Comment Re:US Metric System (Score 1) 1387
There is: a litre of water weighs 1kg
Ask Slashdot: Current State of Linux Email Clients? 464
mcloaked writes "We get all kinds of news about new developments, but one subject has been lacking for some time and that is email clients for Linux (or Windows for that matter). A number of reviews (mostly not all that recent) have pointed to the main clients as Thunderbird, Evolution, Claws-mail, and Kmail as possibilities. Up to about a year ago, Thunderbird seemed to be 'the' email client with the best mix of positives. However there are no recent reviews that I have seen. In the meantime Thunderbird has moved to monthly releases, which are more maintenance releases containing security fixes but little functional change — and little new development. Thunderbird also won't be significantly altered in the future, if one interprets the available news information. Evolution is reported to be rather prone to bugs, and Kmail even more so. Claws-mail has limitations, as does Kmail. So where is the future of Linux email clients going, absent any real innovation? We need a well maintained and capable mail client, preferably with good calendar integration (webcal/Google calendar), properly supported HTML composing, good maildir format storage for local mail, and good security support (including the capacity to deal with both GPG and S/MIME encryption and signing). It needs a modern UI and good import/export facilities, as well as good integration with its address book, including import/export of addresses. Are we likely to see this kind of package as we move into the future, or will mail clients slowly disappear? At the moment it looks like email client support is dead — Are too many users moving into web mail and the cloud instead of having a properly functional mail client on their desktops?"
Comment Re:How will a license agreement solve fragmentatio (Score 1) 154
Is there any evidence that that is happening?
Comment Re:How much of this was out of their heartfelt goo (Score 1) 78
I believe it's the carriers who install it (hence 'CarrierIQ') not the phone mfr, BICBW
Comment Re:How much of this was out of their heartfelt goo (Score 1) 78
But let's also have a little respect for Carrier IQ, it takes balls to make this kind of turnaround...
or a fear that they are about to be dumped by all their customers due to the negative publicity.
Comment Re:huh? (Score 1) 168
All of them if you want to run an ssh daemon on port 22
Comment Re:User-focused (Score 1) 1880
That is not the typical Linux experience. You are either deliberately making things difficult for yourself, or too stupid to be using a computer.
Comment Re:Erm... (Score 1) 520
in EU the Commission took care to protect you from becoming any money by introducing rules and regulations that actually ban consulting altogether
WTF are you talking about? How is consulting banned in the EU?
Comment Re:Recapturing the glory days? (Score 1) 186
They don't necessarily need to catch up, there's a very large Windows user base that are very happy with XP and haven't seen the need to 'upgrade'.
Comment Re:The op is a... The author is an idiot (Score 1) 591
As each Android device is accepted the community clarifies for everyone that Linux is the elder brother of Android.
Which just adds to the confusion, as many Android users now think that Linux is 'made by Google'
Comment Re:Uhh.. cost? (Score 1) 197
What's 'a magnitude of order'?
Comment Re:MAC Addresses (Score 1) 69
Look at the output of 'iwlist scan' on a wireless linux box.
First line of each cell looks like very much like a MAC address to me.
First line of each cell looks like very much like a MAC address to me.
Comment Re:Choices (Score 1) 258
Clearly you're unaware that quality ISPs actually do exist. I use A&A nothing shit about them and worth every penny. In fact they're not even that expensive.
Comment Re:Yes, it WAS the right thing. (Score 1) 100
> Some honest opinions of Mono might be helpful as I seem to be blissfully unaware of the problems related to it
What's wrong with it is it pollutes the Linux ecosystem with Microsoft IP.
Some think that's risky, and some of us don't care about that but just don't want to use anything that has any connection with MS.
What's wrong with it is it pollutes the Linux ecosystem with Microsoft IP.
Some think that's risky, and some of us don't care about that but just don't want to use anything that has any connection with MS.
Comment Re:Will Invite (Score 1) 1223
I'd like an invite please - pcb1962(at)gmail.com
thanks
