I've been utterly unable to import Mozilla Mail data into Thunderbird
According to the changelog (sorry, can't find the link), Thunderbird 1.0 can import Mozilla Mail data. Alternatively, if you're running on Linux, make a local IMAP server and stick all your mail on it...
Oh please, drop the arrogant bullshit. Firefox has bugs just like any other piece of software. It is not appropriate to say "end of discussion" without even bothering to ask what the problem was.
Yes Firefox has rendering has bugs, IE6 has considerably more. I'm sure I could find many examples of standard HTML/CSS which renders incorrectly in IE, whilst being fine in Firefox; many more than the other way around.
If you accept the fact that all browsers have bugs to some extent, you test your code on a reasonable range of them and go with code that is "good enough". If you care about it rendering properly in Firefox, you change your code if it doesn't. Ditto for IE.
Not entirely accurate there are still rendering bugs in firefox (see slashdot) and some DHTML performance is so bad compared to IE that it could be considered a bug.
Also, adverts can be fully HTML/CSS compliant and still render differently on IE and Firefox due to different default behaviour that is not covered by HTML/CSS validators.
OK, in that case my remark "non-compliant" can be changed to "not properly tested".
If you want people using a variety of browsers to see what you put up on the web (adverts or othewise), write simple compliant code and test it thoroughly.
Minimum standards for connecting to the network would be preferable.
Possibly, although I don't see how this would be implemented.
Obselete versions of Windows (those not gaining security fixes) should be barred.
But Windows XP and Windows 2000 are more of a security risk, currently, given their susceptibility to the current rash of worms, viruses etc.
Perhaps less experienced users would benefit from firewalling at the ISPs network too. I believe all the ISPs that appeal to inexperienced users (AOL) should provide this as standard.
Good idea, so long as this is an 'option' - experienced users can turn off (or even manually configure) their firewall.
The "ain't broke, don't fix" mentality is above and beyond some individuals' concept of needing to update.
No-one *needs* to update, as such. You can argue they have a duty to keep their system *secure*, but that's not the same thing.
Are you really suggesting that in order to 'secure' Windows 98 you should install Windows XP? *shudder*
"The key challenge for Microsoft is not XP users, it's the Windows 98 and 95 machines. Getting those people to upgrade and improve their security is going to make the difference."
Don't think so. There are *far* fewer exploitable services running on Windows 95 and Windows 98, as compared to Windows 2000 and XP. I'd *much* rather use Windows 98 online than Windows 2000 or XP, in security terms. Most of the recent worms use exploits in services that never existed prior to Windows 2000...
Nasty - best way to do a "DELETE... WHERE" if you're at an SQL console is to do...
"SELECT something FROM table WHERE conditions"
then, once you're happy that it's showing you the things to delete, backup the command and remove the "SELECT something" and replace it with "DELETE". Much safer:-)
I wrote an article a while ago about why Microsoft Word may be bad for your health. It was originally aimed at academics, but any 'intelligent' user should be able to grasp the main concepts.
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No good, I'm afraid. You can click the BBCi icon in the corner.
True, but all links from the Interesting Pictures keep within the site.
And we supervise her, of course. Slightly more to the point than filtering outgoing traffic!
You make your kid use a Dvorak keyboard? That's *evil*.
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My daughter is almost 3 and has been using her own KDE session on my Debian box for the past few months. I set up a username for her, so that I could log her in and know that she couldn't mess up anything I cared about.
We were gobsmacked when we realised that she had figured out how to type her username and password, though. She was *so* pleased with herself when she got that sussed out.
On her desktop, she has Mozilla Firefox set to go to BBC CBeebies - appropriate content for pre-school and you can't 'escape' the site, since all links are internal. She also enjoys using TuxPaint to draw pictures for us.
I'm hoping she's going to do a spot of Toddler Linux Advocacy at the local playgroups soon...
My ISP, NTL, did this during the Blaster epidemic. They used some kind of portscan to determine which machines were infected and then put their connections in a 'walled garden'. All web traffic that went through this 'walled garden' resulted in a page describing what the problem was and included lots of pretty pictures explaining how to fix the problem.
The portscanning caused some alarm to those of us with firewalls, until it became clear what they were doing.
...is already included on The Two Towers Extended DVD box set, disc 1.
Sadly not on the UK edition, because apparently it would have changed the certificate that the British Board of Film Classification were prepared to give the film. It was released as a "12" film (anyone over 12 is allowed to see it) and the Gollum speech would have made it a "15" (over 15's only). I want an MPEG!
I'm a roaming contractor, so the alternative was trying to manage email clients at several locations, and constantly finding that something (address books, mail archives, etc..) was out of sync.
That's what IMAP is for.
No, IMAP is just for message storage. You still have to manage the configuration of the clients which access the IMAP server. IMAP simply lets you store your messages in a portable format. If you want to share other things, such as address books, you need to use something else - perhaps LDAP.
If you want a single 'client' at all locations, you probably want to use webmail.
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I've been utterly unable to import Mozilla Mail data into Thunderbird
According to the changelog (sorry, can't find the link), Thunderbird 1.0 can import Mozilla Mail data. Alternatively, if you're running on Linux, make a local IMAP server and stick all your mail on it... Are Belong To Us!
Yes Firefox has rendering has bugs, IE6 has considerably more. I'm sure I could find many examples of standard HTML/CSS which renders incorrectly in IE, whilst being fine in Firefox; many more than the other way around.
If you accept the fact that all browsers have bugs to some extent, you test your code on a reasonable range of them and go with code that is "good enough". If you care about it rendering properly in Firefox, you change your code if it doesn't. Ditto for IE.
OK, in that case my remark "non-compliant" can be changed to "not properly tested".
If you want people using a variety of browsers to see what you put up on the web (adverts or othewise), write simple compliant code and test it thoroughly.
In that case you aren't writing compliant code, end of discussion.
Can Thunderbird filter your 'copies to self' yet? This is one very important feature if you are sending a lot of mail ...
To quote the fine article:
Don't think so. There are *far* fewer exploitable services running on Windows 95 and Windows 98, as compared to Windows 2000 and XP. I'd *much* rather use Windows 98 online than Windows 2000 or XP, in security terms. Most of the recent worms use exploits in services that never existed prior to Windows 2000 ...
The problem with the debian system is that everyone needs to use the unstable version to get the software they want to work.
:-)
Generalisations are always wrong.
For most server deployments of Debian, Woody is fine. The software may not be bleeding edge, but many people may find that doesn't matter.
For example, our Debian (Woody) servers run Apache, MySQL etc. - none of them are recent versions, but we know they're secure and not likely to crash.
Nasty - best way to do a "DELETE ... WHERE" if you're at an SQL console is to do ...
:-)
"SELECT something FROM table WHERE conditions"
then, once you're happy that it's showing you the things to delete, backup the command and remove the "SELECT something" and replace it with "DELETE". Much safer
If anyone gets to the site, can you pick me up some orichalcum beads ... I'm running low. Thanks.
I wrote an article a while ago about why Microsoft Word may be bad for your health. It was originally aimed at academics, but any 'intelligent' user should be able to grasp the main concepts.
No good, I'm afraid. You can click the BBCi icon in the corner.
True, but all links from the Interesting Pictures keep within the site.
And we supervise her, of course. Slightly more to the point than filtering outgoing traffic!
You make your kid use a Dvorak keyboard? That's *evil*.
My daughter is almost 3 and has been using her own KDE session on my Debian box for the past few months. I set up a username for her, so that I could log her in and know that she couldn't mess up anything I cared about.
We were gobsmacked when we realised that she had figured out how to type her username and password, though. She was *so* pleased with herself when she got that sussed out.
On her desktop, she has Mozilla Firefox set to go to BBC CBeebies - appropriate content for pre-school and you can't 'escape' the site, since all links are internal. She also enjoys using TuxPaint to draw pictures for us.
I'm hoping she's going to do a spot of Toddler Linux Advocacy at the local playgroups soon ...
quarantined sub-net
My ISP, NTL, did this during the Blaster epidemic. They used some kind of portscan to determine which machines were infected and then put their connections in a 'walled garden'. All web traffic that went through this 'walled garden' resulted in a page describing what the problem was and included lots of pretty pictures explaining how to fix the problem.
The portscanning caused some alarm to those of us with firewalls, until it became clear what they were doing.
I believe their patching instructions were:
Sadly not on the UK edition, because apparently it would have changed the certificate that the British Board of Film Classification were prepared to give the film. It was released as a "12" film (anyone over 12 is allowed to see it) and the Gollum speech would have made it a "15" (over 15's only). I want an MPEG!
*SIGH* The first ever story I submit which gets posted and the editors manage to munge the URL I include ...
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Correct link is http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/354
That's what IMAP is for.
No, IMAP is just for message storage. You still have to manage the configuration of the clients which access the IMAP server. IMAP simply lets you store your messages in a portable format. If you want to share other things, such as address books, you need to use something else - perhaps LDAP.
If you want a single 'client' at all locations, you probably want to use webmail.
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You're probably trolling, but