Hi: Way back in time I used to program Computers. At that time you used to Think about what you wanted to do, then you would make a Flow Chart, of the whole process. Then you would debug that. Then you would, take the Flow Chart and translate that into Code. ---- What's happening now, is we got millions of variations, of Hardware, to run the code on, which has millions of outcomes, not quite known about before hand. Then you got all kinds of shared libraries, that affect other programs working properly. Then we got this does not work and that does not work, and so we tweak the code, to make work a rounds, which then work for specific hardware, but not for all hardware. Protocols change, or are changed, and so Programing started to become modular. Yet changes to anything affect everything else. Plug-ins started to come into being, to handle the changes in protocols. Programs started to become very COMPLEX, the average person, just has no idea anymore about what to do with the BASE Program, and spends all the time, doing Tweaks. Even very Gifted People, are somewhat baffled by it all. Then we got several hundred Programming Languages, all mixed together. The Code has to now work seamlessly with all these things, and it is changing every day!! Looking at this, has to be a KISS situation, to keep it so that Humans can continue, to play or work with it. (KISS -KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID!) If it becomes too complex, then people will not be able to easily do anything with it any more, and less people in time will do anything with it. Much of the Computer Revolution was based in the fact that new ways of doing things, came about. I remember way back in time doing Graphics point by point, or pixel by pixel, now we do things by region. Perhaps what is really needed is a way of looking at what is going on, and then look to simplify the whole process. When some simple way of doing something comes about, that is the real advance. Computer programming just got way too complex for me, so I got into other things. Still I'd like to Thank those Brave Programmers for making Linux available to me, when people go on and on about things not working all the time, it sure, is a bummer for the people that did the programming for it. A thank you for all the effort that was made, sure might help, someone doing programming still, continue along with it. I use Evolution as my main E-mail Client, I'm not sure how it all works, but it works much better for me than Windblows ever did. We have the Big Players and the small players, perhaps we need an exchange program between them, so the Big Players can make Changes, that will not affect the little players. Just a little thought.
Alfred! Alfred! -----Original Message----- From: Rick Bilonick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: evolution-list <evolution-list@gnome.org> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Spamfiltering with evolution - NO LONGER WORKS Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:01:24 -0500 On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 11:11 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > I have to agree ... Evolution has become a non-option for me when > > trying to pitch a linux desktop to corp offices. It just does not > > play. > > > > 3 or more years ago, EVO had lots of promise. Now, it is mostly a > > clunky interface with a few intriguing features but too far behind to > > be relevant. It's too bad. > > "Too far behind" - what on earth does that mean. Evo works perfectly > fine for me - I use it day in, day out - very, very few crashes. I read > five different email accounts with it, take address books from three > different sources and integrate calendars from a further five places. > This is all with 2.12.3 on Fedora 8. > > Just because one small bit of it doesn't work perfectly for you, don't > crap on the whole thing. Personally, I don't care that it won't talk to > Exchange 2007 - and to some extent I resent the time that the developers > are forced to spend chasing 'upgrades' to closed proprietary software - > I want them to spend time on getting a reliable CalDAV interface for one > thing! Remember, it wasn't that long ago that the exchange connector > was a paid for option to Evo, not an open source *free* integrated > plugin. As Paul Smith said - if you are unhappy with the software, take > it back to where you bought it and get a refund. > > P. > Unfortunately a lot of us are forced to deal with Exchange. Not working at all with Exchange is not a MINOR problem for a lot of us. Not filtering spam is a major problem also. Please stop complaining that people are reporting bugs. I thought that was part of the reason for the mailing list. The bigger problem is that bugs are reported and at times it seems that no one cares. Rather than criticizing people for reporting bugs and not giving enough information or the right info, just ask for specific info. We wouldn't report the bugs if we didn't want to help figure out what was going wrong. Rick B. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
