It probably has to do with the fact that LOCAL bandwidth / latency is (usually) not an issue. Once you get beyond local however latency tends to suck (can be good, or can be horrible.)
That and the HUGEASS buffer on cablemodems makes it impossible to do any kind of QOS.
This is why I use a S518 ADSL card and do my own QOS on my server (or course, using DSL and not cable internet.) Runs 3rd party voip just fine even with bittorrent running.
Um yeah. You get what you pay for. Any "almost free" type system is going to suck. Tivo's are expensive because they are worth it. I'll be holding onto my SD DirectTivos for quite a while yet... Upgraded with networking and whatnot they are totally awesome. The only thing missing at the moment is a DirectTivo for the new DirectTV HD (mpeg4 based.)
It depends. Some brain-dead ISPs (PacBell / SBC) use a reverse DNS naming scheme that does not differentiate static versus dynamic. Worse, they use the same address blocks for both dynamic and static. All I can suggest is that you don't use a brain-dead ISP - especially if you want to run a mail server. In most of SBC land, there are DOZENS of good alternatives.
Nobody pointed out "problems" with my statements. One claimed that ISPs (at least one he works for) are ALREADY doing filtering, but anyone with good reading comprehension knows that I didn't say that NONE of them do. Also, Did I limit my post to only talk about ISPs in the US? No, I didn't. Everyone is already aware that it is a world-wide problem.
Some ISPs are doing a little - mostly with inbound. Occasionally with outbound. What kills me are the ISPs that reject inbound mail from dynamic IP space but don't block direct outbound (port 25) mail from dynamic IP space. Hello!?! Can I beat you over the head with a clue-by-four?
Looking at my corporate mail servers, it's obvious that many of the major ISPs are not filtering. In the US, Comcast is one of the WORST offenders, but Verizon, Road Runner, and others are pretty damn bad too. It's a world-wide problem.
But it's not just mail - it's botnets in general that need to be discovered / blocked / nuked. If someone is port scanning large portions of your network, firewall them. If it's from inside your net, suspend their access.
ISPs are in the perfect position to sniff traffic and identify infected machines that are part of botnets. It's obviously technically possible since the government does it at AT&T. You don't even need to sniff ALL traffic, SYN packets are enough. Most tech savvy businesses already sniff all their traffic with IDS systems, it's not a big leap.
ISPs should also be blocking outbound port 25 traffic from dynamic addresses (and if you need to use an external mail relay, use a tunnel or port 587.) Some ISPs do this already, many don't.
To all the whiners that don't like the port 25 blocking: Dynamic IP space is already "damaged goods", and you have multiple workarounds available to you. Any sane mail admin (including many large ISPs) already blacklist dynamic space therefor you can't effectively run a mail server on dynamic IP space.
The solution that stops 90%+ spam is out there, but it costs a little money to implement. It's still less money than what we currently are spending fighting spam. What are they waiting for - government mandates? Fines? Lawsuits? Getting their netblocks in 2,000,000 private blacklists that they have no chance in hell of getting out of?
No, the OP said that he thought the integration of MS office components was great. It said NOTHING about OOo components NOT being integrated.
Again, there has been no factual information presented on exactly what is wrong with OOo.
As for your comment, OOo bloated? The install is significantly smaller than MS Office. I really don't get why people call OOo bloated when it is smaller than MS Office. These same people frequently claim that OOo doesn't have features X Y and Z. Do you want something small or do you want features???
I would never claim that OOo is a perfect clone of MS Office. I WILL claim that it is good enough for 90%+ of the MS Office userbase. With Very Rare exceptions (a handful of docs out of HUNDREDS) it has been able to import Word / Excel docs without fail. I have been using OOo since 1.0 for my day to day business use.
There are some valid criticisms of OOo. Lack of templates, clipart, weak presentation tool, but all in all it works very well, and works BETTER than MS Office for some things such as large documents.
Face to face is preferable because you can read body language. This is VERY important in business deals. In some negotiations, the difference can be in the millions. If you know your job / product / etc., you don't need "days" to prepare - you are ALWAYS prepared.
Maybe when we all have Cisco Telepresence things will be better. But we don't have that now (not to mention that it is VERY expensive.)
That's insane. Hell, it's about 10 hours Boston to DC alone. To go across country is WAY more than 2 days unless you are driving round-the-clock - not advisable even WITH a partner. Possible != Reasonable in this case.
Plus the cost issue. I can get a round trip ticket cheaper than gas alone one-way - not to mention maintenance / wear and tear costs.
Or seeing your father one last time BEFORE he dies.
Yep - totally clueless. And before someone suggests it, I should not have to provide the government a REASON why I want to travel on a moment's notice. We should not have to make exceptions for something so wrong.
The government has a habit of proposing something and then implementing it. They very rarely make proposals without intending to implement it.
The point is that now is the time for feedback. You can't give feedback on something you don't know about.
Say, you don't work for the government do you? Sure don't want those pesky private citizens allowed to influence potential new regulations or laws that affect them, right? I mean the NERVE of some people - thinking that the government works for the citizens...
Well the problem is not Ubuntu. My wife MUCH prefers Linux over Windows. Of course she also worked at Sun for 10 years. You must have one of those "WinWives" - you know, kinda like the old Winmodems? Time to upgrade dude...:-)
Dealing with mail servers that handle newsletters with subscribers numbering in the 100K+ each range, I have several special configurations on my servers to handle various broken behavior. In fact, I have a "butthead-TMR" list that contains hotmail for this EXACT reason. I also have a "butthead-TMC" list for a few broken servers that start doing the same 500 level errors for "too many simultaneous connections".
It's one thing to have anti-spam and anti-abuse mechanisms in place, it's another to deliberately break basic functionality in direct violation of the standards that make email work. There are MUCH better ways of handling situations where you want to rate limit inbound mail that are fully compliant with the RFCs, that allow all valid mail to get through.
It simply amazes me how many IDIOTS are running servers at large ISP's / sites. It is well known by most competent email admins that hotmail is totally broken and unreliable. Anyone still using hotmail for everyday use should have their head examined.
Not sure what HE wants it for, but I use it for running multiple virtual machines. Also, the extra ram is nice for disk cache - especially if you are compiling.
I think you have it backwards there partner... My A1000 (an original from Oct. 1985) required the "Kickstart" boot disk, and THEN you booted "AmigaDOS".
My A2000 had Kickstart in ROM requiring only the AmigaDOS disks. I upgraded those from 1.3 to 2.0.
The reason was that the ROM portion (Kickstart) was in flux when the A1000 came out, and they knew that they would need to update it several times, and didn't want to deal with swapping ROMS all the time. The original A1000 was hardly polished.
None of the Amigas I had (A1000, A500, A2000, and an A3000) were instant on at all. They all required AmighaDOS via floppy or hard disk to boot the rest of the way.
Don't these kinds of threats put MS in legal jeopardy? Couldn't Linux companies sue MS claiming that Balmer's statements are harming their business, especially in light of the fact that MS refuses to identify these patents? I would think that this situation could cause more problems with the EU.
The DOJ of course is completely hopeless at this point, but other countries can still offer some relief.
Stability and security is why IMAP is not enabled on many Exchange servers. Frankly, this instability is inexcusable for commercial software - especially when many of the open source IMAP servers are rock solid. A cynical person may infer from MS's inability or unwillingness to address the issue as further proof that MS is trying to kill standards and force lock-in (Outlook.)
Sure, companies can TRY to reach me various ways, but the more they invade, the more turned off I am, and the more I resort to technological means to block these ads - Tivo, Adblock, Spamassassin, etc. I would not use an ad supported phone. Phones are slow enough now even in 3G areas, and screen real-estate is too precious to deal with ads without seriously degrading usability.
I'm sure some pre-teens will fall for free ad-supported phones, but nobody with any money at all is going to put up with it.
OK, my laptop has 2G of ram. Most modern laptops have at least 1G. While 256M is better than nothing, it certainly isn't much in terms of todays OS's and apps.
So here is what I would suggest... Put a card slot on there. Let me put in as much as I need. MicroSD cards are nice and small, but may be too slow, even the SDHC variety. I'm sure they could come up with something that would work well however.
Some of us already run our own imap servers. I would never go back to having all my mail stuck in some random mail client. I have mail archives that go back to around 1996 that I would hate to lose (which is why I have (tested) backups.) But more than that, I want my email archive accessible no matter where I am, which is why my IMAP store is also available via squirrel-mail. As a bonus, "Chatter" on the palm Treo supports push via IMAP, so I get access to my email that way too.
Thunderbird is great, and I use it occasionally. I also recommend it to others all the time. My main clients however are Mutt and Evolution. Mutt for my own IMAP server, Evolution to talk to the "Evil" Exchange Server (which doesn't have IMAP open for some bizarre reason.) Why Mutt? Because "all mail clients suck. Mutt just sucks less."
I find it peculiar that people's views of digital media is different than their views of older types of media, such as books, vinyl records, etc.
It's not. What book have you purchased that does not let you immediately skip to page 1 and start reading, but instead glues all the other pages shut until you stare at the copyright message for 30 seconds??? Do you actually sit down and read all that crap at the beginning of a book? What vinyl record requires you to listen to a "don't tape this album" message before letting you set the needle down on track 5? What VCR doesn't let you fast forward the crap until you get to the movie?
These are artificial restrictions that only exist on DRM protected media that have no need to exist. People put up with them because they are sheep.
True, but in the minds of pointy hairs, support costs are a fixed cost. X number of support on the payroll. If there are more callers for a big outage, the callers just wait forever on hold.
I don't agree with it, but that's what happens. Verizon is notorious for this. Idiots.
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It probably has to do with the fact that LOCAL bandwidth / latency is (usually) not an issue. Once you get beyond local however latency tends to suck (can be good, or can be horrible.)
That and the HUGEASS buffer on cablemodems makes it impossible to do any kind of QOS.
This is why I use a S518 ADSL card and do my own QOS on my server (or course, using DSL and not cable internet.) Runs 3rd party voip just fine even with bittorrent running.
Um yeah. You get what you pay for. Any "almost free" type system is going to suck. Tivo's are expensive because they are worth it. I'll be holding onto my SD DirectTivos for quite a while yet... Upgraded with networking and whatnot they are totally awesome. The only thing missing at the moment is a DirectTivo for the new DirectTV HD (mpeg4 based.)
It depends. Some brain-dead ISPs (PacBell / SBC) use a reverse DNS naming scheme that does not differentiate static versus dynamic. Worse, they use the same address blocks for both dynamic and static. All I can suggest is that you don't use a brain-dead ISP - especially if you want to run a mail server. In most of SBC land, there are DOZENS of good alternatives.
Nobody pointed out "problems" with my statements. One claimed that ISPs (at least one he works for) are ALREADY doing filtering, but anyone with good reading comprehension knows that I didn't say that NONE of them do. Also, Did I limit my post to only talk about ISPs in the US? No, I didn't. Everyone is already aware that it is a world-wide problem.
Some ISPs are doing a little - mostly with inbound. Occasionally with outbound. What kills me are the ISPs that reject inbound mail from dynamic IP space but don't block direct outbound (port 25) mail from dynamic IP space. Hello!?! Can I beat you over the head with a clue-by-four?
Looking at my corporate mail servers, it's obvious that many of the major ISPs are not filtering. In the US, Comcast is one of the WORST offenders, but Verizon, Road Runner, and others are pretty damn bad too. It's a world-wide problem.
But it's not just mail - it's botnets in general that need to be discovered / blocked / nuked. If someone is port scanning large portions of your network, firewall them. If it's from inside your net, suspend their access.
ISPs are in the perfect position to sniff traffic and identify infected machines that are part of botnets. It's obviously technically possible since the government does it at AT&T. You don't even need to sniff ALL traffic, SYN packets are enough. Most tech savvy businesses already sniff all their traffic with IDS systems, it's not a big leap.
ISPs should also be blocking outbound port 25 traffic from dynamic addresses (and if you need to use an external mail relay, use a tunnel or port 587.) Some ISPs do this already, many don't.
To all the whiners that don't like the port 25 blocking: Dynamic IP space is already "damaged goods", and you have multiple workarounds available to you. Any sane mail admin (including many large ISPs) already blacklist dynamic space therefor you can't effectively run a mail server on dynamic IP space.
The solution that stops 90%+ spam is out there, but it costs a little money to implement. It's still less money than what we currently are spending fighting spam. What are they waiting for - government mandates? Fines? Lawsuits? Getting their netblocks in 2,000,000 private blacklists that they have no chance in hell of getting out of?
Probably will be from liver spots... :-)
No, the OP said that he thought the integration of MS office components was great. It said NOTHING about OOo components NOT being integrated.
Again, there has been no factual information presented on exactly what is wrong with OOo.
As for your comment, OOo bloated? The install is significantly smaller than MS Office. I really don't get why people call OOo bloated when it is smaller than MS Office. These same people frequently claim that OOo doesn't have features X Y and Z. Do you want something small or do you want features???
I would never claim that OOo is a perfect clone of MS Office. I WILL claim that it is good enough for 90%+ of the MS Office userbase. With Very Rare exceptions (a handful of docs out of HUNDREDS) it has been able to import Word / Excel docs without fail. I have been using OOo since 1.0 for my day to day business use.
There are some valid criticisms of OOo. Lack of templates, clipart, weak presentation tool, but all in all it works very well, and works BETTER than MS Office for some things such as large documents.
MS wants Linux dead - and Novell along with it. The fact that they made a deal with Novell means nothing to a man that throws office furniture around.
"Yes, it's true, we made a deal and I promised not to sue you. But my brother Bob on the other hand..."
Face to face is preferable because you can read body language. This is VERY important in business deals. In some negotiations, the difference can be in the millions. If you know your job / product / etc., you don't need "days" to prepare - you are ALWAYS prepared.
Maybe when we all have Cisco Telepresence things will be better. But we don't have that now (not to mention that it is VERY expensive.)
That's insane. Hell, it's about 10 hours Boston to DC alone. To go across country is WAY more than 2 days unless you are driving round-the-clock - not advisable even WITH a partner. Possible != Reasonable in this case.
Plus the cost issue. I can get a round trip ticket cheaper than gas alone one-way - not to mention maintenance / wear and tear costs.
Or seeing your father one last time BEFORE he dies.
Yep - totally clueless. And before someone suggests it, I should not have to provide the government a REASON why I want to travel on a moment's notice. We should not have to make exceptions for something so wrong.
The government has a habit of proposing something and then implementing it. They very rarely make proposals without intending to implement it.
The point is that now is the time for feedback. You can't give feedback on something you don't know about.
Say, you don't work for the government do you? Sure don't want those pesky private citizens allowed to influence potential new regulations or laws that affect them, right? I mean the NERVE of some people - thinking that the government works for the citizens...
A rejection is a 5xx level error. A 4xx is just a temp fail, and not a rejection.
I'm talking about 5xx level rejections. 4xx level errors are JUST FINE!
Well the problem is not Ubuntu. My wife MUCH prefers Linux over Windows. Of course she also worked at Sun for 10 years. You must have one of those "WinWives" - you know, kinda like the old Winmodems? Time to upgrade dude... :-)
Dealing with mail servers that handle newsletters with subscribers numbering in the 100K+ each range, I have several special configurations on my servers to handle various broken behavior. In fact, I have a "butthead-TMR" list that contains hotmail for this EXACT reason. I also have a "butthead-TMC" list for a few broken servers that start doing the same 500 level errors for "too many simultaneous connections".
It's one thing to have anti-spam and anti-abuse mechanisms in place, it's another to deliberately break basic functionality in direct violation of the standards that make email work. There are MUCH better ways of handling situations where you want to rate limit inbound mail that are fully compliant with the RFCs, that allow all valid mail to get through.
It simply amazes me how many IDIOTS are running servers at large ISP's / sites. It is well known by most competent email admins that hotmail is totally broken and unreliable. Anyone still using hotmail for everyday use should have their head examined.
what do you want 4GB of RAM for anyway
Not sure what HE wants it for, but I use it for running multiple virtual machines. Also, the extra ram is nice for disk cache - especially if you are compiling.
I think you have it backwards there partner... My A1000 (an original from Oct. 1985) required the "Kickstart" boot disk, and THEN you booted "AmigaDOS".
My A2000 had Kickstart in ROM requiring only the AmigaDOS disks. I upgraded those from 1.3 to 2.0.
The reason was that the ROM portion (Kickstart) was in flux when the A1000 came out, and they knew that they would need to update it several times, and didn't want to deal with swapping ROMS all the time. The original A1000 was hardly polished.
None of the Amigas I had (A1000, A500, A2000, and an A3000) were instant on at all. They all required AmighaDOS via floppy or hard disk to boot the rest of the way.
Just posing a couple questions here...
Don't these kinds of threats put MS in legal jeopardy? Couldn't Linux companies sue MS claiming that Balmer's statements are harming their business, especially in light of the fact that MS refuses to identify these patents? I would think that this situation could cause more problems with the EU.
The DOJ of course is completely hopeless at this point, but other countries can still offer some relief.
Stability and security is why IMAP is not enabled on many Exchange servers. Frankly, this instability is inexcusable for commercial software - especially when many of the open source IMAP servers are rock solid. A cynical person may infer from MS's inability or unwillingness to address the issue as further proof that MS is trying to kill standards and force lock-in (Outlook.)
Sure, companies can TRY to reach me various ways, but the more they invade, the more turned off I am, and the more I resort to technological means to block these ads - Tivo, Adblock, Spamassassin, etc. I would not use an ad supported phone. Phones are slow enough now even in 3G areas, and screen real-estate is too precious to deal with ads without seriously degrading usability.
I'm sure some pre-teens will fall for free ad-supported phones, but nobody with any money at all is going to put up with it.
OK, my laptop has 2G of ram. Most modern laptops have at least 1G. While 256M is better than nothing, it certainly isn't much in terms of todays OS's and apps.
So here is what I would suggest... Put a card slot on there. Let me put in as much as I need. MicroSD cards are nice and small, but may be too slow, even the SDHC variety. I'm sure they could come up with something that would work well however.
Some of us already run our own imap servers. I would never go back to having all my mail stuck in some random mail client. I have mail archives that go back to around 1996 that I would hate to lose (which is why I have (tested) backups.) But more than that, I want my email archive accessible no matter where I am, which is why my IMAP store is also available via squirrel-mail. As a bonus, "Chatter" on the palm Treo supports push via IMAP, so I get access to my email that way too.
Thunderbird is great, and I use it occasionally. I also recommend it to others all the time. My main clients however are Mutt and Evolution. Mutt for my own IMAP server, Evolution to talk to the "Evil" Exchange Server (which doesn't have IMAP open for some bizarre reason.) Why Mutt? Because "all mail clients suck. Mutt just sucks less."
I find it peculiar that people's views of digital media is different than their views of older types of media, such as books, vinyl records, etc.
It's not. What book have you purchased that does not let you immediately skip to page 1 and start reading, but instead glues all the other pages shut until you stare at the copyright message for 30 seconds??? Do you actually sit down and read all that crap at the beginning of a book? What vinyl record requires you to listen to a "don't tape this album" message before letting you set the needle down on track 5? What VCR doesn't let you fast forward the crap until you get to the movie?
These are artificial restrictions that only exist on DRM protected media that have no need to exist. People put up with them because they are sheep.
True, but in the minds of pointy hairs, support costs are a fixed cost. X number of support on the payroll. If there are more callers for a big outage, the callers just wait forever on hold.
I don't agree with it, but that's what happens. Verizon is notorious for this. Idiots.