We tried out Postini recently at my business but we didn't like it because of limited reporting and tracking capabilities I believe. We just signed a 2 1/2 year contract with TrendMicro for hosted spam and virus scanning, and, as a couple others have mentioned, it queues up the messages for us if we have to take our exchange server down. There were certainly thing we didn't like, such as no outbound message tracking, the reporting can take up to 2 hours to update, and we can only go back 5 days in tracking incoming messages. However, they say they're working on the first two, so all in all, it's not a bad service. I was really surprised we didn't go with Postini but I wasn't involved in that decision.
I gave up pop just over 2 years ago...mostly for the sugar, but I eventually dropped it for the fun of it. I have to say that dropping all the caffeine has allowed me to sleep MUCH better at night, and I don't think I'm as testy as I used to by.
One of my buddies was having issues with his blood pressure and dropping pop helped a lot, but he was drinking multiple bottles of Mt Dew everyday....
I installed an Eclipse CD player in my SUV a few months ago with the intention that I could install the iPod interface in it if I decided that I didn't get good enough quality or reception in the iTrip I purchased for my wifes car. Sure enough, I was ordering the $50ish iPod interface from Circuit City less than a week later. There are some quirks with it, but overall it's much better. It uses the Eclipse data bus so I can add a HD tuner to it later for regular radio (the HD Tuner is something like $300, so I'm holding off on that) for a bit. The sound quality is just like listening through headphones since there's no chance of losing signal going through the air. I actually have the iPod hidden under my armrest so I never have to mess with it, and can control it only through my receiver. I have to say getting to some of the features are somewhat clunky, but it works great otherwise. Alpine has a good interface for doing the same, but I changed over to Eclipse because of the price of the Alpine iPod interface, and the fact that I don't like the large knob on the new Alpine decks...they just seem cheap when you can wobble the knob all around. All in all, no more FM transmitter for me....if you can't directly interface the iPod with your head unit and don't have a Aux Input, at least get a FM Modulator that will plug directly into your antenna line...there's definitely a difference.
I find the following quote very interesting....
"I chuckled a bit to myself. After all these years of the phone company having to lease out and let competitors use its phone lines and utility poles, Verizon was using a competitor's wiring (and the work they did to run it into my house). Sorry, Cablevision."
I gotta say, he's just wrong. The cable lines in the house are owned by the homeowner, not the cable company. Just like the electrical wires in the home aren't owned by the power company.
Cable companies have been using the existing phone wires in the house when they moved users over to digital phone/VOIP. It's simply the easiest and most non-intrusive way to set it all up, but if the author thinks that the verizon is using the cable companies lines, he's dead wrong. That would likely be illegal anyway.
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We tried out Postini recently at my business but we didn't like it because of limited reporting and tracking capabilities I believe. We just signed a 2 1/2 year contract with TrendMicro for hosted spam and virus scanning, and, as a couple others have mentioned, it queues up the messages for us if we have to take our exchange server down. There were certainly thing we didn't like, such as no outbound message tracking, the reporting can take up to 2 hours to update, and we can only go back 5 days in tracking incoming messages. However, they say they're working on the first two, so all in all, it's not a bad service. I was really surprised we didn't go with Postini but I wasn't involved in that decision.
I gave up pop just over 2 years ago...mostly for the sugar, but I eventually dropped it for the fun of it. I have to say that dropping all the caffeine has allowed me to sleep MUCH better at night, and I don't think I'm as testy as I used to by. One of my buddies was having issues with his blood pressure and dropping pop helped a lot, but he was drinking multiple bottles of Mt Dew everyday....
I installed an Eclipse CD player in my SUV a few months ago with the intention that I could install the iPod interface in it if I decided that I didn't get good enough quality or reception in the iTrip I purchased for my wifes car. Sure enough, I was ordering the $50ish iPod interface from Circuit City less than a week later. There are some quirks with it, but overall it's much better. It uses the Eclipse data bus so I can add a HD tuner to it later for regular radio (the HD Tuner is something like $300, so I'm holding off on that) for a bit. The sound quality is just like listening through headphones since there's no chance of losing signal going through the air. I actually have the iPod hidden under my armrest so I never have to mess with it, and can control it only through my receiver. I have to say getting to some of the features are somewhat clunky, but it works great otherwise. Alpine has a good interface for doing the same, but I changed over to Eclipse because of the price of the Alpine iPod interface, and the fact that I don't like the large knob on the new Alpine decks...they just seem cheap when you can wobble the knob all around. All in all, no more FM transmitter for me....if you can't directly interface the iPod with your head unit and don't have a Aux Input, at least get a FM Modulator that will plug directly into your antenna line...there's definitely a difference.
I find the following quote very interesting.... "I chuckled a bit to myself. After all these years of the phone company having to lease out and let competitors use its phone lines and utility poles, Verizon was using a competitor's wiring (and the work they did to run it into my house). Sorry, Cablevision." I gotta say, he's just wrong. The cable lines in the house are owned by the homeowner, not the cable company. Just like the electrical wires in the home aren't owned by the power company. Cable companies have been using the existing phone wires in the house when they moved users over to digital phone/VOIP. It's simply the easiest and most non-intrusive way to set it all up, but if the author thinks that the verizon is using the cable companies lines, he's dead wrong. That would likely be illegal anyway.