Interesting. I've received maybe 5 emails this past year (at a volume of around 500 / day legit mails) that have contained an image that I needed to see in order to understand the email. They were all screenshots showing a problem on some web site.
More frequently rich text is useful (tables), but it's still a pretty small percentage of the overall mail (less than 1% of what I get.)
A text based client for me works 100% of the time (since it can pop-open a firefox window with the HTML content of a message if needed, or an image viewer.)
Personally, I have no need for a GUI based mail client, and my need to support images / multi-media / html is VERY limited (less than 0.5% of my mail volume.)
I'm seeing modern spam engines that are designed to handle greylisting. While it's still in the minority, it's a heck of a lot more than 0.01%. of the volume I see. The 419ers at hotmail / yahoo, etc. alone account for more than 0.01% (more like 0.5%.) Of course I DO use DNSBL's which cuts down the amount of data greylisting deals with to a nice low 5%, which make it easier to identify the broken legit mailers that don't handle greylisting. Don't know what you plan on doing when 50% of the spamware gets around your greylisting (it's just a matter of time...)
Now don't get your underwear all in a knot. Note that I didn't say "eliminate the text-interface of mutt." Someone could fork it and add a gui wrapper. Mutt as is, would stay mutt.
Unless your company uses VPN's / encryption for all communication, email isn't private / secure at all anyway. It's amazing how few companies understand security even at the most basic levels or they think it is too hard / cumbersome to use.
Of course anyone that really thinks email is private (outside of using encryption such as PGP of course) no matter WHERE it is stored is naive, as most server to server activity is in the clear. Of course it's possible to configure many modern MTA's to do TLS (server to server,) VERY VERY few sites have it setup. Most message stores are NOT encrypted in any way, and most MUA to MSA/MTA communication is not either.
There are solutions to the attachment problem. Third-party products exists which pull them out of the message store and keep them separate. But yes, I have seen moronic users use the email server as a way of backup up their desktop.
All in all, I just don't care for exchange. It's overly complex for what it does. Things that should be easy aren't.
And what would it do to mailing list servers? How would it help 419's which usually come from legit mail servers?
Hashcash is dead due to modern spamming techniques and the fact that it would require everyone to implement it to be effective. Where is the big checklist response to anti-spam ideas when you need it?:-)
Of course Mutt handles multiple identities with ease via folder-hooks and such. Pity that nobody has been able to put the power of Mutt in a GUI based client... Nothing comes close.
You should care because this kind of pipe (or tube) is used on backbones. A fast backbone ensures that you and 30 million others just like you can all download pr0n, browse MySpace and play WoW ath the same time at your full local link speed.
Ideologically, I support Microsoft rather than Linux because Microsoft allows people like myself to make a living. Granted lots of people do get paid to work all day on an open-source project...companies wouldn't do this unless it gave them a competitive advantage (i.e., Redhat can sell an OS by leveraging the work of others).
I guess I'm confused. You support Microsoft because they allow you to make a living (how gracious of them) and then you say that "lots of people do get paid to work all day on an open-source project" so....? I must be missing something... Are you in some way defective and only work with Windows (kinda like Visio...?)
I guess I support open-source software because it allows me and my clients a LOT more freedom, versatility, for less cost than proprietary alternatives (and hence they have more money to pay ME.:-)
This is why Linux will never catch on. "Packages going into Etch"?? WTF does that mean?
Genuine Advantage in Vista? WTF does that mean? This is why Windows will never catch on.
iSight on a Mac? WTF is that?
If a well-educated slashdot reader has no clue what you're talking about, how is the general public, let alone my grandma, supposed to use Linux?
I would bet that most Linux using and a large portion of non-Linux using slashdot readers knew exactly what that meant. By your trollish and poorly thought-out comment, I would assume that you are not in the majority here. Terminology in technology always requires some domain knowledge. This article is NOT aimed at your grandma (doubt your grandma reads/., "news for nerds",) and would have no bearing on her use or non-use of Linux. It is an article about internal politics of a particular distribution of Linux that she probably wouldn't be using anyway.
Ah yes. When website developers stop using annoying flashing, animated, noisy ads that make the content nearly impossible to comprehend, we will stop blocking that crap. I don't use adblock on a site where the ads are unobtrusive since I don't find them annoying. But don't have 99% crap with 1% content. Of course the big ad houses such as doubleclick are always blocked so you are doomed if you use them.
But seriously, is there any need to have 5 different tracking / analytics systems each with multiple javascript includes? Why bother splitting up a 5 paragraph article on 5 different pages? What's with the 7 iframe boxes? The 14 flash ads? Sites so frequently have 1K of content and 400K of garbage spread over 200+ browser requests to 20 different servers that it makes the site horrible to navigate without an ad-blocker and javascript disabler. Website designers / developers doing stupid annoying shit is why adblock / noscript exist.
Apple's LOM is about equivalent to HP's LO Standard.
Except for the missing remote console which IMO is critical for dealing with equipment that is in a different physical location, or headless in a closet / rack. Not everyone works on the data-center floor (in fact, you generally try and spend as little time as possible there, being noisy and cold.) In apple's case, they really need a remote graphical console.
All I'm saying, is learn from HP. They did it right. If Apple cares about the enterprise at all (which I'm not sure if they do to be honest) they need to compete a little better and start making sure their boxes are more enterprise friendly. I'm sorry you can't see the utility of all the enterprise-class features HP offers in their remote management system. When you deal with as many servers as I do, it matters as it greatly improves productivity and gives me and my staff a lot more flexibility. I'll will say that I won't buy another server that doesn't have at least 95% of their feature set however.
There is a lot more to being "designed for the enterprise" than being rack-mountable.
Either one is not complete unless they have features not listed. I have the original G5 XServe that had nothing at all.
On an HP, I can:
PXE netboot / install
Get a remote graphical console (or text if you don't pay for the advanced license key)
Power cycle / reset
Utilize virtual media (CD / floppy image on a web server or on the management client's drive)
Can I do ALL those things on the mac with it's management processor? Didn't see the remote graphical console - do I need a separate IP KVM to get that? Can I even get a text console with it? The original xserve didn't have a video card - is that now embedded? Don't see it. If I have to add one, it wastes one of two available slots. Given the GUI centric design of the mac, remote graphical console is important. ARD is not enough (which is what I use now) and I end up having to manually restart the service all the time via ssh because it keeps locking up.
The HP ILO is a truly awesome remote management system.
Um, Microsoft ALSO brought up Linux (which DOES run on x86) as a competitor in the original case when trying to defend themselves. Of course you will now tell me that the courts said that they were found to be a monopoly for "Microsoft Windows as a desktop OS for x86 platforms".
Whatever. Both Linux and Apple as competitors were used by MS in their defense. I seriously doubt the judge just threw out those facts and that they WERE considered, but rejected based on the arguments by the prosecution.
Well, true, much like car that allows you to run into a concrete wall at 120 MPH is partially responsible for the death of the driver.
When you look at the previous example you provided, PostgreSQL would have ALSO allowed the same shitty programming. It's pretty trollish to now drum up other flaws in MySQL. Yes, MySQL does have a lot of flaws. I don't think anyone is disputing that, but most of those flaws and limitations are known and can be worked around (such as doing client-side validation on dates.) If MySQL doesn't provide all the database functionality you need, don't use it, but it does work well enough for many many people and applications.
I, for one, would really like to see the Apple guys create an enterprise-class server. The XServe gets close, but fails as it is missing a OOB management processor (see HP's ILO for an example of how to do it right) and requires funky button pushing operations to do some things. No, ILO is not the same as an IP-KVM or serial console, which only handle 50% of all the functionality needed.
Nice troll. Comparing notepad to emacs is not the same as MySQL to PostgreSQL. Not even close.
I think the point that the OP is trying to make is that PostgreSQL can be more difficult to install and use for no damn reason. As someone who uses both MySQL and PostgreSQL, the Postgres guys could (should) take some of the simplicity ideas of MySQL and incorporate them into PostgreSQL which would be a Good Thing. Most of the things that make MySQL easier to install / configure / use have NOTHING AT ALL to do with the actual back-end features of the database.
We use both PostgreSQL and MySQL for a large web-based application that does a reasonable mix of reads / writes (sessions / profiles are in MySQL so it gets MANY MANY writes.) Neither MySQL nor PostgreSQL has problems handling many many connections. Our load frequently hits around 1000 connections on Postgres and 4000 on MySQL on individual database servers (we replicate too.)
Obviously you need to tune your environment (there are a plethora of options including table types which can impact things a LOT) to the load, so if you are running into problems at 100 connections, something is wrong.
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Interesting. I've received maybe 5 emails this past year (at a volume of around 500 / day legit mails) that have contained an image that I needed to see in order to understand the email. They were all screenshots showing a problem on some web site.
More frequently rich text is useful (tables), but it's still a pretty small percentage of the overall mail (less than 1% of what I get.)
A text based client for me works 100% of the time (since it can pop-open a firefox window with the HTML content of a message if needed, or an image viewer.)
Personally, I have no need for a GUI based mail client, and my need to support images / multi-media / html is VERY limited (less than 0.5% of my mail volume.)
Only problem is that this would allow spammers to make up any number of keys which would completely kill the effectiveness of this idea.
Some MUA's / MTA's don't pass on rejection data (5xx level messages) to the user. A certain company in Redmond puts out software that does that...
I'm seeing modern spam engines that are designed to handle greylisting. While it's still in the minority, it's a heck of a lot more than 0.01%. of the volume I see. The 419ers at hotmail / yahoo, etc. alone account for more than 0.01% (more like 0.5%.) Of course I DO use DNSBL's which cuts down the amount of data greylisting deals with to a nice low 5%, which make it easier to identify the broken legit mailers that don't handle greylisting. Don't know what you plan on doing when 50% of the spamware gets around your greylisting (it's just a matter of time...)
Now don't get your underwear all in a knot. Note that I didn't say "eliminate the text-interface of mutt." Someone could fork it and add a gui wrapper. Mutt as is, would stay mutt.
Unless your company uses VPN's / encryption for all communication, email isn't private / secure at all anyway. It's amazing how few companies understand security even at the most basic levels or they think it is too hard / cumbersome to use.
Of course anyone that really thinks email is private (outside of using encryption such as PGP of course) no matter WHERE it is stored is naive, as most server to server activity is in the clear. Of course it's possible to configure many modern MTA's to do TLS (server to server,) VERY VERY few sites have it setup. Most message stores are NOT encrypted in any way, and most MUA to MSA/MTA communication is not either.
There are solutions to the attachment problem. Third-party products exists which pull them out of the message store and keep them separate. But yes, I have seen moronic users use the email server as a way of backup up their desktop.
All in all, I just don't care for exchange. It's overly complex for what it does. Things that should be easy aren't.
And what would it do to mailing list servers? How would it help 419's which usually come from legit mail servers?
:-)
Hashcash is dead due to modern spamming techniques and the fact that it would require everyone to implement it to be effective. Where is the big checklist response to anti-spam ideas when you need it?
Of course Mutt handles multiple identities with ease via folder-hooks and such. Pity that nobody has been able to put the power of Mutt in a GUI based client... Nothing comes close.
You should care because this kind of pipe (or tube) is used on backbones. A fast backbone ensures that you and 30 million others just like you can all download pr0n, browse MySpace and play WoW ath the same time at your full local link speed.
Ideologically, I support Microsoft rather than Linux because Microsoft allows people like myself to make a living. Granted lots of people do get paid to work all day on an open-source project...companies wouldn't do this unless it gave them a competitive advantage (i.e., Redhat can sell an OS by leveraging the work of others).
:-)
I guess I'm confused. You support Microsoft because they allow you to make a living (how gracious of them) and then you say that "lots of people do get paid to work all day on an open-source project" so....? I must be missing something... Are you in some way defective and only work with Windows (kinda like Visio...?)
I guess I support open-source software because it allows me and my clients a LOT more freedom, versatility, for less cost than proprietary alternatives (and hence they have more money to pay ME.
This is why Linux will never catch on. "Packages going into Etch"?? WTF does that mean?
/., "news for nerds",) and would have no bearing on her use or non-use of Linux. It is an article about internal politics of a particular distribution of Linux that she probably wouldn't be using anyway.
Genuine Advantage in Vista? WTF does that mean? This is why Windows will never catch on.
iSight on a Mac? WTF is that?
If a well-educated slashdot reader has no clue what you're talking about, how is the general public, let alone my grandma, supposed to use Linux?
I would bet that most Linux using and a large portion of non-Linux using slashdot readers knew exactly what that meant. By your trollish and poorly thought-out comment, I would assume that you are not in the majority here. Terminology in technology always requires some domain knowledge. This article is NOT aimed at your grandma (doubt your grandma reads
Ah yes. When website developers stop using annoying flashing, animated, noisy ads that make the content nearly impossible to comprehend, we will stop blocking that crap. I don't use adblock on a site where the ads are unobtrusive since I don't find them annoying. But don't have 99% crap with 1% content. Of course the big ad houses such as doubleclick are always blocked so you are doomed if you use them.
But seriously, is there any need to have 5 different tracking / analytics systems each with multiple javascript includes? Why bother splitting up a 5 paragraph article on 5 different pages? What's with the 7 iframe boxes? The 14 flash ads? Sites so frequently have 1K of content and 400K of garbage spread over 200+ browser requests to 20 different servers that it makes the site horrible to navigate without an ad-blocker and javascript disabler. Website designers / developers doing stupid annoying shit is why adblock / noscript exist.
I wonder how hard it would be to design a website that was so awful that it actually caused physical illness...
Just head on over to MySpace and check out any teen girl's page. They seem to have no problem doing that.
25,000 lines of Javascript ? What could you possibly be doing which requires that level of Javascript interaction ?????
1000 lines of application code, and 24,000 lines of browser compatibility code.
Is it a graphical console? If so, it doesn't say so in the marketing lit. In fact, the marketing lit is VERY thin.
Apple's LOM is about equivalent to HP's LO Standard.
Except for the missing remote console which IMO is critical for dealing with equipment that is in a different physical location, or headless in a closet / rack. Not everyone works on the data-center floor (in fact, you generally try and spend as little time as possible there, being noisy and cold.) In apple's case, they really need a remote graphical console.
All I'm saying, is learn from HP. They did it right. If Apple cares about the enterprise at all (which I'm not sure if they do to be honest) they need to compete a little better and start making sure their boxes are more enterprise friendly. I'm sorry you can't see the utility of all the enterprise-class features HP offers in their remote management system. When you deal with as many servers as I do, it matters as it greatly improves productivity and gives me and my staff a lot more flexibility. I'll will say that I won't buy another server that doesn't have at least 95% of their feature set however.
There is a lot more to being "designed for the enterprise" than being rack-mountable.
On an HP, I can:
Can I do ALL those things on the mac with it's management processor? Didn't see the remote graphical console - do I need a separate IP KVM to get that? Can I even get a text console with it? The original xserve didn't have a video card - is that now embedded? Don't see it. If I have to add one, it wastes one of two available slots. Given the GUI centric design of the mac, remote graphical console is important. ARD is not enough (which is what I use now) and I end up having to manually restart the service all the time via ssh because it keeps locking up.
The HP ILO is a truly awesome remote management system.
Um, Microsoft ALSO brought up Linux (which DOES run on x86) as a competitor in the original case when trying to defend themselves. Of course you will now tell me that the courts said that they were found to be a monopoly for "Microsoft Windows as a desktop OS for x86 platforms".
Whatever. Both Linux and Apple as competitors were used by MS in their defense. I seriously doubt the judge just threw out those facts and that they WERE considered, but rejected based on the arguments by the prosecution.
Well, true, much like car that allows you to run into a concrete wall at 120 MPH is partially responsible for the death of the driver.
When you look at the previous example you provided, PostgreSQL would have ALSO allowed the same shitty programming. It's pretty trollish to now drum up other flaws in MySQL. Yes, MySQL does have a lot of flaws. I don't think anyone is disputing that, but most of those flaws and limitations are known and can be worked around (such as doing client-side validation on dates.) If MySQL doesn't provide all the database functionality you need, don't use it, but it does work well enough for many many people and applications.
I assume that these can be made to work with ZFS by making hidden files.
Using hidden files for the resource forks would also make backups WAY WAY easier and more reliable than what is available now.
I, for one, would really like to see the Apple guys create an enterprise-class server. The XServe gets close, but fails as it is missing a OOB management processor (see HP's ILO for an example of how to do it right) and requires funky button pushing operations to do some things. No, ILO is not the same as an IP-KVM or serial console, which only handle 50% of all the functionality needed.
Nice troll. Comparing notepad to emacs is not the same as MySQL to PostgreSQL. Not even close.
I think the point that the OP is trying to make is that PostgreSQL can be more difficult to install and use for no damn reason. As someone who uses both MySQL and PostgreSQL, the Postgres guys could (should) take some of the simplicity ideas of MySQL and incorporate them into PostgreSQL which would be a Good Thing. Most of the things that make MySQL easier to install / configure / use have NOTHING AT ALL to do with the actual back-end features of the database.
We use both PostgreSQL and MySQL for a large web-based application that does a reasonable mix of reads / writes (sessions / profiles are in MySQL so it gets MANY MANY writes.) Neither MySQL nor PostgreSQL has problems handling many many connections. Our load frequently hits around 1000 connections on Postgres and 4000 on MySQL on individual database servers (we replicate too.)
Obviously you need to tune your environment (there are a plethora of options including table types which can impact things a LOT) to the load, so if you are running into problems at 100 connections, something is wrong.