Considering my complaint is about laptop users that are often offline for long periods of time and then connect to re-sync, I'm sure they'd appreciate being told that they weren't allowed to send the 12 messages they composed offline instantaneously.
You really don't understand authenticated SMTP do you? The user has to authenticate to send E-mail. If they can't (like the trojan that doesn't know the tokens), they can't send mail.
SMTP is a stupid protocol for end users because its structure is more for MTA-MTA conversations, but that's beside the point.
This is a loss. The ISP *can't* detect this without huge amounts of effort *and* the probability of pissing off lots of customers.
PS, blocking port 25 for customers is just plain dumb -- I have a lot of customers that go on the road and don't want to reconfigure their laptop to use the local dial-up access SMTP server for two hours, then do again in the next city.
They just leave the SMTP set to us, and we have secure logins. Voila. Oh, but we can't use port 25 because a lot of ISPs block it.
Where "row_list_py" is a script that generates the data for you.
For the non-Zope people: the 'tr' tag and its contents will repeat for each entry of the returned data from executing "row_list_py". The tal:content tells the 'td' tag to replace its contents with the value "name" from the current "row" object, as defined by the current "tr".
There are people who shouldn't talk to others in their cars while they drive. Or drink coffee. Or listen to the radio. Those people are dangerous -- they're barely able to drive as it is, obviously.
Some of us on the other hand can carry on in-depth conversations and still focus on driving properly. There's no difference whether I'm talking on my headset or to my passengers -- and I rarely drive without talking to someone.
Maybe the many scientific studies that show that men and women are not the same help too.
You know, that the average woman and the average man think differently? There's a reason my wife who got into Computer Engineering at 16 yrs old and studied VAX assembly language still asks me to change the settings on our home machine -- she couldn't be bothered to do it herself. She's more than capable, but the itch isn't there.
I meet guy after guy doing OSS work and they're "scratching an itch", and when we discuss our work with the ladies we know, often very bright and computer-minded, they don't have those itches. Theirs are different (on *AVERAGE*).
Good for us, good for them, I don't care -- its not sexual discrimination or something, its called natural bias. Get over it.
Actually, moms and dads will do what you tell them they need to do -- just don't expect them to understand.
As long as it fits on a sticky-note, its cool.
I have customers that know the most obscure DOS strings for their 1991 era equipment they don't want to replace. They know nothing about computers or DOS, but they know all the commands they've been given over the years -- and they don't want Windows because its different.
That'll happen when we wear power-gloves and don't mind building shoulder strength to manipulate those windows "in natural 3D", cause God-knows a mouse lets you naturally manipulate things in 3D.
When users stop maximizing every window they want to use, I can see this being a reality. Until then, it won't happen.
Most of my users still want to run at 800x600 on 17" or 19" screens and maximize their browser window, even when the text in that window is only an inch across. Why? The overlapping windows distract them.
"Faith-based" means nothing to me in this context -- maybe someone else can point out why this is funny / trollish. I detect sarcasm, but without some intelligent background in the area being slighted, I can't figure out how to take it.
Agreed -- anyone can take and decide they want to make an enterprise-ready version of Firefox that's all "business-like" (whatever that means) with secure features, locked-down UI, etc.
Just take the source, make the modifications and install it for your clients.
A video game my wife and I play on the PS2 (Frequency) involves basically hitting the correct "notes" on-screen with one of three buttons. The default arrangement is to use the top three buttons under the right hand thumb, but the manual points out that one will get much better speed by using the L1, R1 and R2 buttons instead, allowing the use of both hands and three fingers instead of just one.
Its amazing how much of a speed difference is achieved by allowing your one hand to get ready for the next thing to do while the previous finishes what its doing.
Think of RAID-0 vs. single-drive under optimal conditions.
Mind you, I type at well over 100 wpm, so I'm strange perhaps.
I hate to point this out, but the 0 at the bottom and 9 at the top-right predates the other format. Calculators were in existance before touch-tone telephones, for example.
Its the telephone makers who screwed up and changed the order of the numbers around to more closely match the rotary phones.
You just listed a number of good reasons why the criminal justice system doesn't work.
If north americans would stop believing that prison fixes criminals, we might get somewhere.
It may not seem "fair" to rehabilitate criminals, and give them better chances at a good life, but what would you rather have; a society of 10% snobs who manage to hide their crimes on the street and 90% in prison learning how to hide their future crimes, or one where we take prisoners, give them an education, life lessons help them get along, etc.
I don't really care what commercial software would do, arguments about how commercial slackware is aside. I don't want my distro to behave like "commercial" software anyway.
Umm, qmail is very open source. qmail has never been anything but open source. It may not be "free software" but it is most definately open sourced.
For what its worth, you asked about "within one year of being released due to the discovery of bugs by users"
The beta and gamma versions obviously don't count (WoW had a beta period as well). "Since release" would obviously be versions 1.0 to 1.03 (present) in the case of qmail.
According to LWQ, "Version 1.0, the first general release, was announced on February, 20, 1997. The current version, 1.03, was released on June, 15, 1998"
That said, it did have updates, but I can't say that any of them were because of bugs discovered by users.
See also the qmail challenge for information about the lack of security related bugs found in qmail (ever).
I actually thought it was smart of them to keep those monster-of-the-week episodes going just to fill in the gaps. THink of how much easier that is to get writers for than keeping up a plot like Alias does, for example (my now-favorite series).
The plot episodes were of course the best though (IMnsHO). I'd love a DVD collection of just the X-Files episodes featuring an advancement of the overarching conspiracy so you could follow the whole thing easily.
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Considering my complaint is about laptop users that are often offline for long periods of time and then connect to re-sync, I'm sure they'd appreciate being told that they weren't allowed to send the 12 messages they composed offline instantaneously.
You really don't understand authenticated SMTP do you? The user has to authenticate to send E-mail. If they can't (like the trojan that doesn't know the tokens), they can't send mail.
SMTP is a stupid protocol for end users because its structure is more for MTA-MTA conversations, but that's beside the point.
I do -- you've never met someone who lost the ability to listen to their entire music collection after reinstalling Windows have you?
I have.
PS, no, its not iTunes. But yes, this kind of thing happens -- and then you sell your player and get a new one.
This is a loss. The ISP *can't* detect this without huge amounts of effort *and* the probability of pissing off lots of customers.
PS, blocking port 25 for customers is just plain dumb -- I have a lot of customers that go on the road and don't want to reconfigure their laptop to use the local dial-up access SMTP server for two hours, then do again in the next city.
They just leave the SMTP set to us, and we have secure logins. Voila. Oh, but we can't use port 25 because a lot of ISPs block it.
If you're using ZPT then you already have a template engine. PHP is a programming language that knows about HTML -- there's a big difference.
<table>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
</tr>
<tr tal:repeat="row here/row_list_py">
<td tal:content="row/name">Name here</td>
</tr>
</table>
Where "row_list_py" is a script that generates the data for you.
For the non-Zope people: the 'tr' tag and its contents will repeat for each entry of the returned data from executing "row_list_py". The tal:content tells the 'td' tag to replace its contents with the value "name" from the current "row" object, as defined by the current "tr".
There are people who shouldn't talk to others in their cars while they drive. Or drink coffee. Or listen to the radio. Those people are dangerous -- they're barely able to drive as it is, obviously.
Some of us on the other hand can carry on in-depth conversations and still focus on driving properly. There's no difference whether I'm talking on my headset or to my passengers -- and I rarely drive without talking to someone.
Get over it.
Maybe the many scientific studies that show that men and women are not the same help too.
You know, that the average woman and the average man think differently? There's a reason my wife who got into Computer Engineering at 16 yrs old and studied VAX assembly language still asks me to change the settings on our home machine -- she couldn't be bothered to do it herself. She's more than capable, but the itch isn't there.
I meet guy after guy doing OSS work and they're "scratching an itch", and when we discuss our work with the ladies we know, often very bright and computer-minded, they don't have those itches. Theirs are different (on *AVERAGE*).
Good for us, good for them, I don't care -- its not sexual discrimination or something, its called natural bias. Get over it.
Actually, moms and dads will do what you tell them they need to do -- just don't expect them to understand.
As long as it fits on a sticky-note, its cool.
I have customers that know the most obscure DOS strings for their 1991 era equipment they don't want to replace. They know nothing about computers or DOS, but they know all the commands they've been given over the years -- and they don't want Windows because its different.
I increase the resolution to at least 1024x768, change to large icons, and increase font sizing in Windows to 120%.
That usually makes them happy, at least temporarily.
Of course, Windows widgets aren't designed to resize with screen size (unlike Gtk+) so it usually looks ugly.
That'll happen when we wear power-gloves and don't mind building shoulder strength to manipulate those windows "in natural 3D", cause God-knows a mouse lets you naturally manipulate things in 3D.
When users stop maximizing every window they want to use, I can see this being a reality. Until then, it won't happen.
Most of my users still want to run at 800x600 on 17" or 19" screens and maximize their browser window, even when the text in that window is only an inch across. Why? The overlapping windows distract them.
You think a 3D desktop would be less distracting?
I'm sorry, you think that RedHat's 1.96 billion dollars makes them irrelevant compared to Microsoft's 287 billion?
(when do I get my billion?)
Don't worry -- I don't get it either.
"Faith-based" means nothing to me in this context -- maybe someone else can point out why this is funny / trollish. I detect sarcasm, but without some intelligent background in the area being slighted, I can't figure out how to take it.
Agreed -- anyone can take and decide they want to make an enterprise-ready version of Firefox that's all "business-like" (whatever that means) with secure features, locked-down UI, etc.
Just take the source, make the modifications and install it for your clients.
Its called shutting off the form-saving feature on public computers -- its in options.
I use the saving features on my home computer (Linux), and use the password to "protect" that data with a global password -- big deal.
Any moron at the gas station can take a copy of your card too.
A video game my wife and I play on the PS2 (Frequency) involves basically hitting the correct "notes" on-screen with one of three buttons. The default arrangement is to use the top three buttons under the right hand thumb, but the manual points out that one will get much better speed by using the L1, R1 and R2 buttons instead, allowing the use of both hands and three fingers instead of just one.
Its amazing how much of a speed difference is achieved by allowing your one hand to get ready for the next thing to do while the previous finishes what its doing.
Think of RAID-0 vs. single-drive under optimal conditions.
Mind you, I type at well over 100 wpm, so I'm strange perhaps.
I hate to point this out, but the 0 at the bottom and 9 at the top-right predates the other format. Calculators were in existance before touch-tone telephones, for example.
Its the telephone makers who screwed up and changed the order of the numbers around to more closely match the rotary phones.
All my passphrases are at least 15 characters long. They're easy to remember (for me) and easy to type (you do know how to type, don't you?).
Long passwords are a good start, but just a start.
You just listed a number of good reasons why the criminal justice system doesn't work.
If north americans would stop believing that prison fixes criminals, we might get somewhere.
It may not seem "fair" to rehabilitate criminals, and give them better chances at a good life, but what would you rather have; a society of 10% snobs who manage to hide their crimes on the street and 90% in prison learning how to hide their future crimes, or one where we take prisoners, give them an education, life lessons help them get along, etc.
I don't really care what commercial software would do, arguments about how commercial slackware is aside. I don't want my distro to behave like "commercial" software anyway.
... making money selling magazines about crap you don't like.
Umm, qmail is very open source. qmail has never been anything but open source. It may not be "free software" but it is most definately open sourced.
For what its worth, you asked about "within one year of being released due to the discovery of bugs by users"
The beta and gamma versions obviously don't count (WoW had a beta period as well). "Since release" would obviously be versions 1.0 to 1.03 (present) in the case of qmail.
According to LWQ, "Version 1.0, the first general release, was announced on February, 20, 1997. The current version, 1.03, was released on June, 15, 1998"
That said, it did have updates, but I can't say that any of them were because of bugs discovered by users.
See also the qmail challenge for information about the lack of security related bugs found in qmail (ever).
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I actually thought it was smart of them to keep those monster-of-the-week episodes going just to fill in the gaps. THink of how much easier that is to get writers for than keeping up a plot like Alias does, for example (my now-favorite series).
The plot episodes were of course the best though (IMnsHO). I'd love a DVD collection of just the X-Files episodes featuring an advancement of the overarching conspiracy so you could follow the whole thing easily.
Evidently. Have you read the USA PATRIOT act?