The Bastille Hardening System attempts to "harden" or "tighten" the Linux operating system. It currently supports Red Hat and Mandrake systems. We attempt to provide the most secure, yet usable, system possible
They also have an interface coming soon to allow infra-red communication from palm device to beeper, to email server.
On that same subject, they have something called Activelink module for Visor.
Try using it in an actual server enviroment and set Windows NT to Re-boot when it blue screens (and you know it will) and then wonder why you are getting paged at 3am because 3rd shift can't access a server that contains critical information.
YOU have to get up, drive in to work, walk in the server room, and power off and power it back on again? Do this a few times and I bet that little problem of pressing the button twice suddenly becomes a major pain in the ass to deal with. Oh sure you could tell someone to do it for you, but what if you have 20 servers in the server room all the same? Are they gonna power off the right one? Shesh.
First, many people are STILL slamming notes for being propritariey. When is the last time you looked at Lotus Notes? Version 3? Its currently at Version 5.
Lets see, POP, IMAP, LDAP, S/MIME, the list grows and grows. I'd say these are open standards and Notes uses them. I don't see where this is propritariery.
Ok, now the other myths people are saying about notes in here.
I see comments on problems that are directed at Version 4.5 or 4.6. Excuse me, but this is version 5, an improved version, with an entirely new interface. The screen shots I've seen so far have all been version 4.6. So keep your poor interface comments until you have SEEN the 5.0 client.
Now about the comments on forcing eveyone to use Windows/Mac clients. Sorry, but from the amount of calls coming into the call center (yeah, I used to work for Lotus) the majority of the clients that people were using were about 92% windows (version of 95, 98, NT) about 6% Mac, and about 1% OS/2, and the remaining 1% was for what I would call other/unix clients. Face facts people, right now the client in a corporate enviroment is windows. I don't like it either, but thats the client of choice for coroporate america.
Lotus even discontinued the OS/2 client and they are OWNED by IBM. You would think that even Big Blue could convince Lotus to continue to make an OS/2 client for that dying platform. Its not happening. They are making a Server only version for OS/2, just like they are doing for Linux, Solaris, et all. So don't wait for a Linux client, at least not until you see an OS/2 client.
The advantage of running Notes on Linux is obvious to me. Less time spending baby sitting the NT server for smaller shops. Most of the larger shops have either an AS/400 installed or a Solaris box. I can see great advantages in this running on Linux.
Another thing I I don't see anyone talking about is the fact that in the current version (5.0) Lotus have managed to move the entire admin functions of the Notes server to a remote console or Administration Client. Granted this runs on windows, but now the need to admin the server does not require you to be AT the server. So, in the network allows, dial into the network, peform admin function from home via a laptop, or for that matter from anywhere in the world that has a decent phone line. This is a big deal for Lotus. Yeah, Novell had this for a long time. Notes had a somewhat remote admin client before, but certian functions rwquired you to be AT the server. This is no longer the case.
I'll explain the Notes solution. If you use notes only for email, its the wrong implimentation.
Notes allows groups (Sales, marketing, etc...) to share ideas, leads and more through discussion databases. (think threaded discussions like newsgroups) Access to these database is controled via an access control list, so I can keep marketing out of the sales discussion and vice versa.
These groups can also share documentation, schedules and more via other databases.
So for instance, If I wanted to call a meeting for the Sales department, I could run a querry to find an open time slot when I could call a meeting without having to call around to each sales guy and find out what their schedule looks like. Their schedules are "online" in the Notes scheduling database and I can find out the open times. I can also look for a conference room to have this meeting because conference rooms are listed in the scheduling database along with how many people the room holds (chairs). I can either look for a specific room or notes will suggest a room based on the common open time slot I find open for all the sales guys, the number of invitees (sales guys) and if I need any specific things (projector, vcr, etc..) I could reserve these the very same way as I'm doing with the room. This process takes about 5 minutes at the longest. Try calling a meeting that involves more than 2 people in most companies and its a big hassle. just co-ordinating the time the meeting is and what conference room is available is a pain. Some people have "calling lists" to call to reserve a conference room. Imaginge calling that list involves calling around, leaving voice mail, and then having them get back to your voice mail etc... its a time consuming process.
Thats just one littls aspect that Notes groupware can do for you. You can also co-ordinate the IT department this way. You can co-ordinate the IT support department, log calls that come into support and assign the call tickets to the tech. Then the customer can see who the ticket is assigned to and the current status.
I could go on an on.. but the bottom line is that notes is more that just email.
Oh yeah, L0pht reported a problem, but it was a documented problem where Lotus had a tech note about the matter already written and described the problem and even provided a solution.
Only problem was that L0pht reported the problem about 9 months after the documentated problem.
Notes is not an email only solution. If thats how you are using it, they you are using it WRONG.
Notes is a collaberative application that utilizes mail to allow multiple databases/users in varying locations to co-operate and communicate issues regardless of location and in many cases OS versions. They have a few dedicated clients, but they also work with a common web browser.
Now that that out of the way, from your description of Notes, you are only using it for mail, and if thats the case I'd tell you to rip it out and start over with something else. Notes allows you to incorporate enterprise-wide scheduling for users, for rooms, create reservations for those rooms and even reserve resourses (projector, pointers, etc..) for the conference.
This is just one example. There are many, many more.
I remember a story on CNN, how they banned Furby's because they could be a recording device. It seems they were afraid that the Furby would start talking classified or something..
This is a perfect example of ignornace being bliss. Wake the hell up buddy. Lotus has taken notes from the closed proprietary package you speak of and incorporated LDAP, IMAP, yes even POP. If you used notes and only used it for email, then I would place blame on the administrators/application developers that worked (in this case I would say they were not working at all, just collecting a check) for your company. Notes allows communication, intergration, and process tracking that no other platform can.
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I recieved a blank email from them, figgered it was about something going on, and yet, when I checked the web site, nothing had been changed for awhile. Still no pictures of the "finished" productions units, just pictures from 3/30/99.
I live in the Bellsouth coverage area. Now this changes things. Recently the "other guys" (COX) have run Digital cable through my area and are currently testing the system. COX is offering cable modem service for $30 a month.
Bellsouth is offering ADSL for $59 a month or $69 a month. Whats the difference? If you subscribe to all the services for the phone, you only pay $59, but if all you want is a phone line without all the caller options (caller id, call forward call return, and many more) then they charge you an extra $10 a month for the ADSL line. Whats the charge for all the premium phhone services? About $15. Hmm..
So why would I go with ADSL after seeing this non-communication from Bellsouth? It looks like I'm going to be contacting Cox soon.
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Its a good site for finding DVD's at the lowest price, and they include special offers and coupon deals from Amazon.com, Buy.com, BN.com and others.
Netscape has been doing this for a few years now.
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I don't see where you can but these anywhere yet. For now, its vaporware.
They also have an interface coming soon to allow infra-red communication from palm device to beeper, to email server. On that same subject, they have something called Activelink module for Visor.
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Try using it in an actual server enviroment and set Windows NT to Re-boot when it blue screens (and you know it will) and then wonder why you are getting paged at 3am because 3rd shift can't access a server that contains critical information.
YOU have to get up, drive in to work, walk in the server room, and power off and power it back on again? Do this a few times and I bet that little problem of pressing the button twice suddenly becomes a major pain in the ass to deal with. Oh sure you could tell someone to do it for you, but what if you have 20 servers in the server room all the same? Are they gonna power off the right one? Shesh.
First, many people are STILL slamming notes for being propritariey. When is the last time you looked at Lotus Notes? Version 3? Its currently at Version 5.
Lets see, POP, IMAP, LDAP, S/MIME, the list grows and grows. I'd say these are open standards and Notes uses them. I don't see where this is propritariery.
Ok, now the other myths people are saying about notes in here.
I see comments on problems that are directed at Version 4.5 or 4.6. Excuse me, but this is version 5, an improved version, with an entirely new interface. The screen shots I've seen so far have all been version 4.6. So keep your poor interface comments until you have SEEN the 5.0 client.
Now about the comments on forcing eveyone to use Windows/Mac clients. Sorry, but from the amount of calls coming into the call center (yeah, I used to work for Lotus) the majority of the clients that people were using were about 92% windows (version of 95, 98, NT) about 6% Mac, and about 1% OS/2, and the remaining 1% was for what I would call other/unix clients. Face facts people, right now the client in a corporate enviroment is windows. I don't like it either, but thats the client of choice for coroporate america.
Lotus even discontinued the OS/2 client and they are OWNED by IBM. You would think that even Big Blue could convince Lotus to continue to make an OS/2 client for that dying platform. Its not happening. They are making a Server only version for OS/2, just like they are doing for Linux, Solaris, et all. So don't wait for a Linux client, at least not until you see an OS/2 client.
The advantage of running Notes on Linux is obvious to me. Less time spending baby sitting the NT server for smaller shops. Most of the larger shops have either an AS/400 installed or a Solaris box. I can see great advantages in this running on Linux.
Another thing I I don't see anyone talking about is the fact that in the current version (5.0) Lotus have managed to move the entire admin functions of the Notes server to a remote console or Administration Client. Granted this runs on windows, but now the need to admin the server does not require you to be AT the server. So, in the network allows, dial into the network, peform admin function from home via a laptop, or for that matter from anywhere in the world that has a decent phone line. This is a big deal for Lotus. Yeah, Novell had this for a long time. Notes had a somewhat remote admin client before, but certian functions rwquired you to be AT the server. This is no longer the case.
Exchange is not what I would call groupware.
I'll explain the Notes solution. If you use notes only for email, its the wrong implimentation.
Notes allows groups (Sales, marketing, etc...) to share ideas, leads and more through discussion databases. (think threaded discussions like newsgroups) Access to these database is controled via an access control list, so I can keep marketing out of the sales discussion and vice versa.
These groups can also share documentation, schedules and more via other databases.
So for instance, If I wanted to call a meeting for the Sales department, I could run a querry to find an open time slot when I could call a meeting without having to call around to each sales guy and find out what their schedule looks like. Their schedules are "online" in the Notes scheduling database and I can find out the open times. I can also look for a conference room to have this meeting because conference rooms are listed in the scheduling database along with how many people the room holds (chairs). I can either look for a specific room or notes will suggest a room based on the common open time slot I find open for all the sales guys, the number of invitees (sales guys) and if I need any specific things (projector, vcr, etc..) I could reserve these the very same way as I'm doing with the room. This process takes about 5 minutes at the longest. Try calling a meeting that involves more than 2 people in most companies and its a big hassle. just co-ordinating the time the meeting is and what conference room is available is a pain. Some people have "calling lists" to call to reserve a conference room. Imaginge calling that list involves calling around, leaving voice mail, and then having them get back to your voice mail etc... its a time consuming process.
Thats just one littls aspect that Notes groupware can do for you. You can also co-ordinate the IT department this way. You can co-ordinate the IT support department, log calls that come into support and assign the call tickets to the tech. Then the customer can see who the ticket is assigned to and the current status.
I could go on an on.. but the bottom line is that notes is more that just email.
Oh yeah, L0pht reported a problem, but it was a documented problem where Lotus had a tech note about the matter already written and described the problem and even provided a solution.
Only problem was that L0pht reported the problem about 9 months after the documentated problem.
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Notes is not an email only solution. If thats how you are using it, they you are using it WRONG.
Notes is a collaberative application that utilizes mail to allow multiple databases/users in varying locations to co-operate and communicate issues regardless of location and in many cases OS versions. They have a few dedicated clients, but they also work with a common web browser.
Now that that out of the way, from your description of Notes, you are only using it for mail, and if thats the case I'd tell you to rip it out and start over with something else. Notes allows you to incorporate enterprise-wide scheduling for users, for rooms, create reservations for those rooms and even reserve resourses (projector, pointers, etc..) for the conference.
This is just one example. There are many, many more.
Please try to limit your discussion to the current release at hand.
Its not like we couldn't go back and make note of all the flaws in IE/Eudora or whatever other previous software versions out there.
I remember a story on CNN, how they banned Furby's because they could be a recording device. It seems they were afraid that the Furby would start talking classified or something..
Now thats funny.
Now that, would be a game worth having on a cell phone.
This is a perfect example of ignornace being bliss. Wake the hell up buddy. Lotus has taken notes from the closed proprietary package you speak of and incorporated LDAP, IMAP, yes even POP. If you used notes and only used it for email, then I would place blame on the administrators/application developers that worked (in this case I would say they were not working at all, just collecting a check) for your company. Notes allows communication, intergration, and process tracking that no other platform can.
I recieved a blank email from them, figgered it was about something going on, and yet, when I checked the web site, nothing had been changed for awhile. Still no pictures of the "finished" productions units, just pictures from 3/30/99.
It would be great to see the finished units.
I live in the Bellsouth coverage area. Now this changes things. Recently the "other guys" (COX) have run Digital cable through my area and are currently testing the system. COX is offering cable modem service for $30 a month.
Bellsouth is offering ADSL for $59 a month or $69 a month. Whats the difference? If you subscribe to all the services for the phone, you only pay $59, but if all you want is a phone line without all the caller options (caller id, call forward call return, and many more) then they charge you an extra $10 a month for the ADSL line. Whats the charge for all the premium phhone services? About $15. Hmm..
So why would I go with ADSL after seeing this non-communication from Bellsouth? It looks like I'm going to be contacting Cox soon.
I loaded the q3test and I get sound that re-occurs in a loop. I guess I'm getting 1 frame every 10 seconds.
Hardware you ask?
AMD 233, 64 Meg Ram, Voodoo Rush
Software?
Redhat Linux 5.2 out of the box install with one exception, Glide and modified SVGA server for Voodoo card.
Oh yeah, in quake 2 I can't get mouse to act right. I turn on "freelook" and all I can see is the floor.