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At least since 10.4 it asks if you want to setup .mac after installation I believe.

10.4 came with mine but I never was asked about setting up .mac.

Yeah, but the applications is retarded and don't just use plain ftp and store the data in some directories or such, so you can't just choose "upload my calendar to web server."

What applications? When I uploaded files to my web space I used an FTP client from IPSwitch. And though I haven't installed it yet I have Cyberduck for my Mac.

How many videos can you upload on 20 GB anyway? Even the average persons digital camera photo album can't be uploaded in full.

I don't have a video or a digital camera yet, I still use my 35mm SLR. I'd like to get a DSLR but can't afford it right now. Hopefully in a year or so I'll be working as a photographer and can afford one.

Falcon

SNMP is the answer to your question.

http://www.ipswitch.com/Products/WhatsUp/WhatsUP - Kinda pricy. I don't know, there may be an FOSS solution, but I have never seen one.

http://www.snmp-informant.com/SnmpInformant - The seller of this product is pretty lame, but the mibs (if even needed) work just fine.

http://www.paessler.com/prtg/Prtg - *GREAT* little app (Windoze version of MRTG... on steroids) for only $40 that collects SNMP data and presents it in graphs using it's own http server. *GREAT* little app!

-Ponga

Their Collaboration Suit offers Calandering with Outlook, not sure how well it works though.

check this out:
http://www.ipswitch.com/products/collaboration/ind ex.asp

From their site
Save time with shared calendars and contacts

For many teams, working together productively depends on the ability to easily schedule meetings and share calendars, contacts, and other information. ICS includes powerful collaboration tools that allow Microsoft Outlook users to share their own up-to-date contact lists, calendars, task lists and Outlook notes securely within your organization. You can - with permission - view and edit your colleagues' calendars and contact lists.

Anyone have experiance with Ipswitch?
(I dont work for Ipswitch)

Some current Stage 5 situation: (FOSS community begins to slowly but inexorably erode the technical lead held by the commercial offerings)

WS_FTP --> Filezilla
Winzip --> 7-zip

I'd be interested in seeing what factors it takes to push the above into Stage 6 (FOSS version dominates).

Amail, Bmail, Cmail, Dmail, Email, Fmail, Gmail, Hmail, Imail, Jmail, Kmail, Lmail, Mmail, Nmail, Omail, Pmail, Qmail, Rmail, Smail, Tmail, Umail, Vmail, Wmail, Xmail, Ymail, and Zmail

Sorry.

One shortcoming for FileZilla is it will not do recursive CHMOD on the FTP server. I use ws-ftp lite that includes recursive CHMOD. Interface is clunky but it works.

My small gamedev co. used to serve up our own email, but when we downgraded from a T1 to DSL (we were sharing the T1 with a neighbor who moved) we switched to hosting.

Since we were used to full control, we went with something that provided administration features via the webmail system. With this we can set up lists, and more relevantly to this issue, set users passwords (among other things).

If ever somebody left the company (good terms or not) and we needed access to their email (for evidence, or just not wanting to miss an RFP sent to a no longer employed producer), we would simply set said ex-employee's password and take what we want. The hoster never gets involved.

Here one of the Sr. producers holds the keys to the email, in other situations a network admin would be ideal (we have no admin, just whatever random code monkey has time to love and nuture our network).

The software our hoster uses is iMail from Ipswitch. Here's a link.
(I have no connection to ipswitch except that our email hoster uses their software.)
I'm sure there's probably open source solutions that can provide similar features (or be adapted to do so).

Instead of jumping right in and converting boxes over to Linux and FreeBSD I quietly received permission to build a couple of FreeBSD servers out of PCs slated for the recycle bin.

Reciently I was involved in some meetings to look at network and server monitoring tools which included Deep Metrix's IP Monitor and Ipswitch's What's Up Gold. Both are pretty "entry level" but we only needed to monitor 25 servers for (mostly) non mission-critical reasons.

I took it on my own to install Nagios on one of my "play" servers over a long weekend. The following Monday I pulled the people together from the previous meetings and showed them what Nagios and FreeBSD could do...monitor everything they had defined as being critical to be monitored and send notifications via a TAP gateway to our IT pager.

Everyone was thrilled, the cost was about 8 hours of my time (they gave me a freebie day off!) and there was no MSFT tax paid.

Now that open source solutions have a) proven themselves in our organization and b) reduced some of our IT costs management is much more interested and much more flexible in investigating and implementing alternative solutions.

As long as Microsoft keeps charging us an arm and a leg for the privledge of implementing their systems (and sometimes they do have a better tool, I can admit that) Linux will have a strong ally in cost-concious managers everywhere if we can tone down the rabid fandom that scares a lot of "normal" people away!

Be polite and political about Linux and alternatives in your organization, and just show what it can do and you'll find people are more receptive to the idea!

"I'm buying a new mid-grade laptop computer, which I plan to dual-boot between Windows XP Home and Mandrake 9.x. Before its arrival in a few weeks I'm trying to think of what 'essential' software I'll need to make a usable home system. In general I'd like to spend as little money as possible (free is good). As far as my needs, think 'typical family PC' without an emphasis on gaming. I know I can get something like Open Office for word processing, presentation, etc. needs, but is there such a good thing as a good free virus checker? A good free email client? A handy web browser? What would you consider the top 10 (or so) pieces of software for a new home system, bearing in mind that I need software for both the Windows and Linux side of things?""

These are the files I keep on my "Esential CDs" that I bring around to help out other non-techs (Windows users) people. (Of course because they are financially broke after paying $200 for their Operating System, they want everything else to be free.) ;-)

Anti-Virus: The best free antivirus program I have found AVG Anti-Virus 6.0

Office Suite: (Word Processing, SpreadsThe quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumped off the edge. The quick brown fox ran off with all his toysheet, Slideshows, etc.)
Open Office 1.1

CD/DVD data/audio Burner: (and doubles as a CD image creator .ISO and .CUE)
BurnAtOnce 0.99a

CD/DVD image loader/emulator (perfect for people who often misplace their CDs): (loads .ISO, .CUE, .CCD, .CDI etc. files without burning them)
DAEMON Tools 3.41

MultiMedia Player (Mpeg, Mp3, AVI, etc.)Winamp Classic 2.91

or for audio only Foobar 2000 0.7

Zip Extractor:Ultimate Zip or7 Zip 3.11

Download Accelerator:Star Downloader v1.42

Internet Browser: (other than IE) Mozilla 1.4 or Opera 6.20

System Statistics: (Motherboard, Memory, BIOS, Video, Software info, etc)AIDA32 3.80

E-mail (other than Outlook Express)Thunderbird 0.2 or Pegasus Mail 4.12

Spyware/Adware killer:Ad-aware 6 or Spybot Search & Destroy 1.2

Pop-up Killer/Browser Enhancer (for IE)Google Toolbar 2.0.102

PDF document reader:Adobe Acrobat 6.0

FTP program (other than IE and the command line FTP)Winsock FTP LE 5.08 or FileZilla 2.2.1

Internet Chat Programs (other than Windows Messenger)Gaim 0.70or Trillian Basic 0.74E

Firewall Software:ZoneAlarm 3.7.211

or if you have Highspeed Internet, a spare 200mhz PC, and two network cards laying around...ClarkConnect 2.0

CD Ripper / MP3 Creator CDex 1.51

Graphics Editor (other than Paint) The Gimp

Graphics viewer (other

• CygWin. The Linux-like environment for Windows.
  Mozilla. Use this for mail, news, and browsing if you like.
  Firebird. for FAST browsing.
  WS FTP Light. A FREE, FTP client that works great.
  Filezilla. which is TRULY free and does sftp as well.
  PuTTY. a free SSH client for Windows.
  TTSSH. is a much less clunky ssh client than PuTTY.
  iXplorer. freeware secure FTP client
  VNC hello!? remote controll software.
  Tight VNClike the original, only FAST.
  GNU-EMacs for Windows. just trust me ;).
  Dev-C++a free C++ compiler for those who can't afford VS.
  NetHack. as someone here said, you MUST have NetHack installed on everything...
  Free-AV.free Anti-Virus software for Windows, (mandatory these days). or
  AVG Free edition. another free Anti-Virus software for Windows.
  Zonealarm. my favorite Personal Firewall,, really!. or
  Kerio. another firewall that some seem to like. or
  Sygate. yet another firewall. whatever floats your boat.
  Boingo. to see where the closest hotspot is, hehe.
  OpenOffice 1.1 the Microsoft Office KILLER :) {really!}
  Winamp 2.x for audio/video usage in Windows, stay away from the new one :).
  Mark's Adding Machine is much better than the Windows calculator.
  SpyBot Search & Destroy The best Ad-ware / Spyware removal tool we've found, "IE is unusable without".
  Ad-Aware another spy-ware app "alas poor Windoze."
  Trillian a favorite IM, since we're all chatters @ heart. or
  GAIM since trillian hogs resources, "bad piggy!".
  Gimp image creation/editing. Who needs Photoshop anyway?
  EnZip freeware Zip Utility, Stop nagging you WinZip!!
  Iview is a great little image viewer. or
  Irfanviewone of the best image viewer out there for Windows.
  Audacity is a great little sound editor.
  Virtual Dub. a great video editor.
  cDex gotta rip those cd's for the RIAA!
  MAME for games, period. Free. You can buy some ROMs, or *ahem* ask around. and finally
  XPantiSPY since XP is E-V-I-L.

And FINALLY, don't trust me! Trust the experts;

Go to the Pricelessware site maintained by the alt.comp.freeware Usenet group.
The

Here is my top ten list (in no particular order) for Windows. I'll let everyone argue about the Linux tools.
CygWin the Linux-like environment for Windows.
Mozilla naturally.... Use this for mail, news, and browsing if you like.
WS FTP Light a FREE, FTP client that works great.
PuTTY a free SSH client for Windows.
VNC remote controll software, NOTE: the location is no longer on the ATT Labs UK site.
GNU-EMacs for Windows. I usually install it, but use Vi more.
Dev-C++ a free C++ compiler. I use VC++ 6.0, but this is free, and I think it's pretty good.
NetHack You MUST have NetHack installed on everything...
Free-AV free Anti-Virus software for Windows.
Boingo to see where the closest hotspot is. (free) you don't need the service.

the guy shows up at these url's from the article plus sites found by readers and mentioned in posts above... so far:

- Ipswitch
- Plesk
- SCO
- Arsys
- Ecora

have any more to share?

http://mail.uruklink.net:8383/ (google cache) looks like they are using iMail, which is a POP3 server. Thus, if mail in there is still there, it is not read, because then it would be gone.

One area where open-source is doing great is in monitoring projects, such as Big Brother, NetSaint , Nagios, and others. I'm curious as to why you went with a commercial product instead of a free (as in beer and speech) one.

They probably want you to use SSL FTP for your secure connection with their FTP server. We ran into the same problem and had to purchase WS_FTP PRO to get a 'secure' connection with our vendor.

Try ws_ftple.zip from here

It's at Ipswitch.com.

<BLATANT SELF PROMOTION>

Caveat reador: I work for this company, and on this product, so I am not unbiased.

WhatsUp Gold by Ipswitch is a network monitoring product that builds nice maps of your network by auto-discovering your systems. It has nice scalable (vector graphic) icons for common system types and lets you create your own.

The new version which is due out later this year has a very flexible import/export system for maps so that you could easily use WUG to generate the maps then export them (in XML, for instance) to another program for tweaking.

It's main use is to monitor your systems and page/email/phone/etc you when things go down.

</BLATANT SELF PROMOTION>

<BLATANT SELF PROMOTION>

Caveat reador: I work for this company, and on this product, so I am not unbiased.

WhatsUp Gold by Ipswitch is a network monitoring product that builds nice maps of your network by auto-discovering your systems. It has nice scalable (vector graphic) icons for common system types and lets you create your own.

The new version which is due out later this year has a very flexible import/export system for maps so that you could easily use WUG to generate the maps then export them (in XML, for instance) to another program for tweaking.

It's main use is to monitor your systems and page/email/phone/etc you when things go down.

</BLATANT SELF PROMOTION>

Check out the Imail Server from IPSwitch. It's a great mail server that supports both web and pop/imap access (as well as ldap). The server only runs on windows NT, but it is a very solid product. The web client works on all browsers very well, and supports various options for session handling (cookies, or querystring), as well as SSL. There is also full web based administration. It's not free, but the cost is very reasonable. You also don't need a super-powerful server to be able to run it. The company is quick to patch any discovered issues with the product. My company has used it for some time now. It requires next to no maintenance either.

• XML validator
• Merriam-Webster dictionary
• www.wdvl.com/Authoring/
• WebImage
• gifoptimizer.com
• WS_FTP
• Cute HTML
• CGi documentation

The dictionary and gifoptimizer.com are the ones I use the most.

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My network monitoring software already has the option to use a voice modem to play sounds at me over the phone. Pity it doesn't work properly with Windows 2000.....