Primarily the single vendor lock-in. You can achieve exactly the same with SIP - however since SIP by nature is more centralized the latency issue Timmmm (636430) mentions can be a problem.
With that said I don't have anything specific against Skype - it works, and people are happy so hurray!
However I disagree with the quote - carriers should be providers of dumb tubes for the customer to transfer bits, however they have used an excessive amount of money on "smart pipes", which main purpose is to help the carrier overcharge for certain kinds of bits.
This of course is stupid, and a prevailing open standard which helps relegate carriers to be only that is helpful here, and Skype does not do that, on the contrary it works against this.
Of course each country should rule here - however the problem is that we then get the trickle down effect. Just like in copyright where US extended copyright, then pressured the EU and they extended copyright the same thing has happened wrt privacy and will continue.
Just like the doha WTO negotiation rounds where about who to take the blame (EU got the blame this time around) rather then to find a solution for free and fair trade.
Case in point would be the human rights which where not enacted untill an international consensus could be established and they have successfully been used to raise the bar, instead of the trickle down lowering of the bar which is currently going on.
"Parallels Desktop for Mac(www.parallels.com) contains Wine's Direct3D code according to http://www.parallels.com/en/licensing/. So far(June 30th, 2007) attempts to ask them for the modified source code failed. This page is meant for keeping track of this, without starting legal action or a publicity campaign yet."
Great way for some lamo to start a publicity campaign when the wine guys didn't even want that yet.....
If something goes completely against my professional advice and someone wants me to do it, I insist on getting a signed order to do so. In that way, the executive giving the order takes full and complete responsibility and acknowledges that you are against this.
I've had to do this twice - sadly both on security issues.
In this case it would also make sense to make a list of currently owned (and version if relevant) licenses and missing/needed license purchases. Microsoft usually acknowledges that you can install the software as long as you can prove you've ordered it already, whereas IBM does not take this stance.
Yes, liberal, socialist etc. are used somewhat differently in the EU and US countries.
You are correct in that norway is not part of the EU as such, but only the internal market and schengen (free internal trade and border control treaties).
I must have misunderstood some of the arguments we as scandinavians saw from norwegian campaigns since this seemed a big economy point before the last government change as well as the last. Where the left wing wanted to tap into this revenue stream and the right wing didn't want to. Of course danish and swedish channels and newspapers probably didn't have the full scoop:P
On another note, is Oslo having the same kind of nice weather we have in the Øresund region recently?
Well most of the old EU has a definite left wing slant, and denmark, sweden and norway are partially socialist - in lots of ways vietnam, china, japan et al are MORE liberal then these countries. Norway is also a great example of socialist economics "great, we have lots of oil money now, lets use them instead of saving so we wont go bankrupt when we run out of oil in 20-30 years". And sweden which have a very left wing social democratic party which untill last election had been ruling exlusively for almost 70 years just hammers the point home.
As far as I can read, it has never been enabled. It needs to be enabled at compile time, which the ansvar to the linked bug report clearly states by c&p of the relevant info from the FreeType lib.
This is a complete non-issue and has been known for a while. It predates the Novell/MS agreement.
Heres the short featurelist: Miniature Map: Simulate combat with a layered, web base, miniature map. Load any image off the web! Map features include: hex or square adjustable overlay grid, background images, z-order, facing, labels, free hand drawing, tape measure, and more.
Game Tree: A highly customizable data organizer that allows for the creating of custom made characters sheets and GM aids. A plug in architecture that allows for openrpg add-ons!
Chat: A full featured chat system that allows embed HTML. Embed color, tables, images, and links!
Die Engine:A full feature die engine that contains many of the common die roll options and a plug in architecture that allows for the development of game specific rollers.
Game Servers: Run your own dedicated game server.
This doesnt help you with voice and video, but I'd suppose ekiga/netmeeting etc. could solve that.
Before my current position where i administer 5 domino servers and have about 1k mail users i was supporting 50 notes users and before that I was working in ITS for a hospital which used Exchange and Outlook (Outlook 97 at that time).
I do not have any certs on Domino, tho I expect I will be getting them later this year or early next year depending on what happens with a merger we are going thru (in which we need to decide on mail systems, tho the choice seems clear with 4 sys admins having Domino knowledge and 1 having Novell Groupwise knowledge).
I have 1 user who uses Notes on Mac OS X and it has some problems there - as such it doesnt crash but rather becomes "unreachable" in that you cannot give the notes app focus at some points, this is definitely a grievance and I sincerely hope the Hannover release will remedy that.
With regards to the Windows release I have yet to see the Notes 7.x clients crash, the Notes 6.0.x clients did crash on occasion, however 1-2 episodes for 100 client users during 6 months isnt what I would call unstable anyway,
Bloated - well it's a big app, and it definitely is (too) slow to start up. However its hardly as bloated as Adobe Reader:)
The mail interface IMO is fine - you need to get used to using f9 for update rather then f5 if you're going from outlook. Since Evolution uses f9 for update this works out fine for me:P Of course some domino admins are slow to, or never update the database design for their users, which means that some users have a notes 4 design maildatabase running in a notes 7 client - needles to say that since most of the UI is in the database this will be pretty horrific - in fact I'm getting ready to upgrade a whole load of users from version 5 design to version 7 during august if possible (need to wait for the 7.0.2 client).
Once the client is loaded I dont see it as slow, if it seems like that for you, maybe your network has latency problems (if that is the case any client reading data of a server would have similar problems).
(sarcasm)Whats your vested interest in flaming notes?(/sarcasm)
That may be true, but I'll venture it still hasnt anything to do with Notes. Why? Having over 100 users who use the Notes client both at home and at work and not having a single user having issues with crashes in the Notes client kinda reassures you.
Of course the workplace desktops are pretty locked down so they cant mess them up, and a large part of the users have been converted to Firefox which also helps.
To put it plainly, it is most likely your windows setup that is screwed.
If you use IBM servers you get IBM director for free (you can also buy it, I dont know the price). This is a network management tool with a lot of surveilance and other nice features. For a few bucks (I got an offer for approx 100) you can get a remote deployment option for IBM Director that lets you install packages, images and whatnot. Unlike most other options IBM's RDM also supports linux installs.
To the fool who commented this off-topic, pls explain - how is alternatives to exchange which have a web based interface off-topic to the quesiton: alternative to exchange web access ?
You want something standards compliant? Forget AD.
There are the following options:
IBM Lotus Domino:
standards compliant
ldap is build in
has integrated web access for all functions.
proven track record for stability
transactional loggin, combine with something like Tivoli Storage Manager and you have point in time recovery down to single e-mails
Domino is going with the stream - Exchange and Domino is about even in the corporate e-mail space
Quickplace and sametime add-ons for increased functionality such as voip, webcam and online conferencing
.
server runs on solaris, aix, linux, windows
client runs on windows, mac, version 8 supposed to run on linux
admin interface and domino web access runs thru firefox and IE
IBM Lotus Workplace
standards compliant
ldap is build in
Based on J2EE and websphere rather then NSF which Domino uses
build in OOo applet document editing
server runs on solaris, aix, linux, windows
client runs on windows, mac and linux
Sun messaging
comparable featureset to exchange
completely standards compliant
Open-xchange
foss
comparable featureset to exchange
standards compliant
The question is, do you only want mail and calendering? Then look at the last to, do you want a complete groupware/collaboration platform, choose one of the first too.
Skipping exchange makes sense, if for no other reason the roadmap/upgrade path and the draconian licensing scheme MS uses.
I know this has been said so many times and how often dont we all laugh at bill gates 640kb memory comment - however who the hell tagged this as fud? come on - if this is fud then everything on every tech site is fud.
1) Decision makers needs to be educated to make informed decisions. SuSE openexchange is equally as good as exchange. Lotus Domino has a way better track record on both features, interoperability and stability - the fact that exchange has equal marketshare despite being more expensive clearly proves that lots of people are not making informed nor smart decisions on platforms.
2) Tools for easy corporate roll-out and management of linux desktops needs to become mainstream (no-one with more then 50 desktops are going to go the manual route for everything). This can be done by going the novell route, but that negates most of the licensing savings you would otherwise get.
3) GUI's and wizards - sometimes a person who doesnt know everything about X, will need to change or setup X and then want to be able to call someone if something fails. Thus this person will have knowledge to figure out the gui, but not necessarily want to spend the time figuring out the app/systems specific config.
Fix those 3 things (and 1. is definitely the hardest) and corporate roll-out will speed up.
MAPI support has since windows 2000 not been part of windows. Instead MAPI support has been moved to the Office package, and only installed with the Outlook from MS Office.
Thus, programs that need MAPI support, has since Windows 2000 also required that Outlook be installed.
The article you link to, points out that Lotus Notes supports MAPI, of course MAPI support needs to be installed.
So my complaint was that since Windows 2000, MAPI support requires a MS Office 2000+ license.
This is not to be confused with my first complaint which is the internal handling of sending files to other programs, where MS has disabled support for sending files to other mail programs then Outlook in Office 2003 and maybe XP (2002).
Well, it obviously is MS changing something in MS Office, since, as noted, the function worked fine in Office 2K, and no longer works in Office 2K3.
The MAPI thing is a little different IMHO, since MS included the function in windows untill 2K, but then moved the function from windows to office, meaning that if you wanted to use it you need to install outlook along with office (I've made some programs work with notes this way).
Simply put, MS has willfully made 2 changes to make it more of a hassle to use other programs than outlook. The moving MAPI from Windows to Office and the disabling the send to mail recipient feature in Office for non outlook mail programs.
You are probably right in that I should lodge a complaint and notify the vendor tho:)
Really? I thought the monopoly cases only went as far as windows and didn't go into the Office monopoly. Since this is only an office thing I'm not sure it applies.
Anyway, I have no problem contacting the DOJ, even though the EU Commision would be more relevant for me.
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Primarily the single vendor lock-in.
You can achieve exactly the same with SIP - however since SIP by nature is more centralized the latency issue Timmmm (636430) mentions can be a problem.
With that said I don't have anything specific against Skype - it works, and people are happy so hurray!
However I disagree with the quote - carriers should be providers of dumb tubes for the customer to transfer bits, however they have used an excessive amount of money on "smart pipes", which main purpose is to help the carrier overcharge for certain kinds of bits.
This of course is stupid, and a prevailing open standard which helps relegate carriers to be only that is helpful here, and Skype does not do that, on the contrary it works against this.
Clicked thru to the story and clicked the Avaya Flare banneradd and the page at avaya didn't display properly in Firefox (worked fine in Chrome tho).
One step closer to the carriers being just... carriers.
Duh, SIP should already exist for Android just like it does for Symbian.
Skype is a halfbaked lock-in solution.
I wholeheartedly agree and disagree.
Of course each country should rule here - however the problem is that we then get the trickle down effect.
Just like in copyright where US extended copyright, then pressured the EU and they extended copyright the same thing has happened wrt privacy and will continue.
Just like the doha WTO negotiation rounds where about who to take the blame (EU got the blame this time around) rather then to find a solution for free and fair trade.
Case in point would be the human rights which where not enacted untill an international consensus could be established and they have successfully been used to raise the bar, instead of the trickle down lowering of the bar which is currently going on.
AHHHH!!! That makes sense.
So to paraphrase you: "If you are a large open source project, expect people to not respect your expressed wishes".
OK, great, gotcha!
From tfa:
"Parallels Desktop for Mac(www.parallels.com) contains Wine's Direct3D code according to http://www.parallels.com/en/licensing/. So far(June 30th, 2007) attempts to ask them for the modified source code failed. This page is meant for keeping track of this, without starting legal action or a publicity campaign yet."
Great way for some lamo to start a publicity campaign when the wine guys didn't even want that yet.....
If something goes completely against my professional advice and someone wants me to do it, I insist on getting a signed order to do so.
In that way, the executive giving the order takes full and complete responsibility and acknowledges that you are against this.
I've had to do this twice - sadly both on security issues.
In this case it would also make sense to make a list of currently owned (and version if relevant) licenses and missing/needed license purchases.
Microsoft usually acknowledges that you can install the software as long as you can prove you've ordered it already, whereas IBM does not take this stance.
Yes, liberal, socialist etc. are used somewhat differently in the EU and US countries.
:P
You are correct in that norway is not part of the EU as such, but only the internal market and schengen (free internal trade and border control treaties).
I must have misunderstood some of the arguments we as scandinavians saw from norwegian campaigns since this seemed a big economy point before the last government change as well as the last. Where the left wing wanted to tap into this revenue stream and the right wing didn't want to. Of course danish and swedish channels and newspapers probably didn't have the full scoop
On another note, is Oslo having the same kind of nice weather we have in the Øresund region recently?
Well most of the old EU has a definite left wing slant, and denmark, sweden and norway are partially socialist - in lots of ways vietnam, china, japan et al are MORE liberal then these countries.
Norway is also a great example of socialist economics "great, we have lots of oil money now, lets use them instead of saving so we wont go bankrupt when we run out of oil in 20-30 years".
And sweden which have a very left wing social democratic party which untill last election had been ruling exlusively for almost 70 years just hammers the point home.
As far as I can read, it has never been enabled. It needs to be enabled at compile time, which the ansvar to the linked bug report clearly states by c&p of the relevant info from the FreeType lib.
This is a complete non-issue and has been known for a while. It predates the Novell/MS agreement.
Athlon cpu's have had build in heat sensoring since they started using the performance numbers for their cpu's again.
Of course it needs to be supported by the motherboard as well to work, which it is on serious boards.
I always wanted to try this, but never had a chance to.
Seems like an ideal solutions to your problem tho:
http://www.openrpg.com/
Heres the short featurelist:
Miniature Map: Simulate combat with a layered, web base, miniature map. Load any image off the web! Map features include: hex or square adjustable overlay grid, background images, z-order, facing, labels, free hand drawing, tape measure, and more.
Game Tree: A highly customizable data organizer that allows for the creating of custom made characters sheets and GM aids. A plug in architecture that allows for openrpg add-ons!
Chat: A full featured chat system that allows embed HTML. Embed color, tables, images, and links!
Die Engine:A full feature die engine that contains many of the common die roll options and a plug in architecture that allows for the development of game specific rollers.
Game Servers: Run your own dedicated game server.
This doesnt help you with voice and video, but I'd suppose ekiga/netmeeting etc. could solve that.
Before my current position where i administer 5 domino servers and have about 1k mail users i was supporting 50 notes users and before that I was working in ITS for a hospital which used Exchange and Outlook (Outlook 97 at that time).
:)
:P
I do not have any certs on Domino, tho I expect I will be getting them later this year or early next year depending on what happens with a merger we are going thru (in which we need to decide on mail systems, tho the choice seems clear with 4 sys admins having Domino knowledge and 1 having Novell Groupwise knowledge).
I have 1 user who uses Notes on Mac OS X and it has some problems there - as such it doesnt crash but rather becomes "unreachable" in that you cannot give the notes app focus at some points, this is definitely a grievance and I sincerely hope the Hannover release will remedy that.
With regards to the Windows release I have yet to see the Notes 7.x clients crash, the Notes 6.0.x clients did crash on occasion, however 1-2 episodes for 100 client users during 6 months isnt what I would call unstable anyway,
Bloated - well it's a big app, and it definitely is (too) slow to start up. However its hardly as bloated as Adobe Reader
The mail interface IMO is fine - you need to get used to using f9 for update rather then f5 if you're going from outlook. Since Evolution uses f9 for update this works out fine for me
Of course some domino admins are slow to, or never update the database design for their users, which means that some users have a notes 4 design maildatabase running in a notes 7 client - needles to say that since most of the UI is in the database this will be pretty horrific - in fact I'm getting ready to upgrade a whole load of users from version 5 design to version 7 during august if possible (need to wait for the 7.0.2 client).
Once the client is loaded I dont see it as slow, if it seems like that for you, maybe your network has latency problems (if that is the case any client reading data of a server would have similar problems).
(sarcasm)Whats your vested interest in flaming notes?(/sarcasm)
That may be true, but I'll venture it still hasnt anything to do with Notes.
Why? Having over 100 users who use the Notes client both at home and at work and not having a single user having issues with crashes in the Notes client kinda reassures you.
Of course the workplace desktops are pretty locked down so they cant mess them up, and a large part of the users have been converted to Firefox which also helps.
To put it plainly, it is most likely your windows setup that is screwed.
Yes, that program was VERY usefull for notes v 4.x, ill repeat FOUR DOT X. The current version of Notes i 7.0.1, ill repeat SEVEN DOT ZERO DOT ONE.
You see the difference? Lets see how many of the programs you use haven't evolved since 1997?
Since v. 5.x the notes client has been stable - of course the underlying OS or a horrible programmed NSF app might not be.
In North America they said.
The absolutely best and biggest market for XBox was North America. The absolutely worst market for Nintendo Cube was North America.
Im sure most credible analysts would have different predictions for Asia and Europe.
I forgot to link to RDM:t ems_management/ibm_director/extensions/rdm.html
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/xseries/sys
At the top there is links for other IBM Director extensions also.
If you use IBM servers you get IBM director for free (you can also buy it, I dont know the price). This is a network management tool with a lot of surveilance and other nice features.
For a few bucks (I got an offer for approx 100) you can get a remote deployment option for IBM Director that lets you install packages, images and whatnot.
Unlike most other options IBM's RDM also supports linux installs.
Of course for a quick fix http://unattended.sourceforge.net/ is a very clean and appropriate solution.
To the fool who commented this off-topic, pls explain - how is alternatives to exchange which have a web based interface off-topic to the quesiton: alternative to exchange web access ?
There are the following options:
IBM Lotus Domino:
- standards compliant
- ldap is build in
- has integrated web access for all functions.
- proven track record for stability
- transactional loggin, combine with something like Tivoli Storage Manager and you have point in time recovery down to single e-mails
- Domino is going with the stream - Exchange and Domino is about even in the corporate e-mail space
- Quickplace and sametime add-ons for increased functionality such as voip, webcam and online conferencing
- .
- server runs on solaris, aix, linux, windows
- client runs on windows, mac, version 8 supposed to run on linux
- admin interface and domino web access runs thru firefox and IE
IBM Lotus Workplace- standards compliant
- ldap is build in
- Based on J2EE and websphere rather then NSF which Domino uses
- build in OOo applet document editing
- server runs on solaris, aix, linux, windows
- client runs on windows, mac and linux
Sun messaging- comparable featureset to exchange
- completely standards compliant
Open-xchangeThe question is, do you only want mail and calendering? Then look at the last to, do you want a complete groupware/collaboration platform, choose one of the first too.
Skipping exchange makes sense, if for no other reason the roadmap/upgrade path and the draconian licensing scheme MS uses.
I know this has been said so many times and how often dont we all laugh at bill gates 640kb memory comment - however who the hell tagged this as fud? come on - if this is fud then everything on every tech site is fud.
1) Decision makers needs to be educated to make informed decisions. SuSE openexchange is equally as good as exchange. Lotus Domino has a way better track record on both features, interoperability and stability - the fact that exchange has equal marketshare despite being more expensive clearly proves that lots of people are not making informed nor smart decisions on platforms.
2) Tools for easy corporate roll-out and management of linux desktops needs to become mainstream (no-one with more then 50 desktops are going to go the manual route for everything). This can be done by going the novell route, but that negates most of the licensing savings you would otherwise get.
3) GUI's and wizards - sometimes a person who doesnt know everything about X, will need to change or setup X and then want to be able to call someone if something fails. Thus this person will have knowledge to figure out the gui, but not necessarily want to spend the time figuring out the app/systems specific config.
Fix those 3 things (and 1. is definitely the hardest) and corporate roll-out will speed up.
I'm thinking we are talking past each other here:
MAPI support has since windows 2000 not been part of windows. Instead MAPI support has been moved to the Office package, and only installed with the Outlook from MS Office.
Thus, programs that need MAPI support, has since Windows 2000 also required that Outlook be installed.
The article you link to, points out that Lotus Notes supports MAPI, of course MAPI support needs to be installed.
So my complaint was that since Windows 2000, MAPI support requires a MS Office 2000+ license.
This is not to be confused with my first complaint which is the internal handling of sending files to other programs, where MS has disabled support for sending files to other mail programs then Outlook in Office 2003 and maybe XP (2002).
Well, it obviously is MS changing something in MS Office, since, as noted, the function worked fine in Office 2K, and no longer works in Office 2K3.
:)
The MAPI thing is a little different IMHO, since MS included the function in windows untill 2K, but then moved the function from windows to office, meaning that if you wanted to use it you need to install outlook along with office (I've made some programs work with notes this way).
Simply put, MS has willfully made 2 changes to make it more of a hassle to use other programs than outlook. The moving MAPI from Windows to Office and the disabling the send to mail recipient feature in Office for non outlook mail programs.
You are probably right in that I should lodge a complaint and notify the vendor tho
Really? I thought the monopoly cases only went as far as windows and didn't go into the Office monopoly.
Since this is only an office thing I'm not sure it applies.
Anyway, I have no problem contacting the DOJ, even though the EU Commision would be more relevant for me.