Seriously, disk is cheap. So are inodes. Use maildir and get on with your life. I've never used anything else, and I have about two gigs of mail in my home directory. I might switch to IMAP soon, and will then use our Cyrus IMAPd which also (as noted in the article) uses maildir.
Don't store your mail on an NFS server. NFS is bad (use AFS instead, but not for mail either), and it's especially bad for storing mail. Use IMAP instead. IMAP is a secure file system designed for storing mail, and that's what your really need. Also, all relevant mail clients supports IMAP, and for those that don't, Cyrus IMAPd contains a POPd as well.
You have a choice between three KDCs: Heimdal (that's what I use), MIT Kerberos and Windows 2000.
It can be used to authenticate logins on Windows 2000 (and probably XP), Unix (use PAM on Linux, Solaris etc., SIA on Tru64 and hack the XDM on others).
Use it to authenticate telnet and ssh logins. There are clients for MacOS, Windows, and Unix. Use it for authenticated X11 forwarding. Use it for FTP. Use it for POP3 and IMAP4 with Kerberos authentication or SSL-encrypted passwords (cyrus-imapd). Use it for AFS to replace the insecure NFS and to allow your users to access their home directory from home. Clients exist for most Unix variants (including MacOS X) and Windows 95/98/2000/XP.
Kerberos has single sign-on.
Why Kerberos instead of LDAP? Because Kerberos is an authentication scheme, not a password database.
Do not use your ISP-provided e-mail address. Do not use your ISP-provided e-mail address. Do not use your ISP-provided e-mail address. You will loose it, be it because your ISP screws you like in this article, or because you move to a new home and change cable or DSL operator.
Even a HoTMaiL account is better, or preferably some other for-a-fee services. The best and most expensive is to register your own domain name and point it to some hosting service.
Use Kerberos for authentication. There are PAM modules out there, and it is also supported in Windows 2000 (sort of).
You also need to distribute a passwd file. We store ours in AFS and distribute it using scripts run by cron. Since doesn't contain any password, users do not really need to touch it, but we generate the global passwd file from data in a database anyway. You might want to put stuff like e-mail forwarding information in that database as well, propagate it to the mail server using some simple scripts, and let your users access the database somehow. (Perhaps through a Kerberos authenticating gateway.)
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Do not use 0x80 for the euro sign. That's a Windowsism, because it is in the windows-1252 character set. Instead, either use 0xA4 (164) and declare your document as ISO-8859-15, or, if writing HTML, insert €, which is the proper Unicode number.
Sadly, code 128 works in Mozilla+X11+Linux. It is still wrong.
If you use the Arla AFS client, you won't have to put a lot of buggy code into your kernel, because most of the code is in a user-space daemon. The kernel module is really small.
AFS is good. The volume management is great, and you get real access control lists with groups. How about moving a users home directory to a different server, while the user is logged in? It's completly transparent. Or how about letting people create their own groups? That is useful. And there's proper authentication.
Random advice:
Use Heimdal Kerberos 5 KDCs (plural for redundancy). Do not use the kaserver that comes with AFS.
Use OpenAFS clients for Solaris, and Arla AFS clients for Linux 2.2.x. For Linux 2.4.x, OpenAFS clients might work better. I don't know, and probably it depends.
Possibly, the only thing that makes your CODEC worthwhile is if it is patent free. The only CODEC to date that I know of that is free of software patents is the H.261.
If we're going to use an algorithm encumbered by patents, we might as well use MPEG-4.
However if your CODEC is not covered by any patents, then please consider releasing it under a BSD or GPL license.
I think you should contact TrollTech and ask them if they are interested in marketing your product the same way the marketed Qt (a GUI toolkit).
Qt is available under GPL for X11/Unix and for commercial licensing for X11/Unix, MacOS and Windows. Anyone could actually port the X11/Unix version to Windows, but noone have, AFAIK.
Or release it under a BSD license like Ogg! The codec will get more widespread use, but it will be harder to make any money from it.
I'd say it is non-free software. This is cited from what they added:
[2.1] (e) Notwithstanding Sections 2.1 (a), (b), and (c) above, no license
is granted to You, under any intellectual property rights including patent
rights, to modify the code in such a way as to create or accept data that is
incompatible with data produced or accepted by the Original Code.
and
[2.2] e) Notwithstanding Sections 2.2 (a), (b), and (c) above, no license
may be granted to You by Contributor, under any intellectual property rights
including patent rights, to modify the code in such a way as to create or accept
data that is incompatible with data produced or accepted by the Original Code.
MPKG (old release here) is a ports tree that installs all applications in separate directories. That also means that you can have several versions of the same program installed concurrently. It generates config files for the modules package which will manage the PATH and other environment variables for the user.
It works pretty well, but still all programs that should show up in the Gnome or KDE menus etc. are still installed along with those packages. It is also often a lot of work to get programs to not install in/usr.
I use a window manager with virtual desktops (FVWM2). On every desktop I have either lots of maximized Mozilla windows, or a couple of xterms to the left (mximized vertically) and one Emacs window to the right (also maximized vertically). I switch between desktops using the mouse, and between windows by pressing F2 (which rasies or lowers the topmost window under the mouse). This works well for switching to the right xterm or browser window. Focus is always on the topmost window under the mouse, of course.
This way I get all the advantages of a tabbed interface while still being able to use the window manager like an ordinary one when that would be useful.
My windows are borderless, but they have a titlebar. I use the titlebar or F1 for moving them around and button-3 on titlebar or F3 to resize. F5 maximizes the window.
It's the old end-to-end argument again: Intelligence should be at the edges of a network, not in the nodes in between. The problem with MAPS is not that it blocks e-mail, but that it is the ISPs that do the blocking. Everyone should be free to use MAPS-style blocking, but it should be done in the users e-mail software, so everyone can turn it on and off at their on discretion and tweak it to fit certain needs.
The problem with that is that everyone needs to have a capable mail reader. That's why ordinary people should have system administrators for their home computers, not just their office computers. At least until someone creates a truly easy-to-use computer system.
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Don't store your mail on an NFS server. NFS is bad (use AFS instead, but not for mail either), and it's especially bad for storing mail. Use IMAP instead. IMAP is a secure file system designed for storing mail, and that's what your really need. Also, all relevant mail clients supports IMAP, and for those that don't, Cyrus IMAPd contains a POPd as well.
Of course, with Kerberos, you can have single sign-on login on MacOS X as well, and it works even if you have your home directory in AFS.
It can be used to authenticate logins on Windows 2000 (and probably XP), Unix (use PAM on Linux, Solaris etc., SIA on Tru64 and hack the XDM on others).
Use it to authenticate telnet and ssh logins. There are clients for MacOS, Windows, and Unix. Use it for authenticated X11 forwarding. Use it for FTP. Use it for POP3 and IMAP4 with Kerberos authentication or SSL-encrypted passwords (cyrus-imapd). Use it for AFS to replace the insecure NFS and to allow your users to access their home directory from home. Clients exist for most Unix variants (including MacOS X) and Windows 95/98/2000/XP.
Kerberos has single sign-on.
Why Kerberos instead of LDAP? Because Kerberos is an authentication scheme, not a password database.
Shameless plug: Or you can use a ports tree that allows you to have several versions of libraries installed simultaneously. ;-)
This nice shot in compination with the bottom of this page.
Somehow I fail to see how a round rotatable disc is capable of controlling information. Does it scratch the CD if you try to make an unathorized copy?
There is lots of confusion in this thread, but yerricde (parent) has got it right. Also check out how the FSF explains the problem.
Even a HoTMaiL account is better, or preferably some other for-a-fee services. The best and most expensive is to register your own domain name and point it to some hosting service.
Use Kerberos for authentication. There are PAM modules out there, and it is also supported in Windows 2000 (sort of).
You also need to distribute a passwd file. We store ours in AFS and distribute it using scripts run by cron. Since doesn't contain any password, users do not really need to touch it, but we generate the global passwd file from data in a database anyway. You might want to put stuff like e-mail forwarding information in that database as well, propagate it to the mail server using some simple scripts, and let your users access the database somehow. (Perhaps through a Kerberos authenticating gateway.)
KISS
They really do mean the exact same thing, and if you use the number it works in more browsers.
Unicode char 8364 really mean "the euro sign".
Notice how I did not write ¤, but rather just 0xA4, meaning "a byte of value 0xA4". Perhaps I should have been more clear.
Sorry, forgot the link: The euro sign in HTML and in some other contexts
Sadly, code 128 works in Mozilla+X11+Linux. It is still wrong.
AFS is good. The volume management is great, and you get real access control lists with groups. How about moving a users home directory to a different server, while the user is logged in? It's completly transparent. Or how about letting people create their own groups? That is useful. And there's proper authentication.
Random advice:
- Use Heimdal Kerberos 5 KDCs (plural for redundancy). Do not use the kaserver that comes with AFS.
- Put Heimdal and KTH-KRB (kerb 4) on all clients.
- Use OpenAFS servers.
- Use OpenAFS clients for Solaris, and Arla AFS clients for Linux 2.2.x. For Linux 2.4.x, OpenAFS clients might work better. I don't know, and probably it depends.
Finally: Do not trust your network. Ever!The latest OpenAFS client work really well in the latest versions of Windows, including XP.
> Where is the substance to back the hype?
What hype? I have hardly even read about it here on Slashdot.
I don't see the point in Lindows because Wine could almost certainly do the same things and you would still have the power of X11/Unix alongside it.
Do you want the simplicity of Windows, not the power of X11/Unix? Sigh....
I want the simplicity and power of TUNES. Anything else (including X11/Unix) sucks.
If we're going to use an algorithm encumbered by patents, we might as well use MPEG-4.
However if your CODEC is not covered by any patents, then please consider releasing it under a BSD or GPL license.
For information on why software patents are bad for free software, please visit The League for Programming Freedom
Qt is available under GPL for X11/Unix and for commercial licensing for X11/Unix, MacOS and Windows. Anyone could actually port the X11/Unix version to Windows, but noone have, AFAIK.
Or release it under a BSD license like Ogg! The codec will get more widespread use, but it will be harder to make any money from it.
For europeans, "cold-cathode" simply means "neon".
It works pretty well, but still all programs that should show up in the Gnome or KDE menus etc. are still installed along with those packages. It is also often a lot of work to get programs to not install in /usr.
Go check out this legal notice in lynx in an xterm with a really small font. :)
I use a window manager with virtual desktops (FVWM2). On every desktop I have either lots of maximized Mozilla windows, or a couple of xterms to the left (mximized vertically) and one Emacs window to the right (also maximized vertically). I switch between desktops using the mouse, and between windows by pressing F2 (which rasies or lowers the topmost window under the mouse). This works well for switching to the right xterm or browser window. Focus is always on the topmost window under the mouse, of course.
This way I get all the advantages of a tabbed interface while still being able to use the window manager like an ordinary one when that would be useful.
My windows are borderless, but they have a titlebar. I use the titlebar or F1 for moving them around and button-3 on titlebar or F3 to resize. F5 maximizes the window.
They are using the fact that the american people is scared...
The problem with that is that everyone needs to have a capable mail reader. That's why ordinary people should have system administrators for their home computers, not just their office computers. At least until someone creates a truly easy-to-use computer system.