By reading the article, you would notice that they prefer Evolution for it's ability to connect to MS Exchange and Novell's groupware server. The feature is very important for companies that evaluate a transition to Linux. Since there are currently no viable F/OSS solutions available, they are all stuck with Exchange in most cases.
Luckilly there is some Kontact support for both of those servers in progress. The Exchange support in Evolution ( I don't know about GroupWise ) is still much more mature though.
My biggest complaint is handling of text vs HTML messages. I can set it to prefer text to HTML, and then it will require me to click a link before it will render HTML or it will let me prefer HTML to text. It won't let me prefer text to HTML while still rendering HTML only email.
Clicking those links gets old quickly when a large portion of your email is HTML only . Kmail doesn't load images by default, so I don't need to worry about them. As long as it doesn't support javascript in email it should be fine to render the HTMl.
Fine here's a use. Take for example a small company that operates out of the employees homes. Calls are made from from personal phones, cell phones, wherever. There is one phone number that is designated as the incoming number for the company. You fake caller ID on all calls to display the main number of the caller so that you only receive a call at the main location and your customers do not end up getting someones personal answering machine when they try to return a missed call.
Using caller id to identify callers is a losing proposition, there are other technologies in place that do not involve trusting the information the caller gives you. Try calling 911, they already happily disregard the information caller id distributes.
well, one of the very few BSODs I have experienced under Windows XP occured while playing solitaire.:) I've also run into an instance of solitaire dealing me a 53 card hand that made the round impossible to win.
Fairly simple for someone like me. Over time peoples jobs change, and in a small shop you might have to take up tasks that you previously would not have done. The logical thing to do is try and learn from other peoples experience since you aren't likely to have much in the specific topic. Slashdot probably isn't the best place to go, but you have to give him credit for seeing a hole in his knowledge and trying to compensate rather than just blindly proceeding forward.
So if my cd/dvd/whatever breaks and it is my fault I should spend 20 bucks on a replacement instead of spending a little bit of time and 50 cents making a backup copy? It's a better idea to make the copy and use it in situations when the disk may be broken than it is to just buy a new one if anything happens.
This is only true for the kernel. Other projects ( including the kernel trees that do not work directly out of linus's repository) started by people using bitkeeper do not have that luxury, and having core developers who can only work by emailing in patches is a pain in the ass.
"Undue influence to large population"? Just what's wrong about people having power? That's what democracy is supposed to be about.
It's fairly simple, the federal government exists to facilitate trade and protection between the states and the rest of the world. It's purpose is not to represent the people, that's the states job.
Under proportional representation, most control goes to large densely populated states such as California, Florida, New York, and Texas, regardless of what they bring to the table. Those four states out of 50 make up 1/3 of the US population. California itself is about 10% of the population. Alaska on the other hand is about.2% of the population. Congratulations, under the new system Alaska no longer has any say in the way the country is run.
Here's the thing. Most people wouldn't switch to OSX from MS Windows, particularly not over iTunes alone, and the market for selling iPod's and songs from the store is pretty large. It makes sense to try and make what little money they can off these users.
On the other hand, OSX is gaining a pretty popular following among Linux users. I can think of a number of people I know who have switched to using Apple's on their primary machines for OSX. Porting iTunes to Linux would take away one more reason people might want to switch over to OSX. Would the sale of tracks and iPods to the remaining Linux Desktop users make up for the loss of sales on G5's, Xserves, and Powerbooks that they might lose?
Well I wouldnt want to run Yellow Dog, the answer is because I like Linux as an OS. It works the way I'd like it to work, and it does what I need. If I can keep the same environment on all of my machines, I'm a happy camper. I don't particularly like having different user environments everywhere.
I think one of the reasons behind this is that being a foreigner isn't that unusual in the US. Here in California for example, a major portion of or population is recent immigrants, legal and other wise. When that's the case it's just natural to not think much of whether or not someone is a citizen.
Well it wasnt really completed, but most of the porting was done. There was a major bug that made the game unplayable, and would have been fixable if they could have gotten the source for the "game code."
True Crime did a great job on the Los Angeles area maps. The first thing I tried doing when I got the game was check out the accuracy of the maps, and the routes I tried were more or less identical to their real life counterparts. These werent even major locations, I was just driving the routes I take to friends houses and places of business.
You can't kill the backlight on a C7X0. If you do, the non-reflective screen just turns black. A c760 can already get you 4 or 5 hours of continual use, so it isn't a big deal.
As for Opie, I've used it on my iPaqs and my C760. Works well for my needs, but it isn't for everyone.
Used to be the case, but not really any more. The handhelds.org CVS has the source for an open source SD driver that is modular enough to support different devices. OpenZaurus's kernel guy has most of the info he thinks he needs to do a new SD driver, but what is really lacking is the time to do the ports to 2.6 for the different devices.
He has started working on it, and you actually can the C7x0 devices to "boot" 2.6.somethingorother on a serial console, but the flash and fb drivers still haven't been ported yet.
Whoa. Neither SuSE nor Novell have comitted to GNOME. And neither has IBM. Its just Sun and RedHat. IBM is a mix of GNOME and KDE (because of RH and SuSE). And to this day, most of the major Linux desktop rollouts that have actually happend (the China rollout hasn't, yet) have been KDE.
Well Novel did buy Ximian, so it isn't out of this world to suggest they are going to be using GNOME:)
I'd say he just has different needs than most people. If I could find something in the formfactor of an old Jornada J70 with a pxa255 400, 64MB of ram, a good battery, and a good Linux port, I could probably get along pretty well myself. It's definitly not for eveyone though.
Nope, he isn't a troll, just a bit unusual. He uses PDAs as his primary computers for programming, web browsing, and the other apps most of us use desktops for.
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By reading the article, you would notice that they prefer Evolution for it's ability to connect to MS Exchange and Novell's groupware server. The feature is very important for companies that evaluate a transition to Linux. Since there are currently no viable F/OSS solutions available, they are all stuck with Exchange in most cases.
Luckilly there is some Kontact support for both of those servers in progress. The Exchange support in Evolution ( I don't know about GroupWise ) is still much more mature though.
My biggest complaint is handling of text vs HTML messages. I can set it to prefer text to HTML, and then it will require me to click a link before it will render HTML or it will let me prefer HTML to text. It won't let me prefer text to HTML while still rendering HTML only email.
Clicking those links gets old quickly when a large portion of your email is HTML only . Kmail doesn't load images by default, so I don't need to worry about them. As long as it doesn't support javascript in email it should be fine to render the HTMl.
Fine here's a use. Take for example a small company that operates out of the employees homes. Calls are made from from personal phones, cell phones, wherever. There is one phone number that is designated as the incoming number for the company. You fake caller ID on all calls to display the main number of the caller so that you only receive a call at the main location and your customers do not end up getting someones personal answering machine when they try to return a missed call.
Using caller id to identify callers is a losing proposition, there are other technologies in place that do not involve trusting the information the caller gives you. Try calling 911, they already happily disregard the information caller id distributes.
Raven is already writing Quake IV based on the Doom 3 engine
You can still buy lead subsitute at most gas stations. My father uses it for his 1958 Triumph TR3.
well, one of the very few BSODs I have experienced under Windows XP occured while playing solitaire. :) I've also run into an instance of solitaire dealing me a 53 card hand that made the round impossible to win.
Fairly simple for someone like me. Over time peoples jobs change, and in a small shop you might have to take up tasks that you previously would not have done. The logical thing to do is try and learn from other peoples experience since you aren't likely to have much in the specific topic. Slashdot probably isn't the best place to go, but you have to give him credit for seeing a hole in his knowledge and trying to compensate rather than just blindly proceeding forward.
So if my cd/dvd/whatever breaks and it is my fault I should spend 20 bucks on a replacement instead of spending a little bit of time and 50 cents making a backup copy? It's a better idea to make the copy and use it in situations when the disk may be broken than it is to just buy a new one if anything happens.
This is only true for the kernel. Other projects ( including the kernel trees that do not work directly out of linus's repository) started by people using bitkeeper do not have that luxury, and having core developers who can only work by emailing in patches is a pain in the ass.
"Undue influence to large population"? Just what's wrong about people having power? That's what democracy is supposed to be about.
It's fairly simple, the federal government exists to facilitate trade and protection between the states and the rest of the world. It's purpose is not to represent the people, that's the states job.
Under proportional representation, most control goes to large densely populated states such as California, Florida, New York, and Texas, regardless of what they bring to the table. Those four states out of 50 make up 1/3 of the US population. California itself is about 10% of the population. Alaska on the other hand is about .2% of the population. Congratulations, under the new system Alaska no longer has any say in the way the country is run.
Here's the thing. Most people wouldn't switch to OSX from MS Windows, particularly not over iTunes alone, and the market for selling iPod's and songs from the store is pretty large. It makes sense to try and make what little money they can off these users.
On the other hand, OSX is gaining a pretty popular following among Linux users. I can think of a number of people I know who have switched to using Apple's on their primary machines for OSX. Porting iTunes to Linux would take away one more reason people might want to switch over to OSX. Would the sale of tracks and iPods to the remaining Linux Desktop users make up for the loss of sales on G5's, Xserves, and Powerbooks that they might lose?
The header file part was eaten by /. since it looks like an html tag. You need to use the html entities for the greater and less than signs.
Well I wouldnt want to run Yellow Dog, the answer is because I like Linux as an OS. It works the way I'd like it to work, and it does what I need. If I can keep the same environment on all of my machines, I'm a happy camper. I don't particularly like having different user environments everywhere.
I think one of the reasons behind this is that being a foreigner isn't that unusual in the US. Here in California for example, a major portion of or population is recent immigrants, legal and other wise. When that's the case it's just natural to not think much of whether or not someone is a citizen.
Well it wasnt really completed, but most of the porting was done. There was a major bug that made the game unplayable, and would have been fixable if they could have gotten the source for the "game code."
True Crime did a great job on the Los Angeles area maps. The first thing I tried doing when I got the game was check out the accuracy of the maps, and the routes I tried were more or less identical to their real life counterparts. These werent even major locations, I was just driving the routes I take to friends houses and places of business.
You can't kill the backlight on a C7X0. If you do, the non-reflective screen just turns black. A c760 can already get you 4 or 5 hours of continual use, so it isn't a big deal.
As for Opie, I've used it on my iPaqs and my C760. Works well for my needs, but it isn't for everyone.
That is a C700 ( you can tell by the black keyboard ). The C860 is only a little thicker due to the large battery used in it.
Used to be the case, but not really any more. The handhelds.org CVS has the source for an open source SD driver that is modular enough to support different devices. OpenZaurus's kernel guy has most of the info he thinks he needs to do a new SD driver, but what is really lacking is the time to do the ports to 2.6 for the different devices.
He has started working on it, and you actually can the C7x0 devices to "boot" 2.6.somethingorother on a serial console, but the flash and fb drivers still haven't been ported yet.
Sun has a keyboard with copy and paste keys. Don't think it had bold and italics though.
Look under your name, it has a link to unknownlamer.org, Then look at the links section and follow the link to "Angelwrath, my band." :)
Whoa. Neither SuSE nor Novell have comitted to GNOME. And neither has IBM. Its just Sun and RedHat. IBM is a mix of GNOME and KDE (because of RH and SuSE). And to this day, most of the major Linux desktop rollouts that have actually happend (the China rollout hasn't, yet) have been KDE.
:)
Well Novel did buy Ximian, so it isn't out of this world to suggest they are going to be using GNOME
I'd say he just has different needs than most people. If I could find something in the formfactor of an old Jornada J70 with a pxa255 400, 64MB of ram, a good battery, and a good Linux port, I could probably get along pretty well myself. It's definitly not for eveyone though.
Nope, he isn't a troll, just a bit unusual. He uses PDAs as his primary computers for programming, web browsing, and the other apps most of us use desktops for.
Oh and Rev... RELEASE!
You do know that konqueror does run on the Zaurus just fine, right?