Hi, Dan,
>
> I understand, but I'm from the "throw the little kid into the pool" if
> they sink jump in and rescue them, if the float great. :)
That doesn't work in the business world, unfortunately. People would
probably learn better and more quickly if it did.
I had the rug pulled out from under me the day before I was supposed to
start my new job, and I, in my anger and frustration, decided to go back to
running my own business. WIthin a week I had a client that was big enough
and pays enough to keep me afloat while I build things up, and I am not a
great salesperson by any means. The "make it look easy, make it look like
new and improved Windows" method of approaching bringing Linux into a shop
for the very first time really does work, and I owe my livlihood to it :)
>
> Many people will simply leave unnecessary daemons running because they
> simply don't know what it does. Stopping apache is much safer than
> stopping xfs. If you don't know what they do, you might not want to
> stop them to avoid breaking your system.
Yes, but OTOH, imagine leaving Apache or NFS running on a firewall. See
what I mean? You really do want to shut down what you don't need. The last
thing I want is a client's security compromised, especially when I'm the
security expert they hired :)
>
> Gnome 2.0 will have Evolution, the Outlook clone.
I *hate* Outlook, so that isn't likely to sell me on Gnome :) I loved
PMMail, so having something that functions a *lot* like that does helps sell
me on KDE2 :) The whole Gnome vs. KDE war, licensing aside, will
eventually devolve to little more than personal preference. There are very
talented coders in both teams producing ever nicer code.
> But I have a
> working mail reader. Mutt, which is highly configurable curses (or
> slang) based mail reader. Using procmail, I sort my mail into
> directories, and from there it can thread the emails as if they were
> news messages. Quiet nice.
Yep, but kmail does all of that, and it's got a nice, graphical front end.
To me, that makes it nicer.
>
> I have no problem with eye candy :)
Nor do I, until it starts to hamper performance. Try running E on my five
year old notebook (P90, 40 MB RAM) and see what I mean :)
>
> I would hope we are all adults, but sometimes I seriously doubt it.
You *do* have a point there.
Regards,
Caity
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