Most email solutions have some form of IMAP connector so run a local IMAP server on a box. COnnect to that via you email client and drag your email into the imap folders. I had an old outlook PST file and few old OE relics that I migrated onto a more flexible UNIX solution just by connecting Outlook (imported OE into outlook easily enough) to IMAP and draggging the emails into the IMAP folder.
Basicly there should be least some form of migration/upgrade available to most formats that least allows you a way to get it onto IMAP. Worst case you may have to script something but I'd guess that would be some real perverse format and would very very old, but there again by definition it wouldn;t be that complicated (ie pre attachm,ent days type affairs). Also if your realy stuck you could always use a macro program to copy and paste them all out:).
Managment are in there nature dumb. They come along change everything that predecesors did, and then outline new 5 year plan. Coz by the time the new plans start showing how crap and wasteful they are the managment have either left or taken a golden handshake, they get there money nomatter what mess they make and in 5 years, more than enough to retire on. If they do well then they either stay another 5 years until they mess up or move onto new pasture's generaly given they can bag a bigger bonus and begin a new 5 year plan of destruction. Basicly managment are like accountantsm, they dont care how you waste your money but unless you waste it on time youer not getting any more, sod saving budgets and planning beyond 5 year goals. or in Caleys case she set herself up for 3 year fall with 3 year plans, cunning but shortsighted, perfect managment.
The move towards c# for a M$ coding shop would be the logical progression. Had you been a UNIX developer and had C# thrust upon you then I'd totaly understand your move but given you are as you say already a M$ developer. Would the move to C# be the most logical/benifical move for you given how M$ pulls it weight like a lump of jeloow following obcence rules of enertia. If M$ wants to go south for the winter then they go North for the winter then you as a M$ dev pretty much have to follow them or find all your tools and API hooks totaly out of date before your compile even finish's.
The only clos comparision I can recall was being `offered` a AS/400 admin coarse (new IT director with mainframe butt kiboshing nix migration type situ), as a AIX admin I was like, there is a copy of yellow pages over there, you go play with it, we are not ammused. k thx bye.
So basicly if you wallow in the pig pen then dont feel offendeded when newer mud comes along. But if you strutt your stuff in the hen house and somebody tries to dump some mud on you, you quickly learn how to fly again to new ground.
During the early computing days a few magazines gave away flexi-discs (records to us laymen) that had software on them. Reason was that distribution/pressing of flexi-disc records was way way cheaper than attaching a cassette tothe magazine. These that I have date back to 1981. One nice one has VIC-20, ZX81 and some PET software on the disc, also believe has track for Dragon micro but been a long long time since i dug them out.
Today we have the great cover CD's (which are about as cheap to make as flexi-discs were back then), though CD's do fly alot lot further @:_).
good point about web app's, but that would be a case as is for user lic's. Simultanious users at any one time. Or in the case of a database,; number of connections/sessions in the case of a web application.
However, this does lead to the potential case of single backend application handling all the databse connections and soley dealing with the databse, appearing as and only needing one connection. Even limitatioins on size can be got around easily enough and in alot of cases most desirable for many reasons.
Hmmmm, I guess we may just end up with transactionaly thorottled engines depending on how much we pay. i.e. 50 tps 50$ a month, 100tps 100$ a month 1000 tps 200$ p....... This again, whilst not cpu based, does still rest on the number of users heavily more. Though with certain types of applications this approach would have its ups and downs. Datawharehouses would be expensive, but ifyou have say a site lic. per tps then datawarehouse become more palatable.
Costs per use of a program should be based upon the users and not what it runs on. If somebody wants to run Oracle on a single 900 cpu box then they should pay X amount. If two users access the database at a time on a single CPU box it should be twice X (although sliding sacale for colume usage). More users == more strain and support variations than a single user on some uber nutter box. Maybe when it comes to support a small premium per cpu given the slight increased coding and as such more code to go wrong due to process interaction across CPU's, beyond that the bigist fault in any error on a computer is always the user.
Lets face it without the user would there be an error (think tree falling in an empty forrest;).
So no too per CPU costing and YES to per user costing.
If they are so smart, then why do they let themselves get into these preasured position's. SMart people plan for the worst case and anything that goes wrong with that is good news. If they dont and get stressed out about it then they cant be that smart. Although some situations are best not dwelled upon, I mean like chess you can work too far ahead you overlook a 1 ply bad move due to focusing 16 ply ahead for too long;).
True intelligence is the ability to dum the problem down before it dums you. Anyhow who defines who an intelligent person is, usualy the stupid.
Its like comparing a calculator with dead batteries with an abbacus otherwise.
Now I only have a very limated understanding of the issues and electronics, given my lack of electronics experience. But couldn';t the leakage by utilised in a some form of intigrated peltier coolining to help pump the heat out of the chip and as such making it cooler help in a small way to reduce leakage. ANother, and call it wacky thought that struck me ws why not have another layer of large silicon that is powered by the leakage. It look to me that the leaked power from the 70mn process is nearly enough for the total power on the 90mn process and then the leakage from the 90 would do something just over the 180mn process. In a sence another form of heat pump:).
Anyhow I'm sure I've either given you electronics guru's somthing to thing about or at the very least, laugh about. Enjoy:)
Well without sidetracking onto how databases also have to distribute the data.... as a basic comparrision and example of prior art as a challange to what is effectivly hashing a file, who could argue. The point I was making was that it isn't anything that hasn;t already been done before, as with alot of these silly patents that IP hoarders seem to like. As for computer leasons grip, man CERT's and adverts about do you want a job in computers.
I know what you mean and trust me whilst a easy on dB formulae can be fascinating I've probably dealt with enough managers/end-users to know that a simple bullit list type fact is all they generaly need/understand, alas;(.
One positive thing patents like this do actualy have a positive effect in is that they help/force people to actualy look at how things are done and alot of the time come up with something way way better, GIF/JPG/PNG and the whole compression area being the more well known one about.
But as far as simply hashing files if you realy want to look at it at its most basic simplest eliment could be considered nothing more than a a rather large checkdigit or at its lowest common denominater parity checking, its nothing new.
Hopefully P2P will look at this as an opertunity to push forward to the next level, but then tracing files and anonymous transfer/hashing of said files is totaly seperate issue for totaly different reasons. A combination of distibuted storage/process over a P2P network were you also had redundant backup and the ability to tag files for levels of access. thats were its going to go. bit then some would say Plan9 already pointed the way on that, and were still to outgrow Unix. Can often wonder if human evolution had gone the same way as software evolution had gone, would we be paying royalties to monkeys or would they be paying us or claiming prior art. Its a tough call and alot of hassel, mainly why alot of these patents get through and why alot of people blindly give creadance to them by just hadning over the few extra cents per use, only when we get open source does the truth run cold.
Any old databse basicly gets data and hashed it to generate an internal index key, ie not the real data but a unique identifyer to said data. Now given that and this approach was even taught in my days at school and were talking 20+ years ago.
So just counter sue for extortion/intimidation/blackmailing and stuff these IP wannabe's. People who try to enforce silly patents are worse than organised crime, because the law dont see them for what they are; Well at least for now. Things change, just need bigger loo paper to handle it.
Ok first get new uber paint, dump load of that tinsel you have left over from xmas into it.
Now, and here is the clever bit. Paint a big RTFM on the side of your house and go read your wireless networking manual. I mean otherwise your the type of person who would just pile up layers of toilet roll in the loo without ever realising you can just flush it.
Now do I change the defaults on this linksys, Or just repaint the house. Hmmmmm cost of copper in wiring up the house compared to cost of wireless networking and plastering the entire house in copper, its a tough call. Manual pls.
Given that we all know loads of people who have dialled numbers due to leaving the keyguard off in the pockets, or even recieved call. Imagine what this gem would do if left activated in your pocket 8/
Still as long as it terminates silly support calls when you throw it at a wall I dont mind.
Phone: "I noticed your hand waving up and down, would you like me to conect you to a sex-chat hotline" User: Puts his meat away, and turns phone recognition off.
In further news today: 1000's of computer's around the World today began running climate modeling software.
The Combined heat output from all this extra computer processing is expected to bring most model predictions forward by several years due to the extra heat expended.
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SETI - The project were you can look for life on another planet whilst help kill off the current one quicker. I mean would an `intelligent` form of life be chucking out loads of extra signals wasting resources; Search for dead planets maybe, but intelligent life, HA.
Seriously folks, whilst this is nice it is kludging. Heck anybody could do a JPG>RAW>new jpg format say JP2k or PNG, but to call it JPG still is like wrong, let aklone get that excited by it. If your going to redo a format in such a way that it changes the original file in that it needs another processing stage then it is a different file and not the.jpg all apps no and love and understand. Look at the sucess JPG 2k has had oevr.jpg. Or even.PNG. Basicly soon as you stick another abstraction layer over the.jpg file it ceases to be a.jpg file.
Now they are talking lossless, ie not adding any more loss in quality which is an achievement, but it aint.jpg.
Basicly this is and should be viewed as a.jpg storage achieve format. With this in mind perhaps they could expand it a little so they can add to.jpg's lackings and effectivly create animated.jpg's, that would add value to what there doing, enough that people WOULD adopt it into there browsers, from there it just goes and goes.
So my sugegstion would be to forget this new extension and flesh it some more so you have some timming control for slideshowing the `zipped`.jpg's and present there new format as animated.jpgs's or.jpg archive storage. Just dont kludge another wrapper for the hel of it, if its a new wheel, call it a new wheel.
"Wish is the first Ultra Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (UMMORPG(TM)). "Ultra" means that Wish supports more than 10,000 simultaneous players in a single, seamless world, without any zones or "shards". "
cough www.eve-online.com
"29.11.2004 12K Barrier Broken
Sunday, November 28th at 20:40:00, EVE Online broke the 12,000 simultaneous user barrier when 12.258 players were on at the same time. This record comes at the heels of EVE's latest expansion - EXODUS. "
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Most email solutions have some form of IMAP connector so run a local IMAP server on a box. COnnect to that via you email client and drag your email into the imap folders. I had an old outlook PST file and few old OE relics that I migrated onto a more flexible UNIX solution just by connecting Outlook (imported OE into outlook easily enough) to IMAP and draggging the emails into the IMAP folder.
:).
Basicly there should be least some form of migration/upgrade available to most formats that least allows you a way to get it onto IMAP. Worst case you may have to script something but I'd guess that would be some real perverse format and would very very old, but there again by definition it wouldn;t be that complicated (ie pre attachm,ent days type affairs). Also if your realy stuck you could always use a macro program to copy and paste them all out
Managment are in there nature dumb. They come along change everything that predecesors did, and then outline new 5 year plan. Coz by the time the new plans start showing how crap and wasteful they are the managment have either left or taken a golden handshake, they get there money nomatter what mess they make and in 5 years, more than enough to retire on. If they do well then they either stay another 5 years until they mess up or move onto new pasture's generaly given they can bag a bigger bonus and begin a new 5 year plan of destruction. Basicly managment are like accountantsm, they dont care how you waste your money but unless you waste it on time youer not getting any more, sod saving budgets and planning beyond 5 year goals. or in Caleys case she set herself up for 3 year fall with 3 year plans, cunning but shortsighted, perfect managment.
The move towards c# for a M$ coding shop would be the logical progression. Had you been a UNIX developer and had C# thrust upon you then I'd totaly understand your move but given you are as you say already a M$ developer. Would the move to C# be the most logical/benifical move for you given how M$ pulls it weight like a lump of jeloow following obcence rules of enertia. If M$ wants to go south for the winter then they go North for the winter then you as a M$ dev pretty much have to follow them or find all your tools and API hooks totaly out of date before your compile even finish's.
The only clos comparision I can recall was being `offered` a AS/400 admin coarse (new IT director with mainframe butt kiboshing nix migration type situ), as a AIX admin I was like, there is a copy of yellow pages over there, you go play with it, we are not ammused. k thx bye.
So basicly if you wallow in the pig pen then dont feel offendeded when newer mud comes along. But if you strutt your stuff in the hen house and somebody tries to dump some mud on you, you quickly learn how to fly again to new ground.
During the early computing days a few magazines gave away flexi-discs (records to us laymen) that had software on them. Reason was that distribution/pressing of flexi-disc records was way way cheaper than attaching a cassette tothe magazine. These that I have date back to 1981. One nice one has VIC-20, ZX81 and some PET software on the disc, also believe has track for Dragon micro but been a long long time since i dug them out. Today we have the great cover CD's (which are about as cheap to make as flexi-discs were back then), though CD's do fly alot lot further @:_).
If you post the same story enough times, eventualy your'll get the right combination and break it :)
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There is no such thing as duplication, only verification, alas alot verify the stupid.
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All that distibuted processing power to work out how long to hold the `1` key down :)
Then there would be nobody to measure this global warming let alone call it such. One mans global warming as another dinasours longterm summer :).
good point about web app's, but that would be a case as is for user lic's. Simultanious users at any one time. Or in the case of a database,; number of connections/sessions in the case of a web application. However, this does lead to the potential case of single backend application handling all the databse connections and soley dealing with the databse, appearing as and only needing one connection. Even limitatioins on size can be got around easily enough and in alot of cases most desirable for many reasons. Hmmmm, I guess we may just end up with transactionaly thorottled engines depending on how much we pay. i.e. 50 tps 50$ a month, 100tps 100$ a month 1000 tps 200$ p....... This again, whilst not cpu based, does still rest on the number of users heavily more. Though with certain types of applications this approach would have its ups and downs. Datawharehouses would be expensive, but ifyou have say a site lic. per tps then datawarehouse become more palatable.
Costs per use of a program should be based upon the users and not what it runs on. If somebody wants to run Oracle on a single 900 cpu box then they should pay X amount. If two users access the database at a time on a single CPU box it should be twice X (although sliding sacale for colume usage). More users == more strain and support variations than a single user on some uber nutter box. Maybe when it comes to support a small premium per cpu given the slight increased coding and as such more code to go wrong due to process interaction across CPU's, beyond that the bigist fault in any error on a computer is always the user. Lets face it without the user would there be an error (think tree falling in an empty forrest ;).
So no too per CPU costing and YES to per user costing.
If they are so smart, then why do they let themselves get into these preasured position's. SMart people plan for the worst case and anything that goes wrong with that is good news. If they dont and get stressed out about it then they cant be that smart. Although some situations are best not dwelled upon, I mean like chess you can work too far ahead you overlook a 1 ply bad move due to focusing 16 ply ahead for too long ;).
True intelligence is the ability to dum the problem down before it dums you. Anyhow who defines who an intelligent person is, usualy the stupid.
Its like comparing a calculator with dead batteries with an abbacus otherwise.
Now I only have a very limated understanding of the issues and electronics, given my lack of electronics experience. But couldn';t the leakage by utilised in a some form of intigrated peltier coolining to help pump the heat out of the chip and as such making it cooler help in a small way to reduce leakage. ANother, and call it wacky thought that struck me ws why not have another layer of large silicon that is powered by the leakage. It look to me that the leaked power from the 70mn process is nearly enough for the total power on the 90mn process and then the leakage from the 90 would do something just over the 180mn process. In a sence another form of heat pump :).
Anyhow I'm sure I've either given you electronics guru's somthing to thing about or at the very least, laugh about. Enjoy :)
But MQ does pub/sub as well as point to point, does it not.
My invite to this got filtered out, hence I missed it :/
Well without sidetracking onto how databases also have to distribute the data.... as a basic comparrision and example of prior art as a challange to what is effectivly hashing a file, who could argue. The point I was making was that it isn't anything that hasn;t already been done before, as with alot of these silly patents that IP hoarders seem to like. As for computer leasons grip, man CERT's and adverts about do you want a job in computers. I know what you mean and trust me whilst a easy on dB formulae can be fascinating I've probably dealt with enough managers/end-users to know that a simple bullit list type fact is all they generaly need/understand, alas ;(.
One positive thing patents like this do actualy have a positive effect in is that they help/force people to actualy look at how things are done and alot of the time come up with something way way better, GIF/JPG/PNG and the whole compression area being the more well known one about.
But as far as simply hashing files if you realy want to look at it at its most basic simplest eliment could be considered nothing more than a a rather large checkdigit or at its lowest common denominater parity checking, its nothing new.
Hopefully P2P will look at this as an opertunity to push forward to the next level, but then tracing files and anonymous transfer/hashing of said files is totaly seperate issue for totaly different reasons. A combination of distibuted storage/process over a P2P network were you also had redundant backup and the ability to tag files for levels of access. thats were its going to go. bit then some would say Plan9 already pointed the way on that, and were still to outgrow Unix. Can often wonder if human evolution had gone the same way as software evolution had gone, would we be paying royalties to monkeys or would they be paying us or claiming prior art. Its a tough call and alot of hassel, mainly why alot of these patents get through and why alot of people blindly give creadance to them by just hadning over the few extra cents per use, only when we get open source does the truth run cold.
Any old databse basicly gets data and hashed it to generate an internal index key, ie not the real data but a unique identifyer to said data. Now given that and this approach was even taught in my days at school and were talking 20+ years ago. So just counter sue for extortion/intimidation/blackmailing and stuff these IP wannabe's. People who try to enforce silly patents are worse than organised crime, because the law dont see them for what they are; Well at least for now. Things change, just need bigger loo paper to handle it.
Ok first get new uber paint, dump load of that tinsel you have left over from xmas into it.
Now, and here is the clever bit. Paint a big RTFM on the side of your house and go read your wireless networking manual. I mean otherwise your the type of person who would just pile up layers of toilet roll in the loo without ever realising you can just flush it.
Now do I change the defaults on this linksys, Or just repaint the house. Hmmmmm cost of copper in wiring up the house compared to cost of wireless networking and plastering the entire house in copper, its a tough call. Manual pls.
Comments removed due to legal reason: we above you, la la la. :\
Given that we all know loads of people who have dialled numbers due to leaving the keyguard off in the pockets, or even recieved call. Imagine what this gem would do if left activated in your pocket 8/ Still as long as it terminates silly support calls when you throw it at a wall I dont mind.
Phone: "I noticed your hand waving up and down, would you like me to conect you to a sex-chat hotline"
User: Puts his meat away, and turns phone recognition off.
Because they show you what a fun good film could be then show you the main feature which is usualy nowere as as good as the trailer you just saw.
LOL, maybe but we dont care about the stats anymore :D
In further news today: 1000's of computer's around the World today began running climate modeling software.
The Combined heat output from all this extra computer processing is expected to bring most model predictions forward by several years due to the extra heat expended.
--
SETI - The project were you can look for life on another planet whilst help kill off the current one quicker. I mean would an `intelligent` form of life be chucking out loads of extra signals wasting resources; Search for dead planets maybe, but intelligent life, HA.
Seriously folks, whilst this is nice it is kludging. Heck anybody could do a JPG>RAW>new jpg format say JP2k or PNG, but to call it JPG still is like wrong, let aklone get that excited by it. If your going to redo a format in such a way that it changes the original file in that it needs another processing stage then it is a different file and not the .jpg all apps no and love and understand. Look at the sucess JPG 2k has had oevr .jpg. Or even .PNG. Basicly soon as you stick another abstraction layer over the .jpg file it ceases to be a .jpg file.
Now they are talking lossless, ie not adding any more loss in quality which is an achievement, but it aint .jpg.
Basicly this is and should be viewed as a .jpg storage achieve format. With this in mind perhaps they could expand it a little so they can add to .jpg's lackings and effectivly create animated .jpg's, that would add value to what there doing, enough that people WOULD adopt it into there browsers, from there it just goes and goes.
So my sugegstion would be to forget this new extension and flesh it some more so you have some timming control for slideshowing the `zipped` .jpg's and present there new format as animated .jpgs's or .jpg archive storage. Just dont kludge another wrapper for the hel of it, if its a new wheel, call it a new wheel.
"Wish is the first Ultra Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (UMMORPG(TM)). "Ultra" means that Wish supports more than 10,000 simultaneous players in a single, seamless world, without any zones or "shards".
"
cough www.eve-online.com
"29.11.2004
12K Barrier Broken
Sunday, November 28th at 20:40:00, EVE Online broke the 12,000 simultaneous user barrier when 12.258 players were on at the same time. This record comes at the heels of EVE's latest expansion - EXODUS.
"