Thunderbird stores emails in mbox/mbx format, which is just a plain text file. Many email clients and even some mail servers use this format and converters exist as well. So although there's no export feature, and few if any clients have specific features for importing from Thunderbird, moving your email over shouldn't pose serious difficulty. I had to research this because we're trying out Thunderbird where I work.
My WHQL certified cable modem driver, installed by my ISP, gave me about a blue screen a day on Windows XP. Since switching from usb to ethernet, eliminating the need for a driver, I had been totally crash free for probably a year, until a certified ethernet driver provided by windows update forced me to use system restore for the first time ever. My video drivers work much better than my certified ones.
I don't know how they test the drivers for certification, but so far I can't tell the difference. My current theory is Microsoft doesn't test them at all, but just sells certificates, and assumes nobody would ever pay to certify unstable drivers.
I haven't tried any such products but I know how one could work.
You can overcome a surprising number of bad/null pointer related crashes by simply stepping over to the next instruction in a debugger. I've done this on a couple occasions when programs have failed and I needed them not to. Someone could potentially automate that sort of functionality, saving from many small crashes but on the downside potentially turning big crashes into bigger problems. So far for me the worst case has been that it still crashed, and in the best case it worked flawlessly.
It's sort of like putting on error resume next in a basic program. It allows it to survive errors but on the downside those exceptions are triggered for a reason.
A lot of devices give you a way out in the event of a bad flash. I've had downtime resulting from it but never turned any device into a brick. I'm surprised to hear his linksys is giving him problems.
For most applications, plain SQL works fine. Stored procedures take more time to write, which is undesirable if you're aiming for rapid development. And they aren't that portable.
I say use them if you'll see a performance benefit. As my pages have always been fast enough, I haven't used them outside of school.
The greatest bottlenecks for many web developers seem to be in their code to read the resulting recordset, following unoptimized samples like seen in most tutorials, or forgetting to index certain fields, using multiple queries where a join would be more appropriate, using the wrong provider in their connection string, excessively concatenating large strings when a string buffer could do it 1000x faster, not knowing to turn on reponse buffering, etc. The kinds of things that lead to multimillion dollar it purchases.
When something isn't fast enough, and you've determined that the database is infact your primary bottleneck, and stored procedures have the potential to give a visible improvement, then and almost only then will it be a great idea to use them.
If you're working on a very high traffic system where RAD techniques no longer apply, and performance is your highest priority, then of course you'll do whatever you can, including planning from the beginning to use stored procedures everywhere they'll help. But at this point I would be considering alternatives to a sql driven relational database.
What PayPal does is whenever they have a dispute with a user who has a dynamic ip address, every single user who winds up with that ip and logs in gets their account automatically suspended and any money in it stolen by PayPal. It hasn't happened to me so I won't participate in the lawsuit but I've seen it happen affecting people I know and work with. Paypal takes their money and tells them to go * themselves, pointing to a 20 page agreement that was shown in the 5 line scrolling text area which they clicked agree to where they waive their right to sue in exchange for a binding arbitration process whereby whatever PayPal says goes.
There are probably just as many scam photographers out to get as much money as possible from taking a few pictures as there are real professionals.
For the thousands of dollars they'd charge, you can very easily buy your own top of the line digital camera and a tripod. Then make sure you know what you're doing and take the pictures yourself. And the rest of the money would go towards printing.
If I wanted to share a big directory of MP3s using BitTorrent, I would either need to create individual torrents for each MP3, or make one mondo torrent with the whole directory. Neither is a very efficient solution.
The natural upside to this is that fewer people will share big directories of mp3's using BitTorrent.
I've got a great idea for my own site. People will trust it and submit because nothing will ever get posted back. It'll say "Got nice boobs? Let us see.". Not sure what to call the domain though.
Whatever happened to the 60's notion that technology would have us working less?
Employers want full time employees, unemployment is strongly discouraged, we want more and better stuff, and we have a lot more rich people to carry around.
Technically, if the cost spread is over 6 years, they can afford to give away 400 million free PC's with windows preloaded. So if they are determined enough, they can hit their predicted mark.
I am a little curious about how they count users. How they define and measure users affects how realistic their 1 billion goal looks. Do upgrades count as new users. Do I already count as 3-4 users because of all my past purchases? Do former Windows users still count as users? If I use Windows both at work and at home, am I 2 users? Does simply touching a windows pc make you a user? Does an xbox user count as a windows user because it runs win2k? What about a PDA running winCE?
Does each PC I own with Windows count as a user, or perhaps is it the number of windows CD's ever sold plus piracy estimates? Or did they try to take random samples of the population and extrapolate for each region in the world? Or did they guess at the number of computer users in the world and multiply it by their market share estimate?
And I'm a Windows software developer trying to expand to Linux while my Windows PC collects dust for possibly the next year. But I doubt Fedora is the best. It has the 2.6 kernel thing going for it, but beyond that there are a lot of "bleeding edge" features resulting in quirks and other annoyances that require a bit of work to fix. I've got all the big ones under control. Like some kernel features that break a lot of software (like WINE) and are thus disabled by default are enabled by default in Fedora. It's been educational though, but I'm sure all the free distributions are educational to some extent. Despite having chosen the "everything" install option, the software I use the most on here didn't come with the distribution.
My last Mandrake 9.? install self destructed upon post-install update. Slackware 9.1 worked great for me until I tried using it as a desktop. Suse 9.0 felt a bit empty even for a desktop, but it was the free version. It detected all the peripherals I plugged into it fine though. Non-free versions of Suse 9.1 are supposedly pretty good, but I haven't tried.
I've had to call Microsoft on multiple occasions because Windows or Office XP wanted me to reactivate them after a hardware upgrade. Although it's only amounted to several hours of annoyance, it really is a pain in the ass. When they introduced the feature they claimed it'd take several hardware upgrades at once to set it off, but it's always only taken one when it's affected me. I'm still running within the limits of my licenses.
My only Windows PC is starting to collect dust now, though product activation is probably among my lesser reasons for switching. I could have gotten Windows preinstalled on my new PC for no extra charge.
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Thunderbird stores emails in mbox/mbx format, which is just a plain text file. Many email clients and even some mail servers use this format and converters exist as well. So although there's no export feature, and few if any clients have specific features for importing from Thunderbird, moving your email over shouldn't pose serious difficulty. I had to research this because we're trying out Thunderbird where I work.
to import folders with a '/' in the name.
To lazy to jump through the hoops of bugzilla.
My WHQL certified cable modem driver, installed by my ISP, gave me about a blue screen a day on Windows XP. Since switching from usb to ethernet, eliminating the need for a driver, I had been totally crash free for probably a year, until a certified ethernet driver provided by windows update forced me to use system restore for the first time ever. My video drivers work much better than my certified ones.
I don't know how they test the drivers for certification, but so far I can't tell the difference. My current theory is Microsoft doesn't test them at all, but just sells certificates, and assumes nobody would ever pay to certify unstable drivers.
Stephen Galton is a lawyer. His mama too.
I haven't tried any such products but I know how one could work.
You can overcome a surprising number of bad/null pointer related crashes by simply stepping over to the next instruction in a debugger. I've done this on a couple occasions when programs have failed and I needed them not to. Someone could potentially automate that sort of functionality, saving from many small crashes but on the downside potentially turning big crashes into bigger problems. So far for me the worst case has been that it still crashed, and in the best case it worked flawlessly.
It's sort of like putting on error resume next in a basic program. It allows it to survive errors but on the downside those exceptions are triggered for a reason.
what they're talking about should blow your PowerBook away.
Except that by then the Powerbook would probably be 4-6 years old and Apple would be unveiling something new. Though I'm by no means an Apple fan.
A lot of devices give you a way out in the event of a bad flash. I've had downtime resulting from it but never turned any device into a brick. I'm surprised to hear his linksys is giving him problems.
Just your typical answer:
For most applications, plain SQL works fine. Stored procedures take more time to write, which is undesirable if you're aiming for rapid development. And they aren't that portable.
I say use them if you'll see a performance benefit. As my pages have always been fast enough, I haven't used them outside of school.
The greatest bottlenecks for many web developers seem to be in their code to read the resulting recordset, following unoptimized samples like seen in most tutorials, or forgetting to index certain fields, using multiple queries where a join would be more appropriate, using the wrong provider in their connection string, excessively concatenating large strings when a string buffer could do it 1000x faster, not knowing to turn on reponse buffering, etc. The kinds of things that lead to multimillion dollar it purchases.
When something isn't fast enough, and you've determined that the database is infact your primary bottleneck, and stored procedures have the potential to give a visible improvement, then and almost only then will it be a great idea to use them.
If you're working on a very high traffic system where RAD techniques no longer apply, and performance is your highest priority, then of course you'll do whatever you can, including planning from the beginning to use stored procedures everywhere they'll help. But at this point I would be considering alternatives to a sql driven relational database.
But what do I know, I'm only 22.
You can shave at least 1 more byte off that.
What PayPal does is whenever they have a dispute with a user who has a dynamic ip address, every single user who winds up with that ip and logs in gets their account automatically suspended and any money in it stolen by PayPal. It hasn't happened to me so I won't participate in the lawsuit but I've seen it happen affecting people I know and work with. Paypal takes their money and tells them to go * themselves, pointing to a 20 page agreement that was shown in the 5 line scrolling text area which they clicked agree to where they waive their right to sue in exchange for a binding arbitration process whereby whatever PayPal says goes.
Telephone answering machine.
type about:config into your address bar.
There are probably just as many scam photographers out to get as much money as possible from taking a few pictures as there are real professionals.
For the thousands of dollars they'd charge, you can very easily buy your own top of the line digital camera and a tripod. Then make sure you know what you're doing and take the pictures yourself. And the rest of the money would go towards printing.
If I wanted to share a big directory of MP3s using BitTorrent, I would either need to create individual torrents for each MP3, or make one mondo torrent with the whole directory. Neither is a very efficient solution.
The natural upside to this is that fewer people will share big directories of mp3's using BitTorrent.
sed leaves vi in the dust in terms of ease of use.
I've got a great idea for my own site. People will trust it and submit because nothing will ever get posted back. It'll say "Got nice boobs? Let us see.". Not sure what to call the domain though.
Whatever happened to the 60's notion that technology would have us working less?
Employers want full time employees, unemployment is strongly discouraged, we want more and better stuff, and we have a lot more rich people to carry around.
Are you going to do your part and tell them why you're tired?
They should have posted the https:// version of the link. We might have been able to see the slashdot effect then.
expired.
But seriously, it's past 2am and I have a final essay to start writing, once I get enough research done.
Despite its simplicity, it's a very fun game.
Technically, if the cost spread is over 6 years, they can afford to give away 400 million free PC's with windows preloaded. So if they are determined enough, they can hit their predicted mark.
I am a little curious about how they count users. How they define and measure users affects how realistic their 1 billion goal looks. Do upgrades count as new users. Do I already count as 3-4 users because of all my past purchases? Do former Windows users still count as users? If I use Windows both at work and at home, am I 2 users? Does simply touching a windows pc make you a user? Does an xbox user count as a windows user because it runs win2k? What about a PDA running winCE?
Does each PC I own with Windows count as a user, or perhaps is it the number of windows CD's ever sold plus piracy estimates? Or did they try to take random samples of the population and extrapolate for each region in the world? Or did they guess at the number of computer users in the world and multiply it by their market share estimate?
The benchmarks look very promising.
And I'm a Windows software developer trying to expand to Linux while my Windows PC collects dust for possibly the next year. But I doubt Fedora is the best. It has the 2.6 kernel thing going for it, but beyond that there are a lot of "bleeding edge" features resulting in quirks and other annoyances that require a bit of work to fix. I've got all the big ones under control. Like some kernel features that break a lot of software (like WINE) and are thus disabled by default are enabled by default in Fedora. It's been educational though, but I'm sure all the free distributions are educational to some extent. Despite having chosen the "everything" install option, the software I use the most on here didn't come with the distribution.
My last Mandrake 9.? install self destructed upon post-install update. Slackware 9.1 worked great for me until I tried using it as a desktop. Suse 9.0 felt a bit empty even for a desktop, but it was the free version. It detected all the peripherals I plugged into it fine though. Non-free versions of Suse 9.1 are supposedly pretty good, but I haven't tried.
I've had to call Microsoft on multiple occasions because Windows or Office XP wanted me to reactivate them after a hardware upgrade. Although it's only amounted to several hours of annoyance, it really is a pain in the ass. When they introduced the feature they claimed it'd take several hardware upgrades at once to set it off, but it's always only taken one when it's affected me. I'm still running within the limits of my licenses.
My only Windows PC is starting to collect dust now, though product activation is probably among my lesser reasons for switching. I could have gotten Windows preinstalled on my new PC for no extra charge.