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Re:Note on Outlook compatability
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· Score: 5, Insightful
So that you can weed out MS products from your back office without upsetting the end user. I would think that if you can replace the server without management noticing, then you've already won most of the battle. Replacing the client will be easier for management to accept once they realize that it will still work with the stuff they already have (and have paid for) and know well. It's a security blanket to know that if you end up not liking the opensource client you can always fall back on what you're already accustomed to.
Your post proves that you lack a good understanding of physics and hypersonic flight. That highschool physics class you took didn't cover the physics of space flight, did it? You're falling prey to the same thinking that caused NASA engineers to underestimate the power that a chunk of foam posesses at high speeds.
>Rip that same hole 3 times in a row, and I'm on board.
You gonna pony up the ~$3 million for those three tests? Each one costs more than $1 million when you're using the Reinforced Carbon Carbon wing that exactly replicates the doomed shuttle's wing.
They test fired at several stronger, cheaper, fiberglass mock-ups to get their simulation right before they blasted away at the real thing (read very expensive). I for one am glad they took their time recreating the event as accurately and with as little waste as they did.
OR the shuttle accelerated that much during those two seconds while the foam decelerated due to friction. Have you ever watched a shuttle launch on NASA TV? Take a look at the speeds and rate of acceleration that those things hit during launch. You might be surprised.
Nah.
One of them has to lose.
We like to see them lose.
It's a win-win situation for us! Either the spammers lose and stop making money from their disgusting trade, or M$ loses and wastes their money suing the spammers. I say they deserve each other!
>Who gives a flying crap if your/etc directory remains untouched when ~ (where the irreplacable files are) has been wiped out?
I for one. (Well, in my case, it's an earth-bound crap. Mice don't fly).
It's a heck of a lot easier to restore data to my user directory than it is to rebuild and entire machine, patch everything, reinstall third-party apps, reinstall third-party kernel mods (win4lin, Nvidia drivers, etc), AND THEN reload the user data from tape. I usually only backup user data on single-user machines, not the entire machine. Much less data to burn to tape/CD/whatever for a "typical" Joe Schmoe user.
Re:Frustratingly typical day in the life of Micros
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Yet Another Windows Worm
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Yes, but as with any *NIX, the damage Joe Luser can cause is significantly curtailed to their own userspace. The virus would need to take advantage of a root-level vulnerability to infect an entire machine. Not so with most Windows default configs.
They had warning bells and e-mails flying fast and furious at the NASA center where I work. All I could do was laugh. The group I work with runs mostly Linux with the exception of Mac OS X on a few laptops. HA! Bugbear.B that!
Not very lazy at all according to the article:
"When you average the productivity rates over the whole world, the ocean is roughly equal to the land." - Wayne Esaias, biological oceanographer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
I'm not an electrical engineer, but you might find what you're looking for at AAG Electronica. They have serial port adapters, sensors, switches, etc that work on a 1-wire network. I have a weather station hooked up with their gear. I think you'd need the adapter (~$15) and their switch module (~$30).
http://www.aagelectronica.com/aag/index.html
Correction... it's frustration fueled by radical religious conviction that leads a person to believe that it is desirable and even honorable to die while murdering the "infidel's" innocents.
You can't write-off the religious aspect. Frustration may spark the hatred, but it is the religious conviction that drives people to commit heinous crimes with no remorse for loss of innocent life whatsoever.
Religion cuts to the core of who you really are, what you ultimately believe, and what your values are. In the case of the folks in question, I would blame their extreme behavior on frustration fueled and fanned by radical religious belief.
I was actually able to download *both* the Windows and Linux binaries in their entirety WITHOUT waiting several hours for the process to complete. I attribute this feat entirely to the slashdot editor who forgot to press "Save". THANK YOU! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
No, it is absolutely and totally correct. To be a "CD" your disc must conform to the CD standard as published by Philips. If BMG isn't going to produce discs that conform to the standard, then they aren't producing CDs anymore. They're selling some other kind of disc. So, no, they are not planning to sell CDs; they are planning on selling copy-protected crippled discs (CPCDs?).
Easy solution: don't stuff too much back in the envelope. Maybe send some other company's credit card application or the like. Keep the weight the same as what they expect to receive and nobody will know the difference until they open it up.;-)
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Looks like the bully is a little intimidated by the thought of ending up at the bottom of an outraged open-source dogpile. You reap what you SCO.
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So that you can weed out MS products from your back office without upsetting the end user. I would think that if you can replace the server without management noticing, then you've already won most of the battle. Replacing the client will be easier for management to accept once they realize that it will still work with the stuff they already have (and have paid for) and know well. It's a security blanket to know that if you end up not liking the opensource client you can always fall back on what you're already accustomed to.
Your post proves that you lack a good understanding of physics and hypersonic flight. That highschool physics class you took didn't cover the physics of space flight, did it? You're falling prey to the same thinking that caused NASA engineers to underestimate the power that a chunk of foam posesses at high speeds.
Here's a good link that explains the speed they're using when test firing the foam.
You gonna pony up the ~$3 million for those three tests? Each one costs more than $1 million when you're using the Reinforced Carbon Carbon wing that exactly replicates the doomed shuttle's wing.
They test fired at several stronger, cheaper, fiberglass mock-ups to get their simulation right before they blasted away at the real thing (read very expensive). I for one am glad they took their time recreating the event as accurately and with as little waste as they did.
Here's a good link that explains the speed they're using when test firing the foam.
OR the shuttle accelerated that much during those two seconds while the foam decelerated due to friction. Have you ever watched a shuttle launch on NASA TV? Take a look at the speeds and rate of acceleration that those things hit during launch. You might be surprised.
. . . the patent and copyright lawyers have all the IP tied up in court in the US!
No pun intended, right? :-D
But yet you had the time to surf on over to /. and post that comment, didn't you?
Nah.
One of them has to lose.
We like to see them lose.
It's a win-win situation for us! Either the spammers lose and stop making money from their disgusting trade, or M$ loses and wastes their money suing the spammers. I say they deserve each other!
Ever heard of google? Seek and ye shall find.
>Who gives a flying crap if your /etc directory remains untouched when ~ (where the irreplacable files are) has been wiped out?
I for one. (Well, in my case, it's an earth-bound crap. Mice don't fly).
It's a heck of a lot easier to restore data to my user directory than it is to rebuild and entire machine, patch everything, reinstall third-party apps, reinstall third-party kernel mods (win4lin, Nvidia drivers, etc), AND THEN reload the user data from tape. I usually only backup user data on single-user machines, not the entire machine. Much less data to burn to tape/CD/whatever for a "typical" Joe Schmoe user.
Yes, but as with any *NIX, the damage Joe Luser can cause is significantly curtailed to their own userspace. The virus would need to take advantage of a root-level vulnerability to infect an entire machine. Not so with most Windows default configs.
They had warning bells and e-mails flying fast and furious at the NASA center where I work. All I could do was laugh. The group I work with runs mostly Linux with the exception of Mac OS X on a few laptops. HA! Bugbear.B that!
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Not very lazy at all according to the article: "When you average the productivity rates over the whole world, the ocean is roughly equal to the land." - Wayne Esaias, biological oceanographer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
I'm not an electrical engineer, but you might find what you're looking for at AAG Electronica. They have serial port adapters, sensors, switches, etc that work on a 1-wire network. I have a weather station hooked up with their gear. I think you'd need the adapter (~$15) and their switch module (~$30). http://www.aagelectronica.com/aag/index.html
Correction... it's frustration fueled by radical religious conviction that leads a person to believe that it is desirable and even honorable to die while murdering the "infidel's" innocents.
You can't write-off the religious aspect. Frustration may spark the hatred, but it is the religious conviction that drives people to commit heinous crimes with no remorse for loss of innocent life whatsoever.
Religion cuts to the core of who you really are, what you ultimately believe, and what your values are. In the case of the folks in question, I would blame their extreme behavior on frustration fueled and fanned by radical religious belief.
I was actually able to download *both* the Windows and Linux binaries in their entirety WITHOUT waiting several hours for the process to complete. I attribute this feat entirely to the slashdot editor who forgot to press "Save". THANK YOU! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
Works for me. Installed 1.2.1 on my WinXP laptop at home this morning. No problems. Works on my RH7.3/8.0 Linux boxen too.
No, it is absolutely and totally correct. To be a "CD" your disc must conform to the CD standard as published by Philips. If BMG isn't going to produce discs that conform to the standard, then they aren't producing CDs anymore. They're selling some other kind of disc. So, no, they are not planning to sell CDs; they are planning on selling copy-protected crippled discs (CPCDs?).
Good point, but then they have to (possibly) deal with less business. Whatever the case, it's fun to send junk mail back to junk mailers!
Easy solution: don't stuff too much back in the envelope. Maybe send some other company's credit card application or the like. Keep the weight the same as what they expect to receive and nobody will know the difference until they open it up. ;-)