If you are at work and have to use Outlook (well, I am at the moment, not sure if you can do it with Thunderbird), you can use Word as your e-mail editor and replace the shown text of the hyperlink. So no need for the user@ trick to obfuscate links (unless they look in the browsers title page of course).
2. Boot: One major issue, every time I booted it would alternate between thinking my Orinoco gold pcmcia wireless card would be not present, or thing a new one had been put in and try to reinstall it, this was a real pain the in ass, and was the major reason Mandrake 10 got booted for a second time (9.2 is no longer on my good list either) from this laptop. Maybe this distro is just better for desktops.
Oh, just like my Windows 2000 machine - for the last few weeks, it occasionally starts detecting a "multimedia device" on boot (which isn't there and I haven't changed any hardware either). Doesn't get far in the install tough because it can't find suitable drivers. Weird.
I just get the Status Board and the tracking page, and in the tracking page (the flash animation), the Red Team bot is marked red, which would mean disabled! SciAutonics II is displayed as "paused". Do you see the same?
Ah! Good to know for next time I'm in front of an iMac of a friend with a one button mouse. (No point really buying a mouse just to use a friend's computer!)
Of course, after two years, it is easy to use any OS. Did you use Windows before using OS X for the first time? And you weren't looking for the context menu? Found the menu at the top a bit strange? The OK and Cancel was the wrong way round as well if I remember correctly (could have been GNOME though).
OS X might be great if you spend time with it. It might also be great if you have never used a computer before. But I think that it is much easier to switch from Windows to KDE than to OS X.
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I think Gnome is better. But even better than Gnome is MacOS X.
What is it with OS/X?
I used Windows for a long time, but then switched to Linux (Mandrake with KDE). I had no major problems whatsoever regarding usability - everything worked more or less like in Windows, but there were more nice things you could tweak and adjust. That's why I love KDE.
Now (for the first time, I admit) I had to use a Mac, with OS/X. I had a hard time. Everything was different - hell, there wasn't even a freaking right mouse button!
I didn't have to spend much time with it, and maybe, if you grow up with a Mac, it's great, but for someone used to Windows or KDE, it's a nightmare.
Don't mod me Flamebait, I am dead serious. What is it with Mac OS/X?
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And I'm sure your wonderful program has millions of users too, right?
Well, me. And it is one of the most active projects on Sourceforge. So maybe not millions of users but still quite a lot. Everybody who is whinging about spam should use it.
I agree - why do they hide the file extension in Windows 2000 and XP? It always makes me nervous and the first thing I do when I log on to a new Windows computer is to change the first 5 view settings in Windows Explorer.
I used Windows for a long time, but then switched to Linux (Mandrake with KDE). I had no major problems whatsoever regarding usability - everything worked more or less like in Windows, but there were more nice things you could tweak and adjust. That's why I love KDE.
Now, for the first time, I admit, I had to use a Mac, with OS/X. I had a hard time. Everything was different - hell, there wasn't even a freaking right mouse button!
I didn't have to spend much time with it, and maybe, if you grow up with a Mac, it's great, but for someone used to Windows or KDE, it's a nightmare.
Very often protectionism works to help a domestic industry reach critical mass.
Make that a very rarely. Millions of people in South America were impoverished by the proctectionism that prevailed for some decades. It did not grow the domestic industries. It prevented the inefficient domestic industries from becoming competitive with the rest of the world, while at the same time keeping prices artificially high for South American consumers.
You may or may not have a point about software. The difference to other industries are the extreme network effects. This requires some more thought than can be put in this/. post.
"Product Summary: GeoIP City Premium Edition includes country, region, city, postal code, latitude, and longitude information."
I'm sure it is not 100% accurate. But how accurate are the data in Yahoo's database? I'd love to know how many registered users they have in Antarctica.
Knowing where searchers live and what their interests are, Yahoo believes, will let it present results that are more relevant and advertising that is more focused.
I am not convinced, Yahoo. By looking at my IP, Google knows where I live as well. OK, Yahoo knows that one of my interests is cooking. But is that knowledge really an advantage for serving relevant advertising when I am searching for "Digital Camera Cheap"?
Where should the "gravity waves" come from? It's "just" a star being torn apart 700m light years away. Not much different gravitation-wise than if the star had just moved passed the black hole a bit less closely and staying intact. (IANAP)
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If you are at work and have to use Outlook (well, I am at the moment, not sure if you can do it with Thunderbird), you can use Word as your e-mail editor and replace the shown text of the hyperlink. So no need for the user@ trick to obfuscate links (unless they look in the browsers title page of course).
But all the KDE tools work the same and look the same as well!
It's just non-KDE programs that look differently, but so do non-MS programs.
strange. On the tracking diagram they seem to be quite ahead of the others. 11 miles would make sense.
...shows orange for me! I don't trust the tracker...
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
That's a shame. They were doing very well and I had some hopes that they would maybe even finish in under 10 hours.
Red Team still seems disabled, CyberRider (SciAutonics II) seems to be running again. DAD is close to the other two cars, but now paused.
I just get the Status Board and the tracking page, and in the tracking page (the flash animation), the Red Team bot is marked red, which would mean disabled! SciAutonics II is displayed as "paused". Do you see the same?
Ah! Good to know for next time I'm in front of an iMac of a friend with a one button mouse. (No point really buying a mouse just to use a friend's computer!)
OS X might be great if you spend time with it. It might also be great if you have never used a computer before. But I think that it is much easier to switch from Windows to KDE than to OS X.
And I know for sure that everything is entirely possible with OS X.
But everybody was touting how easy it is to use compared to Linux, so I was very disappointed having to use it for the first time.
As a previous Windows user, KDE was much more intuitive.
Oh well, I said I just used it once.
I used Windows for a long time, but then switched to Linux (Mandrake with KDE). I had no major problems whatsoever regarding usability - everything worked more or less like in Windows, but there were more nice things you could tweak and adjust. That's why I love KDE.
Now (for the first time, I admit) I had to use a Mac, with OS/X. I had a hard time. Everything was different - hell, there wasn't even a freaking right mouse button!
I didn't have to spend much time with it, and maybe, if you grow up with a Mac, it's great, but for someone used to Windows or KDE, it's a nightmare.
Don't mod me Flamebait, I am dead serious. What is it with Mac OS/X?
Oh, and I use KDE as well.
OpenOffice.org Writer does exactly that for all words! Some people think it is annoying, but I think it is fanntastic.
I agree - why do they hide the file extension in Windows 2000 and XP? It always makes me nervous and the first thing I do when I log on to a new Windows computer is to change the first 5 view settings in Windows Explorer.
I used Windows for a long time, but then switched to Linux (Mandrake with KDE). I had no major problems whatsoever regarding usability - everything worked more or less like in Windows, but there were more nice things you could tweak and adjust. That's why I love KDE.
Now, for the first time, I admit, I had to use a Mac, with OS/X. I had a hard time. Everything was different - hell, there wasn't even a freaking right mouse button!
I didn't have to spend much time with it, and maybe, if you grow up with a Mac, it's great, but for someone used to Windows or KDE, it's a nightmare.
Don't mod me Flamebait, I am dead serious.
You may or may not have a point about software. The difference to other industries are the extreme network effects. This requires some more thought than can be put in this /. post.
"Product Summary: GeoIP City Premium Edition includes country, region, city, postal code, latitude, and longitude information."
I'm sure it is not 100% accurate. But how accurate are the data in Yahoo's database? I'd love to know how many registered users they have in Antarctica.
I believe you are confusing trademarks and copyright.