gaim, an open source messenger client, is distributed by Red Hat as part of 7.2. I wouldn't be surprised if other vendors ship it too.
Since a large part of RedHat's business model is professional services, they should be more than willing to respond to RFPs (provided, of course, that there's some revenue in it for them in the end). RedHat's web site for professional services claims to be vendor neutral, why not give them a shot?
You can easily add 400gb of disk space to a regular pc for about $1200. In our case we do it all in less than 100.
This price sounds rather high. You can add a complete server with RAID storage for less than that. I had a quick check at RaidZone, and a cube with 10x60GB drives gives you 470GB available to users with a hot spare, and it runs at a wee bit over 10K. As a backup system, it's overkill - you probably don't need Raid but I wanted a fast price snapshot.
http://www.raidzone.com/Products___Solutions/Appli ances_Overview/AppPrices/appprices.html
Personally, we do use online storage for some of our archives, because our users need very fast restores. We create zip files on disk,give them an automated method to pull from them, but also back up the archives to tape for long-term offsite storage.
Yes, it does work. You need a bunch of Gnome libraries, but it does work fine under KDE when you're done. Run the installer from ximian, but don't have it change your desktop whe it's done. I did this and it added all the apps properly to the K menu, and they work just fine.
Except they can't catch up. It is a losing battle. For every feature Miguel adds to Gnome, the KDE developpers are ten steps ahead.
Look at the IMAP support in Evolution, and compare that to IMAP in Kmail. It's not catchup at all - Evolution is months ahead. For further evidence, look at the statements from the Kmail IMAP author (see http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde/2001-August/0002 53.html) - he feels that he's got a useful implementation already.
No flames, but KMail isn't going to have a suitable (for me) IMAP implementation anytime soon - the author just has different priorities. Showing you the unread message counts on your multitude of folders isn't one of them.
But that's the problem. The agreement we've signed - and which is available online - does NOT say that you cannot run webservers.
AT&T has a different AUP than Excite which is different than @Home.
AT&T is simply saying you can't run a webserver because it's not convenient at this time for you to do so. Although I'm not a lawyer, I'm sure that anyone fighting this in court will win and AT&T will be forced to restore access. However, they've got more money for lawyers than we do, so we'll be forced to roll over and concede. That's what monopolies give you (I have exactly one choice for cable provider, and DSL is not available where I live).
Re:Cutting off port 80?
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Here's AT&T's e-mail response from Tuesday morning:
Thank you for contacting AT&T BroadBand Cable Internet Service.
We have blocked port 80 as a temporary measure and will be lifting the block when our network engineers have finished their work. I do not
have an estimated time for this, however. I apologize for any inconvenience that you may be experiencing.
During a Tuesday afternoon chat session, another one of their support reps stated:
We may have some more information regarding port 80 later this evening, otherwise you could check back tomorrow for possible updates. I do apologize for the inconvenience.
On the chat session, whoever answered the chat at least knew about the port 80 block so the word is getting out within AT&T support - not like Monday when they were totally clueless. The online Network Status is still vague "We are experiencing service interruptions affecting All Regions that may cause intermittent network connectivity. "
As for whether or not AT&T allows servers is up for debate. Their 2nd level tech support said they don't, but I quoted the leased line subscriber agreement, located http://help.broadband.att.com/subagreelease.jsp, specifically section 9b that says that servers are allowed.
This is basically no different than how I get paid as a salaried employee. I don't get paid for carrying the pager/cell and don't get paid for going in if I'm called. It's all part of the base salary.
If my systems don't go down, my base salary looks pretty good. If they suck, my base salary looks pretty bad. It's to my advantage to make sure that I don't get called or configure enough redundancy to allow me to fix problems during the day instead of coming in at night.
Not can not everyone afford basic telephone service, it's simply not available in all places. I've still got relatives in northern Canada where basic service is not available (or the phone company will run a special line down your 3-mile driveway for thousands of $). There is no cell phone coverage in the area, and the pay phone I'm familiar with is used multiple times EVERY day from people in the surrounding area.
I've also visited an Amish community where there were payphones for emergencies, but where the normal homeowner did not have regular landline service.
Essential? Yeah right. My in-laws live in rural Canada and finally got a microwave-based phone a few years ago to replace their party-line phone that their business relies on (and was shared by credit card machines). High-speed Internet is out of the question. I'm not even sure they can dial-up access through their phone line (yup, only 1 line - they tried to get a second line for their business and were refused).
My brother-in-law doesn't have cable. He doesn't even have a normal phone line. He doesn't have running water or electricity other than from his generator. He runs his logging business without a phone. He can get a phone line run to his house for about 6 months pay. He's out of cell phone range.
The politicians still seem to think that essential services are only essential to those that live in a densely populated area.
Start here: http://www.avsforum.com/ubbtivo/Forum1/HTML/001666 .html
This is a comment directly from a TiVo employee giving the user community a heads-up. The privacy notice certainly wasn't "snuck in"
It won't help. A shop that already has a Solaris base won't be interested in one of these. The smaller systems are so dumb they're designed as drop-in server for a 1-5 person office. Not something you'd even find useful in an office that already has Solaris systems.
ksheff wrote:
Yes the H1B people are a lot cheaper. Why would any company go through the trouble of importing people and put up with the communication problems if they weren't cheaper. My manager would like to hire more permanent US employees, but due to budget reasons, he has to get Indians.
I'm an H1B person, and I'm NOT a lot cheaper. I'm one of the highest paid technical people in my company. The company went to the trouble of importing me because they simply couldn't get ANYONE qualified to do the job here. They spent a fortune in advertising, and still couldn't attract the right people with the right skill set.
Don't assume that H1B people are cheaper. I didn't take a job away from an American - too many of you just didn't want a good paying job in a place that gets winter. I'm damn happy to be here even though I can't walk on a beach in the middle of January.
Back in my Amiga days in 1985, Borland ran many full-page in Amiga magazines proclaiming support for the Amiga and that products were imminent. None ever shipped.
It's been 15 years, and I'm still holding a grudge.
It's been done. See http://www.finjan.com and download your free copy of SurfinGuard. It's for 95/98/NT but it seems to do the job. They've got some non-destructive demos on their web pages you can download to make sure that SurfinGuard is working.
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A few months back I snagged a copy of "Bullshit Bingo" from our printer where somebody had left it. It contains a nice grid that you could use during meetings whenever you heard to stupid buzzwords. Your posting would win it several times!
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gaim, an open source messenger client, is distributed by Red Hat as part of 7.2. I wouldn't be surprised if other vendors ship it too.
Since a large part of RedHat's business model is professional services, they should be more than willing to respond to RFPs (provided, of course, that there's some revenue in it for them in the end). RedHat's web site for professional services claims to be vendor neutral, why not give them a shot?
You can easily add 400gb of disk space to a regular pc for about $1200. In our case we do it all in less than 100.
i ances_Overview/AppPrices/appprices.html
,give them an automated method to pull from them, but also back up the archives to tape for long-term offsite storage.
This price sounds rather high. You can add a complete server with RAID storage for less than that. I had a quick check at RaidZone, and a cube with 10x60GB drives gives you 470GB available to users with a hot spare, and it runs at a wee bit over 10K. As a backup system, it's overkill - you probably don't need Raid but I wanted a fast price snapshot.
http://www.raidzone.com/Products___Solutions/Appl
Personally, we do use online storage for some of our archives, because our users need very fast restores. We create zip files on disk
Yes, it does work. You need a bunch of Gnome libraries, but it does work fine under KDE when you're done. Run the installer from ximian, but don't have it change your desktop whe it's done. I did this and it added all the apps properly to the K menu, and they work just fine.
Except they can't catch up. It is a losing battle. For every feature Miguel adds to Gnome, the KDE developpers are ten steps ahead.
2 53.html) - he feels that he's got a useful implementation already.
Look at the IMAP support in Evolution, and compare that to IMAP in Kmail. It's not catchup at all - Evolution is months ahead. For further evidence, look at the statements from the Kmail IMAP author (see http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde/2001-August/000
No flames, but KMail isn't going to have a suitable (for me) IMAP implementation anytime soon - the author just has different priorities. Showing you the unread message counts on your multitude of folders isn't one of them.
But that's the problem. The agreement we've signed - and which is available online - does NOT say that you cannot run webservers. AT&T has a different AUP than Excite which is different than @Home. AT&T is simply saying you can't run a webserver because it's not convenient at this time for you to do so. Although I'm not a lawyer, I'm sure that anyone fighting this in court will win and AT&T will be forced to restore access. However, they've got more money for lawyers than we do, so we'll be forced to roll over and concede. That's what monopolies give you (I have exactly one choice for cable provider, and DSL is not available where I live).
Here's AT&T's e-mail response from Tuesday morning:
Thank you for contacting AT&T BroadBand Cable Internet Service.
We have blocked port 80 as a temporary measure and will be lifting the block when our network engineers have finished their work. I do not have an estimated time for this, however. I apologize for any inconvenience that you may be experiencing.
During a Tuesday afternoon chat session, another one of their support reps stated:
We may have some more information regarding port 80 later this evening, otherwise you could check back tomorrow for possible updates. I do apologize for the inconvenience.
On the chat session, whoever answered the chat at least knew about the port 80 block so the word is getting out within AT&T support - not like Monday when they were totally clueless. The online Network Status is still vague "We are experiencing service interruptions affecting All Regions that may cause intermittent network connectivity. "
As for whether or not AT&T allows servers is up for debate. Their 2nd level tech support said they don't, but I quoted the leased line subscriber agreement, located http://help.broadband.att.com/subagreelease.jsp, specifically section 9b that says that servers are allowed.
This is basically no different than how I get paid as a salaried employee. I don't get paid for carrying the pager/cell and don't get paid for going in if I'm called. It's all part of the base salary.
If my systems don't go down, my base salary looks pretty good. If they suck, my base salary looks pretty bad. It's to my advantage to make sure that I don't get called or configure enough redundancy to allow me to fix problems during the day instead of coming in at night.
Not can not everyone afford basic telephone service, it's simply not available in all places. I've still got relatives in northern Canada where basic service is not available (or the phone company will run a special line down your 3-mile driveway for thousands of $). There is no cell phone coverage in the area, and the pay phone I'm familiar with is used multiple times EVERY day from people in the surrounding area. I've also visited an Amish community where there were payphones for emergencies, but where the normal homeowner did not have regular landline service.
My brother-in-law doesn't have cable. He doesn't even have a normal phone line. He doesn't have running water or electricity other than from his generator. He runs his logging business without a phone. He can get a phone line run to his house for about 6 months pay. He's out of cell phone range.
The politicians still seem to think that essential services are only essential to those that live in a densely populated area.
Start here: http://www.avsforum.com/ubbtivo/Forum1/HTML/001666 .html
This is a comment directly from a TiVo employee giving the user community a heads-up. The privacy notice certainly wasn't "snuck in"
It won't help. A shop that already has a Solaris base won't be interested in one of these. The smaller systems are so dumb they're designed as drop-in server for a 1-5 person office. Not something you'd even find useful in an office that already has Solaris systems.
Darn formatting bit me. ksheff wrote the part up through "he has to get Indians." The stuff after that is mine.
ksheff wrote: Yes the H1B people are a lot cheaper. Why would any company go through the trouble of importing people and put up with the communication problems if they weren't cheaper. My manager would like to hire more permanent US employees, but due to budget reasons, he has to get Indians. I'm an H1B person, and I'm NOT a lot cheaper. I'm one of the highest paid technical people in my company. The company went to the trouble of importing me because they simply couldn't get ANYONE qualified to do the job here. They spent a fortune in advertising, and still couldn't attract the right people with the right skill set. Don't assume that H1B people are cheaper. I didn't take a job away from an American - too many of you just didn't want a good paying job in a place that gets winter. I'm damn happy to be here even though I can't walk on a beach in the middle of January.
Back in my Amiga days in 1985, Borland ran many full-page in Amiga magazines proclaiming support for the Amiga and that products were imminent. None ever shipped.
It's been 15 years, and I'm still holding a grudge.
If you can't buy it TODAY, it's vaporware.
It's been done. See http://www.finjan.com and download your free copy of SurfinGuard. It's for 95/98/NT but it seems to do the job. They've got some non-destructive demos on their web pages you can download to make sure that SurfinGuard is working.
A few months back I snagged a copy of "Bullshit Bingo" from our printer where somebody had left it. It contains a nice grid that you could use during meetings whenever you heard to stupid buzzwords. Your posting would win it several times!