The pam_smb module controls the NT authentication of Linux boxes, permiting them to connect to a windows network. Haven't found a system that actually uses it???? Any system with samba installed will most definitely have it, or be essentially useless. As for sendmail, sorry, it is still the standard in both Mandrake and Redhat, even though you have the option to make postfix the default. Why, I do not know, but hey, I don't make the distros.
I believe the only distro that installs exim by default (rather than sendmail) is debian, but I'm not 100% certain, there might be others.
I agree with you on everything except NWN. I don't like multiplayer games because it is still possible that one guy acting like an idiot can ruin it for everyone else. And there is always an idiot. But regarding NWN, considering the amount of mods available, some of them very VERY high quality, as well as the different experience you have of the game if you roleplay (fighter requires different playing skills than sorcerer, e.g.) make it one of my best purchases ever. It is one of two games (the other being single-player halflife) that I come back to again and again.
Nope, unless your network admin SPECIFICALLY changed the setting so you can see executables in Outlook, you cannot even see them. Outlook tells you that an attachment that could be a security risk has been blocked. There is no way to see the attachment (well, there is, but it involves drag and dropping the message to outlook express). As for macros, at least Office XP always asks if you want to run the macros embedded in the file or not. Always. And macros are a good thing, let me assure you, and are what makes Office a good piece of software.
Oh come on. Ever since Outlook 2000 SR1 you cannot even SEE the executables people send you. That's three and a half years ago! If someone has not patched his machine of a very well known vulnerability in three and a half years, they deserve all the viruses they will get... If you have PCs running the previous version, Outlook 97 as their main client, let me offer you my condolences - might as well be running Internet Explorer 2.0
Outlook blocks all executables,.pifs etc. by default. You must be thinking of Outlook express. Outlook is the best corporate mail client out there, that is why companies use it. Maybe you don't need all the features, whatever, there are companies out there for which Outlook is a real solution to real problems. If another mail client solves your problem, just use it through the exchange pop gateway.
I don't understand the "burn the cds" comment, perhaps I'm too tired...
Agreed. Outlook 2k3 is amazing. The layout is truly excellent and the spam filter really works. I'm truly amazed at how Outlook has improved, I really thought outlook xp was as good as it gets.
Instead of giving you a +1 funny, the idiot mods give you an offtopic. Apparently you were too cynic in causterising the submitter's (and editor's) apparent inability to spell. So, I'll be a bit less cynic:
Two guys are in a car. One of them looks at the traffic lights and tells the driver "it's green". He replies "I don't know, a frog"?
Goatse links are not humour, they are a tired, stupid juvenile joke that passed to the realm of unoriginal trolling three years ago. Even somethingawful trolls have gone past it. If you insist on finding a man's anus being stretched "funny" and, what's more, rage against the stupid moderator who don't really understand your delicate sense of humour, well, I doubt you'll find much sympathy.
You post an idiotic fake link to goatse and then you whine that people mod you down as a troll. Either learn to troll properly or get a sense of humour mate.
Public domain is not necessarily "open source". You can put a program in the public domain without showing its source. Just thought I'd clear this confusion.
I don't understand your point. Perhaps mine was not clear enough. What I meant was that when faced with a particular problem in, say, Neverwinter Nights, you have to solve it according to what your character is, or where you want him/her to go. Do you want your character to be good or evil? A wizard or a tank? Solve the puzzle to get the item from the NPC or kill him? Etc. etc. I'm not very much into MMORPGs other than a spell of Dark Age of Camelot (which I enjoyed), but I don't agree with you. MMORPGs are the essence of role playing nowadays - if you choose to play them like that, that is. If you are lucky enough to isolate yourself from the ever-present idiots who do not know how to role play and act as if they just came out of third grade, you will enjoy an excellent role playing experience. It is, however, hard to roleplay while answering to something to the tune of "h3y d00d, gimme monneyz!". YMMV, of course.
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IHBT. IHL. HAND.
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Mozilla with an LDAP server runs rings about Micro$oft's closed-source ass.
You obviously have no idea what the hell Exchange is and what it is designed to do. Also, I find it ridiculous you make fun of the NAME of "Outlook" while juxtaposing it to "Mozilla". Please... I mean, I have never heard of anyone resorting to namecalling a piece of software in order to win an argument... It takes all kinds, I guess...
"I don't recall ever having to install "CRITICAL SECURITY UPDATES" for Mozilla because of some worm going around."
Please give me your IP addy. Check this out:
one, two, three. I can go on if you want...
Access sucks.
So spake the wise Seth. Why? Please grace us with your obviously paramount knowledge of everything software related. And what, pray tell, is the Open Source alternative? Text files indexed through a bunch of perl scripts outputting LaTEX? Sure.
But you go on, saying Honestly, LaTeX has been superior to that piece of closed-source crapware for 15 years. It appears to me that, frankly, you have no clue what Word is since you insist on comparing it to Latex.
Finally, please grow up and stop writing "Micro$oft". It is idiotic. Trust me on that.
I do consider them adventures. They continue where great games like Secret of the Monkey Island left off. They have some arcade elements, true, but if you think about it, I think you will find that they have more things in common with, say, old Sierra adventures than with pure RPGs. The Final Fantasy series is especially a good point to make since they are story based. Take out all the fighting and you have a pure, story based, adventure game.
I don't mind the convention, usually, but it bothers me when people define the RPG genre with games like Pokemon * and the Final Fantasy series...
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1. Microsoft Outlook is the BEST mailer there is in a corporate environment. You might think that Mozilla mail or whatever is the Linux equivalent-of-the-day to Outlook is as good, but it is not. People are not stupid, they use Outlook because it does what it says on the box. You might have a bone to pick with Exchange but, frankly, the last versions are much more stable and integrate PERFECTLY with Active Directory. Outlook has been the main application that is receiving enhancements in the past two versions of Office (2k and XP), and it shows. Having beta-tested the new Outlook 2k3 I am certain Outlook will remain the mailer of choice..
2. You can open ANY Office document, no matter when it was made, or what version of the software it was made with, now. The only incompatibility is with Access. That's it.
3. Which brings me to this: what are you talking about "breaking backward compatibility"? I am still using a DOS app (written in COBOL about fifteen years ago) every day at work on my Windows XP desktop. I have never seen Microsoft breaking anything on a large scale. When Windows 95 came out something like 95% of the apps still worked, and the rest 5% that did not were using undocumented API calls. As a matter of fact, I can install a copy of Word 6 on Windows XP and it will work, even though it's a 16-bit app written for Windows 3.11.
What really bothers me about Open Source "advocates" such as yourself is that by making ignorant comments about things you obviously know very little about you make the Open Source movement seem a bunch of amateurs spreading FUD about their vision of the world. At least, if you want to bad-mouth Microsoft products go to the trouble of testing your wild claims because, frankly, you come out as an ignoramus when you make statements such as the above.
It's open source. They can do whatever the hell they want with it. If you don't agree, you shouldn't write to the Japanese embassy, you should write to Linus and everyone who develops open source software and ask them to abandon the GPL since it will fragment the open-source movement.
Also, Japan has long, LONG been a "first rate" Western nation, by whatever means you might chose to rate nations. It actually performs better than the US on most indicators. Learn your facts.
At the danger of the Jap games fanboys jumping on to me, let me make a comment. Those Final Fantasy games you are refering to, as well as the Pokemon "RPGs" are anything but. Sure, you gain points and you can level up, you learn spells etc., but you cannot "role play". Can you choose between being a good or a bad character? Will the game change towards you when you do? If, for example, you decide to play the game again as a different character, will you have a different experience? Do you even have the choice to play the game as a different character? Don't get me wrong, I'm quite fond of the Final Fantasy style games but this thing of calling them RPGs really has to stop at some point. People are even calling the Zelda series an RPG, I'm really beginning to think I've lived my whole life in a paralel gamers universe.
These games are much closer to the adventure games of old in that they are story and character driven. Please stop calling them RPGs. I suggest you play a game of Morrowind or Neverwinter Nights to see what a real RPG is like.
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Oh really. How, then, do you authenticate to a Windows domain? Or use samba with any windows later than NT?
I believe the only distro that installs exim by default (rather than sendmail) is debian, but I'm not 100% certain, there might be others.
pam_smb and sendmail "obscure"? And that's only in the past, what, five days...
Only service packs, directx and .net runtimes need to be installed separately in Windows XP.
It's called M2.
I agree with you on everything except NWN. I don't like multiplayer games because it is still possible that one guy acting like an idiot can ruin it for everyone else. And there is always an idiot. But regarding NWN, considering the amount of mods available, some of them very VERY high quality, as well as the different experience you have of the game if you roleplay (fighter requires different playing skills than sorcerer, e.g.) make it one of my best purchases ever. It is one of two games (the other being single-player halflife) that I come back to again and again.
Nope, unless your network admin SPECIFICALLY changed the setting so you can see executables in Outlook, you cannot even see them. Outlook tells you that an attachment that could be a security risk has been blocked. There is no way to see the attachment (well, there is, but it involves drag and dropping the message to outlook express). As for macros, at least Office XP always asks if you want to run the macros embedded in the file or not. Always. And macros are a good thing, let me assure you, and are what makes Office a good piece of software.
Oh come on. Ever since Outlook 2000 SR1 you cannot even SEE the executables people send you. That's three and a half years ago! If someone has not patched his machine of a very well known vulnerability in three and a half years, they deserve all the viruses they will get... If you have PCs running the previous version, Outlook 97 as their main client, let me offer you my condolences - might as well be running Internet Explorer 2.0
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I don't understand the "burn the cds" comment, perhaps I'm too tired...
You can just buy Outlook, or just Word or Excel for that matter. No one is forcing you to buy the whole suite.
Agreed. Outlook 2k3 is amazing. The layout is truly excellent and the spam filter really works. I'm truly amazed at how Outlook has improved, I really thought outlook xp was as good as it gets.
IT'S SPELLED "COMPATIBLE", NOT "COMPATABLE".
Two guys are in a car. One of them looks at the traffic lights and tells the driver "it's green". He replies "I don't know, a frog"?
Goatse links are not humour, they are a tired, stupid juvenile joke that passed to the realm of unoriginal trolling three years ago. Even somethingawful trolls have gone past it. If you insist on finding a man's anus being stretched "funny" and, what's more, rage against the stupid moderator who don't really understand your delicate sense of humour, well, I doubt you'll find much sympathy.
You post an idiotic fake link to goatse and then you whine that people mod you down as a troll. Either learn to troll properly or get a sense of humour mate.
Public domain is not necessarily "open source". You can put a program in the public domain without showing its source. Just thought I'd clear this confusion.
I don't understand your point. Perhaps mine was not clear enough. What I meant was that when faced with a particular problem in, say, Neverwinter Nights, you have to solve it according to what your character is, or where you want him/her to go. Do you want your character to be good or evil? A wizard or a tank? Solve the puzzle to get the item from the NPC or kill him? Etc. etc. I'm not very much into MMORPGs other than a spell of Dark Age of Camelot (which I enjoyed), but I don't agree with you. MMORPGs are the essence of role playing nowadays - if you choose to play them like that, that is. If you are lucky enough to isolate yourself from the ever-present idiots who do not know how to role play and act as if they just came out of third grade, you will enjoy an excellent role playing experience. It is, however, hard to roleplay while answering to something to the tune of "h3y d00d, gimme monneyz!". YMMV, of course.
IHBT. IHL. HAND.
"I don't recall ever having to install "CRITICAL SECURITY UPDATES" for Mozilla because of some worm going around." Please give me your IP addy. Check this out: one, two, three. I can go on if you want...
Access sucks. So spake the wise Seth. Why? Please grace us with your obviously paramount knowledge of everything software related. And what, pray tell, is the Open Source alternative? Text files indexed through a bunch of perl scripts outputting LaTEX? Sure.
But you go on, saying Honestly, LaTeX has been superior to that piece of closed-source crapware for 15 years. It appears to me that, frankly, you have no clue what Word is since you insist on comparing it to Latex.
Finally, please grow up and stop writing "Micro$oft". It is idiotic. Trust me on that.
I don't mind the convention, usually, but it bothers me when people define the RPG genre with games like Pokemon * and the Final Fantasy series...
2. You can open ANY Office document, no matter when it was made, or what version of the software it was made with, now. The only incompatibility is with Access. That's it.
3. Which brings me to this: what are you talking about "breaking backward compatibility"? I am still using a DOS app (written in COBOL about fifteen years ago) every day at work on my Windows XP desktop. I have never seen Microsoft breaking anything on a large scale. When Windows 95 came out something like 95% of the apps still worked, and the rest 5% that did not were using undocumented API calls. As a matter of fact, I can install a copy of Word 6 on Windows XP and it will work, even though it's a 16-bit app written for Windows 3.11.
What really bothers me about Open Source "advocates" such as yourself is that by making ignorant comments about things you obviously know very little about you make the Open Source movement seem a bunch of amateurs spreading FUD about their vision of the world. At least, if you want to bad-mouth Microsoft products go to the trouble of testing your wild claims because, frankly, you come out as an ignoramus when you make statements such as the above.
Also, Japan has long, LONG been a "first rate" Western nation, by whatever means you might chose to rate nations. It actually performs better than the US on most indicators. Learn your facts.
They call them RPGs because they don't know any better. I've never played D&D in my life, btw, but nice try.
These games are much closer to the adventure games of old in that they are story and character driven. Please stop calling them RPGs. I suggest you play a game of Morrowind or Neverwinter Nights to see what a real RPG is like.
I'm a slashdot reader too, so I sent them an email complaining of the lack of a CowboyNeal option.