I agree with Microsoft on this. I have been using http://pobox.com/ for some time now and the results are dramatic. With their filters I can log in and view messages that were rejected and those that are held for review, and have the option of releasing false-negatives and putting them on my whitelist. I still get 5 or 6 spams a day but I can handle this easily. The rejects are in the thousands sometimes. This all happens before the email gets to my email account. Pobox.com is a forwarding service. Mail for me goes there and then is sent to wherever I wish (up to 3 redirects).
Any program that can make the impact minimal is IMHO - as the article says - the ojbective. I can deal with some junk mail, I just don't want to spend any significant time cleaning it all up. What pobox.com does not get, gmail usually picks it up and places it in my spam folder. Nice. If Microsoft can do this then I think they are on the right track.
While Torvalis is a kernel guru and has much respect, I'm not sure he is qualified to advise me on subjective matters such as the gui I use (unless there is a problem from his kernel) or any other preferences. I don't care what his politics are , what kind of car he drives, or what his favorite movie is. I do want his input on linux kernels.
Well....This may be all good and true but for my workstation, my everyday interface on the computer I do want it to look as good as it functions. In short I want both. Is this not possible? Can't we have a well funtioning desktop that is not ugly? Experts may accept an ugly interface to get functionality that is not availale elsewhere but given a choice between two gui's with the same or similar funtionality, I bet they choose the one that is not ugly. In this case there does not seem to be so very much difference between any of them (Gorm, Gnome, KDE, etc). It really comes down to personal, subjective choices. Would Firefox be so popular if it were ugly? I doubt it. Gorm is ugly and does not seem to offer anything I really need that is not available in Gnome or KDE (or am I missing something important here?).
When I was younger I used to buy Popular Science and Popular Mechanics as much for the ads (the small ones in the back) as for the content. The Whole Earth Catalog which I could not have lived without, replaced the need for those ad resources because it targeted a specific group (I was in that group). It opened discovery into companies and tools I would not have come into contact with otherwise. Some were good, some bad. But I had the choice.
Google Ads seem much the same (in spirit anyway) to me. I use them and like the added relevant information that I sometimes use.
What I do not like and refuse to respond to are the large popups or the obviouse advertising campaign by mass marketers. In that sense, I shy away from magazines that have nothing but large overblown ads such as many mens and womens type magazines. The New Yorker being a notable exception here where I like the small as well as the large ads and love the content. Wired has good large ads.
Web Pages with lots of ads are very distracting and usually too busy for me to spend much time in/on.
My wife bought every copy of Brides magazine before we were married. This is a magazine with recycled stories surrounded by thousands of ads. She was only interested in the ads. I think we are talking about information on vertical markets as opposed to blind mailing (spam, tv ads, etc). If I am a roofer and get Roofing Monthy Trade magagine then I want lots of ads. I want to see who has roofing supplies, new technology, etc. I don't want ads about breakfast cereal here. The ads are an important source of information in something I am interested in.
I guess it all boils down to some subjective decision on the individual. Some people I know love junk mail. It's all they ever get and they appreciate it. I would probably find it interesting to see if they have the same feelings about email ads and popups. Who knows....
Yes, I found the expression 'recently retired' very funny. I immediately assumed that whomever it was was fired. Maybe this was not the first time but that this incident was revealed as a result of past indescretions? Who knows. It is spin speak.
I think that with schools placing so much in adjunct faculty, cut backs and general lack of financial support from our governments, we can expect many non-professionals doing tasks that they did not have to do in the past.
I think this is a systemic breakdown within our Universities and schools in general. So I agree with you that students should not be hired to do technical work. I just don't think the blame for this should be on their heads.
Before you start blaming every CS student maybe you should read the full explanation on their site, which among other things says:
"On Monday, September 12, 2005, Miami University became aware that a grade report from the Fall 2002 semester had been unwittingly placed by a now-retired faculty member into a file that was accessible via the Internet.
Note the 'retired faculty member'. Not a student or a hacker.
This seems like a common problem, how does one protect again appending sensitive information from a protected document into an ordinary text or non-sensitive file? Is there a technology out there that can mark the data so it can not be copied into another file even though it is accessible to some. Apparently the 'now retired faculty member' had access to the file. Probably used cut and paste to imbed it into a file he/she could access from home/laptop etc. We had lots of problems like this at government locations I worked at
I understand your anger but this does not seem to be a malicious act, it appears to be an honest screw up and is not like the stupidity of Citibank sending their files via un-encrypted tapes by UPS.
I agree with you, however my post was intended to convey something along the lines of 'The medium is the message'. I take hearing loss seriously but was trying to point out that even since the 50's the media regularly has these stories. It is nothing new and it is usually presented along with other scare stories aimed (I believe) at culture more than health. Decadent music makes you deaf, masterbating will cause you to go crazy and grow hair on your palm,marijuana takes your morals away, etc..... As stupid as it sounds..I would rather have lost my hearing doing something enjoyable such as listening to loud music rather than as a consequence of getting the rent money or taking pills from doctors who used to smoke in their offices and on TV ads.
But either way, hearing loss is a serious bummer. If I try to watch a movie on TV, you can hear it a block away. Conversations are like -- "How are you?" me - "i'm 60 years old'. And there are some people I simply can not hear no matter how loud they speak. Their frequency simply falls out of my narrow range.
I have been looking for a hearing aid that I saw Truffaut wearing in one of his pictures. It was a pocket sized aid (like a walkman) with a nuclear or radio-active symbol on the face with an ear pod connected. Very cool and retro. I would love a hearing aid that resembles an Ipod (irony here) as opposed to those ugly things one sticks in the ear canal or the side of the head. I want an iEar.
Being somewhat older, I have been hearing this since the late 1950's. It is usually followed the next week about growing hair on ones palm or simply going crazy if you masterbate.
My hearing loss was due to wonder drugs and companies not supplying ear plugs in their noisy, very noisy environments. (in my case it was construction). OSHA and the Unions helped here eventually.
Yes, and bootable Linux CD's like Knoppix http://www.knoppix.com/ and Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/ are also good tools. The CD's can be loaded toward Windows, or Linux/BSD tools depending on the system in for repair.Essential for out of the office repairs and analysis but also useful at the bench.
I agree completely. I also have used winzip from day one and this is the first upgrade that my registration number did not work on. Until this point all my upgrades have been free.
I guess this emphasises the fact that they are going to have to find a new way to generate $.
I think it may be time for me to switch. I don't feel that I should be paying for a basic utility that comes free with most apps anyway.
I just got my technician's license (this used to be the old novice license that required morse code). It does not now require morse code, but the morse code test must be passed for other licenses. I would like to get my General and or/Extra Licenses to be able to use more FM bandwidth but they require the morse code tests. My feelings are that the three licenses should not require morse code but that some frequencies still be held exclusively for CW (morse code) for those having passed the morse code element test. This would in effect make passing the morse code element the highest licence (able to use ALL amateur frequencies - CW and Voice ) and not making it mandatory for General and Extra which is now the case. This would attract many more amateurs who mostly don't need or care about morse code and still offer an incentive for morse code usage which in my opinion is valuable due to its very low bandwidth and power requirements which sometimes allow CW transmissions to work when other modes are having problems.
I don't know. I simply quoted from the forum message and gave the link. I have been unable to get the file yet. It seemed odd to me also but then I don't have a clue what german keyboards are like.
It states: As with some of the other versions that default into German, you can use the cheat code Knoppix lang=us (to get the equals sign, press shit+zero) which will than bring up a fully functional English version.
I'm still waiting for a peer to download from the torrent however.
I guess I don't get it. If one is only developing for a private intranet and will not be accessed by any other browsers except Mozilla, then this is basically creating propriatary software where anything goes anyway. Otherwise it seems to be similar to the old Netscape/MS IE extensions war for browsers that caused so many problems years ago ( and still is causing problems).
What happens if the company wants to scale up later to allow clients to view or to incorporate this great new stuff on the/a public website. It just doesn't make much sense to me in the long run.
I've told him that computer science in important but only secondary to the actual profession he will choose in college and grad school so he will have the necessary tools to work with in his chosen field.
Why choose IT when our arrogant US govt rewards corporations for outsourcing and keeps increasing the number of foreign student and work visas for the fewer jobs here instead of rebuilding and expanding our educational systems.
No need for IT grants here or money for research projects or support for local education funding when we can get it done in China or India. We would rather spend our money on wars, and since we have a monopoply on the OS anyway, who cares.
So son, become a doctor or an architect or a marine scientist or something you enjoy first, then get the tools to do the jobs yourself, and oh yes, learn Mandarin along with your Spanish.
The slashdot title implies that a college course was used to invade the privacy of Baltimore individuals. This is most misleading. While this is nothing new to most readers here, the significant thing is that this article is in a mainstream media publication and may help to strengthen some of the right to privacy laws that are currently under the gun.
At first I was very pleased that Novell picked up SuSE. Since they had Ximian, now I thought that we would be getting a better product but I am very dissapointed with their handling of SuSE and linux in general. They may be doing the right things inside the Linux community but as a client who shells out cash for upgrades and distributions instead of downloading ISO's, I feel they are not upholding their end to me as a user very well.
My first problem is with support. Navigating around Novell's site trying to find a SuSE forum is painful and getting SuSE infomation is difficult at best. I find myself staying away from Novel and looking elsewhere. They need to seperate Novell's propriatary software from SuSE searches and set up a SuSE only support area with forums.
Next, I have a real problem with their custom setup for Apache. The documentation offered is the Apache Org docs for configuration which has nothing to do with what SuSE does. SuSE seperates the http.conf file into many many smaller files that are called from the main file. It is very difficult to navigate and remember which file something needs to go in. Apache consolidated their 3 setup files into one. SuSE does the oppsite and makes it a dozen or so files and then does not document it. I don't want to consult a map to figure out where a directive goes. This is dumb. Stick with the standards.
Next is my problem with Evolution and its support of Palm Pilot. They claim support but then do not supply conduits for the calendar or address book. Huh? Red Hat does, Mandrake does. SuSE owns Eximian and they don't. Really ignorant and frustrating.
Anyway, this indicates to me that there is some sort of breakdown at Novell with SuSE and Linux in general. They seem to not have figured out how to both serve the SuSE linux community and integrate this into their other offerings.
I love SuSE mainly for YaST and the workstation look and feel. But I am probably going to return to RH and Fedora because I just don't think Novell understands linux yet. They know they need it but they don't know what to do with it.
Another excellent free book
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MS has for free downloading their wonderful book on LDAP: Windows_Security_and_Directory_Services_for_UNIX.z ip (a large pdf file inside the zip) Search for the title on MS Downloads site. This is a very good book that covers the Unix side of LDAP as well as it does their AD implementation of LDAP.
This is one area that MS got right. They started with open standards and then enhanced it for their servers, while keeping full access to Unix servers. I have no problem with this. We want LDAP mostly so we can interoperate with window servers. Without this crucial piece we would not be able to get Linux servers in the door of most of our clients.
If we must have rebates, I have to admit that Staples is the way they should go. You get instant online verification of your rebate, no waiting 6 weeks to get a postcard that states you supplied incorrect information.
The rebates at Stapes are handled online very quickly and you have a tracking number to follow. Everything is upfront and out in the open.
I had one item that was disallowed this past Christmas and since it was online and there was recourse (email), the problem was cleared up within days. I had records on my computer and everything worked. Very nice.
Interesting because Firefox will print fine to my Epson C82 (I am on SuSE 9.1 and Fedora Core 2-3). It's the poscript printer (my Samsung ML1750 which is a laser printer and not an inkjet) that has all the problems and which is my primary printer.
It looks like Firefox has some general print problems. I just thought it was my (not so popular) printer that got caught between the cracks. Hopefully they will fix this in upcoming releases.
I have had to resort to cut and pasting into text editors to get printouts when using Firefox and it is very tiresome.
I would love to use Mozilla or Firefox BUT..
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For some reason the Firefox engine will not print from my Samsung ML1750 printer without skewing the text up. Everything else prints on it fine. This is a show stopper for me and I am using Opera (which works fine with the printer).
I want/prefer/like my email integrated into the browser. Firefox/Thunderbird works OK but not as well as Mozilla. But overall I prefer the Firefox browser for tabbing, speed and ease of user. It just feels good. It's nice to have choices again. I am a happy camper even with the problems.
While I am not sure if this is relevant to the T3 or other models from Palm, my Treo 600 has a Memo desk option on the Palm Desktop that works fine for any text files and you can install the files on the memory card or in ram at the next synch.
I also use Documents to go but find that memos serves most of my needs.
I had to check but you are correct about not being able to import text files directly into memo from other apps it only works this way through the desktop. But you can still cut and paste into a new memo when not connected to your desktop.
That is.009% of all the bars checked. Maybe they were selling booze or crack also. Who knows. I'm sure.009% of any 1.8 million sites anywhere may need 'rectification'. This is much ado about nothing, unless we are concerned about the civil rights of minors in China not being able to play some video games. This is in China, where there are many more serious human right problems than this.
I don't understand why there is a need for a T5 now that the treo is established. Is there any advantage to a T5 over the Treo? The costs are about the same after rebates and now the Treo is getting high resolution a better camera and apparently bluetooth.
There has always been one or two framemaker workstations at various government sites I have worked at for those maintaining very large documents. MS Word falls apart after 200 pages.But it not distributed or bought for the typical work station. One 5 seat license usually suffices so the project manager and a boss or two can review source files.
Filemaker is a niche product and will/would never go mainstream and thus will always be expensive. Mac users have Quark. They don't need Filemaker. Windows users need it for large documents.
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I agree with Microsoft on this. I have been using http://pobox.com/ for some time now and the results are dramatic. With their filters I can log in and view messages that were rejected and those that are held for review, and have the option of releasing false-negatives and putting them on my whitelist. I still get 5 or 6 spams a day but I can handle this easily. The rejects are in the thousands sometimes. This all happens before the email gets to my email account. Pobox.com is a forwarding service. Mail for me goes there and then is sent to wherever I wish (up to 3 redirects).
Any program that can make the impact minimal is IMHO - as the article says - the ojbective. I can deal with some junk mail, I just don't want to spend any significant time cleaning it all up. What pobox.com does not get, gmail usually picks it up and places it in my spam folder. Nice. If Microsoft can do this then I think they are on the right track.
While Torvalis is a kernel guru and has much respect, I'm not sure he is qualified to advise me on subjective matters such as the gui I use (unless there is a problem from his kernel) or any other preferences. I don't care what his politics are , what kind of car he drives, or what his favorite movie is. I do want his input on linux kernels.
Well....This may be all good and true but for my workstation, my everyday interface on the computer I do want it to look
as good as it functions. In short I want both. Is this not possible? Can't we have a well funtioning desktop that is not ugly? Experts may accept an ugly interface to get functionality that is not availale elsewhere but given a choice between two gui's with the same or similar funtionality, I bet they choose the one that is not ugly. In this case there does not seem to be so very much difference between any of them (Gorm, Gnome, KDE, etc). It really comes down to personal, subjective choices. Would Firefox be so popular if it were ugly? I doubt it. Gorm is ugly and does not seem to offer anything I really need that is not available in Gnome or KDE (or am I missing something important here?).
When I was younger I used to buy Popular Science and Popular Mechanics as much for the ads (the small ones in the back) as for the content. The Whole Earth Catalog which I could not have lived without, replaced the need for those ad resources because it targeted a specific group (I was in that group). It opened discovery into companies and tools I would not have come into contact with otherwise. Some were good, some bad. But I had the choice.
Google Ads seem much the same (in spirit anyway) to me. I use them and like the added relevant information that I sometimes use.
What I do not like and refuse to respond to are the large popups or the obviouse advertising campaign by mass marketers. In that sense, I shy away from magazines that have nothing but large overblown ads such as many mens and womens type magazines. The New Yorker being a notable exception here where I like the small as well as the large ads and love the content. Wired has good large ads.
Web Pages with lots of ads are very distracting and usually too busy for me to spend much time in/on.
My wife bought every copy of Brides magazine before we were married. This is a magazine with recycled stories surrounded by thousands of ads. She was only interested in the ads. I think we are talking about information on vertical markets as opposed to blind mailing (spam, tv ads, etc). If I am a roofer and get Roofing Monthy Trade magagine then I want lots of ads. I want to see who has roofing supplies, new technology, etc. I don't want ads about breakfast cereal here. The ads are an important source of information in something I am interested in.
I guess it all boils down to some subjective decision on the individual. Some people I know love junk mail. It's all they ever get and they appreciate it. I would probably find it interesting to see if they have the same feelings about email ads and popups. Who knows....
Yes, I found the expression 'recently retired' very funny. I immediately assumed that whomever it was was fired. Maybe this was not the first time but that this incident was revealed as a result of past indescretions? Who knows. It is spin speak.
I think that with schools placing so much in adjunct faculty, cut backs and general lack of financial support from our governments, we can expect many non-professionals doing tasks that they did not have to do in the past.
I think this is a systemic breakdown within our Universities and schools in general. So I agree with you that students should not be hired to do technical work. I just don't think the blame for this should be on their heads.
Before you start blaming every CS student maybe you should read the full explanation on their site, which among other things says:
"On Monday, September 12, 2005, Miami University became aware that a grade report from the Fall 2002 semester had been unwittingly placed by a now-retired faculty member into a file that was accessible via the Internet.
Note the 'retired faculty member'. Not a student or a hacker.
This seems like a common problem, how does one protect again appending sensitive information from a protected document into an ordinary text or non-sensitive file? Is there a technology out there that can mark the data so it can not be copied into another file even though it is accessible to some. Apparently the 'now retired faculty member' had access to the file. Probably used cut and paste to imbed it into a file he/she could access from home/laptop etc. We had lots of problems like this at government locations I worked at
I understand your anger but this does not seem to be a malicious act, it appears to be an honest screw up and is not like the stupidity of Citibank sending their files via un-encrypted tapes by UPS.
The school seems to be handling this OK.
I agree with you, however my post was intended to convey something along the lines of 'The medium is the message'.
I take hearing loss seriously but was trying to point out that even since the 50's the media regularly has these stories.
It is nothing new and it is usually presented along with other scare stories aimed (I believe) at culture more than health. Decadent music makes you deaf, masterbating will cause you to go crazy and grow hair on your palm,marijuana takes your morals away, etc.....
As stupid as it sounds..I would rather have lost my hearing doing something enjoyable such as listening to loud music rather than as a consequence of getting the rent money or taking pills from doctors who used to smoke in their offices and on TV ads.
But either way, hearing loss is a serious bummer. If I try to watch a movie on TV, you can hear it a block away. Conversations are like -- "How are you?" me - "i'm 60 years old'. And there are some people I simply can not hear no matter how loud they speak. Their frequency simply falls out of my narrow range.
I have been looking for a hearing aid that I saw Truffaut wearing in one of his pictures. It was a pocket sized aid (like a walkman) with a nuclear or radio-active symbol on the face with an ear pod connected. Very cool and retro. I would love a hearing aid that resembles an Ipod (irony here) as opposed to those ugly things one sticks in the ear canal or the side of the head. I want an iEar.
Being somewhat older, I have been hearing this since the late 1950's. It is usually followed the next week about growing hair on ones palm or simply going crazy if you masterbate.
My hearing loss was due to wonder drugs and companies not supplying ear plugs in their noisy, very noisy environments. (in my case it was construction). OSHA and the Unions helped here eventually.
Yes,
and bootable Linux CD's like Knoppix http://www.knoppix.com/ and Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/ are also good tools. The CD's can be loaded toward Windows, or Linux/BSD tools depending on the system in for repair.Essential for out of the office repairs and analysis but also useful at the bench.
I agree completely. I also have used winzip from day one and this is the first upgrade that my registration number did not work on. Until this point all my upgrades have been free.
I guess this emphasises the fact that they are going to have to find a new way to generate $.
I think it may be time for me to switch. I don't feel that I should be paying for a basic utility that comes free with most apps anyway.
I just got my technician's license (this used to be the old novice license that required morse code). It does not now require morse code, but the morse code test must be passed for other licenses.
I would like to get my General and or/Extra Licenses to be able to use more FM bandwidth but they require the morse code tests.
My feelings are that the three licenses should not require morse code but that some frequencies still be held exclusively for CW (morse code) for those having passed the morse code element test. This would in effect make passing the morse code element the highest licence (able to use ALL amateur frequencies - CW and Voice ) and not making it mandatory for General and Extra which is now the case.
This would attract many more amateurs who mostly don't need or care about morse code and still offer an incentive for morse code usage which in my opinion is valuable due to its very low bandwidth and power requirements which sometimes allow CW transmissions to work when other modes are having problems.
I don't know. I simply quoted from the forum message and gave the link. I have been unable to get the file yet. It seemed odd to me also but then I don't have a clue what german keyboards are like.
This link will explain what to do to get a fully functioning English version. It is from the forums on www.knoppix.net - http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19726
It states:
As with some of the other versions that default into German, you can use the cheat code Knoppix lang=us (to get the equals sign, press shit+zero) which will than bring up a fully functional English version.
I'm still waiting for a peer to download from the torrent however.
I guess I don't get it. If one is only developing for a private intranet and will not be accessed by any other browsers except Mozilla, then this is basically creating propriatary software where anything goes anyway. Otherwise it seems to be similar to the old Netscape/MS IE extensions war for browsers that caused so many problems years ago ( and still is causing problems).
What happens if the company wants to scale up later to allow clients to view or to incorporate this great new stuff on the/a public website. It just doesn't make much sense to me in the long run.
Am I missing something important here?
I've told him that computer science in important but only secondary to the actual profession he will choose in college and grad school so he will have the necessary tools to work with in his chosen field.
Why choose IT when our arrogant US govt rewards corporations for outsourcing and keeps increasing the number of foreign student and work visas for the fewer jobs here instead of rebuilding and expanding our educational systems.
No need for IT grants here or money for research projects or support for local education funding when we can get it done in China or India. We would rather spend our money on wars, and since we have a monopoply on the OS anyway, who cares.
So son, become a doctor or an architect or a marine scientist or something you enjoy first, then get the tools to do the jobs yourself, and oh yes, learn Mandarin along with your Spanish.
This article appears in the NY Times today http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/technology/18dat a.html?
and the primary focus of the article is on how easy it is to steal identities on line using legal methods and less than $50.
The slashdot title implies that a college course was used to invade the privacy of Baltimore individuals. This is most misleading. While this is nothing new to most readers here, the significant thing is that this article is in a mainstream media publication and may help to strengthen some of the right to privacy laws that are currently under the gun.
At first I was very pleased that Novell picked up SuSE. Since they had Ximian, now I thought that we would be getting a better product but I am very dissapointed with their handling of SuSE and linux in general. They may be doing the right things inside the Linux community but as a client who shells out cash for upgrades and distributions instead of downloading ISO's, I feel they are not upholding their end to me as a user very well.
My first problem is with support. Navigating around Novell's site trying to find a SuSE forum is painful and getting SuSE infomation is difficult at best. I find myself staying away from Novel and looking elsewhere. They need to seperate Novell's propriatary software from SuSE searches and set up a SuSE only support area with forums.
Next, I have a real problem with their custom setup for Apache. The documentation offered is the Apache Org docs for configuration which has nothing to do with what SuSE does. SuSE seperates the http.conf file into many many smaller files that are called from the main file. It is very difficult to navigate and remember which file something needs to go in. Apache consolidated their 3 setup files into one. SuSE does the oppsite and makes it a dozen or so files and then does not document it. I don't want to consult a map to figure out where a directive goes. This is dumb. Stick with the standards.
Next is my problem with Evolution and its support of Palm Pilot. They claim support but then do not supply conduits for the calendar or address book. Huh? Red Hat does, Mandrake does. SuSE owns Eximian and they don't. Really ignorant and frustrating.
Anyway, this indicates to me that there is some sort of breakdown at Novell with SuSE and Linux in general. They seem to not have figured out how to both serve the SuSE linux community and integrate this into their other offerings.
I love SuSE mainly for YaST and the workstation look and feel. But I am probably going to return to RH and Fedora because I just don't think Novell understands linux yet. They know they need it but they don't know what to do with it.
MS has for free downloading their wonderful book on LDAP: Windows_Security_and_Directory_Services_for_UNIX.z ip
(a large pdf file inside the zip)
Search for the title on MS Downloads site. This is a very good book that covers the Unix side of LDAP as well as it does their AD implementation of LDAP.
This is one area that MS got right. They started with open standards and then enhanced it for their servers, while keeping full access to Unix servers. I have no problem with this. We want LDAP mostly so we can interoperate with window servers. Without this crucial piece we would not be able to get Linux servers in the door of most of our clients.
If we must have rebates, I have to admit that Staples is the way they should go. You get instant online verification of your rebate, no waiting 6 weeks to get a postcard that states you supplied incorrect information.
The rebates at Stapes are handled online very quickly and you have a tracking number to follow. Everything is upfront and out in the open.
I had one item that was disallowed this past Christmas and since it was online and there was recourse (email), the problem was cleared up within days. I had records on my computer and everything worked. Very nice.
Interesting because Firefox will print fine to my Epson C82 (I am on SuSE 9.1 and Fedora Core 2-3). It's the poscript printer (my Samsung ML1750 which is a laser printer and not an inkjet) that has all the problems and which is my primary printer.
It looks like Firefox has some general print problems. I just thought it was my (not so popular) printer that got caught between the cracks. Hopefully they will fix this in upcoming releases.
I have had to resort to cut and pasting into text editors to get printouts when using Firefox and it is very tiresome.
For some reason the Firefox engine will not print from my Samsung ML1750 printer without skewing the text up. Everything else prints on it fine. This is a show stopper for me and I am using Opera (which works fine with the printer).
I want/prefer/like my email integrated into the browser. Firefox/Thunderbird works OK but not as well as Mozilla. But overall I prefer the Firefox browser for tabbing, speed and ease of user. It just feels good. It's nice to have choices again. I am a happy camper even with the problems.
While I am not sure if this is relevant to the T3 or other models from Palm, my Treo 600 has a Memo desk option on the Palm Desktop that works fine for any text files and you can install the files on the memory card or in ram at the next synch.
I also use Documents to go but find that memos serves most of my needs.
I had to check but you are correct about not being able to import text files directly into memo from other apps it only works this way through the desktop. But you can still cut and paste into a new memo when not connected to your desktop.
That is .009% of all the bars checked. Maybe they were selling booze or crack also. Who knows. I'm sure .009% of any 1.8 million sites anywhere may need 'rectification'. This is much ado about nothing, unless we are concerned about the civil rights of minors in China not being able to play some video games. This is in China, where there are many more serious human right problems than this.
Again....so what!
I don't understand why there is a need for a T5 now that the treo is established. Is there any advantage to a T5 over the Treo? The costs are about the same after rebates and now the Treo is getting high resolution a better camera and apparently bluetooth.
Am I missing something here?
There has always been one or two framemaker workstations at various government sites I have worked at for those maintaining very large documents. MS Word falls apart after 200 pages.But it not distributed or bought for the typical work station. One 5 seat license usually suffices so the project manager and a boss or two can review source files.
Filemaker is a niche product and will/would never go mainstream and thus will always be expensive. Mac users have Quark. They don't need Filemaker. Windows users need it for large documents.