you can see this big one off to the upper left, but 'quakes are no big thing around these parts - just look, we get ~hundreds a day; similar to/. geting 2-300 500 server errors a day.
check out demo calendar the todo list kinda sucks (ok it sucks hard) but the calendar works well, and you can put a mini/small calendar on the left folder view and it highlights dates that have appointments on them. I believe you get an email reminder as well (optional).
I have some control, I am not writing milters or anything like the author,
but with my shinyfeet account I have my gmail, yahoo, hotmail and a few various others (domain's I own, etc - and I can use the FROM option so I don't have to reply as downsize_sf[AT]shinyfeet if I do not want to, I can keep my domain email addy, or gmails, and so forth) forwarding to it and I see very very little spam.
they use bayesian filtering, but give you the control to configure it to some degree (interesting bayesian spam comparisions here - http://home.dataparty.no/kristian/reviews/bayesian/)
and I get my own BL filters too, so I can turn on/off spamcop, DSBL, and about 20 others.
i'm not getting 1million anything a day, but if I was, I am glad I use the service I do to prevent me from having the headaches - as I am sure I would if I stuck with yahoo (is my bulk folder overflowing or what?)
agreed, but wouldn't that be nice:-}... I have heard/known friends that have been able to bark as much and their wish granted. Of course, that was mostly back in 98-00.
it was Impress and not PowerPoint and it fell on deaf ears/blind eyes. "it's been working fine for 10 years" And the number was more like $18,700 for Win2k3 + Exchange 2k3 and all the CALs.
I did not think it was required to get into such detail on a/. comment - you assumed a bit much.
Don't think everyone will sign a PO from a presentation with P&L/ROI charts, as I stated before, the company was ran on personal feeling/preference as opposed to logical business sense.
that's how I found and why I started using shinyfeet.com. I have backups at home and the office, but 1) not aways accessible - shinyfeet's file manager is, and 2) it is tied nicely with their email application, so it makes it easy to manage attachments.
That axcrypt looks cool, but I just use my own that I wrote to encrypt and keep the keys written down (for the highly important docs) - others I just keep the keys in an encrypted text file, and that key is easily accessible in another file/email:-} not the best for security, but it's more used for privacy and a couple hoops if anyone was to try and jump on my machine while I forgot to lock the desktop when out to lunch.
You know that if you wanted to you could set up warnings based on user mailbox sizes
oh I wanted, believe me. there were all types of "i wanted to"'s that they never even considered. obviously I am getting the last laugh (for the most part).
that company was a POS, it was ran off personal feelings rather than business sense "but I like to see all the SPAM, I'd rather spend 3 hours going through spam than miss 1 potential lead" or "I don't want my mailbox limited to 2GB, I need everything in there dating back to 1992, including all my friend's comic attachments they sent me"
in my past, I have worked as an admin. actually not that long ago I worked for a company that still ran NT 4.0 with Exchange vDinosour. The machines ran on tar from the tar pits.
Anyway, my job was to keep those damn things from extinction - it was a near impossible task.
On a couple of occasions the email server would get completely full (how's a total of 16GB for a 200+ person International company grab ya?) and email would stop. I would have to jump through hoops to get space back - force users to make personal.ost files yadda, yadda
The kicker was always that everyone would scream and bitch about loosing money and can't operate without email.
My point was always A) switch to linux and B) if you loose money and operations cease, why not spend ~$20K and get a stable email system in place? If they would have put any money into their cornerstone, life-blood system (email) or used an outside service provider - I'd still have a job and they would not be OOB!:-P
I stopped watching it for now as work got in the way. However, when I heard of this news and had discussions with people about it - most (as they are of older generation and clueless as to these tech laws effects) applauded the law.
that's when I told them how they would change their mind in a court, attempting to defend that they had no idea their machine (even though M$ sets it up by default) was setup for sharing and that the accidentally downloaded the thing from the net, they did not even know it was happening - "there was this popup, and I tried to click it away"
I just hope this ruling is a step in the right direction, and from what I have read of it, I feel that it is.
are you forgetting that now, no proven intent is required.
and even if you get declared clinically insane and get a crazy house sentance instead of the big house, negligence has never granted amnesty.
i don't think this is a bad thing, having some separation will help the governments understand the technology and what/where the problem is - but moreso how they need to stop listening to the big corporates cry about lost/stolen rights.
The cache has always been an issue, but for some reason, many overlook it. Would Microsoft really bitch about 200million users having their copyright images on their hard drives from visiting msn.com only to loose 90% of them if a law was put in place taking backward steps in http/browser development?
I would like to believe that this is more of a process of elimination - rule out one part of this sharing/copyright/distribution issue, then another and another until finally corporations see that their bottom line is, in fact, helped greatly from sharing/distribution.
I completely agree with these findings in regards to frequency. But I sure hope these users know what they are asking for with those 'reverting sent emails and email tracking' features.
Checking your email at the start of your day is no different than checking your voice messages or notes left on your desk - this really is not all that surprising. And besides myself having over 32,000 emails stored and composing/replying what seems like every other minute, most of the other people I correspond with reply quickly, which would indicate that they check their email quite often. And I have worked at companies where email is their life, some people have emails dating back to 1997!
'retract unread messages' is funny - you send it, oops! I want it back! The could only happen on an enclosed system, unfortunately. But it is probably a good thing, wouldn't want people to be able to manipulate your inbox that way. I think a trailing header 'cookie' (dare I say UID 'ducks') could be achieved so you would know where your email ends up, how many times and to whom - but it would take a while for all email systems to integrate that feature.
What is amazing to me by this study, is that the features these users want are arguably gross invasions of privacy.
right, that's what we need to make this world a better place, a bunch of idiots unable to separate their feelings or opinions on the results - or simply not intelligent enough to figure out if the search result is helpful or not to the searcher.
how do you know I don't want to see baseball links when google for '...midget and with a bat'
And, if the US Government is in the business of making money, they sure aren't doing very well with that mission lately. never said they were good at it, but I do not know of many in office that will be filing for unemployment when (if) they are let go.
the roads are too dangerous, with or without all the devices and laws. otherwise, we wouldn't need seatbelts, airbags, etc.etc. nor laws.
The government already does control how we move from A to B. They should be allowed to, when it affects the lives of others. This is why you aren't allowed to drive without a license.
this is incorrect. first they [gov] should not be allowed to control how we move from place to place. last time I checked I could ride a bicycle without their permission. I could easily crash into someone and permenantly injure them, or commit suicide and drive into traffic, which would cause other cars to crash and possible kill or injure people. I could do this walking as well. Granted, there are traffic signs to try and control the flow of things, but there is nothing that I need issued from the government allowing me to do the above mentioned (stupid) acts.
Are you stating that the government should always control any or major aspects of our lives when other lives could (possibly) be in danger? I hope this is not your arguement, there is a long list of things the governement is both overlooking and looking too much over. Remember the [US] governement is in the business of making money, not to serve and protect.
Last I checked my check, I gave the government to give the money to my peers to build the roads for me. I do this when I pay for gas, buy a car, and any number of other taxes I am unaware of.
And you are correct, this, or anything else will not prevent 'people who would drive drunk' - which is what my original reply stated. Are we on the same page yet?
1) get chaser tablets 2) if you have 1 drink, you do not drive for two days?
most people are sheep, and if they see that they are over the legal limit - even though they 'feel fine' they might pass on driving. the ones that do not feel like they can drive (like yourself, even after they walk by a brewery), they do not need such a device as they will either hermit for a couple days, or take alternative measures to get from one place to another.
we are not judging people's driving abilities here. I live in an area (silicon valley) where many of the drivers should not be on the road - and there are lots of accidents, they are (presumably) not intoxicated in any fashion. no idiot device would prevent this unless it was a bouncer in front of every car that put them on their ass after a quick verbal driving test.
if you have an account here I will be getting the release (same goes for FC4) and putting it in a shared dir. email me and I'll add you to the share. this should be 10x faster than the mirrors that will get bogged down, as shinyfeet.com is not a public file server, but does have file sharing (for its users).
agreed, but you (and the AC) are talking as if every situation deserves a cab ride. what you are pointing out (age limits, meds), I would call 'exceptions to the rule'. If you take advil or tylenol, should you not drive?
I stopped buying this 'not a right, a privilege' BS a long time ago.
sounds like you want the government to control how we move from A to B?
the point was, if the governement or the alcohol companies provided a device, a LED on the dashboard as the original commentor suggested, or a compact breathalyzer - the nation would be a much better/safer place.
there are many times when you are sick, old, something in your eye, on the cell phone, etc. that put you in a state (for a short or long period) equal or worse than not only a drink or two, but downright drunk.
are you saying that every elder person that reacts a little slower should call a cab? anytime you get a call on your cell while driving, pull over, call a cab? or call a cab before you get in your car if you are on the phone or expect a call?
you are playing the easy 'preachers way out': "oooh we got to all play the safe street, gotta please the world that god has given us, everyone else is bad or related to the devil if they drink ONE cup, say it again! - don't drive you sinners", come down to reality and sniff a little of this.
It's not that you are unsure on 'how drunk you are' it is 'how much you drank and are you dangerous to yourself and others' When you are drunk, you usually know you are drunk - and if you are stupid, you drive (or other 1,000 stupid things).
So you are saying if you have a glass of wine at dinner, 2 hours pass, you should call a taxi? Many businesses would love to argue that point with you. They have done these studies and test, and you can function *well enough* with a certain BAL (blood alcohol level).
Now, obviously if you are too drunk to figure out how to work the breathalyzer, then yea, don't drive. But for some people, they might feel they are ok but then take the test and then see for themselves that they are over the limit - now they have a choice, to take the risk or see that 'wow now I know that even though I think I am ok, and I feel/think I can drive, I'm over the limit and I should pass the keys'. Granted, some states the limit might be a little low and you can handle it, but at least this gives you some data so you can make a choice (hopefully the right one).
we had a big new years party 4 or 5 years ago and we bought a breathalizer so people could see what they would blow.
we used it for fun and gags, but ultimately, at the end, it saved people's lives (perhaps) and possibly even a few DUIs. towards the end of the party as the ones standing started to leave, they would blow and everyone that was over the legal limit called a taxi or worked out a ride with someone well under the legal limit.
but this device is not the savior to teen drunk driving (which sounds like the reasoning behind the invention) - although it may cut down some incidents by 20% or so.
bottom line, you just can't prevent people from being stupid - and it's not funny because most of the time it means the loss of life of another instead of the stupid one that caused it.
i type 18 hours a day, and my hands are too big for every keyboard i've tried. I settled on the MS split, which, thus far, has worked out the best.
the solution of taping my fingers together works as it forces me to move my arms from my shoulder instead of stressing my wrists or reaching with a finger.
true, I have slowed down to about 50wpm, but as the saying goes 'slow and steady wins the race':-}
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quakes: http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/
/. geting 2-300 500 server errors a day.
you can see this big one off to the upper left, but 'quakes are no big thing around these parts - just look, we get ~hundreds a day; similar to
check out demo calendar
the todo list kinda sucks (ok it sucks hard) but the calendar works well, and you can put a mini/small calendar on the left folder view and it highlights dates that have appointments on them. I believe you get an email reminder as well (optional).
I have some control, I am not writing milters or anything like the author, but with my shinyfeet account I have my gmail, yahoo, hotmail and a few various others (domain's I own, etc - and I can use the FROM option so I don't have to reply as downsize_sf[AT]shinyfeet if I do not want to, I can keep my domain email addy, or gmails, and so forth) forwarding to it and I see very very little spam.
n /)
and I get my own BL filters too, so I can turn on/off spamcop, DSBL, and about 20 others.
they use bayesian filtering, but give you the control to configure it to some degree (interesting bayesian spam comparisions here - http://home.dataparty.no/kristian/reviews/bayesia
i'm not getting 1million anything a day, but if I was, I am glad I use the service I do to prevent me from having the headaches - as I am sure I would if I stuck with yahoo (is my bulk folder overflowing or what?)
agreed, but wouldn't that be nice :-} ... I have heard/known friends that have been able to bark as much and their wish granted. Of course, that was mostly back in 98-00.
it was Impress and not PowerPoint and it fell on deaf ears/blind eyes. "it's been working fine for 10 years" And the number was more like $18,700 for Win2k3 + Exchange 2k3 and all the CALs.
/. comment - you assumed a bit much.
I did not think it was required to get into such detail on a
Don't think everyone will sign a PO from a presentation with P&L/ROI charts, as I stated before, the company was ran on personal feeling/preference as opposed to logical business sense.
that's how I found and why I started using shinyfeet.com. I have backups at home and the office, but 1) not aways accessible - shinyfeet's file manager is, and 2) it is tied nicely with their email application, so it makes it easy to manage attachments.
:-} not the best for security, but it's more used for privacy and a couple hoops if anyone was to try and jump on my machine while I forgot to lock the desktop when out to lunch.
That axcrypt looks cool, but I just use my own that I wrote to encrypt and keep the keys written down (for the highly important docs) - others I just keep the keys in an encrypted text file, and that key is easily accessible in another file/email
that company was a POS, it was ran off personal feelings rather than business sense "but I like to see all the SPAM, I'd rather spend 3 hours going through spam than miss 1 potential lead" or "I don't want my mailbox limited to 2GB, I need everything in there dating back to 1992, including all my friend's comic attachments they sent me"
in my past, I have worked as an admin. actually not that long ago I worked for a company that still ran NT 4.0 with Exchange vDinosour. The machines ran on tar from the tar pits.
.ost files yadda, yadda
:-P
Anyway, my job was to keep those damn things from extinction - it was a near impossible task.
On a couple of occasions the email server would get completely full (how's a total of 16GB for a 200+ person International company grab ya?) and email would stop. I would have to jump through hoops to get space back - force users to make personal
The kicker was always that everyone would scream and bitch about loosing money and can't operate without email.
My point was always A) switch to linux and B) if you loose money and operations cease, why not spend ~$20K and get a stable email system in place? If they would have put any money into their cornerstone, life-blood system (email) or used an outside service provider - I'd still have a job and they would not be OOB!
I stopped watching it for now as work got in the way. However, when I heard of this news and had discussions with people about it - most (as they are of older generation and clueless as to these tech laws effects) applauded the law.
that's when I told them how they would change their mind in a court, attempting to defend that they had no idea their machine (even though M$ sets it up by default) was setup for sharing and that the accidentally downloaded the thing from the net, they did not even know it was happening - "there was this popup, and I tried to click it away"
I just hope this ruling is a step in the right direction, and from what I have read of it, I feel that it is.
are you forgetting that now, no proven intent is required. and even if you get declared clinically insane and get a crazy house sentance instead of the big house, negligence has never granted amnesty.
i don't think this is a bad thing, having some separation will help the governments understand the technology and what/where the problem is - but moreso how they need to stop listening to the big corporates cry about lost/stolen rights.
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The cache has always been an issue, but for some reason, many overlook it. Would Microsoft really bitch about 200million users having their copyright images on their hard drives from visiting msn.com only to loose 90% of them if a law was put in place taking backward steps in http/browser development?
I would like to believe that this is more of a process of elimination - rule out one part of this sharing/copyright/distribution issue, then another and another until finally corporations see that their bottom line is, in fact, helped greatly from sharing/distribution.
neway, my 2
how about automatic /. FP!
I completely agree with these findings in regards to frequency. But I sure hope these users know what they are asking for with those 'reverting sent emails and email tracking' features.
Checking your email at the start of your day is no different than checking your voice messages or notes left on your desk - this really is not all that surprising. And besides myself having over 32,000 emails stored and composing/replying what seems like every other minute, most of the other people I correspond with reply quickly, which would indicate that they check their email quite often. And I have worked at companies where email is their life, some people have emails dating back to 1997!
'retract unread messages' is funny - you send it, oops! I want it back! The could only happen on an enclosed system, unfortunately. But it is probably a good thing, wouldn't want people to be able to manipulate your inbox that way. I think a trailing header 'cookie' (dare I say UID 'ducks') could be achieved so you would know where your email ends up, how many times and to whom - but it would take a while for all email systems to integrate that feature.
What is amazing to me by this study, is that the features these users want are arguably gross invasions of privacy.
right, that's what we need to make this world a better place, a bunch of idiots unable to separate their feelings or opinions on the results - or simply not intelligent enough to figure out if the search result is helpful or not to the searcher.
how do you know I don't want to see baseball links when google for '...midget and with a bat'
And, if the US Government is in the business of making money, they sure aren't doing very well with that mission lately.
.etc. nor laws.
never said they were good at it, but I do not know of many in office that will be filing for unemployment when (if) they are let go.
the roads are too dangerous, with or without all the devices and laws. otherwise, we wouldn't need seatbelts, airbags, etc
this is incorrect. first they [gov] should not be allowed to control how we move from place to place. last time I checked I could ride a bicycle without their permission. I could easily crash into someone and permenantly injure them, or commit suicide and drive into traffic, which would cause other cars to crash and possible kill or injure people. I could do this walking as well. Granted, there are traffic signs to try and control the flow of things, but there is nothing that I need issued from the government allowing me to do the above mentioned (stupid) acts.
Are you stating that the government should always control any or major aspects of our lives when other lives could (possibly) be in danger? I hope this is not your arguement, there is a long list of things the governement is both overlooking and looking too much over. Remember the [US] governement is in the business of making money, not to serve and protect.
Last I checked my check, I gave the government to give the money to my peers to build the roads for me. I do this when I pay for gas, buy a car, and any number of other taxes I am unaware of.
And you are correct, this, or anything else will not prevent 'people who would drive drunk' - which is what my original reply stated. Are we on the same page yet?
1) get chaser tablets
2) if you have 1 drink, you do not drive for two days?
most people are sheep, and if they see that they are over the legal limit - even though they 'feel fine' they might pass on driving. the ones that do not feel like they can drive (like yourself, even after they walk by a brewery), they do not need such a device as they will either hermit for a couple days, or take alternative measures to get from one place to another.
we are not judging people's driving abilities here. I live in an area (silicon valley) where many of the drivers should not be on the road - and there are lots of accidents, they are (presumably) not intoxicated in any fashion. no idiot device would prevent this unless it was a bouncer in front of every car that put them on their ass after a quick verbal driving test.
if you have an account here I will be getting the release (same goes for FC4) and putting it in a shared dir. email me and I'll add you to the share. this should be 10x faster than the mirrors that will get bogged down, as shinyfeet.com is not a public file server, but does have file sharing (for its users).
agreed, but you (and the AC) are talking as if every situation deserves a cab ride. what you are pointing out (age limits, meds), I would call 'exceptions to the rule'. If you take advil or tylenol, should you not drive?
/.
I stopped buying this 'not a right, a privilege' BS a long time ago.
sounds like you want the government to control how we move from A to B?
the point was, if the governement or the alcohol companies provided a device, a LED on the dashboard as the original commentor suggested, or a compact breathalyzer - the nation would be a much better/safer place.
but then we wouldn't get to whine about it one
there are many times when you are sick, old, something in your eye, on the cell phone, etc. that put you in a state (for a short or long period) equal or worse than not only a drink or two, but downright drunk.
are you saying that every elder person that reacts a little slower should call a cab? anytime you get a call on your cell while driving, pull over, call a cab? or call a cab before you get in your car if you are on the phone or expect a call?
you are playing the easy 'preachers way out': "oooh we got to all play the safe street, gotta please the world that god has given us, everyone else is bad or related to the devil if they drink ONE cup, say it again! - don't drive you sinners", come down to reality and sniff a little of this.
It's not that you are unsure on 'how drunk you are' it is 'how much you drank and are you dangerous to yourself and others' When you are drunk, you usually know you are drunk - and if you are stupid, you drive (or other 1,000 stupid things).
So you are saying if you have a glass of wine at dinner, 2 hours pass, you should call a taxi? Many businesses would love to argue that point with you. They have done these studies and test, and you can function *well enough* with a certain BAL (blood alcohol level).
Now, obviously if you are too drunk to figure out how to work the breathalyzer, then yea, don't drive. But for some people, they might feel they are ok but then take the test and then see for themselves that they are over the limit - now they have a choice, to take the risk or see that 'wow now I know that even though I think I am ok, and I feel/think I can drive, I'm over the limit and I should pass the keys'. Granted, some states the limit might be a little low and you can handle it, but at least this gives you some data so you can make a choice (hopefully the right one).
this is true.
we had a big new years party 4 or 5 years ago and we bought a breathalizer so people could see what they would blow.
we used it for fun and gags, but ultimately, at the end, it saved people's lives (perhaps) and possibly even a few DUIs. towards the end of the party as the ones standing started to leave, they would blow and everyone that was over the legal limit called a taxi or worked out a ride with someone well under the legal limit.
but this device is not the savior to teen drunk driving (which sounds like the reasoning behind the invention) - although it may cut down some incidents by 20% or so.
bottom line, you just can't prevent people from being stupid - and it's not funny because most of the time it means the loss of life of another instead of the stupid one that caused it.
i type 18 hours a day, and my hands are too big for every keyboard i've tried. I settled on the MS split, which, thus far, has worked out the best.
:-}
the solution of taping my fingers together works as it forces me to move my arms from my shoulder instead of stressing my wrists or reaching with a finger.
true, I have slowed down to about 50wpm, but as the saying goes 'slow and steady wins the race'
I have a 40x15 office (albeit filled with workstations blowing hot air). but if I ever get demoted, I sure as hell want one!
(do I have to RTFA now?)
that you are :-}