Hate to tell you... but it can't see your folders. Simple solution: Move an entire folder into Inbox, download with pop3. Filter accordingly locally. Repeat process for each folder.
Then you have to deal with putting together a good UI for it - which is no trivial task.
It's like TiVO - sure you can hack together some perl scripts in linux to turn on your capture card every tuesday at 8:00 on channel 9 but it's just not as aethstically pleasing.
I for one would rather pay for a nice interface and design then spend nearly the same amount for a hacked-together solution.
As someone who is not familiar with the HURD project (other then: it's a GPL'd Kernel?) can someone provide us with a brief list of some of the cool features/immediately noticable advantages HURD should provide? (This isn't intended as flamebait - I just seriously couldn't dig up much info in plain english)
"Netscape-style plug-in modules" - HUH?
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SuSE 7.3 vs XP
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· Score: 3, Interesting
A very fair assessment and a good article. One minor caveat - Can someone clarify this quote from the article?
"Another annoying gotcha for business users is the dropping of support for Netscape-style plug-in modules in the XP version of Internet Explorer 6.0. Just try to download a PDF file from any site on the Web. It's easy as long as you right-click on the link and choose the option to "Save target as." The alternative is to make Opera your default Web browser."
The last one or two versions of Acrobat Reader I've used have a little "save" button at the top of the toolbar that the PDF opens inside.
Any clue what they're referring to? Sounds like an interesting UI issue if it exists, but I wonder under what conditions it occurs.
I wonder if they gathered the stats for everyone who was expecting Malcom in the Middle to record and ended up GETTING the Superbowl instead? Ah HEM... I got the first 2 minutes of the show though!
I repeat: this is RUMOUR. Why is it on Slashdot? This is not responsible journalism.
But, since everyone else seems to be hopping on the bandwagon taking this as fact I'll chime in anyways.
The solution is to play it smart and don't ever ever tell tech support you're using more then one computer. If they accuse you of using more then one, deny it. They're going to have fun proving that one.
Adelphia Powerlink flipped their freaking lid when the guy was trying to troubleshoot my connection by pinging it and I told him I'd gotten his ping.
"How do you know that? It's coming up as host unreachable here."
"Yeah I know I'm running a firewall on my machine."
"What?! You're not allowed to use a firewall on our network!"
"Uhm, why not? Oh maybe I should turn it off so all these people trying to DoS me can mess up your network a little more?"
So remember, when calling tech support:
1) You are using 1 computer.
2) You are using Windows.
3) Never mention the words: firewall, router, linux, server. They are verboten.
Always "follow" their absurd troubleshooting suggestions no matter how stupid they sound. Hey.. sometimes they do work, but otherwise just take what they tell you and translate the steps into your OS of choice. Or if you already tried it give them the answer they're looking for.
Can you please clarify how "corporations make money off our extensions with no return to the taxpayer?". Unless there's some great conspiracy selling off.US domains, I think most of the Slashdot crowd (me included) has no idea what you're referring to.
There are a ton of "Hot Deals" and "Bargain" sites on the net that can help you get some sweet, sweet deals. Of course they also turn you into compulsive shoppers...
The following sites offer deals usually involving coupons/rebates/price mistakes on websites. Some of the cooler deals I've gotten:
Free HP Deskjet 930C via Estamps rebates.
5 Belkin PCI 100mbit NICs for 81 cents each
$30 16X CD-RW
And more... go forth... and spend!
or if you like to go right to the source, most of the above sites patrol these forums and post the good ones:
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/categories.cfm?c at id=18
http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.cfm?catid =4 0
Given the recent onslaught of IIS, XP, any Microsoft product holes, has anyone produced charts/statistics detailing the number of holes? Off the top of my head I can immediately think "ok, there's another Microsoft screwup" but I'm curious as to the total number of problems in the last 6 months.
What I'm really looking for is there a website out there that details the number of holes in IIS vs Apache? The pointy-haired folks at work are looking at webservers and I could use some hard-cold statistics to convince them once and for all IIS is a mistake. Pretty graphs would be really good to show a comparison between the two.
So.. does anyone know of a site that keeps track of "total" number of holes for any given product (Microsoft AND Open-Source solutions?)
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I Want My MTV... PC?
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· Score: 2, Insightful
I think it's most important we look past our obvious hatred of MTV (I concur with all previous posts) and look at the technology behind this idea.
I for one would love an all-in-one box with a custom designed UI that did DVD/TV/Radio/Music with a remote that I wouldn't have to build.
Sure you can buy yourself an ATI All-In-One Card, use some software (or for your geeks, string together some perl scripts), purchase a serial port remote control doohickey and spend forever configuring it - but you won't get the same desired result.
This is similar to TiVo. Sure, I can use my ATI Card to record TV show, but my PC is not optimized for TV watching. A dedicated appliance that can provide all this stuff for the non-PC literate is a very marketable idea.
A previous most mentioned the college audience is the wrong target - and I think you're correct. The market they should really be aiming for is the teen crowd. I'm not, and never was part of the MTV demographic but the appeal of a cool little machine that can play my new Britney Spears DVD and record TRL (Carson is so hot! WH000000!) is probably something that appeals to a lot of teenyboppers.
Time will tell if those goes the way of the Barbie PC. I hope for the success of neat all-in-one integrated devices for the average consumer, but I have the gut-feeling of impending doom for such a venture.
But hey, maybe all those castoff MTV Boxes will make neat hacking toys in a a year or so.
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I resent the modding of my comment down to "Troll" as this is NOT FUD. I LIKE BeOS and I am NOT here to trash it.
I am merely making a personal observation of the one time myself and a few companions download BeOS Personal Edition and tried it out.
The killing of any process, by process number, by issuing the command:
"kill "
resulted in the interface of the system locking up with a reboot.
Now that you have answered my question (thank you!) I would please hope that anyone with moderator points reading this comment would take the time to analyze my comment a bit more carefully before the knee-jerk reaction comes into play.
Well you know, for an OS that prides itself on POSIX compliance (I think?!) and all.. I don't think "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a mission-critical OS component.
When you're a couple of million bucks in debt with creditors breathing down your neck, let's see who you value.
Hm should we pacify the people who want our product GPL'ed, or the guys at Palm who just gave us $11 million.
I think any good-will gestures towards BeOS users are out of their hands at the moment. Palm probably has exclusive rights to all the core components of the OS.
Last time I downloaded BeOS personal edition, I was able to lockup the entire OS by issuing the "kill" command on any process, even the notepad app. Which led me to think, why put something like a kill command into the OS if it's going to go schitzo when I use it?
This was on a stock install of BeOS personal edition, on a machine with memory I tested that turned out perfect. Has BeOS been "fixed" since then? Any good community resource sites?
I am dead serious when I tell you know I know two people who run a very successful consulting firm around my ara who have their servers in a bathroom inside their house. When I asked them why they put them there, the answer was "We don't use this bathroom, it's in the middle of the house, and it's the most secure since it has no windows in it."
Ask serious questions, get slightly stupid answers:)
Does anyone know the stance of non-US companies of anti-virus software on Magic Lantern? If a foreign product detects an FBI trojan horse will it then become illegal under some US law?
Thought I'd chime in with the rest of the Slashdot crowd - wow, that sucks.
Now for my brief defense of UPS.
At work we frequently ship at least one RMA'd monitor back and forth each week to Gateway (we're in PA.) These monitors go into cardboard boxes that are very thin with nothing but foam support each end of the monitor.
I have never encountered any shattered monitors or DOA ones that don't work right out of the box. We've never received any calls from Gateway asking where a box might be either. For large 60 pound 17" monitors to travel halfway across the country in thin boxes with barely any protection and survive is amazing.
There are isolated incidents of jackasses in every industry everywhere. There has been a whole lot of generalizing in the discussion about how "every UPS guy" does this. Unfortunately, the number of comments like mine pointing this out seems to be less then people willing to hope on the bandwagon to trash UPS. I'm not denying these things DON'T happen, but I've never encountered any problems in numerous shipments with UPS.
I currently live in the Philadelphia area. A short while ago Comcast took over the existing Adelphia cable system. I have a 1-Way surfboard cable modem (telephone upstream, cable downstream.) Adelphia promised for the last 2 years they'd upgrade the infrastructure to support 2 way.
When Adelphia turned over the area to Comcast, it still maintained the cable modem network. So I still actually pay Adelphia for my cable modem, but my cable company is comcast. Comcast sent a letter out sometime in early August saying come September 22th, existing 1-way cable customers could schedule migration to 2-way. The date came and went, and I received no call from the cable company as promised.
Two days ago, I phone Comcast@Home to see what was up. Their reps are CLUELESS. The conversation went something like this:
"Ok, so you sent me this letter saying you'd have 2-way cable ready last month. So now you're telling me it's not ready?"
"Sir, your area is currently not servicable for 2-way."
"Then you guys just sent me this letter for the fun of it? Inventing dates off the top of your head? This couldn't have anything to do with the fact @Home is in bankruptcy now could it? Are you even installing new modems?"
"Yes we are."
"So when's my area going to be ready?"
"I don't know."
Argh!
I live approx 19,000 feet from my CO which makes me ineligble for DSL. I'm stuck with this crappy SB1000 modem for which the service is INCREDIBLY flaky. Both cable companies play "pass the blame" whenever I have service problems.
Besides DirecPC Satellite Service (and oh, the nightmare stories I've read about them) are there any other alternative high-bandwith solutions I should be aware of?
I'll take it the way most government networks are connected now are via VPN or just plain old TCP/IP into the wild, wild, net.This is either a problem, or actually helpful the way I look at it. The infrastructure for the existing network can bounce around the net if X Router is disabled or Y backbone is cut. There is massive redudancy
By putting all government computers on one easily identifiable network, aren't you just making a bigger, easier target? Doesn't this just paint a big huge bullseye on the government network infrastructure? You would need a very, very large distributed network to achieve the levels of backup redundancy current internet routing provides.
On the other hand, segmenting the network off from the internet as a whole eliminates (most) of the electronic attacks. If you have a seperate network tightly controlled by physical security this could definietly work. For this to work I think you would need some heavily guarded data centers distributed liberally throughout the country.
All the better to stop them. Now that means they're probably violating the terms of service at the Registrar they got their domain name at. Last time I checked, providing false info on a domain record for most registrars was grounds for account termination. You can't spam real well without some form of domain name.
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Hate to tell you... but it can't see your folders. Simple solution: Move an entire folder into Inbox, download with pop3. Filter accordingly locally. Repeat process for each folder.
Tigerdirect (whom aren't exactly known for great Customer Service - hell, they're reputation sucks) has had them for $100 for a few months now.
Then you have to deal with putting together a good UI for it - which is no trivial task.
It's like TiVO - sure you can hack together some perl scripts in linux to turn on your capture card every tuesday at 8:00 on channel 9 but it's just not as aethstically pleasing.
I for one would rather pay for a nice interface and design then spend nearly the same amount for a hacked-together solution.
As someone who is not familiar with the HURD project (other then: it's a GPL'd Kernel?) can someone provide us with a brief list of some of the cool features/immediately noticable advantages HURD should provide? (This isn't intended as flamebait - I just seriously couldn't dig up much info in plain english)
A very fair assessment and a good article. One minor caveat - Can someone clarify this quote from the article?
"Another annoying gotcha for business users is the dropping of support for Netscape-style plug-in modules in the XP version of Internet Explorer 6.0. Just try to download a PDF file from any site on the Web. It's easy as long as you right-click on the link and choose the option to "Save target as." The alternative is to make Opera your default Web browser."
The last one or two versions of Acrobat Reader I've used have a little "save" button at the top of the toolbar that the PDF opens inside.
Any clue what they're referring to? Sounds like an interesting UI issue if it exists, but I wonder under what conditions it occurs.
I wonder if they gathered the stats for everyone who was expecting Malcom in the Middle to record and ended up GETTING the Superbowl instead? Ah HEM... I got the first 2 minutes of the show though!
I repeat: this is RUMOUR. Why is it on Slashdot? This is not responsible journalism.
But, since everyone else seems to be hopping on the bandwagon taking this as fact I'll chime in anyways.
The solution is to play it smart and don't ever ever tell tech support you're using more then one computer. If they accuse you of using more then one, deny it. They're going to have fun proving that one.
Adelphia Powerlink flipped their freaking lid when the guy was trying to troubleshoot my connection by pinging it and I told him I'd gotten his ping.
"How do you know that? It's coming up as host unreachable here."
"Yeah I know I'm running a firewall on my machine."
"What?! You're not allowed to use a firewall on our network!"
"Uhm, why not? Oh maybe I should turn it off so all these people trying to DoS me can mess up your network a little more?"
So remember, when calling tech support:
1) You are using 1 computer.
2) You are using Windows.
3) Never mention the words: firewall, router, linux, server. They are verboten.
Always "follow" their absurd troubleshooting suggestions no matter how stupid they sound. Hey.. sometimes they do work, but otherwise just take what they tell you and translate the steps into your OS of choice. Or if you already tried it give them the answer they're looking for.
Can you please clarify how "corporations make money off our extensions with no return to the taxpayer?". Unless there's some great conspiracy selling off .US domains, I think most of the Slashdot crowd (me included) has no idea what you're referring to.
There are a ton of "Hot Deals" and "Bargain" sites on the net that can help you get some sweet, sweet deals. Of course they also turn you into compulsive shoppers ...
c at id=18
d =4 0
The following sites offer deals usually involving coupons/rebates/price mistakes on websites. Some of the cooler deals I've gotten:
Free HP Deskjet 930C via Estamps rebates.
5 Belkin PCI 100mbit NICs for 81 cents each
$30 16X CD-RW
And more... go forth... and spend!
Sites:
http://www.bensbargains.net
http://www.techbargains.com
http://www.slickdeals.net
http://www.hot-deals.org
or if you like to go right to the source, most of the above sites patrol these forums and post the good ones:
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/categories.cfm?
http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.cfm?cati
Given the recent onslaught of IIS, XP, any Microsoft product holes, has anyone produced charts/statistics detailing the number of holes? Off the top of my head I can immediately think "ok, there's another Microsoft screwup" but I'm curious as to the total number of problems in the last 6 months.
What I'm really looking for is there a website out there that details the number of holes in IIS vs Apache? The pointy-haired folks at work are looking at webservers and I could use some hard-cold statistics to convince them once and for all IIS is a mistake. Pretty graphs would be really good to show a comparison between the two.
So.. does anyone know of a site that keeps track of "total" number of holes for any given product (Microsoft AND Open-Source solutions?)
I think it's most important we look past our obvious hatred of MTV (I concur with all previous posts) and look at the technology behind this idea.
I for one would love an all-in-one box with a custom designed UI that did DVD/TV/Radio/Music with a remote that I wouldn't have to build.
Sure you can buy yourself an ATI All-In-One Card, use some software (or for your geeks, string together some perl scripts), purchase a serial port remote control doohickey and spend forever configuring it - but you won't get the same desired result.
This is similar to TiVo. Sure, I can use my ATI Card to record TV show, but my PC is not optimized for TV watching. A dedicated appliance that can provide all this stuff for the non-PC literate is a very marketable idea.
A previous most mentioned the college audience is the wrong target - and I think you're correct. The market they should really be aiming for is the teen crowd. I'm not, and never was part of the MTV demographic but the appeal of a cool little machine that can play my new Britney Spears DVD and record TRL (Carson is so hot! WH000000!) is probably something that appeals to a lot of teenyboppers.
Time will tell if those goes the way of the Barbie PC. I hope for the success of neat all-in-one integrated devices for the average consumer, but I have the gut-feeling of impending doom for such a venture.
But hey, maybe all those castoff MTV Boxes will make neat hacking toys in a a year or so.
Happy GNU Year!
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of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This greeting is distributed in the hope that you will have a happy new year, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of HAPPINESS or FITNESS FOR YOUR ROUND GEEK FIGURE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
Ok, who opened the Outlook Christmas virus?
Let's see:
You: User #264583
Me: User #9175
Hm, nope. I think that makes you the new guy.
Ok I admit it, I'm just bitter my Karma went to 44. Sheesh.
I resent the modding of my comment down to "Troll" as this is NOT FUD. I LIKE BeOS and I am NOT here to trash it.
I am merely making a personal observation of the one time myself and a few companions download BeOS Personal Edition and tried it out.
The killing of any process, by process number, by issuing the command:
"kill "
resulted in the interface of the system locking up with a reboot.
Now that you have answered my question (thank you!) I would please hope that anyone with moderator points reading this comment would take the time to analyze my comment a bit more carefully before the knee-jerk reaction comes into play.
Well you know, for an OS that prides itself on POSIX compliance (I think?!) and all .. I don't think "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a mission-critical OS component.
When you're a couple of million bucks in debt with creditors breathing down your neck, let's see who you value.
Hm should we pacify the people who want our product GPL'ed, or the guys at Palm who just gave us $11 million.
I think any good-will gestures towards BeOS users are out of their hands at the moment. Palm probably has exclusive rights to all the core components of the OS.
Last time I downloaded BeOS personal edition, I was able to lockup the entire OS by issuing the "kill" command on any process, even the notepad app. Which led me to think, why put something like a kill command into the OS if it's going to go schitzo when I use it?
This was on a stock install of BeOS personal edition, on a machine with memory I tested that turned out perfect. Has BeOS been "fixed" since then? Any good community resource sites?
I am dead serious when I tell you know I know two people who run a very successful consulting firm around my ara who have their servers in a bathroom inside their house. When I asked them why they put them there, the answer was "We don't use this bathroom, it's in the middle of the house, and it's the most secure since it has no windows in it."
:)
Ask serious questions, get slightly stupid answers
Does anyone know the stance of non-US companies of anti-virus software on Magic Lantern? If a foreign product detects an FBI trojan horse will it then become illegal under some US law?
Thought I'd chime in with the rest of the Slashdot crowd - wow, that sucks.
Now for my brief defense of UPS.
At work we frequently ship at least one RMA'd monitor back and forth each week to Gateway (we're in PA.) These monitors go into cardboard boxes that are very thin with nothing but foam support each end of the monitor.
I have never encountered any shattered monitors or DOA ones that don't work right out of the box. We've never received any calls from Gateway asking where a box might be either. For large 60 pound 17" monitors to travel halfway across the country in thin boxes with barely any protection and survive is amazing.
There are isolated incidents of jackasses in every industry everywhere. There has been a whole lot of generalizing in the discussion about how "every UPS guy" does this. Unfortunately, the number of comments like mine pointing this out seems to be less then people willing to hope on the bandwagon to trash UPS. I'm not denying these things DON'T happen, but I've never encountered any problems in numerous shipments with UPS.
Caveat emperor, insure.
If it's any indication of failure, the Target near me has a few Cidco Mailstation's for $24.99. Even at that price they can't sell.
Oh that's just SPLENDID.
I currently live in the Philadelphia area. A short while ago Comcast took over the existing Adelphia cable system. I have a 1-Way surfboard cable modem (telephone upstream, cable downstream.) Adelphia promised for the last 2 years they'd upgrade the infrastructure to support 2 way.
When Adelphia turned over the area to Comcast, it still maintained the cable modem network. So I still actually pay Adelphia for my cable modem, but my cable company is comcast. Comcast sent a letter out sometime in early August saying come September 22th, existing 1-way cable customers could schedule migration to 2-way. The date came and went, and I received no call from the cable company as promised.
Two days ago, I phone Comcast@Home to see what was up. Their reps are CLUELESS. The conversation went something like this:
"Ok, so you sent me this letter saying you'd have 2-way cable ready last month. So now you're telling me it's not ready?"
"Sir, your area is currently not servicable for 2-way."
"Then you guys just sent me this letter for the fun of it? Inventing dates off the top of your head? This couldn't have anything to do with the fact @Home is in bankruptcy now could it? Are you even installing new modems?"
"Yes we are."
"So when's my area going to be ready?"
"I don't know."
Argh!
I live approx 19,000 feet from my CO which makes me ineligble for DSL. I'm stuck with this crappy SB1000 modem for which the service is INCREDIBLY flaky. Both cable companies play "pass the blame" whenever I have service problems.
Besides DirecPC Satellite Service (and oh, the nightmare stories I've read about them) are there any other alternative high-bandwith solutions I should be aware of?
I'll take it the way most government networks are connected now are via VPN or just plain old TCP/IP into the wild, wild, net.This is either a problem, or actually helpful the way I look at it. The infrastructure for the existing network can bounce around the net if X Router is disabled or Y backbone is cut. There is massive redudancy
By putting all government computers on one easily identifiable network, aren't you just making a bigger, easier target? Doesn't this just paint a big huge bullseye on the government network infrastructure? You would need a very, very large distributed network to achieve the levels of backup redundancy current internet routing provides.
On the other hand, segmenting the network off from the internet as a whole eliminates (most) of the electronic attacks. If you have a seperate network tightly controlled by physical security this could definietly work. For this to work I think you would need some heavily guarded data centers distributed liberally throughout the country.
Comments anyone?
All the better to stop them. Now that means they're probably violating the terms of service at the Registrar they got their domain name at. Last time I checked, providing false info on a domain record for most registrars was grounds for account termination. You can't spam real well without some form of domain name.