We host email for a lot of small domains. Many of our customers are using SBC Global for their DSL.
We had everyone doing authenticated SMTP through our server for outbound but SBC shut that down and forces them to do authenticated SMTP through their servers now.
I have absolutely no problems with this except two small issues...
1. They didn't let anybody know. (To my knowledge) There was no press release on the home page or any instructions emailed out to inform customers how to update their mail settings. Since of course they only officially support their email addresses any non-technical customers that called in to SBC royally messed up receiving mail from our servers.
2. There is no non-customer technical support period. You can't make your way through their automated system and they have no way to contact any body on an ISP to ISP level that I could find.
I even contacted some marketing person at their HQ that I managed to find contact info for and explained the situation. They even tried to contact support and couldn't figure out how to do it. Very sad. Glad it wasn't an emergency.
Personally I preferred Enterprise over any other sci-fi show that I've seen. Especially this last season I felt they really did an excellent job with the story line.
I was anxiously awaiting the next episode each week.
That being said, I missed Friday's epsiode because I don't have any cool PVRs. I guess I'll have to download it.
I think that's the wrong direction and a waste of taxpayer money. I'd rather see that money be used as the budget for a team following money trails to spammers.
I think the proper way to deal with spam is to crystal-clearly define it and make it illegal. Then have a division of the FBI that purchases items and follows the money trail.
If it truly is 90% American companies that are behind the actual products sold in spam this should work.
"Just a poor windows developer trying to make some competition to Looking Glass. It's too bad, because it'll never work, unless MS does it and integrates it into their OS. (It would probably be really buggy coming from them though. I hate to say it, but I'm looking to Sun for the first 3D desktop)"
That was exactly Microsoft's mentality (and mine at the time) when it came to IE. Now look at Firefox.
You know if enough companies subpoena each other maybe we'll end up with "open source" hardware (not necessarily GPL) but force all the companies to give up their trade secrets and consumers reap all the benefits! MWUahahahaha!
My belief is that they wouldn't use firefox for a browser and they wouldn't use linux for an OS if they were to do either. Google rolls their own. They might or might not do it open source and be cooperative with other projects but they're at the top of their game and I bet they think that they can do it better than everyone else has. Other than the fact that they don't have nearly the man power that any linux major distro does, I bet they could pull off some incredible stuff with the manpower that they do have.
I think it will be difficult to make a better browser than firefox but I don't think it would be impossible. I'm not sure there's a *need* at the moment for a better browser than firefox but that won't stop them from trying.
I could see them teaming up with Opera before firefox because of it's portability to mobile devices.
They kind of already do this in office. They require you to put the original CD back in. In every instance I've had to do an update it's been legal copies and some of my customers don't keep their CDs handy. It's been a nightmare.
If I train in a low oxygen environment my body adapts or is custom to the low amount of oxygen. I'm not really undergoing any evolutionary changes am I?
Yes. I am running cosmos lite. Well let me clarify. I ran the cosmos executable one time and it downloaded the XML interface files. From then on I just launch the normal WoW client and since the interface files are installed it shows all the cosmos enhancements.
and power savings. My 21" trinitron heats up a lot and over time I have seen CRTs go bad a lot more often than LCDs. There's more that can go wrong.
Given enough time maybe I'll see more LCD screens fail. Under normal conditions though I don't think I've seen any LCD have issues other than every once in a while you'll have a dead pixel out of the box.
1. Sue someone for using your code. 2. Have the judge force them to turn their proprietary code over to you. 3. Copy their code into your programs. 4. PROFIT!
I haven't had those problems at all. The client crashes normally as I'm logging out oddly enough.
It also crashes 100% of the time when I'm running teamspeak at the same time. Without teamspeak running it's very very rare that the game crashes other than logout.
My server never has these lines you speak of either.
I think Scott Bakula makes an excellent captain for the show. My biggest complaint is how some (all?) of the episodes have become mirrored controversial topics of today. All the cloning and intolerance of this and that... whatever. I'm sick of political correctness propaganda.
Sunbird is a personal calendar. It doesn't support or have goals of being an Outlook Calendar replacement.
For one thing sunbird's events are events they aren't tied to users, etc.
It works great for a single person or a small group of people (i use it!) but it would never work well in a situation where events need to be tied to a user.
If google can provide both the line and the ISP service, they could annihilate all the crappy ISPs and bandwidth providers that are on the market today.
I don't disagree with any of your points but one thing I did like about them is that I could email them and say, "This customer is having issues with their domain record control, could you please call them." and the customer would get a call back.
Try doing that with Verisign or netsol. ha!
I haven't tried this in many years so I'm not sure if it's still possible to pull it off.
I wonder what development costs were. I'd guess well over $100,000,000.00. Some people probably spent more than $50/game on the collectors edition which was $80.
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We host email for a lot of small domains. Many of our customers are using SBC Global for their DSL.
We had everyone doing authenticated SMTP through our server for outbound but SBC shut that down and forces them to do authenticated SMTP through their servers now.
I have absolutely no problems with this except two small issues...
1. They didn't let anybody know. (To my knowledge) There was no press release on the home page or any instructions emailed out to inform customers how to update their mail settings. Since of course they only officially support their email addresses any non-technical customers that called in to SBC royally messed up receiving mail from our servers.
2. There is no non-customer technical support period. You can't make your way through their automated system and they have no way to contact any body on an ISP to ISP level that I could find.
I even contacted some marketing person at their HQ that I managed to find contact info for and explained the situation. They even tried to contact support and couldn't figure out how to do it. Very sad. Glad it wasn't an emergency.
Personally I preferred Enterprise over any other sci-fi show that I've seen. Especially this last season I felt they really did an excellent job with the story line.
I was anxiously awaiting the next episode each week.
That being said, I missed Friday's epsiode because I don't have any cool PVRs. I guess I'll have to download it.
I think that's the wrong direction and a waste of taxpayer money. I'd rather see that money be used as the budget for a team following money trails to spammers.
I think the proper way to deal with spam is to crystal-clearly define it and make it illegal. Then have a division of the FBI that purchases items and follows the money trail.
If it truly is 90% American companies that are behind the actual products sold in spam this should work.
"Just a poor windows developer trying to make some competition to Looking Glass. It's too bad, because it'll never work, unless MS does it and integrates it into their OS. (It would probably be really buggy coming from them though. I hate to say it, but I'm looking to Sun for the first 3D desktop)"
That was exactly Microsoft's mentality (and mine at the time) when it came to IE. Now look at Firefox.
You know if enough companies subpoena each other maybe we'll end up with "open source" hardware (not necessarily GPL) but force all the companies to give up their trade secrets and consumers reap all the benefits! MWUahahahaha!
I couldn't get into the books. The movies were great considering how much "stuff" was packed into such a "small" amount of time.
I've been researching them this week too.
This one has caught my interest. The idea of carrying a few memory sticks in my pocket to offload to the laptop every night is appealing.
I'd love to have a single device that did it all. I already carry around a treo 300. Stick bluetooth on it and give me a wireless headset.
My belief is that they wouldn't use firefox for a browser and they wouldn't use linux for an OS if they were to do either. Google rolls their own. They might or might not do it open source and be cooperative with other projects but they're at the top of their game and I bet they think that they can do it better than everyone else has. Other than the fact that they don't have nearly the man power that any linux major distro does, I bet they could pull off some incredible stuff with the manpower that they do have.
I think it will be difficult to make a better browser than firefox but I don't think it would be impossible. I'm not sure there's a *need* at the moment for a better browser than firefox but that won't stop them from trying.
I could see them teaming up with Opera before firefox because of it's portability to mobile devices.
They kind of already do this in office. They require you to put the original CD back in. In every instance I've had to do an update it's been legal copies and some of my customers don't keep their CDs handy. It's been a nightmare.
If I train in a low oxygen environment my body adapts or is custom to the low amount of oxygen. I'm not really undergoing any evolutionary changes am I?
Yes. I am running cosmos lite. Well let me clarify. I ran the cosmos executable one time and it downloaded the XML interface files. From then on I just launch the normal WoW client and since the interface files are installed it shows all the cosmos enhancements.
and power savings. My 21" trinitron heats up a lot and over time I have seen CRTs go bad a lot more often than LCDs. There's more that can go wrong.
Given enough time maybe I'll see more LCD screens fail. Under normal conditions though I don't think I've seen any LCD have issues other than every once in a while you'll have a dead pixel out of the box.
1. Sue someone for using your code.
2. Have the judge force them to turn their proprietary code over to you.
3. Copy their code into your programs.
4. PROFIT!
I haven't had those problems at all. The client crashes normally as I'm logging out oddly enough.
It also crashes 100% of the time when I'm running teamspeak at the same time. Without teamspeak running it's very very rare that the game crashes other than logout.
My server never has these lines you speak of either.
I thought this season was top notch so far.
I think Scott Bakula makes an excellent captain for the show. My biggest complaint is how some (all?) of the episodes have become mirrored controversial topics of today. All the cloning and intolerance of this and that... whatever. I'm sick of political correctness propaganda.
I thought your description was highly accurate until the comment about Wheaton.
Sunbird is a personal calendar. It doesn't support or have goals of being an Outlook Calendar replacement.
For one thing sunbird's events are events they aren't tied to users, etc.
It works great for a single person or a small group of people (i use it!) but it would never work well in a situation where events need to be tied to a user.
If google can provide both the line and the ISP service, they could annihilate all the crappy ISPs and bandwidth providers that are on the market today.
I don't disagree with any of your points but one thing I did like about them is that I could email them and say, "This customer is having issues with their domain record control, could you please call them." and the customer would get a call back.
Try doing that with Verisign or netsol. ha!
I haven't tried this in many years so I'm not sure if it's still possible to pull it off.
I guess this posting on slashdot caused another 600,000 to sign up and their login servers can't handle it.
600,000*$50/game = $30,000,000.00
I wonder what development costs were. I'd guess well over $100,000,000.00. Some people probably spent more than $50/game on the collectors edition which was $80.
You're not a doctor or a lawyer. School is a complete waste.
Call your old boss up and ask/beg for your job back.
You're not going to get performance out of freenet.
I have been converting to foreach, but is there any reason not to do it the other way?
The only reason I did it the other way is that's what I originally learned bringing it over from ASP years and years ago.