I know plenty of people that use Firefox. I don't know one single person that still uses Opera. I installed it, used it and then de-installed it. I guess they still count my download as an install. Trying to deflect us from his promised swim?
Seems idiotic to me. Why choose sea level to launch a vehicle into space? Why not choose a site in the mountains or the existing Kazahkstan base? I guess they had their reasons.
Not even the patent office would do that. There is prior art going back thousands of years by fine politicians from countries around the world. In fact I bet blame deflection has been used in their very office! Perhaps even in their own house (Joe is to blame for this)! Could be made into a Dilbert cartoon though.
No, but Angle Grinder Man IS! And boy, does it take balls of steel to wear that outfit!
I'm surprised they let him get away with that. In the US they are known to charge the person the car was registered to for the broken clamp - or boot as they call it over here. They are not cheap either.
Balls of steel? Hardly. Try scuba diving sometime with a wetsuit. They can take a lot. Just don't move them too fast. Now taking a fencing blade down there during a bout... that would require balls of steel, or a good cup.
My guess is you are suffering from the same problem most Pro videographers do - frickin tape drive fails, the camera part continues to work just fine. To get around that, they make tapeless recorders now. They tap into the firewire port and they also act like a local drive under Windows, Linux and even Macos will use it directly so you don't have to do the capture step. Instant editing. A bit pricy though. Expect to pay $800 bucks for a FS-4 (firestore) and I think that gives you 4 hours with avi files. Uses fat-32.
Also, make sure you get a professional grade camera. You would probably do well with a Canon GL2 or a Sony vx2000.
They all fail eventually. Even with the firewire capture, cameras still die. Depends on how good you want the video to be. You could buy some average sony cameras - trv250 for example. They are like $150/pop on Ebay. They do a very good job for an average camera and the price. I use them for disposeable jobs (white water rafting, skydiving, lava flows, political conventions, things like that).
Ok, now to figure out how to sneak a phallus, breasts or other taboo, funny stuff in when they scan the buildings. Bla ha ha ha ha Wait until they scan Microsoft... too many jokes.
All you guys get back, I'll be the first in line to go to the moon. I get the first 1960's moon buggy ride! If it still works. Last one in the sea of tranquillity is ugly.
I never really got that. Was Japan gonna think; "Well one nuclear descruction we can handle! What? Another?? Ow then we surrender."
My mother understood from the papers at the time that the Japs thought it was a fluke. The Americans must have hit a gas pocket or something that cause that destruction, not a secret weapon. There was also the military that didn't want to surrender until the last person was dead. Even after the second bomb, the military still resisted and some in the military even tried to take over the government to stop the surrender. They were put down by the army. The bombs saved Japan from certain death.
Just think if they bombed Tokyo instead of where they did. I think Tokyo was on the list but I'm not sure if it was next or not.
Such awful descruction. Never really knew as well if the US in those days really needed to end the war that way or did they just wanna see what happend. Maybe a bit of both.
Roosevelt did his successor Harry Truman a huge dis-service. He left him out of the loop on the development of the Manhattan project (atomic bombs). Roosevelt died, Truman became president and very quickly had to make the decision to use them or not. He looked at it as a numbers game most historians think. What did they think would happen if they used it and what did they think would happen if they didn't. It seemed clear that the war would continue without using it and based on every campaign up to that point, the Japs faught down to the last man as a matter of honor. So Truman felt that dropping the bomb would shorten the already long war and ultimately save thousands, perhaps millions of lives and perhaps the Japanese people. So it was a no brainer. Even so I understand he thought long and hard about it before turning it over to the military to use. Lets hope none of us have to make such a decision.
The problem, is that, only the photoplace that she does business with at the Beach (Laguna Beach, CA, USA) allows us to do reprints. Everyone else, demands proof, then we provide it, and doesn't believe it. So we give a phone number, business card and all, they call, verify, and still don't believe it. It is corrupt. I won't always live in California.
I'm glad you are happy with the pictures of your wedding. I got the same deal with my pro photographer when I did my wedding, many years ago. It was a trade off, pay a lot for the negatives + photos or a lot less and get a couple of sets of photo's but no negatives. Today I have no idea where that photographer is or if he is even alive. I wish him well.
I don't normally take pro photos any more, I do pro videography. I'm not sure what you presented as a copyright release. My guess is it doesn't meet the legal standards. First it must be on letterhead from the business. This is like what Network Solutions requires by the way to make domain changes. Second it must have a description of the pictures - wedding for example, when and where they were taken and by whom. State the fact that company X has the Copyright to these photos and that they are transfering those rights to individual Y for how long (1 year, forever). Signed name and the position that person has in the company.
I'm not a lawyer but that is what I'm being told is necessary by someone that is a lawyer, not a lawyer in California though. I'm tempted to write a letter to Walmart and ask them what they require. So far it hasn't been an issue for me. Of course having said that I'll probably get a bunch in the next week. I googled it and found out it is an issue nationwide.
I can see Walmart's position. You get someone to answer the phone at home and say it is legit and they end up getting burned for millions. A letter on letterhead is a legal document. I'm not sure if minimum wage harry or even the photo manager would know enough to honor it or not. Letterhead of course could be faked as well. I read where some places require you to bring in the media. Of course you could simply copy the photo to the media.
Well, good luck on this and good luck with the earth quakes out that way.
Maybe it's time to start up a photo business that doesn't care about copyrights.
You are certainly free to do that. I have a feeling you will want to recover some money for equipment expense and your time, however. Pro cameras often cost $5,000 - $10,000 (camera, lens, filters, media, etc). Last weekends shoot, I took around $20,000 (or so) worth of equipment and two other photographers that work for me. Cheap cameras are getting much better but they still don't take as good of a picture as the expensive SLR Digital cameras. Lens glass and components aren't as good.
Honestly, why would a photographer want copyrights on Ma & Pa Kettle's wedding photos? Is there a release form the couple has to sign off to the photographer for all images of THEM?
No, the photographer was hired to take these pictures. The standard form has this covered anyhow. He wants the copyrights because he wants to get paid. Sort of like if you wrote an application and sold it at a store. You wouldn't want people making of with your program, that is how you pay the bills. Well, that is how they pay the bills. You are paying for the expertise and skill of that photographer or company. You can also opt to go the "pay a flat rate for time" route and own the copyrights to your pictures you contracted for.
Or pony up the $ and just do it all yourself, have a neighbor kid take the photos and pay them an agreed-upon fee.
You can do that too. You usually get what you pay for, however. I have seen some very good pictures done by "uncle Bob". I have also seen absolute crap that way. Including stopping the bride as she is walking during the ceremony (I did video and a family member did the stills..ahhhhh!). Depends on the camera, conditions and experience of the photographer.
Maybe it would help to mention this is like a lot of other things. You can buy a cheap car or an expensive one. Cheap computer or an expensive one. Will a cheap computer do or do you need the expensive one that can handle a lot of I/O? Would you be happy with a cheapo car (Yugo, Ford, Fiat)? Maybe. It is up to you, however keep in mind that a wedding is done once.
My wife claims there is a stipulation that if the photographer is out of business the copyright is public domain or whatever.
Anyone know if this is true/partially true?
I'm a pro photographer and a member of WEVA. Your wife would be wrong. Someone still owns the copyright to the photos. The bummer is that if they are out of business how could you get a copy made? Yet there is no allowance for this in the law (and that is stupid in my opinion). Legally you can't, however I would if it were me. This is hypothetical for me, I own all my wedding pictures and video. That is how I contracted it. I paid for that as well.
De Raadt should know better than to even think his code is better than Linux. I can remember in the late 1990's, he and other BSD guys foolishly said that their code is so much better and secure. That is why Linux is being hacked so much and BSD has no security issues they boasted. Right after that, the Linux vulnerabilities were simply ported over to BSD and brought thousands of their sites down. Some upgraded to Linux as a result (I upgrade a bunch myself). It was simple and BSD was far from being secure. They suffered a major credibility hit. They took another hit with SSH and privilege separation. Their "careful" coding wasn't enough and they made mistakes. Some mistakes that I found within 5 minutes of looking at their code.
Fast foward to today, same BS, same bitter people. Same trash talk. Yea, we would be the most popular.... well we would... ya know? If it weren't for that lawsuit. Sure sounds like a looser to me. It has also been my experience that Linux guys not only have kissed girls, they have married and had kids. The BSD guys that I know, I doubt any of them have kissed a girl. I know plenty of people that if BSD really was better, they would use that and not Linux - me incuded.
Grow up De Radt, Linux has a lawsuit against it right now - the SCO lawsuit. You don't see us jumping ship. The fact is BSD sucks. SYSV sucks. Linux merged the best parts of both, that is why it DOESN'T suck. It just happened that BSD sucked more than SYSV did and that is why you are still by yourself. Grow up and admit you are wrong. Otherwise we will continue to laugh AT you. Second thought, stay right where you are. We don't need another hard headed person.
For real OS's (i.e. Unix/Linux), all you need is two aliases:
alias aoeu='xmodmap ~/us.modmap'
alias asdf='xmodmap ~/dvorak.modmap'
Just stick the maps in both files and your done. Type asdf at the command line now it is dvorak. Do it again and it is back to normal. Easy. Now, lets get onto a real argument - use the normal dvorak layout or the Microsoft layout.
I was prepared to be surprised. Not bad for a student, however. Showed initiative.
What I was expecting was something more like they had about 2000 years ago. The Romans, Greeks used the fact that when water evaporates, it absorbs energy (i.e. thermaldynamic law I had hoped he would use). I used this back in the 1970's to cool beer^h^h^h^h Cokes down. Put newspaper on top of them, pour water on that and 15 minutes later they are much cooler.
Of course the energy you want to absorb is the heat in the Cokes and not the sun. So while the sun would evaporate the water quicker, it would also defeat the purpose. Another old trick is to force air over the water to evaporate it.
Of course we could come forward into the early part of the 20th century that had closed cooling systems. One part could be heated and the other side would get colder. This is how gas refridgerators work. Yes there is such a thing, they can often be found in campers today. They use propane.
If vim doesn't do something I want, I can extend it with C
I haven't laughed this good in a while. C is one of the most difficult languages to master. Emacs is so complete I haven't written any lisp code I bet in at least 15 years. But eh? Whatever you want to use. That is why I don't want to seem critical or say you're wrong. Both are fine editors for what they were intended for. I think you are limiting yourself by only using vi/vim though. What do I know, I only have 20+ years of experience doing this stuff. Some people love Fords, some people love Mercedes. Since the cost is the same, I prefer the Mercedes. But if I need to get someplace fast and a Ford is available, eh? Why not? As long as it does what I want.
Oh by the way, Emacs was first written by RMS at MIT in the AI lab. MIT wanted to license it and that is how the FSF was founded in the first place. RMS rewrote it and set it free for all of us to enjoy.
I use it all the time. Comes with most popular distros - Fedora Core, Suse, etc.. Does mail, calendar and even sync's up with my palm. Using a calendar server out there, my entire family can share calendars and set up another one to sync the work calendar.
There is also the benefit of NOT getting all the viruses, spyware and other malware that plagues Outlook. Nothing from Microsoft is used to get compromised. Ximian doesn't have a todo, they call it tasks and they can be shared as well via calendar server. Much easier to set up than an exchange server.
I have used both recently and I think they are very close functionally. However not having to worry that an e-mail has the exploit-du-jour for outlook makes using ximian a no brainer. What are you waiting for? Get rid of outlook. Yes, they do spellcheck as well. Works with ldap... just try it for a month!
I mention to them that Saturn has also increased in temperature in the past 20 years - without any human intervention whatsoever. They aren't interested in that at all. Don't try to confuse them with facts now. Sometimes they get violent, you know like when you take their candy away or tell them to stop ordering others around. I used to think the Iranians were nuts, going around through the streets hitting themselves with chains (after the Ayetolla (I-A-Told-YA) Komenhi (KHO-MEN-YI) got back in power, too bad South Park wasn't around back then). Somehow they look tame now. We have environmentalism as a religion now.
Realize that vim and VI are not the same things. VI still doesn't support split screens. vim still doesn't support a lot of things. The great thing with emacs is that if it doesn't do something you want, you can extend it with lisp. In fact to show the superiority of emacs to vi back in the 1980's, a lisp emulator was written to implement all the things that vi did thereby making it a superset of vi and therefore superior. People still stuck to vi, afraid to learn emacs. If they attempted it, it was a very pittiful attempt. Oh gee, that is too hard... control-s to save? Control-f to go forward? yea, hard. Yet:wq isn't hard, then provided you are even in the right mode?
Vi can do a lot of things. Most people that use vi use only a few commands. It isn't as lame as many emacs folks think and vim is certainly much more capable than its predecessor VI. However mode editing still sucks. VI was a great (line at a time, mainframe type) editor - 30 years ago. It is time to at least get into the 1980's (with character oriented editing).
Probably beating a dead horse here. If vi/vim is powerful enough for you then that is fine. I use vi from time to time myself. For many people vi is all they ever need, or they find other ways to do things vi can't - sed/ed/grep/awk and so on. I even know a guy that edits files under windows (wordpad) then ftp's them to the unix host so he doesn't have to use vi or emacs (what an idiot, he is probably my biggest risk on that system). If you find yourself doing stupid things like that, you may want to consider a real industrial grade editor like Emacs. Something you can compile/link/run/debug in. If you get an error you can even have it take you to that line in the other split screen window. In fact you could stay in it all day long if you want. I didn't know it would play tetris though... doubt I'll ever use it. For what I do most of the time, VI would cost me a significant amount of time. It simply can't do the things I need it to. I'm glad your happy with vim. Don't get into emacs though, I think you will stop using vim for the most part if you do.
You may also want to look into ide's. Some of them are getting to be cool now. Some of them can cost you a lot more in time than they are worth. Depends on the language and the ide.
I didn't have any trouble. I booted from CD, went through the international and keyboard stuff then it found my disk and saw I had a previous installation then offered to let me upgrade or install. I hit upgrade and away it went. About 15 minutes later I was on my way again.
Maybe you had some special hardware? Set up a funky filesystem or something (like Reiserfs)? FC's will load other filesystems if you have a disk for it or reiserfs. Not sure if FC-4 will support it anymore, the latest reiserfs is very new and incompatible with the previous versions. I'm dumping it everywhere.
Sorry to hear you had trouble. If you remember what you did, you may want to open up a trouble ticket on it. Others may have the same problem and are to afraid to say anything. Don't be afraid. The worst that can happen is you get flamed. You may help thousands, perhaps millions of other people.
but he'd have to reinstall every few months when a new Fedora release came out.
Why? I haven't reinstalled once since I installed RH 9 and kept upgrading, all the way to FC-3 on a few machines. One machine I think goes clear back to RH 7.3 (300 MHz machine, about 7 years old now but don't try that at home kids! I'm a professional.) and has been upgraded all the way to FC-3. FC also releases about every 6 months (seems like longer). You just have to look and see what is new. I.e. Read the release notes (Yes, someone really does read them. Ok, most of it... Ok, some of it... ).
Yea, yea... laugh it up. That's ok, I'll take the campervan over the tricycle anyday. With today's machines it is more like a supercharged SUV than a camper, unless you try to run it on Windows or something else just as sucky, SCO Unix or a SUN box. Ever try Emacs? It can save you a lot of time.
Someone should say it - RH-FC is still out there (FC-4 to be released Monday). I haven't had any growing pains with it at all, they are up to date and yet not too up to date as to make it unstable. Get to know yum and there is apt-get for FC. You might want to consider switching unless you are really in love with Debian for some reason. There is also Suse but it isn't done yet, they are still suffering transition pains from when they were bought out.
Try to be kind to the vi fanboys, they are just beginners that haven't moved on to a real editor yet. Sadly there are some pro's that insist on still using vi. That is right, use that tricycle rather than a car.
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I know plenty of people that use Firefox. I don't know one single person that still uses Opera. I installed it, used it and then de-installed it. I guess they still count my download as an install. Trying to deflect us from his promised swim?
Seems idiotic to me. Why choose sea level to launch a vehicle into space? Why not choose a site in the mountains or the existing Kazahkstan base? I guess they had their reasons.
Not even the patent office would do that. There is prior art going back thousands of years by fine politicians from countries around the world. In fact I bet blame deflection has been used in their very office! Perhaps even in their own house (Joe is to blame for this)! Could be made into a Dilbert cartoon though.
I'm surprised they let him get away with that. In the US they are known to charge the person the car was registered to for the broken clamp - or boot as they call it over here. They are not cheap either.
Balls of steel? Hardly. Try scuba diving sometime with a wetsuit. They can take a lot. Just don't move them too fast. Now taking a fencing blade down there during a bout... that would require balls of steel, or a good cup.
Also, make sure you get a professional grade camera. You would probably do well with a Canon GL2 or a Sony vx2000.
They all fail eventually. Even with the firewire capture, cameras still die. Depends on how good you want the video to be. You could buy some average sony cameras - trv250 for example. They are like $150/pop on Ebay. They do a very good job for an average camera and the price. I use them for disposeable jobs (white water rafting, skydiving, lava flows, political conventions, things like that).
Ok, now to figure out how to sneak a phallus, breasts or other taboo, funny stuff in when they scan the buildings. Bla ha ha ha ha Wait until they scan Microsoft... too many jokes.
All you guys get back, I'll be the first in line to go to the moon. I get the first 1960's moon buggy ride! If it still works. Last one in the sea of tranquillity is ugly.
My mother understood from the papers at the time that the Japs thought it was a fluke. The Americans must have hit a gas pocket or something that cause that destruction, not a secret weapon. There was also the military that didn't want to surrender until the last person was dead. Even after the second bomb, the military still resisted and some in the military even tried to take over the government to stop the surrender. They were put down by the army. The bombs saved Japan from certain death.
Just think if they bombed Tokyo instead of where they did. I think Tokyo was on the list but I'm not sure if it was next or not.
Such awful descruction. Never really knew as well if the US in those days really needed to end the war that way or did they just wanna see what happend. Maybe a bit of both.
Roosevelt did his successor Harry Truman a huge dis-service. He left him out of the loop on the development of the Manhattan project (atomic bombs). Roosevelt died, Truman became president and very quickly had to make the decision to use them or not. He looked at it as a numbers game most historians think. What did they think would happen if they used it and what did they think would happen if they didn't. It seemed clear that the war would continue without using it and based on every campaign up to that point, the Japs faught down to the last man as a matter of honor. So Truman felt that dropping the bomb would shorten the already long war and ultimately save thousands, perhaps millions of lives and perhaps the Japanese people. So it was a no brainer. Even so I understand he thought long and hard about it before turning it over to the military to use. Lets hope none of us have to make such a decision.
I had better get all my old B&W stuff and dump it on ebay fast! Wonder if that 20 year old B&W photo paper is still good.
I'm glad you are happy with the pictures of your wedding. I got the same deal with my pro photographer when I did my wedding, many years ago. It was a trade off, pay a lot for the negatives + photos or a lot less and get a couple of sets of photo's but no negatives. Today I have no idea where that photographer is or if he is even alive. I wish him well.
I don't normally take pro photos any more, I do pro videography. I'm not sure what you presented as a copyright release. My guess is it doesn't meet the legal standards. First it must be on letterhead from the business. This is like what Network Solutions requires by the way to make domain changes. Second it must have a description of the pictures - wedding for example, when and where they were taken and by whom. State the fact that company X has the Copyright to these photos and that they are transfering those rights to individual Y for how long (1 year, forever). Signed name and the position that person has in the company.
I'm not a lawyer but that is what I'm being told is necessary by someone that is a lawyer, not a lawyer in California though. I'm tempted to write a letter to Walmart and ask them what they require. So far it hasn't been an issue for me. Of course having said that I'll probably get a bunch in the next week. I googled it and found out it is an issue nationwide.
I can see Walmart's position. You get someone to answer the phone at home and say it is legit and they end up getting burned for millions. A letter on letterhead is a legal document. I'm not sure if minimum wage harry or even the photo manager would know enough to honor it or not. Letterhead of course could be faked as well. I read where some places require you to bring in the media. Of course you could simply copy the photo to the media.
Well, good luck on this and good luck with the earth quakes out that way.
You are certainly free to do that. I have a feeling you will want to recover some money for equipment expense and your time, however. Pro cameras often cost $5,000 - $10,000 (camera, lens, filters, media, etc). Last weekends shoot, I took around $20,000 (or so) worth of equipment and two other photographers that work for me. Cheap cameras are getting much better but they still don't take as good of a picture as the expensive SLR Digital cameras. Lens glass and components aren't as good.
Honestly, why would a photographer want copyrights on Ma & Pa Kettle's wedding photos? Is there a release form the couple has to sign off to the photographer for all images of THEM?
No, the photographer was hired to take these pictures. The standard form has this covered anyhow. He wants the copyrights because he wants to get paid. Sort of like if you wrote an application and sold it at a store. You wouldn't want people making of with your program, that is how you pay the bills. Well, that is how they pay the bills. You are paying for the expertise and skill of that photographer or company. You can also opt to go the "pay a flat rate for time" route and own the copyrights to your pictures you contracted for.
Or pony up the $ and just do it all yourself, have a neighbor kid take the photos and pay them an agreed-upon fee.
You can do that too. You usually get what you pay for, however. I have seen some very good pictures done by "uncle Bob". I have also seen absolute crap that way. Including stopping the bride as she is walking during the ceremony (I did video and a family member did the stills..ahhhhh!). Depends on the camera, conditions and experience of the photographer.
Maybe it would help to mention this is like a lot of other things. You can buy a cheap car or an expensive one. Cheap computer or an expensive one. Will a cheap computer do or do you need the expensive one that can handle a lot of I/O? Would you be happy with a cheapo car (Yugo, Ford, Fiat)? Maybe. It is up to you, however keep in mind that a wedding is done once.
I'm a pro photographer and a member of WEVA. Your wife would be wrong. Someone still owns the copyright to the photos. The bummer is that if they are out of business how could you get a copy made? Yet there is no allowance for this in the law (and that is stupid in my opinion). Legally you can't, however I would if it were me. This is hypothetical for me, I own all my wedding pictures and video. That is how I contracted it. I paid for that as well.
Fast foward to today, same BS, same bitter people. Same trash talk. Yea, we would be the most popular.... well we would... ya know? If it weren't for that lawsuit. Sure sounds like a looser to me. It has also been my experience that Linux guys not only have kissed girls, they have married and had kids. The BSD guys that I know, I doubt any of them have kissed a girl. I know plenty of people that if BSD really was better, they would use that and not Linux - me incuded.
Grow up De Radt, Linux has a lawsuit against it right now - the SCO lawsuit. You don't see us jumping ship. The fact is BSD sucks. SYSV sucks. Linux merged the best parts of both, that is why it DOESN'T suck. It just happened that BSD sucked more than SYSV did and that is why you are still by yourself. Grow up and admit you are wrong. Otherwise we will continue to laugh AT you. Second thought, stay right where you are. We don't need another hard headed person.
Make magazine, the bane of wives everywhere that want their husbands to throw that old crap away! Just ask my wife about it... she can tell you.
alias aoeu='xmodmap ~/us.modmap'
alias asdf='xmodmap ~/dvorak.modmap'
Just stick the maps in both files and your done. Type asdf at the command line now it is dvorak. Do it again and it is back to normal. Easy. Now, lets get onto a real argument - use the normal dvorak layout or the Microsoft layout.
What I was expecting was something more like they had about 2000 years ago. The Romans, Greeks used the fact that when water evaporates, it absorbs energy (i.e. thermaldynamic law I had hoped he would use). I used this back in the 1970's to cool beer^h^h^h^h Cokes down. Put newspaper on top of them, pour water on that and 15 minutes later they are much cooler.
Of course the energy you want to absorb is the heat in the Cokes and not the sun. So while the sun would evaporate the water quicker, it would also defeat the purpose. Another old trick is to force air over the water to evaporate it.
Of course we could come forward into the early part of the 20th century that had closed cooling systems. One part could be heated and the other side would get colder. This is how gas refridgerators work. Yes there is such a thing, they can often be found in campers today. They use propane.
I haven't laughed this good in a while. C is one of the most difficult languages to master. Emacs is so complete I haven't written any lisp code I bet in at least 15 years. But eh? Whatever you want to use. That is why I don't want to seem critical or say you're wrong. Both are fine editors for what they were intended for. I think you are limiting yourself by only using vi/vim though. What do I know, I only have 20+ years of experience doing this stuff. Some people love Fords, some people love Mercedes. Since the cost is the same, I prefer the Mercedes. But if I need to get someplace fast and a Ford is available, eh? Why not? As long as it does what I want.
Oh by the way, Emacs was first written by RMS at MIT in the AI lab. MIT wanted to license it and that is how the FSF was founded in the first place. RMS rewrote it and set it free for all of us to enjoy.
There is also the benefit of NOT getting all the viruses, spyware and other malware that plagues Outlook. Nothing from Microsoft is used to get compromised. Ximian doesn't have a todo, they call it tasks and they can be shared as well via calendar server. Much easier to set up than an exchange server.
I have used both recently and I think they are very close functionally. However not having to worry that an e-mail has the exploit-du-jour for outlook makes using ximian a no brainer. What are you waiting for? Get rid of outlook. Yes, they do spellcheck as well. Works with ldap... just try it for a month!
I mention to them that Saturn has also increased in temperature in the past 20 years - without any human intervention whatsoever. They aren't interested in that at all. Don't try to confuse them with facts now. Sometimes they get violent, you know like when you take their candy away or tell them to stop ordering others around. I used to think the Iranians were nuts, going around through the streets hitting themselves with chains (after the Ayetolla (I-A-Told-YA) Komenhi (KHO-MEN-YI) got back in power, too bad South Park wasn't around back then). Somehow they look tame now. We have environmentalism as a religion now.
Vi can do a lot of things. Most people that use vi use only a few commands. It isn't as lame as many emacs folks think and vim is certainly much more capable than its predecessor VI. However mode editing still sucks. VI was a great (line at a time, mainframe type) editor - 30 years ago. It is time to at least get into the 1980's (with character oriented editing).
Probably beating a dead horse here. If vi/vim is powerful enough for you then that is fine. I use vi from time to time myself. For many people vi is all they ever need, or they find other ways to do things vi can't - sed/ed/grep/awk and so on. I even know a guy that edits files under windows (wordpad) then ftp's them to the unix host so he doesn't have to use vi or emacs (what an idiot, he is probably my biggest risk on that system). If you find yourself doing stupid things like that, you may want to consider a real industrial grade editor like Emacs. Something you can compile/link/run/debug in. If you get an error you can even have it take you to that line in the other split screen window. In fact you could stay in it all day long if you want. I didn't know it would play tetris though... doubt I'll ever use it. For what I do most of the time, VI would cost me a significant amount of time. It simply can't do the things I need it to. I'm glad your happy with vim. Don't get into emacs though, I think you will stop using vim for the most part if you do.
You may also want to look into ide's. Some of them are getting to be cool now. Some of them can cost you a lot more in time than they are worth. Depends on the language and the ide.
Maybe you had some special hardware? Set up a funky filesystem or something (like Reiserfs)? FC's will load other filesystems if you have a disk for it or reiserfs. Not sure if FC-4 will support it anymore, the latest reiserfs is very new and incompatible with the previous versions. I'm dumping it everywhere.
Sorry to hear you had trouble. If you remember what you did, you may want to open up a trouble ticket on it. Others may have the same problem and are to afraid to say anything. Don't be afraid. The worst that can happen is you get flamed. You may help thousands, perhaps millions of other people.
Why? I haven't reinstalled once since I installed RH 9 and kept upgrading, all the way to FC-3 on a few machines. One machine I think goes clear back to RH 7.3 (300 MHz machine, about 7 years old now but don't try that at home kids! I'm a professional.) and has been upgraded all the way to FC-3. FC also releases about every 6 months (seems like longer). You just have to look and see what is new. I.e. Read the release notes (Yes, someone really does read them. Ok, most of it... Ok, some of it... ).
No I'm not a troll, I'm stating fact!
You do have everything backed up don't you?
Try to be kind to the vi fanboys, they are just beginners that haven't moved on to a real editor yet. Sadly there are some pro's that insist on still using vi. That is right, use that tricycle rather than a car.