Our mail server has somehow erroneously been blacklisted and so we have added about 100 emails of that "Spam" to that half a trillion. I'm sure we're not alone.
The blacklists aren't infallible and get messed up and tend to be very slow to respond to errors or worse just don't bother (or even worse demand money to be removed in one noteable case).
What the article should say is that AOL blocked half a trillion emails, god knows how many of them were legit emails or how many really were spam...
How often will Microsoft do this rubbish. I don't even use RAV and never have but everytime I hear about their latest asset strip and close down I cringe...
"You know, in Mac OS X (or Windows, if you buy Adobe Acrobat), you can export a document from any application to PDF format, as long as that application supports printing."
The difference is simple. An integrated feature will be used by more people than having to either pay for Acrobat (it's not cheap) or grabbing freeshare/shareware products and faff about with the integration aspects or printing to PDF.
Clicking the magic PDF button and choosing a path is just plain NICE.
I for one am tired of seeing a new distribution every 6 months from Mandrake and RedHat.
And I am on the flip side and think they need to keep it up. I want to be set free from the mire of Microsoft and Linux is getting closer to useable as far as I'm concerned with each iteration from the main vendors. (With some backsteps along the way)
I want them to keep working on it until I am happy with it. And then I can simply not upgrade. You could do the same if you're happy with the one you have.
On the down side, the installation procedures are a little more inflexible than that of RedHat or SuSE, and
KDE 3.1 seems to be broken(?).
On the whole, after a couple of hours of tooling about, it seems to be an excellent release.
This kind of thing staggers me. How on earth can you say a release is "excellent" when something as fundamental to it's use as one of the main desktop environments is "broken"!
This kind of comment seems to come from Linuxophiles a lot and it baffles the crap out of me...
"Should the case of Murdoch not granting full editorial impartiality be proven he could lose the cornerstone of his international media empire. I'm sure I'm not alone in expressing the sentiment this happens sooner rather than later."
Completely off-topic sentiment about to be expressed, but that would be a very very good thing.
One of the last repressive, dictatorial governments on the planet is using Linux. Yay. I hear that Osama Bin Laden uses Linux too, but I haven't seen a story there.
What a bloody awful first post.
Moving on, the real way to look at this is that the two most populous countries on the planet (China and India) are both seriously looking at open source, free software and other non-MS software organisations for their governmental and other agencies.
Whatever you, me or anyone else thinks about MS, Linux, FreeBSD, MSOffice, and whatever else is really irrelevant. It's great to see people now having the choice which really hasn't been around (excepting other even more expensive options *cough* Apple *cough*).
By and large I agree, but wasn't NS5 actually in development then scrapped with the decision to push Mozilla so it made sense to jump the version since a product of that versioning had been started...?
If you are ever developing for the web you should really be testing your site in multiple browsers/OSes and multiple screen resolutions. That is one off the top of the head actual 'techie' reason for it.
The other more important one for me is because it's convenient! It's been one of the most glaringly horrible things about Linux GUIs for me. I'm glad someone is finally addressing it.
Work for nothing? Not what I've heard. There is an Indian guy who I talk to quite a bit here (Australia) who has come over here for more IT experience. As he put it the wages aren't as much as here but the cost of living is almost zilch compared to here and that is with Australia being a pretty cheap place to live.
Really what counts is not how much income you have but how far it can go.
Hey that's unfair to mod this to flamebait. It sounds more like US national policy, isn't it?;)
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"I tell you what. You go ahead and design a site, pay for the bandwidth, support a couple of million hits on a daily bases. At that point, then you can bitch and complain about your site maintaining journalistic integrity."
Don't be ridiculous. Going on that reasoning no one is allowed to complain about anything which they have not directly done themselves.
"No-one believes anything this old dottard has-been says, and no-one's going to invest a penny in his mad schemes any more."
Hmm. I think you do the man the tiniest bit of disrespect to disregard him quite that casually...
Invented world's first pocket calculator
Developed the digital wristwatch
Developed the pocket TV
This is ignoring his bringing of the computer to Joe Public in a pretty affordable way (Sinclair ZX80/81/Spectrum marketed as some Timex or other in the US).
His comments are probably as worthy of listening to as Dean Kamen's. Oh and if you want to have a go at him, you might have to get through any person using a continuous drug infusion device, commonly used by people as insulin pumps now...
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Our mail server has somehow erroneously been blacklisted and so we have added about 100 emails of that "Spam" to that half a trillion. I'm sure we're not alone.
The blacklists aren't infallible and get messed up and tend to be very slow to respond to errors or worse just don't bother (or even worse demand money to be removed in one noteable case).
What the article should say is that AOL blocked half a trillion emails, god knows how many of them were legit emails or how many really were spam...
If I could get Interdev to run and be able to interface properly to FPSE enabled webservers on linux I'd be happy.
This is one of my big stumbling blocks to moving to linux...
Aye, a hearty well done! I just am keeping my fingers crossed that they get the guy back ok...
"Just because it's in conjunction with Microsoft doesn't always mean it's a bad thing, but we've got to wait and see."
I am prepared to be proven wrong here but please name one thing that Microsoft has done that has been to the benefit of other organisations...
One thing that they've not been forced to do by legal action or impending legal action that is.
I'm inclined to agree. What a non-entity of both an article and an application.
I was all excited about some GPLed virtual machine host. Oh well.
How often will Microsoft do this rubbish. I don't even use RAV and never have but everytime I hear about their latest asset strip and close down I cringe...
"You know, in Mac OS X (or Windows, if you buy Adobe Acrobat), you can export a document from any application to PDF format, as long as that application supports printing."
The difference is simple. An integrated feature will be used by more people than having to either pay for Acrobat (it's not cheap) or grabbing freeshare/shareware products and faff about with the integration aspects or printing to PDF.
Clicking the magic PDF button and choosing a path is just plain NICE.
I don't see a single thing wrong with the comment about Linux jump starting open source.
I had never heard of it before Linux. I hadn't heard of GNU.
I think you'll find that 99% of Joe Public who has heard of Linux would stare blankly at you if you asked about GNU.
Hence, the comment about it jump starting the open source movement is quite probably very accurate.
Ah crap. :(
405 : The Movie. THAT is the link...
Hey, it's people just going out and doing something, like this, that get the jobs. Look at 405 The Movie for a good example.
If you're buying a toy of any sort, be it segway, car or an extra pair of socks for in the trousers to act as a chick magnet then you've got no hope.
I want them to keep working on it until I am happy with it. And then I can simply not upgrade. You could do the same if you're happy with the one you have.
This kind of comment seems to come from Linuxophiles a lot and it baffles the crap out of me...
"Should the case of Murdoch not granting full editorial impartiality be proven he could lose the cornerstone of his international media empire. I'm sure I'm not alone in expressing the sentiment this happens sooner rather than later." Completely off-topic sentiment about to be expressed, but that would be a very very good thing.
Is this post a misplaced attempt at humour, or misplaced racism? Very poor.
I wish I had some mod points because this is exactly my feelings. I think all certain people see is in any story about China;
"blah blah blah China... commie commie commie blah blah evil China commie commie evil blah blah".
It's ridiculous and well done to China for developing their own IT infrastructure and industry.
Moving on, the real way to look at this is that the two most populous countries on the planet (China and India) are both seriously looking at open source, free software and other non-MS software organisations for their governmental and other agencies.
Whatever you, me or anyone else thinks about MS, Linux, FreeBSD, MSOffice, and whatever else is really irrelevant. It's great to see people now having the choice which really hasn't been around (excepting other even more expensive options *cough* Apple *cough*).
By and large I agree, but wasn't NS5 actually in development then scrapped with the decision to push Mozilla so it made sense to jump the version since a product of that versioning had been started...?
If you are ever developing for the web you should really be testing your site in multiple browsers/OSes and multiple screen resolutions. That is one off the top of the head actual 'techie' reason for it.
The other more important one for me is because it's convenient! It's been one of the most glaringly horrible things about Linux GUIs for me. I'm glad someone is finally addressing it.
Work for nothing? Not what I've heard. There is an Indian guy who I talk to quite a bit here (Australia) who has come over here for more IT experience. As he put it the wages aren't as much as here but the cost of living is almost zilch compared to here and that is with Australia being a pretty cheap place to live.
Really what counts is not how much income you have but how far it can go.
Hey that's unfair to mod this to flamebait. It sounds more like US national policy, isn't it? ;)
I loved them, when I had my goes of them. :)
Aviemore ski resort in Scotland bought a fair few of them for people to hire to get around in. Great fun.
- Invented world's first pocket calculator
- Developed the digital wristwatch
- Developed the pocket TV
This is ignoring his bringing of the computer to Joe Public in a pretty affordable way (Sinclair ZX80/81/Spectrum marketed as some Timex or other in the US).His comments are probably as worthy of listening to as Dean Kamen's. Oh and if you want to have a go at him, you might have to get through any person using a continuous drug infusion device, commonly used by people as insulin pumps now...