It might be fast, but their font rendering sucks and they can't get text colors right. For those two reasons alone, I stick to FF. And yes, these are known bugs that have just not been fixed.
On some level, I agree with the "just don't speed" people. The real problem is the traffic laws themselves. They are far too rigid. Rigid laws can lead to rigid enforcement, which I don't think is generally what people want to see. Unfortunately, it is easier to write a ticket for "56 in a 55" and demonstrate that "my laser gun measured it" than it is to write a ticket for something like "driving at a dangerous speed for the conditions". I guess. I don't know.
This about sums it up. What it tells me is that many of these folks have never produced anything in their life, much less a piece of software that people want.
Wow. People can justify anything, I guess. He is using someone's work without their permission, period, end of story. I don't care what you call it, it is morally wrong and it is illegal.
UltraDNS is Ultra Expensive when compared to similar offerings from Dynect and DNS Made Easy. They MAY have an edge in terms of infrastructure, but I don't believe its worth the extra cost for most folks. That's just my opinion, of course, which I came to during my recent evaluation of the three vendors.
You're going to get a ton of different advice. A lot of it will be total crap. A lot of it will be valid. It is going to be hard to know the difference.
Personally, like many folks, I've been battling spam for years, and have used a lot of different solutions: DSPAM, SpamAssassin (SA), and a lot of other random tools. DSPAM and SA both worked reasonably well for me, but many of my users, for one reason or another, had troubles with them. I'm sure I could have put effort into making either of them work better, but frankly, a fair amount of labor had already gone into them, and I didn't want to invest more. About a year ago, I decided to try Kaspersky Anti-Spam[1], and have been very, very happy with the results. It was a simple install, there aren't too many options, and it seems to "just work".
Professionally, I have administered some very large mail service provider systems. The largest of them used a pool of Proofpoint[2] PPS servers to filter mail. While I am not sure it was the best product for what we were doing, it was an impressive product, and if I were handling mail for a business of any size, I would seriously consider this product. It is highly configurable and the results were solid.
Hmm, no. I've used XP for years on the desktop and rarely had an issue. I'm a long ways from being ignorant or lacking "real life experience". A long, long ways. That said, I've gone back to Linux on my desktop in the last month or two as an experiment of sorts. Linux was the only OS I used from about 1992 until 2004 or so. I have only used it on the server side since then, until recently. Frankly, I'm not sure I won't be going back to Windows.
Their PowerEdge servers are solid. I've had hundreds, maybe over a thousand, in service over the years and haven't experienced too many problems -- certainly nothing out of the ordinary.
Their Latitude laptops are pretty nice. Maybe not the nicest laptop in the world, all of mine have lasted at least three or four years, not including time spent in friend's and family's hands after I give them away. In service in the corporate environment, again, I've had very few issues.
In terms of service, I've never been disappointed. With Gold support, you get excellent service, IMHO. It does cost a lot, so be sure you need it first. But even with the lowest form of support, I've had decent experiences. Does it take longer to get ahold of someone? Of course. Do I have to wait longer for parts? Yup. But that's what I paid for, and it has never been excessive.
I tried to use them, once. Signed up online, got a few automated emails, but never heard back from anyone. As far as I know, they're still working to fulfill the order.....
This seems ridiculously expensive to me... I pay just over 100$ a month to colo a 2U server at Superb, have an unmetered 100mbit connection, and get 1000GB of transfer a month before having to pay extra.
Actually, I had a failing IDE controller, and my system was doing some really funky funky things. I wouldn't have expected or even wanted anyone doing some of the things I did to it to get the [software] RAID back online.
That said, it did seem like something had changed the last time I needed support. I figured they had hired some new folks who maybe weren't quite up to speed or whatever. It happens.
I've never had a problem with power myself, but I know what story you're talking about. To say that they are lying about a generator may be a bit much. They claim it has been on backorder since January, or something like that. I don't know enough about that market to know if that could be true or not. I do think it was a bad decision on their part not to tell customers that they were provisioning them without fully providing what they were sold, though... not matter what the story is.
This is kind of a silly Slashdot question, just given the fact that you're going to get about a million different answers. Regardless, I'll toss in my vote for Superb[1]. I've had a box coloed there for years without any issues. They have given me a surprising amount of help, even going so far as to connect a KVM-over-IP to one of my servers without me even asking for it after they had exhausted their knowledge of the problem.
Take a look at their network. It is amazingly good:
You had trouble installing Linux on a PE1950? What? I've got dozens and dozens, maybe hundreds, of those in production running RHEL4. I think you're making shit up. And yes, they all have the PERC cards in them.
Jesus, man, do you really think people couldn't find rare and out-of-print books before Amazon came along? Yes, the internet has made things easier, but the world did manage before it came about.
Slashdot Mirror
Of course. Why couldn't it be?
Ridiculous! Ridiculous! Ridiculous!
It scares me that enough people couldn't handle reading a man page that a book was written, if that is what you mean.
It might be fast, but their font rendering sucks and they can't get text colors right. For those two reasons alone, I stick to FF. And yes, these are known bugs that have just not been fixed.
On some level, I agree with the "just don't speed" people. The real problem is the traffic laws themselves. They are far too rigid. Rigid laws can lead to rigid enforcement, which I don't think is generally what people want to see. Unfortunately, it is easier to write a ticket for "56 in a 55" and demonstrate that "my laser gun measured it" than it is to write a ticket for something like "driving at a dangerous speed for the conditions". I guess. I don't know.
Except the original VW Beetle had a whole lot going for it even without its paint. Of course, its paint was high quality, too.
robert
I laugh at your ID. :)
This about sums it up. What it tells me is that many of these folks have never produced anything in their life, much less a piece of software that people want.
robert
Wow. People can justify anything, I guess. He is using someone's work without their permission, period, end of story. I don't care what you call it, it is morally wrong and it is illegal.
robert
UltraDNS is Ultra Expensive when compared to similar offerings from Dynect and DNS Made Easy. They MAY have an edge in terms of infrastructure, but I don't believe its worth the extra cost for most folks. That's just my opinion, of course, which I came to during my recent evaluation of the three vendors.
robert
You're going to get a ton of different advice. A lot of it will be total crap. A lot of it will be valid. It is going to be hard to know the difference.
Personally, like many folks, I've been battling spam for years, and have used a lot of different solutions: DSPAM, SpamAssassin (SA), and a lot of other random tools. DSPAM and SA both worked reasonably well for me, but many of my users, for one reason or another, had troubles with them. I'm sure I could have put effort into making either of them work better, but frankly, a fair amount of labor had already gone into them, and I didn't want to invest more. About a year ago, I decided to try Kaspersky Anti-Spam[1], and have been very, very happy with the results. It was a simple install, there aren't too many options, and it seems to "just work".
Professionally, I have administered some very large mail service provider systems. The largest of them used a pool of Proofpoint[2] PPS servers to filter mail. While I am not sure it was the best product for what we were doing, it was an impressive product, and if I were handling mail for a business of any size, I would seriously consider this product. It is highly configurable and the results were solid.
Good luck,
robert
[1] http://usa.kaspersky.com/products_services/anti-spam3.php
[2] http://www.proofpoint.com/products/pps.php
robert
I don't know about the rest of you, but I leave my car parked in a parking garage. I don't want it baking in the sun all day...
robert
WTF, you've always wanted to, but you never bothered to type the "s" after "http" to see if it worked?
Hmm, no. I've used XP for years on the desktop and rarely had an issue. I'm a long ways from being ignorant or lacking "real life experience". A long, long ways. That said, I've gone back to Linux on my desktop in the last month or two as an experiment of sorts. Linux was the only OS I used from about 1992 until 2004 or so. I have only used it on the server side since then, until recently. Frankly, I'm not sure I won't be going back to Windows.
robert
Personally and professionally, I buy from Dell.
Their PowerEdge servers are solid. I've had hundreds, maybe over a thousand, in service over the years and haven't experienced too many problems -- certainly nothing out of the ordinary.
Their Latitude laptops are pretty nice. Maybe not the nicest laptop in the world, all of mine have lasted at least three or four years, not including time spent in friend's and family's hands after I give them away. In service in the corporate environment, again, I've had very few issues.
In terms of service, I've never been disappointed. With Gold support, you get excellent service, IMHO. It does cost a lot, so be sure you need it first. But even with the lowest form of support, I've had decent experiences. Does it take longer to get ahold of someone? Of course. Do I have to wait longer for parts? Yup. But that's what I paid for, and it has never been excessive.
Anyhow, that's my short answer.
robert
Oh yeah? Show me an easy way to do that with existing software. I'd love to know.
Personally, I run Domino.
robert
I tried to use them, once. Signed up online, got a few automated emails, but never heard back from anyone. As far as I know, they're still working to fulfill the order.....
robert
This seems ridiculously expensive to me... I pay just over 100$ a month to colo a 2U server at Superb, have an unmetered 100mbit connection, and get 1000GB of transfer a month before having to pay extra.
robert
Actually, I had a failing IDE controller, and my system was doing some really funky funky things. I wouldn't have expected or even wanted anyone doing some of the things I did to it to get the [software] RAID back online.
That said, it did seem like something had changed the last time I needed support. I figured they had hired some new folks who maybe weren't quite up to speed or whatever. It happens.
I've never had a problem with power myself, but I know what story you're talking about. To say that they are lying about a generator may be a bit much. They claim it has been on backorder since January, or something like that. I don't know enough about that market to know if that could be true or not. I do think it was a bad decision on their part not to tell customers that they were provisioning them without fully providing what they were sold, though... not matter what the story is.
robert
This is kind of a silly Slashdot question, just given the fact that you're going to get about a million different answers. Regardless, I'll toss in my vote for Superb[1]. I've had a box coloed there for years without any issues. They have given me a surprising amount of help, even going so far as to connect a KVM-over-IP to one of my servers without me even asking for it after they had exhausted their knowledge of the problem.
p hp
Take a look at their network. It is amazingly good:
http://nsssc.superb.net/information/corenet-info.
robert
[1] http://www.superbhosting.net/
Nobody seems to have mentioned it, so I will... check out Shorewall: http://www.shorewall.net/
If you want a hardware solution, SonicWall firewalls are pretty nice these days. And I would avoid the PIX, personally.
robert
www.eff.org
You had trouble installing Linux on a PE1950? What? I've got dozens and dozens, maybe hundreds, of those in production running RHEL4. I think you're making shit up. And yes, they all have the PERC cards in them.
robert
Jesus, man, do you really think people couldn't find rare and out-of-print books before Amazon came along? Yes, the internet has made things easier, but the world did manage before it came about.
robert