The combination of Qmail and Vpopmail is perfect for our company with multiple virtual domains. No other solution comes close.
If you run virtual domains, Postfix or Sendmail is not an option, especially if you dont want to deliver john@d1.com and john@d2.com to john@localhost. Heck, with virtual domains, you don't want to have user accounts anyway.
I wish there were other easy to use open source options, because Qmail really suffers under Sobig at this point.
So finally some feckless lawyers caved in. On the one hand they might say it is prudent to hedge their bets, but in the larger scheme of things it just makes SCO's complaint look valid... exactly what they were looking for to bolster a court appearance.
Some time ago after a heated argument, we decided that Google does not provide commercial search.
The most perfect commercial search engines belong to Ebay.com followed by Amazon.com. As the previous poster said, there is no way to quickly evaluate commercial results in Google... Froogle maybe in the future might offer decent commercial search, but Google won't because of Pagerank, which is fine for searching how to format a Linux hard disk, but not fine for searching where to buy Linux hard drives.
I know, I know, Adwords are there, but If I really want to compare and buy stuff, I'm heading off to Ebay or Circuit City (or maybe BestBuy with their broken Javascript site).
Google's great and all, heck, I even am a customer of theirs, but for commercial search, then leave a lot to be desired.
As a merchant, i've stopped selling my software product to certain Eastern European countries because of the fraud problem.
At one point the level of chargebacks almost drove me out of business. Imaging you selling so many copies and then a month or so later almost all of them get charged back!!
It leaves a pretty bad taste in the mouth.
Now, my friends and family in Jamaica will ask me to purchase stuff for them and ship it. I am glad to do it. The submitter better find some friends here that can do it for her/him.
Until the day comes around when the laws and financial instutions play catch up in those countries, we will always be reluctant to do business overseas.
There is now a proliferation of embedded devices in the marketplace. No longer do I have to go over to the LRP page and download and setup a rounter on an ageing PC.
It is simply easier to run down to Circuit City and pick up a Netgear or Linksys Appliance for less than a hundred bucks. For that I'll get a little appliance that I can plug in somewhere and utterly forget for the next however long it lasts.
The project is a victim of its own success.
I for one, wish him the best of luck and a new job.
The reason why I bought an iBook to admin my Linux servers was because of immature user interfaces.
I was left salivating after viewing the screenshots and reading about the far reaching changes that were made, especially integrating OpenOffice with the rest of the desktop.
And they're looking into migrating several hundred thousand desktops, especially in Europe. Damn!
Goodbye Bluecurve, Hello Ximian Desktop!
Sounds like your typical govt agency
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IT at the CIA
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In my experience, it seems that politics and top down systems design without allowing for filtering up of ideas -- as it typical in most large orgs -- is responsible for this state of affairs.
What makes an org nimble is when they listen to the people who actually dig the trenches. There is no difference in this case, between the CIA, and say, GM.
Unless the mimic Apple, they're dead
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PressPlay + Roxio?
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Look, I just bought a new Mac last week, for the main purpose of using Apple's music service. Until the other services wake up and at minimal *exactly* duplicate Apple's service, they are going to lose out very badly.
Because of Pressplay and other services absymal feature set, there is no way that I would have ever signed up. I was an E-Music subscriber for a number of years, but when my subscription ended, the genius marketing folks over there never bothered to auto-renew it! Because they were so stupid at marketing over there, I just never bothered to go through the trouble of signing up again.
As one of those souls who happen to *buy* all my music, Apple is the way to go. I hope Roxio has good luck, but I can't see how they are going to even use the Napster name or technologies in any way without giving the record companies the willies. Then again, perhaps they have something in mind that will blow our minds in a few months.
I dont want to throw a wet blanket over all of this, but again, here's a LAMP book that perpetuates terrible PHP coding practices.
As a member of the PHP (and Perl) faithful, when are we gonna learn that books like these give the community and open source in general a bad name?
Maybe I'm out of line in criticizing this book, maybe I'm looking for a different book, but when we have a book that covers web development best practices along with learning about PHP, Mysql and so on, then I will be the first in line to recommend and purchase it.
Here in New York, its almost impossible to go see the movie. Everything's usually sold out, and then on the trains, schoolchildren are spoiling the plot (what plot?) for you, since they just saw it.
I guess I'm gonna go see it eventually, perhaps tomorrow morning at 10am or something when all the geeks are still in bed.
If I got one of these, then my employers would surely terminate my spam allowing behind.
Right now, 70% of all the mail that arrives at our domains is spam. Perhaps half of that gets filtered, but that still leaves an uncomfortably large amount.
RedHat did a good thing by disabling sendmail receive/sending on default installs of 8.0 and forward. Now if they would only turn off portmapper and a few other things...
Becuase until machine vision, hearing and tactile feedback technologies are improved, these robots are little more than remote controlled tin cans.
The day that slashdot announces that a tactile sensor can distinguish between my girlfriend's nipple and her elbow, then I will be sufficiently impressed! (Come to think of it...)
Note that the post said that they used weed killer chemicals. That's a slap in the face of people wanting to use healthier and more organically grown food.
Right now our bodies are filled with herbicides and pesticides (how well did you wash that apple you ate today?). This is just yet another way for chemicals to be leeched from the soil, into the produce, and into our vulnerable vitamin-D geek bodies.
Sure, the product has the "kewl" factor, but look away for that for a moment to see the real impact.
I grew up reading Niven, Blish, Asimov, Silverberg Vance and others. Its kinda hard for me to start reading some of the new masters, not because I wouldn't like them, but maybe because I'm too lazy to explore new books (yeah, I know that's bad).
But my dilemma is this, I've read all Sci-Fi/Fantasy from Asimov, Niven, Vance, but have not yet finished all the works of the old masters.
Can any younger (or at least more flexible) Slashdot reader suggest a few authors that they've read and liked? I don't want to get into serials right now, perhaps something that is sort of standalone would be better as an introduction to a new author, I think.
Regardless of how you feel about the issues presented, you've got to love the writing at that site!!
Excellent! Superlative! Cutting! -- Here are a few of my favourite examples:
The death of any rare and valued zoo animal is bound to be a cause for concern, not only among animal-lovers, but also among the millions of Americans for whom zoos afford the only contact with myriad creatures not found in any other domestic habitat.
By any standard, author J. K. Rowling's series of Harry Potter novels have been an enormous success. Over 100 million copies of the books about the young wizard in training have been sold worldwide. The books have drawn accolades from critics and educators alike, who applaud the series' power to motivate young people to read. Indeed, the novels have been credited with creating a surge in reading by children.
While school officials have the authority to prevent disruption of school activities, the manner in which the Whiting High School administration exercised that authority in this instance deserves censure.
Sure, I know that this is standard english, but it is not often that a rare and beautiful display and command of the language is presented on the web in all it's glory. Agreeing with the author(s) only makes reading it more pleasing.
But I am an advertiser at google. People here seems to be complaining about the ads at the side.. etc.etc.
Looking at advertising at the top pay-per-clicks (Overture, Google, Findwhat), Google is the only one that has Instant Gratification. We created an e-commerce site and were able to start driving qualified traffic to it in about 15 minutes. With Overture or Findwhat, we would have had to wait for several days to a week, and to top it off, they might have rejected many of our listings through their brain dead editorial process.
Google at least is fair in the way how they reject listings... they have editorial guidelines, so you know upfront, and secondly... if your listings suck for relevance they get automatically booted.
I think the NYT writer fails to take into account the instant gratification factor, which IMHO is the greatest advantage to using Google. Because you can test your business model right away. If it sucks, then you can take your business model offline before it gets too late.
Finally, because of Googles contextual ads (some of which are shown on Slashdot), they have really co-opted advertising on the web. Because of this, Overture's stock is in the barrel and I think they will become a no-player in the near future, simply because of pending moves by Yahoo and MSN, their largest search suppliers. Even though they've bought Altavista and Alltheweb, when was the last time you saw traffic coming in from those searsh engines into your Apache server logs?
My only fear with this, is that Google can become too powerful (see Microsoft), and can then call the shots with advertising on the web in general. We saw that behavior with Overture, just before Google launched their program.
Don't laugh, we revel in Google's friendliness, relevance, and geek cred right now, but I hope they don't go public too soon. I hope that Page, Brin, and Schmidt hold on to the reins tightly for the time being... because once Wall Street steps in, the ride for the consumer is over guys!!
Sure, you'll be able to learn how to use the underlying technologies to create web programs, but what about teaching people how to create proper web programs in the first place. Budding web developers need to learn about practices such as:
Scalability
Caching
Database Independent Libraries
User Authentication methodologies
Connection Pooling
Code/HTML Separation: Templates
Modular programming & Libraries
Web security techniques
Sessions and cookies
All the above items are technology neutral, and applicable, whether you are a Micro$oft or Open Source programmer, or a Java junkie.
IMHO, because of the lack of such books, we have truly terrible web coding practices out there right now. Instead of such books, we have the latest "LAMP Book Of The Week". The LAMP books are ok, but due to the web development practices presented in 97% of them, I cannot recommend to friends and colleagues.
If there is such a book out there, then let me know, because I have not seen one.
to blow all the feeble open source attempts out of the water.
Honestly, I'm just as gung-ho about wanting to setup a Linux box with all the trappings to duplicate the Tivo service... but a $99.00 one time fee? Dont think I will be typing "lsmod" anytime soon to see if the drivers for that video capture card's working.
Certain posts have occured on slashdot recently that shows that we need to pull up our socks in terms of making things "Just Work" in the Open Source world.
Seriously, robotic design is going apace, but are the manufactures even building capabilities (however rudimentary) for Asimov's three laws of robotics?
The Three Laws of Robotics are:
1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
For those of us who were not born here and are behind a little bit on why we are really here.
We leave our country and move to the United States because of the nebelous thing called "Freedom". Having all the relevant documents in one spot that can be studied is a fine thing.
For you who were born here, perhaps the Gettysburg address has lost its thrill, but for me, when I heard it on a recent "Civil War" showing on PBS, my hair stood on end and a shiver ran down my spine.
Especially these days, readers should re-acquaint themselves with the constitution, the bill of rights, and some of the famous speeches of past leaders. It takes a little digging to find what you need on the new site, but it's all there.
Maybe i'm a little off topic, but just thinking about what this adopted country that I love so much stands for, and the fight that we on the home front are doing to make sure that our freedoms and rights remain intact in the face of so many obstacles -- makes it all worthwhile.
One reason why PHP gets such a bad undeserved rap, is because much of the PHP code that's written out there today is a nightmare.
You have uncommented code with embedded HTML that is database specific. Don't get me wrong... if you have a small project that works with a quick hack, then that's ok.
With any modern PHP project, what's wrong with using templates, PEAR, and object oriented programming? Most PHP books out there tend to spin the mantra of PHP and MySQL or Postgresql without taking the time to show how to use PHP in a modern context where it deserves to be. Thus much PHP programming gets scoffed at because it tends to be unmaintainable.
I'm sorry, but at this point I'm unable to recommend almost any of the PHP books out there. They mostly encourange terrible PHP system development practices -- embedded HTML, database specific coding, non OOP development.
There are a few sites that are showing the light. phpclasses.org only has OOP based PHP programs and the tools you need to use templating, mailing, databases in a thoroughly modular manner, and dont forget the PEAR site which documents and make available the excellent PEAR classes for PHP.
A few other sites also are preparing PHP libraries and development environments that are a joy to work with.
For PHP public www information is better that 99% of the books out there, and in the case of this book... 100%
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If you run virtual domains, Postfix or Sendmail is not an option, especially if you dont want to deliver john@d1.com and john@d2.com to john@localhost. Heck, with virtual domains, you don't want to have user accounts anyway.
I wish there were other easy to use open source options, because Qmail really suffers under Sobig at this point.
sigh...
The most perfect commercial search engines belong to Ebay.com followed by Amazon.com. As the previous poster said, there is no way to quickly evaluate commercial results in Google... Froogle maybe in the future might offer decent commercial search, but Google won't because of Pagerank, which is fine for searching how to format a Linux hard disk, but not fine for searching where to buy Linux hard drives.
I know, I know, Adwords are there, but If I really want to compare and buy stuff, I'm heading off to Ebay or Circuit City (or maybe BestBuy with their broken Javascript site).
Google's great and all, heck, I even am a customer of theirs, but for commercial search, then leave a lot to be desired.
At one point the level of chargebacks almost drove me out of business. Imaging you selling so many copies and then a month or so later almost all of them get charged back!!
It leaves a pretty bad taste in the mouth.
Now, my friends and family in Jamaica will ask me to purchase stuff for them and ship it. I am glad to do it. The submitter better find some friends here that can do it for her/him.
Until the day comes around when the laws and financial instutions play catch up in those countries, we will always be reluctant to do business overseas.
It is simply easier to run down to Circuit City and pick up a Netgear or Linksys Appliance for less than a hundred bucks. For that I'll get a little appliance that I can plug in somewhere and utterly forget for the next however long it lasts.
The project is a victim of its own success.
I for one, wish him the best of luck and a new job.
42" Plasma television - Good for watching porn
Biometric room safe -- so that the prostitute you bring in doesn't steal your stuff while you're sleeping
Free broadband -- surf all the porn you want on the big screen, or lookup local call girl services
Massage chair -- need I say more?
Have a good laugh like I did.
I was left salivating after viewing the screenshots and reading about the far reaching changes that were made, especially integrating OpenOffice with the rest of the desktop.
And they're looking into migrating several hundred thousand desktops, especially in Europe. Damn!
Goodbye Bluecurve, Hello Ximian Desktop!
What makes an org nimble is when they listen to the people who actually dig the trenches. There is no difference in this case, between the CIA, and say, GM.
Because of Pressplay and other services absymal feature set, there is no way that I would have ever signed up. I was an E-Music subscriber for a number of years, but when my subscription ended, the genius marketing folks over there never bothered to auto-renew it! Because they were so stupid at marketing over there, I just never bothered to go through the trouble of signing up again.
As one of those souls who happen to *buy* all my music, Apple is the way to go. I hope Roxio has good luck, but I can't see how they are going to even use the Napster name or technologies in any way without giving the record companies the willies. Then again, perhaps they have something in mind that will blow our minds in a few months.
As a member of the PHP (and Perl) faithful, when are we gonna learn that books like these give the community and open source in general a bad name?
Maybe I'm out of line in criticizing this book, maybe I'm looking for a different book, but when we have a book that covers web development best practices along with learning about PHP, Mysql and so on, then I will be the first in line to recommend and purchase it.
I guess I'm gonna go see it eventually, perhaps tomorrow morning at 10am or something when all the geeks are still in bed.
Right now, 70% of all the mail that arrives at our domains is spam. Perhaps half of that gets filtered, but that still leaves an uncomfortably large amount.
RedHat did a good thing by disabling sendmail receive/sending on default installs of 8.0 and forward. Now if they would only turn off portmapper and a few other things...
The day that slashdot announces that a tactile sensor can distinguish between my girlfriend's nipple and her elbow, then I will be sufficiently impressed! (Come to think of it...)
Note that the post said that they used weed killer chemicals. That's a slap in the face of people wanting to use healthier and more organically grown food.
Right now our bodies are filled with herbicides and pesticides (how well did you wash that apple you ate today?). This is just yet another way for chemicals to be leeched from the soil, into the produce, and into our vulnerable vitamin-D geek bodies.
Sure, the product has the "kewl" factor, but look away for that for a moment to see the real impact.
But my dilemma is this, I've read all Sci-Fi/Fantasy from Asimov, Niven, Vance, but have not yet finished all the works of the old masters.
Can any younger (or at least more flexible) Slashdot reader suggest a few authors that they've read and liked? I don't want to get into serials right now, perhaps something that is sort of standalone would be better as an introduction to a new author, I think.
This is the best news for the day. I have to tell my boss about this. We could sure use it as a new database server.
Right!
Yamaha 400 Watt Dolby/DTS Receiver ($299.99)
Yahama "natural sound" 5 disc CD Changer/ MP3 Player ($150.00)
Sony Progressive Scan DVD Player ($250.00)
GRaphic Equalizer ($99.00)
Sony Surround Speaker Set ($499.00)
Oh yeah... Home Theater Universal Remove with LCD Display etc. etc. ($229.00)
With the change left, hmmm.. 10 DVD's? Monster cable? Taxes for the equipment?
Sure the remote is for the high end (like my boss's viewing room), but my Den could sure use the extra system above.
Excellent! Superlative! Cutting! -- Here are a few of my favourite examples:
Sure, I know that this is standard english, but it is not often that a rare and beautiful display and command of the language is presented on the web in all it's glory. Agreeing with the author(s) only makes reading it more pleasing.But I am an advertiser at google. People here seems to be complaining about the ads at the side.. etc.etc.
Looking at advertising at the top pay-per-clicks (Overture, Google, Findwhat), Google is the only one that has Instant Gratification. We created an e-commerce site and were able to start driving qualified traffic to it in about 15 minutes. With Overture or Findwhat, we would have had to wait for several days to a week, and to top it off, they might have rejected many of our listings through their brain dead editorial process.
Google at least is fair in the way how they reject listings... they have editorial guidelines, so you know upfront, and secondly... if your listings suck for relevance they get automatically booted.
I think the NYT writer fails to take into account the instant gratification factor, which IMHO is the greatest advantage to using Google. Because you can test your business model right away. If it sucks, then you can take your business model offline before it gets too late.
Finally, because of Googles contextual ads (some of which are shown on Slashdot), they have really co-opted advertising on the web. Because of this, Overture's stock is in the barrel and I think they will become a no-player in the near future, simply because of pending moves by Yahoo and MSN, their largest search suppliers. Even though they've bought Altavista and Alltheweb, when was the last time you saw traffic coming in from those searsh engines into your Apache server logs?
My only fear with this, is that Google can become too powerful (see Microsoft), and can then call the shots with advertising on the web in general. We saw that behavior with Overture, just before Google launched their program.
Don't laugh, we revel in Google's friendliness, relevance, and geek cred right now, but I hope they don't go public too soon. I hope that Page, Brin, and Schmidt hold on to the reins tightly for the time being... because once Wall Street steps in, the ride for the consumer is over guys!!
All the above items are technology neutral, and applicable, whether you are a Micro$oft or Open Source programmer, or a Java junkie.
IMHO, because of the lack of such books, we have truly terrible web coding practices out there right now. Instead of such books, we have the latest "LAMP Book Of The Week". The LAMP books are ok, but due to the web development practices presented in 97% of them, I cannot recommend to friends and colleagues.
If there is such a book out there, then let me know, because I have not seen one.
Honestly, I'm just as gung-ho about wanting to setup a Linux box with all the trappings to duplicate the Tivo service... but a $99.00 one time fee? Dont think I will be typing "lsmod" anytime soon to see if the drivers for that video capture card's working.
Certain posts have occured on slashdot recently that shows that we need to pull up our socks in terms of making things "Just Work" in the Open Source world.
We leave our country and move to the United States because of the nebelous thing called "Freedom". Having all the relevant documents in one spot that can be studied is a fine thing.
For you who were born here, perhaps the Gettysburg address has lost its thrill, but for me, when I heard it on a recent "Civil War" showing on PBS, my hair stood on end and a shiver ran down my spine.
Especially these days, readers should re-acquaint themselves with the constitution, the bill of rights, and some of the famous speeches of past leaders. It takes a little digging to find what you need on the new site, but it's all there.
Maybe i'm a little off topic, but just thinking about what this adopted country that I love so much stands for, and the fight that we on the home front are doing to make sure that our freedoms and rights remain intact in the face of so many obstacles -- makes it all worthwhile.
You have uncommented code with embedded HTML that is database specific. Don't get me wrong... if you have a small project that works with a quick hack, then that's ok.
With any modern PHP project, what's wrong with using templates, PEAR, and object oriented programming? Most PHP books out there tend to spin the mantra of PHP and MySQL or Postgresql without taking the time to show how to use PHP in a modern context where it deserves to be. Thus much PHP programming gets scoffed at because it tends to be unmaintainable.
I'm sorry, but at this point I'm unable to recommend almost any of the PHP books out there. They mostly encourange terrible PHP system development practices -- embedded HTML, database specific coding, non OOP development.
There are a few sites that are showing the light. phpclasses.org only has OOP based PHP programs and the tools you need to use templating, mailing, databases in a thoroughly modular manner, and dont forget the PEAR site which documents and make available the excellent PEAR classes for PHP.
A few other sites also are preparing PHP libraries and development environments that are a joy to work with.
For PHP public www information is better that 99% of the books out there, and in the case of this book... 100%