I was waiting for SOMEONE to mention them. I've used their stuff pretty extensively, and even the free stuff if very good, Linux/Mac/ and yes, Windows too. You can use pretty much anything you can install Postgres on as a server. I've used the paid version as well, and I know a number of friends who use them to run their small consulting firms.
Wow. I tried it, and the best answer I found was "don't bother". I figured that since the thing runs Linux, it'd be easy enough to repurpose. Boy was I wrong. I'd like to say that I enjoyed messing with it anyway, but the truth is, it was just a pain. All of the important drivers are wrapped up in a huge binary blob, and unusable without the TiVO software. A TiVO is worthless as pretty much anything but a TiVO, unfortunately. Maybe you're a lot smarter than me (a quite distinct possibility), but I didn't get anywhere. If you decide to go ahead anyway, I wish you luck, and a lot more success than I had.
I think that it would be a waste NOT to use these organs. The prisoners will be executed either way, might as well make them contribute some good to society to offset whatever they were sentenced to death for. There is a possible conflict of interest, though, if the judges start getting paid off to sentence people to death...
OpenDNS has yet to have a service outage. Their massive redundancy has prevented that from happening thus far. BTW, I'm not associated with them in any way, other than being a happy user.
I don't know if that is so much the question, as much as: Would a highway get more people to where they are going faster if it were semis only or motorcycles only? The answer to this question (and probably to Google's question, too) is "It depends on a lot of other factors".
I'd be willing to make the (not entirely unfounded) assumption that although China has a much larger population than the USA, the USA's postal system is indeed the largest in the world. It is even the third largest employer in the USA...
Yeah, you have to buy it. And it is expensive!! But, when my org looked at TCO (on of Microsoft's favorite topics), Zimbra came out MUCH cheaper for the same feature set (Including MAPI based Outlook support). They support blackberries, and have full-on Mac sync, too. Plus, their web-client is quite nice/usable (as opposed to OWA), and support is responsive. So, there is the answer to the original question: where is the full-feature-set competetion: it is at Zimbra. (Note - I am not affiliated in Zimbra in any way, except for being a happy customer!)
While it seems to be fine at the moment, it took a few tries for me to load it. So, to try and help the server, here is TFA:
"Financial Fiasco
Leading banks and investment funds have been foundering, because of bad debts and lack of trust; and other, less well-known kinds of fiscal chaos are also on the horizon. For example, due to an unfixable security flaw in the way funds are now transferred electronically, worldwide, it is no longer safe to write personal checks. A criminal who sees the numbers that are printed at the bottom of any check that you write can use that information to withdraw all the money from your account. He or she can do this in various ways, without even knowing your name --- for example by creating an ATM card, or by impersonating a bank in some country of the world where safeguards are minimal, or by printing a document that looks like a check. The account number and routing information are all that international financial institutions look at before deciding to transfer funds from one account to another. (See, for example, Grant Bugher's comments.) More and more criminals are learning about this easy way to acquire money, and devising new schemes to conceal their identities as they steal the assets of more victims.
Nowadays almost everybody knows that it's dangerous to reveal your credit card number, or to have that full number on a printed document that somebody might find in the trash. Soon people will learn that it is equally dangerous to reveal the numbers that are printed in plain sight on every check. Forget signatures; banks have no time to verify them. The once venerable system of checking accounts is irretrievably broken. Before long, companies will find it impossible to give out paychecks without exposing themselves to unacceptable risk.
One consequence of this debacle is, alas, that I can no longer write checks to reward the people who discover errors in my books. The system that I've been using has worked well for almost forty years; but recently I have had to close three checking accounts, and the criminal attacks on those accounts have caused significant grief to my bankers. (Certainly I do not believe that anybody who received one of my checks has been in any way a culprit. But all such recipients are entitled to bragging rights; therefore the numbers printed on those checks inevitably become known to random members of the public.) I cannot in good conscience continue to traumatize the people at my bank, who obviously have plenty of other things to worry about.
After painful deliberation I've come up with a new plan, which I hope will be acceptable to all concerned, and perhaps even welcomed as an improvement. Instead of rewarding heroic bug-finders with dollars, I shall henceforth award brownie points, otherwise known as hexadecimal dollars (0x$). From now on it will be kudos, not escudos.
Instead of writing personal checks, I'll write personal certificates of deposit to each awardee's account at the Bank of San Serriffe, which is an offshore institution that has branches in Blefuscu and Elbonia on the planet Pincus.
It turns out that only 9 of the first 275 checks that I've sent out since the beginning of 2006 have actually been cashed. The others have apparently been cached. So this change in policy will probably not affect too many people. On the other hand, I don't like to renege on promises, so I shall do my best to find a suitable way to send money to anyone who really prefers legal tender.
Everybody who has received a reward check or a hexadecimal certificate from me since 1 January 2006 automatically has an account at the Bank of San Serriffe, and these accounts are listed on the bank's website. All of these people have my undying gratitude for the invaluable help they've generously provided in order to improve the books and the software that I've written. I ask friendly readers to keep sending those precious bug reports, and to let me know if my new policy displeases you in any way"
I understand that you probably don't want to tell us which project you are refering to, and that is fine. What I wonder is: will this agreement allow you to continue to contribute to your Apache licensed projects like Couchdb) and your GPL'ed stuff (like the Darkice Live Audio Streamer? If not, you might want to consider the contributions that you've made to Open Source as a whole, and decide if stopping is worth it.
You are right. And hey, look: TFA tells us that "Dell (DELL) just introduced a mini-laptop that can run Linux". Wow. Dell put out a laptop that is actually capable of running linux. What will they think of next with this newfangled Linux thing?
Or, without using another application (AIM) OR paying for SMS, you could just E-mail the person and have it come to them as a SMS. I do this often, as I have a plan that is short on SMS. This link tells you how.
Wow. One website has a green background, and another has a blue background. The one with the green background has 12x as many posts as the other one. Coincidence? I think not.
Um...you could have done so a month and a half ago, as long as you're keeping up with updates. The recompiled.deb was put in gutsy-updates on March 5th...Patch Verified
Yeah, administrators of Zimbra based E-mail servers (like me) are starting to panic I think a Google bailout/business alliance could be, as one Zimbra developer described it, "manna from heaven".
I open Office 2007 formatted files in Open Office all the time using Ubuntu Gutsy. It works great! The funny thing is, I need to install a converter for my MS Office 2003/XP users to be able to open the same files, while it works out of the box in Linux. So much for Linux compatibility problems!
What!? vTiger is solid, and quite easy to set up. It can use localhost as the mail server, or connect to just about any type of mail server (see link): http://wiki.vtiger.com/index.php/Vtiger_CRM_5.0.3_ Web_mail_-_Working_Scenarios. It also has an optional "Customer Portal" so that customers can log in and create their own issues if you so choose.
Wow, lots of talk, but who's tried it? I just ran it on a test machine - an older laptop that was humming along running Ubuntu Feisty. The machine was a tad slow before running it, but it has crawled nearly to a halt upon trying out pyro. My older (read: slow) hardware may exaggerate the slowdown, but it is ridiculous. Also, my desktop is showing at about 100x its normal size, which means that I am lucky to see one of my launchers. Thought (regardless of the security problems) that I would give this a shot, but my short test has come to an end. Next time I see some FUD about this, I'll look the other way.
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I was waiting for SOMEONE to mention them. I've used their stuff pretty extensively, and even the free stuff if very good, Linux/Mac/ and yes, Windows too. You can use pretty much anything you can install Postgres on as a server. I've used the paid version as well, and I know a number of friends who use them to run their small consulting firms.
Wow. I tried it, and the best answer I found was "don't bother". I figured that since the thing runs Linux, it'd be easy enough to repurpose. Boy was I wrong. I'd like to say that I enjoyed messing with it anyway, but the truth is, it was just a pain. All of the important drivers are wrapped up in a huge binary blob, and unusable without the TiVO software. A TiVO is worthless as pretty much anything but a TiVO, unfortunately. Maybe you're a lot smarter than me (a quite distinct possibility), but I didn't get anywhere. If you decide to go ahead anyway, I wish you luck, and a lot more success than I had.
Shake, shake, shake. Pwned!
I think that it would be a waste NOT to use these organs. The prisoners will be executed either way, might as well make them contribute some good to society to offset whatever they were sentenced to death for. There is a possible conflict of interest, though, if the judges start getting paid off to sentence people to death...
OpenDNS has yet to have a service outage. Their massive redundancy has prevented that from happening thus far. BTW, I'm not associated with them in any way, other than being a happy user.
Who ISN'T on Daley's payroll? That whole dang town is corrupt.
I don't know if that is so much the question, as much as: Would a highway get more people to where they are going faster if it were semis only or motorcycles only? The answer to this question (and probably to Google's question, too) is "It depends on a lot of other factors".
I'd be willing to make the (not entirely unfounded) assumption that although China has a much larger population than the USA, the USA's postal system is indeed the largest in the world. It is even the third largest employer in the USA...
Yeah, you have to buy it. And it is expensive!! But, when my org looked at TCO (on of Microsoft's favorite topics), Zimbra came out MUCH cheaper for the same feature set (Including MAPI based Outlook support). They support blackberries, and have full-on Mac sync, too. Plus, their web-client is quite nice/usable (as opposed to OWA), and support is responsive. So, there is the answer to the original question: where is the full-feature-set competetion: it is at Zimbra. (Note - I am not affiliated in Zimbra in any way, except for being a happy customer!)
Remember Michael Scott's sage advice about Satnav: "Computers are about trying to murder you in a lake."
While it seems to be fine at the moment, it took a few tries for me to load it. So, to try and help the server, here is TFA: "Financial Fiasco Leading banks and investment funds have been foundering, because of bad debts and lack of trust; and other, less well-known kinds of fiscal chaos are also on the horizon. For example, due to an unfixable security flaw in the way funds are now transferred electronically, worldwide, it is no longer safe to write personal checks. A criminal who sees the numbers that are printed at the bottom of any check that you write can use that information to withdraw all the money from your account. He or she can do this in various ways, without even knowing your name --- for example by creating an ATM card, or by impersonating a bank in some country of the world where safeguards are minimal, or by printing a document that looks like a check. The account number and routing information are all that international financial institutions look at before deciding to transfer funds from one account to another. (See, for example, Grant Bugher's comments.) More and more criminals are learning about this easy way to acquire money, and devising new schemes to conceal their identities as they steal the assets of more victims. Nowadays almost everybody knows that it's dangerous to reveal your credit card number, or to have that full number on a printed document that somebody might find in the trash. Soon people will learn that it is equally dangerous to reveal the numbers that are printed in plain sight on every check. Forget signatures; banks have no time to verify them. The once venerable system of checking accounts is irretrievably broken. Before long, companies will find it impossible to give out paychecks without exposing themselves to unacceptable risk. One consequence of this debacle is, alas, that I can no longer write checks to reward the people who discover errors in my books. The system that I've been using has worked well for almost forty years; but recently I have had to close three checking accounts, and the criminal attacks on those accounts have caused significant grief to my bankers. (Certainly I do not believe that anybody who received one of my checks has been in any way a culprit. But all such recipients are entitled to bragging rights; therefore the numbers printed on those checks inevitably become known to random members of the public.) I cannot in good conscience continue to traumatize the people at my bank, who obviously have plenty of other things to worry about. After painful deliberation I've come up with a new plan, which I hope will be acceptable to all concerned, and perhaps even welcomed as an improvement. Instead of rewarding heroic bug-finders with dollars, I shall henceforth award brownie points, otherwise known as hexadecimal dollars (0x$). From now on it will be kudos, not escudos. Instead of writing personal checks, I'll write personal certificates of deposit to each awardee's account at the Bank of San Serriffe, which is an offshore institution that has branches in Blefuscu and Elbonia on the planet Pincus. It turns out that only 9 of the first 275 checks that I've sent out since the beginning of 2006 have actually been cashed. The others have apparently been cached. So this change in policy will probably not affect too many people. On the other hand, I don't like to renege on promises, so I shall do my best to find a suitable way to send money to anyone who really prefers legal tender. Everybody who has received a reward check or a hexadecimal certificate from me since 1 January 2006 automatically has an account at the Bank of San Serriffe, and these accounts are listed on the bank's website. All of these people have my undying gratitude for the invaluable help they've generously provided in order to improve the books and the software that I've written. I ask friendly readers to keep sending those precious bug reports, and to let me know if my new policy displeases you in any way"
I understand that you probably don't want to tell us which project you are refering to, and that is fine. What I wonder is: will this agreement allow you to continue to contribute to your Apache licensed projects like Couchdb) and your GPL'ed stuff (like the Darkice Live Audio Streamer? If not, you might want to consider the contributions that you've made to Open Source as a whole, and decide if stopping is worth it.
You are right. And hey, look: TFA tells us that "Dell (DELL) just introduced a mini-laptop that can run Linux". Wow. Dell put out a laptop that is actually capable of running linux. What will they think of next with this newfangled Linux thing?
Thankfully, those batteries are heavy, and located in hard to reach places.
I know these batteries apparently "hardly ever need replacing", but I'd frankly like it to be easy to get to my car's battery...
Untangle's pro version should allow this. Maybe they have a discount for non-profits?
Or, without using another application (AIM) OR paying for SMS, you could just E-mail the person and have it come to them as a SMS. I do this often, as I have a plan that is short on SMS. This link tells you how.
I use Pocket PuTTY. I don't know if it is the perfect answer, but it works for what I do.
Wow. Half of IT workers are gaining weight, half aren't. And I thought that one forum having more posters than another was a nonstory. I stand corrected.
Wow. One website has a green background, and another has a blue background. The one with the green background has 12x as many posts as the other one. Coincidence? I think not.
Um...you could have done so a month and a half ago, as long as you're keeping up with updates. The recompiled .deb was put in gutsy-updates on March 5th...Patch Verified
Yeah, administrators of Zimbra based E-mail servers (like me) are starting to panic I think a Google bailout/business alliance could be, as one Zimbra developer described it, "manna from heaven".
I open Office 2007 formatted files in Open Office all the time using Ubuntu Gutsy. It works great! The funny thing is, I need to install a converter for my MS Office 2003/XP users to be able to open the same files, while it works out of the box in Linux. So much for Linux compatibility problems!
What!? vTiger is solid, and quite easy to set up. It can use localhost as the mail server, or connect to just about any type of mail server (see link): http://wiki.vtiger.com/index.php/Vtiger_CRM_5.0.3_ Web_mail_-_Working_Scenarios. It also has an optional "Customer Portal" so that customers can log in and create their own issues if you so choose.
After a restart: "Ahhh. There's no place like gnome!"
Wow, lots of talk, but who's tried it? I just ran it on a test machine - an older laptop that was humming along running Ubuntu Feisty. The machine was a tad slow before running it, but it has crawled nearly to a halt upon trying out pyro. My older (read: slow) hardware may exaggerate the slowdown, but it is ridiculous. Also, my desktop is showing at about 100x its normal size, which means that I am lucky to see one of my launchers. Thought (regardless of the security problems) that I would give this a shot, but my short test has come to an end. Next time I see some FUD about this, I'll look the other way.