How cheap/expensive is broadband for people around the world? They're always moaning as to how expensive it is here in the U.K. (and wireless broadband is ludicrously expensive). Could everyone write a price in U.S. $ too for comparison?
It's not ingoing mail I'm bothered about - and I don't want to remove a virus from an e-mail. For every e-mail I send the virus sends a second. I want to block that one. I've tried just booting to the MS-DOS prompt and running a virus scanner - but as they don't detect it its a moot point. I have checked Symantec, followed their instructions and it doesn't get removed! I really do not want to go to the bother of formatting the drive and re-installing everything.
I have an interesting problem here - I have a virus (Hybris - don't don't which variant) which no virus scanner seems to detect. Tried f-prot, mcaffee, norton etc to no avail! Does anyone know of one that scans outgoing mail only. All I need to do is remove the extra e-mail it sends and I can stop having to use webmail.
Yes - I agree. I went on an astronomy weekend a while ago. There were various talks with slides. One of the things they mentioned was even if you're not interested in astronomy that much the pictures are astounding.
Companies always shrink just after a merger though - because the same department/ jobs that before were needed in two seperate companies aren't. It's called economies of scale.
"Somehow I doubt the majority of those people using Angelfire, Tripod, etc can't afford hosting." - but for most of the sites - like blogs, pictures of my family and pets - people don't think its worth paying! Also once you change address you lose your search engine rankings.
Suppose you're the sort that'd organise them into a union - go on strike and then they'd have to pay you what you deserve. The only thing is - as the leader of this rebellion you may find yourself out of a job when you return! Personally if I was earning 60k a month I wouldn't know how to spend it!
" we must first get them to use alternatives to MS Office" - but don't the alternatives just work under Linux or are there Windows ports of Open Office, Star Office etc?
I remember a transformers toy of mine - light blue and grey plastic that transformed from a car into a robot. Now if only I could forget things like that & remember more useful things instead!
"For its recent hit "Shrek," DreamWorks used Linux servers to create detailed images for the movie." - I thought that another report said that Linux boxes were just used for the rendering - not the actual creation.
If you don't want to build your own machines but still want to economise - look for the computer deals that offer you just the computer - you keep the monitor, mouse, keyboard etc - so you save money compared to replacing the whole lot. Surely on the amount of hardware you're going to need you could set up some kind of trade account and get a discount anyway.
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Doubt there are many priests reading /. anyway. They probably have more important things to do - like choosing next Sunday's hymns.
Reminds me of the klacks (reference to Terry Pratchett's Discworld).
How cheap/expensive is broadband for people around the world? They're always moaning as to how expensive it is here in the U.K. (and wireless broadband is ludicrously expensive). Could everyone write a price in U.S. $ too for comparison?
It's not ingoing mail I'm bothered about - and I don't want to remove a virus from an e-mail. For every e-mail I send the virus sends a second. I want to block that one. I've tried just booting to the MS-DOS prompt and running a virus scanner - but as they don't detect it its a moot point. I have checked Symantec, followed their instructions and it doesn't get removed! I really do not want to go to the bother of formatting the drive and re-installing everything.
At the moment it's just a mailing list & you can hardly call one person an organisation!
"The EU is trying to take away a very good reason to live in Europe..." - and which good reason would that be?
Don't think there is- that's why they said "equivalent in your country". EFF is an American organisation.
I have an interesting problem here - I have a virus (Hybris - don't don't which variant) which no virus scanner seems to detect. Tried f-prot, mcaffee, norton etc to no avail! Does anyone know of one that scans outgoing mail only. All I need to do is remove the extra e-mail it sends and I can stop having to use webmail.
sorry yes - meant to write year not month. Why I was thinking month was that the wage cut was for a month.
Who's Oral Roberts?
Yes - I agree. I went on an astronomy weekend a while ago. There were various talks with slides. One of the things they mentioned was even if you're not interested in astronomy that much the pictures are astounding.
Now if only the symbol for Linux was a green frog I could make some witty remark here - but it's not so I won't.
It's IRC for a tankard of beer. [_]p - would be a cup of tea.
Just send them a [_]o instead!
Is Frieda a mispelling of Freda - or is it deliberately a made-up name?
Companies always shrink just after a merger though - because the same department/ jobs that before were needed in two seperate companies aren't. It's called economies of scale.
"use the forthcoming suffering as an incentive" - and all that remains now is for the e-mail addresses of the people responsible to be posted on /.!
If there's one thing that reminds me of 80s sci-fi special effects it's the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy!
"Somehow I doubt the majority of those people using Angelfire, Tripod, etc can't afford hosting." - but for most of the sites - like blogs, pictures of my family and pets - people don't think its worth paying! Also once you change address you lose your search engine rankings.
Suppose you're the sort that'd organise them into a union - go on strike and then they'd have to pay you what you deserve. The only thing is - as the leader of this rebellion you may find yourself out of a job when you return! Personally if I was earning 60k a month I wouldn't know how to spend it!
" we must first get them to use alternatives to MS Office" - but don't the alternatives just work under Linux or are there Windows ports of Open Office, Star Office etc?
I remember a transformers toy of mine - light blue and grey plastic that transformed from a car into a robot. Now if only I could forget things like that & remember more useful things instead!
"For its recent hit "Shrek," DreamWorks used Linux servers to create detailed images for the movie." - I thought that another report said that Linux boxes were just used for the rendering - not the actual creation.
Silly me - just re-read things and its actually mentioned in the headline!
If you don't want to build your own machines but still want to economise - look for the computer deals that offer you just the computer - you keep the monitor, mouse, keyboard etc - so you save money compared to replacing the whole lot. Surely on the amount of hardware you're going to need you could set up some kind of trade account and get a discount anyway.