It's AMAZING how much/.'s collective heads are up Googles asses. Have they done that much good for anyone in particular that everyone should not even ask questions? It appears people are just defending Google accross the board and moderating anything seen as "anti-google" as flamebait.
Causes of Flamebait: * Why is Google keeping this information? * On what grounds is Google fighting the Government and does their position hold water? * Do web users have a "right to privacy" when searching on the net/submitting information to a private company?
None of these questions are being answered, just knee-jerk bullshit and karma-whores. These daily Google stories are getting stale and repetitive, the same thing over and over. Attack GWB, DoJ, etc with 0% informative content.
But how long DOES Google keep them? Appears the Government wants records from a given week a year ago? Google holds that much data THAT long? Why? All the privacy advocates here and they stick their heads in the sand when it's google tracking your searches?
Tell me Google didn't see this coming?
If they were trying to "do no evil" they wouldn't be holding logs of what you were looking at so long. They are not the champions you are trying to make them out to be.
On the Exchange side, what I didn't like was:
1. all email is in a proprietary database, in a single (huge!) file. If something goes wrong with that file (as it once did), it's a nightmare to bring it back up, if it works at all. If you can't repair it, you loose anything that came in after the last backup.
Exchange Enterprise supports multiple mail stores. If you can't repair the.edb, you roll back from log files after a restore of the original.edb file(s.) If both those are screwed, yes, you probably would have to go back to your earlier restore - but then you probably shouldn't be pointing the finger at exchange if this happens.
2. speaking of backups, Exchange needs special Exchange-aware backup programs. You cannot just copy the files.
So does Groupwise (as well as most Mail packages, even on Novell servers), as do a good amount of programs that have open files in a Windows environment. It's just there so the backup doesn't miss anything and the log files are cleared out, not because Exchange is a POS (though who knows.)
3. Lack of flexibility in handling of incoming mail, spam filtering, forwarding, etc.
The mail comes in on one port, goes out on another - there is nothing preventing anyone from putting something in front or behind. There are lots of good, cheap Open Relay Filter tools for Exchange that run in front of the mail filter, as a hardware device, as well as others that run on Exchange itself. I never had a problem with forwarding (but it's not as easy as a.forward file, but almost.)
4. No ssh access for quick and easy remote administration.
How about installing Exchange System Manager on your desktop and selecting which Exchange server to open? You could do that since Exchange 5.5. Otherwise, try RealVNC, remote desktop, or anything else.
5. No simple text-file based configuration, meaning no grep or such to find some setting. You have to move around all the menus if you cannot remember where a setting was.
Exchange System Manger (5.5+2000+2003) all have mail logging/search capabilites. Saying text-files=good, menus=bad is is rediculous.
6. It is hard to move away from proprietary solutions like Exchange because you cannot just copy files and hand them over to another application. That's a good reason to do it rather sooner than later when it may become harder yet. It was not easy to move mailboxes from Exchange to IMAP.
You are right, you can't just copy files and hand them over - but if you can program you can, or you could just export them. But Exchange 2003 supports IMAP, so maybe you were using a different version?
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I belive you are right - being from Wisconsin - I remember when The Onion moved it's offices from Madison to New York http://www.uwalumni.com/onwisconsin/summer01/onion.html I have kinda slowly moved away from it - now I don't read at all.
There HAS been a change in it's humor - saying Bush is Dumb isn't funny the 3000 time they put that on a headline. They seem to have lost a lot of creativity - maybe it's the change in what's funny regionally, or a shift in editors. Making fun of what they don't like - as opposed to Making fun of EVERYTHING seems to be the change.
They seem to be using a formula for humor - and it's getting stale.
Uh - Fallout was a 2D game - the floor was a 2D background rendering - so no, you couldn't fall through the floor in Fallout as much as you could fall through the floor in Diablo 2 or Starcraft - unless you are on drugs when you play it, then hypothetically you could "fall through the floor" playing Combat on an Atari 2600...
Well, this isn't too informative, but I know that among *ahem* mature gamers, the Hewlett-Packard brand name = crap system. Not saying their current systems stink - hell, I love HP servers. Just that there was tooo much ill-will produced by their old HP home systems.
I still remember the HP 75 machines with the integrated sound/modem card that made my life a living hell - couldn't upgrade anything, ran slower than most 486/66's, IIRC proprietary memory. Brrrr!!!
It would be very hard for HP to recover from the bad press they got, so why bother? Just start fresh with Compaq X system or whatever and try again.
For crying out loud if I hear of another X-machine, I'll go crazy! Are the nations game players, nerds, and marketers in such an uncreative funk that they can't think of anything more than putting an X on everything and therby making it "radical" or eXtreme?
I would strongly recommend TFC for beginners, as it allows a player: 10 different classes with different abilities to play, instant respawn, team play, runs on the Half-Life engine, is a free download to owners of Half-Life, and doesn't allow team kill*. Also, as an added bonus, someday TF2 will be released http://tf2.sierra.com/ but the last update was in 2001 - so I wouldn't go preordering anytime soon.
No matter what game you play, tho, make sure of the following:
1. Snipers - learn how to snipe, for God's sake - they rock 2. Encourage team play - CS is great, but all it takes is a server with Friendly Fire turned on to make everyone unhappy - BF1942 usually has this turned on to drive me crazy. 3. Make sure you are enjoying yourself - I have played a lot of online games, and at the end of 2 hours was pissed off something fierce. Then I thought "WTF am I doing?!" and promptly moved on. 4. You play on the same server regularly and get to know people a little. Doesn't hurt if there is an active admin who can kick nincompoops, either.
Good luck, and if you see RevCo online - just log out and save yourself a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth. *generally
I'll second this - any better references out there for learning programming for non-programmers? I leared basic, cobol, and rpg inside and out 12 (it was required when I went to school! oy!) years ago but everytime I sit down to learn C++ or something I get flustered very quickly.
The title sounded promising, but now it gets slammed. There must be something better.
Their quality is from, I think, the timing of their first game. The first quality game from Bioware was BG1 - which had the good fortune of being released when there was backlash against poor quality/rushed cRPG's (Daggerfall, Descent to Undermountain, etc.) The attention to quality/immersiveness set them apart from other standard cRPG fare and gave them a market edge.
The company, Bioware, was actually comprized of doctors in Canada who really enjoyed gaming. I know this because I used to be a regular poster to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg and when Bioware was in it's infancy Dr. Ray Mazurka (one of the founders) used to post all the time with updates to BG and whatnot. Fun guy;)
He doesn't post there much now, but Bioware has already established itself. BTW: I just started NWN a week ago and love the damn thing...
Yeah, Microsoft, is evil (here), but why the hell shouldn't Microsoft fire an employee for posting corporate information with the intent to embarass the MS?
Even if that information isn't corporate secrets, still shows that employee doesn't exactly have their employers best interests at heart.
Maybe they should rethink the stylus...
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Death of the PDA?
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After years of banging away at a keyboard the last thing I want to do is have a machine try to interpret my penmanship.
Why the hell didn't the author mention that the Linksys devices were $129 because they didn't have to pay for the software they used? The Linksys devices were overwhelming popular because they are cheap and they (generally) work. They would have been the same price had they shared the code, or they could have gone out on a limb, wrote their own code, and they could have charged more for the devices to recoup their losses. They chose to take the code, sell routers for cheap, and ignore their obligations. Why is Forbes.com defending this or taking a hostile position toward the FSF?
I hope when my plan to sell a computer loaded with a modified version of Microsoft Windows XP Professional and sell it for the cost of the computer Forbes will look at me as kindly. I'd probably sell plenty, but uh-oh, Microsoft's "Hit-Men" may "in silence" start "making threats" at me.
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It's AMAZING how much /.'s collective heads are up Googles asses. Have they done that much good for anyone in particular that everyone should not even ask questions? It appears people are just defending Google accross the board and moderating anything seen as "anti-google" as flamebait.
Causes of Flamebait:
* Why is Google keeping this information?
* On what grounds is Google fighting the Government and does their position hold water?
* Do web users have a "right to privacy" when searching on the net/submitting information to a private company?
None of these questions are being answered, just knee-jerk bullshit and karma-whores. These daily Google stories are getting stale and repetitive, the same thing over and over. Attack GWB, DoJ, etc with 0% informative content.
But how long DOES Google keep them? Appears the Government wants records from a given week a year ago? Google holds that much data THAT long? Why? All the privacy advocates here and they stick their heads in the sand when it's google tracking your searches? Tell me Google didn't see this coming?
If they were trying to "do no evil" they wouldn't be holding logs of what you were looking at so long. They are not the champions you are trying to make them out to be.
Takes about 25MB - fits on a Zip drive, runs on anything 386+ I suppose. There is no end of things to do. Keeps me from going insane.
I belive you are right - being from Wisconsin - I remember when The Onion moved it's offices from Madison to New York http://www.uwalumni.com/onwisconsin/summer01/onion .html I have kinda slowly moved away from it - now I don't read at all.
There HAS been a change in it's humor - saying Bush is Dumb isn't funny the 3000 time they put that on a headline. They seem to have lost a lot of creativity - maybe it's the change in what's funny regionally, or a shift in editors. Making fun of what they don't like - as opposed to Making fun of EVERYTHING seems to be the change.
They seem to be using a formula for humor - and it's getting stale.
Uh - Fallout was a 2D game - the floor was a 2D background rendering - so no, you couldn't fall through the floor in Fallout as much as you could fall through the floor in Diablo 2 or Starcraft - unless you are on drugs when you play it, then hypothetically you could "fall through the floor" playing Combat on an Atari 2600...
Well, this isn't too informative, but I know that among *ahem* mature gamers, the Hewlett-Packard brand name = crap system. Not saying their current systems stink - hell, I love HP servers. Just that there was tooo much ill-will produced by their old HP home systems.
I still remember the HP 75 machines with the integrated sound/modem card that made my life a living hell - couldn't upgrade anything, ran slower than most 486/66's, IIRC proprietary memory. Brrrr!!!
It would be very hard for HP to recover from the bad press they got, so why bother? Just start fresh with Compaq X system or whatever and try again.
For crying out loud if I hear of another X-machine, I'll go crazy! Are the nations game players, nerds, and marketers in such an uncreative funk that they can't think of anything more than putting an X on everything and therby making it "radical" or eXtreme?
This country sucks!
Kb?! You were lucky! When I was a kid, we had to work within b's - as in bytes and we thought "Luxury!" Kb's. *sheesh*
Choose between:
60, 90, and 120 hit points!
Your choice of virgin damsels!
Comes in varied alignments!
Speaks Common, Japanese, Digital, and Draconic!
All for a mere 18,000 Gold Pieces!
Talk about half-baked!
I would strongly recommend TFC for beginners, as it allows a player: 10 different classes with different abilities to play, instant respawn, team play, runs on the Half-Life engine, is a free download to owners of Half-Life, and doesn't allow team kill*. Also, as an added bonus, someday TF2 will be released http://tf2.sierra.com/ but the last update was in 2001 - so I wouldn't go preordering anytime soon.
No matter what game you play, tho, make sure of the following:
1. Snipers - learn how to snipe, for God's sake - they rock
2. Encourage team play - CS is great, but all it takes is a server with Friendly Fire turned on to make everyone unhappy - BF1942 usually has this turned on to drive me crazy.
3. Make sure you are enjoying yourself - I have played a lot of online games, and at the end of 2 hours was pissed off something fierce. Then I thought "WTF am I doing?!" and promptly moved on.
4. You play on the same server regularly and get to know people a little. Doesn't hurt if there is an active admin who can kick nincompoops, either.
Good luck, and if you see RevCo online - just log out and save yourself a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth.
*generally
I'll second this - any better references out there for learning programming for non-programmers? I leared basic, cobol, and rpg inside and out 12 (it was required when I went to school! oy!) years ago but everytime I sit down to learn C++ or something I get flustered very quickly.
The title sounded promising, but now it gets slammed. There must be something better.
Their quality is from, I think, the timing of their first game. The first quality game from Bioware was BG1 - which had the good fortune of being released when there was backlash against poor quality/rushed cRPG's (Daggerfall, Descent to Undermountain, etc.) The attention to quality/immersiveness set them apart from other standard cRPG fare and gave them a market edge.
;)
The company, Bioware, was actually comprized of doctors in Canada who really enjoyed gaming. I know this because I used to be a regular poster to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg and when Bioware was in it's infancy Dr. Ray Mazurka (one of the founders) used to post all the time with updates to BG and whatnot. Fun guy
He doesn't post there much now, but Bioware has already established itself. BTW: I just started NWN a week ago and love the damn thing...
Yeah, Microsoft, is evil (here), but why the hell shouldn't Microsoft fire an employee for posting corporate information with the intent to embarass the MS?
Even if that information isn't corporate secrets, still shows that employee doesn't exactly have their employers best interests at heart.
After years of banging away at a keyboard the last thing I want to do is have a machine try to interpret my penmanship.
Why the hell didn't the author mention that the Linksys devices were $129 because they didn't have to pay for the software they used? The Linksys devices were overwhelming popular because they are cheap and they (generally) work. They would have been the same price had they shared the code, or they could have gone out on a limb, wrote their own code, and they could have charged more for the devices to recoup their losses. They chose to take the code, sell routers for cheap, and ignore their obligations. Why is Forbes.com defending this or taking a hostile position toward the FSF?
I hope when my plan to sell a computer loaded with a modified version of Microsoft Windows XP Professional and sell it for the cost of the computer Forbes will look at me as kindly. I'd probably sell plenty, but uh-oh, Microsoft's "Hit-Men" may "in silence" start "making threats" at me.