This guy just took responsibility for sitting on a known fix, which directly led to Debian compromise.
That's a small failure on his part, yes. But it's more so the failure of the person who found and submitted the patch. By not researching and explaining the full effect of the patch, the submitter has shown that he isn't fully aware of the changes he makes. Marcelo's job is to make sure a patch doesn't break anything new, and to listen if someone tells him that it fixes something very very important.
The functionality is already in current versions of outlook. As often happens with MS products, the features are made available and documented in newsgroups and MS Back Office Quarterly so that technical users can test them before standardizing their use.
If you want to use threaded message views right away, it's pretty easy. Open/Documents and Settings/(login name)/.outlookrc and add "set sort=thread"
Here is my complete.outlookrc with convenient defaults:
set abort_nosubject=no
set abort_unmodified=no
set delete=yes
set fast_reply=yes
set include=yes
set move=no
set pager_stop=yes
set user_agent=no
set sort=thread
my_hdr X-SCO-Unix: Darl fathered Linus' baby
set editor="/usr/bin/emacs"
fcc-hook . ~/Mail/out-sent
Apple supports MP3 because they have to. Apple supports AAC because it's their controlled format. Nothing else is getting in the door if they can help it.
There have been free plug-ins for Ogg forever, and people have petitioned apple for support for about as long. But do you see it supported by default in Quicktime or iTunes? No. And I promise you that it's not a technology issue.
Yahoo! blasts you with non-stop advertising while you use the service. I had to uninstall Flash in IE and get a flash blocker for Mozilla just to be able to use the damned site without distractions. But, that aside --
I use Yahoo! bill pay, which costs me $5/month. I use Yahoo! wallet with shop.yahoo.com for most of my online shopping so I've got all the carts in one place and all my order history in one place. Yahoo gets a cut out of every sale there as well (not to mention the monthly fees the stores pay). That's cold, hard cash they're earning -- not just ad impressions.
I just checked and my marketing prefs haven't been turned back on. If they are, it's good-bye Yahoo!. If the Yahoo! folks are reading this, I *strongly* suggest you think twice about bending your paying users over the table.
I had a fucking ATM blue screen while my card was inside it. I got to be without my debit card for two weeks, and I had to wait in line an hour at the bank to reverse the $200 debited from my account, which the machine hadn't dispensed before crashing.
To this day, I'm afraid to pull out $200. I get $180 or $220.
Google is selling off a fraction of its shares 50% of all shares.
Hint: Even if Bill Gates held 90% of the shares in Microsoft, he couldn't wake up one day and decide to create the "make Bill happy fund" where most company profits go before awarding profits to shareholders. Owning the majority of the shares does not free you from accountability to all shareholders.
Similarly, if a third party offers Google large bucks to do something that goes against the majority shareholders' personal ethics but it's a good business deal, the shareholders are still required to do whatever helps the company's bottom line the most, not what suits their personal ethics. This is how a publicly traded company works -- all decisions need to be for maximizing shareholder value, not for the majority's personal interests.
You only need a single outstanding share before the rules change. Majority control doesn't mean free control of the company. It means power over the big decisions, but it still means accountability to the best financial interest of ALL shareholders.
p.s. -- I feel it only fair to warn you that modding the parent up will just give me more points to troll you later.
Hi, I'm Darl McBride. In the end, it's going to be $690 I take out of your backside. But don't worry -- my associate, Chris Sontag, will also be putting something back in again.
I hope they don't sell majority control now, or in the long-term. Still, the rules for a public company are very different from the rules for a privately held company.
After the IPO, Google will be beholden to the shareholders even when the external shareholders are not the majority -- if the principals turn down huge cash from third parties, money offered to rape certain search terms, the principals could find themselves in a position to be sued by shareholders. Google will be forced to prove that they saw declining (for example) MS to be in the company's best financial interests, not merely in the principals' personal interests.
In short, their actions from the IPO on forward will be required to be provably in the best financial interest for the company, not merely addressing the personal interests of the largest shareholders.
Google are instead intending to IPO by auctioning off shares. It's an unusual approach,
but they're an unusual company. Still, this doesn't preclude Microsoft or another party
with specific interests from acquiring Google. With this in mind, we should still be
considering the possibility that something could go very wrong in Google's future.
For a while, I've been looking at alternative search engines. I still use Google as
my primary engine, but I hate having such a strong reliance on a single tool. Any tool I don't own and keep locally could
go away at any point or change and become useless to me.
The closest thing to Google I've found to date is
AllTheWeb.com. AllTheWeb started out as an experimental
second site by Lycos, with the apparent goal of being a Google clone. The thing matured
quickly, being an objective and statistics-driven search site, unlike Lycos' own site
where sites buy placement. AllTheWeb was later purchased from Lycos by Overture, even
more famous for paid placement and (IMHO) slimy advertising tactics. But for the six
months or so since they made the purchase, they seem to have left it alone. They may
well also be trying to clone Google completely. And if Google suddenly sours as a search
tool, this may well finally pay off big for them.
Give AllTheWeb a try. I'm not petitioning anyone to switch over and start using ATW
as their only engine, but make sure you know that alternative is there and - more
importantly - make sure Google's new owners know that you're aware of an alternative.
It just may be enough to keep them honest.
-Dselect needs to be sent to/dev/null. The debian installer was never the problem. It isn't harder than slackware, but dselect really, really sucks.
You sound like someone who never learned to use it well. It's not intuitive, but once you learn it there is absolutely no substitute. This is especially true when tracking unstable and resolving packages depending on other packages which are still pending update. It's possible to get a fully resoluved installation every time, resolving dozens of conflicts with just a few keystrokes.
I'm no Apple fan either, but it's worth noting that:
1. The endianness is the same as all of your TCP/IP packets.
3. Keyboard shortcut support is more universal than in Windows apps.
5. It comes with developer tools.
The rest of the points are subjective and good fodder for all kinds of creative arguments on either side.
Re:Mac users are actually democrats, mostly
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and gay ones at that. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Did you see the Volkswagon that comes with an I-Pod? I rest my case.
Most of the classic hippies became republicans when they grew up a bit, trading in sandals for business suits and a healthy salary. The average middle-aged modern-beetle buyer is buying a brand with some sentimental value, not revisiting a lifestyle. A hippie does not break from a business meeting to climb into a beetle with heated seats and "do lunch."
Mac OS X reflects a self-serving attitude on the part of Apple. This is generally the case with most closed-source end products based on BSD or PD license code. (Yes, I know about Darwin, but it's not a complete implementation of Mac OS X, even discarding the GUI.) Republicans tend to welcome opportunities to maximize personal benefit while Democrats shoot for universal benefit even at the cost of knocking a few folks down. I'd say the analogy seems fairly apt. Linux users are democratic hippies. Mac users are narcissistic republicans.
For most of us, using Linux outside of the workplace is a personal choice. Most of us have free copies of Windows which have been tossed in with our systems, and we just want something to learn with, or a way to milk a bit more freedom and power out of our systems. But for the average Vietnamese citizen who would have to pay all of his wages for three or four months for a single copy of Windows, suddenly there's a real and legitimate choice.
This is one of the coolest stories I've read to date. While I don't like that open source and free software are being forced on the citizenry, I adore the fact that it's provided a real way to empower folks who might not otherwise be able to afford to run PCs once the piracy crackdown begins.
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If you're just running 3-4 PCs, what's the point? Get a Belkin (cheaper) or APC (better Linux support) unit and get the same digits.
If you want to use threaded message views right away, it's pretty easy. Open /Documents and Settings/(login name)/.outlookrc and add "set sort=thread"
Here is my complete .outlookrc with convenient defaults:
Good luck!All other interfaces specified by POSIX after the original UNIX developers petitioned for their inclusion are to be considered suspect.
We have a time machine, and we're not afraid to use it, baby.
~ Darl
Food would not grow, and Pikachu began to look for new food sources...
There have been free plug-ins for Ogg forever, and people have petitioned apple for support for about as long. But do you see it supported by default in Quicktime or iTunes? No. And I promise you that it's not a technology issue.
2. What amazing encouragement
Somebody get this guy off the stage.
Apple didn't come around right away, and that's the source of the problem from the moviemaker's perspective.
Perhaps by the time it's out fuel cells will have matured enough to be in at least some of the higher-end products in the line...
This torrent was readied before the slash story posted. This just goes to prove that the format is good for nothing but spreading unreleased films.
I get over a thousand pieces of spam a day. These are filtered out by spamassassin, but now and then legitimate email ends up in that pile as well.
Doubleclick (and possibly others) actually have a policy against letting sites offer to remove ads as a paid option.
Yahoo! blasts you with non-stop advertising while you use the service. I had to uninstall Flash in IE and get a flash blocker for Mozilla just to be able to use the damned site without distractions. But, that aside --
I use Yahoo! bill pay, which costs me $5/month. I use Yahoo! wallet with shop.yahoo.com for most of my online shopping so I've got all the carts in one place and all my order history in one place. Yahoo gets a cut out of every sale there as well (not to mention the monthly fees the stores pay). That's cold, hard cash they're earning -- not just ad impressions.
I just checked and my marketing prefs haven't been turned back on. If they are, it's good-bye Yahoo!. If the Yahoo! folks are reading this, I *strongly* suggest you think twice about bending your paying users over the table.
To this day, I'm afraid to pull out $200. I get $180 or $220.
Similarly, if a third party offers Google large bucks to do something that goes against the majority shareholders' personal ethics but it's a good business deal, the shareholders are still required to do whatever helps the company's bottom line the most, not what suits their personal ethics. This is how a publicly traded company works -- all decisions need to be for maximizing shareholder value, not for the majority's personal interests.
You only need a single outstanding share before the rules change. Majority control doesn't mean free control of the company. It means power over the big decisions, but it still means accountability to the best financial interest of ALL shareholders.
Hi, I'm Darl McBride. In the end, it's going to be $690 I take out of your backside. But don't worry -- my associate, Chris Sontag, will also be putting something back in again.
After the IPO, Google will be beholden to the shareholders even when the external shareholders are not the majority -- if the principals turn down huge cash from third parties, money offered to rape certain search terms, the principals could find themselves in a position to be sued by shareholders. Google will be forced to prove that they saw declining (for example) MS to be in the company's best financial interests, not merely in the principals' personal interests.
In short, their actions from the IPO on forward will be required to be provably in the best financial interest for the company, not merely addressing the personal interests of the largest shareholders.
For a while, I've been looking at alternative search engines. I still use Google as my primary engine, but I hate having such a strong reliance on a single tool. Any tool I don't own and keep locally could go away at any point or change and become useless to me.
The closest thing to Google I've found to date is AllTheWeb.com. AllTheWeb started out as an experimental second site by Lycos, with the apparent goal of being a Google clone. The thing matured quickly, being an objective and statistics-driven search site, unlike Lycos' own site where sites buy placement. AllTheWeb was later purchased from Lycos by Overture, even more famous for paid placement and (IMHO) slimy advertising tactics. But for the six months or so since they made the purchase, they seem to have left it alone. They may well also be trying to clone Google completely. And if Google suddenly sours as a search tool, this may well finally pay off big for them.
Give AllTheWeb a try. I'm not petitioning anyone to switch over and start using ATW as their only engine, but make sure you know that alternative is there and - more importantly - make sure Google's new owners know that you're aware of an alternative. It just may be enough to keep them honest.
1. The endianness is the same as all of your TCP/IP packets.
3. Keyboard shortcut support is more universal than in Windows apps.
5. It comes with developer tools.
The rest of the points are subjective and good fodder for all kinds of creative arguments on either side.
Mac OS X reflects a self-serving attitude on the part of Apple. This is generally the case with most closed-source end products based on BSD or PD license code. (Yes, I know about Darwin, but it's not a complete implementation of Mac OS X, even discarding the GUI.) Republicans tend to welcome opportunities to maximize personal benefit while Democrats shoot for universal benefit even at the cost of knocking a few folks down. I'd say the analogy seems fairly apt. Linux users are democratic hippies. Mac users are narcissistic republicans.
This is one of the coolest stories I've read to date. While I don't like that open source and free software are being forced on the citizenry, I adore the fact that it's provided a real way to empower folks who might not otherwise be able to afford to run PCs once the piracy crackdown begins.
Sir, I agree and I admire your integrity.