That's something that I just don't understand. Know how much spam I get in my gmail account? 0
I chalk it up to simply knowing what sites I can trust to handle my email properly (and this means reading their Terms of Service and Privacy Statement that they link you to). Yes, I use it quite a bit and it is my primary personal account. But, because of that extra step to read the TOS and PS, my gmail is in the clear.
Also, note that the amount of servers gmail can get around to blocking from your reports in comparison to the plethora of spamming servers (and zombie computers) that are being used everyday, is suprisingly miniscule. I expect a good half a year to a year before their database becomes something formidable. Just consider how long Hotmail's had their spam system, and the amount of time and users that have contributed data to blocking the masses of servers.
When you notice spam, click the box beside it and then the button "Report as Spam".
Google will eventually be able to build up quite the comprehensive list of email/servers to block, but for now, like the software itself, that spam detector is in beta.
Note, this isn't a troll to just state the obvious feature of spam reporting, but to remind people that their database of spam to block may still be small until we continue doing our job of reporting it in.
Every email client has that problem, the difference being with 3rd party applications you can use the mouse or keyboard to highlight multiple emails to delete mass quantities at a time.
However, unless you keep all your email that you have read in the inbox rather than in the Archive folder (which is what is recommended, placing read email in the Archive folder) it would be much easier to use the "Select all" feature and then just deselect the valid emails.
It won't be for the service:
"The ministry plans to collect fees from users of information appliances when they purchase these products, according to the sources."
All I've seen here so far are people whining about getting taxed on a service.
Have you ever looked at your home cable internet bill, flipped it around to the back and noticed the amount of tax placed on it? Federal Tax, Service Tax, etc etc. A good $4-$5 worth of tax goes to the government because you use cable/dialup internet. This is nothing new, and nothing that we should be surprised about.
I think it really depends on the person. For example, like in screenshot 1 I have my X set to only 80% transparency therefore it doesn't bother my eyes in the least. I can understand at 60% or even 70%. But at 80% in combination with the right colors, you don't even notice a difference, in my humble opinion.
All comes down to personal preference and what bugs one person but not another I guess.
Thanks, took me a few hours to get that background just the way I like it!
You are just repeating yourself. Show me -proof- that the companies think like this. Show me documented -proof-, statements, interviews, in which companies have said that.
so they made a linux version to reach all they can. they all were made for other reason then winex,
That is exactally my point. Just because winex exists does not mean that games will never be ported. Just because winex exists does not mean companies suddenly stop porting to Linux. Be it the users demanding a port (NWN) or the comapanies beginning to offer it freely (UT), WineX is not holding them back.
And until you can find proof that companies are specifically holding back Linux ports just because of WineX, it's still just rumor and speculation compared to proof of companies making linux Ports little by little.
You can't really be serious, right? Please, oh please tell me what evidence you have to support such a philosophy. In fact, please tell me that if your opinion is the case, why more and more companies are making ports to Linux? (UT2003 and NWN come to mind), even AFTER WineX was a huge hit? WineX is a direct statement that Linux users want games, and will do what is needed to get them.
My proof is in one company after the other beginning to port games to Linux. Neverwinter Nights, Unreal, America's Army, etc etc, despite WineX3 existing. Where is yours? Where is this proof that Wine applications are convincing companies to not port?
It is one of the oldest distributions of Linux, for starters, and this one of the most loyal fanbases.
However, I feel a lot of people respect slackware for it's founder and the principles in which it is based off of. The KISS principle, for example (keep it simple stupid) is what draws myself to it. No hidden "WTF is this config file?! it isn't in etc!", and configuration is very straight foward. A binary will be in/usr/bin, not/opt/bin/usr/somewhere/in/egypt. They can take the complicated aspects and provide enough infile documentation for you to learn what you are doing.
It's really a matter of personal preference. If you want a balance between newer packages and proven stability (think of a cross between gentoo bleeding edge and debian stability), then go slackware. If you want a very straight-foward no-holds-barred OS, go slackware.
Slackware, I felt, has always kept a solid balance of stability and newer packages. I wouldn't doubt that Pat saw all the errors and problems people have been having with the 2.6 family and decided to hold back, as he would much rather have a kernel he knows is solid, stable, and proven than one that could give his worshipers problems.
KISS (keep it simple stupid) applies the most here because of the drastic changes from 2.4 to 2.6 in terms of configuration. From Alsa to OSS, to even SCSI emulation, a lot of things have changed that he may not feel the slackware userbase want's just yet.
No, you don't get what I am saying. AOL is similar to Avatar or MyIE2. It is not a brand new browser, but a frontend for the Internet Explorer browser. Albeit a huge and grossly involving one.. it is still a front end nonetheless. Thus why Netscape and mozilla are apart. They may have shared similar rendering engines, but they are by every respect different browsers.
I think I may be sticking my foot in my mouth, so I'll stop now. I'll take your word and assume that AOL has infact taken a step ahead and started changing the browser agent to it's own:)
Unless AOL recently made major changes to their protocol structure, they are -still- using the IE rendering engine from IE 6 (and 5.5) and thus it would still send a browser agent of IE.
I'm getting the feeling there is some fish going on here, and just some bad blood of stereotypes and no life experience to back up this hatred towards Microsoft and Bill.
The poster above us was not referring to Bill being an assistant or architectual designer. He, like many, still think Bill Gates is running the entire thing which is not only sad but wrong.
People equate the recent activity (SCO funding, etc) with Bill Gates because's he similar to the Queen of England. But it's just wrong to continue misinforming people of the company's intentions when the people 'informing' others still won't read the news.
I merely wanted to get the poster away from Power Rangers long enough to read a good cnet article.
Correct me if I am wrong, but a few years ago Bill stepped down as CEO and became a top chairman of Microsoft? Of course he still has plenty of sway in it, but I distincly remember service and Public Relations taking a downhill fall not long after this happened.
I guess what I am trying to say, is has anyone else noticed this as well? After the CEO switch Microsoft decided to start dumping on its customers and users in a way previously unheard of in the software industry. With Microsoft allegedly funding SCO and now this, it makes me wonder what is going on behind the curtains of Microsoft. Bill was a cool guy on a personal level. A great coder, even if he has some sneaky buisness practices. But I could never -ever- see him stooping the these recent lows.
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That's something that I just don't understand. Know how much spam I get in my gmail account? 0
I chalk it up to simply knowing what sites I can trust to handle my email properly (and this means reading their Terms of Service and Privacy Statement that they link you to). Yes, I use it quite a bit and it is my primary personal account. But, because of that extra step to read the TOS and PS, my gmail is in the clear.
Also, note that the amount of servers gmail can get around to blocking from your reports in comparison to the plethora of spamming servers (and zombie computers) that are being used everyday, is suprisingly miniscule. I expect a good half a year to a year before their database becomes something formidable. Just consider how long Hotmail's had their spam system, and the amount of time and users that have contributed data to blocking the masses of servers.
It's just tedious. A similar project has already been in the works for some time now:
http://www.dropline.net - a i686 and minor tweak/fixes to the Gnome 2.6.1 packages, built for slackware.
Damn! Where are my mod points when I need them!
+1 Bad ass!
I was not aware of this. How do other major mail servers handle this hack, and do you think google may get around to doing the same?
When you notice spam, click the box beside it and then the button "Report as Spam".
Google will eventually be able to build up quite the comprehensive list of email/servers to block, but for now, like the software itself, that spam detector is in beta.
Note, this isn't a troll to just state the obvious feature of spam reporting, but to remind people that their database of spam to block may still be small until we continue doing our job of reporting it in.
Every email client has that problem, the difference being with 3rd party applications you can use the mouse or keyboard to highlight multiple emails to delete mass quantities at a time.
However, unless you keep all your email that you have read in the inbox rather than in the Archive folder (which is what is recommended, placing read email in the Archive folder) it would be much easier to use the "Select all" feature and then just deselect the valid emails.
I don't forsee this being a real problem.
Funny, I could have sworn it was because they enjoyed the sensation of that contact, not just for the hell of it.
It won't be for the service: "The ministry plans to collect fees from users of information appliances when they purchase these products, according to the sources."
All I've seen here so far are people whining about getting taxed on a service.
Have you ever looked at your home cable internet bill, flipped it around to the back and noticed the amount of tax placed on it? Federal Tax, Service Tax, etc etc. A good $4-$5 worth of tax goes to the government because you use cable/dialup internet. This is nothing new, and nothing that we should be surprised about.
I think it really depends on the person. For example, like in screenshot 1 I have my X set to only 80% transparency therefore it doesn't bother my eyes in the least. I can understand at 60% or even 70%. But at 80% in combination with the right colors, you don't even notice a difference, in my humble opinion.
All comes down to personal preference and what bugs one person but not another I guess.
Thanks, took me a few hours to get that background just the way I like it!
Looking good as in:
screenshot 1
screenshot 2
even more screenshots
Don't confuse what the article creator was using (default looking Gnome) with what you can make it look like, and how you can make it preform.
You are just repeating yourself. Show me -proof- that the companies think like this. Show me documented -proof-, statements, interviews, in which companies have said that.
If you can't, then once again you are still spreading rumors and speculation, and that is a Bad Thing©
so they made a linux version to reach all they can. they all were made for other reason then winex,
That is exactally my point. Just because winex exists does not mean that games will never be ported. Just because winex exists does not mean companies suddenly stop porting to Linux. Be it the users demanding a port (NWN) or the comapanies beginning to offer it freely (UT), WineX is not holding them back.
And until you can find proof that companies are specifically holding back Linux ports just because of WineX, it's still just rumor and speculation compared to proof of companies making linux Ports little by little.
You can't really be serious, right? Please, oh please tell me what evidence you have to support such a philosophy. In fact, please tell me that if your opinion is the case, why more and more companies are making ports to Linux? (UT2003 and NWN come to mind), even AFTER WineX was a huge hit? WineX is a direct statement that Linux users want games, and will do what is needed to get them.
My proof is in one company after the other beginning to port games to Linux. Neverwinter Nights, Unreal, America's Army, etc etc, despite WineX3 existing. Where is yours? Where is this proof that Wine applications are convincing companies to not port?
I could be completely wrong here, so by all means correct me :) Didn't ALSA need the OSS as a base enviroment to run in?
It is one of the oldest distributions of Linux, for starters, and this one of the most loyal fanbases.
/usr/bin, not /opt/bin/usr/somewhere/in/egypt. They can take the complicated aspects and provide enough infile documentation for you to learn what you are doing.
However, I feel a lot of people respect slackware for it's founder and the principles in which it is based off of. The KISS principle, for example (keep it simple stupid) is what draws myself to it. No hidden "WTF is this config file?! it isn't in etc!", and configuration is very straight foward. A binary will be in
It's really a matter of personal preference. If you want a balance between newer packages and proven stability (think of a cross between gentoo bleeding edge and debian stability), then go slackware. If you want a very straight-foward no-holds-barred OS, go slackware.
Slackware, I felt, has always kept a solid balance of stability and newer packages. I wouldn't doubt that Pat saw all the errors and problems people have been having with the 2.6 family and decided to hold back, as he would much rather have a kernel he knows is solid, stable, and proven than one that could give his worshipers problems. KISS (keep it simple stupid) applies the most here because of the drastic changes from 2.4 to 2.6 in terms of configuration. From Alsa to OSS, to even SCSI emulation, a lot of things have changed that he may not feel the slackware userbase want's just yet.
It will work just like Xfree did.
No, you don't get what I am saying. AOL is similar to Avatar or MyIE2. It is not a brand new browser, but a frontend for the Internet Explorer browser. Albeit a huge and grossly involving one.. it is still a front end nonetheless. Thus why Netscape and mozilla are apart. They may have shared similar rendering engines, but they are by every respect different browsers.
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I think I may be sticking my foot in my mouth, so I'll stop now. I'll take your word and assume that AOL has infact taken a step ahead and started changing the browser agent to it's own
Unless AOL recently made major changes to their protocol structure, they are -still- using the IE rendering engine from IE 6 (and 5.5) and thus it would still send a browser agent of IE. I'm getting the feeling there is some fish going on here, and just some bad blood of stereotypes and no life experience to back up this hatred towards Microsoft and Bill.
The poster above us was not referring to Bill being an assistant or architectual designer. He, like many, still think Bill Gates is running the entire thing which is not only sad but wrong.
People equate the recent activity (SCO funding, etc) with Bill Gates because's he similar to the Queen of England. But it's just wrong to continue misinforming people of the company's intentions when the people 'informing' others still won't read the news.
I merely wanted to get the poster away from Power Rangers long enough to read a good cnet article.
Bill Gates isn't even CEO of the company anymore, you insensitive clod!
y =c net
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-235639.html?legac
Correct me if I am wrong, but a few years ago Bill stepped down as CEO and became a top chairman of Microsoft? Of course he still has plenty of sway in it, but I distincly remember service and Public Relations taking a downhill fall not long after this happened.
I guess what I am trying to say, is has anyone else noticed this as well? After the CEO switch Microsoft decided to start dumping on its customers and users in a way previously unheard of in the software industry. With Microsoft allegedly funding SCO and now this, it makes me wonder what is going on behind the curtains of Microsoft. Bill was a cool guy on a personal level. A great coder, even if he has some sneaky buisness practices. But I could never -ever- see him stooping the these recent lows.
Do they love it because it blocks the popup and spyware ads? Or is it because you didn't show them how to do the same in IE?
Of course, this questions the validity of why is a home user with an dynamic IP so concerned about hosting a mail server?