Boy, I hate to pull another "me too"... but Fastmail is amazing. I've got my own domain for e-mail hosted with them and I have been extremely satisfied. I'm a fairly heavy e-mail user and I'm very picky about folders, mail filtering and rules, etc.
I have only two (very minor) complaints:
* They don't let you put large files (> 100MB) on your included web space, even for their "Enhanced" users. I'm not sure why this is and it's a little bit annoying, but I'm not using them because of their web space, so what they do provide is a bonus. You can also set up photo galleries (very basic, but meets my needs), an "uploader" or just plain web space, with and without password protection.
* If you have your own domain (I think they give you a subdomain you can use in the same way if you don't), it will automatically route a@domain to the IMAP subfolder "a" if it exists. (Similarly a@b.domain goes to the folder b.a) Unfortunately, there's no way to create these mail folders "on the fly" based on incoming mail. For example, I'd like all mail to something@lists.mydomain to go to the Lists.something folder and create it if it doesn't exist. There's no way of doing that automatically so I have to manually create the folder when subscribing to mailing lists. Enabling a feature like this would probably result in a DOS attack, so I can understand why.
Anyways, that probably gives you an idea of how extensive their service is.
Obviously it depends on how much effort you want to put into taking care of it. This means things like always making sure you can find a safe storage location, lockable lockers, etc, which aren't always easy to find.
That said, I think part of the fun of backpacking is not taking everything with you -- it's about seeing how well you can live without luxuries. Also, when you're backpacking, every kilogram and every litre counts; brining a laptop + its accessories means you'll have to sacrifice space that you could use for another couple pairs of underwear or a shirt.
As far as pictures go, get a large memory card for your camera. You'll find places that will take your pictures from your memory card and burn them to CD while you wait. Internet cafes are ubiquitous in many parts of the world. I think you overestimate your need for a laptop.
I wouldn't take a laptop. But it's really up to you.
Just to make things clear, this isn't an official Debian project webpage. The debian.net subdomains are available to Debian Developers to do their own thing, and occasionally sites will migrate from debian.net to debian.org, if they get accepted by the community as "official". Debian Planet started out this way, at least.
I'm pretty sure this would be impossible if you used a double opt-in subscription system.
Plus, since they use secret spam traps, then your competitors couldn't sign them up unless somehow they knew what the spam trap addresses are. And if they did know the secret spam trap addresses, they'd probably be making money off selling the addresses to spammers so the spammers could clean their lists. They probably wouldn't worry too much about thwarting your spamming -- I mean marketing -- business.
Anyone else find it a bit unusual that "Standard Time" will now only be observed for 3 months of the year, while "Daylight Savings Time" will be observed for 9 months?
Maybe they should change the names, so we have "Standard Time" in the summer... and "Night Savings Time" in the winter?
Well... all you would need to do to defend yourself against these lightning guns would be to carry around a thin metal rod and use it as a walking stick.
You could always show up for the movie 20 minutes after its start time. That's what we do, and it works great, we arrive just in time.
Never by food in the theatre, purchase it at a nearby grocery store and "smuggle" it in. Most employees don't care, and I've never heard anyone ask "what's that big cylindrical thing in your pocket?".
Here in America, the right of the accused to receive a fair trial depends on the rights of media to publish this stuff immediately. It never occurred to me that someone would think that the government's ability to keep secret the court proceedings against its citizens is a Good Thing. Interesting.
Yes, but this is not a trial. It is an inquiry, but not a criminal investigation. If you RTFA, you'll see that the ban is to allow a fair trial to happen in the future.
You can look at the other options we considered here.
Having green and red messages, while symbolic, makes for a much less pretty logo. The green, blue, orange colours are nicer. Furthermore, you can't necessarily tell good from bad at a first glance from the envelope.:-)
And yeah, the arrow only pierces one of the three envelopes.
Third step: If the score is less than 20, and the person wasn't whitelisted, run the message through TMDA and politely tell the sender I'm not sure who they are, and I get a lot of spam, and could you please click this link to prove that you're a real person....
So based on those numbers I'd estimate a success rate of 99.9997% for eliminating spam (which is, admittedly, COMPLETELY INSANE), and a false-positive (or at least "lost message") rate of 0% so far (fingers crossed).
Yeah that is COMPLETELY INSANE. You have no idea how many legitimate messages you fail to get because the sender couldn't be bothered, or quite simply can't (i.e. automatic sender, but non-spam) click that link. TMDA is bad.
I was in Algonquin Park, Ontario at the time. Everything to the east of the park had no power, and everything to the west had no power, but for some reason, we were entirely unaffected. This was quite strange because storms usually take out our power for days, not to mention that it's a wilderness areas...
My school'scampus bookstore is actually pretty reasonable for textbooks. It's online listings show their price as well as the price at Amazon.ca and Chapters.ca, and a link to the library's database entry for it. Generally books are cheaper at our bookstore than online (without taking shipping into account).
Furthermore, many of our courses have custom "course notes" that basically cover in detail everything we're doing, and they tend to only cost $5-15 (CAD).
Of course, it helps that our bookstore is owned by our Engineering Society -- it's non-profit.
While I see that Cerritos benefits somewhat from the deal, it still seems as though Aiitnet benefits significantly more than the city, and the city should receive some share of the revenue or something.
So, I assume all this money will be going directly to the artists, who have been so badly hurt by the mp3 downloading craze? Yeah... right.
Actually, I believe it does primarily go to the artists that are "hurt" by the mp3 downloading craze.... Well the Canadian artists at least. I'm pretty sure the collecting agency represents the artists, not the record companies.
The city struck a deal with the company that allows Aiirnet to place transmitters throughout the city for free... Cerritos, meanwhile, agreed to buy 60 subscription accounts, each at $34.95 a month, for its field employees.
So... Cerritos is paying Aiirnet to set up Wi-Fi transmitters all over the city and Aiirnet will keep all the profits. What's in it for Cerritos? Sure, if Aiirnet doesn't end up making money then it makes sense, but considering they will be the only broadband provider in town, they will definitely succeed and Cerritos will get nothing.
Plus, these cars don't have headlights... When you're producing a maximum of 2000 W of electricity during the day, 2 60 W headlights will drain your battery fairly quickly...
Solar car challenegs showcase and advance the state of high efficiency photovoltaic (PV) cells and bugger the price.
Not only do they showcase the state of PV cells, but also super efficient cars. For example, the Queen's University car, with one of the best and largest solar arrays in the world, can produce just over 2000 Watts of energy... 2.6 horsepower. But that's enough to have them run at 80 km/hr (50 mph) without drawing from the battery.
Hardly seems that they are totally on there own if they have to make camp by 5.
Teams drive from 8 to 5 -- that's 9 hours, they don't stop. Fatigue gets to be a real issue, if there were no rules, there's a very large possibility that drivers (and passengers) would end up with severe dehydration, or, even more likely, cause an accident. It's usually at least 40 degrees Celsius inside the cars.
You can follow the progress of the Queen's University Team here. The Queen's team came 7th in this year's American Solar Challenge and is looking to finish in the top 3 in this competition. One of the unique features of the Queen's car is that it is a two-seater, one of the few in the world.
There's a lot of technical information about the Queen's car here (Pages 4 and 5)
I thought the U.S. was at war against terrorism. But allowing a corporation to destroy the PCs of virtually any Internet User? That's terrorism, and far worse than most.
Maybe if Sen. Hatch gets his way, half the world would attack the US. After all, it would be harbouring one giant terrorist.
Honestly, why do you Americans elect such incompetent people?
If "Southern bible-thumping asswads" are "the masses" then you have no idea how glad I am to not live in your country!
Honestly! Do you really a significant portion of the population objects to the existance of Men's magazines in a store that already sells everything; clothes, groceries, drugs and gas?
I'm surprised that no one has tried until now to create a standard for the kilogram that could be repeated easily like atomic measurement of the length of a meter and the computation of a second of time based on the resonance frequency of a caesium atom.
Did you read the article?
One reason the kilogram has lagged behind the other units is that there has been no immediate practical benefit to increasing its precision.
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Boy, I hate to pull another "me too"... but Fastmail is amazing. I've got my own domain for e-mail hosted with them and I have been extremely satisfied. I'm a fairly heavy e-mail user and I'm very picky about folders, mail filtering and rules, etc.
I have only two (very minor) complaints:
* They don't let you put large files (> 100MB) on your included web space, even for their "Enhanced" users. I'm not sure why this is and it's a little bit annoying, but I'm not using them because of their web space, so what they do provide is a bonus. You can also set up photo galleries (very basic, but meets my needs), an "uploader" or just plain web space, with and without password protection.
* If you have your own domain (I think they give you a subdomain you can use in the same way if you don't), it will automatically route a@domain to the IMAP subfolder "a" if it exists. (Similarly a@b.domain goes to the folder b.a) Unfortunately, there's no way to create these mail folders "on the fly" based on incoming mail. For example, I'd like all mail to something@lists.mydomain to go to the Lists.something folder and create it if it doesn't exist. There's no way of doing that automatically so I have to manually create the folder when subscribing to mailing lists. Enabling a feature like this would probably result in a DOS attack, so I can understand why.
Anyways, that probably gives you an idea of how extensive their service is.
Oh, and here's the obligatory referral link: (sent.com is one of their many domains to choose from)
http://www.sent.com/mail/?STKI=1763615
Obviously it depends on how much effort you want to put into taking care of it. This means things like always making sure you can find a safe storage location, lockable lockers, etc, which aren't always easy to find.
That said, I think part of the fun of backpacking is not taking everything with you -- it's about seeing how well you can live without luxuries. Also, when you're backpacking, every kilogram and every litre counts; brining a laptop + its accessories means you'll have to sacrifice space that you could use for another couple pairs of underwear or a shirt.
As far as pictures go, get a large memory card for your camera. You'll find places that will take your pictures from your memory card and burn them to CD while you wait. Internet cafes are ubiquitous in many parts of the world. I think you overestimate your need for a laptop.
I wouldn't take a laptop. But it's really up to you.
Just to make things clear, this isn't an official Debian project webpage. The debian.net subdomains are available to Debian Developers to do their own thing, and occasionally sites will migrate from debian.net to debian.org, if they get accepted by the community as "official". Debian Planet started out this way, at least.
Youch! I hope that was a typo -- that's a big brawl!
I'm pretty sure this would be impossible if you used a double opt-in subscription system.
Plus, since they use secret spam traps, then your competitors couldn't sign them up unless somehow they knew what the spam trap addresses are. And if they did know the secret spam trap addresses, they'd probably be making money off selling the addresses to spammers so the spammers could clean their lists. They probably wouldn't worry too much about thwarting your spamming -- I mean marketing -- business.
Anyone else find it a bit unusual that "Standard Time" will now only be observed for 3 months of the year, while "Daylight Savings Time" will be observed for 9 months?
Maybe they should change the names, so we have "Standard Time" in the summer... and "Night Savings Time" in the winter?
Well... all you would need to do to defend yourself against these lightning guns would be to carry around a thin metal rod and use it as a walking stick.
Yes, but this is not a trial. It is an inquiry, but not a criminal investigation. If you RTFA, you'll see that the ban is to allow a fair trial to happen in the future.
You can look at the other options we considered here.
:-)
Having green and red messages, while symbolic, makes for a much less pretty logo. The green, blue, orange colours are nicer. Furthermore, you can't necessarily tell good from bad at a first glance from the envelope.
And yeah, the arrow only pierces one of the three envelopes.
Yeah that is COMPLETELY INSANE. You have no idea how many legitimate messages you fail to get because the sender couldn't be bothered, or quite simply can't (i.e. automatic sender, but non-spam) click that link.
TMDA is bad.
I was in Algonquin Park, Ontario at the time. Everything to the east of the park had no power, and everything to the west had no power, but for some reason, we were entirely unaffected. This was quite strange because storms usually take out our power for days, not to mention that it's a wilderness areas...
My school's campus bookstore is actually pretty reasonable for textbooks. It's online listings show their price as well as the price at Amazon.ca and Chapters.ca, and a link to the library's database entry for it. Generally books are cheaper at our bookstore than online (without taking shipping into account).
Furthermore, many of our courses have custom "course notes" that basically cover in detail everything we're doing, and they tend to only cost $5-15 (CAD).
Of course, it helps that our bookstore is owned by our Engineering Society -- it's non-profit.
While I see that Cerritos benefits somewhat from the deal, it still seems as though Aiitnet benefits significantly more than the city, and the city should receive some share of the revenue or something.
Actually, I believe it does primarily go to the artists that are "hurt" by the mp3 downloading craze.... Well the Canadian artists at least. I'm pretty sure the collecting agency represents the artists, not the record companies.
So... Cerritos is paying Aiirnet to set up Wi-Fi transmitters all over the city and Aiirnet will keep all the profits. What's in it for Cerritos? Sure, if Aiirnet doesn't end up making money then it makes sense, but considering they will be the only broadband provider in town, they will definitely succeed and Cerritos will get nothing.
Plus, these cars don't have headlights... When you're producing a maximum of 2000 W of electricity during the day, 2 60 W headlights will drain your battery fairly quickly...
Not only do they showcase the state of PV cells, but also super efficient cars. For example, the Queen's University car, with one of the best and largest solar arrays in the world, can produce just over 2000 Watts of energy... 2.6 horsepower. But that's enough to have them run at 80 km/hr (50 mph) without drawing from the battery.
Teams drive from 8 to 5 -- that's 9 hours, they don't stop. Fatigue gets to be a real issue, if there were no rules, there's a very large possibility that drivers (and passengers) would end up with severe dehydration, or, even more likely, cause an accident. It's usually at least 40 degrees Celsius inside the cars.
You can follow the progress of the Queen's University Team here. The Queen's team came 7th in this year's American Solar Challenge and is looking to finish in the top 3 in this competition. One of the unique features of the Queen's car is that it is a two-seater, one of the few in the world.
There's a lot of technical information about the Queen's car here (Pages 4 and 5)
I thought the U.S. was at war against terrorism. But allowing a corporation to destroy the PCs of virtually any Internet User? That's terrorism, and far worse than most.
Maybe if Sen. Hatch gets his way, half the world would attack the US. After all, it would be harbouring one giant terrorist.
Honestly, why do you Americans elect such incompetent people?
I really don't think .la for Los Angeles is any different from .to is for Toronto. Certainly, .la did not come first.
.to websites, and I doubt .la will fare any better.
Having said that, despite being a resident of Toronto, I don't know of any Toronto
If "Southern bible-thumping asswads" are "the masses" then you have no idea how glad I am to not live in your country!
Honestly! Do you really a significant portion of the population objects to the existance of Men's magazines in a store that already sells everything; clothes, groceries, drugs and gas?
Ummm... can't they tell what side of a street you're on from the number?
How is this different?
Did you read the article?