Some mail servers don't like other mail servers that have dynamic IP addresses. Also, there will be (hopefully short) times when the IP address changes, but the DNS records haven't been updated yet.
Part of the reason that people use Microsoft is because they grow up with it in schools. This is why Microsoft gives such large discounts to certain markets including business startups and education. Its like giving cigarettes to a kid, you know if you can get them hooked at a young age, you'll have a loyal lifelong customer.
So, if we start kids on non-MS platforms, I'd be willing to bet we'll be seeing more businesses and individuals using other platforms in 10 or 20 years. In short, your argument is the problem.
Its funny how you can make money with a new OS, no matter what everyone thinks about it, when you are have a monopoly on the Operating System and Office Suite markets.
That will only hold true under certain conditions. Namely, lots of smaller files. This increase in speed is mostly a result of a slightly improved protocol, not any magical internal updates. SMB2 allows for multiple requests to be given in a single request, which cuts back on chatting between transfers. So for transferring your movie collection for instance, the difference will likely be rather small.
Also of interest, Samba also has support for SMB2.
15 seconds? My 4 year old laptop running gusty can get a cold start on OOo in about 5 seconds. Subsequent startups take about 2-3 seconds. Of course this is still an eternity compared to the near-instant starts of MS Office though.
Heck with that. I'm running 32-bit flash in a 64-bit browser. I'm also running 32-bit Java in a 64-bit browser. I did nothing special for this on my gusty install.
The poster missed out on half of the introduction to OpenChange. Since most people won't visit the website, I'll fill in the blank.
OpenChange is basically the Samba of Exchange. It aims to provide both a library to be used in clients (as mentioned), and also provide a drop in replacement for Microsoft Exchange server.
Personally, I'm a bit weary of the project. Although it would be nice to have an open source server thats natively compatible with Outlook, and provides an easy transition off of Microsoft products, I'd much rather see a real Open standard take hold rather than turning MAPI into a pseudo standard like Samba has done to CIFS and is doing with Active Directory. Perhaps this is the best that can be done considering how entrenched Microsoft Exchange/Outlook has become in many companies.
Trendline equations in calc has been highly requested since the 1.x days. They revamped the charting module supposedly and we still don't have it! Usually if I make a line, I WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE HELL THE FORMULA IS! How this bug has been left open for 5 years is a bit disturbing.
MS can always come up with a proprietary protocol and make it the "market leading" protocol, whether it is based on an open one or not does not really matter. It does not limit the use of BSD Kerberos protocol by open-source systems, and it wouldn't have changed if it had been GPL'd (in fact, quite possibly even fewer systems would support it). Yes, they tried this. They called it NTLM and it sucked. Hence the move to Kerberos which was then mangled a tad to make it incompatible. Why reinvent the wheel (poorly) when you can just modify the existing one a tiny bit it so that it doesn't fit your competitors product?
Its this same model that will prevent them from becoming as popular as Linux however. I can buy a server from HP, IBM, Dell, Sun and many others and know that it will work with RHEL (and therefore probably most other Linux distros). If I want to run Solaris on a server, I buy a Sun machine because they are the only ones who make machines that guarantee compatibility.
Because Sun also makes hardware, their hardware-making competitors are much less likely to ship or support their machines running Solaris. For this reason alone, I doubt that Solaris will be more popular than Linux in the long run.
However buying the machine with Windows+Works+other BS, then returning the said software for a refund as described in the EULA usually works out to be much cheaper than any other option.
Few reasons I'm considering moving my business servers to Ubuntu...
-I've had much fewer bugs in Ubuntu server installs than with Debian Etch. Bugs seem to get patched faster as well. -Software is more up to date -3rd party Ubuntu debs are becoming increasingly popular
bacula has shadow copy support. There is also a version of rsync that supports shadow copy as well (you could use this in conjunction with backuppc).
Calling volume shadow copy a hack isn't quite fair. It really isn't too terrible, especially if you compare it to the horrid LVM snapshots in Linux. However I have found it to be quite unreliable on larger volumes (multiple TB), sometimes the snapshots just fail. Of course they don't just delete the snapshot that failed either, they end up deleting ALL the snapshots on the whole volume. I had a system set up for twice daily snapshots, but I was considering myself luck if I had more than 4 snapshots at a time.
Why people stick to direct3d for graphics is beyond me. Why would you target a single proprietary platform when a Free, well performing, cross-platform alternative already exists?
But as the parent said, any one using Microsoft software willingly fully deserves to get shafted by them.
Hey hey hey, don't get so worked up over it. I'm 100% certain that it was a hardware problem. Linux can't help it that it was loaded on low quality hardware. I'm sure if it were Windows installed instead of Linux it would have crashed MONTHs before the problem was evident in Linux. In fact, I'm sure there was something about this for months in Linux's syslog. If the system was properly set up to send out an email about the failure, or someone loved it enough to check the logs, this would have never happened. (yes, that was a joke. You can laugh now)
Anyway, I think its great to see Linux expanding more and more into mainstream. Small, embedded devices are becoming more and more powerful and apparent to people. As devices like this become more wide-spread, I'm sure Linux in general will start becoming more widely accepted by businesses and individuals.
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Some mail servers don't like other mail servers that have dynamic IP addresses. Also, there will be (hopefully short) times when the IP address changes, but the DNS records haven't been updated yet.
Part of the reason that people use Microsoft is because they grow up with it in schools. This is why Microsoft gives such large discounts to certain markets including business startups and education. Its like giving cigarettes to a kid, you know if you can get them hooked at a young age, you'll have a loyal lifelong customer.
So, if we start kids on non-MS platforms, I'd be willing to bet we'll be seeing more businesses and individuals using other platforms in 10 or 20 years. In short, your argument is the problem.
Its funny how you can make money with a new OS, no matter what everyone thinks about it, when you are have a monopoly on the Operating System and Office Suite markets.
That will only hold true under certain conditions. Namely, lots of smaller files. This increase in speed is mostly a result of a slightly improved protocol, not any magical internal updates. SMB2 allows for multiple requests to be given in a single request, which cuts back on chatting between transfers. So for transferring your movie collection for instance, the difference will likely be rather small.
Also of interest, Samba also has support for SMB2.
Not until ECC RAM becomes common in desktops.
There is an option to not index while on battery power. I know in earlier alphas that option didn't actually work, hopefully that is fixed by now.
15 seconds? My 4 year old laptop running gusty can get a cold start on OOo in about 5 seconds. Subsequent startups take about 2-3 seconds. Of course this is still an eternity compared to the near-instant starts of MS Office though.
Heck with that. I'm running 32-bit flash in a 64-bit browser. I'm also running 32-bit Java in a 64-bit browser. I did nothing special for this on my gusty install.
The poster missed out on half of the introduction to OpenChange. Since most people won't visit the website, I'll fill in the blank.
OpenChange is basically the Samba of Exchange. It aims to provide both a library to be used in clients (as mentioned), and also provide a drop in replacement for Microsoft Exchange server.
Personally, I'm a bit weary of the project. Although it would be nice to have an open source server thats natively compatible with Outlook, and provides an easy transition off of Microsoft products, I'd much rather see a real Open standard take hold rather than turning MAPI into a pseudo standard like Samba has done to CIFS and is doing with Active Directory. Perhaps this is the best that can be done considering how entrenched Microsoft Exchange/Outlook has become in many companies.
Trendline equations in calc has been highly requested since the 1.x days. They revamped the charting module supposedly and we still don't have it! Usually if I make a line, I WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE HELL THE FORMULA IS! How this bug has been left open for 5 years is a bit disturbing.
Could just encrypt all your LAN traffic if you're really paranoid.
KOffice has some major layout issues in general, KOffice 2 should greatly improve this situation.
Its this same model that will prevent them from becoming as popular as Linux however. I can buy a server from HP, IBM, Dell, Sun and many others and know that it will work with RHEL (and therefore probably most other Linux distros). If I want to run Solaris on a server, I buy a Sun machine because they are the only ones who make machines that guarantee compatibility.
Because Sun also makes hardware, their hardware-making competitors are much less likely to ship or support their machines running Solaris. For this reason alone, I doubt that Solaris will be more popular than Linux in the long run.
However buying the machine with Windows+Works+other BS, then returning the said software for a refund as described in the EULA usually works out to be much cheaper than any other option.
OS X = Linux done right. Minus all the little DRM bits and such.
Few reasons I'm considering moving my business servers to Ubuntu...
-I've had much fewer bugs in Ubuntu server installs than with Debian Etch. Bugs seem to get patched faster as well.
-Software is more up to date
-3rd party Ubuntu debs are becoming increasingly popular
Many places require copyright assignment for that very reason.
This is mostly because there are no accelerated video drivers for Linux on PS3. CPU power should be mostly there I'd imagine though...
bacula has shadow copy support. There is also a version of rsync that supports shadow copy as well (you could use this in conjunction with backuppc).
Calling volume shadow copy a hack isn't quite fair. It really isn't too terrible, especially if you compare it to the horrid LVM snapshots in Linux. However I have found it to be quite unreliable on larger volumes (multiple TB), sometimes the snapshots just fail. Of course they don't just delete the snapshot that failed either, they end up deleting ALL the snapshots on the whole volume. I had a system set up for twice daily snapshots, but I was considering myself luck if I had more than 4 snapshots at a time.
*Claps* Well said. Now mod him up!
Why people stick to direct3d for graphics is beyond me. Why would you target a single proprietary platform when a Free, well performing, cross-platform alternative already exists?
But as the parent said, any one using Microsoft software willingly fully deserves to get shafted by them.
Hey hey hey, don't get so worked up over it. I'm 100% certain that it was a hardware problem. Linux can't help it that it was loaded on low quality hardware. I'm sure if it were Windows installed instead of Linux it would have crashed MONTHs before the problem was evident in Linux. In fact, I'm sure there was something about this for months in Linux's syslog. If the system was properly set up to send out an email about the failure, or someone loved it enough to check the logs, this would have never happened.
(yes, that was a joke. You can laugh now)
Anyway, I think its great to see Linux expanding more and more into mainstream. Small, embedded devices are becoming more and more powerful and apparent to people. As devices like this become more wide-spread, I'm sure Linux in general will start becoming more widely accepted by businesses and individuals.
There are two big penguins then a small fleet of little penguins underneath them with 'SPE' tattooed on their chests in red letters. Like so http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geof f/cell/debian-penguin-shot.png/
Ever see a PS3 booting the Linux kernel? Muchos penguins!
But yes, you would get 4 penguins.
qalculate is freaking awesome! I especially love the conversions so you can do stuff like 15m/s = x mph and it just works.