Why should email be any more expensive for me to use that what it actually costs (i.e. domain registration, connectivity/bandwidth, electricity)?
To whom are you proposing that I should have to pay this artificial $100 charge? You? My government (I pay enough taxes thank you)? Your government (hah!)?
...over the last week or so, to replace a similar one we were using for our in-house QA system with Outlook (thus facilitating a migration:-) ).
If they'll give me some time when I've finished, I'd like to do a webpage covering all the places where I got bogged down going round in circles for half a day, as the documentation at present isn't great.
Would would be really nice is some sort of cookbook, so that you can look up the best way of doing a common task, instead of wading through the mozilla core javascript and the IDL files, and ending up with something closely resembling a bad kludge!
I found the answer to the question 3 in about 30 seconds, well under the 6m 27s quoted by their researcher.
It's clear from their comments about irrelevant pages that they hadn't enclosed 'back' in quotes to form "back pain", as '"back care" parliamentary group' puts the result on the third link (from google.co.uk).
Also, it doesn't seem very fair to compare a researcher who doesn't think to use quotes round that expression with a librarian who knows to look "on page 242 of the excellent Vacher's Quarterly", a publication with which I (and most of the public, I would imagine) have no familiarity whatsoever.
I would have thought that now, more than ever given recent events, the BBC would be making an effort to maintain their objectivity and concentrate on fact.
Not so, Stephen Evans, author of 'Linux cyber-battle turns nasty', who writes an article labelling a very productive group of society as vandals and virus writers. He even admits, "there's no proof, of course".
I don't pay my license fee to read (or listen) to uneducated opinion, particularly one as dangerous as this.
What you should do, is drive a little past the space, so that you can then reverse back into it, thus getting nice and close......unfortunately in the meantime, one of those tossers in a Smart car has just driven straight in and parked at right angles to the kerb.
MX records exist to allow delivery to a host other than the domain name, so we can have
myuser@domain.com instead of myuser@main.domain.com, etc.
It is perfectly valid to not have an MX record, if the machine you want to receive the message is correctly identified in the address - in this case, the A record (or CNAME record - can't remember if this is legal?) is sufficient.
If the current technique requires the printed side of the shreds to be identified, and the reverse then glued to a flat surface, perhaps something as simple as double-sided printing might hamper efforts.
And just imagine the warm fuzzy feeling when you think of all those trees you've saved too;-)
Sadly not - it's some hollywood looking thing with Sean Connery.
Pity, because I caught the LoG christmas special once (never watched the series - they kept showing them at bad times), and the bit about the curse of the monkey bollocks had me scared/in stiches* (*=delete as appropriate).
In the UK the self assessment tax form can now be completed entirely on-line (not sure how long this has been the case - last year was the first time I needed to complete one).
It will even calculate the tax and national insurance constributions owed.
Can't say I like paying tax (or more specifically, the way it is spent), but they certainly made it pretty straightforward.
As a corollary to the above however, I believe you have zero chance of using any of the british governments online services if you don't have Microsoft's Java VM - which is a bit of a bugger if you use Linux, or it recent enlightenments, have XP SP1a!
>But yeah, hot-plugging anything that isn't actually designed for it is kind of asking for trouble.
More hot-UNplugging, but...
A friend of mine was once trying to get technical support for an internal modem via the manufacturer's website. Upon being required to enter the modem's serial number he, without thinking, pulled the card out to look at the back.
For some reason, his internet connection dropped and windows displayed a blue screen of death.
I disagree with your suggestion that the build process under Linux is more fraught than that under Windows.
I have recently had to install Apache on two servers (very similar configs with mod_perl2/perl5.8, PHP4, etc...).
One of these servers was an NT machine, the other a SuSE linux build. The linux build took about a sixth of the time the NT one took (including troubleshooting, etc.) This is despite having far greater experience of using (and coding) under Microsoft platforms.
I can't speak for RPMs, as I have never used Redhat. Personally, I find it essential to compile a lot of things from scratch in order to configure the correct components and options.
Viruses are unlikely to ever be as widespread on Linux as they have been/are on windows systems.
One of the benefits of a sensible directory hierarchy is that the executables in/usr/local/bin are not going to be writable by the people running them.
Although there will always be the odd fool running everything as root, unless you put lots of fools together, there will be nowhere for the virus to spread to.
Slashdot Mirror
That's just ridiculous.
Why should email be any more expensive for me to use that what it actually costs (i.e. domain registration, connectivity/bandwidth, electricity)?
To whom are you proposing that I should have to pay this artificial $100 charge? You? My government (I pay enough taxes thank you)? Your government (hah!)?
...over the last week or so, to replace a similar one we were using for our in-house QA system with Outlook (thus facilitating a migration :-) ).
If they'll give me some time when I've finished, I'd like to do a webpage covering all the places where I got bogged down going round in circles for half a day, as the documentation at present isn't great.
Would would be really nice is some sort of cookbook, so that you can look up the best way of doing a common task, instead of wading through the mozilla core javascript and the IDL files, and ending up with something closely resembling a bad kludge!
... sorry about the monologue
I found the answer to the question 3 in about 30 seconds, well under the 6m 27s quoted by their researcher. It's clear from their comments about irrelevant pages that they hadn't enclosed 'back' in quotes to form "back pain", as '"back care" parliamentary group' puts the result on the third link (from google.co.uk). Also, it doesn't seem very fair to compare a researcher who doesn't think to use quotes round that expression with a librarian who knows to look "on page 242 of the excellent Vacher's Quarterly", a publication with which I (and most of the public, I would imagine) have no familiarity whatsoever.
The current ad for the MX8 states:
...which is 10000 times louder than the highest thing listed by the American Academy of Otolaryngology:
I think I'll pass :S
The big logo looks nice, but the one on your taskbar will look like a tomato ;-)
Browser is excellent though.
I would have thought that now, more than ever given recent events, the BBC would be making an effort to maintain their objectivity and concentrate on fact.
Not so, Stephen Evans, author of 'Linux cyber-battle turns nasty', who writes an article labelling a very productive group of society as vandals and virus writers. He even admits, "there's no proof, of course".
I don't pay my license fee to read (or listen) to uneducated opinion, particularly one as dangerous as this.
IANAG (I am not a genealogist), but after reading the assorted quotes in the article, I think that I might have spotted Darl's long-lost brother .
Therein lies your problem.
...unfortunately in the meantime, one of those tossers in a Smart car has just driven straight in and parked at right angles to the kerb.
What you should do, is drive a little past the space, so that you can then reverse back into it, thus getting nice and close...
Sorry, but that's not right.
MX records exist to allow delivery to a host other than the domain name, so we can have
myuser@domain.com instead of myuser@main.domain.com, etc.
It is perfectly valid to not have an MX record, if the machine you want to receive the message is correctly identified in the address - in this case, the A record (or CNAME record - can't remember if this is legal?) is sufficient.
If anybody is interested in a book on the "best guesses" of the future of the universe, I found the following a fascinating read:
;-) )
The Five Ages of the Universe
The Free Press (1999)
Adams, F; Laughlin, G
ISBN: 0-684-85422-8
(I am not the author, and I don't work for their publishers!
If the current technique requires the printed side of the shreds to be identified, and the reverse then glued to a flat surface, perhaps something as simple as double-sided printing might hamper efforts.
;-)
And just imagine the warm fuzzy feeling when you think of all those trees you've saved too
Sadly not - it's some hollywood looking thing with Sean Connery.
Pity, because I caught the LoG christmas special once (never watched the series - they kept showing them at bad times), and the bit about the curse of the monkey bollocks had me scared/in stiches* (*=delete as appropriate).
In the UK the self assessment tax form can now be completed entirely on-line (not sure how long this has been the case - last year was the first time I needed to complete one).
It will even calculate the tax and national insurance constributions owed.
Can't say I like paying tax (or more specifically, the way it is spent), but they certainly made it pretty straightforward.
As a corollary to the above however, I believe you have zero chance of using any of the british governments online services if you don't have Microsoft's Java VM - which is a bit of a bugger if you use Linux, or it recent enlightenments, have XP SP1a!
>But yeah, hot-plugging anything that isn't actually designed for it is kind of asking for trouble. More hot-UNplugging, but...
A friend of mine was once trying to get technical support for an internal modem via the manufacturer's website. Upon being required to enter the modem's serial number he, without thinking, pulled the card out to look at the back.
For some reason, his internet connection dropped and windows displayed a blue screen of death.
I disagree with your suggestion that the build process under Linux is more fraught than that under Windows. I have recently had to install Apache on two servers (very similar configs with mod_perl2/perl5.8, PHP4, etc...). One of these servers was an NT machine, the other a SuSE linux build. The linux build took about a sixth of the time the NT one took (including troubleshooting, etc.) This is despite having far greater experience of using (and coding) under Microsoft platforms. I can't speak for RPMs, as I have never used Redhat. Personally, I find it essential to compile a lot of things from scratch in order to configure the correct components and options.
Viruses are unlikely to ever be as widespread on Linux as they have been/are on windows systems.
/usr/local/bin are not going to be writable by the people running them.
One of the benefits of a sensible directory hierarchy is that the executables in
Although there will always be the odd fool running everything as root, unless you put lots of fools together, there will be nowhere for the virus to spread to.