Really? Where do I sign up for this service? Oh. Companies are still dragging their feet on this. I'm still waiting for the day that I can rent a movie online and have it download to my Tivo and be available the next day. It'd be faster delivery than Netflix.
It is still better than what the other companies are offering currently, and you'll get many more years of life from it.
That's your opinion. After using an iPod for the last six months I'm going back to a first-generation Nomad Jukebox which I had before getting an iPod. The iPod only has two advantages in my opinion; It's small and the firewire makes for faster transfers. I don't like the UI on the iPod as much as I like the Nomad's UI. Because of the scroll wheel, you can't operate the iPod without looking at it. It also reverts back to the "now playing" screen before I'm done doing other things. I've lost count of the times I've turned the volume up way too loud because I was fast-forwarding through a song but it thought I was idle too long and took me out of that mode.
Don't get me wrong, it's a nice unit. But the issues that I listed above along with a lot of other nitpicks makes it not my idea of an ideal MP3 player.
I mean, does my web browser REALLY need an IRC client?!
If you don't want the IRC client then don't install it. When installing Mozilla you're prompted for which components you want to install. They're all selected by default but you can turn off what you don't want.
I think he means that the main advantage of Red Hat is that you get pre-compiled packages that are maintained for you. Once you start regularly compiling and maintaining packages on your own, you aren't really gaining anything.
I think that depends on how many packages you'll want to run that aren't in the current distribution. There's always going to be something that isn't available that you'll need to install from source.
But he's not the one using this "bug" as an excuse.
An excuse for what? Netcraft checks your uptime by pinging your machine. They aren't going to be able to log into your machine and check the internal counter that keeps track of your uptime. The limit in the Linux counter has no relevance here.
I'd like it fixed so it can stopped being used as an excuse.
So submit your patch already.
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Why you would use a security-hole ridden, payware product to access your mail and calendar, when you're allready on the open source bandwagon is beyond me.
For several reasons:
Existing software investments - some people already have an investment in Windows and Outlook on their desktops and are currently running it, even it they may not be talking to an Exchange server.
Cost of retraining - A lot of people know Outlook because they either are using it or have used it at their job. Something else may be similar but it's not Outlook. There are going to be some folks who just learned which buttons to push rather than learning how to interact with the computer. Those people are going to need learn what buttons to push all over again.
Lack of Windows alternatives - Evolution works fine on Unix even though it lacks some useful Outlook features such as the journal. What feature complete alternatives are there for Windows?
Linux and BSD already has a foothold in the server room - It's easier to replace one server than a bunch of desktops. Unix systems and software are already replacing Windows file and print servers. This is the next step for a company that might be making the transition to open solutions.
As for the allegation that Outlook is security-hole ridden, Outlook is quite secure once you install the long-since-available security patches. You do install the security patches on your system, don't you?
With all the media hype about wireless, a growing number of people are simply buying an access point and a couple of NICs, flicking through the manual, and then running default configurations, because the average user probably isn't aware that what they are doing *is* insecure, and has never heard of WEP. No doubt this (and newer ideas such as 802.11x) will be in the 'advanced' section at the back of the manual with bluntly technical instructions filled with acronyms and concepts that a non-IT savvy person would simply skip over.
Exactly. All of these articles somehow make it seem like the end user is to blame. The IT industry is to blame for most of this. POP over SLL and IMAP over SSL have been around for a while and most email clients support it. Why are ISPs still supporting regular POP at all? Why were wireless networking components manufactured and released without thourough review of the protocols. Why don't wireless devices auto-encrypt without intervention from the user like SSL does?
The IT industry wants to market things like wireless technology to the average home user but then expects them to enable settings that should have been on and/or automatic in the first place. These people can't program their VCRs.
It catches 87% of the spam I receive. Not bad eh for an old version?
Very bad, IMO. SpamAssassin 2.53 catches 99% of my spam. Out of thousands of spam messages filtered, I've only had a handful (maybe 30-40) end up in my inbox with two false positives. This was over the last four months.
I don't see how they would know if I'm watching a program live.
It doesn't know when you are watching the screen, of course. However, Tivo assumes that if you've pressed a button on the remote in the last 30 minutes that you are using the unit and watching something. If it's idle for more than that it assumes you aren't watching. This is why when you're watching TV and a show is coming up that it has to record it will ask if you if it's okay for it to change the channel. If it's been idle for 30 minutes or more it just goes ahead and changes the channel.
I read this in a Tivo FAQ somewhere but I can't find it at the moment.
Only in IE, other browsers have no problem scaling fixed font sizes up..
Ahh, but it's not automatic. You still have to increase the font size by hand and then decrease it when you go to another site that handles fonts properly. If he used a relative font size then it'd work without user intervention in all browsers.
The day your sites are legible at 1600x1200 I may pay attention to your "usablilty" articles. However, I faind the exceedingly long lines of text your sites produce hard to read, and so I choose to pay attention to those who practice a real, applicable sense of usablilty.
Your own web site isn't even legible at 1600x1200 because you're hard coding your font sizes in your style sheet rather than using a relative size like a percentage. Fixed font sizes will override what font size a user has specified as their default font size in their browsers.
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Yes. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lpython/
Don't get me wrong, it's a nice unit. But the issues that I listed above along with a lot of other nitpicks makes it not my idea of an ideal MP3 player.
Can't innovate anymore? How about can't innovate to start with? Phil Katz took an open-source program, copied it wholesale, rewrote some stuff in assembler, and ignored the original author's license entirely.
Didn't you read the summary?
Here's a link to just the spec. No agreement needed: http://www.corel.com/content/CSGS/zips/dSVG11Spec. zip
Out little baby Slashdot is growing up. [sniff]
You've linked to the wrong screenshots. The ones that are slashdotted are for the new UI not the current one.
- Existing software investments - some people already have an investment in Windows and Outlook on their desktops and are currently running it, even it they may not be talking to an Exchange server.
- Cost of retraining - A lot of people know Outlook because they either are using it or have used it at their job. Something else may be similar but it's not Outlook. There are going to be some folks who just learned which buttons to push rather than learning how to interact with the computer. Those people are going to need learn what buttons to push all over again.
- Lack of Windows alternatives - Evolution works fine on Unix even though it lacks some useful Outlook features such as the journal. What feature complete alternatives are there for Windows?
- Linux and BSD already has a foothold in the server room - It's easier to replace one server than a bunch of desktops. Unix systems and software are already replacing Windows file and print servers. This is the next step for a company that might be making the transition to open solutions.
As for the allegation that Outlook is security-hole ridden, Outlook is quite secure once you install the long-since-available security patches. You do install the security patches on your system, don't you?The IT industry wants to market things like wireless technology to the average home user but then expects them to enable settings that should have been on and/or automatic in the first place. These people can't program their VCRs.
I read this in a Tivo FAQ somewhere but I can't find it at the moment.