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Why don't people delete old emails?
Blog Comment Is Outlook really that bad? never used it myself) I've set up all my mail and news folders (in Claws-Mail) with individual expiry times to suit the content - it's not exactly rocket science.
[December 8, 2009, 19:17]
Why don't people delete old emails?
Blog Comment Tezzer - I am required to use Outlook 2007 for my work mail, and I choose to use Thunderbird for everything else, on all of my various Linux/Solaris/Windows systems. Yes, I can tell you first-hand, Outlook is that bad.
[December 8, 2009, 20:46]
Why don't people delete old emails?
Blog Comment Again, I find it amazing that people such as yourself can easily suggest a few simple steps to manage the e-mail storage, yet the high-flying boss/manager/big cheese/horse's @ss can't see the need. In MS Outlook you can set the mail archiver to...
[December 8, 2009, 21:56]
Why don't people delete old emails?
Blog Comment Talking to an old friend who works in IT research, he points out that the cost of a user's time in deleting email (given current average salaries) is now more than the incremental cost of adding disk space to a storage array.
[December 9, 2009, 0:53]
Why don't people delete old emails?
Blog Comment I hope the IT research chap is including the cost of managing that storage. And on search, that's where better search tools and - again, I suspect - training on how to use them properly would go some way towards extracting business benefit from the...
[December 9, 2009, 8:30]
Why don't people delete old emails?
Blog Yet for PineApp, among others, this is a business that can hardly fail - unless they execute badly - simply because people don't throw away their emails. He reckoned that training people to use search and the delete key would be more expensive than...
[December 9, 2009, 8:19]
New Life for Old Microsoft Access Data
White Papers One of the sad facts about people's relentless journey forward in the world of computers and software is that they sometimes find themselves abandoning old data. People move from one word processing office package to another, only to discover that...
[October 17, 2006, 0:00]
Microsoft cracks down on used Windows sales
News People looking to off-load their old Microsoft software to make way for Windows XP have to be careful about selling it online. Charmaine Gravning, a product manager for Microsoft's Windows XP, said the policy is clear that people cannot sell or...
[October 9, 2001, 9:20]
Nokia urges users to recycle mobile phones
News Many people are simply unaware that these old and unused mobiles lying around in drawers can be recycled, or [don't know] how to do this. A majority of mobile-phone users leave their old devices unused at home, unaware that they can be recycled...
[July 9, 2008, 9:35]
HP offers cash in exchange for old tech
News HP has decided to offer people in the US money in exchange for their old tech equipment, the company announced on Tuesday. This new recycling program does not require people to buy anything to realise a monetary gain from giving HP their old tech...
[January 7, 2009, 7:48]
Software giant threatens mikerowesoft
Talkback i tried accesing the site and i cant at all, so its probably microsoft messing it up, otherwise i think its totally unfair that they can do something like that to a 17 yr old.i hope the people from microsoft realize the horrible mistake that they...
[January 19, 2004, 22:41]
Fighting Microsoft's licence check
Talkback This happens all the time, the only difference being that many people would use an old copy of Windows instead of Linux. I recently put together an old machine for my parents-in-law and naturally I installed Ubuntu as a user-friendly desktop Linux.
[June 22, 2006, 13:31]
The Old Man And The C
Leader On the one hand, it is distrustful of its oldest friends - the people who grew up with it, worked with it for decades but are now seen as too old to be much good any more. For a fifty-year-old, the IT industry is showing worrying signs of confusion.
[October 24, 2005, 15:35]
Creative uses for dead PCs
News We look at some of the more creative ways people have found of reusing their old hardware, and would like to hear from you if you have done anything similar. We look at some of the more creative ways people have found of reusing their old hardware...
[September 2, 2005, 14:25]
Dell wants more PCs recycled
News Dell hopes to instruct these organisations on how to hold events that let people can turn in old equipment. When PCs die or become aged, most people don't know what to with them. Getting rid of old computers has become a major problem in the past...
[October 10, 2003, 9:45]
Six thousand pages, one month, no chance...
Blog Comment But I doubt you can, because unlike people who THINK for themselves, you're just repeating what you read on the net written by some spotty 16 year old who doesn't like OpenOffice. But I don't expect you'd appreciate what I just said anymore than...
[January 23, 2007, 8:36]
Thunderbird: A handy data transfer tool
Talkback As a hardware technician I would often be doing data transfers from an old machine to a new one. I can guarantee 2/5 people would say can you transfer my Outlook files (I’m thinking great fun! and 1/10 of those people say “By the way I’m using...
[March 31, 2008, 11:46]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Rumours from people who claim to know people on the inside are rife, but it's fair to say that BT is not having a good time of things. It's been a ropy old weekend on the DSL trial. Good old Cix! Which is only good news: the survival of such places...
[April 23, 1999, 19:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Rumours from people who claim to know people on the inside are rife, but it's fair to say that BT is not having a good time of things. It's been a ropy old weekend on the DSL trial. Good old Cix! Which is only good news: the survival of such places...
[April 23, 1999, 20:03]
Australian woman charged in Net baby selling case
News The business of selling babies over the Internet is in the spotlight again, this time with a 39-year-old Victoria, Australia woman appearing before a magistrate's court after she used the Internet to contact people overseas in an attempt to sell...
[June 14, 2002, 9:17]
