As with Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny, these do not actually exist...
But as for working with MS products (as opposed to standards), the problem lies with MS. They don't want to open up and of their formats, etc. Why do that when you have a monopoly. It only invites competition.
The mail and contacts features already work with Outlook. I'm assuming that they're still working on the Calendaring part.
http://www.hula-project.org/index.php/FAQ
Scroll down to the "Clients" area. They have a decent number of clients that work to some degree. Being a new project, I wouldn't expect it to have perfect connectivity to a wide range of clients just yet.
Could it be even worse that I actually re-read the article several times and made numberous text searches for parts of that quote? Then I remembered that I read it on Slashdot. That brought back to reality fairly quickly.
Remember: "Friends Don't Let Friends Mix Sarcastic Comments and Microsoft quotes - it's too damned hard to tell the difference."
Just a side note for everyone screaming that the 1st Amendment "guarantees" anything. The same people who created it revoked it around 10 years later with the Alien and Sedition Acts. We again revoked the 1st Amendment in the 1920s during the 1st Red Scare with that Sedition Act (same name, different time). The administration is power quashes the 1st Amendment when they please, just as they have done with other amendments. The great FDR killed due process for 120,000-160,000 Japanese-Americans and the great Bush is doing right now at Gitmo and countless other, unknown locations.
Granted many of these abuses get overturned later by courts, etc. when they are no longer "needed", but that doesn't exactly help those who were abused.
That's was the cool part with the Xandros installer. IIRC, the top 80% of the screen was Solitaire, while the bottom 20% was installation status. You never received a pop-up saying the install was finished. Just a message at the bottom. It didn't interrupt the game at all. Heck, you could play another 50 rounds after the install finished if you wanted to.
I've always been curious about this. I love Linux, but one of the areas where I think it is sorely lacking is in file system permissions flexibility. For example, if I had a folder and wanted the following in Linux, how could I do it?
MKTG group = rwx DEV group = r EXEC group = r ADVERT group = rx ADMINS group = rw
Is there a way to do this in Linux? I have no idea. It has always been my understanding that I'm stuck with UGO and sitcky bits for permissions. Is this entirely true or is there another way.
I'll give you my reason. Personally I really don't care about deep links to Orbitz. I don't buy there and I don't travel often. However, my issue comes with setting precedent. I don't want to set a precedent of allowing a website to determine what publicly accessible pages can and can't be linked to. It's like telling me what books I can and can't reference in my term paper. Now, if they require a username and password to log in and the deep link includes logging the person that is clicking in to the site to view the page, then I might side with Orbitz. But a blanket "you can't link to anything on Orbitz.com" is ridiculous.
What is the difference between deep linking and quoting someone else's written work in your own? As long as they get credited, you can do it. I understand that there are advertisements on Orbitz's website and that they need people to see them so that they can make money, but come on.
If that is their argument, then I pose the following: Could I publish a book that had ad space in it and then disallow references to it? (I'm not asking if this is legally feasible, since there is more than enough legal history to strike down any such attempt. I am simply asking if that would be a valid comparison.
I don't think that makes sense.
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Two months later, "they" subpoena your logs to find no trace of evidence. Suspecting log-alteration, they subpoena the upstream providers logs and find correlating evidence that is mysteriously missing from your logs. So, JaneUser ends up getting in trouble, and the kind-hearted sysadmin gets slapped with evidence tampering.
How would it be "evidence tampering" if you didn't even know about the existence of an investigation until 2 months after you edited the logs? For you to be tampering with "evidence", doesn't there have to be a case existing at the time - an wouldn't you have to know about it?
DUH!!! Make the CALs $1000/apiece. Sheesh. Do I have to think of everything around here?:)
(NOTE: For those of you out there without a sense of sarcasm - this is an example of such)
The days of "Oh, here's your static IP and full internet access" are bhind us. I'm all for "if you demonstrate clue, you may have unfiltered unbound access; otherwise, no port 25 for you!"
Sure, unless you use Cox for your internet access. In which case, it's "if you demonstrate a willingness to pay an extra $40/mo., you may have unfiltered access; otherwise, no port 25 for you!"
I switched ISPs to SBC because they don't block port 25. I want to run my own mail server with no restrictions on files size, storage space, etc. I don't send that many e-mails. It's just for personal mail for myself and my family. I would have stayed with Cox if they had a reasonable way for me to get unfiltered port 25 access. I wish they had an opt-in system. They started blocking port 25 to keep spam zombies from getting their mail out. But what about those who want legitimate access? I wouldn't mind signing a well-worded (important) agreement not to spam. Hell, I wouldn't even mind if they put some sort of realistic cap on port 25 traffic (and before some wiseass says "you mean like 0" - no I don't).
I pay for my bandwidth damnit. Now let me use it. So I now use SBC DSL. Not quite the same speed, but it's mine - all mine! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
I agree that it's stupid that they have to turn this kind of thing down. But I would do the same thing given today's society. If someone playing the games shot someone later, you know the district could get sued because they "promoted violence" and probably win. Not because it's true, but because we live in a "blame others first" society. It wouldn't be worth it to me to take the risk. Stupid society.
Hi. Let's look at the boom of home PC usage from 1995 to the present that wasn't really there from 1988-1995. When you sell a much larger volume because you have significantly more customers, you can afford to reduce your price.
It's the school's job to teach science and stay out of religion. Religion is the parent's domain. If you don't believe in evolution, tell your kids that. It's no different than telling your kids that you think their history book's interpretation of how an event or period of history happened is crap. It's like an atheist wanting to sue you because you told their kid about the Bible or God. If someone else has complete control over your child's beliefs and you don't have any influence over them (your kid), then you have serious parenting issues.
Fairly cheap and definitely easy. - Argentum Backup.
You just tell it what folders, where to copy to, whether you want to put thing in a compressed (and encrypted if you'd like) ZIP file or if you just want a basic file copy.
Once that's done, from that point on, you just right click the task tray icon and tell it to back up and it does its thing. If you don't want to have to tell it, you can schedule backups. They offer a trial period so you can try before you buy.
The Fedora Linux Bible is pretty good. The one for Fedora 3 just got published and will be a little hard to get ahold of for a few more weeks while warehouses stock up. I think Amazon was saying a 2-4 weeks to ship. May be different now. Another great book is Linux Business Desktop (or something to that effect). It covers several distros, including Fedora. Very practicaly. Difficulty was mid-level.
As opposed to those adulterous heterosexuals who fornicate all day long and have children out of wedlock only to beat and otherwise abuse them.
See, I can corner a small part of a population and project their faults onto the population as a whole.
Does being straight make us the way I've described?
No.
Does being gay mean you spread disease?
No.
Can everything mentioned in both your post and mine be done by gays AND straights?
Yes.
Am I beginning to talk in questions like Donald Rumsfeld?
Well, you post on Slashdot with the comments you have, not necessarily the comments you want.
First off, most soldiers who go to Iraq leave behind wills, letters , etc. that are to be opened in the unfortunate event that they don't make it back home. If you really want your family to have access to these kinds of things, leave your password in these documents. What if I died and didn't want my family perusing through my e-mail? Once you've passed away, you can't give consent OR deny requests. It shouldn't be assumed that everyone has no problem with their family having access to all of their stuff. I agree that reading a grandfather's letters from WWII is probably quite enjoyable and insightful, but he made a conscious decision to leave those behind. In this situation, we don't truly know what the soldier wanted. It's an easy problem to avoid. If you want people to have access, leave the passwords behind. Due to the sad nature of the topic, I will try to avoid the obvious sort of "Tell them to look under his keyboard" jokes.
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MS standards
As with Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny, these do not actually exist...
But as for working with MS products (as opposed to standards), the problem lies with MS. They don't want to open up and of their formats, etc. Why do that when you have a monopoly. It only invites competition.
What that equates to
There is the problem. Equates means "That should be interpreted to mean..." A law like this shouldn't be worded so improperly.
if they are made aware that their service can be used to access material
Should be worded "if they are made aware of material" (or some similar fashion)
within a reasonable time
Needs to give a time frame. What is reasonable? Picking up the phone immediately? Verifying the claim? A daily/weekly batch report?
This is legislative writing at its worst.
Just another RTFA comment. The kid didn't have a gun. He grabbed the officer's gun.
The mail and contacts features already work with Outlook. I'm assuming that they're still working on the Calendaring part.
http://www.hula-project.org/index.php/FAQ
Scroll down to the "Clients" area. They have a decent number of clients that work to some degree. Being a new project, I wouldn't expect it to have perfect connectivity to a wide range of clients just yet.
Could it be even worse that I actually re-read the article several times and made numberous text searches for parts of that quote? Then I remembered that I read it on Slashdot. That brought back to reality fairly quickly.
Remember: "Friends Don't Let Friends Mix Sarcastic Comments and Microsoft quotes - it's too damned hard to tell the difference."
Just a side note for everyone screaming that the 1st Amendment "guarantees" anything. The same people who created it revoked it around 10 years later with the Alien and Sedition Acts. We again revoked the 1st Amendment in the 1920s during the 1st Red Scare with that Sedition Act (same name, different time). The administration is power quashes the 1st Amendment when they please, just as they have done with other amendments. The great FDR killed due process for 120,000-160,000 Japanese-Americans and the great Bush is doing right now at Gitmo and countless other, unknown locations.
Granted many of these abuses get overturned later by courts, etc. when they are no longer "needed", but that doesn't exactly help those who were abused.
That's was the cool part with the Xandros installer. IIRC, the top 80% of the screen was Solitaire, while the bottom 20% was installation status. You never received a pop-up saying the install was finished. Just a message at the bottom. It didn't interrupt the game at all. Heck, you could play another 50 rounds after the install finished if you wanted to.
Thank j-turkey. That's the kind of thing that I'm looking for.
I've always been curious about this. I love Linux, but one of the areas where I think it is sorely lacking is in file system permissions flexibility. For example, if I had a folder and wanted the following in Linux, how could I do it?
MKTG group = rwx
DEV group = r
EXEC group = r
ADVERT group = rx
ADMINS group = rw
Is there a way to do this in Linux? I have no idea. It has always been my understanding that I'm stuck with UGO and sitcky bits for permissions. Is this entirely true or is there another way.
I'll give you my reason. Personally I really don't care about deep links to Orbitz. I don't buy there and I don't travel often. However, my issue comes with setting precedent. I don't want to set a precedent of allowing a website to determine what publicly accessible pages can and can't be linked to. It's like telling me what books I can and can't reference in my term paper. Now, if they require a username and password to log in and the deep link includes logging the person that is clicking in to the site to view the page, then I might side with Orbitz. But a blanket "you can't link to anything on Orbitz.com" is ridiculous.
What is the difference between deep linking and quoting someone else's written work in your own? As long as they get credited, you can do it. I understand that there are advertisements on Orbitz's website and that they need people to see them so that they can make money, but come on.
If that is their argument, then I pose the following:
Could I publish a book that had ad space in it and then disallow references to it? (I'm not asking if this is legally feasible, since there is more than enough legal history to strike down any such attempt. I am simply asking if that would be a valid comparison.
Two months later, "they" subpoena your logs to find no trace of evidence. Suspecting log-alteration, they subpoena the upstream providers logs and find correlating evidence that is mysteriously missing from your logs. So, JaneUser ends up getting in trouble, and the kind-hearted sysadmin gets slapped with evidence tampering.
How would it be "evidence tampering" if you didn't even know about the existence of an investigation until 2 months after you edited the logs? For you to be tampering with "evidence", doesn't there have to be a case existing at the time - an wouldn't you have to know about it?
DUH!!! Make the CALs $1000/apiece. Sheesh. Do I have to think of everything around here? :)
(NOTE: For those of you out there without a sense of sarcasm - this is an example of such)
The days of "Oh, here's your static IP and full internet access" are bhind us. I'm all for "if you demonstrate clue, you may have unfiltered unbound access; otherwise, no port 25 for you!" Sure, unless you use Cox for your internet access. In which case, it's "if you demonstrate a willingness to pay an extra $40/mo., you may have unfiltered access; otherwise, no port 25 for you!" I switched ISPs to SBC because they don't block port 25. I want to run my own mail server with no restrictions on files size, storage space, etc. I don't send that many e-mails. It's just for personal mail for myself and my family. I would have stayed with Cox if they had a reasonable way for me to get unfiltered port 25 access. I wish they had an opt-in system. They started blocking port 25 to keep spam zombies from getting their mail out. But what about those who want legitimate access? I wouldn't mind signing a well-worded (important) agreement not to spam. Hell, I wouldn't even mind if they put some sort of realistic cap on port 25 traffic (and before some wiseass says "you mean like 0" - no I don't). I pay for my bandwidth damnit. Now let me use it. So I now use SBC DSL. Not quite the same speed, but it's mine - all mine! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
I agree that it's stupid that they have to turn this kind of thing down. But I would do the same thing given today's society. If someone playing the games shot someone later, you know the district could get sued because they "promoted violence" and probably win. Not because it's true, but because we live in a "blame others first" society. It wouldn't be worth it to me to take the risk. Stupid society.
Hi. Let's look at the boom of home PC usage from 1995 to the present that wasn't really there from 1988-1995. When you sell a much larger volume because you have significantly more customers, you can afford to reduce your price.
It's the school's job to teach science and stay out of religion. Religion is the parent's domain. If you don't believe in evolution, tell your kids that. It's no different than telling your kids that you think their history book's interpretation of how an event or period of history happened is crap. It's like an atheist wanting to sue you because you told their kid about the Bible or God. If someone else has complete control over your child's beliefs and you don't have any influence over them (your kid), then you have serious parenting issues.
Fairly cheap and definitely easy. - Argentum Backup.
You just tell it what folders, where to copy to, whether you want to put thing in a compressed (and encrypted if you'd like) ZIP file or if you just want a basic file copy.
Once that's done, from that point on, you just right click the task tray icon and tell it to back up and it does its thing. If you don't want to have to tell it, you can schedule backups. They offer a trial period so you can try before you buy.
The Fedora Linux Bible is pretty good. The one for Fedora 3 just got published and will be a little hard to get ahold of for a few more weeks while warehouses stock up. I think Amazon was saying a 2-4 weeks to ship. May be different now. Another great book is Linux Business Desktop (or something to that effect). It covers several distros, including Fedora. Very practicaly. Difficulty was mid-level.
Gotta love AC trolls.
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As opposed to those adulterous heterosexuals who fornicate all day long and have children out of wedlock only to beat and otherwise abuse them. See, I can corner a small part of a population and project their faults onto the population as a whole. Does being straight make us the way I've described? No. Does being gay mean you spread disease? No. Can everything mentioned in both your post and mine be done by gays AND straights? Yes. Am I beginning to talk in questions like Donald Rumsfeld? Well, you post on Slashdot with the comments you have, not necessarily the comments you want.
This has been a reply by proxy on behalf of roughly (and I mean very roughly) 50% of voting Americans.
"Can I get a Halle...um, hello?" *tap* *tap* *tap* "Is this thing on?" "I said, can I get a Hal...can I get...aw, screw it."
Gives new meaning to the phrase "war driving"
~>drive --offcliff 192.168.0.143
First off, most soldiers who go to Iraq leave behind wills, letters , etc. that are to be opened in the unfortunate event that they don't make it back home. If you really want your family to have access to these kinds of things, leave your password in these documents. What if I died and didn't want my family perusing through my e-mail? Once you've passed away, you can't give consent OR deny requests. It shouldn't be assumed that everyone has no problem with their family having access to all of their stuff. I agree that reading a grandfather's letters from WWII is probably quite enjoyable and insightful, but he made a conscious decision to leave those behind. In this situation, we don't truly know what the soldier wanted. It's an easy problem to avoid. If you want people to have access, leave the passwords behind. Due to the sad nature of the topic, I will try to avoid the obvious sort of "Tell them to look under his keyboard" jokes.