On a P4 2.4 running Gentoo, KMail began its run well. Over time it developed into a sluggish, buggy mess. Sluggish in the sense that it would take eons to parse my ~36 mbox-based imap folders, even when I am local to the mail server. Buggy in that it would cache valid outbound messages in "Local Folders", "Sent Mail" as unreadable, unusable messages. A side-effect of my having KMail store sent messages in "sent-mail" in my imap tree? Who knows.
Thunderbird, since 0.3 under both Windows and Linux, has flown wonderfully. It did as well under 0.5 also. It appears that 0.6 (as of this morning;) will repeat this level of performance.
What impresses me is the ability of TBird to perform so well under Windows as opposed to the cygwin/KDE/Kmail hack. This means that all of my "support-calls" for family and friends drastically decreased since mozilla has provided a legit alternative to the recreational home-user over Lookout Distress.:)
If you think this push of technology is even the least bit fishy, go pick up a copy of _High Tech Heretic_, by Cliff Stoll (the Cuckoo's Egg guy). I scooped up a copy a week ago and he has beautifully pontificated all my feelings about technology in education.
A reviewer on Amazon wonderfly offers, "Why are we supposed to wire every classroom? Whose best interests are served by programs that offer "computer literacy?" Can we really meet people online? Stoll asks the reader to check assumptions and suspend judgments, while we determine what's really best for our children and our culture."
Your first sentence is misleading. You can fly back and forth between "official" Microsoft themes all you want. But we all know they suck.;) To use 3rd party skins, you have to "evaluate" or "pay for" a 3rd party utility to break WindowsXP into accepting said skins. Styles XP is the tool for doing this.
My technial knowledge of this is limitied, but IIRC Styles XP feigns the system into thinking these 3rd party themes are part of the original msstyles set shipped with Windows XP.
From a forum post on the web:
SXP uses the msstyle format - the same format Windows uses. Windows, by default, does not allow other 'visual styles' other than the WinXP style(Luna) and the Windows Classic design. This is where SXP comes along. SXP overwrites the restriction on Windows' visual styles. Hence, you can now use other visual styles. SXP skinning tech. is really just a hack. SXP's skinning technology is Windows' itself. Ergo, SXP's skinning doesn't, at anyway at all, give additional system slowdown. Its "native skinning."
Of all the fallout from the 419 spamming, I dont believe anything is funnier than Ebola Monkey Man. Good way to kill productivity this fine Monday morning.;)
There used to be a sysadmin who worked where I now work who used to big on everything2.com. One of his greatest nodes was this one. It discussed in absurdly great length the theoretical "bandwidth" of "a station wagon full of quarter-inch tapes".
It made me laugh picturing this guy writing this. Because this is the guy who would suspend production servers from ropes dangling from ceiling AC ducts.;)
I have heard as much. And I have experienced Time Warner Cable / Roadrunner in Austin, TX doing the same to their customers infected with MyDoom, Blaster, and other nasty remote exploits and trojans. Apparently their engineers pulled the plug on everyone in the area (Buda, Georgetown, Round Rock, Lake Austin, etc.) at once after theyd completed scanning for the exploited.
I know because in that 'pulling of the plug', certain blocks went down completely. Their tech support center was frickin slammed by incoming voice calls. A tech commented that upwards of 95% of his calls were people who complained theyd been cut off, and upon his inspection of the blacklist, were disabled due to vulnerabilities or exploits.
Jokes aside, the Internet offers a sheer inumerable amount of entertainment value with its dizzying count of leisure activities. When it goes down, and I need a leisure activity to eat up my time, what is there to do?
-TV Laugh. If socialization to banner ads has taught me anything, its that I can learn to ignore ad placement within content. BUT I CANNOT DEFEND MYSELF AGAINST 16 MINUTES OF DIRECT MARKETING AN HOUR! AHHHH! -Books You win that one. The problem is I have read everything I enjoy. And that whole acquisition of new books thing is a bit of work. Just eBook it... oh wait.. nevermind. -People Give me a fscking break. This _is_/.;)
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You only wish Bill was worth 50 _million_.
;)
Read some of the earlier posts as they said it correctly: 0.002%.
"Percentage: Confusing Slashdot readers since 1994"
-Poster ~12 clicks above me at +3
Funny. I am seeing the opposite.
;) will repeat this level of performance.
:)
On a P4 2.4 running Gentoo, KMail began its run well. Over time it developed into a sluggish, buggy mess. Sluggish in the sense that it would take eons to parse my ~36 mbox-based imap folders, even when I am local to the mail server. Buggy in that it would cache valid outbound messages in "Local Folders", "Sent Mail" as unreadable, unusable messages. A side-effect of my having KMail store sent messages in "sent-mail" in my imap tree? Who knows.
Thunderbird, since 0.3 under both Windows and Linux, has flown wonderfully. It did as well under 0.5 also. It appears that 0.6 (as of this morning
What impresses me is the ability of TBird to perform so well under Windows as opposed to the cygwin/KDE/Kmail hack. This means that all of my "support-calls" for family and friends drastically decreased since mozilla has provided a legit alternative to the recreational home-user over Lookout Distress.
My $0.02.
If you think this push of technology is even the least bit fishy, go pick up a copy of _High Tech Heretic_, by Cliff Stoll (the Cuckoo's Egg guy). I scooped up a copy a week ago and he has beautifully pontificated all my feelings about technology in education.
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A reviewer on Amazon wonderfly offers, "Why are we supposed to wire every classroom? Whose best interests are served by programs that offer "computer literacy?" Can we really meet people online? Stoll asks the reader to check assumptions and suspend judgments, while we determine what's really best for our children and our culture."
Highly recommended
Myself and 55,000 others at utexas.edu pay around ~$2500-3000 for a full semesters load in tuition/fees.
And it only keeps climbing folks...
In Russia, the screenshots were you!
It doesnt work.
Erm, you dont? This is CMU were talking about. Packing more bandwidth than the state of Pennsylvania can shake a stick at. :)
A what?
Oh.. thanks Google Images.
But APM works!
My technial knowledge of this is limitied, but IIRC Styles XP feigns the system into thinking these 3rd party themes are part of the original msstyles set shipped with Windows XP.
From a forum post on the web:
Of all the fallout from the 419 spamming, I dont believe anything is funnier than Ebola Monkey Man. Good way to kill productivity this fine Monday morning. ;)
Xiaolong Wang
... brilliant.
"Chow Long Wang"
There used to be a sysadmin who worked where I now work who used to big on everything2.com. One of his greatest nodes was this one. It discussed in absurdly great length the theoretical "bandwidth" of "a station wagon full of quarter-inch tapes".
;)
It made me laugh picturing this guy writing this. Because this is the guy who would suspend production servers from ropes dangling from ceiling AC ducts.
cfdisk might be easier for a Windows-oriented userbase. :)
I have heard as much. And I have experienced Time Warner Cable / Roadrunner in Austin, TX doing the same to their customers infected with MyDoom, Blaster, and other nasty remote exploits and trojans. Apparently their engineers pulled the plug on everyone in the area (Buda, Georgetown, Round Rock, Lake Austin, etc.) at once after theyd completed scanning for the exploited.
I know because in that 'pulling of the plug', certain blocks went down completely. Their tech support center was frickin slammed by incoming voice calls. A tech commented that upwards of 95% of his calls were people who complained theyd been cut off, and upon his inspection of the blacklist, were disabled due to vulnerabilities or exploits.
http://global.acer.com/products/notebook/as1710.ht m contains information about the 1710.
Some snippets:
378 (W)x320 (D)x47-55 (H) mm
6.4 kg (14.06 lbs.) with combo module5
7.1 kg (15.6 lbs.) with combo module and battery
Ridiculous suitcase it is, yes!
Sucker. Move to Austin. :)
Roadrunner offers 3mbit down / 384kbit up for ~$40/mo. Easily maxed bidirectionally consistently. Whee.
First Post ...and my cherry is popped. :D
Isnt it a federal crime to record in theaters now? Unauthorized duplication? IANAL, nor am I well versed, but is this true?
DoorsOS
:)
Or 'Why use Windows when there is a door. Run Linux.' :)
True. Spitting on a sidewalk in some bumblefsck state(s) is illegal. There is no prosecution/penalty, thus sidewalk spitting continues.
;)
I just hope the codgy, old, white males on Capitol Hill dont confound the situation.
What is this SCO everyones so incensed about?
;)
</sarcasm>
There is a wrong side to that scenario? ;)
pray. :)
/. ;)
Jokes aside, the Internet offers a sheer inumerable amount of entertainment value with its dizzying count of leisure activities. When it goes down, and I need a leisure activity to eat up my time, what is there to do?
-TV
Laugh. If socialization to banner ads has taught me anything, its that I can learn to ignore ad placement within content. BUT I CANNOT DEFEND MYSELF AGAINST 16 MINUTES OF DIRECT MARKETING AN HOUR! AHHHH!
-Books
You win that one. The problem is I have read everything I enjoy. And that whole acquisition of new books thing is a bit of work. Just eBook it... oh wait.. nevermind.
-People
Give me a fscking break. This _is_