Unless I'm completely mistaken, the last couple of times there was an application versus platform war, platform triumphed - think Lotus 1-2-3, for example. You may be right that encouraging people to switch to OpenOffice is an improvement over a total Microsoft platform, but it is only an application, not a platform. I'm fairly sure that unless FOSS is successful in overturning the platform, Microsoft is not going anywhere. What Apple and Google have going for them, if there is such an alliance, is that they respectively provide platform and application. Unfortunately, Google is not a killer exclusive app for the Mac platform, and their bread-and-butter search and advertising is their main revenue stream. Their applications, IIRC, are all losing money. Hardly a logical place for Google's shareholders to keep it?
Are you're confusing it with the Pioneer Anomaly, which occurs on spin-stablized spacecraft? Voyager is three-axis stablized, and not subject to the anomaly.
Just a note - I agree with you that once Linux is set up, it's pretty easy to get used to. I do not think that the learning curve for Linux is that steep, especially with some of the newer distros like Ubuntu that put a premium on usability.
The problem - for me at least - has always been in the installation. If I give my computer to a Linux guru, chances are that I'll get a completely functional distro installed and ready to go. If I don't, I spend ages trying to get things set up. You have experience with setting it up, and once you set it up, everything works fine for your family. For the rest of us who don't have that much experience with Linux (and especially those of us who hate compiling from source:), it's quite a dogged procedure getting it up and running. Once it's up, then I have no trouble whatsoever.
But Intel supplying PPC chips to Apple, after the years of languishing Apple went through before IBM could deliver a G5?
Another possible scenario is Apple leveraging Intel's comparatively vast fab facilities. Admittedly, the question would then arise over who owns the IP to PPC architecture (IBM, I'm assuming), but if Apple was able to work out the licensing issues, I would not be surprised to see Intel-manufactured PowerPC chips, much as in earlier generations of the PPC architecture, some chips came from Motorola, others from IBM.
From Intel's stand point, this would be a cash cow, even though it may be at the expense of their IP. Ultimately, however, it may work to Intel's benefit to manafacture both architectures and help expand the total market for chips/computers. The question is, will IBM license the PPC architecture to Intel?
Agreed, but in this case the variables would have been the motherboard (which already varies between AMD and Intel), OS (can't really help it) and chip. It would've been possible to test the same video card, same HDD, same memory, and I doubt there would've been that much difference from power supply, optical drive, things like that.
But nonetheless, your point is well taken.
...is to have had one or two Apple Macs in the mix as well. I know that a number of tests have "equivalency" problems, but the rest would have been useful to see, if for no reason other than to compare state of the art on AMD/Intel with state of the art on PowerPC.
Usual disclaimers: not trying to start a flame war, just pointing out something else that could be useful.
Just about every email program that I've used has managed to export to CSV. A few web-based email systems didn't allow such imports and some hunting on the web found some sort of convertor (like YahooPOPS!, etc.) that converted to POP and then I exported them to CSV using Eudora or Outlook, or whatever program I was particularly enamored with.
Admittedly, sometimes the column names didn't match up ("Sender" v "From"), etc., but for the most part that how I did it. I also made an effort to keep the number of email accounts that I had to a minimum. At this point of time, most everything is stored in the form of.PST files that are archived on CDs and on an external hard drive.
I also made an effort to keep my email accounts to a minimum, which probably made this entire process significantly easier and when I did close an account (like when I finished work at a company), I exported the emails from there and kept them in.PST in case I needed them for anything later on.
As far as indexing works - I have them stored in 6 month segments (Jan97-Jun97, Jul97-Dec97,...), since I can usually remember roughly when I got an email that I was looking for - alternatives include perhaps by name of sender or company.
I do archive IMs - Trillian worries about it for me.:)
Hope this helps.
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Unless I'm completely mistaken, the last couple of times there was an application versus platform war, platform triumphed - think Lotus 1-2-3, for example. You may be right that encouraging people to switch to OpenOffice is an improvement over a total Microsoft platform, but it is only an application, not a platform. I'm fairly sure that unless FOSS is successful in overturning the platform, Microsoft is not going anywhere. What Apple and Google have going for them, if there is such an alliance, is that they respectively provide platform and application. Unfortunately, Google is not a killer exclusive app for the Mac platform, and their bread-and-butter search and advertising is their main revenue stream. Their applications, IIRC, are all losing money. Hardly a logical place for Google's shareholders to keep it?
640K should be enough for anyone!
Are you're confusing it with the Pioneer Anomaly, which occurs on spin-stablized spacecraft? Voyager is three-axis stablized, and not subject to the anomaly.
Hate to break it to you lad, but down is on... as it clearly was in your last sentence.
"I see crop circles..."
I have this sinking feeling...
Then why not use WordPerfect or another proprietary system, also not made by Microsoft?
Just a note - I agree with you that once Linux is set up, it's pretty easy to get used to. I do not think that the learning curve for Linux is that steep, especially with some of the newer distros like Ubuntu that put a premium on usability.
:), it's quite a dogged procedure getting it up and running. Once it's up, then I have no trouble whatsoever.
The problem - for me at least - has always been in the installation. If I give my computer to a Linux guru, chances are that I'll get a completely functional distro installed and ready to go. If I don't, I spend ages trying to get things set up. You have experience with setting it up, and once you set it up, everything works fine for your family. For the rest of us who don't have that much experience with Linux (and especially those of us who hate compiling from source
But Intel supplying PPC chips to Apple, after the years of languishing Apple went through before IBM could deliver a G5?
Another possible scenario is Apple leveraging Intel's comparatively vast fab facilities. Admittedly, the question would then arise over who owns the IP to PPC architecture (IBM, I'm assuming), but if Apple was able to work out the licensing issues, I would not be surprised to see Intel-manufactured PowerPC chips, much as in earlier generations of the PPC architecture, some chips came from Motorola, others from IBM. From Intel's stand point, this would be a cash cow, even though it may be at the expense of their IP. Ultimately, however, it may work to Intel's benefit to manafacture both architectures and help expand the total market for chips/computers. The question is, will IBM license the PPC architecture to Intel?
Agreed, but in this case the variables would have been the motherboard (which already varies between AMD and Intel), OS (can't really help it) and chip. It would've been possible to test the same video card, same HDD, same memory, and I doubt there would've been that much difference from power supply, optical drive, things like that. But nonetheless, your point is well taken.
...is to have had one or two Apple Macs in the mix as well. I know that a number of tests have "equivalency" problems, but the rest would have been useful to see, if for no reason other than to compare state of the art on AMD/Intel with state of the art on PowerPC.
Usual disclaimers: not trying to start a flame war, just pointing out something else that could be useful.
Just about every email program that I've used has managed to export to CSV. A few web-based email systems didn't allow such imports and some hunting on the web found some sort of convertor (like YahooPOPS!, etc.) that converted to POP and then I exported them to CSV using Eudora or Outlook, or whatever program I was particularly enamored with. .PST files that are archived on CDs and on an external hard drive. .PST in case I needed them for anything later on. ...), since I can usually remember roughly when I got an email that I was looking for - alternatives include perhaps by name of sender or company. :)
Admittedly, sometimes the column names didn't match up ("Sender" v "From"), etc., but for the most part that how I did it. I also made an effort to keep the number of email accounts that I had to a minimum. At this point of time, most everything is stored in the form of
I also made an effort to keep my email accounts to a minimum, which probably made this entire process significantly easier and when I did close an account (like when I finished work at a company), I exported the emails from there and kept them in
As far as indexing works - I have them stored in 6 month segments (Jan97-Jun97, Jul97-Dec97,
I do archive IMs - Trillian worries about it for me.
Hope this helps.