state of Windows email clients in 2025, alternatives to Outlook (crap)

state of Windows email clients in 2025, alternatives to Outlook (crap)

Feb

4

2025

If you’re anything like me, and you’re a Windows 11 user… Microsoft has shoved the ad-filled Outlook client in place of the formerly usable mail client. Not only is seeing unnecessary ads is annoying, but the Outlook client is very very sluggish on all but the newest generation of machines. It looks Microsoft is using ...
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Social Security is a generational Ponzi scheme and the marks are Gen Z and millennial’s

Social Security is a generational Ponzi scheme and the marks are Gen Z and millennial's

Jan

8

2020

Madoff, Where did you get the idea of paying early investors with late investor money? So here we are in 2020 , and Millennial’s and GenZ will begin or makeup the vast portion of the workforce for the coming decades. They dutifully contribute to Social Security supporting the army of retired Boomers and Gen X. ...
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Sample Code: prevent web page overwrites


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Sample Code: prevent web page overwrites

Jul

8

2012

Below are some interesting problems and solutions that I have come accross. Problem: In a web based system how to you prevent multiple updates to the same record by different users seeing potentially different data. This is a play on the old airline reservation problem you find in older computer science text books. If  there is one ...
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Work…


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Work...

Dec

5

2011

 “Who am I and Why and I here?” – Adm. Stockdale VP Debates. Currently I work as a senior PHP developer at  a a/v integration firm in NJ. My role there is as a senior architect and developer responsible for building and maintaining  a modern web-based operations system. The system is used by the company to track projects, estimates  purchasing , ...
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