If you are an outlook user, compared to a Thunderbird what are you getting that is going to make you drop it in awe of the other client?
Lately, a lot of people tell me that they plan to switch from Windows to X11/Linux sometime between now and January 2020 when security updates for Windows 7 end. To make the transition smoother, one might consider switching in advance to free software available for both platforms. For example, one might switch early from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, from Edge to Firefox, and from Outlook to Thunderbird, as a way to minimize the study gradient of learning X11/Linux once the time comes. Even the Free Software Foundation recognizes that switching to free applications is a good first step.
If I don't have Internet-access, I can't do my work anyway. Can't watch the server-logs without the Internet, for example, can I?
That's fine if your job is server administration. It's not quite so ideal if your job is programming, and you need more flexibility than Apple deigns to offer you through the Swift Playgrounds app but not quite as much raw computational power as a server farm. A laptop can git pull before you leave; edit, build, and test while you're out; and git push when you return.
I want a phone I can make calls and receive calls. I can use a tablet or laptop for everything else.
Until you need to use applications whose publisher has set a maximum screen size. Last I checked, the "Apple Music" app for Android was listed as compatible only with phones, not with tablets.
Your user account is either allowed to open all your files or it's not.
So if want a particular application to see a particular file, but I don't want a different application to have the opportunity to exfiltrate that file, I should make a separate user account for each application that I use. Is that what you're implying, or what am I missing?
The source of much waste is the excess numbers of cables and chargers, not the type.
The last time standardization on micro-B was studied a few years ago, the intent was that reducing the types would end up reducing the number. If a manufacturer can assume that the user is far more likely than not to already have an appropriate cable, the manufacturer can leave the cable out of the bundle. Otherwise, manufacturers still conclude "We need to include a micro-B cable in case the user only has C" or "We need to include a C cable in case the user only has micro-B".
Why should there be a law of any kind mandating that different manufacturers all use the same charger?
Because it's a consequence of the long-standing law against polluting the land and water with your e-waste. Or would you prefer to abolish that as well?
Which Qi charger clamps to the phone so that you can use the phone while charging it? Google Search qi charger with clamp found a few car mounts like this, but nothing for home use.
You already can't, as headphones for recent iPhone models plug into the charging port. Apple copied Nintendo in this respect, as the Game Boy Advance SP had the same problem.
Correct. This EU study relates to the different connectors used by different makes and models of mobile device. Smartphones use three (USB micro-B, USB C, and Lightning), dumbphones and laptops generally use different sizes and voltages of barrel connector, and handheld video game consoles have their own proprietary power connectors (GBA SP/Nintendo DS, Nintendo DS Lite, Nintendo DSi/3DS).
So would you prefer to require everyone who runs a home LAN to buy (and continue to renew) a publicly visible domain for the devices on his or her LAN, instead of relying on multicast DNS (mDNS) over the reserved.local domain?
I still don't understand why Android, Ubuntu, MacOS, etc. all insist on using stupid "cute" names that mean absolutely nothing useful.
As opposed to Windows, which uses "Redstone" names derived from some video game followed by "Anniversary Update", "Creators Update", and Northern Hemisphere-specific "Fall Creators Update"?
In my own Slashdot comments, I have used a convention to the following effect: I use both the version number and the nickname the first time I mention a version, followed by one or the other.
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 "Mojave" macOS 10.13 "High Sierra" Android 9 "Pie" Debian 9 "Stretch" Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic Beaver"
I conclude that MobyDisk would prefer that users manually 1. realize that the user mistyped the URL, 2. copy the mistyped URL from the URL bar, 3. paste the copied mistyped URL into the search bar, and 4. submit the query.
Recent Firefox has no search bar by default, in part because the name of an Extended Validation (EV) certificate holder can be so long that it occupies most of the URL bar. Instead, the URL bar fulfills both functions.
The other popular browsers (Edge, Safari, Chrome, or Opera) are proprietary (nonfree software, user-subjugating software).
Chromium is free software. Or do proprietary Google Chrome and free Chromium differ specifically in a way relevant to this article? That is, do they differ in how they send DNS requests?
Likewise, there is nothing about OpenSSL that requires a reboot. Just restart any important servers/apps using it and you're good to go.
I guess Canonical's logic is that in a typical situation, there are so many "important servers/apps using it" that restarting them but not the kernel is just as disruptive to the user experience as restarting both them and the kernel. In practice, how much of the boot process is spent before X starts compared to after?
I'll go back to Firefox when they give back the option to white list / disable java script (no, no-script doesn't cut it) and cookies in an easy, comprehensive and coherent way.
It does now, as do HTML input types and regular expression validators. That should cover most of the use cases of early JS, but not the current use of JS as a workaround for Windows, macOS, X11/Linux, iOS, and Android not being binary compatible.
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LookOut TNEF decoder claims to work with Thunderbird versions up to 64.
If you are an outlook user, compared to a Thunderbird what are you getting that is going to make you drop it in awe of the other client?
Lately, a lot of people tell me that they plan to switch from Windows to X11/Linux sometime between now and January 2020 when security updates for Windows 7 end. To make the transition smoother, one might consider switching in advance to free software available for both platforms. For example, one might switch early from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, from Edge to Firefox, and from Outlook to Thunderbird, as a way to minimize the study gradient of learning X11/Linux once the time comes. Even the Free Software Foundation recognizes that switching to free applications is a good first step.
If I don't have Internet-access, I can't do my work anyway. Can't watch the server-logs without the Internet, for example, can I?
That's fine if your job is server administration. It's not quite so ideal if your job is programming, and you need more flexibility than Apple deigns to offer you through the Swift Playgrounds app but not quite as much raw computational power as a server farm. A laptop can git pull before you leave; edit, build, and test while you're out; and git push when you return.
So I guess my job, involving development of video game asset conversion toolchains, is in that niche you mentioned. I was disappointed when the compact laptop market contracted severely in 2012.
I want a phone I can make calls and receive calls. I can use a tablet or laptop for everything else.
Until you need to use applications whose publisher has set a maximum screen size. Last I checked, the "Apple Music" app for Android was listed as compatible only with phones, not with tablets.
Did you try buying a Verizon LTE SIM for your existing compatible unlocked LTE phone?
Four reasons:
Your user account is either allowed to open all your files or it's not.
So if want a particular application to see a particular file, but I don't want a different application to have the opportunity to exfiltrate that file, I should make a separate user account for each application that I use. Is that what you're implying, or what am I missing?
each phone will continue to come with a cable
The point of regulation like that described in the featured article is to make this no longer the case.
Lightning is being phased out.
Source: "Report: Apple actively seeking to phase out Lightning connector on future iPhones" by Jesse Hollington
USB micro-B is most common. USB C is the future.
But how long until those converge?
The source of much waste is the excess numbers of cables and chargers, not the type.
The last time standardization on micro-B was studied a few years ago, the intent was that reducing the types would end up reducing the number. If a manufacturer can assume that the user is far more likely than not to already have an appropriate cable, the manufacturer can leave the cable out of the bundle. Otherwise, manufacturers still conclude "We need to include a micro-B cable in case the user only has C" or "We need to include a C cable in case the user only has micro-B".
Why should there be a law of any kind mandating that different manufacturers all use the same charger?
Because it's a consequence of the long-standing law against polluting the land and water with your e-waste. Or would you prefer to abolish that as well?
Which Qi charger clamps to the phone so that you can use the phone while charging it? Google Search qi charger with clamp found a few car mounts like this, but nothing for home use.
You already can't, as headphones for recent iPhone models plug into the charging port. Apple copied Nintendo in this respect, as the Game Boy Advance SP had the same problem.
Correct. This EU study relates to the different connectors used by different makes and models of mobile device. Smartphones use three (USB micro-B, USB C, and Lightning), dumbphones and laptops generally use different sizes and voltages of barrel connector, and handheld video game consoles have their own proprietary power connectors (GBA SP/Nintendo DS, Nintendo DS Lite, Nintendo DSi/3DS).
So would you prefer to require everyone who runs a home LAN to buy (and continue to renew) a publicly visible domain for the devices on his or her LAN, instead of relying on multicast DNS (mDNS) over the reserved .local domain?
I still don't understand why Android, Ubuntu, MacOS, etc. all insist on using stupid "cute" names that mean absolutely nothing useful.
As opposed to Windows, which uses "Redstone" names derived from some video game followed by "Anniversary Update", "Creators Update", and Northern Hemisphere-specific "Fall Creators Update"?
In my own Slashdot comments, I have used a convention to the following effect: I use both the version number and the nickname the first time I mention a version, followed by one or the other.
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 "Mojave"
macOS 10.13 "High Sierra"
Android 9 "Pie"
Debian 9 "Stretch"
Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic Beaver"
I conclude that MobyDisk would prefer that users manually 1. realize that the user mistyped the URL, 2. copy the mistyped URL from the URL bar, 3. paste the copied mistyped URL into the search bar, and 4. submit the query.
Recent Firefox has no search bar by default, in part because the name of an Extended Validation (EV) certificate holder can be so long that it occupies most of the URL bar. Instead, the URL bar fulfills both functions.
In particular, I'd like to see any relevant difference between a Wireshark log of Google Chrome and one of the free browser it's based on (Chromium).
The other popular browsers (Edge, Safari, Chrome, or Opera) are proprietary (nonfree software, user-subjugating software).
Chromium is free software. Or do proprietary Google Chrome and free Chromium differ specifically in a way relevant to this article? That is, do they differ in how they send DNS requests?
Likewise, there is nothing about OpenSSL that requires a reboot. Just restart any important servers/apps using it and you're good to go.
I guess Canonical's logic is that in a typical situation, there are so many "important servers/apps using it" that restarting them but not the kernel is just as disruptive to the user experience as restarting both them and the kernel. In practice, how much of the boot process is spent before X starts compared to after?
I'll go back to Firefox when they give back the option to white list / disable java script (no, no-script doesn't cut it) and cookies in an easy, comprehensive and coherent way.
Please define "easy, comprehensive and coherent". If you want easy, install the "JavaScript Switcher" extension by Suraj Jain to give each domain an off switch.
Say you have a BASIC compiler that uses the same back end as a C# compiler. What would make BASIC code any slower than C# code?
(In fact, we do. It's called VB.NET.)
It does now, as do HTML input types and regular expression validators. That should cover most of the use cases of early JS, but not the current use of JS as a workaround for Windows, macOS, X11/Linux, iOS, and Android not being binary compatible.
So for the price of one CD I (and all my family) get access to what is essentially all CDs, ever.
Plus the price of upgrading your cellular service from a pay-as-you-go plan with few minutes and no data to a data plan with a big enough usage quota.
I don't use Facebook. Does it have a way to report an ad on grounds "Hey, did Nintendo approve the inclusion of X, Y, and Z games?"