Out of interest, what don't you like about Mail.app?
In my case, I dislike that mail.app automatically lists _every_ file (recursively) in your default IMAP directory (which on one mail server I don't admin is users' home directories). When I was first setting it up, it kept crashing. It eventually worked when I was on a wi-fi, and the mail folders list was `find ~/ -print`
I got it fixed, but I didn't set mail.app up for another server where I have tens of mail folders; I don't want all of them to load when I'm on the go, only a couple.
I've used it as my primary (actually, only) mail client for a few years, coming from Thunderbird (before that, from Mozilla Mail and News, before that Outlook Express, and before that MS Mail and News), and haven't had any issues with it.
You switched from Tbird to iphone's mail.app? No gpg, search, filters, etc?
Second we need to divert every research dollar available to fusion. And I mean EVERY available dollar. Freeze every other research at 75% of current dollars, AIDS, green tech, EVERYTHING
Picking up resources to make scientists is also a good way to keep your cities from growing; make sure to click on the elvii to change them into to scientists, or you're just making folk happy.
- Every time an update occurs, it takes more and more space on my hard disk, and the boot screen is filled with 100 versions of linux kernels.
This seems to happen on any OS. The 100 versions is an obvious exaggeration (unless you installed every kernel available and you're using 6.06LTS) Also, why are you selecting the kernel by hand instead of letting the boot process move forward? That's not very "it just works" of you.
- It took me one week to get my wifi card to work properly with wpa, with all the incomplete/outdated documentation available. Eventually, I found, by chance, a message on a forum.
- After a kernel update, my wifi card couldn't work anymore. My card is not an alien from another planet. It is a well-known card model.
Yeah, you're probably using 6.06LTS, 7.04 through 8.04.1LTS have all been great with broadcom cards (which are the worst wifi cards known to man, even on windows). Gnome does almost all of the work for you, even prompting you to use the restricted drivers. You still have to know your WPA passphrase; maybe that's where you needed forum help?
- So I went back to the older kernel. What happened? Nautilus didn't work anymore!
I have no answer for this one. What happens when I forcibly use an older NTOSKRNL on my winxp machine? No booty computey.
- A certain indexation service (I forgot its name) runs regularly. Then my computer does not respond anymore. It's a modern computer (AMD64 quad-core with 3 Gb of RAM).
Probably beagle; the bane of good sense. This one I'll agree with. Beagle must stop being auto-installed along with gnome; not everyone uses RAID5 with 3+ drives in their desktop (although I did, and I _still_ had to turn beagle off).
William Buckley, certainlt a critical and indpendent thinker, who would present profund insight into the value of personal libery and personal choice, and then in the next breath condemn legal abortion as a great evil.
It just doesn't hold that believing in some crazy religious BS entails being stupid in other areas.
Committed atheists could easily condemn legal abortion as a great evil if they believed that purposefully killing a human being was wrong. Person-hood is the legal test for inalienable rights. The test could just as easily be "existing as a distinct being with human genes". Pro-life isn't just a religious cause, even though the religious folk are the most vocal.
I just hate this attitude that there's some fundamental quality of them that makes them better than today's games. That's just nostalgia talking.
I think text games allow for imagination to blossom, and 3D "shiny" games lend themselves to becoming glorified movies.
Bear with me... It's like the latest commercial from LeapFrog (a computer-learning company): A grown man in a frog costume is behind a table with a bunch of books telling the viewers how much better the LeapFrog Tag(TM) Reading System helps children read, and then a little boy comes up to the table, waves a wand over his LeapFrog book, and the book reads to him. The man asks the boy which book he likes better, the LeapFrog book, or an older book. The boy responds derisively: "That book doesn't talk"
When I first saw that commercial, I was appalled. The boy is just being spoonfed; he's only learning that reading is _hard_ and that talking books are better because you don't have to _think_. I later became appalled that LeapFrog would think that this commercial would appeal to parents. I then later became appalled because I realized that the marketing firm that made the ad must have done their research, and parents really think this is good./rant
So, a lot of today's games are like the LeapFrog books, where any puzzles are spoonfed because the designers want you to finish the game and buy another title, and you're not required to imagine a little white house. The designers don't _want_ you to imagine stuff, because then you end up falling into an abyss where the level designers forgot to place a wall because you were curious, or you skip a trigger and kill the bad guy before he gives his monologue, and he gives it then anyway. Okay, "give troll to troll" does this too...
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Cray made configuring a system difficult for me. I might just try another solution for my scientific computing needs.
I first ran Linux in 1995 and it isn't that much faster now.
Then:
I remember watching text refresh on my DOS computer in 1994-95. The same machine would allow me enough time during boot up that I would literally make and eat a sandwich.
Now:
To make X visibly refresh now, I have to install a Gnome GUI on a 300MHz machine, and not install the legacy nvidia drivers. My Windows XP gaming box boots cold in less than seven seconds.
Linux (since that was what was mentioned):
I remember in 2000 having to compile overnight on a dual core 400MHz workstation. The exact same program (albeit larger and more complicated than before) compiles in minutes on my laptop today. If linux itself is not any faster on this new hardware, then that means gcc has become incredibly fast at compiling over the years.
Point: Mesa Mike.
If anyone literally believed an imaginary man created anything real, even religious folk would regard him with pity. Followers of the Judaic religions believe the eternally living God created stuff.
September 13th, 2008
NetShare, banned from the AppStore
Looks like Apple has decided they will not be allowing any tethering applications in the AppStore. As such, NetShare will not be available in the iTunes AppStore. We are seeing a lot of similar reports from various developers who's applications were abruptly removed and banned from the AppStore without any violations of the terms of service. This is all unfortunate news for the iPhone platform end-users.
The end of the Dawn Treader is the most blatant example of Aslan as Jesus, but it was kind of tacked on to the end. I did like Eustace's story as another example of redemption.
SafeNet/MediaSentry defended their actions by claiming their company simply "records public information available to millions of users. If private investigator licenses were required to do what MediaSentry does, every user on Limewire and other [...] p2p networks would be required to have a license. Indeed, every search engine and Internet user would be required to have a private investigator license if MediaSentry needs one."
It's not whether the info is there; it's how it's used and gathered. All of your public activities are in plain view of other people, and some even take pictures of you, but if someone starts following you around everywhere taking photos, but doesn't have some sort of license, it's called stalking.
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Subject says it all.
Out of interest, what don't you like about Mail.app?
In my case, I dislike that mail.app automatically lists _every_ file (recursively) in your default IMAP directory (which on one mail server I don't admin is users' home directories). When I was first setting it up, it kept crashing. It eventually worked when I was on a wi-fi, and the mail folders list was `find ~/ -print`
I got it fixed, but I didn't set mail.app up for another server where I have tens of mail folders; I don't want all of them to load when I'm on the go, only a couple.
I've used it as my primary (actually, only) mail client for a few years, coming from Thunderbird (before that, from Mozilla Mail and News, before that Outlook Express, and before that MS Mail and News), and haven't had any issues with it.
You switched from Tbird to iphone's mail.app? No gpg, search, filters, etc?
Openmosix project closed earlier this year and suddenly vmware has a way to run one "OS" over multiple computers. Hmmm...
Whatever, it's sad when a phone running a Microsoft OS is more open than one running UNIX. :p
Just be glad it's not a phone running Solaris.
Because growing big tubes of silicon and copper aren't likely mutations for plant DNA?
Second we need to divert every research dollar available to fusion. And I mean EVERY available dollar. Freeze every other research at 75% of current dollars, AIDS, green tech, EVERYTHING
Picking up resources to make scientists is also a good way to keep your cities from growing; make sure to click on the elvii to change them into to scientists, or you're just making folk happy.
- Every time an update occurs, it takes more and more space on my hard disk, and the boot screen is filled with 100 versions of linux kernels.
This seems to happen on any OS. The 100 versions is an obvious exaggeration (unless you installed every kernel available and you're using 6.06LTS) Also, why are you selecting the kernel by hand instead of letting the boot process move forward? That's not very "it just works" of you.
- It took me one week to get my wifi card to work properly with wpa, with all the incomplete/outdated documentation available. Eventually, I found, by chance, a message on a forum.
- After a kernel update, my wifi card couldn't work anymore. My card is not an alien from another planet. It is a well-known card model.
Yeah, you're probably using 6.06LTS, 7.04 through 8.04.1LTS have all been great with broadcom cards (which are the worst wifi cards known to man, even on windows). Gnome does almost all of the work for you, even prompting you to use the restricted drivers. You still have to know your WPA passphrase; maybe that's where you needed forum help?
- So I went back to the older kernel. What happened? Nautilus didn't work anymore!
I have no answer for this one. What happens when I forcibly use an older NTOSKRNL on my winxp machine? No booty computey.
- A certain indexation service (I forgot its name) runs regularly. Then my computer does not respond anymore. It's a modern computer (AMD64 quad-core with 3 Gb of RAM).
Probably beagle; the bane of good sense. This one I'll agree with. Beagle must stop being auto-installed along with gnome; not everyone uses RAID5 with 3+ drives in their desktop (although I did, and I _still_ had to turn beagle off).
I must be missing something. Cancelled?
Cancelled is what happens when a contract is revoked.
They canceled the contracts with the media outlets that were showing the ads so they would stop showing them?
William Buckley, certainlt a critical and indpendent thinker, who would present profund insight into the value of personal libery and personal choice, and then in the next breath condemn legal abortion as a great evil.
It just doesn't hold that believing in some crazy religious BS entails being stupid in other areas.
Committed atheists could easily condemn legal abortion as a great evil if they believed that purposefully killing a human being was wrong. Person-hood is the legal test for inalienable rights. The test could just as easily be "existing as a distinct being with human genes". Pro-life isn't just a religious cause, even though the religious folk are the most vocal.
Yes, if you're a messy eater.
Another reason I'm glad I'm not doing workstation support anymore. Too many moldy keyboards.
I just hate this attitude that there's some fundamental quality of them that makes them better than today's games. That's just nostalgia talking.
I think text games allow for imagination to blossom, and 3D "shiny" games lend themselves to becoming glorified movies.
/rant
Bear with me... It's like the latest commercial from LeapFrog (a computer-learning company): A grown man in a frog costume is behind a table with a bunch of books telling the viewers how much better the LeapFrog Tag(TM) Reading System helps children read, and then a little boy comes up to the table, waves a wand over his LeapFrog book, and the book reads to him. The man asks the boy which book he likes better, the LeapFrog book, or an older book. The boy responds derisively: "That book doesn't talk"
When I first saw that commercial, I was appalled. The boy is just being spoonfed; he's only learning that reading is _hard_ and that talking books are better because you don't have to _think_. I later became appalled that LeapFrog would think that this commercial would appeal to parents. I then later became appalled because I realized that the marketing firm that made the ad must have done their research, and parents really think this is good.
So, a lot of today's games are like the LeapFrog books, where any puzzles are spoonfed because the designers want you to finish the game and buy another title, and you're not required to imagine a little white house. The designers don't _want_ you to imagine stuff, because then you end up falling into an abyss where the level designers forgot to place a wall because you were curious, or you skip a trigger and kill the bad guy before he gives his monologue, and he gives it then anyway. Okay, "give troll to troll" does this too...
Do they accept ration stamps?
Blizzard would be interested to know how you play without paying monthly fees.
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Cray made configuring a system difficult for me. I might just try another solution for my scientific computing needs.
I first ran Linux in 1995 and it isn't that much faster now.
Then:
I remember watching text refresh on my DOS computer in 1994-95. The same machine would allow me enough time during boot up that I would literally make and eat a sandwich.
Now:
To make X visibly refresh now, I have to install a Gnome GUI on a 300MHz machine, and not install the legacy nvidia drivers. My Windows XP gaming box boots cold in less than seven seconds.
Linux (since that was what was mentioned):
I remember in 2000 having to compile overnight on a dual core 400MHz workstation. The exact same program (albeit larger and more complicated than before) compiles in minutes on my laptop today. If linux itself is not any faster on this new hardware, then that means gcc has become incredibly fast at compiling over the years.
Point: Mesa Mike.
If anyone literally believed an imaginary man created anything real, even religious folk would regard him with pity. Followers of the Judaic religions believe the eternally living God created stuff.
September 13th, 2008 NetShare, banned from the AppStore Looks like Apple has decided they will not be allowing any tethering applications in the AppStore. As such, NetShare will not be available in the iTunes AppStore. We are seeing a lot of similar reports from various developers who's applications were abruptly removed and banned from the AppStore without any violations of the terms of service. This is all unfortunate news for the iPhone platform end-users.
http://www.nullriver.com/
I noticed Tris is gone too.
Or dodge bassinets placed as a bait for a trap by super villains?
(quite a few people still seem to find the "6000 years" jokes funny, so I just let them be)
I used to mod them informative, but I don't get mod points any more. Perhaps there's a connection.
What kind of dinosaur is still using that?
A magical liopleurodon ...Chaaarlie
No wonder America is eating itself if they allow people like the parent to vote...
We also allow people who can't read the post to vote. Also people who can't understand the post when it's read to them.
The end of the Dawn Treader is the most blatant example of Aslan as Jesus, but it was kind of tacked on to the end. I did like Eustace's story as another example of redemption.
SafeNet/MediaSentry defended their actions by claiming their company simply "records public information available to millions of users. If private investigator licenses were required to do what MediaSentry does, every user on Limewire and other [...] p2p networks would be required to have a license. Indeed, every search engine and Internet user would be required to have a private investigator license if MediaSentry needs one."
It's not whether the info is there; it's how it's used and gathered. All of your public activities are in plain view of other people, and some even take pictures of you, but if someone starts following you around everywhere taking photos, but doesn't have some sort of license, it's called stalking.
And the Zebus?
Sim Sim?