I will admit that Exchange 2003 seems better than 2000 (which I have had eat an entire mail directory; adios email until a restore is done, and you lose everything that came in since the last backup). The latest issue with Exchange 2003 required it to rebuild the mail store, which took over 24 hours to complete (granted the hardware wasn't super fast, but still we were only talking about less than 2 gigabytes of email here). The same setup, using a linux mail server storing email in maildir format would have taken minutes to recover from, rather than hours. And as an added bonus, everyone except the impacted mailbox (and most likely, the single email message that was corrupted) would have continued functioning just fine.
I have yet to see Exchange work well in any environment over a few dozen people; certainly not without investing large amounts of money on duplicate servers and hardware. Included is my favourite Exchange analogy:
If the same method that exchange/outlook uses to store email were used in the real world as a paper filing system:
Every document is translated into Greek, and the original is burned. Then they are all glued together into one solid block and stuffed into a magic box with a tiny slot, through which you can talk to a little gnome who somehow gets each message for you as needed. Sometimes the gnome gets confused and it takes hours (sometimes days) for him to sort things out; meanwhile he can't find your documents until he is totally finished becoming unconfused again. As an added bonus the gnome costs several thousand dollars and when he dies every few years you need to buy a new gnome. Oh and if the first box gets (arbitrarily) full you have to buy another special gnomebox, which of course costs $$$
As a network administrator, I think having users come find me in the bathroom when their email isn't working would be just dandy.
Though I have to admit removing my rfid tag out and gluing it to a cockroach and letting it go in the ceiling could be amusing.
I can see uses for extra cores:
One for the OS, one for the browser, one for antivirus software, one for DRM, one for "genuine advantage[sic] licensing", etc
If they included three pairs of cheap sunglasses with red, green, and blue tints in the box with each monitor, wouldn't that technically solve the problem?
Or maybe they could use some new model that involves wild chimpanzees somehow. Talk about an underutilized income source; nobody is making use of this huge untapped resource.
This could be a great way for Adobe to port their applications (photoshop and illustrator spring to mind) to all platforms (including Linux) much more easily. While the web may be the way to go for some things, I can't imagine editing a 20MB image file using an online version of photoshop. And of course, this would let them make code that could work in places, and under Windows/Mac/Linux.
I guess they are so old no one remembers them anymore:-( I wonder if the serial mouse I have at home would work with a serial->atx converter, plugged into a atx->usb converter?
Though one must wonder if the government pays a visit to people who go to sites that have terms like that in them? It would be pretty sad if by hiding these phrases I was the reason some guy went to prison.
Then how come msn shows over 81 million hits for the term "free software"? Or maybe he meant there is no free software that puts huge piles of money in Microsoft's pockets?
p.s. It made me giggle a little to search for ubuntu, free software, and sourceforge on msn.com using firefox on a linux box.
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I will admit that Exchange 2003 seems better than 2000 (which I have had eat an entire mail directory; adios email until a restore is done, and you lose everything that came in since the last backup). The latest issue with Exchange 2003 required it to rebuild the mail store, which took over 24 hours to complete (granted the hardware wasn't super fast, but still we were only talking about less than 2 gigabytes of email here). The same setup, using a linux mail server storing email in maildir format would have taken minutes to recover from, rather than hours. And as an added bonus, everyone except the impacted mailbox (and most likely, the single email message that was corrupted) would have continued functioning just fine.
I have yet to see Exchange work well in any environment over a few dozen people; certainly not without investing large amounts of money on duplicate servers and hardware. Included is my favourite Exchange analogy: If the same method that exchange/outlook uses to store email were used in the real world as a paper filing system: Every document is translated into Greek, and the original is burned. Then they are all glued together into one solid block and stuffed into a magic box with a tiny slot, through which you can talk to a little gnome who somehow gets each message for you as needed. Sometimes the gnome gets confused and it takes hours (sometimes days) for him to sort things out; meanwhile he can't find your documents until he is totally finished becoming unconfused again. As an added bonus the gnome costs several thousand dollars and when he dies every few years you need to buy a new gnome. Oh and if the first box gets (arbitrarily) full you have to buy another special gnomebox, which of course costs $$$
As a network administrator, I think having users come find me in the bathroom when their email isn't working would be just dandy. Though I have to admit removing my rfid tag out and gluing it to a cockroach and letting it go in the ceiling could be amusing.
Actually they simply forgot to put the decimal point in front of the 9.
I wonder how much of that $19,000 will be spent on overpriced coffee, fat filled donuts, and heart attacks?
I can see uses for extra cores: One for the OS, one for the browser, one for antivirus software, one for DRM, one for "genuine advantage[sic] licensing", etc
Can you post which software auditing packages you use and/or recommend?
If they included three pairs of cheap sunglasses with red, green, and blue tints in the box with each monitor, wouldn't that technically solve the problem?
Or maybe they could use some new model that involves wild chimpanzees somehow. Talk about an underutilized income source; nobody is making use of this huge untapped resource.
Actually the programmers were confused because all men were ranked as "ugly" or "slightly less ugly", which in fact turns out to be correct.
This could be a great way for Adobe to port their applications (photoshop and illustrator spring to mind) to all platforms (including Linux) much more easily. While the web may be the way to go for some things, I can't imagine editing a 20MB image file using an online version of photoshop. And of course, this would let them make code that could work in places, and under Windows/Mac/Linux.
I guess they are so old no one remembers them anymore :-( I wonder if the serial mouse I have at home would work with a serial->atx converter, plugged into a atx->usb converter?
Uploading goatse FTW!
Because they chose the obviously simpler, cheaper method of controlling the weather instead.
Though one must wonder if the government pays a visit to people who go to sites that have terms like that in them? It would be pretty sad if by hiding these phrases I was the reason some guy went to prison.
p.s. It made me giggle a little to search for ubuntu, free software, and sourceforge on msn.com using firefox on a linux box.