Nope... I have way too few outlets in my apartment.
I have one telephone outlet. In it, I have the ADSL, a phone and a wireless phone connected.
I have no grounded electrical outlets. I had an electrical shock when plugging my S-VHS cable to the GFX card (without having the computer on, but having my speakers connected and turned on).
I have four (2x2) electrical outlets. Two in the kitchen and two in the living room (both on the side opposite the computer). I have 10+ metres filled with cables for extra outlets. I think I have somewhat close to 30 units connected to one root outlet. Of course they're all on the same fuse.
I've had 3 monitors, two computers (both at 340W), one TV and the micro running at the same time. But yeah, every time I burn a CD I'm scared I have to put another random metallic object in as a fuse as the normal fuses give up.
On a side note, the TV only has one SCART outlet, but I have 4 units that all want to occupy the slot ^^.
his applies to loading Mozilla and OpenOffice.org as well. OOo especially runs like a cow in the mud - I can't even pay attention to the impressive feature set since it's so unresponsive. I always end up shutting it down and going with Abiword instead.
I run OpenOffice Ximian, so it's based on the GTK toolset. It actually starts up pretty fast (9 seconds). Microsoft Word (XP) actually grinds to the computer to a halt when launching. I didn't have these problems with Word97, but maybe it's just me...
There's one good thing about MS Windows GUI; it's very responsive
You haven't tried copying large files at 100mbit speeds over FTP in Windows (or a 700MB from on partition to another on the same disk), now have you?
Only one GUI library would need to be loaded and everyone could use their favorite. It would certainly help for Windows ports as well. Thoughts?
As already stated, the nvidia drivers already work with Linux. I get good enough framerates in Enemy Territory;)
You don't even need to apply any patches yourself since you use Gentoo.
Use the following command after symlinking/usr/src/linux-2.6.0-testX to/usr/src/linux: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge nvidia-kernel
Note that some of the test kernels wouldn't play well with the nvidia drivers (in particular TV-out). My sollution was to play with older test kernels (2.6.0-test2), patched sources (-mm or -love) or snapshots (2.6.0-test5-bk11).
I'll assume that you either tried compiling your modem drivers into the kernel directly and/or emerge'd module-init-tools.
As a new Linux user myself, I'd suggest KDE over Gnome if you want to draw new people in.
I'd say no to this suggestion. I used to run a customized version of KDE with the Windows look-and-feel. However, my non-techie room-mate didn't want to use it. For him, it was all rubbish on the screen, bloated and all. Don't get me wrong, KDE can be nice if you customize it as you want it to be.
So, instead of me telling my room-mate that it was what I used and basically forcing him to use it during the time when he hadn't brought his own computer along, I installed Gnome.
I can tell you, Gnome is a lot more like Windows Classic (which is the first thing you change in Windows XP - Luna is horrible). It is a much cleaner design, much more structured.
KDE is more like the new, flashy Luna interface, while Gnome is more like the classic Windows interface that most users are used to.
Because of this, three or more desktops should be shipped with the OS. One being default. Users that do like other desktops should be able to change their preferences as simple as one changes it in Windows XP. Basically, going to a preferences box and choosing desktop. Or doing it like we have always done, selecting a custom session in the login box.
No, sorry, I did not read his email. I did read his/. post though. Did you? If he "DOESN'T WANT OR NEED a mail account with Bostream" why did he order one, for $2.5 a month? Maybe you should read his post.
Let's sum this up: I needed an SMTP server. Bostream didn't provide one. So I run my own server. As compared to the *better* thing: Bostream doesn't allow me to have an own SMTP, but relay all the mail I want.
If you buy an e-mail account from them, why should you be able to set the "MAIL FROM"-header?
When signing up for their $2.5/mo mail service, one of the main features advertised is being able to send mail. However, they do in fact require you to set the FROM header to your new mail account.
This sucks big time because: 1. I didn't want to spend 4 minutes configuring Postfix to send my mail. 2. When I informed them of the problem they sent me a Win32 MTA (despite the fact that I said I was using Linux). 3. I didn't want to use the new mail account (I have an own domain that gives me shorter mail adresses than their domain name). 4. I already pay $1/mo for a 100MB mail account.
b-one, which I use for my mail won't let me use their SMTP for things other than PHP scripts (beacause, they say: The ISP is supposed to relay mail, in order to reduce the spamload). Telia locks their SMTP servers to allow outgoing mail only from *.telia.com. Bostream does this for their premium accounts as well, but their standard ADSL service is using a very dynamic IP (*.bredband.skanova.com, which it shares with other ISPs). Thus they can't use an IP range to allow outgoing mail (if you want, you can check this page to see how many IP updates I've had. I've had zero downtime until sometime Thursday last week, but I've had _many_ different IPs.
They really wanted me to be able to send my mail with their server, as that was the way it was intended to be used, and it's not really their fault. It's just that a monopoly (Telia) sucks.elia is, in this regard, a much better ISP. This is much due to the fact that they own skanova (which means the other ISPs bite the dust).
And now for your actual question: Why should I be able to set my FROM-header? Simple: In Sweden, you may get a wide range of mail-adresses, none of which you have an SMTP server for. Take my student.liu.se for example. It will only relay my mail if I am on the student network. Telia will only relay if I am on their network. Bostream won't relay at all. An ISP is supposed to give you a service. And with the ammount of spam today, none other than your ISP wants to give you that service. That's why. Simple as that.
Telia is mostly known for their suckage over here. They've made several false starts, including blocking SMTP completely at their border making it impossible to host ones own mail server.
Yes, but bostream is no better. They make customers who want to use an email with FROM-header other than foo@*.bostream.foo setup their own SMTP-server. I preferred Telia's approach.
I don't think their press release will affect the ammount of spam in my inbox. Telia is all too clueless for that. I am however happy that I get a pretty low ammount of spam when compared to US figures. I'm down to less than one junk mail per hour and still not prepared to pipe all messages through SpamAssassin (too high false negatives due to most mail being sent in Swedish).
Still, Telia has alot to do with the ammount of incoming spam. Most of the spam that arrive in my Telia inbox doesn't even have my email in the TO-header (but has it in X-Original-To). The other types of spam I get is the ones that look like: Received: [*Snip*] Sat, 1 Nov 2003 15:50:49 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 23:14:06 +0000 I hate spam I can't directly see which box it is sent to, which date it was sent or that has ASCII-art topics.
You're correct. That section really contained nothing but common sense. That is, for us it would be common sense. For others, using open formats is unthinkable.
I have three examples of people. One who really knows to little of computers. She does however know more than most and likes the fact that Opera7 and Mozilla Thunderbird sits on our home desktop. Not only because they are faster than Internet Explorer/Outlook Express. The second worked as a consultant and learned of incompabilites the hard way. Needless to say, he is one of the latest to upgrade software in order to make others read his documents and the like. For this, he likes standardized HTML that can be read by everyone. The third belongs to the new generation and believes piracy is the answer to all too many problems. He's the one who likes Knoppix because it could boot and recognize his NTFS HDDs when Windows couldn't. He's also the one who complains that his.exe's couldn't load in Linux (he didn't try Wine though).
Lets start by looking at my mother. I've told her to send me a pdf or a URL if she thinks it contains a piece of information I need to see, since I use Linux and don't even use OpenOffice.org that much (it's a bitch to compile, so I feel bad when I use it). Anyway, she sends me a Word2000 document containing a screenshot (only) of Internet Explorer viewing a pdf. Instead of sending me he link. Because this is the way she is used to making things.
On the other hand, I've finally made my dad start using OpenOffice instead of his old Microsoft Office. His requirements for software was something that could open his simple excel databases and exporting to a format that we could parse in a PHP script..csv as file format was enough, but Excel would not allow exporting it in the 8859-10 charset. So he started checking oocalc out, and decided to make a simple macro that saved the document according to his needs. He can now save money by not upgrading his Office2000 to newer versions.
My brother is another story. He calls me from home and says he found this great application for making documents called OpenOffice. He tells me that for his project work in school, they have standardized on Microsoft Word, so he tells me he needs a pirated version of Microsoft Office XP. Needless to say, the reply is easy to guess, When you save your document in OpenOffice, "Simply click the dropdown list and choose Microsoft 97/2000/XP as the format. This will make the document editable by your friends. For all else, export to pdf."
If your computers are fast, it takes what, 30 seconds? Less?
My computer is fast. I can recompile a kernel for adding new hardware in less than 2 minutes. I can open the chassis and install a new graphics card in around two minutes (not relevant for patching though).
Bringing the machine down from Windows XP takes 2 minutes. Bringning it down in Linux takes 2 minutes. POST takes 15 seconds when enabling fast boot. I check memory at startup (old-style). Then it's time to verify the RAID discs (part of BIOS start). This takes 3 minutes. Then loading all services take a bit of time. Never patch a Windows server during office hours. Chances are it will be affected, and if it is what connects you to the internet (and SAP databases in some other country), you might have to send everyone home because the server stopped working. Windows boxen should be rebooted and patched at night right after backup.
I prefer the Linux way, however. No needs for GFX cards. No need for reboot. Just execute/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart' and you should fix the most relevant parts.
I think if I do a CPU next I'll be just about complete
I tried hot-swapping a CPU as well... I was, however, unfortunate enough to hot-swap the wrong CPU (removing the old 486, and not the one with math processor), needless to say, the machine was still running.
If I had such an old machine today, I guess I'd try to upgrade a standard 486 to one with math processor on the fly, then removing the old one.
Nah... I don't think they'd be so retarded to put http; or \....
After all, everyone knows enough to use : and a frontslash, right? Or maybe they have their preferences set to ask for valueOfSlash. I have mine set to default to frontslash. Then again, I'm a UNIX(TM) guy.
Last printer I bought came packaged with OS X drivers, no Linux drivers packaged with them.
And I bought a Samsung a month ago that shipped with Linux drivers that were easier to install than their Windows drivers. USB plug-in then./mnt/cdrom/install.sh - Then File->Print in OpenOffice and out came a printed document.
On the other hand, it also came with OS/X drivers. OTOH, you got trolled by an old troll. So I guess you being a zealot calls for your erratic behaviour.
IIRC, an SVG implementation is already in IE, but there's little incentive for it to be further developed.
Actually, there are only plugins for IE. This means an -tag is required. This is the wrong way to do it. Mozilla seems to be getting a native () implementation. This is of course the right thing to do.
Sadly, it seems as if Opera haven't started trying to implement it yet. Not even a subset of SVG. SVG is huge and it is probably hard to make it right. It is however an incredibly nice format that we all wish to see more of.
The whole point of using proxy servers is that all outgoing ports are blocked. The only way for you to access the internet is to call a website from the proxy.
You should never be allowed access to even port 80 in s Microsoft-based system.
and the 1994 is a 100MHz, with 5.25" drive bay, in perfect working condition and upgraded from salavaged hulks of discarded motherboards found on the streets of manhattan to a whopping 32M of RAM!
Doom... I remember helping a friend boot a computer he found in a dumpster this year... Horrible thing that had a non-working BIOS battery. I did manage to boot it up into DOS. The horrible thing didn't even have a functioning FDD, and had a limited ammount of memory. It barely loaded the Windows 3.1 that was installed onto it. Doom was slow. Still, it was fun tinkering with an oldie that wasn't upgraded as much as a geek's computer (such as my two computers, legacy and 'beast').
Myself, I have the AMD K-5 100 MHz running Gentoo Linux 1.4 on a 2.6.0-test* kernel. Now, that was an upgrade from the bloated Win98SE. It's stable, it's silent and runs without fan...
From the beginning, the box was an 8086, upgraded to a 386 33MHz followed by a 66 MHz 486DX2 w/ math functions ^^.
Its RAM has ranged from 2 to 48 MB. I don't know how many motherboards it's gone through, but it's less than the ammounts of HDDs that has been plugged into it. It currently holds 10GB.
As for the oldest part of it, it's got to be the keyboard or printer. If I sat by it, I'd be able to check, by I suspect parts of the damned computer (be it power supply/keyboard/printer) are almost as old as I am.
And yes, I remember about the Iomegas... I had a 100 MB Zip drive. The horror.
Then his complaints are with mIRC and his inability to uncheck the dialog box so it stops popping up. At this point, I stared at the screen with my jaw dropped. Was RobLimo purposely being stupid? I've used xchat and mIRC, and mIRC wins hands-down as an IRC client. Even if you don't like mIRC, it's so customizable you can create your own IRC client using its scripting capabilities. xchat is godawful, interface-wise and customizability-wise.
Yes, mIRC is uesful and maybe Roblimo wasn't really used to the Windows way of handling things.
He is, however, entirely correct in that XChat is more intuitive. It's darn easy to get XChat to do what you want. mIRC for scripting/advance users. XChat for people who just want something that works well. (Note that this come from a user wh started with mIRC and then went to irssi and XChat).
He rightfully complains about Internet Explorer, but then waits four hours before bothering to get Mozilla (Opera is the best one anyway, just not free). He just needed to bitch about Internet Explorer for a paragraph, when most Linux users switching to Windows wouldn't bother with IE to begin with. He's purposely dumbing down his using experience to complain about Windows.
Well, he does say why he decides to try out IE. Mainly 90% marketshare. Maybe he sits there trying to figure out how to make it have tabs/etc. Who knows? IE does however suck big time. Opera or even Mozilla provide a better user experience.
Has anyone thought of the possibility that Roblimo runs WinXP SP0? If that the case, Messanger is more complicated to remove. Messanger sucks.
Also, your argument that he couldn't modify the Quick Launch list is entirely invalid - you need to right-click the taskbar, check a little box to let you customize the darn thing and then drag-and-drop a little icon to it. A least, that's the way it was done the last time I checked.
I'm just sad he didn't try Microsoft Office featuting Clippy, the magical Paper Clip.
Also, please note that switching from a Linux-based system to Windows is hard and tedious. In fact, I have problem doing anything in Windows now (using Windows since the old Win 3.0 days, stopped using it this summer). The way Linux works is generally easier for me as a user, and being forced to do thing the MS way plain sucks. I'm still sitting in Windows Middle-clicking in the middle of a browser waiting for it to go to the URL I had in the clipboard. I also ctrl+alt+arrow in order to switch workspace. Linux has all the little things that make an operating system worthwhile. Also, it contains the one true command prompt.
I don't think Roblimo's article was flamebait, as you do. If it was Slashdot, I'd have moderated it +1 Interesting. While it was a bit harsh on Microsoft, they deserve it. 10+ years of Microsoft made me switch. Wait until 2008, that's 10 years after Internet became mainstream. That's when the flood of users migrating to Linux will come.
It's probably not as compliant as Mozilla, but it supports enough of the standard that you can design an attractive XHTML 1.1 compliant website that renders pixel perfect in Internet Explorer, Konqueror, Opera, and Mozilla.
Actually, it's impossible to create an XHTML 1.1-compliant website that even renders in IE. This is due to the fact that IE does not render content with MIME-type application/xhtml+xml.
Also, IE does not even support the most basic CSS-functions (position:fixed)... It merely ignores it. Doesn't even set it as position:absolute... IE rendering bugs cost my XHTML 1.0 STRICT site an extra 22kB.css just to make the site appear reasonably well. All other browsers functioned similary after one figured how to writetruly standard code (such as treating CSS with case-sensitivity since XHTML is case-sensitive and so on).
Oh, and about those older machines... My AMD K-5 100MHz renders pages fastest with Opera6,Opera7,Mozilla,Firebird,IE4,IE5 - in that order.
There's no way I can accept IE running faster than a Gecko or Opera-based browser on Win98SE (or even NT4).
While I have experienced most of what you say, I've also had my share of Reiserfs corrupting filesystem. Granted, it was not root partitions, but I had two separate IBM Deathstars (120GB) that both failed within a week (during normal usage, no power failure). I couldn't access certain directories, and a rebuild-tree saved some more files.
That said, I've not had ANY problems with Reiserfs on good hardware (Maxtor 160GB 8MB Cache/Western Digital 120GB 8Mb cache).
I would have used XFS if it wasn't for the fact that the kernel wouldn't mount the damn things ^^. But I'm now stuck with 2x 120GB ext3 partitions.
*** Notices the list grew to more than 10. Will list 10 most important first *** Opera, Mozilla Thunderbird, XMMS, Winamp, ffdshow, OpenOffice, Acrobat Reader, Xine, nmap, QuickTime (be sure to disable all qt autostart though, you don't use it often)
Since you said the box was designed to dual-boot between Mandrake and Windows XP Home, I'd standardize the Office/Web Browsing suite...
Opera 7.2x (www.opera.com) or Mozilla 1.4 (www.mozilla.org). If you can't stand Opera's ads or pay its cost (license available for Linux and Windows combo at reduced price), I'd go Mozilla.
Since the box was going to dualboot, I would use a mail-client that exists for both operating systems. Thus, I'd pass away on using Evolution (whoch is a great client). Instead I would use Mozilla Thunderbird (www.mozilla.org).
OpenOffice 1.1 (www.openoffice.org) is a given piece of software. I'm having more and more trouble with AbiWord these days, and OpenOffice just keeps improving. AbiWord should've been a truly nice word processor if it worked as it should.
The hard piece is getting a multimedia framework that functions all right on both platforms. mPlayer has improved, but I haven't tested it on Windows, so I have no idea.
Video For Linux: I'd probably go with Xine (xine.sf.net). Xine plays DVDs and standard media really well.
Video For Windows: Good old mplayer2.exe (C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\mplayer2.exe) works for most video files after ffdshow (ffdshow.sf.net). Most people tend to forget the need for video and audio compression codecs in Windows. You probably need the Ogg Vorbis DirectShow filter some time if you're not into QuickTime files ^^. I'll assume you find a good mp3 decoder as well.
Audio for Linux: XMMS is the way to go if you just want to listen to a song now and then. Rhythmbox is more for a person with lts of organozed music files and who likes to have all them files in a database. Rhythmbox also works with Multimedia keys under Gnome with the Multimedia keys daemon running. Nifty. Audio for Windows: The classic Winamp (classic.winamp.com) is an old favorite. I would probably never give up on Winamp under windows. Unless of course Winamp 2.x was revoked somehow. Not that it'd happen.
I won't recommend a software firewall like some other users, simply because I haven't ever needed one. In fact, I loathe firewalls because I play with so many ports. If you do want the increased security, I recommend a good router to the internet. I'd also do a sanity check with nmap (from another IP, to check that firewall) (www.insecure.org) to ensure to remote ports was open when using windows.
For image editing, I would either learn how to use the GIMP (www.gimp.org). Personally, I hate that interface (and yes, I know it's better'). If I had the money and could stand doing image editing at home, I'd probably get Photoshop Elements.
Adobe Acrobat Reader (www.adobe.com) is free and a must have for Windows. I still don't there's a really good alternative for Windows. Linux has loads of stuff able to read pdf/postscript. I'll assume Mandrake won't let you down.
Other nice pieces of software include (though maybe not for the home user): PuTTY, OpenSSH, RealVNC, TightVNC, CygWin (!), ACDSee, Nero Burning ROM, BitTorrent, Daemon Tools, a Java runtime, TMPGENc, Virtual Dub, WinAce/WinRar/WinZip.
Further, due to the strong community around Linux, new users will receive education and encouragement in areas such as email security that are currently lacking in the Windows world, which should help to alleviate any concerns on the part of newbies.
Bwahahahahaa. From where?!?! IRC?? New linux users receive nothing but pain and torment from anyone other than paid technical support. Get over yourselves and just admit this simple folly. Right here this guy lost all credability. All of it.
No, not the IRC. But I do know that some Linux distros has great forums. Take forums.gentoo.org as an example. Most people there are really helpful. Paid support won't teach you as much as these forums do.
Sure, Linux users don't automagically receive training in basic email knowledge, because there isn't a grave need for it. Most Linux users grow into common sense when it comes to these things. That, or they quit using Linux because they "couldn't get it".
Most people need to learn basic security in order to maximize their OS experience.
I've actually done this. She wasn't all too pleased with my answers but agreed that beeing able to prevent other users from hampering with your files was a good thing. She was even happier when I told her Nautilus and Konqueror could set the permissions in a GUI that she completely understood.
One does not need to understand chmod in order to use a *nix system. One need only understand the concept behind it.
Hmmm... 9223372036854775807 was longer than 32 bits the last time I saw it, so type 'long' or something? bigint maybe?
I mean 7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF (hexadecimal for those not quite as knowing) is like the largest signed integer for 64 bits CPU's... Handling these numbers as normal integers should be a huge boon to number crunching.
Or as the usual Cray responds to./configure sizeof short: 8 sizeof int: 8 sizeof long: 8
I do however think the AMD-64 thinks a short isn't 64-bit yet, however,,,
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Nope... I have way too few outlets in my apartment.
I have one telephone outlet. In it, I have the ADSL, a phone and a wireless phone connected.
I have no grounded electrical outlets. I had an electrical shock when plugging my S-VHS cable to the GFX card (without having the computer on, but having my speakers connected and turned on).
I have four (2x2) electrical outlets. Two in the kitchen and two in the living room (both on the side opposite the computer). I have 10+ metres filled with cables for extra outlets. I think I have somewhat close to 30 units connected to one root outlet. Of course they're all on the same fuse.
I've had 3 monitors, two computers (both at 340W), one TV and the micro running at the same time. But yeah, every time I burn a CD I'm scared I have to put another random metallic object in as a fuse as the normal fuses give up.
On a side note, the TV only has one SCART outlet, but I have 4 units that all want to occupy the slot ^^.
his applies to loading Mozilla and OpenOffice.org as well. OOo especially runs like a cow in the mud - I can't even pay attention to the impressive feature set since it's so unresponsive. I always end up shutting it down and going with Abiword instead.
I run OpenOffice Ximian, so it's based on the GTK toolset. It actually starts up pretty fast (9 seconds). Microsoft Word (XP) actually grinds to the computer to a halt when launching. I didn't have these problems with Word97, but maybe it's just me...
There's one good thing about MS Windows GUI; it's very responsive
You haven't tried copying large files at 100mbit speeds over FTP in Windows (or a 700MB from on partition to another on the same disk), now have you?
Only one GUI library would need to be loaded and everyone could use their favorite. It would certainly help for Windows ports as well. Thoughts?
One toolkit to rule them all!
As already stated, the nvidia drivers already work with Linux. I get good enough framerates in Enemy Territory ;)
/usr/src/linux-2.6.0-testX to /usr/src/linux:
You don't even need to apply any patches yourself since you use Gentoo.
Use the following command after symlinking
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge nvidia-kernel
Note that some of the test kernels wouldn't play well with the nvidia drivers (in particular TV-out). My sollution was to play with older test kernels (2.6.0-test2), patched sources (-mm or -love) or snapshots (2.6.0-test5-bk11).
I'll assume that you either tried compiling your modem drivers into the kernel directly and/or emerge'd module-init-tools.
As a new Linux user myself, I'd suggest KDE over Gnome if you want to draw new people in.
I'd say no to this suggestion. I used to run a customized version of KDE with the Windows look-and-feel. However, my non-techie room-mate didn't want to use it. For him, it was all rubbish on the screen, bloated and all. Don't get me wrong, KDE can be nice if you customize it as you want it to be.
So, instead of me telling my room-mate that it was what I used and basically forcing him to use it during the time when he hadn't brought his own computer along, I installed Gnome.
I can tell you, Gnome is a lot more like Windows Classic (which is the first thing you change in Windows XP - Luna is horrible). It is a much cleaner design, much more structured.
KDE is more like the new, flashy Luna interface, while Gnome is more like the classic Windows interface that most users are used to.
Because of this, three or more desktops should be shipped with the OS. One being default. Users that do like other desktops should be able to change their preferences as simple as one changes it in Windows XP. Basically, going to a preferences box and choosing desktop. Or doing it like we have always done, selecting a custom session in the login box.
Also, isn't www.whitehouse.com a pr0n site? I think the parent meant www.whitehouse.gov.
.com (porn) and .gov (evil suppressing bastards) were listed in the original comment.
It most certainly is porn, but both the
No, sorry, I did not read his email. I did read his /. post though. Did you? If he "DOESN'T WANT OR NEED a mail account with Bostream" why did he order one, for $2.5 a month? Maybe you should read his post.
Let's sum this up: I needed an SMTP server. Bostream didn't provide one. So I run my own server.
As compared to the *better* thing: Bostream doesn't allow me to have an own SMTP, but relay all the mail I want.
If you buy an e-mail account from them, why should you be able to set the "MAIL FROM"-header?
When signing up for their $2.5/mo mail service, one of the main features advertised is being able to send mail. However, they do in fact require you to set the FROM header to your new mail account.
This sucks big time because:
1. I didn't want to spend 4 minutes configuring Postfix to send my mail.
2. When I informed them of the problem they sent me a Win32 MTA (despite the fact that I said I was using Linux).
3. I didn't want to use the new mail account (I have an own domain that gives me shorter mail adresses than their domain name).
4. I already pay $1/mo for a 100MB mail account.
b-one, which I use for my mail won't let me use their SMTP for things other than PHP scripts (beacause, they say: The ISP is supposed to relay mail, in order to reduce the spamload). Telia locks their SMTP servers to allow outgoing mail only from *.telia.com. Bostream does this for their premium accounts as well, but their standard ADSL service is using a very dynamic IP (*.bredband.skanova.com, which it shares with other ISPs). Thus they can't use an IP range to allow outgoing mail (if you want, you can check this page to see how many IP updates I've had. I've had zero downtime until sometime Thursday last week, but I've had _many_ different IPs.
They really wanted me to be able to send my mail with their server, as that was the way it was intended to be used, and it's not really their fault. It's just that a monopoly (Telia) sucks.elia is, in this regard, a much better ISP. This is much due to the fact that they own skanova (which means the other ISPs bite the dust).
And now for your actual question: Why should I be able to set my FROM-header? Simple: In Sweden, you may get a wide range of mail-adresses, none of which you have an SMTP server for. Take my student.liu.se for example. It will only relay my mail if I am on the student network. Telia will only relay if I am on their network. Bostream won't relay at all. An ISP is supposed to give you a service. And with the ammount of spam today, none other than your ISP wants to give you that service. That's why. Simple as that.
Telia is mostly known for their suckage over here. They've made several false starts, including blocking SMTP completely at their border making it impossible to host ones own mail server.
Yes, but bostream is no better. They make customers who want to use an email with FROM-header other than foo@*.bostream.foo setup their own SMTP-server. I preferred Telia's approach.
I don't think their press release will affect the ammount of spam in my inbox. Telia is all too clueless for that. I am however happy that I get a pretty low ammount of spam when compared to US figures. I'm down to less than one junk mail per hour and still not prepared to pipe all messages through SpamAssassin (too high false negatives due to most mail being sent in Swedish).
Still, Telia has alot to do with the ammount of incoming spam. Most of the spam that arrive in my Telia inbox doesn't even have my email in the TO-header (but has it in X-Original-To). The other types of spam I get is the ones that look like:
Received: [*Snip*] Sat, 1 Nov 2003 15:50:49 +0100 (CET)
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 23:14:06 +0000
I hate spam I can't directly see which box it is sent to, which date it was sent or that has ASCII-art topics.
You're correct. That section really contained nothing but common sense. That is, for us it would be common sense. For others, using open formats is unthinkable.
.exe's couldn't load in Linux (he didn't try Wine though).
.csv as file format was enough, but Excel would not allow exporting it in the 8859-10 charset. So he started checking oocalc out, and decided to make a simple macro that saved the document according to his needs. He can now save money by not upgrading his Office2000 to newer versions.
I have three examples of people. One who really knows to little of computers. She does however know more than most and likes the fact that Opera7 and Mozilla Thunderbird sits on our home desktop. Not only because they are faster than Internet Explorer/Outlook Express.
The second worked as a consultant and learned of incompabilites the hard way. Needless to say, he is one of the latest to upgrade software in order to make others read his documents and the like. For this, he likes standardized HTML that can be read by everyone.
The third belongs to the new generation and believes piracy is the answer to all too many problems. He's the one who likes Knoppix because it could boot and recognize his NTFS HDDs when Windows couldn't. He's also the one who complains that his
Lets start by looking at my mother. I've told her to send me a pdf or a URL if she thinks it contains a piece of information I need to see, since I use Linux and don't even use OpenOffice.org that much (it's a bitch to compile, so I feel bad when I use it).
Anyway, she sends me a Word2000 document containing a screenshot (only) of Internet Explorer viewing a pdf. Instead of sending me he link. Because this is the way she is used to making things.
On the other hand, I've finally made my dad start using OpenOffice instead of his old Microsoft Office. His requirements for software was something that could open his simple excel databases and exporting to a format that we could parse in a PHP script.
My brother is another story. He calls me from home and says he found this great application for making documents called OpenOffice. He tells me that for his project work in school, they have standardized on Microsoft Word, so he tells me he needs a pirated version of Microsoft Office XP. Needless to say, the reply is easy to guess, When you save your document in OpenOffice, "Simply click the dropdown list and choose Microsoft 97/2000/XP as the format. This will make the document editable by your friends. For all else, export to pdf."
If your computers are fast, it takes what, 30 seconds? Less?
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart' and you should fix the most relevant parts.
My computer is fast. I can recompile a kernel for adding new hardware in less than 2 minutes. I can open the chassis and install a new graphics card in around two minutes (not relevant for patching though).
Bringing the machine down from Windows XP takes 2 minutes. Bringning it down in Linux takes 2 minutes. POST takes 15 seconds when enabling fast boot. I check memory at startup (old-style). Then it's time to verify the RAID discs (part of BIOS start). This takes 3 minutes. Then loading all services take a bit of time. Never patch a Windows server during office hours. Chances are it will be affected, and if it is what connects you to the internet (and SAP databases in some other country), you might have to send everyone home because the server stopped working. Windows boxen should be rebooted and patched at night right after backup.
I prefer the Linux way, however. No needs for GFX cards. No need for reboot. Just execute
I think if I do a CPU next I'll be just about complete
I tried hot-swapping a CPU as well... I was, however, unfortunate enough to hot-swap the wrong CPU (removing the old 486, and not the one with math processor), needless to say, the machine was still running.
If I had such an old machine today, I guess I'd try to upgrade a standard 486 to one with math processor on the fly, then removing the old one.
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Nah... I don't think they'd be so retarded to put http; or \.
After all, everyone knows enough to use : and a frontslash, right? Or maybe they have their preferences set to ask for valueOfSlash. I have mine set to default to frontslash. Then again, I'm a UNIX(TM) guy.
Last printer I bought came packaged with OS X drivers, no Linux drivers packaged with them.
./mnt/cdrom/install.sh - Then File->Print in OpenOffice and out came a printed document.
And I bought a Samsung a month ago that shipped with Linux drivers that were easier to install than their Windows drivers. USB plug-in then
On the other hand, it also came with OS/X drivers. OTOH, you got trolled by an old troll. So I guess you being a zealot calls for your erratic behaviour.
IIRC, an SVG implementation is already in IE, but there's little incentive for it to be further developed.
Actually, there are only plugins for IE. This means an -tag is required. This is the wrong way to do it. Mozilla seems to be getting a native () implementation. This is of course the right thing to do.
Sadly, it seems as if Opera haven't started trying to implement it yet. Not even a subset of SVG. SVG is huge and it is probably hard to make it right. It is however an incredibly nice format that we all wish to see more of.
The whole point of using proxy servers is that all outgoing ports are blocked. The only way for you to access the internet is to call a website from the proxy.
You should never be allowed access to even port 80 in s Microsoft-based system.
and the 1994 is a 100MHz, with 5.25" drive bay, in perfect working condition and upgraded from salavaged hulks of discarded motherboards found on the streets of manhattan to a whopping 32M of RAM!
Doom... I remember helping a friend boot a computer he found in a dumpster this year... Horrible thing that had a non-working BIOS battery. I did manage to boot it up into DOS. The horrible thing didn't even have a functioning FDD, and had a limited ammount of memory. It barely loaded the Windows 3.1 that was installed onto it. Doom was slow. Still, it was fun tinkering with an oldie that wasn't upgraded as much as a geek's computer (such as my two computers, legacy and 'beast').
Myself, I have the AMD K-5 100 MHz running Gentoo Linux 1.4 on a 2.6.0-test* kernel. Now, that was an upgrade from the bloated Win98SE. It's stable, it's silent and runs without fan...
From the beginning, the box was an 8086, upgraded to a 386 33MHz followed by a 66 MHz 486DX2 w/ math functions ^^.
Its RAM has ranged from 2 to 48 MB. I don't know how many motherboards it's gone through, but it's less than the ammounts of HDDs that has been plugged into it. It currently holds 10GB.
As for the oldest part of it, it's got to be the keyboard or printer. If I sat by it, I'd be able to check, by I suspect parts of the damned computer (be it power supply/keyboard/printer) are almost as old as I am.
And yes, I remember about the Iomegas... I had a 100 MB Zip drive. The horror.
I'm using Gnome. I have been able to also set the buttons in KDE.
It's one of the things I don't know how to do in Fluxbox/Blackbox, and thus one of the reasons I'm still using the more bloated Gnome.
Then his complaints are with mIRC and his inability to uncheck the dialog box so it stops popping up. At this point, I stared at the screen with my jaw dropped. Was RobLimo purposely being stupid? I've used xchat and mIRC, and mIRC wins hands-down as an IRC client. Even if you don't like mIRC, it's so customizable you can create your own IRC client using its scripting capabilities. xchat is godawful, interface-wise and customizability-wise.
Yes, mIRC is uesful and maybe Roblimo wasn't really used to the Windows way of handling things.
He is, however, entirely correct in that XChat is more intuitive. It's darn easy to get XChat to do what you want. mIRC for scripting/advance users. XChat for people who just want something that works well. (Note that this come from a user wh started with mIRC and then went to irssi and XChat).
He rightfully complains about Internet Explorer, but then waits four hours before bothering to get Mozilla (Opera is the best one anyway, just not free). He just needed to bitch about Internet Explorer for a paragraph, when most Linux users switching to Windows wouldn't bother with IE to begin with. He's purposely dumbing down his using experience to complain about Windows.
Well, he does say why he decides to try out IE. Mainly 90% marketshare. Maybe he sits there trying to figure out how to make it have tabs/etc. Who knows? IE does however suck big time. Opera or even Mozilla provide a better user experience.
Has anyone thought of the possibility that Roblimo runs WinXP SP0? If that the case, Messanger is more complicated to remove. Messanger sucks.
Also, your argument that he couldn't modify the Quick Launch list is entirely invalid - you need to right-click the taskbar, check a little box to let you customize the darn thing and then drag-and-drop a little icon to it. A least, that's the way it was done the last time I checked.
I'm just sad he didn't try Microsoft Office featuting Clippy, the magical Paper Clip.
Also, please note that switching from a Linux-based system to Windows is hard and tedious. In fact, I have problem doing anything in Windows now (using Windows since the old Win 3.0 days, stopped using it this summer). The way Linux works is generally easier for me as a user, and being forced to do thing the MS way plain sucks. I'm still sitting in Windows Middle-clicking in the middle of a browser waiting for it to go to the URL I had in the clipboard. I also ctrl+alt+arrow in order to switch workspace. Linux has all the little things that make an operating system worthwhile. Also, it contains the one true command prompt.
I don't think Roblimo's article was flamebait, as you do. If it was Slashdot, I'd have moderated it +1 Interesting. While it was a bit harsh on Microsoft, they deserve it. 10+ years of Microsoft made me switch. Wait until 2008, that's 10 years after Internet became mainstream. That's when the flood of users migrating to Linux will come.
Actually, it's impossible to create an XHTML 1.1-compliant website that even renders in IE. This is due to the fact that IE does not render content with MIME-type application/xhtml+xml.
Also, IE does not even support the most basic CSS-functions (position:fixed)... It merely ignores it. Doesn't even set it as position:absolute... IE rendering bugs cost my XHTML 1.0 STRICT site an extra 22kB
Oh, and about those older machines... My AMD K-5 100MHz renders pages fastest with Opera6,Opera7,Mozilla,Firebird,IE4,IE5 - in that order.
There's no way I can accept IE running faster than a Gecko or Opera-based browser on Win98SE (or even NT4).
While I have experienced most of what you say, I've also had my share of Reiserfs corrupting filesystem. Granted, it was not root partitions, but I had two separate IBM Deathstars (120GB) that both failed within a week (during normal usage, no power failure). I couldn't access certain directories, and a rebuild-tree saved some more files.
That said, I've not had ANY problems with Reiserfs on good hardware (Maxtor 160GB 8MB Cache/Western Digital 120GB 8Mb cache).
I would have used XFS if it wasn't for the fact that the kernel wouldn't mount the damn things ^^. But I'm now stuck with 2x 120GB ext3 partitions.
*** Notices the list grew to more than 10. Will list 10 most important first ***
Opera, Mozilla Thunderbird, XMMS, Winamp, ffdshow, OpenOffice, Acrobat Reader, Xine, nmap, QuickTime (be sure to disable all qt autostart though, you don't use it often)
Since you said the box was designed to dual-boot between Mandrake and Windows XP Home, I'd standardize the Office/Web Browsing suite...
Opera 7.2x (www.opera.com) or Mozilla 1.4 (www.mozilla.org). If you can't stand Opera's ads or pay its cost (license available for Linux and Windows combo at reduced price), I'd go Mozilla.
Since the box was going to dualboot, I would use a mail-client that exists for both operating systems. Thus, I'd pass away on using Evolution (whoch is a great client). Instead I would use Mozilla Thunderbird (www.mozilla.org).
OpenOffice 1.1 (www.openoffice.org) is a given piece of software. I'm having more and more trouble with AbiWord these days, and OpenOffice just keeps improving. AbiWord should've been a truly nice word processor if it worked as it should.
The hard piece is getting a multimedia framework that functions all right on both platforms. mPlayer has improved, but I haven't tested it on Windows, so I have no idea.
Video For Linux: I'd probably go with Xine (xine.sf.net). Xine plays DVDs and standard media really well.
Video For Windows: Good old mplayer2.exe (C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\mplayer2.exe) works for most video files after ffdshow (ffdshow.sf.net). Most people tend to forget the need for video and audio compression codecs in Windows. You probably need the Ogg Vorbis DirectShow filter some time if you're not into QuickTime files ^^. I'll assume you find a good mp3 decoder as well.
Audio for Linux: XMMS is the way to go if you just want to listen to a song now and then. Rhythmbox is more for a person with lts of organozed music files and who likes to have all them files in a database. Rhythmbox also works with Multimedia keys under Gnome with the Multimedia keys daemon running. Nifty.
Audio for Windows: The classic Winamp (classic.winamp.com) is an old favorite. I would probably never give up on Winamp under windows. Unless of course Winamp 2.x was revoked somehow. Not that it'd happen.
I won't recommend a software firewall like some other users, simply because I haven't ever needed one. In fact, I loathe firewalls because I play with so many ports. If you do want the increased security, I recommend a good router to the internet. I'd also do a sanity check with nmap (from another IP, to check that firewall) (www.insecure.org) to ensure to remote ports was open when using windows.
For image editing, I would either learn how to use the GIMP (www.gimp.org). Personally, I hate that interface (and yes, I know it's better'). If I had the money and could stand doing image editing at home, I'd probably get Photoshop Elements.
Adobe Acrobat Reader (www.adobe.com) is free and a must have for Windows. I still don't there's a really good alternative for Windows. Linux has loads of stuff able to read pdf/postscript. I'll assume Mandrake won't let you down.
Other nice pieces of software include (though maybe not for the home user): PuTTY, OpenSSH, RealVNC, TightVNC, CygWin (!), ACDSee, Nero Burning ROM, BitTorrent, Daemon Tools, a Java runtime, TMPGENc, Virtual Dub, WinAce/WinRar/WinZip.
Bwahahahahaa. From where?!?! IRC?? New linux users receive nothing but pain and torment from anyone other than paid technical support. Get over yourselves and just admit this simple folly. Right here this guy lost all credability. All of it.
No, not the IRC. But I do know that some Linux distros has great forums. Take forums.gentoo.org as an example. Most people there are really helpful. Paid support won't teach you as much as these forums do.
Sure, Linux users don't automagically receive training in basic email knowledge, because there isn't a grave need for it. Most Linux users grow into common sense when it comes to these things. That, or they quit using Linux because they "couldn't get it".
Most people need to learn basic security in order to maximize their OS experience.
Try explaining 'chmod' to your mother-in-law.
I've actually done this. She wasn't all too pleased with my answers but agreed that beeing able to prevent other users from hampering with your files was a good thing. She was even happier when I told her Nautilus and Konqueror could set the permissions in a GUI that she completely understood.
One does not need to understand chmod in order to use a *nix system. One need only understand the concept behind it.
The 4GHz bus does sound good, thought.
It's Intel, more likely to be 20x200 MHz...
I don't get it.
./configure
It is an integer. What else should you see?
Hmmm... 9223372036854775807 was longer than 32 bits the last time I saw it, so type 'long' or something? bigint maybe?
I mean 7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF (hexadecimal for those not quite as knowing) is like the largest signed integer for 64 bits CPU's... Handling these numbers as normal integers should be a huge boon to number crunching.
Or as the usual Cray responds to
sizeof short: 8
sizeof int: 8
sizeof long: 8
I do however think the AMD-64 thinks a short isn't 64-bit yet, however,,,