Let's see here, "A lot of hype - and smoke and mirrors obfuscation - surrounds interoperability these days," Microsoft wrote in an open letter published on its Web site. Mmm-hmm, like about 6000 pages worth...
They are quite easy to read and understand. Either you're lying through your teeth, (er, keyboard), or you've never actually tried to read the whole thing!
I'm sorry, but when the BlueTooth spec is only 1500 pages and it's been how many years before companies could agree on what it all meant, there's no damn way that 6000 page document is worth even considering even if Microsoft did suddenly do a 180-degree turnabout in their business practices, (don't hold your breath).
The 500 page ODF at least has a snowball's chance of working well for everybody over the course of a few years.
All Microsoft will do with theirs is misinterpret and misimplement everything they can, point their fingers at everybody else when nothing works compatibly, and hey presto, nothing's changed! "Gee, so sorry, we tried so hard..."
(Note to mods: the parent post is nowhere near the Insightful it's been given so far, it's somewhere between Troll and Overrated)
Checkpoint is stable, secure and has an excellent track record.
Er, no, sorry. I won't argue that Fortinet is great (it's about the same level as Checkpoint in my book) but if you've truly never had any problems with Checkpoint then you're the only installation of it I know of that can make that claim. (And I've been consulting for over 15 years for many hundreds of companies of all sizes including some Fortune-100 with really outstanding IT people).
Watchguard is decent, though their low end boxes use a proprietary VPN protocol. And their LiveSecurity scanning isn't quite the cat's pajamas they present it to be, (but it doesn't hurt anything either).
Er, eSmith has a firewall, yes, but it also a ton of other stuff up to and including the kitchen sink. Only appropriate if you're a very small company that can only afford one box.
Speaking of M0n0wall though, pfSense is M0n0Wall based but supports multiple redundant links with load-balancing and real-time hardware failover including session-state retention. (I.e. you can have not only redundant WAN links but also redundant firewall hardware so if one cheap x86 box dies the other takes over transparently).
There's a ton of other features as well, the pfSense team is definitely aiming for the enterprise while keeping it accessible to SMBs.
That is correct. Assuming this is in the USA, every state in the union has laws prohibiting such contracts from preventing an employee from earning a living in their field. So they can have pretty onerous NDAs, but they can't stop you from telling them to shove it and going to work for their biggest competitor the very next day.
(The one about starting your own competing company is enforceable though, so if you want to do that make sure you register the company in somebody else's name and have all your paperwork reflect your status as nothing more than a mere employee. And be sure to have beaucoup insurance against lawsuits and a massive legal fund to defend that tenuous position.:)
what I said was forwarding email going to an Exchange account to another, non-Exchange account
And the GP's reply was correct. Whomever thinks Exchange cannot forward email to an external (non-Exchange) server just doesn't know anything about Exchange, (or how to use Google or the MS-KB either!).
Not that I'm advocating using Exchange mind you, I still think it sucks/blows majorly for a whole host of reasons, but the above sorts of statements are just painfully ignorant.
...go ahead and conduct business your way. Send out 39 RFP's.
But that's exactly my point - he hasn't sent out 39 RFP's!!
I'm not arguing with your opinion of companies that do that, I'm arguing against trying and convicting someone for a "crime" they haven't committed!
And Belize too, WTF?!?
Russia and China and I can see because they have no intellectual property laws and they do have a large enough criminal element and industrial base to take advantage of that (legally) on a large enough scale to hurt the software companies.
But Belize? It's a small third world country with it's own share of internal piracy, sure, but it's no more a pirate haven than Honduras, Ecuador et al. Somebody was grasping for straws on that one.
(Maybe they got their pirate countries list mixed up with their off-shore financial haven list, which Belize certainly *would* be on.:)
And now you're being pissy and feeding me flack instead. You're making a lot of negative assumptions about this guy with zip-all for facts to back it up. As for your final question, we do business with companies that take a few minutes to gather the facts before jumping to conclusions. Not to say that your method doesn't work, it does, most companies have to do that. But you're jumping way ahead of things here and berating the guy for something he hasn't done yet. Chill out a bit, heck, if you're familiar with the product sector he's asking about then the same time you've spent venting could be spent providing useful information and everyone reading these threads would better off, even yourself! Lower blood pressure, smoother relations with others, less ulcers etc etc, the benefits are manifold, you should try it!:)
I think just about everything is now covered in LedgerSMB or the project from which it was forked - SQL-Ledger. My business has been using these systems for the last four years and has found them to be stable, flexible and reliable.
We've been using SQL-Ledger for a couple of years now and while it does a great job, it has a few minor annoying bugs that have lasted through several development cycles and the long-awaited payroll module is still nowhere to be seen. What have your experiences with LedgerSMB been like?
I'm amazed that you have 39 choices, and you are looking for MORE!
Maybe none of them are an exact fit for his needs. It sounds like he is trying to "do his homework" right now and you're just being pissy and feeding him flack.
Because they are created separately by the tailor. Also, historically, they could actually be different depending on the style of armor/weapons being used.
SQL-ledger is a good bookkeeping package (and a whole lot more) and SugarCRM can handle the CRM side of things. There's even some glue scripts out there to keep the client info sync'd between them.
I'd also add Zimbra to the list of very good non-SourceForge projects. However, to be fair, the original poster was referring mostly to word of mouth being the primary source of info, nothing in the post said, "anything not on SourceForge is te suxors!"
A philosopher would never say that. Yogi Berra did.
So you're saying a baseball player can't also be a philosopher...? If you read enough of his quotes I think you'll find he was as much a modern day philosopher as anyone.
Thanks for the correction of the quote though, I'm sure that saved quite a few people, (like me:), the trouble of actually looking it up.
The Mini is a SFF which is capable of handling most of the projects described, hence the original post being (potentially) worthy of Interesting, Insightful, Informative or similar positive moderation depending on your perspective. However, as you so cleverly point out, it is indeed a prefabricated device, requiring neither skull sweat nor elbow grease on the part of the end user which is why my previous post referred to it as being worthy of a more negative moderation such as, oh I dunno, let's go with "Offtopic" for now (again, depending on your perspective).
This simultaneity of both positive and negative attributes culminated in my reference to a "+1 Offtopic" moderation which could be taken as either a smart-ass remark or mildly humorous.
Unfortunately your cranium is neither sufficiently pointy for this to stick nor sufficiently flat for it to rest atop with the result that you completely missed it, as evidenced by your perplexed query above. (Tests for magnetism on the part of the parent poster's cranium were not conducted as all cranial-magnetic continuity/discontinuity tests have been permanently suspended due to the increasing trend towards inaccuracy resulting from wide-spread adoption of LCD monitors).
The keyword is "arbitrage". It translates in the real world as "free money" (seriously).
In that respect I suppose his article is pretty much correct, it's just extremely old news and not at all specific to Second Life. Not to mention he seems to cast aspersions without regard to who is really saying what.
Isn't that a bit like solving your home renovation issues by buying a new house?
Er, no, it's avoiding having them in the first place. (Not to mention saving a heck of a lot of time)
(Wish there was a +1 Offtopic mod for the GP - Offtopic but still useful:).
Having just read both of TFAs I really have to question the sanity of the author - it's a goddamned game! You could replace "Second Life" in that article with ANY role playing game all the way back to the original Red Book (Blue Book? whatever) paper editions of D&D.
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Let's see here, "A lot of hype - and smoke and mirrors obfuscation - surrounds interoperability these days," Microsoft wrote in an open letter published on its Web site.
Mmm-hmm, like about 6000 pages worth...
They are quite easy to read and understand.
Either you're lying through your teeth, (er, keyboard), or you've never actually tried to read the whole thing!
I'm sorry, but when the BlueTooth spec is only 1500 pages and it's been how many years before companies could agree on what it all meant, there's no damn way that 6000 page document is worth even considering even if Microsoft did suddenly do a 180-degree turnabout in their business practices, (don't hold your breath).
The 500 page ODF at least has a snowball's chance of working well for everybody over the course of a few years.
All Microsoft will do with theirs is misinterpret and misimplement everything they can, point their fingers at everybody else when nothing works compatibly, and hey presto, nothing's changed! "Gee, so sorry, we tried so hard..."
(Note to mods: the parent post is nowhere near the Insightful it's been given so far, it's somewhere between Troll and Overrated)
says that it is running FreeBSD.
:/ :)
Yep, sorry, I hadn't inferred that OpenBSD was a requirement as well.
(Maybe somebody could back-port it to OpenBSD.
Checkpoint is stable, secure and has an excellent track record.
Er, no, sorry. I won't argue that Fortinet is great (it's about the same level as Checkpoint in my book) but if you've truly never had any problems with Checkpoint then you're the only installation of it I know of that can make that claim. (And I've been consulting for over 15 years for many hundreds of companies of all sizes including some Fortune-100 with really outstanding IT people).
Netscreens are okay, but Checkpoint? Eww... :/
I don't know why no-one's done a bootable CD version.
Check out pfSense for exactly what you're describing.
Watchguard is decent, though their low end boxes use a proprietary VPN protocol. And their LiveSecurity scanning isn't quite the cat's pajamas they present it to be, (but it doesn't hurt anything either).
SME with Monowall. AKA esmith.
Er, eSmith has a firewall, yes, but it also a ton of other stuff up to and including the kitchen sink. Only appropriate if you're a very small company that can only afford one box.
Speaking of M0n0wall though, pfSense is M0n0Wall based but supports multiple redundant links with load-balancing and real-time hardware failover including session-state retention. (I.e. you can have not only redundant WAN links but also redundant firewall hardware so if one cheap x86 box dies the other takes over transparently).
There's a ton of other features as well, the pfSense team is definitely aiming for the enterprise while keeping it accessible to SMBs.
the non-competes are not to keep you from working
:)
That is correct. Assuming this is in the USA, every state in the union has laws prohibiting such contracts from preventing an employee from earning a living in their field. So they can have pretty onerous NDAs, but they can't stop you from telling them to shove it and going to work for their biggest competitor the very next day.
(The one about starting your own competing company is enforceable though, so if you want to do that make sure you register the company in somebody else's name and have all your paperwork reflect your status as nothing more than a mere employee. And be sure to have beaucoup insurance against lawsuits and a massive legal fund to defend that tenuous position.
what I said was forwarding email going to an Exchange account to another, non-Exchange account
And the GP's reply was correct. Whomever thinks Exchange cannot forward email to an external (non-Exchange) server just doesn't know anything about Exchange, (or how to use Google or the MS-KB either!).
Not that I'm advocating using Exchange mind you, I still think it sucks/blows majorly for a whole host of reasons, but the above sorts of statements are just painfully ignorant.
"teaching to the test"
I'm sure you're right - for example look at Symantec's score on those tests compared to how it does in the real world, (abysmally).
...go ahead and conduct business your way. Send out 39 RFP's.
But that's exactly my point - he hasn't sent out 39 RFP's!!
I'm not arguing with your opinion of companies that do that, I'm arguing against trying and convicting someone for a "crime" they haven't committed!
Blame Canada
:)
And Belize too, WTF?!?
Russia and China and I can see because they have no intellectual property laws and they do have a large enough criminal element and industrial base to take advantage of that (legally) on a large enough scale to hurt the software companies.
But Belize? It's a small third world country with it's own share of internal piracy, sure, but it's no more a pirate haven than Honduras, Ecuador et al. Somebody was grasping for straws on that one.
(Maybe they got their pirate countries list mixed up with their off-shore financial haven list, which Belize certainly *would* be on.
And now you're being pissy and feeding me flack instead. You're making a lot of negative assumptions about this guy with zip-all for facts to back it up. As for your final question, we do business with companies that take a few minutes to gather the facts before jumping to conclusions. Not to say that your method doesn't work, it does, most companies have to do that. But you're jumping way ahead of things here and berating the guy for something he hasn't done yet. Chill out a bit, heck, if you're familiar with the product sector he's asking about then the same time you've spent venting could be spent providing useful information and everyone reading these threads would better off, even yourself! Lower blood pressure, smoother relations with others, less ulcers etc etc, the benefits are manifold, you should try it! :)
I think just about everything is now covered in LedgerSMB or the project from which it was forked - SQL-Ledger. My business has been using these systems for the last four years and has found them to be stable, flexible and reliable.
We've been using SQL-Ledger for a couple of years now and while it does a great job, it has a few minor annoying bugs that have lasted through several development cycles and the long-awaited payroll module is still nowhere to be seen. What have your experiences with LedgerSMB been like?
I'm amazed that you have 39 choices, and you are looking for MORE!
Maybe none of them are an exact fit for his needs. It sounds like he is trying to "do his homework" right now and you're just being pissy and feeding him flack.
why does 'pant' have a singular name
Because they are created separately by the tailor. Also, historically, they could actually be different depending on the style of armor/weapons being used.
SQL-ledger is a good bookkeeping package (and a whole lot more) and SugarCRM can handle the CRM side of things. There's even some glue scripts out there to keep the client info sync'd between them.
I'd also add Zimbra to the list of very good non-SourceForge projects. However, to be fair, the original poster was referring mostly to word of mouth being the primary source of info, nothing in the post said, "anything not on SourceForge is te suxors!"
...no apparent replacement for Outlook & Exchange.
Sure there is - Zimbra.
(Disclaimer - we are a Zimbra reseller, but a very happy one, along with our clients).
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:)
ROFLMAO @ your sig.
A philosopher would never say that. Yogi Berra did.
:), the trouble of actually looking it up.
So you're saying a baseball player can't also be a philosopher...? If you read enough of his quotes I think you'll find he was as much a modern day philosopher as anyone.
Thanks for the correction of the quote though, I'm sure that saved quite a few people, (like me
...you don't see the difference between theory and fact...
Heh, reminds of the lovely philosophers' saying, "In theory there is no difference between theory and reality, but in reality there is."
Buying a mac mini != building a SFF PC
The Mini is a SFF which is capable of handling most of the projects described, hence the original post being (potentially) worthy of Interesting, Insightful, Informative or similar positive moderation depending on your perspective. However, as you so cleverly point out, it is indeed a prefabricated device, requiring neither skull sweat nor elbow grease on the part of the end user which is why my previous post referred to it as being worthy of a more negative moderation such as, oh I dunno, let's go with "Offtopic" for now (again, depending on your perspective).
This simultaneity of both positive and negative attributes culminated in my reference to a "+1 Offtopic" moderation which could be taken as either a smart-ass remark or mildly humorous.
Unfortunately your cranium is neither sufficiently pointy for this to stick nor sufficiently flat for it to rest atop with the result that you completely missed it, as evidenced by your perplexed query above. (Tests for magnetism on the part of the parent poster's cranium were not conducted as all cranial-magnetic continuity/discontinuity tests have been permanently suspended due to the increasing trend towards inaccuracy resulting from wide-spread adoption of LCD monitors).
The keyword is "arbitrage". It translates in the real world as "free money" (seriously).
In that respect I suppose his article is pretty much correct, it's just extremely old news and not at all specific to Second Life. Not to mention he seems to cast aspersions without regard to who is really saying what.
Isn't that a bit like solving your home renovation issues by buying a new house?
:).
Er, no, it's avoiding having them in the first place. (Not to mention saving a heck of a lot of time)
(Wish there was a +1 Offtopic mod for the GP - Offtopic but still useful
Having just read both of TFAs I really have to question the sanity of the author - it's a goddamned game! You could replace "Second Life" in that article with ANY role playing game all the way back to the original Red Book (Blue Book? whatever) paper editions of D&D.