Seriously, I thought AOL was going to be using Netscape as their browser, the whole point in buying them? How did they get back in bed with MS?
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As a consultant to small- to miz-sized companies, this has been the place where Linux has fallen short of a "complete" server solution. Everyone wants what Exchange can do, but can't break the bank to buy it. And to top it off, the archive is about 20mb!
One concern is the selection of client programs. Most need an additional connector ($) or are less then functional (Mozilla Calendar or the web--people always complain about the web access for some reason). It would be my vote that the new split Mozilla works closely on their calendar features with this project. They have a good start already.
Thanks to all the developers and companies that put OpenGroupware.Org together!!!
"To help the public grasp this subtle distinction USB 2, which was the old USB 1.1, would have ``Full Speed'' added to its title and USB 2, which was USB 2, would have ``Hi-Speed'' added."
Still, that's really, really wrong. It is most likely to upset even more people that ended up buying a computer with "slow" USB as the salesperson will probably not know this subtle text difference.
I though they should include the speed numerical value in the name, like USB-12 and USB-480.
Ugh, let's hope there's another announcement in a few week revoking this.
My brother was diagnosed with the hyperactivity type. I have the inattention type but was never diagnosed. I was always labelled as smart but lazy and one who usually didn't finish things.
I get very bored very quickly. I need to be on the move all the time. Even an hour of "Oh, there's not really much to do" and I pretty much blow my whole day doing next to nothing. This has been a problem for me since high-school and the college I never completed as well as certification classes I also never completed.
I just want to echo what some others have said here. Exercising regularly seems to help. Keeps my mind more open and steadily flowing. Caffiene doesn't seem to help me--just makes my mind race and I can't concentrate on anything.
Organization is extremely difficult, but when on the bandwagon, results are excellent. I have a Sony Clie and it helps greatly to always have "pen and paper" with you at all times. Write down lists when you have 3 or more things to remember. I find I do remember more when I have it entered in my pilot. I highly recommend one for anyone struggling with this. You have to force yourself to use it and to carry it with you ALL THE TIME. I can only seem to remember I have 4 things with me, phone, keys, Palm Pilot and wallet. If I have those things, I know I'm ready to go. My office is always a disaster, but I can generally find things, so I don't do anything about it.:(
Also, double and triple check your work. I very frequently just from the first step in a project, skip some or all of the middle steps, and then do the last step and call it good. Use a checklist and check off each step as you go so you know what's done and what's left.
On the up side, when you are in the right situation and you're clicking with what's going on, it's like you're a machine. You just can't stop working on something or thinking about it. I get lots of ideas for things and somehow remember the weirdest little details. My wife always asks "How can you remember the little joke I told you a month ago but you can't remember 3 things to get at the store?" I don't know if it's selective memory or just that the events I remember stimulated an emotional response or what, but it definately happens. Just keep on going with the good things and do your best to stay motivated and organized with everything else.
Is there a support group for computer professionals with these problems? There should be!
Yes, emissions are a big problem. With the newer CDI engines with the particulate trap emissions are way way down. I hope the Mercedes has it on their E-Class for the US next year.
Anyone know if VW will have a CDI-type engine in the US?
I'm going to make a general statement, but it can't be too far off. Ford just needs to offer a 6 cylinder turbodiesel in all of their products, not just heavy duty trucks. The 4 cylinder turbodiesel VW Jetta and Golf get an average of 55mpg, while my 5 cylinder turbodiesel Mercedes gets about 31mpg (much heavier and automatic transmission). Look at your european vehicles and it doesn't take much to get economy up there. The new Mercedes CDI engine (well, new to the US in 2004) has amazingly low emissions and outstanding power, doesn't "smell" and sounds like a gas car. Diesel is available at more gas stations then it's not and very available on the freeway for long trips.
Why don't US car companies adopt a highly-efficient, low-emmission, and still high-performance diesel engine? Well, there's definately a mental image people associate with diesels (from the 80's gas shortage experience). I think our younger generation doesn't have this negative image and the timing is getting better everyday to release a mainstream diesel car. I'd think the Ford Focus (to stay with Ford for the example) would be an outstanding car to release a diesel model of. There's no reason other models of cars big or small can't have a comparably-sized diesel engine for them.
I did a little Google search and Ford does have a Turbodiesel Focus planned for 2007 that even meets California emissions!!!
IBM has enough on their plate right now. Novell should buy SCO or at least all rights to unix/UnixWare back and continue with their NetWare 7.0 linux-kernal strategy. Novell is a sound partner for the linux community--they've always shown pretty good judgement when it came to the right thing to do with products. It would probably boost Novell up a large notch as well as become more of a major player again.....
I recently compared and purchased my first PVR, a ReplayTV 5040 machine. Everyone I know has a TiVo ver 1 and they like it. Why did I choose Replay over TiVo ver 1 or ver 2?
Mainly because of being able to send shows from box to box over ethernet. And to best that, you can run DVArchive on a computer and it acts as another ReplayTV box on the network. You can save shows to it and play shows off of it.
TiVo has crappy broadband connectivity. Ver 2 is supposed to support USB. What additional hardware are you going to have to buy to connect that to something? I've got CAT5 running already out my DSL, I just plugged in my replay, it got an IP from DHCP and that was it.
Also, I found on avsforum.com some of the authors of the ReplayTV software hang out and answer questions. Much nicer then having to contact someone at Phillips.
You can record shows, and play them back whenever you want in both of them, blah blah. But this ethernet stuff is the wave of the future.:)
The cut and paste menu you are referring to does not come up on ths Sony unit I have. It did come up on my Prism. Again, I think it's either something Sony didn't put it or it's not available on Palm OS 5.
The strokes for tab and and enter do work when entering text. My complaint was you cannot move from field to field when entering a contact in the address book using TAB or ENTER--you must tap the screen. When you're typing on the keyboard, it's annoying you can't hit TAB or ENTER to go to the next field, you have to get the stylus out and tap the screen.
Try it on a Palm OS 5 Sony unit and see if you can get it to work. I'm certainly open to suggestions.
I had been watching the market for a few months when I decided to buy the TG-50. I had a Handspring Prism previously (Palm VII, Palm IIIe, original Palm Pilot previous to all that) and it was serving me well except for the weight and size. The price point is good for the features on the TG-50--Palm OS 5, 200MHz processor, memory stick reader, 320x320 screen, etc.
Things I found out I liked about the unit that aren't obvious in your typical visit to the store:
The screen--very readable in bright sunlight!!! I didn't even bother taking my Prism out when outdoors. 320x320 is very sharp even on the calendar/address book type screens.
The keyboard--I'm pretty into Grafitti, and didn't think the keyboard was easy to use. After taking countless notes and appointments, it's great and much faster then getting into writing mode with the hard button. Give it a chance. Tactile feedback of the keys means nothing--if you know where the QWERTY keys are, you can just fly along with the thing. Don't look at your fingers, look at the sreen!!! Arrow keys rock!
Bluetooth--I have a Bluetooth phone (Ericsson R520m). I just enter my contacts full information in the TG-50 and you can dial your phone with it. Single address book. Connected it to my friends Powerbook, worked well. Easy to link devices together over bluetooth. Don't have a bluetooth adapter on my PC yet. Can only be more BT devices coming out.
Real alert sounds and speaker--not just a beep when your appt is up, and no more asking "Was that you or me beeping?" in a room of people. Can record your own sounds with the voice recorder and then convert it to a "system sound" and use it as an alert. Can play some sort of MIDI file too.
Note field length--has been increased greatly! Not sure if that's a Sony thing or an OS 5 thing, but it's wonderful. I take tons of notes and documentation on my handheld--I try hard to run paperless and it's working pretty well.
And some things I didn't like after a while....
Flip case--stated before here, very difficult to open. Needs some kind of edge to grab it. I find it opens best from the bottom edge--just slide your thumb up the bottom face and the lid usually comes with it. Or middle finger on the top of the unit, thumb on the edge of the lid works well too. One positive about it, having a hard cover over the screen is much more protective then the leather cover I had over my Prism. You also don't press the screen or buttons by accident when the unit is in your pocket. That happened all the time with my Prism.
Power button--it's a sliding button on the left side of the unit. Has a hold function as well so you don't turn it on by accident. Coming from the Prism with the front-mounted button, this totally blows. A sliding button???!? I often feel obligated to use the hold position when puttin the unit in my pocket, but when you go to turn it on by pressing one of the 4 hot keys the power LED just flashes at you, then you remember it's on hold and slide the power switch to ON, then press your hot key again. Takes getting used to, but it's annoying.
Keyboard vs Stylus--when you're entering something, say, in the address book with the keyboard, there is no way to get to the next field that I have found. You have to tap the next field with the stylus/finger and then start typing again. No TAB or ENTER or down arrow. MAJOR flaw there. If you use just the stylus in writing mode, you can't see enough of the screen to really enter things or scroll through or go fast enough to make it worth while as compared to the keys.
Keyboard shortcuts--Not sure if this is a Sony thing or what but I used to be able to do a Cut and Paste via Grafitti on my Prism with slash C and slash P. This unit does not have that feature. It does have CTRL-C, CTRL-X, CTRL-V for copy, cut and paste on the keyboard.
Speed--yes, too much speed can be a bad thing. Either Sony or Palm needs to build in compensation for processor speed when it co
It sounds to me SCO is mad that IBM helped Linux along. Should they also be suing Silicon Graphics, Sun and other UNIX-type companies that contributed to Linux?? Like that's ever going to fly.
If you're doing straight dictation (speaking into a recorder and someone else transcribes it to paper/electronic) this will do ya. 8.5 hours of pure recording enjoyment. It's as portable as you want.
Now if you want to do Speech-to-Text in there to, the ViaVoice/Dragon solutions are more what you're looking for.
So, is there a Sparc and HP port being maintained as well? The Sparc platform could be adopted in a much more controlled way then x86. Not sure of the future of HP, but I really believe Sparc would be a good choice over x86.
Of course, Apple should get something rolling with IBM for PPC's before junking it all and going to another platform.
I found beta to be very superior in quality. I only use my beta player to record shows from TV and when copying LD or DVD's to tape. It's just not worth it on VHS. From my use of beta and VHS, I think the only problem beta really has/had is tape length. If they came out with a 4 or 6 hour beta tape, the world would be a different place. And if then ED Beta came on as the successor to regular Beta, well, who needs DVD?
I guess I'd rather mount a filesystem read-only and serve my web site from there. It would still have the speed of a hard drive, which I think is the main drawback to the CD approach.
I'd love to run this at home for the experience, but don't want to pay for licenses. Can't seem to get a login/pass without a support contract. Didn't a previous version allow you to use in a non-commercial setting or like 10-user free or something?
How can I learn and experiment with this server in a non-commercial environment without buying a license?
Seriously, I would want (and have) a room more like Cally has described. It's just not comfortable and though-inducing in the typical sterile corporate server room.
But you do need more electrical jacks, and on different circuits. Haven't thought much about cooling the rest of the house with the residual server heat. Didn't think it would be enough to really do it, but maybe I just need more servers...
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Seriously, I thought AOL was going to be using Netscape as their browser, the whole point in buying them? How did they get back in bed with MS?
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As a consultant to small- to miz-sized companies, this has been the place where Linux has fallen short of a "complete" server solution. Everyone wants what Exchange can do, but can't break the bank to buy it. And to top it off, the archive is about 20mb!
One concern is the selection of client programs. Most need an additional connector ($) or are less then functional (Mozilla Calendar or the web--people always complain about the web access for some reason). It would be my vote that the new split Mozilla works closely on their calendar features with this project. They have a good start already.
Thanks to all the developers and companies that put OpenGroupware.Org together!!!
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Well, the article states:
"To help the public grasp this subtle distinction USB 2, which was the old USB 1.1, would have ``Full Speed'' added to its title and USB 2, which was USB 2, would have ``Hi-Speed'' added."
Still, that's really, really wrong. It is most likely to upset even more people that ended up buying a computer with "slow" USB as the salesperson will probably not know this subtle text difference.
I though they should include the speed numerical value in the name, like USB-12 and USB-480.
Ugh, let's hope there's another announcement in a few week revoking this.
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My brother was diagnosed with the hyperactivity type. I have the inattention type but was never diagnosed. I was always labelled as smart but lazy and one who usually didn't finish things.
I get very bored very quickly. I need to be on the move all the time. Even an hour of "Oh, there's not really much to do" and I pretty much blow my whole day doing next to nothing. This has been a problem for me since high-school and the college I never completed as well as certification classes I also never completed.
I just want to echo what some others have said here. Exercising regularly seems to help. Keeps my mind more open and steadily flowing. Caffiene doesn't seem to help me--just makes my mind race and I can't concentrate on anything.
Organization is extremely difficult, but when on the bandwagon, results are excellent. I have a Sony Clie and it helps greatly to always have "pen and paper" with you at all times. Write down lists when you have 3 or more things to remember. I find I do remember more when I have it entered in my pilot. I highly recommend one for anyone struggling with this. You have to force yourself to use it and to carry it with you ALL THE TIME. I can only seem to remember I have 4 things with me, phone, keys, Palm Pilot and wallet. If I have those things, I know I'm ready to go. My office is always a disaster, but I can generally find things, so I don't do anything about it.
Also, double and triple check your work. I very frequently just from the first step in a project, skip some or all of the middle steps, and then do the last step and call it good. Use a checklist and check off each step as you go so you know what's done and what's left.
On the up side, when you are in the right situation and you're clicking with what's going on, it's like you're a machine. You just can't stop working on something or thinking about it. I get lots of ideas for things and somehow remember the weirdest little details. My wife always asks "How can you remember the little joke I told you a month ago but you can't remember 3 things to get at the store?" I don't know if it's selective memory or just that the events I remember stimulated an emotional response or what, but it definately happens. Just keep on going with the good things and do your best to stay motivated and organized with everything else.
Is there a support group for computer professionals with these problems? There should be!
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Yes, emissions are a big problem. With the newer CDI engines with the particulate trap emissions are way way down. I hope the Mercedes has it on their E-Class for the US next year.
Anyone know if VW will have a CDI-type engine in the US?
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Seriously, did anyone (including SCO) actually think IBM would stop shipping AIX because of this? It would most seriously tarnish their reputation.
I think SCO should retract a few more companies licenses and see what that gets them. Nowhere fast.
Congrats, keep on, big blue....
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I'm going to make a general statement, but it can't be too far off. Ford just needs to offer a 6 cylinder turbodiesel in all of their products, not just heavy duty trucks. The 4 cylinder turbodiesel VW Jetta and Golf get an average of 55mpg, while my 5 cylinder turbodiesel Mercedes gets about 31mpg (much heavier and automatic transmission). Look at your european vehicles and it doesn't take much to get economy up there. The new Mercedes CDI engine (well, new to the US in 2004) has amazingly low emissions and outstanding power, doesn't "smell" and sounds like a gas car. Diesel is available at more gas stations then it's not and very available on the freeway for long trips.
4 J: www.womanmotorist.com/technology/ford-focus-ulevii -diesel-01.shtml+ford+focus+diesel&hl=en&ie=UT F-8
Why don't US car companies adopt a highly-efficient, low-emmission, and still high-performance diesel engine? Well, there's definately a mental image people associate with diesels (from the 80's gas shortage experience). I think our younger generation doesn't have this negative image and the timing is getting better everyday to release a mainstream diesel car. I'd think the Ford Focus (to stay with Ford for the example) would be an outstanding car to release a diesel model of. There's no reason other models of cars big or small can't have a comparably-sized diesel engine for them.
I did a little Google search and Ford does have a Turbodiesel Focus planned for 2007 that even meets California emissions!!!
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:9C_1zNFnwZ
See, you talk long enough and someone listens!
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IBM has enough on their plate right now. Novell should buy SCO or at least all rights to unix/UnixWare back and continue with their NetWare 7.0 linux-kernal strategy. Novell is a sound partner for the linux community--they've always shown pretty good judgement when it came to the right thing to do with products. It would probably boost Novell up a large notch as well as become more of a major player again.....
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Hey,
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I recently compared and purchased my first PVR, a ReplayTV 5040 machine. Everyone I know has a TiVo ver 1 and they like it. Why did I choose Replay over TiVo ver 1 or ver 2?
Mainly because of being able to send shows from box to box over ethernet. And to best that, you can run DVArchive on a computer and it acts as another ReplayTV box on the network. You can save shows to it and play shows off of it.
TiVo has crappy broadband connectivity. Ver 2 is supposed to support USB. What additional hardware are you going to have to buy to connect that to something? I've got CAT5 running already out my DSL, I just plugged in my replay, it got an IP from DHCP and that was it.
Also, I found on avsforum.com some of the authors of the ReplayTV software hang out and answer questions. Much nicer then having to contact someone at Phillips.
You can record shows, and play them back whenever you want in both of them, blah blah. But this ethernet stuff is the wave of the future.
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Hey,
The cut and paste menu you are referring to does not come up on ths Sony unit I have. It did come up on my Prism. Again, I think it's either something Sony didn't put it or it's not available on Palm OS 5.
The strokes for tab and and enter do work when entering text. My complaint was you cannot move from field to field when entering a contact in the address book using TAB or ENTER--you must tap the screen. When you're typing on the keyboard, it's annoying you can't hit TAB or ENTER to go to the next field, you have to get the stylus out and tap the screen.
Try it on a Palm OS 5 Sony unit and see if you can get it to work. I'm certainly open to suggestions.
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Hey all,
I had been watching the market for a few months when I decided to buy the TG-50. I had a Handspring Prism previously (Palm VII, Palm IIIe, original Palm Pilot previous to all that) and it was serving me well except for the weight and size. The price point is good for the features on the TG-50--Palm OS 5, 200MHz processor, memory stick reader, 320x320 screen, etc.
Things I found out I liked about the unit that aren't obvious in your typical visit to the store:
The screen--very readable in bright sunlight!!! I didn't even bother taking my Prism out when outdoors. 320x320 is very sharp even on the calendar/address book type screens.
The keyboard--I'm pretty into Grafitti, and didn't think the keyboard was easy to use. After taking countless notes and appointments, it's great and much faster then getting into writing mode with the hard button. Give it a chance. Tactile feedback of the keys means nothing--if you know where the QWERTY keys are, you can just fly along with the thing. Don't look at your fingers, look at the sreen!!! Arrow keys rock!
Bluetooth--I have a Bluetooth phone (Ericsson R520m). I just enter my contacts full information in the TG-50 and you can dial your phone with it. Single address book. Connected it to my friends Powerbook, worked well. Easy to link devices together over bluetooth. Don't have a bluetooth adapter on my PC yet. Can only be more BT devices coming out.
Real alert sounds and speaker--not just a beep when your appt is up, and no more asking "Was that you or me beeping?" in a room of people. Can record your own sounds with the voice recorder and then convert it to a "system sound" and use it as an alert. Can play some sort of MIDI file too.
Note field length--has been increased greatly! Not sure if that's a Sony thing or an OS 5 thing, but it's wonderful. I take tons of notes and documentation on my handheld--I try hard to run paperless and it's working pretty well.
And some things I didn't like after a while....
Flip case--stated before here, very difficult to open. Needs some kind of edge to grab it. I find it opens best from the bottom edge--just slide your thumb up the bottom face and the lid usually comes with it. Or middle finger on the top of the unit, thumb on the edge of the lid works well too. One positive about it, having a hard cover over the screen is much more protective then the leather cover I had over my Prism. You also don't press the screen or buttons by accident when the unit is in your pocket. That happened all the time with my Prism.
Power button--it's a sliding button on the left side of the unit. Has a hold function as well so you don't turn it on by accident. Coming from the Prism with the front-mounted button, this totally blows. A sliding button???!? I often feel obligated to use the hold position when puttin the unit in my pocket, but when you go to turn it on by pressing one of the 4 hot keys the power LED just flashes at you, then you remember it's on hold and slide the power switch to ON, then press your hot key again. Takes getting used to, but it's annoying.
Keyboard vs Stylus--when you're entering something, say, in the address book with the keyboard, there is no way to get to the next field that I have found. You have to tap the next field with the stylus/finger and then start typing again. No TAB or ENTER or down arrow. MAJOR flaw there. If you use just the stylus in writing mode, you can't see enough of the screen to really enter things or scroll through or go fast enough to make it worth while as compared to the keys.
Keyboard shortcuts--Not sure if this is a Sony thing or what but I used to be able to do a Cut and Paste via Grafitti on my Prism with slash C and slash P. This unit does not have that feature. It does have CTRL-C, CTRL-X, CTRL-V for copy, cut and paste on the keyboard.
Speed--yes, too much speed can be a bad thing. Either Sony or Palm needs to build in compensation for processor speed when it co
Is this a line from the upcoming 4th movie? :)
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Don't miss the Sponge Bob Square Pants Lost Episode tonight either! It's on again tomorrow if you missed it.
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It sounds to me SCO is mad that IBM helped Linux along. Should they also be suing Silicon Graphics, Sun and other UNIX-type companies that contributed to Linux?? Like that's ever going to fly.
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Uh, wut? ;) Is there an english version posted somewhere?
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http://www.handspring.com/products/Product.jhtml?i d=240035&cat=170018
If you're doing straight dictation (speaking into a recorder and someone else transcribes it to paper/electronic) this will do ya. 8.5 hours of pure recording enjoyment. It's as portable as you want.
Now if you want to do Speech-to-Text in there to, the ViaVoice/Dragon solutions are more what you're looking for.
Good luck.
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Exactally my disappointment. I've made quite a few sub boxes, not exactally brain surgery...
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So, is there a Sparc and HP port being maintained as well? The Sparc platform could be adopted in a much more controlled way then x86. Not sure of the future of HP, but I really believe Sparc would be a good choice over x86.
Of course, Apple should get something rolling with IBM for PPC's before junking it all and going to another platform.
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I found beta to be very superior in quality. I only use my beta player to record shows from TV and when copying LD or DVD's to tape. It's just not worth it on VHS. From my use of beta and VHS, I think the only problem beta really has/had is tape length. If they came out with a 4 or 6 hour beta tape, the world would be a different place. And if then ED Beta came on as the successor to regular Beta, well, who needs DVD?
Long live betamax!
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I guess I'd rather mount a filesystem read-only and serve my web site from there. It would still have the speed of a hard drive, which I think is the main drawback to the CD approach.
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How do you get funding for something like that anyway? I mean, that's some serious inventory they're sitting on.
It's probably secretly owned by Bill Gates. He's 1. Got enough money to do it, and 2. Evil!
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Maybe Bill Gates can take it over....
I'd love to run this at home for the experience, but don't want to pay for licenses. Can't seem to get a login/pass without a support contract. Didn't a previous version allow you to use in a non-commercial setting or like 10-user free or something?
How can I learn and experiment with this server in a non-commercial environment without buying a license?
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Sorry, but pine is the bomb. I've a SGI Indigo2 R1000 Impact system and only run pine for my mail. It really comes up fast with Impact graphics!
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PS: pine definately ain't broke!
Seriously, I would want (and have) a room more like Cally has described. It's just not comfortable and though-inducing in the typical sterile corporate server room.
But you do need more electrical jacks, and on different circuits. Haven't thought much about cooling the rest of the house with the residual server heat. Didn't think it would be enough to really do it, but maybe I just need more servers...
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