I work in the IT department of a company whose primary business is not IT.
We use Exchange, and my e-mail limit is currently 50mb. This is after I requested it to be raised from 30mb. Part of my job is providing tech support to the customer relations group. This sometimes involves getting screenshots of applications that are not functioning properly. These e-mails typically have a bitmap (or two) attached and weigh in around 1mb-2mb. This, plus my limit, plus the fact that we're supposed to save all business e-mails for at least 5 years creates a problem.
When my mailbox fills up I usually just dump all the old stuff into a.pst stored on my hard drive. I organize it into different categories when I do this. It's a pain in the ass, but it works.
One of the biggest problems with heirarchical classifcation systems is the "which goes first" puzzle - do you classify things under X>Y or Y>X if you have equally many values for X as you do for Y?
If you use the delicious bookmark plugin (I forget the name), it handles this in an intersting way. Lets say you file a link under "funny" and "daily" tags. It allows you to access it through any combination of the tags. "funny > link", "funny > daily > link", "daily > link", or any other possible combination.
The same is true if you file it under three or more, you could acces it through "funny > link", "funny > pictures > link", "funny > pictures > daily > link", or any other combination of the tags.
This has the advantage of being able to access it by whatever you're thinking about. Whether you're thinking "what was that funny site I used to look at?" or "what was that site with images that I used to go to?" you'll be able to find your link.
My computer at work still has NT4. I guess we're too cheap to upgrade. All the new computers deployed have Windows 2000.
On a related note, I have Windows 2000 at home cause I'm too cheap to upgrade to WinXP. I also see no real reason to upgrade to XP. I guess I can understand why businesses don't, either.
However, the company I work for standarizes on Netscape and IE. Right now I'm using Netscape 7.2. We were all told very specifically to *not* install Netscape 8 because of all the problems it's been having. This is interesting because previously we had always been encouraged to use the latest version to test out the new features and make sure our web applications were compatable.
I was just going by what was in the description. Leads me to believe that some users were marking it as spam, which eventually caused AOL to mark all of the emails as spam.
You could be right, though.
"My experience is that it doesn't take many receivers to mark mail as spam before the domain-wide filters lower some scoring threshold, and the pattern detectors kick in."
Why do people mark messages as spam that they willingly signed up for? Like this email, someone obviously signed up for it because they wanted the weather alerts. So, why mark it as spam when it comes in?
Do they just forget that they really did opt in for the email? Am I missing some other piece of information?
Maybe I'm just overestimating the competence of a typical AOL user.
I once worked for someone who decided that there should be no negative IF statements what so ever. Something about "morale needs to improve and we can help this by writing positive code. Plus it will be easier to read." I don't know what he was smoking.
This means that simple comparisons like $something != $something_else became way more difficult and contained completely usless comments:
if ($something == $something_else) { // nothing to do } else { ...code... }
These were probably the most annoying comments I've ever seen. It only got worse with statements like ($something != $something_else && $this == $that).
You can change this behavior. Go to about:config and change "browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll" to true. This will select the contents of the address bar when you click on it. Problem solved.
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Whats the difference between the Chinese space program and the US space program?
On a Chinese space shuttle, Tang is an astronaut.
I work in the IT department of a company whose primary business is not IT.
.pst stored on my hard drive. I organize it into different categories when I do this. It's a pain in the ass, but it works.
We use Exchange, and my e-mail limit is currently 50mb. This is after I requested it to be raised from 30mb. Part of my job is providing tech support to the customer relations group. This sometimes involves getting screenshots of applications that are not functioning properly. These e-mails typically have a bitmap (or two) attached and weigh in around 1mb-2mb. This, plus my limit, plus the fact that we're supposed to save all business e-mails for at least 5 years creates a problem.
When my mailbox fills up I usually just dump all the old stuff into a
One of the biggest problems with heirarchical classifcation systems is the "which goes first" puzzle - do you classify things under X>Y or Y>X if you have equally many values for X as you do for Y?
If you use the delicious bookmark plugin (I forget the name), it handles this in an intersting way. Lets say you file a link under "funny" and "daily" tags. It allows you to access it through any combination of the tags. "funny > link", "funny > daily > link", "daily > link", or any other possible combination.
The same is true if you file it under three or more, you could acces it through "funny > link", "funny > pictures > link", "funny > pictures > daily > link", or any other combination of the tags.
This has the advantage of being able to access it by whatever you're thinking about. Whether you're thinking "what was that funny site I used to look at?" or "what was that site with images that I used to go to?" you'll be able to find your link.
Unforunatly, you can't find good mortgage rates, either :(
Well, what are they getting axed?
Maybe someone should point out to them that missing 13 doesn't make it any less Office 13.
Obligatory Mitch Hedburg:
"My hotel doesn't have a 13th floor because of superstition. But people on the 14th floor, you know what floor you're really on.!"
"If 13 is an unlucky number, then 12 and 14 are guilty by association."
Culligan: 5 semi trailers of water
Does anyone else find it ironic that when an entire city is flooded, a company donates water?
I'm sure they have enough water right now.
Lisa: Poor predictable Bart. Always picks rock.
Bart: Good old rock. Nothing beats that!
Bart: Rock!
Lisa: Paper.
Bart: Doh!
The only time it's safe to say that a format is dead is when they have to build new equipment to read it because the hardware is missing.
Nah. The easier solution is to just go back in time and pickup a machine that can read it.
(for those who didn't get the reference: john titor)
I *am* the geeky kid next door.
It would probably be better if it weren't just in one word processor though.
Not for Microsoft, it wouldn't. Hence the patent.
What he says is true, but obvious.
He must be in management.
Guess that means you only browse Slashdot at work.
PS: get back to work
- Your boss
What does the title mean?
Expanding the contraction, none of the three possibilites make sense
Dell we had Sell Mac OS X Dell we should Sell Mac OS X Dell we would Sell Mac OS X
What am I missing?
My computer at work still has NT4. I guess we're too cheap to upgrade. All the new computers deployed have Windows 2000.
On a related note, I have Windows 2000 at home cause I'm too cheap to upgrade to WinXP. I also see no real reason to upgrade to XP. I guess I can understand why businesses don't, either.
At home I use Firefox.
However, the company I work for standarizes on Netscape and IE. Right now I'm using Netscape 7.2. We were all told very specifically to *not* install Netscape 8 because of all the problems it's been having. This is interesting because previously we had always been encouraged to use the latest version to test out the new features and make sure our web applications were compatable.
Uh, from TFA:
"Cons: Designed for right-handed gamers only"
The reviewer DID mention that these were right handed mice.
The author's name is 14608decf3c24b62a64015d411a862a640e5c1.
Course, you'll have to read the book to figure out how to decode it.
Spell checker?
"Organisation" is a correct spelling. As is "centre".
Remember, this is ZDNet Australia.
I was just going by what was in the description. Leads me to believe that some users were marking it as spam, which eventually caused AOL to mark all of the emails as spam. You could be right, though. "My experience is that it doesn't take many receivers to mark mail as spam before the domain-wide filters lower some scoring threshold, and the pattern detectors kick in."
Why do people mark messages as spam that they willingly signed up for? Like this email, someone obviously signed up for it because they wanted the weather alerts. So, why mark it as spam when it comes in?
Do they just forget that they really did opt in for the email? Am I missing some other piece of information?
Maybe I'm just overestimating the competence of a typical AOL user.
This means that simple comparisons like $something != $something_else became way more difficult and contained completely usless comments:These were probably the most annoying comments I've ever seen. It only got worse with statements like ($something != $something_else && $this == $that).
You can change this behavior. Go to about:config and change "browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll" to true. This will select the contents of the address bar when you click on it. Problem solved.
What is this? Timster's Law or so?
Timster's first law of moderation, to be precise.
Why is it that every post that says "i will probably get modded down" actually gets modded up?
(mod me down if you want)