Who in their right mind would even consider ATTEMPTING to run outlook under linux?
Well I wouldn't either. But a while back when I was still saddled with a Umax parport (windows-only) scanner I did attempt to get that working under Wine.
My attempts were frustrated by the fact that I was unable to get Wine to run anything more challenging than Notepad, and in the end I gave up and got a proper scanner, which was a cheaper option than vmware.
I have two ways of dealing with my "Friendly Neighborhood Spammer" which, although they don't exactly fix the problem, go some way to make me feel better about it.
Since the spam I get now tends to originate from a few sources (all US-based, incidentally), I collect every email address I can find for those companies and post them on a webpage in full view, with handy mailto: links.
Another approach (but of questionable legality) is to set up a DoS attack on the culprit, but that takes a bit more effort.
The point of both of these strategies is to render the spammers' computers useless (at least for a while) or to give them enough grief that they might just decide to find another occupation. We can hope, anyway...
It doesn't have to be "targetted" at the desktop do do the job, though. Slackware makes a fantastic desktop distro once you know a bit about Linux. Though I probably wouldn't inflict Slack on a newbie with no experience of Linux.
There is a difference between a great desktop distro and one that is simply easy to install. Mandrake et al fall in to the latter category, IMHO.
It overtook Windows on my own desktop machines in 1997. As a science (biotech) student, I find there is nothing I can do on Windows that cannot be done equally well (or better) on Linux. It's a matter of flexibility. Instead of being told how to do my work by Microsoft (or whoever), I get to choose.
That's why I have an unused XP cdrom on my desk acting as a coaster. More trouble than it's worth to attempt to get a refund from MS, but that doesn't mean I have to use it.
All the eye-candy anybody could want is here, but so is the command-line when I want it. Best of both worlds. Plus I don't have to worry about coping with downtime resulting from whatever the latest virus may happen to be.
From the parent post: It was one of those boutique record stores that sell obscure, independent releases that no-one listens to
I suspect this is the poster's problem. If he wants to play around with distributing stuff that is available at every other record shop, then he is bound to lose sales as p2p takes hold.
I have yet to see many specialist CD shops go down the gurgler. More off-the-beaten-track recordings simply aren't available via p2p, and only rarely (with a fair degree of effort) via IRC.
Perhaps that poster should have stayed with the original business model. Let's face it, who needs to encourage the likes of Celine Dion?
I find it hard to believe that many Linux "zealots" are out there wasting time writing viruses for Windows.
Sure, it's possible, but Windows does a perfectly adequate job of advertising its own inadequacies in dealing with the puerile efforts of adolescents with too much time on their hands.
Being outspoken on any issue does not make you a terrorist. Hatred itself does not make you a terrorist, but it is a driving force. Real terrorists are bent on personal violence, and take concrete steps to act.
Seems to me that the label of "terrorist" is more usually applied to anyone who disagrees with the extreme right-wing viewpoint of governments such as that of the US. It is becomimg a catch-all word under which any kind of intimidation or injustice is justified under the same "end justifies the means" policies formerly enforced in Stalinist Russia.
The claim that they won't decrypt content smacks of "he doth protest too much".
The fact that they are raising this issue says to me that I would be damn stupid if I left a critically important and/or confidential document in their hands.
Furthermore, there is nothing stopping me from setting up a filter to reject emails sent under this protocol. If anybody really wants to communicate with me, he or she can do it in plain text or not at all.
3 mos. might give some folks a chance to reverse-engineer it.
It might, but this technology should ring alarm bells among managers concerned with security of their data (bearing in mind that it does NOT belong to Microsoft, no matter what tacky devices the latter may introduce into their EULAs).
I would not be at all surprised to see a jump in the number of organisations taking up alternative products. I have heard quite a few rumblings among a number of suits lately whom I would not formerly have credited with the foresight to examine this.
Seems to me that folks are realising that OpenOffice is very good at handling MSOrifice output, while the latter doesn't bother returning the favour. That, in itself speaks volumes.
It depends on the process used. A lot of chlorine is used in bleaching, but this can be reduced by using biological techniques.
However, the original poster has got it wrong when he claims no old-growth forest is used in the paper industry.
Here in Australia there are thousands of hectares of old-growth forest being used for just that. And the plantations set up are mostly of faster-growing, low-value timber. The largest timber companies have a long record of setting up a few "showcase" plantations while continuing to blithely plunder old-growth state forests.
We've all heard about the Skype vs. Sipphone thing, but the two are not really comparable, given that the latter is a hardware solution.
Surely it would make more sense to compare Skype with, say, Linphone. I'm sure there must be others. Has anybody made such a comparison?
I played with Linphone a while back (over a year ago, I think) but gave it up in the end, as the people I would use it with most are not au fait with that kind of technology.
Several people I know who are old enough to remember DOS have had to be told there is a difference between the forward and backslash. They just blithely put in backslashes.
And Microsoft can't be blamed for that one. Responsibility lies in the corporate paws of Big Blue for perpetuating QDOS' mannerism.
...you would get your ass handed to you, day in and day out, forever.
The significance of that remark escapes me. Do marketroids keep their asses somewhere other than in their pants, and need to tender them to someone else for safekeeping?
There are plenty of free alternatives to MSOffice out there, and the interfaces are so similar to that of MSOffice that there is really no reason why anybody with a reasonable handle on one should not be perfectly productive on the other.
Personally, I don't see the point of a PDA; since I need a fairly high-end calculator, I'm stuck with carrying around a TI-89. I haven't yet found a PDA with those capabilities. So if I want to make a phone call, I use a phone.
As for foobarring saved numbers, I have a cunning plan. I sync my phone to a dead-tree addressbook. Never fails.
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I'm not sure if you were implicating that one shouldn't have to pay for such a service.
I'm not implying anything of the sort. I have no quarrel with National Geographic, I was merely drawing attention to the fact that as a submission to Slashdot, the story is somewhat wanting, since most of it is not available for perusal by the online community.
If you have such a thin skin, perhaps you should take the trouble to read the post to which you're replying.
You seem to share the same opinion.
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For an article that is supposed so in-depth, there's not much of it to be seen. The link points us to a story about monitoring of swimming-pools, and that's about it. If you want more, National Geographic want you to pay for it.
Maybe it is, if you need that kind of thing. OK, I am happy to be able to say I have not needed to use Windows for more than casual web browsing and office-ish sort of stuff for several years now...
So I was happy to give MS the benefit of the doubt and assume that maybe they had done away with that "load software and reboot" procedure. From my reading of this review, however, it would seem not. I sometimes wonder who Microsoft think they are kidding when to a casual observer the computer needs to be out of commision to install software. Those serial reboots really gave me the @#*!s when I was using that OS. Failing to address this issue makes Windows look tacky.
but have since eroded away. Well that's only 50 years so...
I think this is why it's no longer possible for the average tourist to get really close to those stones. When I was a kid, I was able to climb all over them (not that I was particularly tempted, though I was mightily impressed) but I believe it was precisely this type of erosion (plus, of course the prevalence of modern graffiti-artists' "talent") that brought about the decision to reduce access for the unwashed masses.
Indeed. I ended up switching back to Slackware as a result of frustration resulting from attempting to keep even the most recent of versions current. I came to the conclusion that Mandrake's good (for the desktop) if you plan to never upgrade any components before buying or downloading the next release.
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Well I wouldn't either. But a while back when I was still saddled with a Umax parport (windows-only) scanner I did attempt to get that working under Wine.
My attempts were frustrated by the fact that I was unable to get Wine to run anything more challenging than Notepad, and in the end I gave up and got a proper scanner, which was a cheaper option than vmware.
Since the spam I get now tends to originate from a few sources (all US-based, incidentally), I collect every email address I can find for those companies and post them on a webpage in full view, with handy mailto: links.
Another approach (but of questionable legality) is to set up a DoS attack on the culprit, but that takes a bit more effort.
The point of both of these strategies is to render the spammers' computers useless (at least for a while) or to give them enough grief that they might just decide to find another occupation. We can hope, anyway...
There is a difference between a great desktop distro and one that is simply easy to install. Mandrake et al fall in to the latter category, IMHO.
That's why I have an unused XP cdrom on my desk acting as a coaster. More trouble than it's worth to attempt to get a refund from MS, but that doesn't mean I have to use it.
All the eye-candy anybody could want is here, but so is the command-line when I want it. Best of both worlds. Plus I don't have to worry about coping with downtime resulting from whatever the latest virus may happen to be.
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I suspect this is the poster's problem. If he wants to play around with distributing stuff that is available at every other record shop, then he is bound to lose sales as p2p takes hold.
I have yet to see many specialist CD shops go down the gurgler. More off-the-beaten-track recordings simply aren't available via p2p, and only rarely (with a fair degree of effort) via IRC.
Perhaps that poster should have stayed with the original business model. Let's face it, who needs to encourage the likes of Celine Dion?
OK, the fact that I run Linux helps. A windows client isn't much use to me...
Well said.
Sure, it's possible, but Windows does a perfectly adequate job of advertising its own inadequacies in dealing with the puerile efforts of adolescents with too much time on their hands.
Seems to me that the label of "terrorist" is more usually applied to anyone who disagrees with the extreme right-wing viewpoint of governments such as that of the US. It is becomimg a catch-all word under which any kind of intimidation or injustice is justified under the same "end justifies the means" policies formerly enforced in Stalinist Russia.
And most of us would be hard pressed to find one useful feature that wasn't there in Office 97.
The fact that they are raising this issue says to me that I would be damn stupid if I left a critically important and/or confidential document in their hands.
Furthermore, there is nothing stopping me from setting up a filter to reject emails sent under this protocol. If anybody really wants to communicate with me, he or she can do it in plain text or not at all.
It might, but this technology should ring alarm bells among managers concerned with security of their data (bearing in mind that it does NOT belong to Microsoft, no matter what tacky devices the latter may introduce into their EULAs).
I would not be at all surprised to see a jump in the number of organisations taking up alternative products. I have heard quite a few rumblings among a number of suits lately whom I would not formerly have credited with the foresight to examine this.
Seems to me that folks are realising that OpenOffice is very good at handling MSOrifice output, while the latter doesn't bother returning the favour. That, in itself speaks volumes.
However, the original poster has got it wrong when he claims no old-growth forest is used in the paper industry.
Here in Australia there are thousands of hectares of old-growth forest being used for just that. And the plantations set up are mostly of faster-growing, low-value timber. The largest timber companies have a long record of setting up a few "showcase" plantations while continuing to blithely plunder old-growth state forests.
Surely it would make more sense to compare Skype with, say, Linphone. I'm sure there must be others. Has anybody made such a comparison?
I played with Linphone a while back (over a year ago, I think) but gave it up in the end, as the people I would use it with most are not au fait with that kind of technology.
And Microsoft can't be blamed for that one. Responsibility lies in the corporate paws of Big Blue for perpetuating QDOS' mannerism.
I'd rather die.
The significance of that remark escapes me. Do marketroids keep their asses somewhere other than in their pants, and need to tender them to someone else for safekeeping?
There are plenty of free alternatives to MSOffice out there, and the interfaces are so similar to that of MSOffice that there is really no reason why anybody with a reasonable handle on one should not be perfectly productive on the other.
As for foobarring saved numbers, I have a cunning plan. I sync my phone to a dead-tree addressbook. Never fails.
I'm not implying anything of the sort. I have no quarrel with National Geographic, I was merely drawing attention to the fact that as a submission to Slashdot, the story is somewhat wanting, since most of it is not available for perusal by the online community.
You seem to share the same opinion.
For an article that is supposed so in-depth, there's not much of it to be seen. The link points us to a story about monitoring of swimming-pools, and that's about it. If you want more, National Geographic want you to pay for it.
Maybe it is, if you need that kind of thing. OK, I am happy to be able to say I have not needed to use Windows for more than casual web browsing and office-ish sort of stuff for several years now...
So I was happy to give MS the benefit of the doubt and assume that maybe they had done away with that "load software and reboot" procedure. From my reading of this review, however, it would seem not. I sometimes wonder who Microsoft think they are kidding when to a casual observer the computer needs to be out of commision to install software. Those serial reboots really gave me the @#*!s when I was using that OS. Failing to address this issue makes Windows look tacky.
I think this is why it's no longer possible for the average tourist to get really close to those stones. When I was a kid, I was able to climb all over them (not that I was particularly tempted, though I was mightily impressed) but I believe it was precisely this type of erosion (plus, of course the prevalence of modern graffiti-artists' "talent") that brought about the decision to reduce access for the unwashed masses.
If I recall correctly, Stonehenge was constructed long before the druids came into existence.
Indeed. I ended up switching back to Slackware as a result of frustration resulting from attempting to keep even the most recent of versions current. I came to the conclusion that Mandrake's good (for the desktop) if you plan to never upgrade any components before buying or downloading the next release.