If I had somebody calling me in a panic, I would be less concerned about whether or not, you know, they were going to die or something, than I would be about how many of my cellphone minutes it was using up.
you pay for RECEIVING calls?..... You need to get a new provider!
The company I work for (http://www.hpa.com.au) has been doing that for years, only we scan tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of pages daily. Ironically, one of the applications involves scanning, OCRing and indexing Patent applications, then making them available on the web as PDFs.
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Except that he said he wasn't using it anyway.....
> I'm sure it's just as aggravating for the fantasy reader.
not really.....you see, Fantasy readers browse on the astral plane....we identify books by their aura, and Sci Fi books just appear as dead lumps of wood to us, so the blend in nicely with the bookshelf....heh..
Microsoft has BEEN to court....they were found guilty of illegaly using their monopoly in one market to gain one in another..
The trial has been and gone...they are guilty.
It's the sentence that is being disputed. The original penalty was succesfully appealed against, but as they HAVE been found guilty, there still needs to be some sort of penalty. Microsoft knows that as much as anyone, which is why they're offering these settlement options.
Do you really think that if Microsoft had not been found guilty of anything, that they would be offering settlement options?. That would be admitting guilt.
Hmmm.....we've had no trouble whatsoever with DELL and Linux....
We've bought a number of servers from them over the last couple of years, all with Linux pre installed.. and never had a problem..
We even had a case where we requested a server with redhat 7 preinstalled by mistake (We actually wanted 6.2 for use with Oracle) and they were happy to send us a copy of their DELL specific version of 6.2 (it includes drivers for the PERC raid controller that didn't exist in the RH version) at no charge.....
And we've ALWAYS received stickers;) and printed manuals.
So maybe DELL Australia is a little more helpful than DELL America, or maybe we've just got a better account manager?
>You mean everyone could be an animated walking billboard, right?:-
That wouldn't be much different to now anyway....
...who was the marketing genius that managed to turn plastering their company's name all over a pice of clothing into a trendy fashion?...Making people pay...(and usualy pay a lot, willingly)..to do their advertising for them.....
What about Product Activation and Passport? The proposed settlement doesn't address either of those two abominations.
I'm not sure you could call Product Activation an anti trust issue.....it's a little annoying, but unless you somehow believe it's a fundamental right to make as many copies of commecial software as you please, and install them anywhere you please, then it doesn't relieve you of any of your rights, or hurt any of Microsoft's competition, or provide them a means to use Windows to extend their monopoly into another market.
Actually, A Service pack is a collection of patches and updates to a wide variety of services and applications that make up the complete system, and have been tested (in theory) to work together, and can be installed in one go.
A new kernel version would be just one small part of a service pack.
So no, it's not a service pack, and even if it were.....would that be a bad thing?
Personally, I'd rather be seeing lots of updates, which indicates that development is still being done, than to see nothing, and live under the uncertaintly of not knowing whether this meant that the system I had was perfect, or if the maintainters just didnt care.
Though you're definitely right about "if it's not broke, don't fix it" part.
There's no (official) public CVS or nightly builds of the Linux kernel, so these releases (and the pre-xx ones) are all there is.
No one's forcing you to upgrade, and you really shouldn't upgraded as often as possible, you should only upgrade if you know that the new version has an imrovement / bugfix / new feature that you need or want.
And even then, in theory you should test it thoroughly on a test machine before putting it on a production box. (Though of course for desktop users this is usualy not much of an option).
AFIK the thing does not have a net connection shiped with it so you can not get any networking. Is there a printer port? Can you plug in a cdrom drive or a fd0/L120 device?
It's NOT just a 'cool hack', it's a harware & software kit designed to get a fully featured linux up on your PS2
It includes hard drive, ethernet and keyboard and mouse... There is USB and FireWire on the PS2 itself, so printer / scanner / whatever support is limited only by what Linux is limited to.
No, this is a GOOD thing....it may be an inconvenience for you (and you could always run fetchmail, and set up sendmail or whichever MTA you use to use your ISPs server as a smart host, so that to the clients on your network it's transparent).
But it does help prevent SPAM, by making it impossible for just anyone to run a mail server, (and even those not using theirs for SPAM may still be a cause of it, if they allow relaying)
By preventing incoming and outgoing STMP, there is no way anyone on their network can be responsible for sending out SPAM, unless they go through earthlink's server.
What MS is doing is completely different to this, they're preventing you from using any email client other than one of theirs. So if you use Eudora, Netscape, KMail, Pine, or anything else, you're screwed.
hmm....I'd really suggest giving CMU's cyrus IMAP server a go instead of the UW one.....
I tried the UW one for my branch of our company.....(supporting only about 10 - 15 users at the time) and it performed horribly.....
The problem was, that since each folder is implemented as a flat file (mbox style), operations on folders with large amounts of mail, or a few largeish attachments became really painful....(and as we are a laser printing / mailing house, we tend to recieve a fair bit of client data by email on a daily basis, and some of it can be quite large.)
For instance, to delete an email requires basically creating a new copy of the mbox file without the email your deleting in it. If the mailboxes get large (20meg or more) then this becomes really painful unless you're running a decent sized machine.
After enough complaints about the speed of the mail, I hunted around and found the Cyrus IMAPD and tried that out...and it works brilliantly, as each email is stored as a separate file, and the headers are cached in a BerkleyDB database in each folder. The result is that you can have tens of thousands of emails of any size in a single folder, and everything works as fast as if you only has one or two.
Just to give you an idea....my mail account at work has more than 15,000 messages (spread around quite a few folders..though my inbox has about 1700 that someday i'll get round to filing/deleting / whatever) and totals more than 1 Gig.
The mail server is a PentiumII 233 with 64meg memory and two 18gig IDE drives being software mirrored, and now supports 30 - 40 users.
Another advantage of Cyrus, is that mail users do not need local accounts. You can use any authentication method that the Cyrus SASL library (which seems to be shipped with most distributions these days, due to sendmail being able to use it) supports.
Cyrus also supports server side filtering using the SIEVE language, you can set up SIEVE filters either system wide, or per user.
and FYI....our branch has
8 Linux boxes (Redhat) consisting of:
1 Mailserver (Sendmail & CMU Cyrus IMAPd - virus checking is done at our corporate gateway, through a horrible mess of W2k / exchange servers way out of my control)
1 Samba fileserver & NIS server
2 Client remote access machines
1 Firewall
2 production machines one Dual proc, one 4way (where all the day to day work is done, big file conversions to Xerox Metacode using inhouse software)
1 Development and testing machine for advanced projects
1 Legato backup server
2 Sun Solaris boxes:
1 Production machine (being phased out in favour of the DELL Linux boxes above)
1 testing / fallback / doorstop / whatever machine
1 Orignal DEC Alpha server - Now finaly a permanant doorstop.
1 NT4 machine - Print server for a Xerox Document Center (would really love to find software to support this from Linux or Solaris, but Xerox don't seem to acknowlege that Unix exists in the case of this device).
All our desktops are Windows machines (with the Windows scripting host disabled or uninstalled) with the exception of a couple of us in IT (I'm using a Dell Latitude c810 with Debian unstable on it, using VMWare for the few Windows things I need)
Netscape 4.7x is what we use for mail. The rest of the company uses Outlook, and with the exception of the occasional email with that crappy stationary stuff in it, there are no real interoperation problems there. And we get the added bonus of being able to laugh at the rest of the company every time a new Outlook/VBS worm finds it way through the gateway...hehe.
There's not much point in moderating the post out of existance just because it's wrong....that would completely hide the replies too for some people, and nothing good would come out of it...
Or for others, it would leave the replies without context, making them almost as useless....
I don't see the point of moderating down a post simply because it's wrong.....the proper way to deal with incorrect facts, is to correct them, not hide them..
If the post was abusive, obscene or completely off topic, then it would deserve to be moderated down, but just because it's wrong doesnt mean the guy doesn't have a right to be heard....and then corrected.
Probably not.....if the way I understand it is correct, then the Render extension just provides a way to get hardware accelerated alpha blending.
To optain a truely transparent terminal, when an area of desktop, or a window changed it's contents, X would have to repaint all the windows above that area or window, which previously would have been something that X deliberately would not have done (since it would have been pointless).
I don't think that the render extension changes anything fundamental about X, just provides an extension that applications can use to speed up certain things.
Though I could be wrong, since I have not really read much about it.
Australians have the amazing talent to completly forget that cricket even exists until their team suddenly start winning....then they act as if they'd been following it all along....
trouble is.....they have an annoying tendancy to keep winning.......bastards....
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> I've noticed that the same applies to the over-application of OO, Extreme programming, and peanut-butter.
No...I'm afraid I can't agree with you here...
nothing bad can EVER come from over-application of peanut-butter!
virii isn't even a word....it's a poor attempt at pig latin mainly used by l33t script kiddies that failed english...
Read the article that someone else posted as a reply
I think it's more like selling a family car that can "only" do 160kms an hour....
in other words, more than anyone should ever need, and if they need more, maybe they should look somewhere else....
If I had somebody calling me in a panic, I would be less concerned about whether or not, you know, they were going to die or something, than I would be about how many of my cellphone minutes it was using up.
you pay for RECEIVING calls?.....
You need to get a new provider!
The company I work for (http://www.hpa.com.au) has been doing that for years, only we scan tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of pages daily. Ironically, one of the applications involves scanning, OCRing and indexing Patent applications, then making them available on the web as PDFs.
Except that he said he wasn't using it anyway.....
> I'm sure it's just as aggravating for the fantasy reader.
not really.....you see, Fantasy readers browse on the astral plane....we identify books by their aura, and Sci Fi books just appear as dead lumps of wood to us, so the blend in nicely with the bookshelf....heh..
Microsoft has BEEN to court....they were found guilty of illegaly using their monopoly in one market to gain one in another..
The trial has been and gone...they are guilty.
It's the sentence that is being disputed. The original penalty was succesfully appealed against, but as they HAVE been found guilty, there still needs to be some sort of penalty. Microsoft knows that as much as anyone, which is why they're offering these settlement options.
Do you really think that if Microsoft had not been found guilty of anything, that they would be offering settlement options?. That would be admitting guilt.
Hmmm.....we've had no trouble whatsoever with DELL and Linux....
;) and printed manuals.
We've bought a number of servers from them over the last couple of years, all with Linux pre installed.. and never had a problem..
We even had a case where we requested a server with redhat 7 preinstalled by mistake (We actually wanted 6.2 for use with Oracle) and they were happy to send us a copy of their DELL specific version of 6.2 (it includes drivers for the PERC raid controller that didn't exist in the RH version) at no charge.....
And we've ALWAYS received stickers
So maybe DELL Australia is a little more helpful than DELL America, or maybe we've just got a better account manager?
>You mean everyone could be an animated walking billboard, right? :-
That wouldn't be much different to now anyway....
...who was the marketing genius that managed to turn plastering their company's name all over a pice of clothing into a trendy fashion?...Making people pay...(and usualy pay a lot, willingly)..to do their advertising for them.....
well...for a start, VMWare costs money....
What about Product Activation and Passport? The proposed settlement doesn't address either of those two abominations.
I'm not sure you could call Product Activation an anti trust issue.....it's a little annoying, but unless you somehow believe it's a fundamental right to make as many copies of commecial software as you please, and install them anywhere you please, then it doesn't relieve you of any of your rights, or hurt any of Microsoft's competition, or provide them a means to use Windows to extend their monopoly into another market.
Actually, A Service pack is a collection of patches and updates to a wide variety of services and applications that make up the complete system, and have been tested (in theory) to work together, and can be installed in one go.
A new kernel version would be just one small part of a service pack.
So no, it's not a service pack, and even if it were.....would that be a bad thing?
Personally, I'd rather be seeing lots of updates, which indicates that development is still being done, than to see nothing, and live under the uncertaintly of not knowing whether this meant that the system I had was perfect, or if the maintainters just didnt care.
Though you're definitely right about "if it's not broke, don't fix it" part.
nightlies?....
aren't you confusing this with Mozilla...
There's no (official) public CVS or nightly builds of the Linux kernel, so these releases (and the pre-xx ones) are all there is.
No one's forcing you to upgrade, and you really shouldn't upgraded as often as possible, you should only upgrade if you know that the new version has an imrovement / bugfix / new feature that you need or want.
And even then, in theory you should test it thoroughly on a test machine before putting it on a production box. (Though of course for desktop users this is usualy not much of an option).
Things like this can really distract a reader, ya know?
I don't know why, 'cause it IS actually true...
also, the official name for the Debian Linux distribution is Debian GNU/Linux.
Its a cool hack but does it have a point?
AFIK the thing does not have a net connection shiped with it so you can not get any networking. Is there a printer port? Can you plug in a cdrom drive or a fd0/L120 device?
It's NOT just a 'cool hack', it's a harware & software kit designed to get a fully featured linux up on your PS2
It includes hard drive, ethernet and keyboard and mouse...
There is USB and FireWire on the PS2 itself, so printer / scanner / whatever support is limited only by what Linux is limited to.
No, this is a GOOD thing....it may be an inconvenience for you (and you could always run fetchmail, and set up sendmail or whichever MTA you use to use your ISPs server as a smart host, so that to the clients on your network it's transparent).
But it does help prevent SPAM, by making it impossible for just anyone to run a mail server, (and even those not using theirs for SPAM may still be a cause of it, if they allow relaying)
By preventing incoming and outgoing STMP, there is no way anyone on their network can be responsible for sending out SPAM, unless they go through earthlink's server.
What MS is doing is completely different to this, they're preventing you from using any email client other than one of theirs. So if you use Eudora, Netscape, KMail, Pine, or anything else, you're screwed.
>Ssssshhhhhh..That's violating the DMCA. Don't let them here you for they will come..
Don't be ridiculous, this has nothing to do with copyright protection.....
hmmm...that's probably a little harsh....
I'd rephrase it a bit to 'If you are into pro audio and won't consider (or lust after) a mac'
Afterall, while Mac may dominate the field, it doesn't mean that PCs are COMPLETELY incompetent.......
um.....isn't a desktop look and feel exactly what we're talking about right now?...
unless you think KDE has magically become an OS without anyone noticing.....
hmm....I'd really suggest giving CMU's cyrus IMAP server a go instead of the UW one.....
/deleting / whatever) and totals more than 1 Gig.
I tried the UW one for my branch of our company.....(supporting only about 10 - 15 users at the time) and it performed horribly.....
The problem was, that since each folder is implemented as a flat file (mbox style), operations on folders with large amounts of mail, or a few largeish attachments became really painful....(and as we are a laser printing / mailing house, we tend to recieve a fair bit of client data by email on a daily basis, and some of it can be quite large.)
For instance, to delete an email requires basically creating a new copy of the mbox file without the email your deleting in it. If the mailboxes get large (20meg or more) then this becomes really painful unless you're running a decent sized machine.
After enough complaints about the speed of the mail, I hunted around and found the Cyrus IMAPD and tried that out...and it works brilliantly, as each email is stored as a separate file, and the headers are cached in a BerkleyDB database in each folder. The result is that you can have tens of thousands of emails of any size in a single folder, and everything works as fast as if you only has one or two.
Just to give you an idea....my mail account at work has more than 15,000 messages (spread around quite a few folders..though my inbox has about 1700 that someday i'll get round to filing
The mail server is a PentiumII 233 with 64meg memory and two 18gig IDE drives being software mirrored, and now supports 30 - 40 users.
Another advantage of Cyrus, is that mail users do not need local accounts. You can use any authentication method that the Cyrus SASL library (which seems to be shipped with most distributions these days, due to sendmail being able to use it) supports.
Cyrus also supports server side filtering using the SIEVE language, you can set up SIEVE filters either system wide, or per user.
and FYI....our branch has
8 Linux boxes (Redhat) consisting of:
1 Mailserver (Sendmail & CMU Cyrus IMAPd - virus checking is done at our corporate gateway, through a horrible mess of W2k / exchange servers way out of my control)
1 Samba fileserver & NIS server
2 Client remote access machines
1 Firewall
2 production machines one Dual proc, one 4way (where all the day to day work is done, big file conversions to Xerox Metacode using inhouse software)
1 Development and testing machine for advanced projects
1 Legato backup server
2 Sun Solaris boxes:
1 Production machine (being phased out in favour of the DELL Linux boxes above)
1 testing / fallback / doorstop / whatever machine
1 Orignal DEC Alpha server - Now finaly a permanant doorstop.
1 NT4 machine - Print server for a Xerox Document Center (would really love to find software to support this from Linux or Solaris, but Xerox don't seem to acknowlege that Unix exists in the case of this device).
All our desktops are Windows machines (with the Windows scripting host disabled or uninstalled) with the exception of a couple of us in IT (I'm using a Dell Latitude c810 with Debian unstable on it, using VMWare for the few Windows things I need)
Netscape 4.7x is what we use for mail. The rest of the company uses Outlook, and with the exception of the occasional email with that crappy stationary stuff in it, there are no real interoperation problems there. And we get the added bonus of being able to laugh at the rest of the company every time a new Outlook/VBS worm finds it way through the gateway...hehe.
There's not much point in moderating the post out of existance just because it's wrong....that would completely hide the replies too for some people, and nothing good would come out of it...
Or for others, it would leave the replies without context, making them almost as useless....
I don't see the point of moderating down a post simply because it's wrong.....the proper way to deal with incorrect facts, is to correct them, not hide them..
If the post was abusive, obscene or completely off topic, then it would deserve to be moderated down, but just because it's wrong doesnt mean the guy doesn't have a right to be heard....and then corrected.
Probably not.....if the way I understand it is correct, then the Render extension just provides a way to get hardware accelerated alpha blending.
To optain a truely transparent terminal, when an area of desktop, or a window changed it's contents, X would have to repaint all the windows above that area or window, which previously would have been something that X deliberately would not have done (since it would have been pointless).
I don't think that the render extension changes anything fundamental about X, just provides an extension that applications can use to speed up certain things.
Though I could be wrong, since I have not really read much about it.
Yup...that's right....
Australians have the amazing talent to completly forget that cricket even exists until their team suddenly start winning....then they act as if they'd been following it all along....
trouble is.....they have an annoying tendancy to keep winning.......bastards....
> You wouldn't even think of going 0 to 60 by applying only the amount of throttle that sustains 60 mph; it would take ages.
No....but the person in front always seems to think that's the best way to go......arrgh..