I first was using the cell phone company previously promoted by evil-black-trenchcoat guy, and they charged me minutes for everything. Voicemail cost minutes, calling someone else's phone and not getting an answer (or even a machine!) cost minutes, even calling the automated number to check my usage cost minutes!
Then I switched to the cell phone company that was previously promoted by hot actress lady (I believe that was after being promoted by less good looking actress lady). Now I don't use minutes to check my voicemail or my usage, and I get more minutes for the dollar to boot.
However, netware does remote access (at least since 5.0), does email (at least since 4.11), and has had a database interface for some time as well IIRC.
I think that part of what killed netware is how people seem to want to re-imagine the corporate network. Whats so bad about having your storage / print server separated from your web / database server? It seems like a logical division of labor (and a distribution of hardware) to me. From there, it doesn't seem like a bad idea to have your webserver and your file server running different OS'es as long as they can talk to each other.
After all, my snowthrower and my lawnmower look a fair amount different, but both run on gasoline and take up space in my garage. What's so bad about that?
I guess this shouldn't surprise me. Even though Netware was pulling "five nines" (of reliability, for those not familiar with the term) long before anyone considered running any flavor of windows on a server, we see another article bashing Netware.
Sure, its sales have declined drastically, but I wouldn't say that its relevance has. I'd be willing to bet that if we were to actually survey what file servers are still running out there, we'll see a much larger representation of NetWare. Just because people aren't buying the latest version doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't using the old ones.
For two years, I managed the computer network of a daily newspaper - including through the election debacle of 2000 and the 9/11 events. We ran that network primarily off of four netware 4.11 (later netware 5.0) servers. One of those servers had been running for over 400 days continuously when I left, and it served files and print jobs. That kind of reliability is hard to match.
Similar situation happened to me recently.
I looked at my bank statement, and there were charges made to my card from several different online dating websites - including match.com, yahoo personals, and jdate.com (jewish dating). A problem, though, is that I am neither single nor Jewish.
The three listed all we willing to reverse the charges after a short phone call explaining that they charged me incorrectly. One other particularly unscrupulous dating site, however, insisted that they had the charges right. They claimed that the person had my CC, expiration, and CVV all correct for my card, as well as my address. But yet said dating site would not release the information that was posted to their site using my card. Nor would they reverse the charges.
Thankfully, my bank was willing to reverse them for me, and issue me a new card. The total for all of them was less than $150. I had the first three back in less than a week, and my bank refunded the last less than a week later.
Unfortunately, my bank was not willing to help in the investigation. Had I known this, I would have contacted the police earlier about it. Too much time has lapsed since, and nothing can be done legally about it anymore. The real travesty to that is that I will never know how this person got all my information, or what else they know about me.
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Then I switched to the cell phone company that was previously promoted by hot actress lady (I believe that was after being promoted by less good looking actress lady). Now I don't use minutes to check my voicemail or my usage, and I get more minutes for the dollar to boot.
However, netware does remote access (at least since 5.0), does email (at least since 4.11), and has had a database interface for some time as well IIRC.
I think that part of what killed netware is how people seem to want to re-imagine the corporate network. Whats so bad about having your storage / print server separated from your web / database server? It seems like a logical division of labor (and a distribution of hardware) to me. From there, it doesn't seem like a bad idea to have your webserver and your file server running different OS'es as long as they can talk to each other.
After all, my snowthrower and my lawnmower look a fair amount different, but both run on gasoline and take up space in my garage. What's so bad about that?
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Sure, its sales have declined drastically, but I wouldn't say that its relevance has. I'd be willing to bet that if we were to actually survey what file servers are still running out there, we'll see a much larger representation of NetWare. Just because people aren't buying the latest version doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't using the old ones.
For two years, I managed the computer network of a daily newspaper - including through the election debacle of 2000 and the 9/11 events. We ran that network primarily off of four netware 4.11 (later netware 5.0) servers. One of those servers had been running for over 400 days continuously when I left, and it served files and print jobs. That kind of reliability is hard to match.
Similar situation happened to me recently.
I looked at my bank statement, and there were charges made to my card from several different online dating websites - including match.com, yahoo personals, and jdate.com (jewish dating). A problem, though, is that I am neither single nor Jewish.
The three listed all we willing to reverse the charges after a short phone call explaining that they charged me incorrectly. One other particularly unscrupulous dating site, however, insisted that they had the charges right. They claimed that the person had my CC, expiration, and CVV all correct for my card, as well as my address. But yet said dating site would not release the information that was posted to their site using my card. Nor would they reverse the charges.
Thankfully, my bank was willing to reverse them for me, and issue me a new card. The total for all of them was less than $150. I had the first three back in less than a week, and my bank refunded the last less than a week later.
Unfortunately, my bank was not willing to help in the investigation. Had I known this, I would have contacted the police earlier about it. Too much time has lapsed since, and nothing can be done legally about it anymore. The real travesty to that is that I will never know how this person got all my information, or what else they know about me.
Scroll? Nah, just . Scrolling is so 1994.
Come on, someone needs to tag this as: seriesoftubes (ducking and running)