Last time Apple "got away from their core business of making computers and operating system software" they invented the friggin' iPhone - maybe you've heard of it? Or did you miss the announcement because your iPod was too loud? (iPod being the time before last that they "got away from their blah blah blah".
Seriously - AAPL is at $200, and Apple marketshare is growing, precisely because of this kind of lifestyle stuff.
Zimbra offers a tool for migrating from an exchange server, and a tool for importing a local PST file. (Aimed at admins and users, respectively).
Syncing handhelds does not require the purchase of outlook - that information is just plain wrong.
Even if you start anew with Zimbra, the obvious and glaring loss of popular (and even common) features is enough to cause full scale user revolt.
I'd have to presume that Exchange wasn't what Comcast is moving from.
This is correct, they were on another large hosted solution.
None of that has anything to do with what Exchange is aimed for. Exchange is not used for any major ISP that I'm aware of (not even Microsoft's public email services), nor should it be. Exchange is built to integrate with Domain Services. It's made so that you can have resource scheduling integrated with calendars and busy notification. It's made so that a secretary can log into her boss's account and check all his emails and send emails as herself or under his name as if he sent them himself. It's made so that when the idiot sends out the video of the latest commercial he thinks is cute that there is only one copy of the video on the server, and the emails point to it, rather than replicating it 1000 times.
While your statements about Exchange may be correct, your (implied) statements about Zimbra are not.
Resource scheduling, integrated in calendar with busy notification - Zimbra has that.
Delegated accounts (secretary/boss) - Zimbra has that, for email and calendar.
Single instance store (1000 copies sent, one copy on disk) - Zimbra has that
I'm not claiming that Comcast is planning to OFFER all of these features - but they certainly exist in Zimbra.
Why does a browser based email client imply the internet?
If you're on a generator, and you're hosting your mail on your IN-TRA-NET, there's nothing stopping you from continuing on. Of course, mail in or out may not work, if your upstream provider is down, but you can still read the latest attempt at relevance from your marketing department.
I honestly believe it is a few guys that just work on this and try to pretend that it is a company. You always go into voicemail, so I am sure that the tech is working somewher else and running to a conference room to check his email.
It strikes me as ironic (in the scary, not-very-funny-at-all sense) that it's the judiciary committee that got caught breaking the law, violating ethics, and spying on their counterparts.
We're supposed to trust these people with judicial nominees?
I've got a mac laptop, which I use almost exclusively from the command line. ssh in, ssh out, nobody gets hurt. NIS, SMB, ldap all enabled by default, and not in the obvious way (under the preferences window) but via a utility buried in my applications folder.
I normally work on my own network, via dhcp, so it's not a big deal - but I do occasionally take it on the road and use public networks.
I drive alone all the time, my commute is 90 mile round-trip. I own an '01 triumph, I get ~45mpg, and the vehicle cost about $8k. Less fuel usage, easier on the roads, quicker in traffic, and if I can't see around an SUV, I just pass them.
Sure, the down economy is a macro-environmental factor in the IT field, but in this particular situation, it doesn't count as much - if you're employer really needs this done in 6 weeks, then they cannot afford to alienate their team.
The bottom line is, they can't force you to work 12/7, they can only ask - so start a discussion about bonuses, time off, goals, etc - and get their promises in writing, without generating too much animosity (you don't want to get fired after the project, either). If your PHBs are even remotely cool, then you should walk away from the project feeling adequately compensated for your lost summer.
I use the FasTrak auto-toll-collecting device in the SF area (and I love it). Just got a note in the mail from the MTA with an updated EULA and info that they were going to start tracking all devices.
They claim that they will scramble the id number, collect the data, and use it to generate real-time traffic info, available via 511 or 511.org. THe info will include the current drive time from point to point on a hiway (which is pretty useful).
The opt out clause was funny: If you don't wish to participate, put your FT device in the enclosed mylar bag when you're NOT going through a toll plaza, and you won't be tracked.
There was no mylar bag in my packet.
I'm not really sure how much this bothers me. On one hand, I don't like it, and can only assume that this info will be for sale pretty soon (to mapquest, probably). On the other hand, the Gestapo^H^H^H^H^H^H^ Homeland Security Dept. probably already knows that I got to work everyday, anyway.
I just spent a week in Europe playing (well, working, really) with the t68i, P800, SPV and GX10, and I like the GX10 best, hands down.
The screen on the T68 series sucks, badly. The joystick moves when I want to click, and clicks when I want to move.
The SPV (Orange only, AFAIK) runs some form of windows, and it sucked... It *crashed* constantly, and the menu layout and function navigation was terrible. F'rinstance, from reading an SMS, it took no fewer than for navigation steps to change from one folder (eg. inbox) to another.
The GX-10 has a great screen, intuitive navigation interface, easy camera functionality, great form factor, great controls, and was the easiest to configure and use. My only carp is that it's not great on memory - it refused to download MMS messages that the t68 had no problem with (but that may be due to greater color depth - 68k colors vs. 4096)
I did some work for a customer who was setting up a data center in Hong Kong, and they named their servers after subway stations. When I complained about the opacity of this system, the response I got was "It makes perfect sense! All the app servers are on the same rail line!"
They did the same thing when they set up their UK center.
Scary - waking up in the middle of some emergency, and trying to remember what the different machines did caused much, much confusion.
As a software developer, I am not surprised about the lack of help in the beta. In our release cycle, we never get the docs done until the software is releasable, because it isn't until that time that we've got all the answers to the doc groups questions.
Online help is generated from the docs, so that comes even later...
How much packet inspection can they do, legally? I realize that they can inspect headers, etc, to their hearts content, but can the ISP really monitor the _contents_ of my packet stream without already having clear evidence of an AUP violation? (I haven't read their AUP, so I don't know).
If they can, then it follows that they may read my email (again, without prior evidence of wrongdoing) in order to enforce their business practices - this seems like a pretty clear violation of privacy.
NOTE - I don't really think that my email is private, nor do I believe that IP traffic is secure - the question I'm asking isn't about the capabilities of the ISP. Rather, I'm curious as to whether or not they have the legal _right_ to monitor my traffic (payload, not headers) without a complaint (or a warrant).
I don't think that MAC addresses will work - any packet sent upstream from your NAT box will have the MAC address of that interface on it. Subsequent hops will result in that being re-written by each piece of equipment that hands off the packet.
One - Aunt Tillie's data is important to her, and she won't want to upgrade if she'll lose her recipes/email/addressbook/porn.
Two - Nephew Jonny is gonna be _pissed_ if he can't play the latest games. (Of course, this could help spur Linux game development, which I'm definitely in favor of, but I'm not holding my breath.)
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Last time Apple "got away from their core business of making computers and operating system software" they invented the friggin' iPhone - maybe you've heard of it? Or did you miss the announcement because your iPod was too loud? (iPod being the time before last that they "got away from their blah blah blah".
Seriously - AAPL is at $200, and Apple marketshare is growing, precisely because of this kind of lifestyle stuff.
That is not correct. Zimbra's search control also offers the ability to search google, but google is not involved in the mail search.
Moron, yes, non sequitur, no...
minimal drawbacks refers to the lost opportunity of blocking these users (v. low, is his claim).
tremendous rewards refers to the potential savings of blocking these users (v. high, is his claim - maybe he's paying too much for bandwidth?).
So he's comparing lost potential sales to saved cost of page serving.
(Note - I'm not agreeing with the claim, just pointing out that it's not necessarily a logical fallacy.)
- Resource scheduling, integrated in calendar with busy notification - Zimbra has that.
- Delegated accounts (secretary/boss) - Zimbra has that, for email and calendar.
- Single instance store (1000 copies sent, one copy on disk) - Zimbra has that
I'm not claiming that Comcast is planning to OFFER all of these features - but they certainly exist in Zimbra.Unless they lied to me in school, the American Civil War (aka The War of Northern Aggression) was one of the bloodiest wars in recorded history.
Unless, of course, you're speaking of the end of slavery in Britain.
Why does a browser based email client imply the internet?
If you're on a generator, and you're hosting your mail on your IN-TRA-NET, there's nothing stopping you from continuing on. Of course, mail in or out may not work, if your upstream provider is down, but you can still read the latest attempt at relevance from your marketing department.
I have. It definitely supports everything listed in the requirements (pop, imap, webmail) plus calendar, etc.
Is open source a requirement, or just not MSFT?
Just skip the desk with all the hardware on it.
It strikes me as ironic (in the scary, not-very-funny-at-all sense) that it's the judiciary committee that got caught breaking the law, violating ethics, and spying on their counterparts.
We're supposed to trust these people with judicial nominees?
why isn't it in the system preferences?
I've got a mac laptop, which I use almost exclusively from the command line. ssh in, ssh out, nobody gets hurt. NIS, SMB, ldap all enabled by default, and not in the obvious way (under the preferences window) but via a utility buried in my applications folder.
I normally work on my own network, via dhcp, so it's not a big deal - but I do occasionally take it on the road and use public networks.
damn.
What about the washing machine? Everyone does laundry, right?
I drive alone all the time, my commute is 90 mile round-trip. I own an '01 triumph, I get ~45mpg, and the vehicle cost about $8k. Less fuel usage, easier on the roads, quicker in traffic, and if I can't see around an SUV, I just pass them.
Sure, the down economy is a macro-environmental factor in the IT field, but in this particular situation, it doesn't count as much - if you're employer really needs this done in 6 weeks, then they cannot afford to alienate their team.
The bottom line is, they can't force you to work 12/7, they can only ask - so start a discussion about bonuses, time off, goals, etc - and get their promises in writing, without generating too much animosity (you don't want to get fired after the project, either). If your PHBs are even remotely cool, then you should walk away from the project feeling adequately compensated for your lost summer.
I use the FasTrak auto-toll-collecting device in the SF area (and I love it). Just got a note in the mail from the MTA with an updated EULA and info that they were going to start tracking all devices.
They claim that they will scramble the id number, collect the data, and use it to generate real-time traffic info, available via 511 or 511.org. THe info will include the current drive time from point to point on a hiway (which is pretty useful).
The opt out clause was funny: If you don't wish to participate, put your FT device in the enclosed mylar bag when you're NOT going through a toll plaza, and you won't be tracked.
There was no mylar bag in my packet.
I'm not really sure how much this bothers me. On one hand, I don't like it, and can only assume that this info will be for sale pretty soon (to mapquest, probably). On the other hand, the Gestapo^H^H^H^H^H^H^ Homeland Security Dept. probably already knows that I got to work everyday, anyway.
I just spent a week in Europe playing (well, working, really) with the t68i, P800, SPV and GX10, and I like the GX10 best, hands down.
The screen on the T68 series sucks, badly. The joystick moves when I want to click, and clicks when I want to move.
The SPV (Orange only, AFAIK) runs some form of windows, and it sucked... It *crashed* constantly, and the menu layout and function navigation was terrible. F'rinstance, from reading an SMS, it took no fewer than for navigation steps to change from one folder (eg. inbox) to another.
The GX-10 has a great screen, intuitive navigation interface, easy camera functionality, great form factor, great controls, and was the easiest to configure and use. My only carp is that it's not great on memory - it refused to download MMS messages that the t68 had no problem with (but that may be due to greater color depth - 68k colors vs. 4096)
Or is it 100ft? No campaigning within x feet of a polling place? Will this mean that they can't send the ads on voting day?
I did some work for a customer who was setting up a data center in Hong Kong, and they named their servers after subway stations. When I complained about the opacity of this system, the response I got was "It makes perfect sense! All the app servers are on the same rail line!"
They did the same thing when they set up their UK center.
Scary - waking up in the middle of some emergency, and trying to remember what the different machines did caused much, much confusion.
As a software developer, I am not surprised about the lack of help in the beta. In our release cycle, we never get the docs done until the software is releasable, because it isn't until that time that we've got all the answers to the doc groups questions.
Online help is generated from the docs, so that comes even later...
How much packet inspection can they do, legally? I realize that they can inspect headers, etc, to their hearts content, but can the ISP really monitor the _contents_ of my packet stream without already having clear evidence of an AUP violation? (I haven't read their AUP, so I don't know).
If they can, then it follows that they may read my email (again, without prior evidence of wrongdoing) in order to enforce their business practices - this seems like a pretty clear violation of privacy.
NOTE - I don't really think that my email is private, nor do I believe that IP traffic is secure - the question I'm asking isn't about the capabilities of the ISP. Rather, I'm curious as to whether or not they have the legal _right_ to monitor my traffic (payload, not headers) without a complaint (or a warrant).
I don't think that MAC addresses will work - any packet sent upstream from your NAT box will have the MAC address of that interface on it. Subsequent hops will result in that being re-written by each piece of equipment that hands off the packet.
One - Aunt Tillie's data is important to her, and she won't want to upgrade if she'll lose her recipes/email/addressbook/porn.
Two - Nephew Jonny is gonna be _pissed_ if he can't play the latest games. (Of course, this could help spur Linux game development, which I'm definitely in favor of, but I'm not holding my breath.)
Yeah, but when they backdoor the signing tool, and the gov't key escrow is compromised, then you've got an even bigger problem.