I honestly think that Qualcomm is trying to get away from Eudora altogether. As someone else on this discussion pointed out, an email client does not really seem to fit in with their main business developing wireless equipment for telcos or developing protocols etc.
Seems this is just a graceful way of moving on and trying to avoid any ill will from current users.
Eudora has a niche of us loyal users. Many, myself included, tried pretty much every other client out there and find ourselves coming back to Eudora for the reliability and the feature set.
It was one of only a few clients early on that supported multiple email accounts, and because of how it stores email in flat text files (as opposed to Outlook and some others) it was really easy to migrate your mailboxes and settings from computer to computer - even between platforms ie moving from Windows to Mac.
The filter tools are starting to show their age, but are still solid. There was a point where I would definitely say Eudora's filtering tools were the best in any commercial email client.
Hopefully both Eudora and Thunderbird benefit from this.
The hubble gets hit by particles of sand every month. So far none has done anything more than leave blemishes on it yet. But you get something like the space shuttle pushing 18,000 miles per hour in orbit even a pebble that is a centimeter wide could be very damaging.
Like one of the above posters said, it won't be something bit that ends the space program, it will be something that is seemingly innocuous that causes problems.
I find this article to be ironic, because I am seeing an opposite trend now.
Seems that the overseas outsourcing is hit or miss and does not work for everyone. I have seen some companies get amazing results at a much more affordable rate than they would in the US, but I have also seen some companies have so many issues with commuication/language/cultural barriers and oversight that they ended up spending more money.
Here is an article that is a few years old, but is interesting nonetheless:
In Independence Day Jeff Goldblum just happens to figure out how to establish an uplink with an alien mothership, able to work with it's protocols, and able to infect it's system with a virus.......
Palm has been working on the PalmOS to make it more of a window manager/GUI than OS relying on a layer underneath it for process/memory/IO management etc.
If you search palminfocenter.com there are a few articles on this in their archive.
Just an FYI if you want an old-school pinball machine you can try TNT Amusements in Pennsylvania. They restore and refurbish the machines by hand and when you buy a machine from them they even give you a warranty.
Hopefully when the wife and I buy a bigger house she will let me get another:)
I think you are generalizing all liberals and inappropriately. Yes, there are some on the way way way far left that think capitalism is a bad thing, but most folks liberal or not know it is the best system out there.
I consider myself to be a very liberal person. I believe that us as people OWN common resources such as the land, water, air, electro-magnetic spectrum, etc. Do I think captialism is bad? No. But it is not a perfect system.
I think you would see a lot less anti-capitalism rhetoric from people if the desire for accountability extended all the way to the top of a company.
When you have people like Ken Lay, Bernad Ebbers, Andrew Fastow, John Rigas, and Dennis Kozlowski still not in jail for their crimes it does lead one to question our system. Why is a white collar criminal that takes BILLIONS of dollars often punished less than the piece of garbage that stol a carton of cigarettes from the local convenience store?
This becomes even more relevant with the President wanting to create private investment accounts. If my social security money is diverted into a public fund like that you can bet damn well I want anyone that is stealing money from me held accountable to the fullest.
I am not a fan of DRM but Apple has gone and put themselves on the line to convince the recording industry that there is a happy medium. You can install iTunes on what like 5 computers now. You can burn virtually unlimited CD's, can have it on your iPod etc.
iTunes was one of the first times I have seen what I consider a fair and reasonable DRM. The industry and Apple get their cut. I don't have to buy a full CD if it is one good track with 12 shitty ones. And I can play it in my car, at home on stereo, or on my iPod.
This is only going to make the naysayers in the business world want to clamp down even more.
I been re-reading the Zahn trilogy and I tell you, I would LOVE to see that turned into a film with someone else directing it. Let Lucas be exec producer with Timothy Zahn, but let's get some fresh blood in to direct. Let someone like Peter Jackson try his had at it:)
This article is in what is arguably the most pro-big business magazine published by a man who actually thinks rich people should not have to pay taxes since they "create jobs"
I wish slashdot would not bother giving that POS magazine's site a traffic bump. All it does is make those dicks think that we are validating their BS...
While this idea sounds cool, I wonder if it will be one of those technologies that I cannot use. I am legally blind in my left eye and often these 3D technologies rely on the fact that vision in both of the users eyes is relatively equal in order to create the illusion. This reminds me of those stereoscope drawings from a few years back. I was never able to get them to work for me because of my imparied vision.
Does the truth bother you? When are the stupid, close-minded republican sheep going to realize they are being fucked too? Jesus, if I see one more person discount a valid statement as "conspiracy" I am going to blow my lid.
Who gives a shit if it is conspiracy? The point is that SOMETHING is up when a company wants to operate in such secrecy when it is in a business where it should be more forthright with the public. Why keep the systems closed? Why does Diebold object to a paper audit trail? Why do they hide behind copyright and shut down anyone who tries to expose this info? THERE IS SOMETHING UP AND A DUMB FUCK LIKE YOU REFUSES TO OPEN YOUR EYES!
I hate when i see some anonymous asshole, obviously republican, say something like this. All you facist, republican pricks make me sick because you are too stupid to realize that you are being fucked to. Whoever modded that guys original post as flamebait is obviously someone who likes facism.
I see a lot of the usual anti-Java posts on here. "It's slow", "The screen flickers", "The widgets suck."
Just like any other technology, implementation is more key to the quality than the technology itself. I have seen some REALLY bad Java client side applications, but then there are some that are awesome. The GUI installer for Oracle is Java Swing. It looks identical on every OS you install it on (aside from options that may or may not be available to install on a given platform), and it works really well. Another example is Veritas' VMSA software. It is Java Swing, allows you to run it on multiple platforms, and you use it to manage your Veritas volumes on multiple hosts, networks etc. If an organization spends a $100k+ on a storage system, you can bet your ass that they would be mighty pissed if they had some "slow shitty client software" messing things up.
And don't even dis Java on the server side either. Java on the server side does not have to be slow like everyone thinks. One example is the application server Orion. You want to have some fun, go to http://www.orionserver.com, download it, and install it. Then do some apache bench comparisons between it and even a tuned Apache and Orion will serve static HTML pages faster. For even more fun, whip up a JSP with a database call to Postgres or Oracle, and bench that against Apache still serving static content. Orion will actually serve dynamic DB-generated content as fast or faster than Apache can handle static HTML.
I guess the point I am trying to make is don't just make blanket statements and put down a technology because of a bad experience. It is all about the implementation. Best technology with a shitty implementation will suck no matter what.
I hate to bust your bubble, but there is no such thing as SMP P4. Intel designed the P4 to be only single processor. Xeon is for SMP applications.
Also, with SMP you can't just double the speed of one chip to come up with a benchmark. You double it, and take 10-15% off the top. You see, there is overhead in SMP because the two processors need to communicate to make sure they are on the same page, so to speak.
According to this story at Yahoo, News Corp and Viacom are already in violation of the 35% reach rules as a result of mergers:
News Corp. and Viacom Inc., which owns CBS and UPN, stand to benefit from a higher national TV ownership cap because mergers have left them above the 35 percent level. Those companies, along with NBC, persuaded an appeals court last year to reject that cap and send it back to the FCC for revision.
Basically they merged, never divested some stations to become compliant, and have tying up the courts with appeals.
All this FCC decision does is take it out of the courts and make the mega-media companies happy. They have been breaking the rules all along and instead of punishment, they get rewarded. This decision does nothing good for us, the consumers, who OWN the airwaves.
Let us not forget that airwaves, just like public lands, are owned by all of us, the people.
There was a time that in exchange for having a broadcast license, a radio or television station used to have to file reports to show that they were airing programming in the public interest. Now they simply fill out a postcard for the FCC every 5 years or so. Basically they use OUR airwaves for THEIR profit and we get LESS options as a result.
If you want to make change, get out and vote. Call your senator or representative and let them know you are displeased. Believe it or not, they DO listen. They may not respond to every message, but they do keep a tally on how may letters they receive per a given subject and with enough letters, they will do something.
Wasn't it just a few years ago that Steve Gibson of Gibson Research discovered that Microsoft's TCP stack was identical to BSD?
And I don't know how many of you have used that recovery console for when your hard drives shit the bed, but in the console it actually shows the c: drive on my one computer as/dev/hda1 or something similar to what I would see in Linux.
Also, Windows even has an/etc directory, even though it is buried down a few levels. This is where they have the hosts file.
I would be willing to bet there is quite a bit of Unix code in Windows. How else could you explain the gradual increased steadiness over the past 5 years. Whether you want to admit it or not, Windows 2000 was a major jump in reliability over previous releases and XP edged out 2K slightly.
Microsoft did work on Xenix years ago, and for that they did work on OS/2 with IBM which has a lot of BSD in it as well.
If the gov't ever opened up their source a lot of you guys would probably recognize major pieces:)
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I honestly think that Qualcomm is trying to get away from Eudora altogether. As someone else on this discussion pointed out, an email client does not really seem to fit in with their main business developing wireless equipment for telcos or developing protocols etc.
Seems this is just a graceful way of moving on and trying to avoid any ill will from current users.
There was a time when Eudora was the email client in Mosaic Communicator suite ;)
Man time sure flies.
Eudora has a niche of us loyal users. Many, myself included, tried pretty much every other client out there and find ourselves coming back to Eudora for the reliability and the feature set.
It was one of only a few clients early on that supported multiple email accounts, and because of how it stores email in flat text files (as opposed to Outlook and some others) it was really easy to migrate your mailboxes and settings from computer to computer - even between platforms ie moving from Windows to Mac.
The filter tools are starting to show their age, but are still solid. There was a point where I would definitely say Eudora's filtering tools were the best in any commercial email client.
Hopefully both Eudora and Thunderbird benefit from this.
Woot my dreams of being a moisture farmer in the desert finally being realized lol
The hubble gets hit by particles of sand every month. So far none has done anything more than leave blemishes on it yet. But you get something like the space shuttle pushing 18,000 miles per hour in orbit even a pebble that is a centimeter wide could be very damaging.
Like one of the above posters said, it won't be something bit that ends the space program, it will be something that is seemingly innocuous that causes problems.
I find this article to be ironic, because I am seeing an opposite trend now.
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Seems that the overseas outsourcing is hit or miss and does not work for everyone. I have seen some companies get amazing results at a much more affordable rate than they would in the US, but I have also seen some companies have so many issues with commuication/language/cultural barriers and oversight that they ended up spending more money.
Here is an article that is a few years old, but is interesting nonetheless:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/24/HNdells
Basically Dell ended up moving some of their tech support back to the US because customers were not happy with the quality of service they received.
In the end, it is up to each business to do their risk assesments and determine what works well for them.
Yeah and they also do not mention severity either.
In Independence Day Jeff Goldblum just happens to figure out how to establish an uplink with an alien mothership, able to work with it's protocols, and able to infect it's system with a virus.......
Umm yeah
Here is the palm infocener article: :inux is the future
Palm has been working on the PalmOS to make it more of a window manager/GUI than OS relying on a layer underneath it for process/memory/IO management etc.
If you search palminfocenter.com there are a few articles on this in their archive.
Just an FYI if you want an old-school pinball machine you can try TNT Amusements in Pennsylvania. They restore and refurbish the machines by hand and when you buy a machine from them they even give you a warranty.
:)
Hopefully when the wife and I buy a bigger house she will let me get another
I think you are generalizing all liberals and inappropriately. Yes, there are some on the way way way far left that think capitalism is a bad thing, but most folks liberal or not know it is the best system out there.
I consider myself to be a very liberal person. I believe that us as people OWN common resources such as the land, water, air, electro-magnetic spectrum, etc. Do I think captialism is bad? No. But it is not a perfect system.
I think you would see a lot less anti-capitalism rhetoric from people if the desire for accountability extended all the way to the top of a company.
When you have people like Ken Lay, Bernad Ebbers, Andrew Fastow, John Rigas, and Dennis Kozlowski still not in jail for their crimes it does lead one to question our system. Why is a white collar criminal that takes BILLIONS of dollars often punished less than the piece of garbage that stol a carton of cigarettes from the local convenience store?
This becomes even more relevant with the President wanting to create private investment accounts. If my social security money is diverted into a public fund like that you can bet damn well I want anyone that is stealing money from me held accountable to the fullest.
I am not a fan of DRM but Apple has gone and put themselves on the line to convince the recording industry that there is a happy medium. You can install iTunes on what like 5 computers now. You can burn virtually unlimited CD's, can have it on your iPod etc.
iTunes was one of the first times I have seen what I consider a fair and reasonable DRM. The industry and Apple get their cut. I don't have to buy a full CD if it is one good track with 12 shitty ones. And I can play it in my car, at home on stereo, or on my iPod.
This is only going to make the naysayers in the business world want to clamp down even more.
I been re-reading the Zahn trilogy and I tell you, I would LOVE to see that turned into a film with someone else directing it. Let Lucas be exec producer with Timothy Zahn, but let's get some fresh blood in to direct. Let someone like Peter Jackson try his had at it :)
Why is it that the cooler the feature set the uglier they have to make the unit? This thing looks like a brick :(
This article is in what is arguably the most pro-big business magazine published by a man who actually thinks rich people should not have to pay taxes since they "create jobs"
I wish slashdot would not bother giving that POS magazine's site a traffic bump. All it does is make those dicks think that we are validating their BS...
While this idea sounds cool, I wonder if it will be one of those technologies that I cannot use. I am legally blind in my left eye and often these 3D technologies rely on the fact that vision in both of the users eyes is relatively equal in order to create the illusion. This reminds me of those stereoscope drawings from a few years back. I was never able to get them to work for me because of my imparied vision.
Does the truth bother you? When are the stupid, close-minded republican sheep going to realize they are being fucked too? Jesus, if I see one more person discount a valid statement as "conspiracy" I am going to blow my lid.
Who gives a shit if it is conspiracy? The point is that SOMETHING is up when a company wants to operate in such secrecy when it is in a business where it should be more forthright with the public. Why keep the systems closed? Why does Diebold object to a paper audit trail? Why do they hide behind copyright and shut down anyone who tries to expose this info? THERE IS SOMETHING UP AND A DUMB FUCK LIKE YOU REFUSES TO OPEN YOUR EYES!
I hate when i see some anonymous asshole, obviously republican, say something like this. All you facist, republican pricks make me sick because you are too stupid to realize that you are being fucked to. Whoever modded that guys original post as flamebait is obviously someone who likes facism.
Unless I missed it somewhere, it looks like this is not a problem with OpenSSH on Solaris?
Can anyone enlighten me on this?
--Jon
I see a lot of the usual anti-Java posts on here. "It's slow", "The screen flickers", "The widgets suck."
Just like any other technology, implementation is more key to the quality than the technology itself. I have seen some REALLY bad Java client side applications, but then there are some that are awesome. The GUI installer for Oracle is Java Swing. It looks identical on every OS you install it on (aside from options that may or may not be available to install on a given platform), and it works really well. Another example is Veritas' VMSA software. It is Java Swing, allows you to run it on multiple platforms, and you use it to manage your Veritas volumes on multiple hosts, networks etc. If an organization spends a $100k+ on a storage system, you can bet your ass that they would be mighty pissed if they had some "slow shitty client software" messing things up.
And don't even dis Java on the server side either. Java on the server side does not have to be slow like everyone thinks. One example is the application server Orion. You want to have some fun, go to http://www.orionserver.com, download it, and install it. Then do some apache bench comparisons between it and even a tuned Apache and Orion will serve static HTML pages faster. For even more fun, whip up a JSP with a database call to Postgres or Oracle, and bench that against Apache still serving static content. Orion will actually serve dynamic DB-generated content as fast or faster than Apache can handle static HTML.
I guess the point I am trying to make is don't just make blanket statements and put down a technology because of a bad experience. It is all about the implementation. Best technology with a shitty implementation will suck no matter what.
--Jon
I hate to bust your bubble, but there is no such thing as SMP P4. Intel designed the P4 to be only single processor. Xeon is for SMP applications.
Also, with SMP you can't just double the speed of one chip to come up with a benchmark. You double it, and take 10-15% off the top. You see, there is overhead in SMP because the two processors need to communicate to make sure they are on the same page, so to speak.
According to this story at Yahoo, News Corp and Viacom are already in violation of the 35% reach rules as a result of mergers:
News Corp. and Viacom Inc., which owns CBS and UPN, stand to benefit from a higher national TV ownership cap because mergers have left them above the 35 percent level. Those companies, along with NBC, persuaded an appeals court last year to reject that cap and send it back to the FCC for revision.
Basically they merged, never divested some stations to become compliant, and have tying up the courts with appeals.
All this FCC decision does is take it out of the courts and make the mega-media companies happy. They have been breaking the rules all along and instead of punishment, they get rewarded. This decision does nothing good for us, the consumers, who OWN the airwaves.
Let us not forget that airwaves, just like public lands, are owned by all of us, the people.
There was a time that in exchange for having a broadcast license, a radio or television station used to have to file reports to show that they were airing programming in the public interest. Now they simply fill out a postcard for the FCC every 5 years or so. Basically they use OUR airwaves for THEIR profit and we get LESS options as a result.
If you want to make change, get out and vote. Call your senator or representative and let them know you are displeased. Believe it or not, they DO listen. They may not respond to every message, but they do keep a tally on how may letters they receive per a given subject and with enough letters, they will do something.
--Jon
Oracle previously had a port of 8i that ran on Solaris X86, but they discontinued it due to poor adoption.
If you have access to Oracle Metalink, check out Metalink document #149914.1 from May 2001.
--Jon
Wasn't it just a few years ago that Steve Gibson of Gibson Research discovered that Microsoft's TCP stack was identical to BSD?
/dev/hda1 or something similar to what I would see in Linux.
/etc directory, even though it is buried down a few levels. This is where they have the hosts file.
:)
And I don't know how many of you have used that recovery console for when your hard drives shit the bed, but in the console it actually shows the c: drive on my one computer as
Also, Windows even has an
I would be willing to bet there is quite a bit of Unix code in Windows. How else could you explain the gradual increased steadiness over the past 5 years. Whether you want to admit it or not, Windows 2000 was a major jump in reliability over previous releases and XP edged out 2K slightly.
Microsoft did work on Xenix years ago, and for that they did work on OS/2 with IBM which has a lot of BSD in it as well.
If the gov't ever opened up their source a lot of you guys would probably recognize major pieces
--Jon