I had a hotmail account and there was no way to delete it.
The only way for the account to be removed was if it was inactive for three months.
I tried many times to just stop logging in and checking my mail, but i always caved in and looked "just in case someone had sent something important".
I was on track to never being able to deactivate that account.
The maximum number of characters in the password was 20 characters.
What I ended up doing was typing in 20 random characters, without looking, in notepad, then changed my password to that using copy/paste so I effectively locked myself out of the account. I needed the copy/paste so I could type in the new password twice.
No, my desktop is 2 years old and has a Pentium 2.53GHz in it.
It hadn't really gotten out of hand when I bought that machine. Speed was still my main concern then. But, as my previous post said, it won't be for my next machine.
That page you linked to was very interesting. Thanks.
The best chance that this can work is to find a way that both the consumer and the computer shop can save money.
For example, the store can offer a computer and a choice of two software packages.
package a) commercial software with Norton and Microsoft works or Office and so on.
package b) the free software alternative but the store can tack on $50 on the computer price.
Well, you say, they can't charge for free software. While that is true, they can "fiddle" with the numbers. They can raise the base computer price $25, and offer a $25 rebate if you buy the commercial software package.
They can also sell a 1 year support contract for package b for $50 (and then they buy the service from Geeks on wheels or something for $25).
There, they make $50 ($25 + $50 - $25) for selling a system with free software. And the customer saved even more.
Win-win.
What is good is that the store builds a relationship with geeks on wheels and that can also be translated into money. For instance, whenever Geeks on wheels services that computer they would buy the part or software from the store.
The remaining problem is that the computer shop buys their computers from HP (for instance) and they may refuse to sell a system without at least MS Works on it because of some contract that they in turn have with Microsoft.
I don't care if browsers compete with performance. I don't even much care if they compete with functionality.
I just want security.
Well, OK, I also want standards compliance which maybe counts as functionality. But no crazy "innovative" feature that they believe will woo the public.
I actually realised that you meant it as a joke. But I wanted to see if there was a serious and thought out opinion behind it.
I also wanted to know if the comment mainly was against Visual Studio (Anti MS), or code generation using XML and XSLT.
Code generation is not the solution for everything. But there are some places where it makes sense. I could go on, but you can take a look at the link below. It is a short read with my take on it.
The reason I'm basing it on XML and XSLT is because that is a stable, widespread and powerful technology. And it is also a technology where your knowledge about it can be used for many other things. It is win-win.
The tool came about because I wanted to generate some code. I downloaded CodeSmith and although it is a great tool it has a special code generation language that I don't want to spend time to learn and that locks you into using CodeSmith.
That's why I built my own simple tool.
Sorry for boring you to tears with a subject that interests me.:)
In 1993, the American Government funded a study to see why the head of a man's penis was larger than the shaft. After one year and $180,000.00, they concluded that the reason the head was larger than the shaft was to give the man more pleasure during sex.
After the US published the study, Germany decided to do their own study. After $250,000.00, and 3 years of research, they concluded that the reason was to give the woman more pleasure during sex.
Poland, unsatisfied with these findings, conducted their own study. After 2 weeks and a cost of around $75.46, they concluded that it was to keep a man's hand from flying off and hitting him in the forehead.
Slashdot Mirror
How fitting the slogan of the Linux section is all of a sudden. Check the top left corner of this page.
Hi,
This is offtopic.
Are you aware what your sig says?
I don't mind, I'm just making sure that noone changed it on you and you never noticed because you don't have sigs on.
I had a hotmail account and there was no way to delete it.
The only way for the account to be removed was if it was inactive for three months.
I tried many times to just stop logging in and checking my mail, but i always caved in and looked "just in case someone had sent something important".
I was on track to never being able to deactivate that account.
The maximum number of characters in the password was 20 characters.
What I ended up doing was typing in 20 random characters, without looking, in notepad, then changed my password to that using copy/paste so I effectively locked myself out of the account. I needed the copy/paste so I could type in the new password twice.
That was what finally worked for me.
So,
Someone can download illegal and immoral content and the server will have a record of my IP?
I don't think so.
Even if it is well known that my IP wasn't the final destination.
If that indeed is the reason then it seems like an awful high price to pay for ones pride.
I don't think it is, but I definitely think it plays a part.
Space at your fingertips.
Building out wireless is cheaper than building land line phone service.
Chances are, that you'll have great phone service in places where there are no land lines.
Many third world countries which never had land lines is skipping that step and going directly for wireless.
At least this is what I've heard.
I'd be glad if anyone could substantiate or refute this.
No, my desktop is 2 years old and has a Pentium 2.53GHz in it.
It hadn't really gotten out of hand when I bought that machine. Speed was still my main concern then. But, as my previous post said, it won't be for my next machine.
That page you linked to was very interesting. Thanks.
I wouldn't be surprised if the sex industry is one of the top three killer app's that drives this technology forward.
It seems they are driving the adoption of many technologies these days.
For me speed is no longer the biggest selling point for a CPU.
It is on second place after power consumption.
Why does the PSU have to be internal?
Why can't it be external like for laptops. That way heat isn't dissipated inside the computer case.
Can someone straighen me out here?
I'm a fan of Debian, but I think that Debians effort to support the myriad of architectures out there is hurting it.
It does a great service to the rest of the Linux community though, because it helps keep things portable.
But having a requirement that something work on a large number of platforms slows down the release cycle.
50% of U.S. believes that Europe and Asia are other planets.
Did you hear who invented this?
Al Gaeore!
+5 Groaner!
Are you telling me that noone has trademarked "foon" yet?
It consists of smaller jobs which are specialized and therefore communication intensive.
The best chance that this can work is to find a way that both the consumer and the computer shop can save money.
For example, the store can offer a computer and a choice of two software packages.
package a) commercial software with Norton and Microsoft works or Office and so on.
package b) the free software alternative but the store can tack on $50 on the computer price.
Well, you say, they can't charge for free software. While that is true, they can "fiddle" with the numbers. They can raise the base computer price $25, and offer a $25 rebate if you buy the commercial software package.
They can also sell a 1 year support contract for package b for $50 (and then they buy the service from Geeks on wheels or something for $25).
There, they make $50 ($25 + $50 - $25) for selling a system with free software. And the customer saved even more.
Win-win.
What is good is that the store builds a relationship with geeks on wheels and that can also be translated into money. For instance, whenever Geeks on wheels services that computer they would buy the part or software from the store.
The remaining problem is that the computer shop buys their computers from HP (for instance) and they may refuse to sell a system without at least MS Works on it because of some contract that they in turn have with Microsoft.
I don't care if browsers compete with performance. I don't even much care if they compete with functionality.
I just want security.
Well, OK, I also want standards compliance which maybe counts as functionality. But no crazy "innovative" feature that they believe will woo the public.
Heh..
m l
:)
I actually realised that you meant it as a joke. But I wanted to see if there was a serious and thought out opinion behind it.
I also wanted to know if the comment mainly was against Visual Studio (Anti MS), or code generation using XML and XSLT.
Code generation is not the solution for everything. But there are some places where it makes sense. I could go on, but you can take a look at the link below. It is a short read with my take on it.
http://vsxgen.sourceforge.net/whentousecodegen.ht
The reason I'm basing it on XML and XSLT is because that is a stable, widespread and powerful technology. And it is also a technology where your knowledge about it can be used for many other things. It is win-win.
The tool came about because I wanted to generate some code. I downloaded CodeSmith and although it is a great tool it has a special code generation language that I don't want to spend time to learn and that locks you into using CodeSmith.
That's why I built my own simple tool.
Sorry for boring you to tears with a subject that interests me.
Interesting.
What is it that you don't like and/or disagree with?
I'm a sucker for bleeding edge.
.bat files.
I was using OS/2 back in the day (I used Linux too). Windows was just too mainstream.
I found that OS/2 had a new scripting language that I hadn't seen before. Wow, a new thing I can learn to stay ahead of the curve.
I spent quite a bit of time learning it before I found out that it was old even then (1994).
Well, it wasn't bleeding edge, but it was still fun and it beat the pants off of DOS
Good times.
You put into words what I'm thinking.
I have a love hate relationship with F/OSS.
I worked for a company with a proprietary software that had problems competing with *free*.
I love fiddling with F/OSS as a hobby and I smile smugly when Linux makes Microsoft squirm.
What hypocrasy on my part.
The one advantage that I can think of is that F/OSS counteracts outsourcing to India.
The work that moves to India is large proprietary software projects.
Customization of free software packages stays in the West.
The bill to the customer is probably comparable in many cases. The software may be free, but the customization costs more.
Please feel free to visit the open source project that I have in my sig.
In 1993, the American Government funded a study to see why the head of a
man's penis was larger than the shaft. After one year and $180,000.00,
they concluded that the reason the head was larger than the shaft was to give
the man more pleasure during sex.
After the US published the study, Germany decided to do their own study.
After $250,000.00, and 3 years of research, they concluded that the reason
was to give the woman more pleasure during sex.
Poland, unsatisfied with these findings, conducted their own study. After
2 weeks and a cost of around $75.46, they concluded that it was to keep a
man's hand from flying off and hitting him in the forehead.
I telnetted to port 80 once, and interpreted the HTML in my head.
Unfortunately there was a infinitely recursive Java script function on there.
I'm still not quite myself.
Java is not in the core of Solaris, Linux or AIX.
Does that mean that you shouldn't use Java?