ethergeek

Why not just use Thunderbird? It's way better than OE... edit: I thought the board would automatically merge this post with my last one...sorry.

AMEN to that! You didn't even address the exorbitant costs of the development environments for windows though...and I don't want to hear about "express versions" form anyone...you *can not* develop software that you intend to market with those crippleware versions; they're intended for learning only. If you want to sell windows software, prepare to pirate or pony up some kickbacks, er, i mean... license fees to micro$oft. Actually this works fine on my Gentoo box. The drives pop up almost Mac-like on my desktop thanks to the automounter and hald. I do however refuse to drag partitions to the trash though to unmount them...whoever thought THAT up needs to be shot in the kneecaps.

I'm also seeing this issue, but mail access via IMAP works properly. I would just use that until the admins determine what's wrong and resolve it.

To sum up my experiences with windows Vista...Pro:PrettierMore eye candySupports newer hardware OOTB than XPDirectX 10.Easier programming WinAPI because the .NET Framework 3.0 brings them to managed code (less P/Invoke)Con:SlowerNeeds more RAMBuggy as hell

I've got a linux box functioning as my router that has 140 days of uptime and still going strong! The last time I rebooted it was to move it to another room in my house.

That's what Tor is for. All well and good, but MAC addresses can be spoofed, and it's only a matter of time before WPA2 is cracked. You might be better off just pounding the little neighbor kid's face into the pavement As for me, my wireless is sandboxed on my router. All that is accessible is a paranoid setup of OpenVPN to get out into my home network. It's much less likely to be cracked than the common protocols, plus since it doesn't even need WEP (end-to-end crypto provided by OpenVPN) it will let all sorts of legacy gear connect to it. Plus, I can safely support unsecured services like my girlfriend's PS2 via letting the router do some traffic analysis and selective routing.

Not really. The "service provider" clause of the DMCA and similar legislation indemnifies them against copyright infringement so long as they agree they will promptly remove the content upon notification of said infringement.

I prefer the GIMP, mostly because I can code LISP and I like the easy, open-source, programmable extensibility the platform offers. Pretty much every effect, filter, brush, texture, you name it that I've found for photoshop, it has already been ported to GIMP. Plus, the GIMP can be run from a USB key!.

This happens because the burden is on the copyright holder. You can post south park episodes on youtube all you want, and they'll stay there until youtube gets a cease & desist from braniff or viacom over it. Youtube doesn't actually monitor what goes on their site, they just comply with requests to take it down. Same goes with every other piece of copyrighted content posted there.Youtube doesn't really have a problem with adult content, they just don't want blatant pornography. I've seen videos on youtube that utilize barely artistic nudity (read: borderline porno) and it's still up there, it's just flagged as explicit by the youtube community.

My site uses Phpbb3-B5 for it's forums section...it's a vast improvement over Phpbb2.x. And of course, free to download, open source and all that good stuff.You can play with a few free forums at http://www.opensourcecms.com/ which lets you try the live demos of the forum packages (including admin functions).

So I have these smart devices...they're basically audiovox ppc6700's. They're running WM5 PocketPC (NOT smartphone edition) with .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP1 on the device.I need the system to automatically dial the cellular connection to connect the device to the internet. I've looked all over the framework for something like this, so I know I'm looking into P/Invoking the functionality from one of the libraries on the system. I've found several tutorials online but none apply to the PocketPC (I get an UnsupportedException on the P/Invoke).Anyone have any ideas on this one?

I don't own any games per se. Doing this on the PC is simple, and on my DS I have an R4DS card that lets me play ROMs.

FEAD is fine if you're really crunched for bandwidth, but the problem remains that you have a time/compression tradeoff. I remember trying to install Acrobat 6 on all the machines on my network at work when it came out...there were still 400 MHz machines up there that spent an ungodly amount of time unpacking that installer.On the plus side, Adobe's antics (like using FEAD) are what made me seek out Foxit Reader for my PDF reading needs. There's even a U3 version.

It's the same reason that abortion is legal. If you take away a woman's right to kill her unborn children, she'll just do it anyway in a way such that she's likely to injure herself (e.g., with a coathanger). So then the bleeding-heart liberals get involved and take away the father's rights to preserve the life of his child so that the idiot mother doesn't hurt herself. I swear every abortion should come with a free pair of those safety scissors they give you in kindergarten. Funnier still, is that if the father doesn't want children (I don't mean abortion, I mean adoption or some other means of transferring custody) the mother has to agree to this or he's stuck paying child support for 18 years. How fair is that?

This is the classic microsoft problem...they write a buggy, vulnerable operating system, and now they want to SELL you software to keep the system stable? Talk about a scam...that's like buying a car, then being charged extra for the *required* seat belts. Why can't they just fix the damn operating system to make it harder for spyware and viruses to propagate and infect?

Just goes to show you that the people at Google have a sense of humor.

Please tell me you're joking... What kind of compatibility are you talking about? Application-level? Data-level? Hardware-level? It doesn't really matter what distribution of Linux is used in my example...any of them will do, depending on the user's needs.

So basically, once they find a way to cause the ova to divide such that identical twins are produced, mothers could always conceive 2 children at once, keep one embryo in the freezer, so that the other child would always have a source of spare body parts that are a guaranteed match. Interesting...makes me wish I had a spare parts brother

If you want to create a bootable iso, you just need to extract the boot sector from the bootable cd. I restore my machines all the time with clean copies of the freshly installed OS and all the drivers...it's somehow faster than a windows reinstall. Anyway, acronis produces a file containing the disk image (like the GHO files) and puts it onto an external drive. I take that image, put it on an iso, copy the acronis loader from an acronis boot cd and the eltorito boot image, and create a dvd iso, all of this using UltraISO. The DVD boots the machine with acronis, AND has the image file on it as well.I've never used Ghost, but I'd bet a similar procedure is possible.

I would use AVG for the antivirus, and Windows Defender for the anti-spyware. Both are free.On the other hand, you could just put Linux on that box and not worry about viruses and spyware in the first place

The other thing to remember is that this country has a *volunteer* armed force. There is no draft, everyone who is fighting in Iraq right now joined whatever branch they joined of their own free will with full knowledge that this could happen.

Is it really a surprise that all of your applications will run slower in vista? Have the people who have been testing this OS for ever and ever not been saying the same thing since they got it?I'm sticking with my Gentoo/XP dualboot setup...vista blows.

As much as I love C++ for desktop application development (*cries*) you're better off focusing on Java, seeing as you can use Java to write web services (so as to bridge the gap). Java has a lower development time generally, and GUI application development is easier, and it's cross-platform...if you don't care about startup speed and not being able to run it standalone, Java is hard to beat. It does abstract many of the memory manipulation features that some of us have grown to love though.If you like coding in C++, and don't mind the hassles associated with it...I'd stay stick with it. But yea, as you're just learning it, go with Java, you'll have an easier time. But learn C++ too Can't hurt to know more.

This is standard operating procedure...it's alot easier to not support legacy versions of a product from a training standpoint, especially if you're training your support team to support old versions of something that can be downloaded and upgraded for free.Seems like it should be common sense to update a program that's having problems before calling support, but I may just be too much of a geek to understand why people don't do this...

Have you thought of using a Wiki? Making them learn Wiki syntax could be a pain in the *bottom*, but given that MediaWiki will give you access control, page history and comment features, it seems ideal.The other option is to just use Word's (or whatever editor you want to use) markup features and set up WebDAV on the server, and set up access controls using .htaccess files.