The ideal solution would probably be an HP Digital Sender. It's about the size of a laser printer, except it's kind of a laser printer in reverse. You load a document into it, it scans the whole thing at 30-40 pages per minute, turns it into PDF, and then sends the PDF across ethernet via SMTP to wherever you want. Works with any OS, obviously. It's sold as an alternative to fax.
The problem is that they're about $2500 each (MSRP $3200), because they're a niche item. Shame really, because if they'd dropped in price the way laser printers have, they could have made fax a thing of the past.
As it is, I spend ages screwing around with a flatbed scanner, like every other poor sod trying to solve his personal filing problems.
You'll see a lot of trolling and flamebait regarding the Notes client; but the fact is, IBM Lotus Domino might meet your requirements.
It provides full e-mail with calendaring and scheduling. It supports POP3 and IMAP, and webmail, as well as S/MIME, MIME file attachments, HTML, and LDAP for directory lookup. It has been demonstrated dealing with 300,000+ simultaneous users on a single server. (In fact, the network bandwidth gave out before the server did.)
It scales from a single old x86 (I have some old quad Pentium 2 200MHz boxes running it fine) to a zSeries mainframe. It has clustering, so if you set it up right, when a server goes down users' clients move to a clustered replica and don't even notice a problem.
I'm not wild about the Notes UI either; but you owe it to yourself and your company to check out Domino as a possible solution, because you don't have to run the Notes client at all. You can even keep using the Exchange client, and just replace all the servers. There are tools to help migrate from Exchange. I can probably put you in touch with some people experienced with Exchange migrations if you like; e-mail me (address on personal web site, at bottom of page).
Another option might be IBM Workplace Messaging. That's focused around web mail. I have to confess I don't know how far it has been scaled up. (I'm not in sales.)
We only have around 1000 users and it takes 6 people to maintain it! It's down for 5-10 minutues a few times per day; not to mention at least one multiple hour outage every 3-4 weeks.
How long before people realize that they can just take the old executable, and the old bitmaps (or dat files) and put them in the directory and voila! the content is back.
One other benefit of owning a home: you know how much your monthly payments are going to be. You won't suddenly be hit with a 20% increase in rent, or be told you need to move out within a month because the landlord wants to sell the place.
(Of course, that's assuming you do the smart thing and go for a fixed rate mortgage.)
I think PSP still is no competition for DS because it seems to be still necessary to throw 14-year-old-biased-games.slashdot.org-shit at the other handheld in the same article. Even though the other handheld obviously wasn't purchased by the submitter.
I mean what's the point of having games.slashdot.org when this childish crap still makes it to the front? And why are the articles passed by ScuttleMonkey always reading like Fud'ed-Yellow-Press-buzzword-shit?
So read the articles from Zonk full of biased Nintendo and Xbox fanboy shit.
You mean wonderful news for Sony, right? How great can it be for a Sony fan to hear this "news?"
Unlike Microsoft, Sony will abandon technologies that completely fail to take off. Speaking as a one-time Atari Lynx owner, if the handheld system you own doesn't sell to other people, the flow of games dries up.
Zelda was never touted as a "realistic" game, and was instead a fun RPG romp. Splinter Cell and the myriad of FPS games need to have realistic graphics in order to convey a sense of place and time.
I'm not so sure about that. I'm currently playing "Sly 2: Band of Thieves", and I find its creepy cartoon take on stealth action just as tense as Splinter Cell, perhaps more so.
What the hell is a "realistic" rendition of a walking plant, an elf, or a magical spell anyway? There's never going to be a "realistic" Zelda by definition.
Kind of funny in a way because people who usually want to prove how easy something is to accomplish have no idea of just how much glue sits behind the scenes.
True, but we can estimate how much glue the editors are sniffing from the frequency with which they post blatant duplicates of articles.
Have you seen the juvenile obesity stats recently? Heard about the CDC study that by the end of the decade, 75% of Americans will be seriously overweight or obese? Seen the hypertension data?
Maybe the guy doesn't want to help sell fat-filled factory farmed burgers and salt laden genetically modified fries to children. Maybe he doesn't want to sell his software to fast food corporations at any price.
From the fact that he linked to photos of slaughterhouses, I'm guessing maybe he's a vegetarian. Maybe he has ethical issues with the consumption of factory farmed meat in the first place. In which case, taking the opportunity to prank the unethical seems like a reasonable response to me.
Equally tragic was the response of especially the Army and Air Force - they did not deploy nearly fast enough. Just the presence of troops would have prevented a lot of the carnage.
Tons. IFF files (or minor variants thereof) are the basis of the Mac's AIFF format, Windows WAVE format, and the DLS sample file format. And that's just the ones I've personally tried to parse...
Graphic Converter on the Mac reads Amiga IFF graphics images of at least one flavor.
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The ideal solution would probably be an HP Digital Sender. It's about the size of a laser printer, except it's kind of a laser printer in reverse. You load a document into it, it scans the whole thing at 30-40 pages per minute, turns it into PDF, and then sends the PDF across ethernet via SMTP to wherever you want. Works with any OS, obviously. It's sold as an alternative to fax.
The problem is that they're about $2500 each (MSRP $3200), because they're a niche item. Shame really, because if they'd dropped in price the way laser printers have, they could have made fax a thing of the past.
As it is, I spend ages screwing around with a flatbed scanner, like every other poor sod trying to solve his personal filing problems.
I haven't needed a mod chip. The only foreign-only game I've really wanted to play is Vib Ribbon.
You'll see a lot of trolling and flamebait regarding the Notes client; but the fact is, IBM Lotus Domino might meet your requirements.
It provides full e-mail with calendaring and scheduling. It supports POP3 and IMAP, and webmail, as well as S/MIME, MIME file attachments, HTML, and LDAP for directory lookup. It has been demonstrated dealing with 300,000+ simultaneous users on a single server. (In fact, the network bandwidth gave out before the server did.)
It scales from a single old x86 (I have some old quad Pentium 2 200MHz boxes running it fine) to a zSeries mainframe. It has clustering, so if you set it up right, when a server goes down users' clients move to a clustered replica and don't even notice a problem.
I'm not wild about the Notes UI either; but you owe it to yourself and your company to check out Domino as a possible solution, because you don't have to run the Notes client at all. You can even keep using the Exchange client, and just replace all the servers. There are tools to help migrate from Exchange. I can probably put you in touch with some people experienced with Exchange migrations if you like; e-mail me (address on personal web site, at bottom of page).
Another option might be IBM Workplace Messaging. That's focused around web mail. I have to confess I don't know how far it has been scaled up. (I'm not in sales.)
(Opinions mine, not IBM's.)
So stop running it on Windows servers.
Hot Coffee for un-modded PS2
Yeah, that's really easy on a PlayStation 2.
Apple does not fit the legal definition of a monopoly.
One other benefit of owning a home: you know how much your monthly payments are going to be. You won't suddenly be hit with a 20% increase in rent, or be told you need to move out within a month because the landlord wants to sell the place.
(Of course, that's assuming you do the smart thing and go for a fixed rate mortgage.)
So read the articles from Zonk full of biased Nintendo and Xbox fanboy shit.
Slashdot--balance by publishing both extremes.
Unlike Microsoft, Sony will abandon technologies that completely fail to take off. Speaking as a one-time Atari Lynx owner, if the handheld system you own doesn't sell to other people, the flow of games dries up.
They're Mac guys, remember?
Java is part of the OS on the Mac. Safari doesn't need a plugin. It has native support for PDF too.
Why do I need saving from your past?
I'm not so sure about that. I'm currently playing "Sly 2: Band of Thieves", and I find its creepy cartoon take on stealth action just as tense as Splinter Cell, perhaps more so.
What the hell is a "realistic" rendition of a walking plant, an elf, or a magical spell anyway? There's never going to be a "realistic" Zelda by definition.
True, but we can estimate how much glue the editors are sniffing from the frequency with which they post blatant duplicates of articles.
when I need them most?
I was going to ask if you were new here, but mysteriously you've got a 4 digit ID. Long dormant account perhaps?
I imagine people might think twice about basing their middleware on a database whose source code might be entangled in SCO contracts.
Just like I would never touch System V these days, even though I preferred it to BSD.
Have you seen the juvenile obesity stats recently? Heard about the CDC study that by the end of the decade, 75% of Americans will be seriously overweight or obese? Seen the hypertension data?
Maybe the guy doesn't want to help sell fat-filled factory farmed burgers and salt laden genetically modified fries to children. Maybe he doesn't want to sell his software to fast food corporations at any price.
From the fact that he linked to photos of slaughterhouses, I'm guessing maybe he's a vegetarian. Maybe he has ethical issues with the consumption of factory farmed meat in the first place. In which case, taking the opportunity to prank the unethical seems like a reasonable response to me.
That'd be a first. Next thing they'll be implementing ACID features. Where will it all end?
Maybe if so many of them weren't in Iraq...
http://www.stuffit.com/win/index.html
I'm not asking them to spend money, I'm asking them to make money. I'll pay to get BBC channels. I'd pay the license fee, in fact.
Please tell me that's a rhetorical question.
Tons. IFF files (or minor variants thereof) are the basis of the Mac's AIFF format, Windows WAVE format, and the DLS sample file format. And that's just the ones I've personally tried to parse...
Graphic Converter on the Mac reads Amiga IFF graphics images of at least one flavor.