I have been lucky enough to use Aeron chairs at work for about the last ten years. I think they are pretty good - far ahead of most others I've tried. (Another poster mentioned issues with friction adjustments and I've encountered some pants fabric wear due to the mesh - but the breathability is a huge boon for me). However, when I bought a chair for this purpose for myself I got a Mirra instead - and I like it better than the Aeron. But the best advice is to offer to buy a chair that he picks based on trying several - everyone is different and my perfect chair may not be the right fit for him.
does anyone see the irony in the former Nazi and (partially) Communist country protecting rights that are supposed to also be constitutionally protected in the US as well?
I still have mine (I don't use it anymore - but I do think about it fondly from time to time). I have to echo the handwriting recognition comment. While not perfect, it worked very well - and I didn't have to learn a new set of arcane squiggles to use it like with a Palm. IIRC, Apple ported the handwriting recognition code to Mac OS X some time back.
With the performance of the current crop of low power processors, I have to think that some of the things about the 2100 that were a little slow originally would be very responsive in a current implementation. Apple seems to have nailed quite a few other interface niceties with their touch solution. I would be pretty interested in a "new" Newton,
If, as has been reported, the new Intel-based Macs are based on an Intel motherboard, it is not too surprising that the processor would be placed in a socket. However, the initial post is at least partly incorrect in that many prior Macintosh systems had socketed processors, hence the existence of an upgrade market, maybe just not the recent iMacs.
When new, easily 8+ hours at work (networking, email, docs and code) with a battery in both bays. Until one battery recently failed (6+ years old!) it still regularly gave 6 - 7 hours of effort.
This is by far the best I've ever seen from a laptop.
If you're using MacOS X and NOT using the supplied Mail application - why not? It has some pretty sophisticated (and effective) spam filtering features and is dead simple to use.
Unless you have a very high volume of email, it will likely do the job for personal use. After training a bit, I've had one false positive in about 2 years of use.
ESR's rant reminds me of an early assignment in my first professional job (principally hardware design but I generally found many of the software bugs for the programmers I was assigned). This particular assignment involved writing technical documentation in the form of a user guide for another project. Don't laugh - companies actually used to do this kind of training.
Anyway, the acid test for any documentation was to take it to a secretary. Have the secretary read, understand and successfully use the project gear solely from reading the documentation.
This proved to be an incredibly effective exercise for designers/builders/coders: a humbling lesson that something bright/shiny/cool you've created is virtually worthless if no one but you can actually use it. For many in the OSS commuity, this seems a lesson not yet learned. There is progress - but I often find myself thinking thoughts not so far from ESR's when I'm trying to configure this or that on one or another Linux box.
We replaced an SMTP relay/spam filter/virus scanner based on Exchange and a commercial product (not one of the reviewed products) about a month ago with one using PostFix and SpamAssassin (and amavisd) on RH. Incoming spam levels have been reduced by about a factor of ten with no false positives to date. This solution was not much of a challenge to implement - for a primarily Windows-oriented admin for whom it was a learning exercise. I haven't tried the products reviewed, but am more than impressed with what we now have.
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The proper term for people taking these actions is not "hunters", it is "vandals."
I have been lucky enough to use Aeron chairs at work for about the last ten years. I think they are pretty good - far ahead of most others I've tried. (Another poster mentioned issues with friction adjustments and I've encountered some pants fabric wear due to the mesh - but the breathability is a huge boon for me). However, when I bought a chair for this purpose for myself I got a Mirra instead - and I like it better than the Aeron. But the best advice is to offer to buy a chair that he picks based on trying several - everyone is different and my perfect chair may not be the right fit for him.
does anyone see the irony in the former Nazi and (partially) Communist country protecting rights that are supposed to also be constitutionally protected in the US as well?
I still have mine (I don't use it anymore - but I do think about it fondly from time to time). I have to echo the handwriting recognition comment. While not perfect, it worked very well - and I didn't have to learn a new set of arcane squiggles to use it like with a Palm. IIRC, Apple ported the handwriting recognition code to Mac OS X some time back. With the performance of the current crop of low power processors, I have to think that some of the things about the 2100 that were a little slow originally would be very responsive in a current implementation. Apple seems to have nailed quite a few other interface niceties with their touch solution. I would be pretty interested in a "new" Newton,
is to roll out the ED-209s for an "integrated solution".
If, as has been reported, the new Intel-based Macs are based on an Intel motherboard, it is not too surprising that the processor would be placed in a socket. However, the initial post is at least partly incorrect in that many prior Macintosh systems had socketed processors, hence the existence of an upgrade market, maybe just not the recent iMacs.
When new, easily 8+ hours at work (networking, email, docs and code) with a battery in both bays. Until one battery recently failed (6+ years old!) it still regularly gave 6 - 7 hours of effort. This is by far the best I've ever seen from a laptop.
OK - I'll bite...
If you're using MacOS X and NOT using the supplied Mail application - why not? It has some pretty sophisticated (and effective) spam filtering features and is dead simple to use.
Unless you have a very high volume of email, it will likely do the job for personal use. After training a bit, I've had one false positive in about 2 years of use.
ESR's rant reminds me of an early assignment in my first professional job (principally hardware design but I generally found many of the software bugs for the programmers I was assigned). This particular assignment involved writing technical documentation in the form of a user guide for another project. Don't laugh - companies actually used to do this kind of training.
Anyway, the acid test for any documentation was to take it to a secretary. Have the secretary read, understand and successfully use the project gear solely from reading the documentation.
This proved to be an incredibly effective exercise for designers/builders/coders: a humbling lesson that something bright/shiny/cool you've created is virtually worthless if no one but you can actually use it. For many in the OSS commuity, this seems a lesson not yet learned. There is progress - but I often find myself thinking thoughts not so far from ESR's when I'm trying to configure this or that on one or another Linux box.
Eagle Creek. Mine is is 7+ years old, looks like new with an infrequent vacuuming and is appropriate for any situation. Not cheap - but worth it.
We replaced an SMTP relay/spam filter/virus scanner based on Exchange and a commercial product (not one of the reviewed products) about a month ago with one using PostFix and SpamAssassin (and amavisd) on RH. Incoming spam levels have been reduced by about a factor of ten with no false positives to date. This solution was not much of a challenge to implement - for a primarily Windows-oriented admin for whom it was a learning exercise. I haven't tried the products reviewed, but am more than impressed with what we now have.