Firefox -- remove the windows spyware problem. Extensions! Tabs
Linux server -- better able to manage stuff
Thunderbird/Evolution -- removes the email spam problem
Openoffice - Adequate. Free.
Whichever way you look at it, it just makes sense for most individual users and some business users.
Putting all the above stuff together for the typical corp so that it can
be locked down and administered properly is not up to par with similar
Microsoft offerings (Exchange, Domain controller, Active Directory) though.
That's what Microsoft just works better in the corp environment at this time.
And no matter what you say, its not easy to convince others otherwise right now.
Mac applications are cool because of the contained environment that is OS X (except Apple did not create enough of their own native applications). Microsoft is successfull with their applications because they built a container that is at least perfect for them -- Windows.
Why is Linux not gaining on the desktop? Because there is no "perfect Linux desktop container". The properties of such a container is that it should be standardized, easy to accept new client programs from a wide variety of sources, have easy to use services and a well known API that is well documented and defined so that programmers can easily write to it.
Instead we have a bunch of fragmented containers (KDE, Gnome, lots of lesser known desktop environments) that are incomplete and immature. Heck, its a pain in the ass sometimes to get simple brain-dead stuff such as printing and mounting a drive working. So you have projects like OpenOffice having to write their own container!!! And Miguel (bless his heart) making a version of Microsoft's.NET container (Mono) for Linux that is still incomplete and sits with an incomplete container -- Gnome, which is sitting on top of an incomplete desktop container -- Linux.
I know this is a rant, but my shop recently switched back to Windows from Linux desktops (about 40 people), why? Because the new CEO (and me too), were sick and tired of people trying to get things to work together properly. We were sick of not having an Exchange replacement (don't get me started on the open source ones now "available"). And new hires and our clients were just plain used to using the dominant containers out there (windows/mac).
At least Linux as a server container works, because it has the same API as standard UNIX.
It seems clear to me that Google has Seen the Light (tm) with the successfull Ajax implementations of Maps and Gmail. This means that an enhanced version of Firefox -- all pointed to by the new hires and empolyee requirements -- is in the works.
An enhanced version of Firefox freely downloadable from Google for all operating systems would be their own platform which, besides being able to view standard web pages, would enable then to distribute richer applications in a brand (Firefox) that has mindshare and user buy in.
Think! Mac applications are cool because of the contained environment that is OS X (except Apple did not create enough of their own native applications). Microsoft is successfull with their applications because they built a container that is at least perfect for them -- Windows. The same will apply to Google with what I am convinced will be the enhanced browser environment based on Firefox.
Why is Linux not gaining on the desktop? Because there is no "perfect Linux desktop container". The properties of such a container is that it should be standardized, easy to accept new client programs, have easy to use services and a well known API that is well documented and defined so that programmers can easily write to it.
Instead we have a bunch of fragmented containers (KDE, Gnome, lots of lesser known desktop environments) that are incomplete and immature. Heck, its a pain the ass sometimes to get simple brain-dead stuff such as printing and mounting a drive working. So you have projects like OpenOffice having to write their own container!!! And Miguel (bless his heart) making a version of Microsoft's.NET container (Mono) for Linux that is still incomplete and sits with an incomplete container -- Gnome, which is sitting on top of an incomplete desktop container -- Linux.
I know this is a rant, but my shop recently switched back to Windows from Linux desktops (about 40 people), why? Because the new CEO (and me too), were sick and tired of people trying to get things to work together properly. We were sick of not having an Exchange replacement (don't get me started on the open source once now "available"). And new hires and our clients were just plain used to using the dominant containers out there (windows/mac).
So Google is moving in the direction of best of all worlds. They are creating their own perfect container for their applications, that can run on imperfect operating systems. Genius! I don't even have to wish them luck, because its a great idea which has to work -- unless they get Evil.
The list goes on and on. That is the main reason I try to stay away from Yahoo!.
I too have a Yahoo account since 1994. I'm a webmaster. Every site that I have ever built did collect information just as Yahoo does. I'm pretty sure most webmasters also collect that information, and use that information to better select advertising or push offers to the visitor.
We track you 10 ways to sunday
We know where you came from
We know which state/city/country you came from
We show (or do not show content) based on the above
Get real jack, Yahoo (and Google), and me, are in the business to make money while offering a good/great service to people.
I know of no large website in the business of making a profit (or even non-profit) that does not track visitor behaviour -- if only to offer a better experience.
I'm a big Linux booster out here. A year ago, I convinced the "powers that be" to convert our shop to Linux desktops. They did, and we have some 40 desktops with about 10 (and shrinking) windows clients now.
Sure, we have Firefox and Openoffice and Evolution. But here's the kicker, there is no Exchange alternative (Opengroupware ain't there yet) that can work with Evolution, or for that matter no non-browser based collab software that works with Gnome (and lets be brutally, this is where the corp Linux desktop is headed).
Now the office really needs the functionality of Exchange as we live and die by meetings and tasks. I slapped myself hard in the head yesterday when I recommended that we install Exchange as a replacement for that really sweet Qmail/Vpopmail/IMAP setup that I installed two years ago. But I had no choice!!!
So every mention of another standalone calendar client with everyone still forgetting about that missing server-side link just drives me crazy! Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the effort, and the calendar client looks nice, but designing a front end without thought for collabaration on the ass end is a bit short sighted.
This is the piece of the puzzle that is preventing shops like mine from completely moving from the dark side. Microsoft knows this and charges through the nose for Exchange CAL and server licenses.
I can live without another story about Yet Another Standalone Calendar.
First our aircraft manufacturers (Boeing) are slowly transitioning out of the civilian travel space, when will the software companies similarly transition?
Is it a foregone conclusion that non-stop war is seen as our inevitable futures? And if that is the conventional wisdom, will large corporations (Microsoft, Boeing, et al) then press for wars so that they can sell their wares?
Is this high performance read only MySQL installations?
The authors certainly could not be referring to a system that has medium to high levels of inserts or updates.
While MySQL is great for reads, it sucks balls with inserts and updates... even with InnoDB, even with gobs of RAM and 15K SCSI hard drives in Raid 0 configurations on Quad Opteron systems.
And what a sucky review too... Nothing about what the book addresses.
For years I held off buying a PDA, since I wanted a device that converged phone, internet, pda and network "syncability".
That device is almost here with the Treo 600. Just got mine a week ago from Verizon. I can actually browse the web with a decent browser. I've downloaded an SSH client, and can now manage my servers remotely. I've downloaded an RSS reader, so I can read Slashdot stories (and browse the comments too), access my daily blog diet.
I was in New York city over the weekend, and could easily browse Yahoo's mobile site to find a movie to see close to the streets that we were in (we saw Hero, by the way).
The excellent Snappermail (version 2.0) has direct IPAM or POP access to my email servers without intervention by brain dead Verizon in that area.
Downsides? Nothing yet available to wirelessly sync with my Yahoo calender, address book and so forth. Sure, there's Intellisync that works with PC only, but I have a Mac, and it would have been cool to just time a sync with Yahoo once or twice a day. There's nothing stopping someone writing a Palm OS application that Synchronizes with Yahoo's portal though.
I got it with the Unlimited data plan. My next step is to use it as a modem for my iBook.
It is almost everything I need. (No, I don't work for Verizon!).
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Dan Farber succicently explains each point and debunks the reason
why there is a barrier in the first place. He adroitly makes a great
case for Linux in the enterprise while showing how each barrier can be easily overcome today or in the near future.
When oh when will they make the documentation browsable on the web. Instead you have to download crappy zip files which contain PDF's.
I think that this reduces uptake of the database, becuase of the barriers to just taking a casual peek of their features. The whole documentation is just locked away with the keys.
Perhaps this is becuase they want more people to have paid support? A PDF manual is all well and good, but at least give us a bone to chew on with a feature list, reasons why people should use the database and so forth.
Can you say which help desk this is? We're looking for a help desk here too.
Re:I don't think so...
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Death of the PDA?
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· Score: 2, Insightful
So many people missed the point of the article. The point is this... In today's wired world, why buy a small personal computer (PDA) that cannot connect seamlessly to the network? Gadget freak that I am, I've held off PDA's because there is no reasonably priced PDA that has wireless (no, not bluetooth or WiFI) -- cell wireless -- capabilities built in that also integrates well with the phone.
You want to be in the middle of a cornfield in Idaho and so long as you have cell service, you ought to have seampless data service as well. I mean data service that can grab stuff from your desktop computer, or a website (I don't mean WAP stuff), to update the data in the PDA/Phone.
None of the devices that I have seen have a good way of remotely syncing to a web service or a desktop computer without connecting via cable or dock. Why can't I get press a button on my computer, and get my address book there to sync/backup/update with my wireless phone -- wirelessly? Is this so hard?
Right now, my standard circa 2003 cellphone is useless. USELESS!! I can't get numbers in and out of it unless its hardwired to my WINDOWS computer. Why can't I just send the whole database in the phone to an email address or something via the cell network? Why? How come no one has come up with maybe an XML standard or something to easily update PHONE and PDA databases wirelessly transported via Text message or email?
My guess is, until there's simple software that REALLY makes TRUE integration -- not just tacked on stuff, not just standalone browsers or standalone emails -- with the phone or PDA, these devices are going to be relegated to their usual roles. Phones and diaries.
This technology has the potential to be extremely dispruptive! With Kazaa's user base, you're looking at potential users into the tens of millions worldwide very shortly.
Countries like my previous home of Jamaica, who have a telephone monopoly, are already banning VOIP because it cuts into C&W's telephone revenue. In fact, in the past, there have been police and telecom raids on VOIP users there.
In Jamaica, broadband (including DSL, Wireless Broadband, Satellite Broadband, T1) are being rapidly deployed and the cost is becoming even reasonable. What are the implications of Technology like Skype?
No central authority to bill or control calls
Any computer user with 56K and upwards can probably use it
Not easy (legally) for computer authorities to prevent data transfer between two computer users.
Not so easy to block ports, since they change
Cannot block IP address ranges
Joe sixpack will learn more about VOIP
The only way around this is to outlaw use of the software and shut down the site, but the cat is already out of the bag. If you really think about this, if this technology catches on, then its a bit bite in the chunk of traditional phone company revenue. Is bandwidth costs going to rise as phone companies depend more on that for revenue?
At the very least, Skype is going to make introduction of VOIP to the masses super easy. I wish them luck, and I wish that the Phone companies will take their heads out of the sand for a few minutes to see the lay of the land.
We have the skills to take specs and create programs out of bits and bytes that run the world. We create something out of nothing.
A year ago, I realized that I was slowly programming myself out of a job. The systems that we were writing were getting more and more automated, and perhaps in another 8 months from today, there will not need to be a need for me there, because some code jockey can jump into the well documented systems and just maintain it.
So I started to put my skills to use. Today I have two software products that I sell using the same tools and languages that I use at my regular job. With Google AdWords, Freshmeat, Hotscripts, I paid a little money (couple hundred or so a month) to advertise my small and simple software products.
Bottom line? After a year, I have now equalled my salary at my everyday job, so a layoff at this time will not hurt me too much (except for the medical).
I don't like to hear the programmer whiners that say that they can't find a job, and yet they are highly qualified! America thrives off small business. Start one!! If you spend 3 hours a day looking for a job, spend the other 7 also figuring out how you can make money on your own! Its not that hard, use your connections. Fix your friends computers for a fee, get involved with small businesses in your area and sell your services to setup networks, write programs, recommend and implement Open Source (or commercial) software solutions. It's slow to start at first, but after a while, you will be busy and starting to have scheduling conflicts:-)
Granted not everyone is an entrepreneur, but as the rules of the economy change so that it naturally gets worse for working stiffs like us, then being more entreprenueral and creative is going to be forced upon a lot of us.
We are going to have to think with our heads, move to smaller homes, have more reasonable mortgages. In some neighborhoods, we might not need that car (good anyway, most of us programmers are fat and lazy). And heaven forbid... buy less toys and stuff. Lots of little things are going to have to change.
I know it's hard to mentally pick up yourself after getting laid off from that perfect job. For a secretary, middle manager, construction worker or other type of job -- I have sympathy and help -- for programmers... starve until you come to your senses!
Slashdot a little shortsighted
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Building Better Spam
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I think/. was a little shortsighted as looking at this from just the spam perspective.
As an advertiser in search engines and other mediums, this would be a great way for me in increase my conversion rate. With a tool like ConversionLogic Keyword Tracking one can now use the methods described, and accurately measure the worth of a search or affiliate campaign based on different versions of ad copy produced.
But yes, spammers will be reading this with interest as well:-)
I just hope they won't be as arrogant as they used to be before. I think that almost every slashdotter would agree with me that the level or arrogance coming out of Red Herring during the dot-com boom, probably surpassed the arrogance and self-righteousness that comes out of Wired.
Damn! I'd better stop reading both those magazines.
If a spammer is selling Viagra, why not sue the online phramacy that sells the product? That way, the onus would be on the pharmacy to clean up it's distribution channel.
When that happens, we could easily block traffic coming from Korea and other overseas spam pits.
Is google going to eventually require some kind of stripped down registration for this service? They've slowly (over the past year or so), started to roll out a pervasive registration for their various services (Adsense, Adwords), and optional registration would make sense here too.
On the other side of things, Google stands to make a killing here. Google can sell a new class of ads to people like plumbers, who don't need a webpage. In fact, they could possibly host a minimal web page for those kind of advertisers who just want to show some simple text and services.
Hey, perhaps Google wants to give me some kind of idea fee???
Linux desktops, Linux servers, Linux t-shirts, and bosses who like Linux.
I did a stint at a big Wall Street company that will remain nameless, but they were pretty free-form. They made me seem as if I were working for a small company, but thrumming underneath it all was this behomoth.
BUT -- despite the freedom in our dept, there were these poor slobs in the shirtsleeves who we knew could never ever tread off the path or righteousness, or the would be eternally damned.
Actually, I have. It still requires you to have user accounts on the box, or to forward the mail to some other mail server.
AFAIK, with virtusertable, you can't have multiple "john" accounts on the box. I could be wrong, or horribly misinformed, but to get the functionality of vpopmail in bare Postfix or Sendmail has not been done so far. In fact, you can't even get that functionality with bare Qmail either.
Slashdot Mirror
- Firefox -- remove the windows spyware problem. Extensions! Tabs
- Linux server -- better able to manage stuff
- Thunderbird/Evolution -- removes the email spam problem
- Openoffice - Adequate. Free.
Whichever way you look at it, it just makes sense for most individual users and some business users.Putting all the above stuff together for the typical corp so that it can be locked down and administered properly is not up to par with similar Microsoft offerings (Exchange, Domain controller, Active Directory) though.
That's what Microsoft just works better in the corp environment at this time. And no matter what you say, its not easy to convince others otherwise right now.
Sure, but that does not make the point any less valid, does it my friend?
Why is Linux not gaining on the desktop? Because there is no "perfect Linux desktop container". The properties of such a container is that it should be standardized, easy to accept new client programs from a wide variety of sources, have easy to use services and a well known API that is well documented and defined so that programmers can easily write to it.
Instead we have a bunch of fragmented containers (KDE, Gnome, lots of lesser known desktop environments) that are incomplete and immature. Heck, its a pain in the ass sometimes to get simple brain-dead stuff such as printing and mounting a drive working. So you have projects like OpenOffice having to write their own container!!! And Miguel (bless his heart) making a version of Microsoft's .NET container (Mono) for Linux that is still incomplete and sits with an incomplete container -- Gnome, which is sitting on top of an incomplete desktop container -- Linux.
I know this is a rant, but my shop recently switched back to Windows from Linux desktops (about 40 people), why? Because the new CEO (and me too), were sick and tired of people trying to get things to work together properly. We were sick of not having an Exchange replacement (don't get me started on the open source ones now "available"). And new hires and our clients were just plain used to using the dominant containers out there (windows/mac).
At least Linux as a server container works, because it has the same API as standard UNIX.
An enhanced version of Firefox freely downloadable from Google for all operating systems would be their own platform which, besides being able to view standard web pages, would enable then to distribute richer applications in a brand (Firefox) that has mindshare and user buy in.
Think! Mac applications are cool because of the contained environment that is OS X (except Apple did not create enough of their own native applications). Microsoft is successfull with their applications because they built a container that is at least perfect for them -- Windows. The same will apply to Google with what I am convinced will be the enhanced browser environment based on Firefox.
Why is Linux not gaining on the desktop? Because there is no "perfect Linux desktop container". The properties of such a container is that it should be standardized, easy to accept new client programs, have easy to use services and a well known API that is well documented and defined so that programmers can easily write to it.
Instead we have a bunch of fragmented containers (KDE, Gnome, lots of lesser known desktop environments) that are incomplete and immature. Heck, its a pain the ass sometimes to get simple brain-dead stuff such as printing and mounting a drive working. So you have projects like OpenOffice having to write their own container!!! And Miguel (bless his heart) making a version of Microsoft's .NET container (Mono) for Linux that is still incomplete and sits with an incomplete container -- Gnome, which is sitting on top of an incomplete desktop container -- Linux.
I know this is a rant, but my shop recently switched back to Windows from Linux desktops (about 40 people), why? Because the new CEO (and me too), were sick and tired of people trying to get things to work together properly. We were sick of not having an Exchange replacement (don't get me started on the open source once now "available"). And new hires and our clients were just plain used to using the dominant containers out there (windows/mac).
So Google is moving in the direction of best of all worlds. They are creating their own perfect container for their applications, that can run on imperfect operating systems. Genius! I don't even have to wish them luck, because its a great idea which has to work -- unless they get Evil.
I too have a Yahoo account since 1994. I'm a webmaster. Every site that I have ever built did collect information just as Yahoo does. I'm pretty sure most webmasters also collect that information, and use that information to better select advertising or push offers to the visitor.
- We track you 10 ways to sunday
- We know where you came from
- We know which state/city/country you came from
- We show (or do not show content) based on the above
Get real jack, Yahoo (and Google), and me, are in the business to make money while offering a good/great service to people.I know of no large website in the business of making a profit (or even non-profit) that does not track visitor behaviour -- if only to offer a better experience.
Get real.
Sure, we have Firefox and Openoffice and Evolution. But here's the kicker, there is no Exchange alternative (Opengroupware ain't there yet) that can work with Evolution, or for that matter no non-browser based collab software that works with Gnome (and lets be brutally, this is where the corp Linux desktop is headed).
Now the office really needs the functionality of Exchange as we live and die by meetings and tasks. I slapped myself hard in the head yesterday when I recommended that we install Exchange as a replacement for that really sweet Qmail/Vpopmail/IMAP setup that I installed two years ago. But I had no choice!!!
So every mention of another standalone calendar client with everyone still forgetting about that missing server-side link just drives me crazy! Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the effort, and the calendar client looks nice, but designing a front end without thought for collabaration on the ass end is a bit short sighted.
This is the piece of the puzzle that is preventing shops like mine from completely moving from the dark side. Microsoft knows this and charges through the nose for Exchange CAL and server licenses.
I can live without another story about Yet Another Standalone Calendar.
Is it a foregone conclusion that non-stop war is seen as our inevitable futures? And if that is the conventional wisdom, will large corporations (Microsoft, Boeing, et al) then press for wars so that they can sell their wares?
Very saddening. Very bleak futures.
Check out the series of essays on:
I'm sure this was covered in Slashdot sometime before, but Marshall's essays are eerie when juxtaposed with this article.
The authors certainly could not be referring to a system that has medium to high levels of inserts or updates.
While MySQL is great for reads, it sucks balls with inserts and updates... even with InnoDB, even with gobs of RAM and 15K SCSI hard drives in Raid 0 configurations on Quad Opteron systems.
And what a sucky review too... Nothing about what the book addresses.
I too was dissapointed with the second ringworld book. This one is all Vintage Niven. Its worth the wait and the read
That device is almost here with the Treo 600. Just got mine a week ago from Verizon. I can actually browse the web with a decent browser. I've downloaded an SSH client, and can now manage my servers remotely. I've downloaded an RSS reader, so I can read Slashdot stories (and browse the comments too), access my daily blog diet.
I was in New York city over the weekend, and could easily browse Yahoo's mobile site to find a movie to see close to the streets that we were in (we saw Hero, by the way).
The excellent Snappermail (version 2.0) has direct IPAM or POP access to my email servers without intervention by brain dead Verizon in that area.
Downsides? Nothing yet available to wirelessly sync with my Yahoo calender, address book and so forth. Sure, there's Intellisync that works with PC only, but I have a Mac, and it would have been cool to just time a sync with Yahoo once or twice a day. There's nothing stopping someone writing a Palm OS application that Synchronizes with Yahoo's portal though.
I got it with the Unlimited data plan. My next step is to use it as a modem for my iBook.
It is almost everything I need. (No, I don't work for Verizon!).
I think that this reduces uptake of the database, becuase of the barriers to just taking a casual peek of their features. The whole documentation is just locked away with the keys.
Perhaps this is becuase they want more people to have paid support? A PDF manual is all well and good, but at least give us a bone to chew on with a feature list, reasons why people should use the database and so forth.
Can you say which help desk this is? We're looking for a help desk here too.
You want to be in the middle of a cornfield in Idaho and so long as you have cell service, you ought to have seampless data service as well. I mean data service that can grab stuff from your desktop computer, or a website (I don't mean WAP stuff), to update the data in the PDA/Phone.
None of the devices that I have seen have a good way of remotely syncing to a web service or a desktop computer without connecting via cable or dock. Why can't I get press a button on my computer, and get my address book there to sync/backup/update with my wireless phone -- wirelessly? Is this so hard?
Right now, my standard circa 2003 cellphone is useless. USELESS!! I can't get numbers in and out of it unless its hardwired to my WINDOWS computer. Why can't I just send the whole database in the phone to an email address or something via the cell network? Why? How come no one has come up with maybe an XML standard or something to easily update PHONE and PDA databases wirelessly transported via Text message or email?
My guess is, until there's simple software that REALLY makes TRUE integration -- not just tacked on stuff, not just standalone browsers or standalone emails -- with the phone or PDA, these devices are going to be relegated to their usual roles. Phones and diaries.
Countries like my previous home of Jamaica, who have a telephone monopoly, are already banning VOIP because it cuts into C&W's telephone revenue. In fact, in the past, there have been police and telecom raids on VOIP users there.
In Jamaica, broadband (including DSL, Wireless Broadband, Satellite Broadband, T1) are being rapidly deployed and the cost is becoming even reasonable. What are the implications of Technology like Skype?
- No central authority to bill or control calls
- Any computer user with 56K and upwards can probably use it
- Not easy (legally) for computer authorities to prevent data transfer between two computer users.
- Not so easy to block ports, since they change
- Cannot block IP address ranges
- Joe sixpack will learn more about VOIP
The only way around this is to outlaw use of the software and shut down the site, but the cat is already out of the bag. If you really think about this, if this technology catches on, then its a bit bite in the chunk of traditional phone company revenue. Is bandwidth costs going to rise as phone companies depend more on that for revenue?At the very least, Skype is going to make introduction of VOIP to the masses super easy. I wish them luck, and I wish that the Phone companies will take their heads out of the sand for a few minutes to see the lay of the land.
We have the skills to take specs and create programs out of bits and bytes that run the world. We create something out of nothing.
A year ago, I realized that I was slowly programming myself out of a job. The systems that we were writing were getting more and more automated, and perhaps in another 8 months from today, there will not need to be a need for me there, because some code jockey can jump into the well documented systems and just maintain it.
So I started to put my skills to use. Today I have two software products that I sell using the same tools and languages that I use at my regular job. With Google AdWords, Freshmeat, Hotscripts, I paid a little money (couple hundred or so a month) to advertise my small and simple software products.
Bottom line? After a year, I have now equalled my salary at my everyday job, so a layoff at this time will not hurt me too much (except for the medical).
I don't like to hear the programmer whiners that say that they can't find a job, and yet they are highly qualified! America thrives off small business. Start one!! If you spend 3 hours a day looking for a job, spend the other 7 also figuring out how you can make money on your own! Its not that hard, use your connections. Fix your friends computers for a fee, get involved with small businesses in your area and sell your services to setup networks, write programs, recommend and implement Open Source (or commercial) software solutions. It's slow to start at first, but after a while, you will be busy and starting to have scheduling conflicts :-)
Granted not everyone is an entrepreneur, but as the rules of the economy change so that it naturally gets worse for working stiffs like us, then being more entreprenueral and creative is going to be forced upon a lot of us.
We are going to have to think with our heads, move to smaller homes, have more reasonable mortgages. In some neighborhoods, we might not need that car (good anyway, most of us programmers are fat and lazy). And heaven forbid... buy less toys and stuff. Lots of little things are going to have to change.
I know it's hard to mentally pick up yourself after getting laid off from that perfect job. For a secretary, middle manager, construction worker or other type of job -- I have sympathy and help -- for programmers... starve until you come to your senses!
As an advertiser in search engines and other mediums, this would be a great way for me in increase my conversion rate. With a tool like ConversionLogic Keyword Tracking one can now use the methods described, and accurately measure the worth of a search or affiliate campaign based on different versions of ad copy produced.
But yes, spammers will be reading this with interest as well :-)
I just hope they won't be as arrogant as they used to be before. I think that almost every slashdotter would agree with me that the level or arrogance coming out of Red Herring during the dot-com boom, probably surpassed the arrogance and self-righteousness that comes out of Wired.
Damn! I'd better stop reading both those magazines.
When that happens, we could easily block traffic coming from Korea and other overseas spam pits.
On the other side of things, Google stands to make a killing here. Google can sell a new class of ads to people like plumbers, who don't need a webpage. In fact, they could possibly host a minimal web page for those kind of advertisers who just want to show some simple text and services.
Hey, perhaps Google wants to give me some kind of idea fee???
I did a stint at a big Wall Street company that will remain nameless, but they were pretty free-form. They made me seem as if I were working for a small company, but thrumming underneath it all was this behomoth.
BUT -- despite the freedom in our dept, there were these poor slobs in the shirtsleeves who we knew could never ever tread off the path or righteousness, or the would be eternally damned.
Actually, I have. It still requires you to have user accounts on the box, or to forward the mail to some other mail server.
AFAIK, with virtusertable, you can't have multiple "john" accounts on the box. I could be wrong, or horribly misinformed, but to get the functionality of vpopmail in bare Postfix or Sendmail has not been done so far. In fact, you can't even get that functionality with bare Qmail either.