A vanity domain name, a VPS hosting an ubuntu instance running postfix, dovecot, spamassassin, roundcube, denyhosts and duplicity backup to some rsync.net space.
Yes it costs money, but I control the whitelists, the filtering, the retention and the backups. It's a small price to pay. I wouldn't expect my grandmother to set up something similar, but I can host extra mailboxes if need be. It's not that hard to do if you've been running linux for a couple of years. Set it up and forward a copy of your email from your current provider for a few months until you feel comfortable with your set up.
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
That's pretty much my approach. I'm using courier-imap now (have used cyrus in the past) and roundcube for web mail. I stumped up some cash for an official domain name. I use xfce for the desktop (access via VNC).
Its a really nice solution if you're paranoid about locking up all your data in a proprietry "cloud" vendor.
You do have to be wary of the VPS provider though. I'm giving up my $US 15 per month hosting to pay slightly more for hopefully better service.
Funnily enough this is a project I am working on right now.
I'm coming at it from an HPC (high performance computing) perspective. We'll have a cluster in-house supporting the base load and overflow to a utility computing provider.
Job scheduling software (currently torque but also trialing slurm) is used and once the total load has passed a threshold more remote compute VMs are fired up.
We should have it in production by -/me checks gantt chart - last month.
Seconded. I use OpenSSH on every unix platform at work, to get to my home box and to get to my Xen virtual hosted server. None of those run OpenBSD, but I am happy to contribute a small amount knowing that a fraction of it will go towards supporting the very software I am using as I type this.
A computer doesn't necessarily have a monitor and a mouse and ther doesn't have to be somebody sitting right in front of it for it to be doing work. There are still some computers the size of a room - no they aren't exactly the same as the room size ones from the '70s.
This could cover raster versus vector image file formats, lossy versus lossless encoding, proprietry (.doc) versus open formats, etc. For an analogy with multiple lossy transformations compare to dubbing a cassette tape multiple times - if your target audience is old enough they will recognise that.
In my experience the business requirements include "interoperate with Microsoft products". So the windows people aren't having to deal with an organisation actively thwarting their progress. I find it quite quick to get to a standards conforming solution and then painful and frustrating trying to work around Microsoft's embracing and extending.
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"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing"
... do it yourself.
A vanity domain name, a VPS hosting an ubuntu instance running postfix, dovecot, spamassassin, roundcube, denyhosts and duplicity backup to some rsync.net space.
Yes it costs money, but I control the whitelists, the filtering, the retention and the backups. It's a small price to pay. I wouldn't expect my grandmother to set up something similar, but I can host extra mailboxes if need be. It's not that hard to do if you've been running linux for a couple of years. Set it up and forward a copy of your email from your current provider for a few months until you feel comfortable with your set up.
Rusty gave a talk titled FOSS Fun With A Wiimote at Linux.Conf.Au in Wellington at the beginning of the year.
Videos at http://2009.r2.co.nz/20100118/50062.htm
-- Brian W. Kernighan
for example do you know the history of Erlang?
No, but I've seen the movie.
vrms's one seems reasonable...
[...] mostly oceanographers, [...]
The atmosphere-ocean system is a coupled one on climate timescales. Oceanographers are very much climate scientists.
That's pretty much my approach. I'm using courier-imap now (have used cyrus in the past) and roundcube for web mail. I stumped up some cash for an official domain name. I use xfce for the desktop (access via VNC). Its a really nice solution if you're paranoid about locking up all your data in a proprietry "cloud" vendor. You do have to be wary of the VPS provider though. I'm giving up my $US 15 per month hosting to pay slightly more for hopefully better service.
Funnily enough this is a project I am working on right now.
I'm coming at it from an HPC (high performance computing) perspective. We'll have a cluster in-house supporting the base load and overflow to a utility computing provider.
Job scheduling software (currently torque but also trialing slurm) is used and once the total load has passed a threshold more remote compute VMs are fired up.
We should have it in production by - /me checks gantt chart - last month.
It seems like an idea whose time has come.
Seconded.
The authors (Limoncelli and Hogan) have a page about the book
Yeah, it runs linux.
Its a quote from New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford who said: "All science is either physics or stamp collecting"
No, you got it all wrong. Britney is an expert on semi-conductor physics.
Paraphrasing a certain Mr. Torvalds:
They missed one. At the bottom of page 37 is says "TOP SECRET UMBRA".
Microsoft: the "Snakes on a Plane" of software naming.
Seconded. I use OpenSSH on every unix platform at work, to get to my home box and to get to my Xen virtual hosted server. None of those run OpenBSD, but I am happy to contribute a small amount knowing that a fraction of it will go towards supporting the very software I am using as I type this.
A computer doesn't necessarily have a monitor and a mouse and ther doesn't have to be somebody sitting right in front of it for it to be doing work. There are still some computers the size of a room - no they aren't exactly the same as the room size ones from the '70s.
This could cover raster versus vector image file formats, lossy versus lossless encoding, proprietry (.doc) versus open formats, etc. For an analogy with multiple lossy transformations compare to dubbing a cassette tape multiple times - if your target audience is old enough they will recognise that.
I thought you were talking about Ubuntu release names. Or Ang Lee films at least.
I don't know where you saw it but it looks like they were taking this advice.
In my experience the business requirements include "interoperate with Microsoft products". So the windows people aren't having to deal with an organisation actively thwarting their progress. I find it quite quick to get to a standards conforming solution and then painful and frustrating trying to work around Microsoft's embracing and extending.
OK then...
I guess for windows I would use run as.