It shouldn't. If the emails have gone but the index is still there then Thunderbird will just fail to get the new mail that doesn't exist. It wont concern itself with old mail, since according to the index it's up-to-date on those files.
If the index has also been cleared, then perhaps. I'm not sure if Thunderbird requires an expunge or delete in order to delete files. Here's another of those times a mail client that actually implemented IMAP would be nice - you could look at the RFC and find the expected behaviour, rather than having to guess what Mozilla decided would be a good idea.
I think you've missed the point. They want access to his facebook account in order that they can have a look at the sorts of things he says and people he hangs out with, not in order that they can keep tabs on whether he's using it at work or not.
If blocking facebook is the only way you can keep your employees actually doing their work of a day, you've got way bigger problems with your management than you're going to solve with a web filter, anyway.
Seriously, that's almost precisely why I've the same username all over place (amusingly, almost except/.) - so that people who know me on one might recognise me on another.
I'd imagine that anyone with a desire to not let anyone know where else they go on the net already gets all their usernames out of pwgen or something.
Joking aside, that's pretty much what I do. I've never had some turning-point moment where I've thought "I need to do this differently", and it does still Just Work.
Though my collection is way under 1TB at the minute, so I suppose i'm still where everybody else was about five years ago.
"The potential for them to claim the popular mindshare that wikileaks has had is very real."
Really? I'd have thought that, given your last sentence, it's less so. To your average person anon is a bunch of kids DDoSing websites, and I'm not sure they're viewed in any better light in techy circles. I really don't see what anon has done to build up confidence in the sort of trust you'd need to be a successful *leaks.
To over-stretch the military analogy, they're much more the light infantry than the intelligence corps.
"If Nokia's downfall were the catalyst for unifying Linux under a single UI, all the better."
I *really* hope this doesn't happen. Free software needs competition in exactly the same way as proprietary software does and the closest Gnome has to a competitor outside of KDE is XFCE, which is also GTK.
Even as someone who hardly uses KDE or QT, I'd really rather not see QT go.
I still don't really understand the problem here. He goes on to say (even in the quote in Coders At Work I think) that it's not some principled refusal to (why would you do that?), and it's not like stuff's being held up because he can't check in code. It's just that he's "found no need to". His ban on checking code in was just a technicality.
Besides, he's since gone on to work on Go for them, so I'm guessing he did feel a need to be able to check code in, and probably just took the test.
When they go to another company, they'll end up at another company using MS Office with a policy against people picking and choosing their office suites. So they'll probably be at a disadvantage. OOo is still really not that great at interoperability with MS file formats, too. Irrespective of who is to blame, that makes it a poor choice as a replacement for MS Office.
There are several free PDF printers for Windows and OSX; there's no need to pay to have MS Office produce PDFs.
Also, OOo is atrocious at resources usage. You'd waste man hours per week just in start up times.
Random? They're in alphabetical order and they alliterate.
There never was an 8.0 or 8.1. They're all x.4 and x.10, since they're released in April and October. Though they used to be x.6 and x.10 when they released in June and October. That bit seems to confuse the most people; the numbering scheme.
Also the Mac Gs refer to the hardware, not the OS.
If I still had an MS office install I could show you a few. Indenting, bulletting and tabulation were the biggest culprits IME. Also, page breaks tended to wander and often duplicate themselves.
OOo was a lot better at opening MS Office documents than MS Office was at OOo generated docs in MS formats.
I'd find it much easier to respect wikileaks if they spent more time "leak[ing] information on all sort of cases such as corporate wrong doings, political corruption and so on" and less time just poking governments they dislike.
That 'collateral murder' video is what did it for me; there wasn't even a hint of impartiality there and I'm not sure who was supposed to gain from the release of that video with that commentary.
Though, on the other hand, perhaps that got them the big burst of publicity and therefore funding that they needed to carry on. But would that just make them no better than those they're 'reporting' on?
Probably the same thing that happens every time there's a large increase in automation - we have a choice of either working fewer days, or producing (and buying) more things. Generally we pick the latter.
Not really. Problem shrunk perhaps. The same issue is there - that you have to use one particular implementation in order to view the content - it's just that this particular implementation is easier to get and works in more places.
*a* point is that they are often presumed to be private, but that's not really a relevant point here; the defence is that the posting was a joke, not that it was intended to be private.
we've had 3 "hung parliaments" [wikipedia.org] (we call them "minority governments")
A minority government is way to resolve a hung parliament. The other popular one is majority through a coalition. A coalition to create a larger minority is possible, too.
On the offchance you're genuinely wondering what a 'strong government' is, it's one with a majority in the Commons so one which can, in theory, vote anything it likes through the Commons. The greater their majority, the stronger the government, and so the greater the number of dissidents they can bear.
Strong governments get more stuff done but it being A Good Thing rather relies on that stuff being the right stuff, which is generally accepted as being unlikely.
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I think GP expected you to have noted the adverts before blocking them.
Aren't those ones generally rather cloudy, though?
It's still cloud computing, even if you throw yet another layer of abstraction over the top of it.
It shouldn't. If the emails have gone but the index is still there then Thunderbird will just fail to get the new mail that doesn't exist. It wont concern itself with old mail, since according to the index it's up-to-date on those files.
If the index has also been cleared, then perhaps. I'm not sure if Thunderbird requires an expunge or delete in order to delete files. Here's another of those times a mail client that actually implemented IMAP would be nice - you could look at the RFC and find the expected behaviour, rather than having to guess what Mozilla decided would be a good idea.
I think you've missed the point. They want access to his facebook account in order that they can have a look at the sorts of things he says and people he hangs out with, not in order that they can keep tabs on whether he's using it at work or not.
If blocking facebook is the only way you can keep your employees actually doing their work of a day, you've got way bigger problems with your management than you're going to solve with a web filter, anyway.
Seriously, that's almost precisely why I've the same username all over place (amusingly, almost except /.) - so that people who know me on one might recognise me on another.
I'd imagine that anyone with a desire to not let anyone know where else they go on the net already gets all their usernames out of pwgen or something.
What do you think is in media/video/movies/ ?
Joking aside, that's pretty much what I do. I've never had some turning-point moment where I've thought "I need to do this differently", and it does still Just Work.
Though my collection is way under 1TB at the minute, so I suppose i'm still where everybody else was about five years ago.
"The potential for them to claim the popular mindshare that wikileaks has had is very real."
Really? I'd have thought that, given your last sentence, it's less so. To your average person anon is a bunch of kids DDoSing websites, and I'm not sure they're viewed in any better light in techy circles. I really don't see what anon has done to build up confidence in the sort of trust you'd need to be a successful *leaks.
To over-stretch the military analogy, they're much more the light infantry than the intelligence corps.
Didn't we go through this with Al Quaida not many years ago?
"If Nokia's downfall were the catalyst for unifying Linux under a single UI, all the better."
I *really* hope this doesn't happen. Free software needs competition in exactly the same way as proprietary software does and the closest Gnome has to a competitor outside of KDE is XFCE, which is also GTK.
Even as someone who hardly uses KDE or QT, I'd really rather not see QT go.
Why? Having that sort of access to the software on most other computers doesn't void the (hardware) warranty, why should it on a smartphone?
Having an easy-to-use phishing platform?
I still don't really understand the problem here. He goes on to say (even in the quote in Coders At Work I think) that it's not some principled refusal to (why would you do that?), and it's not like stuff's being held up because he can't check in code. It's just that he's "found no need to". His ban on checking code in was just a technicality.
Besides, he's since gone on to work on Go for them, so I'm guessing he did feel a need to be able to check code in, and probably just took the test.
At a guess, the "we" is those people who care if North Korea is on the Internet or not, given the wording of the question.
He's not speaking for anyone, he's asking a question of people.
When they go to another company, they'll end up at another company using MS Office with a policy against people picking and choosing their office suites. So they'll probably be at a disadvantage. OOo is still really not that great at interoperability with MS file formats, too. Irrespective of who is to blame, that makes it a poor choice as a replacement for MS Office. There are several free PDF printers for Windows and OSX; there's no need to pay to have MS Office produce PDFs. Also, OOo is atrocious at resources usage. You'd waste man hours per week just in start up times.
Random? They're in alphabetical order and they alliterate.
There never was an 8.0 or 8.1. They're all x.4 and x.10, since they're released in April and October. Though they used to be x.6 and x.10 when they released in June and October. That bit seems to confuse the most people; the numbering scheme.
Also the Mac Gs refer to the hardware, not the OS.
No, he's upset that "it just seems like a mess" every time he tries to use it.
If I still had an MS office install I could show you a few. Indenting, bulletting and tabulation were the biggest culprits IME. Also, page breaks tended to wander and often duplicate themselves. OOo was a lot better at opening MS Office documents than MS Office was at OOo generated docs in MS formats.
I'd find it much easier to respect wikileaks if they spent more time "leak[ing] information on all sort of cases such as corporate wrong doings, political corruption and so on" and less time just poking governments they dislike. That 'collateral murder' video is what did it for me; there wasn't even a hint of impartiality there and I'm not sure who was supposed to gain from the release of that video with that commentary. Though, on the other hand, perhaps that got them the big burst of publicity and therefore funding that they needed to carry on. But would that just make them no better than those they're 'reporting' on?
What, you switch to that oil company known for its ethics?
Probably the same thing that happens every time there's a large increase in automation - we have a choice of either working fewer days, or producing (and buying) more things. Generally we pick the latter.
Not really. Problem shrunk perhaps. The same issue is there - that you have to use one particular implementation in order to view the content - it's just that this particular implementation is easier to get and works in more places.
*a* point is that they are often presumed to be private, but that's not really a relevant point here; the defence is that the posting was a joke, not that it was intended to be private.
A minority government is way to resolve a hung parliament. The other popular one is majority through a coalition. A coalition to create a larger minority is possible, too.
/pedant
On the offchance you're genuinely wondering what a 'strong government' is, it's one with a majority in the Commons so one which can, in theory, vote anything it likes through the Commons. The greater their majority, the stronger the government, and so the greater the number of dissidents they can bear.
Strong governments get more stuff done but it being A Good Thing rather relies on that stuff being the right stuff, which is generally accepted as being unlikely.
Yeah, you've identified that only 150,000 out of 2,000,000 users paid for the game.
You can't identify how many of the remaining 1,850,000 would have bought the game had they not pirated it, which is kind of the point.