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General Software Discussion / Re: best Outlook replacement?
« Last post by 40hz on October 15, 2011, 01:41 PM »Shades is correct about Exchange. Evolution no longer directly works with any version of Exchange from 2007 forward.
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i tried to follow the link on softpedia.com to request a key (http://www.softmaker.../ofw10betareg_en.htm) but the page doesn't exist any more! So please help. Thanks-lekieunhu (October 15, 2011, 08:14 AM)
How could i get a beta key? Couldn't find it on the home page-lekieunhu (October 15, 2011, 05:55 AM)
Personally I think these two points fit together quite nicely. I agree with Renegade, the media has whipped everyone into a fear frenzy where nobody wants to trust anybody. The terrorist "bogyman" is behind every door. The problem of course is that they are trying to stampede us into trusting (them) the very group that is actually out to screw us.-Stoic Joker (October 14, 2011, 05:08 PM)
"The Birds and the Foxes"
by James Thurber
Once upon a time there was a bird sanctuary in which hundreds of Baltimore orioles lived together happily. The refuge consisted of a forest entirely surrounded by a highwire fence. When it was put up, a pack of foxes who lived nearby protested that it was an arbitrary and unnatural boundary. However, they did nothing about it at the time because they were interested in civilizing the geese and ducks on the neighboring farms. When all the geese and ducks had been civilized, and there was nothing left to eat, the foxes once more turned their attention to the bird sanctuary. Their leader announced that there had once been foxes in the sanctuary but that they had been driven out. He proclaimed that Baltimore orioles belonged in Baltimore. He said, furthermore, that the orioles in the sanctuary were a continuous menace to the peace of the world. The other animals cautioned the foxes not to disturb the birds in their sanctuary.
So the foxes attacked the sanctuary one night and tore down the fence that surrounded it. The orioles rushed out and were instantly killed and eaten by the foxes.
The next day the leader of the foxes, a fox from whom God was receiving daily guidance, got upon the rostrum and addressed the other foxes. His message was simple and sublime. "You see before you another Lincoln. We have liberated all those birds."
Moral: Government of the orioles, by the foxes, and for the foxes, must perish from the earth.
Maybe in america, but so far in the EU you can still buy a phone "SIM free" and then hook it up to whatever network you wish. Throughout the 3rd world this is true too!-Eóin (October 13, 2011, 07:53 PM)
We need to be leader to control the internet or else our employees (which are fanbois at it's best) are going to cry like cheerleaders. We need platform. Cry...sob sob.-mahesh2k (October 13, 2011, 02:25 PM)
Hi, did you try to open a .pptx file ? With 2010 version this usually doesn't work.-MerleOne (October 13, 2011, 03:09 PM)
http://mschnlnine.vo...pdc08/PPTX/PC54.pptx doesn't open in 2010 or 2012_Beta
-Curt (October 13, 2011, 04:58 PM)
Hi, did you try to open a .pptx file ? With 2010 version this usually doesn't work. Thanks.-MerleOne (October 13, 2011, 03:09 PM)
If we can get back to the bare bones hardware deal but on phones where you get a default OS, but can install another, then we'll be much better off for privacy.
What am I saying? I'm clearly just bonkers. Please lock me up and get me a doctor!-Renegade (October 13, 2011, 02:09 PM)
I saw that email client mentioned, but I haven't been able to dig up any details. Have you spotted anything?-CWuestefeld (October 13, 2011, 12:03 PM)
Jeff Bezos may be as awful a boss as Yegge says (although one should take an ex-employee's gripes with a grain of salt), but he is all about satisfying the customer, not his staff, and that is why Amazon may be around long after Google, unless someone at Google eventually gets it.-xtabber (October 13, 2011, 01:28 PM)
So one day Jeff Bezos issued a mandate. He's doing that all the time, of course, and people scramble like ants being pounded with a rubber mallet whenever it happens. But on one occasion -- back around 2002 I think, plus or minus a year -- he issued a mandate that was so out there, so huge and eye-bulgingly ponderous, that it made all of his other mandates look like unsolicited peer bonuses.
His Big Mandate went something along these lines:
1) All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.
2) Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces.
3) There will be no other form of interprocess communication allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of another team's data store, no shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network.
4) It doesn't matter what technology they use. HTTP, Corba, Pubsub, custom protocols -- doesn't matter. Bezos doesn't care.
5) All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions.
6) Anyone who doesn't do this will be fired.
7) Thank you; have a nice day!
Ha, ha! You 150-odd ex-Amazon folks here will of course realize immediately that #7 was a little joke I threw in, because Bezos most definitely does not give a shit about your day.
LibreOffice 3.4 - free. Why pay?-Midnight Rambler (October 13, 2011, 10:57 AM)
in fact I have argued that the open source movement has done harm by advancing the notion that software is either commercial fixed price, or 1000% free and should never be paid for.-mouser (October 13, 2011, 06:12 AM)
Differences in personal perceptions and beliefs are a good part of what makes for an interesting discussion around here. At least as far as I'm concerned.
