it is the app.

I must run Lightroom. I am forced to use MS office stuff.

At least Apple provides me UNIX that can do this on overpriced hardware or I would become a hog farmer

2005: a PDF editor is the "Killer Linux App": https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linux.com%2Fnews%2Fkil...

2025: still not there a good, or even usable, PDF editor on Linux...

An absurd amount of compute running the Linux flavor of UNIX, accessed from MacOS.

I don't understand why google doesn't get the value of the very basic e-mail functionality of forward-as-attachment.

Perhaps it should be called `forward-without-corrupting' and the value might be seen.

This makes it painful to work with someone using gmail even if you don't use it.

I once worked with someone who need to forward me an HTML-formatted email to understand what hundreds of items that need immediate response were. Gmail insisted on formatting the HTML email (i.e. corrupting) when forwarding.

I could not make sense of the mail either. There was no way then to get the original email.. All my associate could do to share the email forward.

It turned out the HTML was invalid and gmail was formatting it in a crazy way. Since this is an AI problem, so I can't fault them for that. However, the lack of them not being able to simply get the email forwared uncorrupted wasted hours.

Solution was to help associated install an imap client.

Want to pass mail off to some more appropriate to respond; best way is `forward-as-attachement'.

Want to help someone with email problems and look at the header; `forward-as-attachement' makes it easy.

seriously? this is MIME 101

Yes, emacs vm is awesome. Google make a pretty good spam filter, but other than that, vm is far more powerful.

Zoom is great. we use it for schedule meetings, but not ongoing collaborative conversations. However, many of us have built up professional Real Skype (as opposed to S4B). These get used for lots for one going, collaborative conversations over the day, sometimes switching from chat to video.

It has been a great tool for cancer research.

Now, with Skype 8 being "re-built from the ground up", it is crap.

Now that they are trying to turn Real Skype from an excellent app needing some bug fixes into a failed snapchat, we are only stuck because of the network we have built.

I am a long time Skype fan; it was a powerful communication tool, not a social networking toy. If offered easy transitions from text to voice to video, easy exchange of files, cross-platform consistency,
reliability with an easy to use interface.

No more. The Skype Android June 2017 is a disaster. They have deleted important features and added toys.

1) there is no more contact list; you can't tell who is available.
2) bad use of screen real estate
3) no configuration
4) no user alpha/beta; it's just install

I use to be able to collaborate all over the world; this appears to be coming to an end for a bad imitation of snap chat.

If you actually find Skype a great tool, please go to

      https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fanswers.microsoft.com%2F...

and complain.

This stems from pricing plans that are designed to brain wash consumer into thinking they are getting great deals because of words like `unlimited' and `free'. In reality, cell service is overpriced and the consumer has little power because of limited competition offering they same kind of plans. Pay for one uses. Works for electricity, works for water. Power companies don't have family plans or double you bill with you go one watt over your limit.

thanks for the ultra-intelligent reply.

Research labs I have worked in are often hampered by the viral nature of the GPL. The GPL seems to assume that the value is in the software, not what it produces. We develop biomedical research software that we would like to open source to non-commercial users, while having a license fee for commercial users. Companies might make make significant amounts of money on the output of the software, without ever reselling it or even needing to modifying it. To us, it seems fair that they contribute back with license fees to help fund more development. The viral nature of the GPL, along with no one being sure what use is infectious, causes us to avoid build with GPLed software. Frustrating when there is some fine GPLed software that would be useful and to which we would gladly contribute changes.

it's not a POSIX file system

CentOS is completely frustrating for their inability to distribute current software. After years of compiling more and more of my own applications on CentOS 5.*, I finally got upgraded to CentOS 6.0. Already have to compile my own python and xfce. Something is wrong when the kernel revs more frequently than the applications. I belive RHEL has the same approach. What's the point in running an OS for outdated applications??

I am older and more experienced than you are. The only thing that stops me from learning new languages every year is the fact that I am learning and doing other programming and application related stuff. New languages are not the only thing, it's new methodologies. Extreme Programming is well worth checking out, even if we are too old to say "Xtreme" and not make people laugh. Functional programming has a lot to say for it. Learning a new language because it's fun is the best reason. Look at other application areas, I completely switching application area (from system to scientific programming) at around your age. I mentor younger people, take on problems where I don't have a clue. Sometimes I fail. The great thing about software is that it moves fast, you can always be learning and adapting. Any week I don't both learning something new and discover 10 things I don't know is a bad week. Go for it, if one thing you try doesn't seem to be what you want, you still learned something, try something different. The only way I will not be learning a programming techniques and languages when I hit 85 is if I am dead or have Alzheimer's; in which case it will not matter.

like dump??? Instead of deciding between rsync and tar??