Want to combine two things? No prob, click and drag.
You can do this in Mozilla as well.
Despite all the features Outlook has (and there are a shitload of them) it still manages to be quite useful. I've personally witnessed. the most computer illiterate people breeze right through it, including the Rules Wizard.
True, although you have to consider the total cost of educating the lusers who use Microsoft Outlook. Did you know that the average Microsoft shop spends more than $700 per seat on internal IT expenditures on support alone? That's not even counting the oppressively high cost of software.
I'll happily grant that by default Outlook 2000 is worriesome, but it doesn't take a lot to turn off the vulnerable features. It is important to mention that every install of Outlook has all the features turned off. Not everybody does this
When you install Mozilla, there are absolutely no security vulnerabilities. When you install Outlook, there are 430 security vulnerabilities. Do you see a pattern?
Bullshit. Look up the Rules Wizard some time. It's far more robust than any other solution I've seen out there. If you really want to tinker with it, fire up VBA and write fancier rules.
On the other hand, Mozilla has a powerful Bayesian filter that doesn't require you to use primitive "programming languages" like "Visual" "Basic." Honestly, you script kiddies are the worst.
You can have partial credit for this one since by default this is true. Sadly, Microsoft's defaults are nasty.
Thanks. In the meantime, Mozilla is completely secure from the moment you do apt-get install mozilla.
You do have apt on Windows, right? I wouldn't want to subject you to an inferior "wizard-based" install procedure. Hey look! Time to click "Next" again.
Big fucking deal. Being open source isn't the shiznit to end users. Unless you've actually written code and modified your mailclient, stfu.
Read my web site. I've contributed more to the Open Source Community than Bruce Perens and Robert X. Cringely combined.
Outlook is a mail client. It is true that it has nice 'enhanced' features for MS's mail serving product, but it is by no means dependent on Exchange.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. How does that Microshaft propaganda taste?
Netscape doesn't do NEAR what all Outlook does. That's like saying a bicycle is cheaper than a car.
Name one thing that Outlook does that Mozilla (not "Netscape," you Microshaft shill) doesn't do.
I recently read a magazine article that claimed that "more than 90% of the Fortune 500 use Microsoft Outlook." Why is this?
1. Microsoft Outlook 2002 has an inferior interface to Mozilla Messenger. 2. Microsoft Outlook is riddled with security holes that are never patched because Microshaft would rather threaten so-called "hackers" under the DCMA. 3. Microsoft Outlook has no spam filter. 4. Microsoft Outlook insists on using HTML and displays all images including web bugs. 5. Microsoft Outlook is closed-source. 6. Microsoft Outlook requires you to install Microsoft Exchange server, which costs $20,000 per license and is also closed-source. It also runs exclusively under Windows "Server," which is just Windows NT Workstation 2000 (or whatever it's called) with a different registry entry. 7. Microsoft Outlook costs $100 per seat. Netscape Messenger costs $0 per seat.
In short, I predict that Microsoft Outlook will be dead within 3 months.
Just because a man owns guns doesn't mean that he's "cooking up some kind of home invasion." In fact, quite the opposite is true. Most people who own guns intend to use them solely in the event of a home invasion.
But at this point, you just want to point fingers and make ad hominem attacks. Sorry. I'm not responding to you any more.
As long as the letter is to an individual in re his position as a company executive, it is still subject to free speech provisions. In Voight v. Harbiller (search for it on Lexis/Nexis) our fabled McDonald's crusader was sued by Leslie Voight, McDonald's VP of Marketing. Voight alleged that Harbiller tried to threaten her in his letter that was delivered to her house. Guess who won?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You can't buy your way out of the first amendment.
As a long-time fan of Eric Scott Raymond, let me tell you: just because you disagree with a company, that doesn't make you a "threat." For example, Glen Harbiller campaigned against McDonald's all through the 1970s. McDonald's, of course, tried to sue him. They didn't want him to talk about McDonald's cruel labor practices, subpar food handling practices, and overly hot coffee (!).
Similarly, rallying against anticompetitive bullies like SCO cannot be considered threatening. It is free speech. Now although all my senators and house members are owned by corporations, the justice system will find in favor of crusaders like me and Eric Scott Raymond.
I plan to get my $129 back. However, I don't intend to uninstall Mac OS X. What Apple has done is beautifully devious for smart men like me: Apple just gave away hundreds of thousands of copies of its OS!
Think about it. I bought the Mac OS X for my old G3. Now, I'm going to get my $129 back. I can then take that same OS install disc and put it on my newer computer, taking full advantage of the OS for no charge.
With boneheaded moves like this, I predict that Apple will go out of business even faster than AOL and Microsoft will.
You look like an idiot when you overuse bold type. Only highly respected anti-censorware advocates like me, Seth Finklestein may use bold so much.
Please rot and die, loser. Optionally, you should also learn how to spell simple words like solely. That's solely. S-O-L-E-L-Y. There's two Ls in there, each of which looks like the first letter of the word "loser." You should be familiar with the word "loser," since you are one, you ass.
No, I think it's possible to get modded up. People realize that Linux has ugly, inconsistent fonts; horrible dependency issues if your favorite software hasn't been blessed by a major distribution; and seven different widget sets that look uniquely ugly.
By the way, Boromir is actually the father of Faramir. You should change your name and signature.
Five years ago, I was called in to do consulting for this company, Axciom. The company's database server was running what was essentially a glossy front-end to Microsoft Access. I explained to them that an open-source database would improve their system's security, functionality, and reliability.
Their response was the most shocking thing I have heard in 20 years as a computer user.
"Does it run in Windows?"
Of course it doesn't run on Windows!! Windows is a mine-field of security through obscurity. Because nobody -- not even a Microsoft engineer -- can do a thorough inspection of the source code, that means that 568 vulnerabilities have been discovered in the five years since I flipped off Mr. Neil Haiman, Axciom's chief of security. By comparison, Linux has had fewer than 40 vulnerabilities, all of which could have been fixed by upgrading to the newest packages. A quality distribution like Debian will upgrade all your software automatically.
Did Axciom do that? No, of course not. They stuck with MICRO$OFT WINBLOWS, and now they're paying for it.
So what? I've been able to buy 512 megabyte cards for quite some time. This card, if we are to believe the title, is four gigabits in size because of the lowercase 'b'.
Of course, I think that everyone should be using made-up silly units like "gibibyte" and "mebiflop," but the general public is obviously too stupid to comprehend these.
Like I'm trusting AOL Time Warner, one of the least friendly companies in the world, with my digital viewing privileges.
The only reason to buy a TiVo or ReplayTV is to hack it to invoke Fair Use and use it solely as you see fit. No more "software upgrades" that delete features as the manufacturers see fit.
Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if these digital boxen were total failures. Once again, open source solutions like MythTV and Freevo come out way ahead. You can buy a properly unlocked DVR or build your own for far less money, without paying absurd monthly fees to heartless corporations.
Taco didn't show us his newly wed bride photos (there were only photographs of him alone or with Michael)
I love those photos. I printed them out with my high-quality inkjet printer with photo cartridge, and use them to practice everything from public urination to dart throwing.
Shut up and write about something we care about, michael. Perhaps you could write an article about your untimely goatse'ing of the Censorware Project, America's number one web site.
Motif has, without question, the worst UI design ever. It makes Windows 3.0 look like a quantum leap in interface design. Every time someone asks why I use Windows, I point to the eight different widget sets on a typical Linux desktop and say, "that's why."
In fact, I'm beginning to believe that Motif was a secret Micro$soft plot to distract Linux designers, tricking Linux designers into mimicking the wrong thing. It would take years before Linux ever attained the level of usability that more commercially viable operating systems have enjoyed for their entire lifetimes.
Internet Explorer is doomed. Its lack of critically important killer-app features such as tabbed browsing and mouse gestures will doom it to obsolescence. I predict that Internet Explorer will be losing the browser wars to superior competitors such as Mozilla, Opera, and Safari within three years.
As a certified Microsoft systems engineer, I know what I'm talking about.
"yo" should be "Hey" or another appropriate interjective greeting. "dizzog" is misspelled. "i" should be capitalized. "is" should be "am." "gonta" should be "going to." "ATM machine" is redundant. "PIN number" is redundant. "so's" should be "so." "i" should be capitalized. "cash money" is redundant. "i" should be capitalized. As the name of a feature film, "2 Fast 2 Furious" should be encased in quotation marks. "Wanna" should be "Do you want to." "wit" should be "with." Furthermore, you should never end a sentence with a preposition. Append the word "me" to the sentence.
Greetings, my man. I am going to visit the ATM and input my PIN so that I can procure some cash. I intend to use this cash to view the film "2 Fast 2 Furious." Would you like to accompany me?
Do not say "ATM machine." It is redundant. You wouldn't say "PC computer" or "IBM machines," would you?
The phrase "ATM machine" has no place in the English language. Of course, the Slashdot editors don't speak proper English, so it doesn't surprise me at all that they used the phrase "ATM machine" in the blurb atop this page.
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Actually, Outlook's interface is rather pleasant.
Pleasant? Define "pleasant."
Want to combine two things? No prob, click and drag.
You can do this in Mozilla as well.
Despite all the features Outlook has (and there are a shitload of them) it still manages to be quite useful. I've personally witnessed. the most computer illiterate people breeze right through it, including the Rules Wizard.
True, although you have to consider the total cost of educating the lusers who use Microsoft Outlook. Did you know that the average Microsoft shop spends more than $700 per seat on internal IT expenditures on support alone? That's not even counting the oppressively high cost of software.
I'll happily grant that by default Outlook 2000 is worriesome, but it doesn't take a lot to turn off the vulnerable features. It is important to mention that every install of Outlook has all the features turned off. Not everybody does this
When you install Mozilla, there are absolutely no security vulnerabilities. When you install Outlook, there are 430 security vulnerabilities. Do you see a pattern?
Bullshit. Look up the Rules Wizard some time. It's far more robust than any other solution I've seen out there. If you really want to tinker with it, fire up VBA and write fancier rules.
On the other hand, Mozilla has a powerful Bayesian filter that doesn't require you to use primitive "programming languages" like "Visual" "Basic." Honestly, you script kiddies are the worst.
You can have partial credit for this one since by default this is true. Sadly, Microsoft's defaults are nasty.
Thanks. In the meantime, Mozilla is completely secure from the moment you do apt-get install mozilla.
You do have apt on Windows, right? I wouldn't want to subject you to an inferior "wizard-based" install procedure. Hey look! Time to click "Next" again.
Big fucking deal. Being open source isn't the shiznit to end users. Unless you've actually written code and modified your mailclient, stfu.
Read my web site. I've contributed more to the Open Source Community than Bruce Perens and Robert X. Cringely combined.
Outlook is a mail client. It is true that it has nice 'enhanced' features for MS's mail serving product, but it is by no means dependent on Exchange.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. How does that Microshaft propaganda taste?
Netscape doesn't do NEAR what all Outlook does. That's like saying a bicycle is cheaper than a car.
Name one thing that Outlook does that Mozilla (not "Netscape," you Microshaft shill) doesn't do.
Excellent post.
I recently read a magazine article that claimed that "more than 90% of the Fortune 500 use Microsoft Outlook." Why is this?
1. Microsoft Outlook 2002 has an inferior interface to Mozilla Messenger.
2. Microsoft Outlook is riddled with security holes that are never patched because Microshaft would rather threaten so-called "hackers" under the DCMA.
3. Microsoft Outlook has no spam filter.
4. Microsoft Outlook insists on using HTML and displays all images including web bugs.
5. Microsoft Outlook is closed-source.
6. Microsoft Outlook requires you to install Microsoft Exchange server, which costs $20,000 per license and is also closed-source. It also runs exclusively under Windows "Server," which is just Windows NT Workstation 2000 (or whatever it's called) with a different registry entry.
7. Microsoft Outlook costs $100 per seat. Netscape Messenger costs $0 per seat.
In short, I predict that Microsoft Outlook will be dead within 3 months.
Just because a man owns guns doesn't mean that he's "cooking up some kind of home invasion." In fact, quite the opposite is true. Most people who own guns intend to use them solely in the event of a home invasion.
But at this point, you just want to point fingers and make ad hominem attacks. Sorry. I'm not responding to you any more.
As long as the letter is to an individual in re his position as a company executive, it is still subject to free speech provisions. In Voight v. Harbiller (search for it on Lexis/Nexis) our fabled McDonald's crusader was sued by Leslie Voight, McDonald's VP of Marketing. Voight alleged that Harbiller tried to threaten her in his letter that was delivered to her house. Guess who won?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You can't buy your way out of the first amendment.
As a long-time fan of Eric Scott Raymond, let me tell you: just because you disagree with a company, that doesn't make you a "threat." For example, Glen Harbiller campaigned against McDonald's all through the 1970s. McDonald's, of course, tried to sue him. They didn't want him to talk about McDonald's cruel labor practices, subpar food handling practices, and overly hot coffee (!).
Similarly, rallying against anticompetitive bullies like SCO cannot be considered threatening. It is free speech. Now although all my senators and house members are owned by corporations, the justice system will find in favor of crusaders like me and Eric Scott Raymond.
I plan to get my $129 back. However, I don't intend to uninstall Mac OS X. What Apple has done is beautifully devious for smart men like me: Apple just gave away hundreds of thousands of copies of its OS!
Think about it. I bought the Mac OS X for my old G3. Now, I'm going to get my $129 back. I can then take that same OS install disc and put it on my newer computer, taking full advantage of the OS for no charge.
With boneheaded moves like this, I predict that Apple will go out of business even faster than AOL and Microsoft will.
699.
That's the number of dollars that SCO wants to charge you for running Linux on your server.
Or perhaps 0.
That's the number of dollars that SCO will make.
Thank you.
Dear ass,
You look like an idiot when you overuse bold type. Only highly respected anti-censorware advocates like me, Seth Finklestein may use bold so much.
Please rot and die, loser. Optionally, you should also learn how to spell simple words like solely. That's solely. S-O-L-E-L-Y. There's two Ls in there, each of which looks like the first letter of the word "loser." You should be familiar with the word "loser," since you are one, you ass.
Sincerely,
Seth Finklestein
Who's Bruce Perens?
Linux kernel developers are petty, pedantic, arrogant fools who get sidetracked into semantics arguments at the drop of a hat. Film at 11.
No, I think it's possible to get modded up. People realize that Linux has ugly, inconsistent fonts; horrible dependency issues if your favorite software hasn't been blessed by a major distribution; and seven different widget sets that look uniquely ugly.
By the way, Boromir is actually the father of Faramir. You should change your name and signature.
Five years ago, I was called in to do consulting for this company, Axciom. The company's database server was running what was essentially a glossy front-end to Microsoft Access. I explained to them that an open-source database would improve their system's security, functionality, and reliability.
Their response was the most shocking thing I have heard in 20 years as a computer user.
"Does it run in Windows?"
Of course it doesn't run on Windows!! Windows is a mine-field of security through obscurity. Because nobody -- not even a Microsoft engineer -- can do a thorough inspection of the source code, that means that 568 vulnerabilities have been discovered in the five years since I flipped off Mr. Neil Haiman, Axciom's chief of security. By comparison, Linux has had fewer than 40 vulnerabilities, all of which could have been fixed by upgrading to the newest packages. A quality distribution like Debian will upgrade all your software automatically.
Did Axciom do that? No, of course not. They stuck with MICRO$OFT WINBLOWS, and now they're paying for it.
Rot in hell, you SCO-loving bastards.
Nicely played, old man.
So what? I've been able to buy 512 megabyte cards for quite some time. This card, if we are to believe the title, is four gigabits in size because of the lowercase 'b'.
Of course, I think that everyone should be using made-up silly units like "gibibyte" and "mebiflop," but the general public is obviously too stupid to comprehend these.
Like I'm trusting AOL Time Warner, one of the least friendly companies in the world, with my digital viewing privileges.
The only reason to buy a TiVo or ReplayTV is to hack it to invoke Fair Use and use it solely as you see fit. No more "software upgrades" that delete features as the manufacturers see fit.
Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if these digital boxen were total failures. Once again, open source solutions like MythTV and Freevo come out way ahead. You can buy a properly unlocked DVR or build your own for far less money, without paying absurd monthly fees to heartless corporations.
NetMeeting or GnomeMeeting using an $80 QuickCam.
Hey, I use Open Source software, and I vote.
I vote with my dollars by buying high-quality t-shirts.
I vote for qualified third party candidates such as Harry Browne, the thinking man's Ralph Nader.
In short, my using Open Source software makes me a better person. Any company which refuses the millions of Mozilla users is no company of mine.
Taco didn't show us his newly wed bride photos (there were only photographs of him alone or with Michael)
I love those photos. I printed them out with my high-quality inkjet printer with photo cartridge, and use them to practice everything from public urination to dart throwing.
Open Source: The freedom to follow a different herd.
Open Source: Join the crowd or be FUDded and LARTed to death.
Open Source: Build it yourself, fucktard!
Open Source: Read the fucking manual. If the manual hasn't been written yet, write it and then read it.
Open Source: 50,000 pre-alpha Tetris clones can't be wrong!
Open Source: Follow the singing beards to Freedom. That's Freedom as in (insert newspeak word here).
Open Source: Where do you want a bunch of egomaniacal bergeeks to drag you today?
Open Source: Here today, gone tomorrow.
Open Source: What happens when you stop throwing money at the problem.
Shut up and write about something we care about, michael. Perhaps you could write an article about your untimely goatse'ing of the Censorware Project, America's number one web site.
Sex.com. Honestly. You fucking sex pervert.
Motif has, without question, the worst UI design ever. It makes Windows 3.0 look like a quantum leap in interface design. Every time someone asks why I use Windows, I point to the eight different widget sets on a typical Linux desktop and say, "that's why."
In fact, I'm beginning to believe that Motif was a secret Micro$soft plot to distract Linux designers, tricking Linux designers into mimicking the wrong thing. It would take years before Linux ever attained the level of usability that more commercially viable operating systems have enjoyed for their entire lifetimes.
Internet Explorer is doomed. Its lack of critically important killer-app features such as tabbed browsing and mouse gestures will doom it to obsolescence. I predict that Internet Explorer will be losing the browser wars to superior competitors such as Mozilla, Opera, and Safari within three years.
As a certified Microsoft systems engineer, I know what I'm talking about.
"yo" should be "Hey" or another appropriate interjective greeting.
"dizzog" is misspelled.
"i" should be capitalized.
"is" should be "am."
"gonta" should be "going to."
"ATM machine" is redundant.
"PIN number" is redundant.
"so's" should be "so."
"i" should be capitalized.
"cash money" is redundant.
"i" should be capitalized.
As the name of a feature film, "2 Fast 2 Furious" should be encased in quotation marks.
"Wanna" should be "Do you want to."
"wit" should be "with." Furthermore, you should never end a sentence with a preposition. Append the word "me" to the sentence.
Greetings, my man. I am going to visit the ATM and input my PIN so that I can procure some cash. I intend to use this cash to view the film "2 Fast 2 Furious." Would you like to accompany me?
Do not say "ATM machine." It is redundant. You wouldn't say "PC computer" or "IBM machines," would you?
The phrase "ATM machine" has no place in the English language. Of course, the Slashdot editors don't speak proper English, so it doesn't surprise me at all that they used the phrase "ATM machine" in the blurb atop this page.
I'll take one.
Let me see the source code for the OS, please.
What's that? I can't see it?
Oh, no thanks.