I also wasted hours and hours of time playing FreeCell as well. The only way I ever got away from it was to install Linux... :-) Then I discover kpatience, which plays not only
FreeCell, but *lots* of other versions of Solitare as well, most of them even more
addictive.
Not quite... as I remember what people were making noise about was the feature that forced security updates down your throat, whether you wanted 'em or not. Good idea for Aunt Ethyl, but not terribly realistic for those who like to review the patches *first* (especially considering M$'s habit of releasing patches that break things)
It's funny... OS/2 ran a number of multi-line BBS's in Victoria, Australia. I've got *many* memories of running my BBS... first running my own FTS mail network, then joining Fidonet... becoming a hub, then being elected N632C... then being involved in the Australian BBS Registry as Victorian Co-ordinator...
:-( Melbourne, which used to have 5 networks was down to two, both with less than 10 nodes.
I was always a stirrer - particularly over the geographical net rule, which I saw no logic to in Australia, and getting myself into *real* trouble by publishing a FidoNews article proposing the abandonment of the rule just after the disasterous reorganisation of Germany's Fido networks...
Seeing FidoNet as it is today is somewhat depressing... last time I saw a nodelist, N632 had gone...
and now we bitch about it. Good grief, Us americans are a bunch of snotty spoiled brats. No wonder the rest of the world cant stand us.
{sarcasm}My God... an American that knows what Americans can be like!{/sarcasm}
In all seriousness, America does have things a lot better than other parts of the world when it comes to internet access... In Australia, your only real options for broadband is via Cable & Wireless Optus (about AU$60p/m (=US$30), approx 1.5mbit cable only) which has an incredibly complex method for a download cap (any more than 10 times the average use in any forteen day period, and you get canned) or Telstra (AU$78p/m (=US$39), 256mbit ADSL/Cable) with a 3000MB download limit, and an additional 18c/mb thereafter. Nothing to write home about.
Add to that a Government that passes every unenforcible law imaginable - from making ISPs responsible for the content that their users view to banning online gambling (only Australian sites - overseas sites are fine) and you can imagine just how much we'd love to have even *some* of the options available to us that those in the US do...
As I remember, one of the "security updates" to their software (to kill the open source version which they would not support) made the software dependant on "checking in" with their servers periodically. Unless this requirement was removed, then a shutdown of the parent company would be *quite* sufficient to kill file sharing using their client.
I'm a big cards player... and unfortunately KPatience is responsible for wasting *lots* of hours of time I should be spending doing other (useful) things. Might be basic, but by god it's addictive!
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