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Living Room / Re: Migrating from Google Gmail.com to Microsoft Outlook.com

« Last post by 40hz on December 13, 2013, 09:24 AM »

^Agree with Carol. If you're using GMail, use an email client that supports IMAP (Outlook,T-Bird et al) and go from there. Since your mail is synced to the server you always have a local copy of everything. And your mailbox (including your folder structure and sent email) is identical no matter where or how you access it. Makes life easy if you ever change email providers. Everything local will automatically start syncing up to the new email server when you log on. Most people with huge mailboxes just log in and leave it up overnight. Next morning, they're all set.  

AFAIK GMail is the only free email service that also provides free IMAP. Pretty much everyone else is charging for IMAP even if they'll still give you a POP account for free.

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General Software Discussion / Re: font request

« Last post by 40hz on December 13, 2013, 08:59 AM »

Great googley-moogley! "Catholic School Cursive" or "Nun Script!"

I always wondered if it had an official name. It's what the Dominican Sisters dunned into our heads and hides when I was an innocent and helpless child. The public schools taught the similar but equally ugly Palmer Method. Which was probably one reason why the parochial school system I was in opted for something 'different.' (Those were different times! No love lost between the public and parochial school systems back then. And an almost ridiculously strict separation of Church and State - on every level - was considered both good and necessary by most Americans up until Regan.)

Ballpoint pens? Ungainly cursive alphabets? Using a pencil for anything other than calculations, shopping lists or marking wood for cutting? The very idea! My grandfather was having none of it. We all were required to learn and practice Spencerian script at home. And the only pen suitable for use by a "lady or gentleman" was an ink pen. His one concession to modernity was the fountain pen. (Even he was happy to abandon dip pens and inkwells.)

 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: GOG's 2013 DRM-free Winter Sale has started!

« Last post by 40hz on December 12, 2013, 09:06 PM »

FWIW just went in and got all three. Went very smoothly.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlook.com

« Last post by 40hz on December 12, 2013, 03:44 PM »

Ah! Stoic got in ahead. Thx man!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlook.com

« Last post by 40hz on December 12, 2013, 03:43 PM »

@t - You're right.  I should.  

@Sb - Yes, it provides group roles and GAL.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlook.com

« Last post by 40hz on December 12, 2013, 02:36 PM »

If anybody is that sold on the Outlook experience (and has $4 a month to spend) it might be worth looking into Microsoft's Exchange Online offering. That gives you email hosted through Microsoft's Exchanger server cloud services. It's pretty powerful and compelling since Outlook doesn't reach anywhere near its real potential until it's wedded to an MS Exchange backend.

-40hz (December 12, 2013, 11:08 AM)

Stoic turned me on to this in the other thread.  I don't have a terribly good idea about the power and potential that Exchange offers.  Can you give some more details?

Is it possible to make a GAL with that service?

-superboyac (December 12, 2013, 01:29 PM)

The Gnomes of Redmond will give you a free 30-day trial of it along with the rest of Office365. No card required. Best bet is to try it since this is one of those product lines you either love or hate. There's tons of vids up on YouTube if you want to see it in action. Microsoft also publishes a huge amount of info on their website.

Much as I don't like public cloud, it's a compelling proposition they're offering. Small businesses without affordable or available IT staff could do worse than sign on for it.

I'm guessing all Microsoft products will be "sold" this way before another 10 years passes. Like Adobe, they want to sell you services - not products.

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P.S. Call me slow today, but what's a GAL?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlook.com

« Last post by 40hz on December 12, 2013, 11:08 AM »

If anybody is that sold on the Outlook experience (and has $4 a month to spend) it might be worth looking into Microsoft's Exchange Online offering. That gives you email hosted through Microsoft's Exchanger server cloud services. It's pretty powerful and compelling since Outlook doesn't reach anywhere near its real potential until it's wedded to an MS Exchange backend.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: *NIX: ownCloud v6.0.0 released - now has realtime document collaboration

« Last post by 40hz on December 12, 2013, 08:33 AM »

@4wd- Oh I haven't...believe me.

Even if I did, my GF would continue to bug remind me - as she has been. 

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Non-Windows Software / Re: *NIX: ownCloud v6.0.0 released - now has realtime document collaboration

« Last post by 40hz on December 11, 2013, 08:58 PM »

^My thoughts exactly...

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Non-Windows Software / *NIX: ownCloud v6.0.0 released - now has realtime document collaboration

« Last post by 40hz on December 11, 2013, 08:50 PM »

This is pretty interesting. Seems the latest release of ownCloud is now provisioned for document collaboration in realtime. They're calling it ownCloud Documents. Pretty impressive IMO. (Too bad they couldn't come up with a better name for it.)

Check out the video:

There's a bunch of other improvements. More info, docs and downloads available from here. Download page is here.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by 40hz on December 11, 2013, 01:07 PM »

Three from Drew Frank. (my kind of twisted humor...)

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by 40hz on December 11, 2013, 11:54 AM »

FWIW, Jupiter Broadcasting (home of Tech Snap and The Linux Action Show) have a weekly
video podcast (20 episodes and counting) devoted to crypto currencies. It's called Plan B and can be found here.

Plan B is a weekly talk show contemplating the future and present of Bitcoin. With insights for the novice, shop talk for the expert, and opinionated discussion for the interested observer of bitcoin and related technologies.

RSS for podcatchers: http://feeds.feedburner.com/PlanBVideo

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Labeler / Cover Printing Software Do you Recommend?

« Last post by 40hz on December 11, 2013, 11:46 AM »

FYI: musicians. Y'know...these guys:

-40hz (December 09, 2013, 12:29 PM)

Musicians are truly a breed unto themselves.

-Innuendo (December 11, 2013, 10:39 AM)

Yes...we are. We're not necessarily proud of it. But we hope to be loved for what we are.

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: New to Forum

« Last post by 40hz on December 11, 2013, 11:44 AM »

Welcome and well met! Look forward to your joining in the conversation around here. I think you'll like what you find!

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Living Room / Re: Let's Make a List: How to Live Life to the Fullest

« Last post by 40hz on December 11, 2013, 11:40 AM »

5. Think! There's never an excuse or reason not to.

6. Watch your mouth. Watch both the things you put in it - and the words you let come out. You'll discover your mouth is where most problems you'll create for yourself in life begin.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: LINUX: Linux Mint 16 "Petra" just released

« Last post by 40hz on December 11, 2013, 08:25 AM »

^thx Dan! Fixed now. 

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Non-Windows Software / Re: LINUX: Linux Mint 16 "Petra" just released

« Last post by 40hz on December 10, 2013, 04:45 PM »

Another good review of Mint 16: Petra can be found here. Courtesy of the Linuxed blog ("Exploring Linux Distros"), it's well worth the read.

Linuxed is a good site to check before trying a new distro. They've saved a few downloads by identifying things that would be showstoppers for me.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: LINUX: Linux Mint 16 "Petra" just released

« Last post by 40hz on December 10, 2013, 02:50 PM »

This tutorial seems to have made some happy people:
http://community.lin...com/tutorial/view/62

-dantheman (December 10, 2013, 05:23 AM)

Just be careful with doing that. Ubu-based distro upgrades don't always have happy endings when doing an apt-get-distro-upgrade. A lot of times you'll have a semi-broken or flaky system afterwards if you have a lot of libraries loaded from ppas as opposed to the official repositories. And especially if any of those ppas are Ubu version specific (i.e. there's one for Ubu Raring, one for Saucy, etc.) Those will all need to be manually updated to the correct versions before you run do a distro upgrade using apt if you want to avoid problems down the road.

Best bet is to backup your data (Note: most but not everything will be in the home directory so make sure you know where your apps store their data! Same thing goes for Windows upgrades btw.), have apt give you a list of what's installed, make a copy of your repository info - and ideally make a disk image of your entire machine in case total disaster strikes and you need to get back to where you were.

A clean or fresh "update" (i.e full clean replacement) is always your safest move.

It may be a pain, but it's a small pain that's worth putting up with where your own data is concerned.



(P.S. I've never had a real catastrophe going from one version or distro to another. But there's always a first time so I still go all "Sunday School" and take the most cautious and conservative approach whenever upgrading an OS. And that also goes for any upgrades I do with Windows, OSX, or BSD. Nothing is ever perfect - and "stuff" happens.  )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Special Security Software Just for Women?

« Last post by 40hz on December 10, 2013, 01:04 PM »

@Mouser - I was thinking more along the lines of:



[Voiceover] Does YOUR performance* leave HER wanting MORE?

*as her malware swatter.

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Special Security Software Just for Women?

« Last post by 40hz on December 10, 2013, 11:02 AM »

Note: showed the press release to my GF. She didn't say anything. But the expression on her face spoke volumes.

-40hz (December 10, 2013, 10:15 AM)

I bet it's the same expression as on my face, the one I usually wear when I see unnecessarily genderized products, like higher priced, inferior quality, pink microscopes in the toy stores, as if girls can't use the better quality, lower cost, black ones.

-app103 (December 10, 2013, 10:48 AM)

Possibly.

For the record, her eyes slowly got about an eighth of an inch larger than usual as she read, and then became about a sixteenth of an inch narrower than usual after she finished. Nothing else on her face changed so much as a fraction.

(Her facial expressions are infinitely nuanced and subtle. I suspect she could go through her life without speaking at all, yet still communicate quite clearly. )

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Living Room / Re: Anti-Tracking Smartphone Pouch

« Last post by 40hz on December 10, 2013, 10:17 AM »

I was just wondering...do they come in colors designed "just for women" too?  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Special Security Software Just for Women?

« Last post by 40hz on December 10, 2013, 10:15 AM »

Using Malwarebytes’s proven technology, ChicaPC-Shield™ was designed for women by employing straightforward language and processes to make installation and usability fast, simple and completely accessible.

translation: easy enough for a girl to understand it.

Hmm...and they really expect to garner support and win customers with a marketing concept that's both condescending and insulting?

I'll bet these guys  (you know they're guys) are really popular with the ladies and get invited to all the 'good parties' with an attitude like that.
 

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Note: showed the press release to my GF. She didn't say anything. But the expression on her face spoke volumes.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by 40hz on December 09, 2013, 11:01 PM »

Esperanza Spaulding. Tiny and devastatingly talented. One of the best things to come to jazz in the last decade. The lady is "scary good" and equally adept at classic and modern jazz idioms.

Here's Endangered Species:

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Non-Windows Software / Re: *NIX: New Linux magazine startup campaign on Indiegogo

« Last post by 40hz on December 09, 2013, 09:56 PM »

It lives! Looks like there's gonna be a new mag for Nix. Yay!



 

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Non-Windows Software / Re: LINUX: Linux Mint 16 "Petra" just released

« Last post by 40hz on December 09, 2013, 06:25 PM »

Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA G96M [GeForce GT 130M] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           X.Org: 1.14.3 drivers: (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) FAILED: nouveau Resolution: [email protected]
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV96 GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.1 Direct Rendering: Yes

(something is missing or failing).

-dantheman (December 09, 2013, 02:08 PM)

@DtM - Looks like the Nouveau driver can't set the screen for the resolution given at the 60hz clock frequency. Try installing the NVidia control panel utility. It's in Software manager. Do a search for nvidia-settings. Hopefully a tweak there will solve the problem. If you need to manually replace a driver, post a message on the Mint forum since that can get a little hairy if you need to remove the old one first.

But first check <System Tools><System Settings> and scroll down to the hardware section. Open the Device Drivers panel and see if there's a proprietary driver available for your video subsystem that needs to be enabled.