Interesting, your comment. It makes me think why people would laugh off the numerous patents that Microsoft are already infringing, and take seriously the patents that linux is supposedly infringing. Apparently it's more a matter of gut feeling and assurance than it is of law. Nobody believes a big company like Microsoft can be forced to pull a product, but it is somehow believable that Linux itself could be withdrawn from the market.
Not that I've tried it myself, but I thought what you need to do is go through the purchasing process with the registrar of your choice. They should hopefully reject payment on domains that are already taken, and you can cancel the purchase within the grace period as well. My apologies if I'm wrong, I'm just conjecturing here.
When domain tasting was available, the solution was simple - buy the domain, even before you decide you want it, even if it means buying several to see which one you want. It costs you nothing after all, and you can release the ones you don't want. Everyone here complains about searching for a domain before they buy it. You're not supposed to do that, you need to buy it immediately, then let go of it if you decided it wasn't the one you wanted.
Why not say that this behavior is the inadvertent result of placing 2 products, an SMTP gateway, and an antivirus client, side by side on the same server? the gateway stores the mail in a temporary store, whereupon the antivirus just happens to sanitize it, before the mail is again sent on it's way. This is obviousness in the extreme.
I'd mod you up if I had points. Even worse, there appear to be astroturfers here on Slashdot, more than willing to defend (anonymously of course) the guy.
If you want the OLPC to look even more "serious and grown up" then offer an option to triple boot with another distro - one that's by default tricked out to the max that the machine can handle. No reason why it wouldn't work. Let's face it, nobody wants a desktop that looks just like anyone elses, they want something unique. People customize their wallpapers, they add widgets all over the place, they even want to change the startup logo. Something to say "I'm 1337 too."
"I've done cried me a thousand tears over how you've taken mah vote away" "Losing yer vote is like havin' a bucking bronco break yer back" "I'd vote for you but I'm too redneck to hold a pen"
I was considering virtualization for replacing a low-load mail gateway. Changed my mind when an incident occurred that sent a major spike in traffic for weeks through it (some mail spammer was using my domain as a reply-to address, causing NDRs to flood the server). The lesson here is that you should consider periods of high load as well as average loading. Also have an exit strategy ready.
The Apple Remote uses contextual buttons - what screen you are on determines the function of the button. That's how the volume control becomes the up/down buttons.
I'm surprised that no other browser has features similar to Safari's Private Browsing. Allows you to do a session that doesn't appear in your history, cookies or saved passwords. And you don't have to empty your cache, delete the other saved passwords or browsing history to make sure your secure session is not saved.
The more I think about it the more I believe you were subjected to a social engineering attack. Did you verify it was the secretary or the president on the line? What means are there to make such a verification? Wouldn't it be easy for someone to impersonate a secretary and get the admins to reset passwords and access the president's data?
In my experience alot of people appear to use double-click all the time, even when they don't need to. Most of the time it's harmless, of course, but there have been cases when it would double-launch an application (like when it's in the quick launch menu) and break something. My take on that is that double-click just isn't intuitive. And it doesn't help that windows can be configured to use single-click or double-click from the explorer, that just leads to more inconsistency.
They may have be thwarted at ISO, but the consequence was that they have destroyed ISO as a standards body. Not only is its credibility hit, they seem to have difficulty implementing any new standards from this time forth (due to the outstanding number of new nonvoting members). What's the point of ODF being ISO accredited if ISO has no more credit to its name? So Microsoft wins there too.
You're wrong about the crapload of money part though. Microcredit allows a person to progressive borrow, invest and make good on loans until he's on a solid footing. It shows much promise especially for the poorest of the poor.
The plugin you're looking for is perian and some audio support was broken in the latest version of quicktime, i believe 7.3. A fix for that will be available in perian 1.1, whenever that becomes available.
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I think of all the people who simply detest Bush, and yet he's still alive. America simply doesn't have that kind of people anymore.
Interesting, your comment. It makes me think why people would laugh off the numerous patents that Microsoft are already infringing, and take seriously the patents that linux is supposedly infringing. Apparently it's more a matter of gut feeling and assurance than it is of law. Nobody believes a big company like Microsoft can be forced to pull a product, but it is somehow believable that Linux itself could be withdrawn from the market.
And in Japan Yahoo has Hard Gay Razor Ramon as spokesman. A clear winner already.
So you want to stop the rain by... Baking the athletes?
Not that I've tried it myself, but I thought what you need to do is go through the purchasing process with the registrar of your choice. They should hopefully reject payment on domains that are already taken, and you can cancel the purchase within the grace period as well.
My apologies if I'm wrong, I'm just conjecturing here.
When domain tasting was available, the solution was simple - buy the domain, even before you decide you want it, even if it means buying several to see which one you want. It costs you nothing after all, and you can release the ones you don't want. Everyone here complains about searching for a domain before they buy it. You're not supposed to do that, you need to buy it immediately, then let go of it if you decided it wasn't the one you wanted.
Why not say that this behavior is the inadvertent result of placing 2 products, an SMTP gateway, and an antivirus client, side by side on the same server? the gateway stores the mail in a temporary store, whereupon the antivirus just happens to sanitize it, before the mail is again sent on it's way. This is obviousness in the extreme.
Well in that case we'll just have to call those new products the MacPhone and MacPod Touch...
I for one would have wanted a big-ass iphone with full-featured Leopard on it. A tablet like no other.
16-32 won't cut it if you need to run Time Machine though. They can't sell a product that would be incompatible with the very os it uses.
It informs me to add "The Burton Group" to the list of bullshit propaganda organizations. Seriously, who are these guys?
Conflict of interest - Microsoft is here to help you find the path around as many items as possible, so that you might wanna pick something up.
He's paying extra to get advertising space for his blog on Google. http://www.google.com/search?q=olpc+xo
What does that say about your theory?
I'd mod you up if I had points. Even worse, there appear to be astroturfers here on Slashdot, more than willing to defend (anonymously of course) the guy.
If you want the OLPC to look even more "serious and grown up" then offer an option to triple boot with another distro - one that's by default tricked out to the max that the machine can handle. No reason why it wouldn't work. Let's face it, nobody wants a desktop that looks just like anyone elses, they want something unique. People customize their wallpapers, they add widgets all over the place, they even want to change the startup logo. Something to say "I'm 1337 too."
"I've done cried me a thousand tears over how you've taken mah vote away"
"Losing yer vote is like havin' a bucking bronco break yer back"
"I'd vote for you but I'm too redneck to hold a pen"
"Practice makes permanent" is another one I've heard.
I was considering virtualization for replacing a low-load mail gateway. Changed my mind when an incident occurred that sent a major spike in traffic for weeks through it (some mail spammer was using my domain as a reply-to address, causing NDRs to flood the server). The lesson here is that you should consider periods of high load as well as average loading. Also have an exit strategy ready.
The Apple Remote uses contextual buttons - what screen you are on determines the function of the button. That's how the volume control becomes the up/down buttons.
I'm surprised that no other browser has features similar to Safari's Private Browsing. Allows you to do a session that doesn't appear in your history, cookies or saved passwords. And you don't have to empty your cache, delete the other saved passwords or browsing history to make sure your secure session is not saved.
The more I think about it the more I believe you were subjected to a social engineering attack. Did you verify it was the secretary or the president on the line? What means are there to make such a verification? Wouldn't it be easy for someone to impersonate a secretary and get the admins to reset passwords and access the president's data?
In my experience alot of people appear to use double-click all the time, even when they don't need to. Most of the time it's harmless, of course, but there have been cases when it would double-launch an application (like when it's in the quick launch menu) and break something. My take on that is that double-click just isn't intuitive. And it doesn't help that windows can be configured to use single-click or double-click from the explorer, that just leads to more inconsistency.
They may have be thwarted at ISO, but the consequence was that they have destroyed ISO as a standards body. Not only is its credibility hit, they seem to have difficulty implementing any new standards from this time forth (due to the outstanding number of new nonvoting members). What's the point of ODF being ISO accredited if ISO has no more credit to its name? So Microsoft wins there too.
You're wrong about the crapload of money part though. Microcredit allows a person to progressive borrow, invest and make good on loans until he's on a solid footing. It shows much promise especially for the poorest of the poor.
The plugin you're looking for is perian and some audio support was broken in the latest version of quicktime, i believe 7.3. A fix for that will be available in perian 1.1, whenever that becomes available.