Note that it does not say "disable all images" but "disable remote image". So it will load what is included in the mail, but no images that are referred to via.
The bug is that images that are used in the mail startup page are also disabled. The mail startup page is a html page loaded in the preview area when starting mail/news.
Opening a contact would have to be implemented using LDAP, not IMAP. Mozilla does that OK. A "clever conversion of contact to mail" may be attractive at first, but how would you want to send mail, search, etc.
First let them implement some user account verification, so that a RCPT TO: results in a 550 reply when that user does not exist. This enables SMTP callbacks to stop spam being spoofed "from yahoo", just like everyone else does.
This top-3 is not about mobile service providers, it is about companies in general. The bad reports are not about signal strength, but just about plain customer service.
True. With foreground color it works somewhat better. Anyway, this shows the power of an integrated web browser/mailer/editor. I hope not too much functionality like this gets lost when the program is split up.
>I walked into the Verizon store, picked out a phone and a plan and within 2 hours was switched over. I didn't even have to bring in any documentation and I was surprised how painles entire processes was.
That is usually the first phase: optimism and faith.
Soon you will see the second phase: abuse and fraud.
Then, the phone companies will have to change the procedure and will require application in person, with ID, and signed contract.
T-mobile consistenty occupies the first or second place on the top-3 of companies offering worst customer service here... cost cuts seem to occur mostly in the callcenters and administration.
Interesting... over here there is no problem to switch mobile carriers, as everybody is using GSM. All phones except the oldest are compatible, and number portability has existed nearly as long as competing carriers.
However, when I would want to switch carrier on my landline, I would have a problem. All my phone equipment is ISDN (BRI), and competing carriers (like cable-tv companies) usually offer only POTS equipment.
Network card? Today's desktops all have networking on the motherboard. As part of the chipset, even.
Network boot works with PXE and its security is not worse than any DHCP service. Who can boot, what can be booted etc can all be controlled at the DHCP server (and by the TFTP server that serves the images).
But of course anyone can connect a rogue server and send what they like. As always.
You clearly have not seen much of x86 firmware. Maybe a cheap bios on a Taiwanese motherboard?
The features you talk about (netbooting, serial console) are all available in x86 systems comparable in price or quality to the SGI or DEC systems you are comparing with.
E.g. all our Dell desktops can boot from the network, and all our Dell servers can do that plus have a serial console feature.
Not dozens, but some different configurations, yes.
I am not claiming it is a requirement to run Linux for that, I use VMware (which runs on Windows as well) and Microsoft have acquired a different product that provides virtual machines.
It really works well when testing in different environments, certainly for application compatability. For driver compatability you may need some more iron.
If you think that is a border that is being crossed just now, you have not been looking for a while.
The days that boxes like Cisco routers just take a packet on one interface and forward it to another are long gone.
And so are the days that debugging a network problem jist means looking at the routing table and interface status. Heck, even with a correct routing table and interface status there are kludges like "fast switching" and "express forwarding" that may be misrouting your packets under your hands...
Contrary to what you think, it is possible to backup the system by-file.
A while ago we wanted to move some NT4.0 fileservers at work to new hardware. We did not like to re-install and move over every configuration bit (including backup program, virus scanner, lots of printers, lots of shares, etc) all by hand. So we wanted to transfer the system file-by-file, using scopy or robocopy.
Microsoft adepts told us it was impossible. It was not the way the big chief thought it had to be done. You had to re-install.
Being Unix/Linux fans we of course did not want to believe that. The Linux server had been moved to new hardware (bought in the same order) in an hour, most of which was copying time.
After some thinking, we came up with this:
1. you install a new copy of the OS (NT in this case, works with 2000 as well, don't know about XP) on the same system. You can install it in a different directory or on a different partition, although you have to be careful in the latter case.
2. you boot the new copy. It will be running from C:\WINNT2, for example.
3. you copy or backup everything except that WINNT2 directory. The files in C:\WINNT that you normally cannot open will be no problem to copy now.
4. on the new system you install the OS in the same alternative directory (WINNT2). You copy the files from the old system on it.
5. you fiddle a bit with boot.ini (the boot selector menu configuration, like lilo.conf), reboot, and presto: the copy will be running as ever before. maybe you need to install some drivers.
We are in the process of replacing the PBX, and the new box will be able to use the old phones. Sure, it is from the same manufacturer.
But I am not only talking about the re-use of old phones. You will also need to connect analog lines (for faxes, doorphones etc), to connect internal ISDN-2 lines (for certain dialup uses), etc.
A solution that works only with IP phones is no solution, generally.
A PBX that can only handle newfangled phones and no classic phones is not a realistic candidate for any company, except maybe for the smallest.
Sure there are many nice gadgets, like phones that themselves do VoIP and PCs with phone capabilities, but in real life you will always need to connect normal telephones and extended-feature (function keys and display) phones, via two-wire point-to-point connections.
Ignoring that will remove you from the list of candidates for the new PBX every time.
I see lots of hardware for the outside line connection, but how about the telephones?
To be a PBX replacement, you should be able to interface to telephones. E.g. 100 or 200 of them. Maybe in some time such functionality will be handled by someone's PC, but for now everyone in the office has a telephone on his/her desk.
I am a Nigerian, and it brings me grief to no end that the first thing people think of when my country is mentioned is 419 scams
Apparently your government isn't with you. I would expect them to feel the same way, and do something about it. But it looks like they encourage these practices as contributing to the national income.
It should be caught by the compiler. The second expression, and thus the entire test clause for the if, is always false. So the statement within the if is never executed.
Keep an eye on your compiler warnings! (unfortunately there are many, when compiling the kernel on a recent compiler)
Originally I had no problem with small banner ads placed above, below or besides web content.
But at some point in time, site builders and banner advertisers decided that a banner ad would only be seen when it was animated. It started out with animated GIF's, and when the browsers allowed to defeat that they went on to flash movies. Not to mention pop-ups.
I am trying to use some informative site, like a phone directory, a news service, or what have you, and while reading 25 lines of text there are 10 banners around and between it, all spinning, scrolling and flashing.
THAT caused the advertisements to pass the irritation threshold, and people finding a way to defeat them. I am using squid with some filters, and settings in Mozilla. Others use programs like mentioned in the article, or in some of the replies.
When people are looking for a way to get rid of the advertisements, it is not because they do not want to see advertisements at all. It is because advertisers blew it, by exceeding the irritation threshold. Dumb dumb dumb.
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Hardware firewall?
You probably mean a box with a microcontroller running a dedicated firewall operating system.
Note that it does not say "disable all images" but "disable remote image". .
So it will load what is included in the mail, but no images that are referred to via
The bug is that images that are used in the mail startup page are also disabled. The mail startup page is a html page loaded in the preview area when starting mail/news.
Opening a contact would have to be implemented using LDAP, not IMAP.
Mozilla does that OK.
A "clever conversion of contact to mail" may be attractive at first, but how would you want to send mail, search, etc.
This option is also available in Mozilla.
bug: it breaks the loading of images in the mail startup page.
First let them implement some user account verification, so that a RCPT TO: results in a 550 reply when that user does not exist.
This enables SMTP callbacks to stop spam being spoofed "from yahoo", just like everyone else does.
Well, that is actually not far from true.
However, it does not tell you much about the number of bits per second.
This top-3 is not about mobile service providers, it is about companies in general.
The bad reports are not about signal strength, but just about plain customer service.
To be there all the time requires dedication.
True. With foreground color it works somewhat better.
Anyway, this shows the power of an integrated web browser/mailer/editor. I hope not too much functionality like this gets lost when the program is split up.
>I walked into the Verizon store, picked out a phone and a plan and within 2 hours was switched over. I didn't even have to bring in any documentation and I was surprised how painles entire processes was.
That is usually the first phase: optimism and faith.
Soon you will see the second phase: abuse and fraud.
Then, the phone companies will have to change the procedure and will require application in person, with ID, and signed contract.
T-mobile consistenty occupies the first or second place on the top-3 of companies offering worst customer service here... cost cuts seem to occur mostly in the callcenters and administration.
Interesting... over here there is no problem to switch mobile carriers, as everybody is using GSM. All phones except the oldest are compatible, and number portability has existed nearly as long as competing carriers.
However, when I would want to switch carrier on my landline, I would have a problem. All my phone equipment is ISDN (BRI), and competing carriers (like cable-tv companies) usually offer only POTS equipment.
File->Edit page. Select area. Choose a different color. Save.
Network card? Today's desktops all have networking on the motherboard. As part of the chipset, even.
Network boot works with PXE and its security is not worse than any DHCP service. Who can boot, what can be booted etc can all be controlled at the DHCP server (and by the TFTP server that serves the images).
But of course anyone can connect a rogue server and send what they like. As always.
You clearly have not seen much of x86 firmware. Maybe a cheap bios on a Taiwanese motherboard?
The features you talk about (netbooting, serial console) are all available in x86 systems comparable in price or quality to the SGI or DEC systems you are comparing with.
E.g. all our Dell desktops can boot from the network, and all our Dell servers can do that plus have a serial console feature.
Not dozens, but some different configurations, yes.
I am not claiming it is a requirement to run Linux for that, I use VMware (which runs on Windows as well) and Microsoft have acquired a different product that provides virtual machines.
It really works well when testing in different environments, certainly for application compatability.
For driver compatability you may need some more iron.
Funny, I do all those tasks (including running two Windows virtual machines) on a single Linux system.
Maybe that is why they bought virtualpc?
If you think that is a border that is being crossed just now, you have not been looking for a while.
The days that boxes like Cisco routers just take a packet on one interface and forward it to another are long gone.
And so are the days that debugging a network problem jist means looking at the routing table and interface status. Heck, even with a correct routing table and interface status there are kludges like "fast switching" and "express forwarding" that may be misrouting your packets under your hands...
You mean that after your disk crashed and you bought a new computer, system restore will restore the previous computer's state?
Or even when you disk has not crashed and you have networked the two computers together to transfer the system?
I cannot believe it...
Contrary to what you think, it is possible to backup the system by-file.
A while ago we wanted to move some NT4.0 fileservers at work to new hardware. We did not like to re-install and move over every configuration bit (including backup program, virus scanner, lots of printers, lots of shares, etc) all by hand. So we wanted to transfer the system file-by-file, using scopy or robocopy.
Microsoft adepts told us it was impossible. It was not the way the big chief thought it had to be done. You had to re-install.
Being Unix/Linux fans we of course did not want to believe that. The Linux server had been moved to new hardware (bought in the same order) in an hour, most of which was copying time.
After some thinking, we came up with this:
1. you install a new copy of the OS (NT in this case, works with 2000 as well, don't know about XP) on the same system.
You can install it in a different directory or on a different partition, although you have to be careful in the latter case.
2. you boot the new copy. It will be running from C:\WINNT2, for example.
3. you copy or backup everything except that WINNT2 directory. The files in C:\WINNT that you normally cannot open will be no problem to copy now.
4. on the new system you install the OS in the same alternative directory (WINNT2). You copy the files from the old system on it.
5. you fiddle a bit with boot.ini (the boot selector menu configuration, like lilo.conf), reboot, and presto: the copy will be running as ever before. maybe you need to install some drivers.
It really works.
We are in the process of replacing the PBX, and the new box will be able to use the old phones.
Sure, it is from the same manufacturer.
But I am not only talking about the re-use of old phones. You will also need to connect analog lines (for faxes, doorphones etc), to connect internal ISDN-2 lines (for certain dialup uses), etc.
A solution that works only with IP phones is no solution, generally.
A PBX that can only handle newfangled phones and no classic phones is not a realistic candidate for any company, except maybe for the smallest.
Sure there are many nice gadgets, like phones that themselves do VoIP and PCs with phone capabilities, but in real life you will always need to connect normal telephones and extended-feature (function keys and display) phones, via two-wire point-to-point connections.
Ignoring that will remove you from the list of candidates for the new PBX every time.
I see lots of hardware for the outside line connection, but how about the telephones?
To be a PBX replacement, you should be able to interface to telephones. E.g. 100 or 200 of them.
Maybe in some time such functionality will be handled by someone's PC, but for now everyone in the office has a telephone on his/her desk.
I am a Nigerian, and it brings me grief to no end that the first thing people think of when my country is mentioned is 419 scams
Apparently your government isn't with you.
I would expect them to feel the same way, and do something about it. But it looks like they encourage these practices as contributing to the national income.
It should be caught by the compiler. The second expression, and thus the entire test clause for the if, is always false. So the statement within the if is never executed.
Keep an eye on your compiler warnings!
(unfortunately there are many, when compiling the kernel on a recent compiler)
Originally I had no problem with small banner ads placed above, below or besides web content.
But at some point in time, site builders and banner advertisers decided that a banner ad would only be seen when it was animated.
It started out with animated GIF's, and when the browsers allowed to defeat that they went on to flash movies. Not to mention pop-ups.
I am trying to use some informative site, like a phone directory, a news service, or what have you, and while reading 25 lines of text there are 10 banners around and between it, all spinning, scrolling and flashing.
THAT caused the advertisements to pass the irritation threshold, and people finding a way to defeat them. I am using squid with some filters, and settings in Mozilla. Others use programs like mentioned in the article, or in some of the replies.
When people are looking for a way to get rid of the advertisements, it is not because they do not want to see advertisements at all. It is because advertisers blew it, by exceeding the irritation threshold. Dumb dumb dumb.