What we found works best is having a Barracuda Spam Firewall in the DMZ, and allow only the Barracuda to talk to the Exchange server. LDAP lookup, drops the processor load on the Exchange, and once tweaked you don't get much spam though. Though, you do have to spend maybe an hour a week tweaking it. The Barracuda works really well overall though.
I keep hoping for a full office suite under linux, not just a wordprocessing program, spreadsheet, and presentation program, but also a good PIM, and desktop Database application.
I know people are going to say OpenOffice.Org, Evolution, and use MySQL. I already do, but MySQL is a little daunting and big for what I really need. Access is more what I need, something small, easy to use, and quick to set stuff up in, when you are not a DBA.
Don't get me wrong, I love OpenOffice, I use it all the time, Evolution does a great job for me (when I'm not using a web browser, or pine), but as I said the desktop Database is still for me the missing piece.
Darl makes the claim that MyDoom was done by some linux guys. If I've read the write ups on MyDoom, it seems to have been done by someone who wants zombie boxes to be able to send spam though. The attacks on SCO, RIAA, Microsoft, etc are side effect, the smoke and mirrors to redirect your attention away from the true intent of the virus/worm.
He also made the claim that if you worked at a BioTech company used Linux to create a new formula for a drug, you have to GPL the drug. The heck?
Just yesterday I read over at MozzillaSource
That SCO said the kernel was clean.
"In today's discussion SCO's Chris Sontag, for the first time as far as we know, publicly identifies and clarifies to some extent whether the Linux kernel, GNU/Linux operating system, Linux distributions, and/or Linux applications are involved in the alleged IBM misconduct -- and to some extent which Linux distribution providers are involved and how they are involved." From the article.
Now today they are saying the kernel has copyrighted code.
Anyone else want a clear explanation on what changed?
What about other retialers?
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Is it false advertising to put one price on your webstore and another in your physical store? Last summer I went to buy some DVDs from a local DVD specialty store. On the website they were listed for $21 per DVD. When I got there I was charged $24 per DVD instead. I said but on your website it says $21. I was told that he charged more in the store since he had to cover overhead, and with the website there wasn't any overhead. He didn't have to pay someone to be at the Webstore all day. Is this normal or right?
The house I am closing on at the end of this month, I had them install CAT5 everywhere. I have 10 or 11 jacks all over the house. Three in the office, two in the living room, one in the family room, one in the dining room, one in my wifes office area, one in our bedroom, and one in my son's bedroom. The builder offered the OnQ service, which will wire the house for Sound, Alarm, and Network. We went with Alarm and Network. Sound was a bit pricey. New Construction is really the way to go.
If you are your own General Contractor you may be able to do most of this yourself, plus you might work with an architect to design the house so that it can work very well for a geek house. (Octagon Shape is what I thought about a couple of years ago.)
I just got off the phone, what the Comcast rep told me is that, you can VPN into your work, but they don't want to you to use the Comcast@Home service to run a business off of. They would rather you use the Comcast@Work service if you are going to operate a home based business. Which makes sense (at least to me). So I can still push my users at work to get Comcast@Home, and then VPN into work if they want or need to work from home.
SCO back in the late 80's early 90's was one of the leaders in x86 Unix versions. Unfortunatly they also had a habit of selling each individual piece that they thought they could. For example, if you wanted TCP/IP, you had to buy it seperatly, if you wanted to compile something on SCO you had to buy the compiler seperatly. If you wanted to just about anything you had to buy the component. Thier searchable Web Help was very nice when I found it around 1994 or 95. But a full SCO system, just the OS would run a couple of thousand dollars. The hardware was cheap, but the OS was expensive. Linux has pretty much taken over everything that SCO was good at, and does better at some things that SCO could.
Personally, I work on NT servers all day at work, I have my own Linux Server on the Internet (who doesn't these days). At home I have one box that who knows what OS it will run this week, an NT Server, a SPARC with Linux, and my scanner machine which runs Win95/NT 4.0, plus an assortment of other hardware that may or maynot be working currently. But my main machine at home runs Win98SE. Mainly because it plays games, it is all SCSI and most Distro's don't want to install on the beast. My test bed has run Linux, OpenBSD, Win NT 4.0 server and Workstation, and may soon have W2K Pro on it, or it may not, I still have to format the drives that are in it now. Who says we absolutly have to use Linux and only Linux? If I had a Mac I would be running OS9 or OSX on it, but I could run Linux on it (hell if I had two HDs in it, I more than likly would dual boot it).
Linux is great for server stuffs, but the desktop still needs work, its better than it was, but its still not quite there. I have never been able to get sound to work on a Linux box yet. *sigh*
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What we found works best is having a Barracuda Spam Firewall in the DMZ, and allow only the Barracuda to talk to the Exchange server. LDAP lookup, drops the processor load on the Exchange, and once tweaked you don't get much spam though. Though, you do have to spend maybe an hour a week tweaking it. The Barracuda works really well overall though.
It also makes the exchange server more secure.
I keep hoping for a full office suite under linux, not just a wordprocessing program, spreadsheet, and presentation program, but also a good PIM, and desktop Database application.
I know people are going to say OpenOffice.Org, Evolution, and use MySQL. I already do, but MySQL is a little daunting and big for what I really need. Access is more what I need, something small, easy to use, and quick to set stuff up in, when you are not a DBA.
Don't get me wrong, I love OpenOffice, I use it all the time, Evolution does a great job for me (when I'm not using a web browser, or pine), but as I said the desktop Database is still for me the missing piece.
Maybe it is just me.
Darl makes the claim that MyDoom was done by some linux guys. If I've read the write ups on MyDoom, it seems to have been done by someone who wants zombie boxes to be able to send spam though. The attacks on SCO, RIAA, Microsoft, etc are side effect, the smoke and mirrors to redirect your attention away from the true intent of the virus/worm.
He also made the claim that if you worked at a BioTech company used Linux to create a new formula for a drug, you have to GPL the drug. The heck?
"In today's discussion SCO's Chris Sontag, for the first time as far as we know, publicly identifies and clarifies to some extent whether the Linux kernel, GNU/Linux operating system, Linux distributions, and/or Linux applications are involved in the alleged IBM misconduct -- and to some extent which Linux distribution providers are involved and how they are involved." From the article.
Now today they are saying the kernel has copyrighted code.
Anyone else want a clear explanation on what changed?
Is it false advertising to put one price on your webstore and another in your physical store? Last summer I went to buy some DVDs from a local DVD specialty store. On the website they were listed for $21 per DVD. When I got there I was charged $24 per DVD instead. I said but on your website it says $21. I was told that he charged more in the store since he had to cover overhead, and with the website there wasn't any overhead. He didn't have to pay someone to be at the Webstore all day. Is this normal or right?
The house I am closing on at the end of this month, I had them install CAT5 everywhere. I have 10 or 11 jacks all over the house. Three in the office, two in the living room, one in the family room, one in the dining room, one in my wifes office area, one in our bedroom, and one in my son's bedroom. The builder offered the OnQ service, which will wire the house for Sound, Alarm, and Network. We went with Alarm and Network. Sound was a bit pricey. New Construction is really the way to go.
If you are your own General Contractor you may be able to do most of this yourself, plus you might work with an architect to design the house so that it can work very well for a geek house. (Octagon Shape is what I thought about a couple of years ago.)
I just got off the phone, what the Comcast rep told me is that, you can VPN into your work, but they don't want to you to use the Comcast@Home service to run a business off of. They would rather you use the Comcast@Work service if you are going to operate a home based business. Which makes sense (at least to me). So I can still push my users at work to get Comcast@Home, and then VPN into work if they want or need to work from home.
Now I just wish I could work from home too.
SCO back in the late 80's early 90's was one of the leaders in x86 Unix versions. Unfortunatly they also had a habit of selling each individual piece that they thought they could. For example, if you wanted TCP/IP, you had to buy it seperatly, if you wanted to compile something on SCO you had to buy the compiler seperatly. If you wanted to just about anything you had to buy the component. Thier searchable Web Help was very nice when I found it around 1994 or 95. But a full SCO system, just the OS would run a couple of thousand dollars. The hardware was cheap, but the OS was expensive. Linux has pretty much taken over everything that SCO was good at, and does better at some things that SCO could.
Personally, I work on NT servers all day at work, I have my own Linux Server on the Internet (who doesn't these days). At home I have one box that who knows what OS it will run this week, an NT Server, a SPARC with Linux, and my scanner machine which runs Win95/NT 4.0, plus an assortment of other hardware that may or maynot be working currently. But my main machine at home runs Win98SE. Mainly because it plays games, it is all SCSI and most Distro's don't want to install on the beast. My test bed has run Linux, OpenBSD, Win NT 4.0 server and Workstation, and may soon have W2K Pro on it, or it may not, I still have to format the drives that are in it now. Who says we absolutly have to use Linux and only Linux? If I had a Mac I would be running OS9 or OSX on it, but I could run Linux on it (hell if I had two HDs in it, I more than likly would dual boot it).
Linux is great for server stuffs, but the desktop still needs work, its better than it was, but its still not quite there. I have never been able to get sound to work on a Linux box yet. *sigh*