So why don't you just use "apt-get install openoffice.org"? I assure you that it is just as easy as apt-get install koffice. The debian maintainers have cut the per-user install down to ~1.3MB which isn't absurd and based on a search of my home directory kde, and netscape[two programs I don't use] created similarly sized.<config> directories. It is currently in debian's incoming ftp section and should hit unstable any day now or if you are impatient use:
deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openo ffice/ testing main contrib
I have to say I spent nearly half an hour reading the article, only got half way through. Then I started skimming, then I realized that that wasn't getting me anywhere so I gave up after realizing that it seemed like the same three sentences were being repeated over and over a couple of hundred times. It is comforting to know from the first couple posts that noone else managed to wade through it either. That or the people who are actually bothering to read are still reading, but then again this is/. It was particularly funny to see a poster suggest retinal scan technology which the article calls subtractive security. The current technology is so easy to beat that it actually makes you less secure than if you didn't use it and forced someone to crack the password.
There is a summary at the very end of the Changelog, or are you like me and the summary wasn't very explanatory? Then, uhhh, I don't know what to say. Though the summary was understandable enough that I know that more explanation probably wouldn't help my understanding much...
Okay, you want a single valid complaint?
It is the practice of this country to never recall money. A bill from 1842 is considered legal tender(though it would be significantly more valuable as a collector's item). The only way the money changes is that whenever a bank gets a hold of an old note it exchanges it with the treasury and circulates the new version. The process takes several years during which time I can guarentee you that foreigners are going to be a hundred times more confused that half their twenties are red and the other half are green and the one will probably remain green in this scenario....
Someone standing ten feet from you in a store when you pull out your wad to pay for something can also tell how much it is worth whereas if they are all the same color and shape than the bystander can't tell that it isn't a wad composed of all ones instead of one one on the outside covering a wad of hundreds. You have failed to explain why this is a good thing.
How is blacklisting an IP that you believe to be a spammer and organizing other people to block the IP any different from organizing a boycott of a 'real-life' business? Last I checked you don't need a legitimate reason to boycott someone, you just need to convince other people to agree with you and support the boycott. Noone would suggest that boycotts are in some way illegal.
Calling someone a spammer doesn't seem like it could be libelous since the term itself is subjective. Sure there are some extremes that most people agree constitute spam, but I have seen people get mail which I would consider spam, but the consider it perfectly legitimate e-mail which they read from beginning to end.
The 4 CPU license that is $199 is a Desktop upgrade while the 2 CPU license that is $249 is a Server2 upgrade. Operating systems for servers are usually more expensive that operating systems for desktops so this isn't that surprising.
The great advantage of the current system is that it is very easy to move your e-mail from one program or computer to another with little hassle and/or risk. With any type of database system, you introduce a level of complexity that virtually assures that only one e-mail program will be able to read your e-mail. I think the best solution as far as I am concerned is to just stick with current mbox format, but allowing attachments to be deleted independently though that is just personal preference. But I think we should be wary of adding any complexity that endangers the portability of mail. Also, the other thing to be said for the mbox format is that worst come to worse you can still access your e-mail with a text editor and/or grep.
I rememeber seeing a lot of Sci Fi books make the bestseller lists so I couldn't understand this article. Out of curiosity, I mosied over to the nytimes list and lo what did I behold? At number 2:
STAR WARS: EPISODE 2 -- ATTACK OF THE CLONES, by R. A. Salvatore. (Lucas/Del Rey/Ballantine, $26.) As the Republic edges toward disaster, Anakin Skywalker falls for Senator Padmé Amidala.
I guess this doesn't count as Science Fiction since it has less literary merit than most Science Fiction...
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So why don't you just use "apt-get install openoffice.org"? I assure you that it is just as easy as apt-get install koffice. The debian maintainers have cut the per-user install down to ~1.3MB which isn't absurd and based on a search of my home directory kde, and netscape[two programs I don't use] created similarly sized .<config> directories. It is currently in debian's incoming ftp section and should hit unstable any day now or if you are impatient use:
o ffice/ testing main contrib
deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/open
All we can estimate is that we expect the Linux Client to be available for download in Fall 2002.
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I would assume from that that they are planning to release the linux client as a patch of sorts to the windows CD though I could be wrong
I have to say I spent nearly half an hour reading the article, only got half way through. Then I started skimming, then I realized that that wasn't getting me anywhere so I gave up after realizing that it seemed like the same three sentences were being repeated over and over a couple of hundred times. It is comforting to know from the first couple posts that noone else managed to wade through it either. That or the people who are actually bothering to read are still reading, but then again this is /. It was particularly funny to see a poster suggest retinal scan technology which the article calls subtractive security. The current technology is so easy to beat that it actually makes you less secure than if you didn't use it and forced someone to crack the password.
There is a summary at the very end of the Changelog, or are you like me and the summary wasn't very explanatory? Then, uhhh, I don't know what to say. Though the summary was understandable enough that I know that more explanation probably wouldn't help my understanding much...
Okay, you want a single valid complaint? It is the practice of this country to never recall money. A bill from 1842 is considered legal tender(though it would be significantly more valuable as a collector's item). The only way the money changes is that whenever a bank gets a hold of an old note it exchanges it with the treasury and circulates the new version. The process takes several years during which time I can guarentee you that foreigners are going to be a hundred times more confused that half their twenties are red and the other half are green and the one will probably remain green in this scenario....
Someone standing ten feet from you in a store when you pull out your wad to pay for something can also tell how much it is worth whereas if they are all the same color and shape than the bystander can't tell that it isn't a wad composed of all ones instead of one one on the outside covering a wad of hundreds. You have failed to explain why this is a good thing.
How is blacklisting an IP that you believe to be a spammer and organizing other people to block the IP any different from organizing a boycott of a 'real-life' business? Last I checked you don't need a legitimate reason to boycott someone, you just need to convince other people to agree with you and support the boycott. Noone would suggest that boycotts are in some way illegal.
Calling someone a spammer doesn't seem like it could be libelous since the term itself is subjective. Sure there are some extremes that most people agree constitute spam, but I have seen people get mail which I would consider spam, but the consider it perfectly legitimate e-mail which they read from beginning to end.
The 4 CPU license that is $199 is a Desktop upgrade while the 2 CPU license that is $249 is a Server2 upgrade. Operating systems for servers are usually more expensive that operating systems for desktops so this isn't that surprising.
The great advantage of the current system is that it is very easy to move your e-mail from one program or computer to another with little hassle and/or risk. With any type of database system, you introduce a level of complexity that virtually assures that only one e-mail program will be able to read your e-mail. I think the best solution as far as I am concerned is to just stick with current mbox format, but allowing attachments to be deleted independently though that is just personal preference. But I think we should be wary of adding any complexity that endangers the portability of mail. Also, the other thing to be said for the mbox format is that worst come to worse you can still access your e-mail with a text editor and/or grep.
No, you sit around and get shit-faced drunk. Just like any other party.
STAR WARS: EPISODE 2 -- ATTACK OF THE CLONES, by R. A. Salvatore. (Lucas/Del Rey/Ballantine, $26.) As the Republic edges toward disaster, Anakin Skywalker falls for Senator Padmé Amidala.
I guess this doesn't count as Science Fiction since it has less literary merit than most Science Fiction...