Probably because ies4Linux identifies as IE 6 running on Windows 98. Go visit a page that displays your user agent with it sometime and see for yourself.
IE did make it to OS X as a Carbon app. It had some issues that never got fixed before it was dropped, which was just after Safari was announced. There was even an IE 6 in development, but that code only ended up getting used within MSN for Mac OS X.
Alternatively, we could view it as a public service. If we turn his server into a steaming puddle of goo, nobody else will be able to read the nonsense.
That caller will benefit us, whether it is by speaking well of us to others or continuing business with us, it will eventually pay off in making sure that my paycheck is just a little more secure. It is selfish gain, but the key is to actually care about and try to understand those that are most important to your success.
At one of my previous employers, an online/telephone based travel agency, we were allowed to suggest that customers might want to check with airlines we didn't have the ability to sell (notably Southwest and JetBlue) when they weren't liking what we had to offer. The idea I believe was we'd essentially already lost the sale but by providing the information they would need to get what they wanted, it would leave a positive impression and hopefully they'd come back to us next time, or at least maybe we'd still be able to get the car or hotel booking.
The same company told us in training, "the customer is not always right, but the customer is always the customer", and I think that goes along with what kfg was saying earlier in this thread.
POP access is one of the premium features she didn't pay for. I did for a few years but switched to a free account with Lycos after I moved much of my email to Gmail.
I've seen items with a starting bid or buy it now price higher than price on the manufacturer's online store. In the one instance that stands out in my memory, I can't remember if anyone had bought the item or similar items at the higher price, but I instead went to a local retailer who was selling it for the same price the manufacturer's online store wanted.
Until AMD catches up and lowers prices to get some of that market share back, at which point Intel will have to lower prices again to keep from losing too much market share, and so on...
Definitely valid problems, and why the analogy mostly works. In the case of Word, there actually is one advantage: You can make your own documents (nails) with Word 97 (the old hammer) as long as you want; the problem comes in when you try to use documents from other people (new nails). Most people can't make their own nails.
Well, you wouldn't have to buy a new hammer, just like you can keep using Word 97 if you want. It would be more like, if after a few years, they came out with new nails and you had to buy the new hammer to use the new nails. As long as you only need to use the old nails you're fine with the old hammer.
KDE's implementation of SSH-as-filesystem (called fish:// [kde.org]) is darned slick
Interesting, hadn't heard of this before and just tried it. Is there any advantage to using fish:// instead of sftp:// in Konqueror (aside from it might work with servers that have the SFTP subsystem disabled)?
I think I've found that bug report before. Maybe OpenSuSE got it fixed but not in Fedora. I'm running FC5 still so I may never get the updated packages that fix the problem, but we also have an X60 running FC6 that had the same issues, though I don't know if there are any recent updates for it that might fix it. Not that it would matter, our Xen image is based on FC5 so it won't run on FC6 anyway:
Q. When creating a guest the message "Invalid argument" is displayed.
A. This usually indicates that the kernel image you are trying to boot is incompatible with the hypervisor. This will be seen if trying to run a FC5 (non-PAE) kernel on FC6 (which is PAE only), or if trying to run a bare metal kernel.
Would it be worth anything if Lenovo enabled it? The X60 won't boot with Xen anyway. Normally they hang trying to start xend (on FC5 and FC6 anyway). Some Google searches turned up suggestions that there's a conflict with the video card on these things. Hopefully, if Lenovo ever releases a BIOS update to allow enabling VT, they'll also fix that problem.
I'm not sure about Blackberry or Treo having not used them, but I used to have a Sidekick and while it was a nifty data device, it made a rather lousy phone. If you used a headset it was ok, but otherwise holding it up to your ear was awkward. Too short and fat. To get an idea of what it was like, try holding a bar of soap to your ear. Lever 2000 would be about the right shape and size. Plus the battery was pretty weak, only about two days of standby time.
I'm concerned about the iPhone's form factor as well. It looks like it may be a bit big for a lot of people to carry around, especially those that have gotten used to the little RAZRs and such. When I gave up on the Sidekick, I got a little Samsung flip phone. I'm not sure I'd want to go back to carrying around a big phone again, I'll have to wait to see when it comes out and what Cingular's data rates are. I'd almost be more interested in a wifi-only version, and one friend of mine who wants to be able to make Skype calls with it.
I do think the iPhone will be a success. It certainly answers the wishes of at least three groups:
It has been said many times that Fedora has never been intended as a long-term supported product. Rather it's a bleeding edge system where new stuff gets tried out and the wrinkles get ironed out before going into Red Hat Enterprise. If you need a long-term production machine with long term patches, you don't really want Fedora in the first place, but rather Red Hat Enterprise or one of its clones (CentOS, etc).
I had a need for an incoming fax number, but I don't have a landline (and to be honest, I'm not even sure if I still have a working modem anywhere, let alone a fax machine), so I signed up on this site that offers a free trial: efax.com.
If all you needed was an incoming fax number, why didn't you just sign up for an eFax Free account? I've had one for years and haven't had any problems. It's not a local number, but then neither is my cell phone. It doesn't get used very much, so the 20 pages/month limit for free accounts (is that new? Hadn't noticed that before) isn't a problem. They do send email ads from time to time, but it is identified as coming from them and isn't too frequent, and Gmail's spam filters catch it and route it appropriately.
Geez, maybe Nielsen failed to notice that the remote control was special-purpose designed and had to fit into a cell phone.
He also states that we use wheels to control cars instead of joysticks because its fast and accurate. He's obviously never seen the flight deck of an Airbus A320, which uses a sidestick instead of a wheel.
Again, true, but kind of incomplete. I remember Konfabulator, and before that I remember various Windows standalone utilites, and before that I remember System 6 Desk Accessories for the Mac, and before that I remember Workbench applications for the Amiga that did much the same thing.... see what I mean?
Apple's Desk Accessories actually go all the way back to the first Mac System Software in 1984. Alarm Clock, Calculator, Control Panel, Note Pad, Puzzle, Scrapbook...
That would be nice. While they're add it, why not add SFTP too? That's one of the things I like about Konqueror, using the same interface to copy files whether locally or across the network.
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Probably because ies4Linux identifies as IE 6 running on Windows 98. Go visit a page that displays your user agent with it sometime and see for yourself.
IE did make it to OS X as a Carbon app. It had some issues that never got fixed before it was dropped, which was just after Safari was announced. There was even an IE 6 in development, but that code only ended up getting used within MSN for Mac OS X.
January 20, 2004, was the release date for the AppleWorks 6.2.2 update for Windows: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/appleworks6 22forwindows.html. It installed and ran fine for me on Vista RC1.
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Last OS X version was 6.2.9 on January 14, 2004: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/appleworks
Alternatively, we could view it as a public service. If we turn his server into a steaming puddle of goo, nobody else will be able to read the nonsense.
The same company told us in training, "the customer is not always right, but the customer is always the customer", and I think that goes along with what kfg was saying earlier in this thread.
POP access is one of the premium features she didn't pay for. I did for a few years but switched to a free account with Lycos after I moved much of my email to Gmail.
Ah yes, the joys of copying 400 kilobytes of data on a system with only 128 kilobytes of memory.
I guess you didn't have the external floppy drive?
I've seen items with a starting bid or buy it now price higher than price on the manufacturer's online store. In the one instance that stands out in my memory, I can't remember if anyone had bought the item or similar items at the higher price, but I instead went to a local retailer who was selling it for the same price the manufacturer's online store wanted.
Was the Firefox logo timed to coincide with a Google Maps photography flyover? If not, that's the difference.
Until AMD catches up and lowers prices to get some of that market share back, at which point Intel will have to lower prices again to keep from losing too much market share, and so on...
Definitely valid problems, and why the analogy mostly works. In the case of Word, there actually is one advantage: You can make your own documents (nails) with Word 97 (the old hammer) as long as you want; the problem comes in when you try to use documents from other people (new nails). Most people can't make their own nails.
Well, you wouldn't have to buy a new hammer, just like you can keep using Word 97 if you want. It would be more like, if after a few years, they came out with new nails and you had to buy the new hammer to use the new nails. As long as you only need to use the old nails you're fine with the old hammer.
Interesting, hadn't heard of this before and just tried it. Is there any advantage to using fish:// instead of sftp:// in Konqueror (aside from it might work with servers that have the SFTP subsystem disabled)?
From http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstart
Would it be worth anything if Lenovo enabled it? The X60 won't boot with Xen anyway. Normally they hang trying to start xend (on FC5 and FC6 anyway). Some Google searches turned up suggestions that there's a conflict with the video card on these things. Hopefully, if Lenovo ever releases a BIOS update to allow enabling VT, they'll also fix that problem.
I'm concerned about the iPhone's form factor as well. It looks like it may be a bit big for a lot of people to carry around, especially those that have gotten used to the little RAZRs and such. When I gave up on the Sidekick, I got a little Samsung flip phone. I'm not sure I'd want to go back to carrying around a big phone again, I'll have to wait to see when it comes out and what Cingular's data rates are. I'd almost be more interested in a wifi-only version, and one friend of mine who wants to be able to make Skype calls with it.
I do think the iPhone will be a success. It certainly answers the wishes of at least three groups:
It's Fedora's fault. They haven't upgraded to Firefox 2 yet (the one with the built in spellchecker).
It has been said many times that Fedora has never been intended as a long-term supported product. Rather it's a bleeding edge system where new stuff gets tried out and the wrinkles get ironed out before going into Red Hat Enterprise. If you need a long-term production machine with long term patches, you don't really want Fedora in the first place, but rather Red Hat Enterprise or one of its clones (CentOS, etc).
If all you needed was an incoming fax number, why didn't you just sign up for an eFax Free account? I've had one for years and haven't had any problems. It's not a local number, but then neither is my cell phone. It doesn't get used very much, so the 20 pages/month limit for free accounts (is that new? Hadn't noticed that before) isn't a problem. They do send email ads from time to time, but it is identified as coming from them and isn't too frequent, and Gmail's spam filters catch it and route it appropriately.
alias nano="nano -w" is found in most of my .bashrc files. You can also add set nowrap to /etc/nanorc or ~/.nanorc. I just noticed that option today.
Fry's the grocery store is. Fry's the electronics store was founded by the kids of one of the founders of the grocery store.
Minor correction: Motorola's chip producing spinoff is Freescale. X-Scale is Intel's implementation of 5th generation ARM.
He also states that we use wheels to control cars instead of joysticks because its fast and accurate. He's obviously never seen the flight deck of an Airbus A320, which uses a sidestick instead of a wheel.
Apple's Desk Accessories actually go all the way back to the first Mac System Software in 1984. Alarm Clock, Calculator, Control Panel, Note Pad, Puzzle, Scrapbook...
I don't know if the Lisa had them.
That would be nice. While they're add it, why not add SFTP too? That's one of the things I like about Konqueror, using the same interface to copy files whether locally or across the network.