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I saw updates to the Thorn UML modeller rather frequently over the last few weeks on Freshmeat. It is written in Java, stores models using XML, uses Jython as a scripting language and is released under the GNU GPL.

I have an idea - I happened to be browsing freshmeat a few minutes ago, and noticed this program called findimagedupes which performs a "visual diff" of image files and proceeds to weed out images it thinks are "visually similar".. It claims a 98% success rate...

Couldn't a similar technology be used to "profile" an known commercial song then find mp3s that were "audibly similar"? As good as current speach recognition technology is getting, isn't this just simple waveform analysis? Couldn't this be applied to entire songs? The idea being that by the time the song is altered enough to NOT be audibly similar it would be undesirable anyway. This way napster could stay open and allow swapping of non-commercial music, but if a label finds napster is allowing trading of a copyrighted song the label simply uploads the "profile" (or maybe "fingerprint"?) of the song for them to scan against.

Maybe I'm just talking out my head.. Is something like this even feasible? (legit question)

Shayne

Can you say FSCKTV??
This thing would ROCK with a cable TV descrabler, (for educational purposes of course).

Here's a Related Link For "learning" about watching illegal Cable TV on your linux box. Haven't tried it yet mostly because My TV tuner card sucks.

Also, I could be wrong, but suppose a guy (not me I swear!) wanted to steal cable signals. If they wanted to go with the DSS method, they wouldn't have to pay ANY monthly service fee. The guy stealing Signals from his local cable company would likely have to pay for the "basic" package while his little black box would be considered the "upgrade".

More like rsync probably...

1) it required you to use their kernel.

2) screen refreshing was pretty poor. example: when you switch from one virt. desktop to another and the back again the win4lin screen was blank. it would only refresh if i selected something that caused an action. so if i clicked on the start menu it would refresh the portion of the screen with the start menu.

the second one could be my setup, but the first kinda sucks. i will give win4lin the speed thing though. it was spankin' fast.

use LaTeX? want an online reference manager that

I think Divine is a better concept. A configuration file tells it what servers exist on your various networks, and it then looks for the servers and sets the network configuration appropriately. But Divine doesn't know about DHCP yet.

have you tried freshmeat? It's a pretty good resource.
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Ok, here's the specs:

333 K6-2 evergreen upgrade processer,
8MB ATI All-in-Wonder Pro,
Creative DXR3 DVD Decoder,
USR 33.6 modem w/ voice,
Creative 64 Gold value,
2 hard drives,
1 CDRW,
1 DVD,


I have been using the comp. for 5+ months and must say it works great. Only problem is due to the fact that most of my episode files(I did see the show when it was brodcasted, and did tape on VHS when it did) are a mixture of Divx, MPG, Quicktime, and ASF. To play two out of the three I need to have Windows installed.

I love my DVD drive and Decoder and recomend it to everyone I know. The only problem is due to fact that only one person is currently developing for the EM8300 chip on the card in Linux/FreeBSD, the drivers are only in 0.82 release. If you want to run DVD decoding in Linux, Buy a god damn . Creative has opened up the source on the drivers somewhat and do support an Open Source project for those drivers. One question that I am sure that has poped up on few geeks minds that own a DXR3 is "Why isn't Creative suporting DXR3 when it's supporting DXR2?" The reason is due to the fact that Creative didn't make the chips for DXR3, Sigma did. They say that they support Linux selectively, but having spoken with the developers themselves, I know that they didn't have any plans as of 10-00. Also, I do know that the DXR2 did have many problems, and I had one upuntil it died on me.

The Video card works great at 800X600 due to the work of the Gatos Project. If you do have a DXR2 and ATI, you can use the Pro to use the DXR2 to display on Monitor. I don't know if the video does work.

Soundcard and others: if it's linux compatable, buy it and use it. If a soundcard is linux compatable and has 5.1 sound, why haven't you bought it yet?!!!

Pros for my system:
1) I don't need cable, just need to go to mom and dad's place to record episodes.
2) Set your own TV network up and delete the comercials except for at the superbowl. Then you watch the commercials and skip the game. Especially this year. (where's my buck Lucas?)
3) Playlist is a very good feature.
4) who need a 19" monitor when I have a 32" TV?
5) It gives me something to tweak everyday.
6) If you have a "copy" of a movie on your comp, why do you have to go to the theater to find out that it sucked?
7) It's what made me adiment about re-learning C++ and memory calls
8) Preview homepages to see how much it would suck if I had a WebTV

Cons:
1) Windows based. I want someone to come out with an ASF 2 MPG converter that actually works, and does not do it real time. (I would do it, and have tried to learn, but I'm about 3years to late to do machine code anymore) 2) Only 800X600 may sound great on a tv, but I'm going to have to upgrade when I get an HDTV.(Oh please, please, please santa. Bring me one small one, like say 27") 3) I can't think of another one other than the mess of cables.(hahahahhahahaahahahaha!!!!!!!!!)

if anyone really wants to talk to me, (bubbles@nospam.rea-alp.com) mail me, and we'll talk. If anyone has a similer situation or a problem, ask, and if I don't know it, then I'll ask around. And if I have a problem, we can talk and I can figure out wtf Microsoft is thinking to not open up asf.

Also, Taco, Divx is just as good as ASF, and there v2.0 site is even cooler.

Sincerly,
Mark W. Wallace

PS: I also have owned all of these thing for 2+years, so don't tell me that it's not fast enough!!!!!!!

Ok, here's the specs:

333 K6-2 evergreen upgrade processer,
8MB ATI All-in-Wonder Pro,
Creative DXR3 DVD Decoder,
USR 33.6 modem w/ voice,
Creative 64 Gold value,
2 hard drives,
1 CDRW,
1 DVD,


I have been using the comp. for 5+ months and must say it works great. Only problem is due to the fact that most of my episode files(I did see the show when it was brodcasted, and did tape on VHS when it did) are a mixture of Divx, MPG, Quicktime, and ASF. To play two out of the three I need to have Windows installed.

I love my DVD drive and Decoder and recomend it to everyone I know. The only problem is due to fact that only one person is currently developing for the EM8300 chip on the card in Linux/FreeBSD, the drivers are only in 0.82 release. If you want to run DVD decoding in Linux, Buy a god damn . Creative has opened up the source on the drivers somewhat and do support an Open Source project for those drivers. One question that I am sure that has poped up on few geeks minds that own a DXR3 is "Why isn't Creative suporting DXR3 when it's supporting DXR2?" The reason is due to the fact that Creative didn't make the chips for DXR3, Sigma did. They say that they support Linux selectively, but having spoken with the developers themselves, I know that they didn't have any plans as of 10-00. Also, I do know that the DXR2 did have many problems, and I had one upuntil it died on me.

The Video card works great at 800X600 due to the work of the Gatos Project. If you do have a DXR2 and ATI, you can use the Pro to use the DXR2 to display on Monitor. I don't know if the video does work.

Soundcard and others: if it's linux compatable, buy it and use it. If a soundcard is linux compatable and has 5.1 sound, why haven't you bought it yet?!!!

Pros for my system:
1) I don't need cable, just need to go to mom and dad's place to record episodes.
2) Set your own TV network up and delete the comercials except for at the superbowl. Then you watch the commercials and skip the game. Especially this year. (where's my buck Lucas?)
3) Playlist is a very good feature.
4) who need a 19" monitor when I have a 32" TV?
5) It gives me something to tweak everyday.
6) If you have a "copy" of a movie on your comp, why do you have to go to the theater to find out that it sucked?
7) It's what made me adiment about re-learning C++ and memory calls
8) Preview homepages to see how much it would suck if I had a WebTV

Cons:
1) Windows based. I want someone to come out with an ASF 2 MPG converter that actually works, and does not do it real time. (I would do it, and have tried to learn, but I'm about 3years to late to do machine code anymore) 2) Only 800X600 may sound great on a tv, but I'm going to have to upgrade when I get an HDTV.(Oh please, please, please santa. Bring me one small one, like say 27") 3) I can't think of another one other than the mess of cables.(hahahahhahahaahahahaha!!!!!!!!!)

if anyone really wants to talk to me, (bubbles@nospam.rea-alp.com) mail me, and we'll talk. If anyone has a similer situation or a problem, ask, and if I don't know it, then I'll ask around. And if I have a problem, we can talk and I can figure out wtf Microsoft is thinking to not open up asf.

Also, Taco, Divx is just as good as ASF, and there v2.0 site is even cooler.

Sincerly,
Mark W. Wallace

PS: I also have owned all of these thing for 2+years, so don't tell me that it's not fast enough!!!!!!!

Used to be that anytime someone criticized Linux, everyone would start bitching about how wrong and off base they are, and the discussion boards'd be full of posts proclaiming how windows sucks, with their main argument being the ability to substitute a dollars sign for the "S" in "MS". Those posts are still there, but a much larger portion of people now recognize that while Linux is a good OS, it is still weak on some fronts. (This Freshmeat article on Linux Browsers is a good example of this attitude).

I think the Linux comunity as a whole has matured and become able to realistically appraise their current situation, which makes the outlook for the future of Linux very optimistic.

Hook up a project on Sourceforge and link it from freshmeat and get that CVS tree going.. this could be a goldmine project.

pfft. ;)

If you want to uncompress an ARJ, then you should use unarj, but I don't know if it can handle SFXs.

Now, regarding video quality. RealVideo 8 is quite good, and in every comparison I've seen, does better than the competition. Of course, I'm a RealNetworks employee, so I'm prone to bias. Still, here's the link to comparitive data on the RealNetworks site, as well as an independent assessment which largely comes to the same conclusions (with some nods to the competition). And, yes, there's a Linux version

As far as server price goes....hey, we've gotta make a living somehow. For the bandwidth necessary to stream to the audiences that you quote, you're going to pay a lot more in bandwidth and infrastructure than in software licenses.

So, can we get a little slack here? :)

Rob

I often prefer displaying my real email on web site, on news groups, because I love fighting spammers. we have _tools_. *grin*

uce :
before spam :


http://www.devin.com/sugarplum/ to protect your webserver from search bots.
teergrubing to protect your MTA :
http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/teergrub e.en.html
(and of course, hide your email like that : xavieratbocaldotcsdotunivdashparis8dotSPAMfr ;-)

after spam :


http://spamcop.net/
http://www.samspade.org
http://mail-abuse.org(RBL)

tools to semi-automaticly report/fight spam :

http://freshmeat.net/appindex/console/anti-spam.ht ml

irl :

As other says, send back the empty enveloppe.

One funny thing about phone spam is the possibility to talk to the person which is trying to sell you something, like to a human being. (after all, it's often a woman poorly payed to do this job. she(he) deserve humanity). I usually ask if the person is in good mood, and it's easier to say goodbye after this.

I cut my teeth at being a sys admin
at an ISP with BSDi servers. I must
say that BSDi 3.0 would setup with
all sorts of services that you would
never user, in much the same manner
as Redhat 6.2, but it seemed to require
minimal patching and I do not recall
the deadly exploits that script kiddies
employ against Redhat. Maybe the BSD
code is just of a higher quality, maybe
there is something to security through
obscurity (as BSDi does not have the numbers
Redhat has) nor is it code freely available.

Well, enough of my ramble. I just wanted
to mentione that there is a port of BSDs
ftp daemon to linux here.

Also, set up chkproc to monitor processes and respawn them when they die (Linux only, but you can probably port it to other unices).

Perhaps with the combination of the two you can make it a week or two, with your pager only interrupting your tropical siesta a few times.

Grab my mp3check perl script to make your life much easier when preparing a large quantity of MP3s for CD burning. I wrote it specifically for use with my Aiwa CDC-MP3. Saved me days of work when preparing gigabytes of MP3, I swear.

--ryan. (icculus@lokigames.com)

How about Correcteur 101
Correcteur 101 is a French grammar checker that provides a complete grammatical analysis of a sentence. It analyzes, explains, and corrects grammatical and spelling errors.
It's not a educational program, but it should be able to help you get on you way.
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A quick search for "language teaching" revealed: LingoTeach.

If you go to any linux information site, or even freshmeat.net you will see that there are many Linux distributions. Red Hat was not the first, and is not all, Linux distributions. Please don't paint the entire Linux community Red just because of how bad some Red Hat distributions have been.

actually, it does.. http://freshmeat.net/projects/openmerchant/

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=billing

I anxiously await my answer.

-- Flavio

You should check out Links. I use it all the time! It supports frames, tables, cookies, ssl, etc.

Later...

I bought a 31 inch computer monitor from Gateway about 3 or 4 years ago. Works great. I can watch TV while I'm surfing the web from a couch across the room. Although Gateway's Destination system didn't really pan out, I still think it will be the entertainment system of the future. Why will people buy TVs when Giant monitors eventually cost the same price? (My 31 inch monitor used to sell for $999). I bet we'll all soon have 48 inch flatscreens hanging on the wall.

Besides that, Somebody will find a way arround it. Somebody has already found a way to decrypt cable TV on your computer. Check out this cool app. at Freshmeat.net

That's why you must use Links!

QuakeWorld client/server allows your groups to interact in many ways.

Freshmeat has a development environment section:
http://freshmeat.net/appindex/development/environm ents.html

Here you will find Code Crusader, a CodeWarrier look-alike. Never used it, but there are some favourable comments on freshmeat.

Freshmeat has a development environment section:
http://freshmeat.net/appindex/development/environm ents.html

Here you will find Code Crusader, a CodeWarrier look-alike. Never used it, but there are some favourable comments on freshmeat.

It's encouraging to see that CLI apps are still being developed by small groups of rebels. I've always found the command line to be infinitely more efficient; once the learning curve of familiarizing one's self with commands has past, feeding a quick string of keys to an app will always be more efficient then the current mouse-centric gui environments (though I look forward to the days of eye tracking and other, more natural command interfaces)

I'm not sure if this is obvious or not, but if you have a good bit of free time, reading through posts on /. (on usage of linux for whatever reasons) might help. Even if you don't know exactly what's going on, you at least get exposure to the terms and methodologies.

A problem with a newbie reading /. is that there are a lot of people here posting things that are only partly accurate (or just plain nonsense). As a newbie it might be hard to filter those out. Therefore I think a newbie would learn more by reading Freshmeat or debianHelp or something and read slashdot for entertainment purposes only.

Electric Fence is good. So is YAMD.

Electric fence has the advantage of working on non-Linux systems like HPUX, Solaris, etc., while YAMD is for Linux/x86 or DJGPP only. YAMD does the same segv thing as Electric Fence, but it can also produce a log file which is invaluable for finding memory leaks. I think it can detect most (all?) of the problems that the original poster mentioned. YAMD can also be linked to your program at runtime, unlike Electric Fence, which I believe requires you to relink.

Molly.

Electric Fence is good. So is YAMD.

Electric fence has the advantage of working on non-Linux systems like HPUX, Solaris, etc., while YAMD is for Linux/x86 or DJGPP only. YAMD does the same segv thing as Electric Fence, but it can also produce a log file which is invaluable for finding memory leaks. I think it can detect most (all?) of the problems that the original poster mentioned. YAMD can also be linked to your program at runtime, unlike Electric Fence, which I believe requires you to relink.

Molly.

For all the ppp troubles I have experienced and read about, I finally found a script that just works.

Rain's PPP Scripts
http://freshmeat.net/projects/rainspppscripts/?hig hlight=rains+ppp+scripts

You just have to slap your username and password, phone number, and maybe change the login prompt expects (login: password:, or username:, password:)

And it just *works*
And its console based, so no fooling around with clicky ppp windows!

Of course this assumes you don't have a lobotomized modem (winmodem)

The main problem with filtering software is secrecy. When we don't know what sites are being blocked, then the error rate is also secret, so we can't know whether we're being duped. Since we don't know the content of most sites on the web, if a legitimate site is blocked through error or deliberate choice (e.g., blocking Peacefire as porn) we never find out what we're missing -- unless we try to go there with prior knowledge that it's legitimate. And website owners can't know when their sites are wrongly blocked and labeled as pornography or bomb-making instructions.

But filtering software relies on secrecy in a very fundamental way; a filterware company's marketable product, their added value, comes from the quality of their blocking lists. If the lists were freely available, then all filtering companies would go out of business. There would be no incentive to come up with a good list, someone else could just copy it.

I'm sure some people would very much like for this to occur (and a lot of them have posted above). But I don't think, from a public policy perspective, that we're ever going to convince a Congressman to pass a law sending censorware companies out of business when there doesn't seem to be any alternative method of filtering. Parents have a real desire, one that I think is legitimate in a lot of cases, to shield their kids from 'objectionable' material. Right now the only ways to do that are to monitor your child's Internet access all the time or to install filtering software -- and now we're seeing that spread to schools and libraries.

Another option, and one that I think a lot of parents or schools might take, would be to deprive their kids of the Internet entirely and not give them access at home. As far as freedom of information is concerned, I think we'd be shooting ourselves in the foot if we fought to promote free access to the few sites that censorware wrongly blocks and in doing so caused a lot of kids to lose their access to the entire wealth of the Internet.

I don't see any easy escape from this, but one possibility would use the open-source model. The reason why we celebrate the use of open-source software is because we believe that software open to public scrutiny will be of higher quality than if it were closed-source. Why don't we apply the same reasoning to blocking software and blocking lists? Lists are currently secret, not for any technical reasons, but because the companies who maintain it have to make money.

Imagine, though, if a non-profit foundation (American Family Association, etc.) maintained an open list and put together a filter that would make use of that list. Anyone could submit sites to the foundation, which would then use real humans to check them before adding them to the list.

Because the profit motive and secrecy would be gone, there would be no incentive for the group to add sites that they knew to be unobjectionable. Also, since the list is openly available, there would be constant attention (from the press, watchdog groups, website owners, etc.) to see whether sites were listed erroneously. If people felt that the list had too many errors or used the wrong categories (for instance, a site might not separate sex education information from pornography), they could start their own competing list, copying and modifying the original one. The open filter list would be unable to hide accidental or deliberate errors, and it could be adapted to make use of any group's list at the parent's request. The result would be a system in which errors were self-correcting and parents had both the knowledge and the freedom of choice to make real decisions about what their children should see.

I see two potential problems with this model that would have to be addressed. The first is that the lists would not be adequately maintained without the profit motive -- it would just cost too much money to employ people to scour the web or read through the submissions for objectionable sites. This may be true, but I have the feeling that some conservative billionaire (or Paul Vixie type) would be happy to endow a foundation to protect kiddies on the Web forever.

Secondly, there's the danger that the list would simply become a 100 MB text file of "Where to Find Porn on the Net." Since it would have to be publicly accessible, there's a good chance people might look for objectionable sites by scrolling through the list. But as long as the categories were reasonably vague, then they're no better for that purpose than a search engine. I can type 'porn' into Google and get as many hits as I want; the list wouldn't make my search any easier.

I don't know whether a project of this type would ever come to pass, but I think that it would be greatly beneficial for the Net as a whole. If an open-source alternative exists, then it would be possible to get the public consensus behind shutting down commercial, secrecy-based filtering sites. If we don't have any alternative, then Peacefire and their supporters are going to be fighting a losing battle.

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http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/charities.cron

I'm far from being a hardcore programmer type (I'm really not that good at it...) but if you use GNU tools like make and autoconfigure, it shouldn't be all that difficult for even a casual user to figure out how to compile something. (./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/packagename-version && make && make install && stow /usr/local/stow/packagename-version )

(Sidenote, stow is your friend! GNU Stow

The advantage to this is that the end user has do more than untar the biniaries. This is good because some packages may contain newer versions of libiaries than the user has installed. Usually, the result won't be more than something wanting to be updated or recompiled, but you can break your system fairly easily.

Also with source you have a bit more flexiblity in what libiaries the user has installed. (You need version 1.4.5 or above rather than the version this binary was compiled agnist) You'll probally get less flame style e-mail whining about "Why doesn't this work on my l33t system?"

With software that isn't release quality, source only distribution is acceptable, and IMHO, the best option. Keep the riff raff away until it's closer to release quality.

Screenshots, well, you always have to have screen shots. I often just look at screen shots and say "not quite ready, probally not worth my time, yet. But gee, it sure looks cool..."

I see 4 programs at freshmeat for Gutenberg front ends. Are any of these widely adopted? This seems like an ideal candidate for XML. A DTD to define structure and XSL for presentation...hmmmmm

but why is the Linux kernel compressed? Wouldn't that make the loading process longer because it must be uncompressed?

Rotating storage is slow. Executable compression products such as free UPX take advantage of the fact that loading a compressed file and unzipping it on a modern CPU-memory system is often faster than loading the same file, uncompressed, from rotating storage media such as hard drives or {C|DV}D-ROM drives.

Also, I wish that Linux could have a much smaller text editor. Windows Notepad is only 34KB in Windows 95

• Use pico. It's said to be much easier to learn than vim and still much more powerful than Notepad, especially taking into account all the DLLs that Notepad loads.
• Keep an Emacs session running in the background (C-z). Parts of Emacs will be swapped in as necessary.
• Use one of the hundreds of text editors available on OSDN Freshmeat.

I wrote a CDDB proxy which can operate as a standalone CDDB database and includes similar fuzzy searching for CD records. I released this on Freshmeat.net last year under the GPL license. Does this mean i'm going to receive a cease and desist letter?

I think kinstall is what you're looking for, if you want an install(1) wrapper.

"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.

AOL Instant Messenger. It's too easy to run that via the web. ...

• BAIM - A BitchX AOL Instant Messenger plugin/module.
• gaim - GTK based AOL Instant Messenger
• Imici Messenger - Multi-protocol instant messaging.
• jaim - A Perl console AIM client.
• Kaim - An AOL Instant Messenger using the Qt library.
• Kit Client - KDE-based client for the AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) service.
• LAIM - An ncurses based AOL Instant Messenger(tm) client
• Tac - An AOL Instant Messenger client in pure TCL
• TiK - Tcl/Tk version of AOL Instant Messenger
• TNT - Emacs Clients for the AOL Instant Messenger service
• Generally, when a protocol is open and popular, there's no shortage of Unix clients for that protocol.

Search Freshmeat for Panda. Think of it as "libpdf". Allows you to create PDF documents programmatically from c,c++,vb and (soon) perl and python.

May not be very helpful, but you can save alot of money and time (no need for clustering) by just using DistMP3. Its a distributed client server system that offload encoding to many computers. Like distributed.net.

A search on Freshmeat reveals Gopher+ that was apparantly released March of this year.

Maybe I'll install it when I have some time and see if it's any good.

Which distribution were you using for the past three years which compared so poorly to BSD? I've not tried it personally but I believe Debian shares a good number of the examples you give, and has the advantage of using the linux kernel with more hardware support (and commercial support - look at the plugin debate). (Yes I know there are lots of other differences, pros and cons between the two kernels but none of those are what f5426 is talking about in his post).

My own systems run a very minimal (ie libc, gcc, a shell and as little as possible else) install of the latest Slackware, with all my applications installed from source and managed using the Encap Package Manager, which I'd recommend to anyone. This leaves me with an exceedingly easy to manage system, over which I have full control, and free from the coarse dependancies in modern distributions that leave them so bloody bloated (SuSE, Mandrake, Redhat.... probably FreeBSD too). What seems to be needed (both for linux, bsd etc) is a packaging system with much finer grained package dependancies - several versions of each package with different options compiled in depending upon what other libraries etc are available.

I have hated graphical user interfaces for a long time.. and then I came across a document that put my reason into a well formatted document..
goto freshmeat, and search for "butt".. its some program that has to do w/ like speech synthesis or some other audio thing, but thats not what I care about it for.
In that download, there is a file called 'command.txt', i believe it is. It discusses, as I said, why command line interfaces will always be better than GUIs.

I use two SyncMaster 900IFTs, and they match very well

From a "politically sensitive" corporate point of view, e-mail enabled calendaring, including task and meeting assignment, is the reason that so many people want to switch. Check out the freshmeat section on Calendaring Programs. Being able to have everybody on the same calendar, and knowing that the calendar names are exactly the same as the email names is a non-trivial item for anybody who has to schedule more than one meeting a month. I have worked with shops that went away from other solutions, simply because they wanted e-mail enabled calendaring.

Things to mention when considering migration:

• Cost of training users.
  • Outlook installs with a default of MS Rich text format. Most users are so tickled by this feature that they forget that anything that goes out of the outlook/exchange environment can't read this.
  • Users *must* be trained to create *.pst files on their own machines, and to create rules that move things to those separate files. The largest disadvantage of Outlook/Exchange is that all of the e-mail and attachments are stored in a single file, encoded and encrypted by outlook standards. Kiss goodbye to searches by anybody but Perl demigods.
  • Users must be trained to use the calendaring feature effeciently.
  • The cost of the user training, at 4 hours per user, is left as an exercise to the IT person who needs to makes sure that is included in the budget.
• Also included in the budget must be extensive training for IT, at least two dedicated boxen (one for Exchange, one to make copies and backups of the server-side giant file), more cabling, upgrades to client machines, and several small factors.
• This does not include the cost from Outlook/Exchange security holes. MS Outlook is the soft target of choice. Any Cost estimate must also include the cost of obtaining and maintaining virus protection hardware and software. It must also include an hour of e-security training for each user. Are you WinX users used to right-clicking to run the virus software? Can't do that in Outlook. Look for information on lost time to virii! Multiply that by the users in your network, by department, and give a cost estimate, by job description.

How is the server going to know about the users if they don't exist? Or does your existing setup just automatically create a mailbox whenever someone connects to your mail server?

qmail-ldap can do this. You have to provide a valid username/passwd, but after that you can have qmail-ldap automatically create mail directory and other info on the fly when the user first connections.

qmail can also be used with mysql and NIS, among others. I don't know how exchange handles users profiles, but creating users by hand is a pain. With qmail, you can write a script to automate most of this for you, just give user/pass and have it prograte into the ldap, MySQL, NIS db and don't have to worry about it.

Why couldn't you use that "Active Directory" or whatever Microsoft calls it (ie. that ldap thing that Microsoft "extended") to make it smooth like butter?

Exchange is a system for transporting mail. Sendmail is just as adept at forwarding macro virus infected emails

I don't know about Exchange, but qmail has methods of killing virii before they start, at the server level. There is some sendmail add-ons also avaiable.

Exchange should also have some prevention methods, but I really don't know, never used it.

I hardly think so.

You obviously haven't looked here.

Or here.