Comment Re:"Ominous"? (Score 1) 126
What exactly is ominous about a "no connection" error?
A communications disruption can mean only one thing -- invasion!
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grnbrg
What exactly is ominous about a "no connection" error?
A communications disruption can mean only one thing -- invasion!
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grnbrg
... and I *am* one of the system admins at my organization (a university), and I am part of the transition team from sendmail to Exchange, so I know the Exchange admins really well. That is the response that has been mandated that we give to people asking for IMAP access.
One of the few acceptable business cases so far has been a department that had several functional accounts that would be polled by fetchmail scripts that would read a message from the Inbox, detach the attachments, do some processing on them, and then leave them in a (unix) directory to be verified and acted on by a person. Rebuilding this process to use Exchange directly was deemed infeasible.
grnbrg.
"I'm sorry, our supported clients are Outlook, ActiveSync for mobile devices and Outlook Web Access. You're running Linux? OWA works fine in Firefox. If you can make a business case for it, we will activate IMAP for your account. 'I want to run Thunderbird.' is not a valid business case."
Also: Davmail handles calendaring really well. About the only thing I haven't been able to do is add a shared calendar that another co-worker has given me access to.
grnbrg.
When I'm using Linux, I'm using Thunderbird, but I can't access my school's email server because Thunderbird can't do Exchange.
http://davmail.sourceforge.net/
grnbrg.
Geeky sous vide setup:
http://www.grnbrg.org/images/sousvide.jpg
Not mine, just an image I found online, but mine didn't look too much different.
grnbrg.
The first method came about from reading that one of the reasons that it is recommended that stuffing not be cooked in the turkey is that if the stuffing is cooked to a safe temperature, the meat is badly overcooked. My solution to this? Cook the turkey (following the usual oven method) with a heat exchanger to help cook the stuffing from the inside. 8 inches of 1" copper pipe, capped at both ends and 10 feet or so of 1/4" copper tubing tightly coiled into a 2-3" coil, and soldered into holes in one of the caps on the larger pipe, and the whole thing filled with water.
The large pipe was inside the turkey, the coil outside and exposed to the ambient oven temperature. The idea was that the oven would heat the water in the coil, and convection would circulate it into the turkey, cooking the stuffing from the inside. It seemed to actually work, too. The downside is the risk that one of the solder joints would fail after the water had heated up to ~300+ F. While that didn't happen the one time I tried it, the risk lead to the device forever after being referred to as "The Turkey Rocket". PS: Don't try this for your first dinner where you're inviting your parents and your girlfriends parents over. You might not survive.
Method #2 is a more recent method -- Sous vide cooking. You can't do a whole turkey, and skin of any kind is a bit of a lost cause, but skinless turkey breasts or drumsticks cooked at ~140F for 10 to 12 hours are amazing. More moist and tender than brined, and no risk of being too salty. And with wires everywhere, and an electronically controlled thermometer and heater, cooking doesn't get any geekier.
grnbrg
PS: If you're oven cooking, look up brining. It's easy, and makes a huge difference.
How did the GSIII fare against the iPhone 4s plus the iPhone 5 numbers? Seems to me to be a more fair comparison....
grnbrg.
ugh.
well, hey, cheer up everybody, we just landed the most awesomest rover evar on mars!
and all the other sciency stuff we've been accomplishing...
we're doing great.
Nuh uh!
http://www.knowthelies.com/node/8072
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