It's called mutt. I understand why non-geeks use tbird, kmail, etc, but why do so many geeks use buggy, unreliable, memory hogging MUAs anyway? I just don't see the "convenience" or "ease of use" in losing email forever, waiting more than 2 or 3 minutes for email to load, tryng to follow fscked up threads, and so forth. Mutt still rules, in fact if you invest a few days learning it you'll wonder how you survived the nightmare that is every GUI MUA out there.
However impractical they may become there is just something cool about old machines. I remember when the cool old things of today were the dorky new things we complained about. But now that they're old they seem really classic and cool somehow...
Everyone who's awake and functional knows big business owns the US government - so Big Content backs the Dems while Big Oil backs the Repubs.
Did you think that somehow we *really* had 2 separate parties?
Vote Green, Libertarian, Peace and Freedom, or Independent but please don't THROW YOUR VOTE AWAY by voting Democrat or Republican.
Haven't we had efuckingnuff yet?
The following hardware and software is REQUIRED to run Second Life successfully. If your computer doesn't meet these requirements, you may not be able to participate in Second Life:
PC Minimum System Requirements:
* Internet Connection*: Cable or DSL
* Operating System: Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
o OR Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4)
NOTE: Second Life does NOT currently support Windows Vista
* Computer Processor: 800MHz Pentium III or Athlon, or better
* Computer Memory: 256MB or better
* Video/Graphics Card**:
o nVidia GeForce 2, GeForce 4mx, or better
o OR ATI Radeon 8500, 9250, or better
Mac Minimum System Requirements:
* Internet Connection*: Cable or DSL
* Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or better
* Computer Processor: 1 GHz G4 or better
* Computer Memory: 512MB or better
* Video/Graphics Card**:
o nVidia GeForce 2, GeForce 4mx, or better
o OR ATI Radeon 8500, 9250, or better
I may have made my store less popular for pirates and sympathisers, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make to save my industry from destruction. I am inspired by artists such as Metallica that have taken a stand against the powerful pirate lobby. When everyone believes 2 + 2 = 5, to simply state the truth, that 2 + 2 = 4, is a courageous act.
I wonder how many of the buggy whip manufacturers turned it into a wrenching personal drama between good and evil...
In any event, it appears (assuming of course your story is true) that you were once astute enough to recognise a rising fashion and you rode it. Now that fashion is fading out, there will be something else.
So don't be stuck -- all your self-pity and recrimination will help you not a bit. Get some emotional clarity instead and then you may experience more prosperity.
Hopefully doing something less harmful than supporting the record industry's deplorable activities.
Do you do to your job just for the love of it figuring that if your employer pays you it's just "an extra"? Why is it that when people with day jobs go to work it's a given they will be paid but when an artist works and tries to get paid for it s/he is "crass", "commercial", "a sellout", etc. Kinda stupid if you stop to think about it...
Windows Live Mail = Hotmail.
Get it in your browser.
Assuming this isn't a made-up story it seems to me the U in question would have to be some really backwards institution, like a Fundie "Christian" school or something...
The people who began calling the process of copying files from the network w/o the permission of the "IP owner" "piracy" and "stealing" are the **AA parasites, and they add little to no value while conspiring to hold us all back technologically and for what? To keep milking a clearly obsolete business model.
Data wants to be free; we can only restrict distribution and charge $$ for it by making some artificial arrangement (which is always going to be defeatable). Even so if they would price their "IP" at a level the market is willing to bear and provide it in a format people find useful (vs restictive) most people would rather just buy it, it's easier. These are some *reasons* piracy happens. So the real excuse makers and criminals here are the **AA .
All this is not big news --- do try to keep up old man!
The post about copying the ferarri is spot on and should be modded up.
Aesthetic sense, "good taste", whatever you want to call it, is something which you either have intrinsically or you do not. Most people do not and will not no matter whose "set of guiding principles" are employed.
Just look at the average geek's wardrobe LOL, if it was like math or language we'd all have it down by HS graduation, wouldn't we?
There never was a "halo" on OSS except perhaps in the minds of some semi-literate types.
OSS is merely a development model, it has nothing intrinsically to do with the FSF or GNU or RMS.
We *are* talking about public library machines here, so why exactly would we want to consider children as having the inalienable right to socialise online w/o parental oversight?
In a time and place where we have many real losses of liberty to combat this isn't even proper news people!
...that's where, except of course for Plan 9 which will stay right where it is until or unless something better than Rio gains favor. At which point it too will go to hell in a handbasket. It's the nature of the beast.
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You modded me troll? Looks like someone's sense of humor isn't functioning properly. I recommend caffeine with sugar.
Are you INSANE??
I would never defile my precious machines with that nasty M$ crapware!
It's called mutt.
I understand why non-geeks use tbird, kmail, etc, but why do so many geeks use buggy, unreliable, memory hogging MUAs anyway?
I just don't see the "convenience" or "ease of use" in losing email forever, waiting more than 2 or 3 minutes for email to load, tryng to follow fscked up threads, and so forth.
Mutt still rules, in fact if you invest a few days learning it you'll wonder how you survived the nightmare that is every GUI MUA out there.
So the Tunnel's out, big plans for moose and squirrel back in?
$ sudo pkg_delete -v linux-flashplugin9
Screw 'em!
However impractical they may become there is just something cool about old machines. I remember when the cool old things of today were the dorky new things we complained about. But now that they're old they seem really classic and cool somehow...
Everyone who's awake and functional knows big business owns the US government - so Big Content backs the Dems while Big Oil backs the Repubs. Did you think that somehow we *really* had 2 separate parties?
Vote Green, Libertarian, Peace and Freedom, or Independent but please don't THROW YOUR VOTE AWAY by voting Democrat or Republican.
Haven't we had efuckingnuff yet?
Some people have funny ideas of what constitutes "open source" and "transparency" I suppose... from http://secondlife.com/corporate/sysreqs.php:
System Requirements
The following hardware and software is REQUIRED to run Second Life successfully. If your computer doesn't meet these requirements, you may not be able to participate in Second Life: PC Minimum System Requirements: * Internet Connection*: Cable or DSL * Operating System: Windows XP (Service Pack 2) o OR Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4) NOTE: Second Life does NOT currently support Windows Vista * Computer Processor: 800MHz Pentium III or Athlon, or better * Computer Memory: 256MB or better * Video/Graphics Card**: o nVidia GeForce 2, GeForce 4mx, or better o OR ATI Radeon 8500, 9250, or better Mac Minimum System Requirements: * Internet Connection*: Cable or DSL * Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or better * Computer Processor: 1 GHz G4 or better * Computer Memory: 512MB or better * Video/Graphics Card**: o nVidia GeForce 2, GeForce 4mx, or better o OR ATI Radeon 8500, 9250, or better
Yes, it means you picked up the wrong damned box again.
I wonder how many of the buggy whip manufacturers turned it into a wrenching personal drama between good and evil...
In any event, it appears (assuming of course your story is true) that you were once astute enough to recognise a rising fashion and you rode it. Now that fashion is fading out, there will be something else.
So don't be stuck -- all your self-pity and recrimination will help you not a bit. Get some emotional clarity instead and then you may experience more prosperity.
Hopefully doing something less harmful than supporting the record industry's deplorable activities.
ummm...fatal typos?
Do you do to your job just for the love of it figuring that if your employer pays you it's just "an extra"? Why is it that when people with day jobs go to work it's a given they will be paid but when an artist works and tries to get paid for it s/he is "crass", "commercial", "a sellout", etc.
Kinda stupid if you stop to think about it...
Pretty ambitious for a bunch of people who can't even get it together to provide a binary of their flagship browser for BSD.
I just don't see it.
Actually I just watched a DVD last night using kmplayer in Debian Etch on a Toshiba Portege laptop.
The fact is Debian is so thoroughly user-friendly at this point Ubuntu seems almost redundant.
It wasn't flamebait, it's an observation. The OP is actually more flamebait than my response, but oh well.
Windows Live Mail = Hotmail. Get it in your browser. Assuming this isn't a made-up story it seems to me the U in question would have to be some really backwards institution, like a Fundie "Christian" school or something...
You sir are brainwashed.
The people who began calling the process of copying files from the network w/o the permission of the "IP owner" "piracy" and "stealing" are the **AA parasites, and they add little to no value while conspiring to hold us all back technologically and for what? To keep milking a clearly obsolete business model.
Data wants to be free; we can only restrict distribution and charge $$ for it by making some artificial arrangement (which is always going to be defeatable). Even so if they would price their "IP" at a level the market is willing to bear and provide it in a format people find useful (vs restictive) most people would rather just buy it, it's easier.
These are some *reasons* piracy happens.
So the real excuse makers and criminals here are the **AA .
All this is not big news --- do try to keep up old man!
The post about copying the ferarri is spot on and should be modded up.
Aesthetic sense, "good taste", whatever you want to call it, is something which you either have intrinsically or you do not. Most people do not and will not no matter whose "set of guiding principles" are employed.
Just look at the average geek's wardrobe LOL, if it was like math or language we'd all have it down by HS graduation, wouldn't we?
I am gonna FUCKIN' *KILL* Balmer!!!!
{throws chair across room}
Why is someone of Linus' prodigious ability playing around with cutesy noob desktops anyway?
There never was a "halo" on OSS except perhaps in the minds of some semi-literate types. OSS is merely a development model, it has nothing intrinsically to do with the FSF or GNU or RMS.
We *are* talking about public library machines here, so why exactly would we want to consider children as having the inalienable right to socialise online w/o parental oversight?
In a time and place where we have many real losses of liberty to combat this isn't even proper news people!
...that's where, except of course for Plan 9 which will stay right where it is until or unless something better than Rio gains favor. At which point it too will go to hell in a handbasket.
It's the nature of the beast.
Equating the destruction of our own natural habitat with artificially enforcing an obsolete political ideology is sheer fucking madness.
I thought Sun was the Apple of the enterprise world.