Then I remembered the truth: Outlooks sucks. It's buggy, full of badly written and non-standards based code. 90% of the trouble with email I get calls from users on is Outlook's fault.
I want standards based stuff, NOT to throw HP's linux based crap on top of Microsoft's Win95 based crap.
I'll wait for the open source community to write a 'better than outlook' program, using standard, like POP3, IMAP, vcal, etc... the only reason it hasn't happened is that people keep trying to make Outlook work.
Somebody pulled a slashdot article on a tiny webserver a few weeks ago. It had some critics but other people felt it might be real. I was annoyed that the article was pulled instead of commented on, if it was a fake.
I am at the end of pulling an NT exchange system because it never worked right ONCE. I had users who couldn't access it reliably at all. I figure 20% failure on a regulaur basis. Email that was misdirected often (forced to use MSmail, not internet STMP address, which is what we wanted) The nightmare is finally over... and this was only 50 users.
(Back to the linux system, which has never failed once... huge uptimes, 100 users....)
That's the beauty of GPL or other open source software: Someone always steps up to the plate and takes over.
Try to get support for anything 5 years old from a major 'software vendor'... good luck. Try to get support for a GPLed program, and odds are someone will be willing and able... and it's almost never abandoned, unless something superior (and often compatible) comes along.
Linuxstart.com just started up a web based calendar, and they chose Webcal, because it's really simple to implement, open source (GPL), and does a nice looking job.
I'm using it to replace Outlook shared calendars, and it's made my users very happy. Next step is getting rid of Outlook, now that I've gotten rid of my only need for Exchange (I already run POP/STMP on a linux box) Outlook/Exchange is a god awful system, and I'm glad to be rid of it.
Webcal can be found at: http://bulldog.tzo.org/webcal/webcal.html and Michael promises a new release in a few weeks or so.
Has anyone found a good package that supports AS/400? I'd like to recommend to my boss something Linux based that will backup our NT boxes and the AS/400 over the network...
No one would want a product which says: "I think you will really hate this page. Am I right?"
I think that would be a very useful thing. Sort of like moderators on Slashdot. The need for negative feedback is clearly seen here, as well as positive feedback. Something as simple as +1 and -1 works very well here. If I came across a page that was way off the topic (say a keyword spammed porn site) I could say "irrelevant - porn site" and it would negative rate that page.... etc. And again, like Slashdot's threshold, the ability to look below the threshold is critical. Yes, you might negative weigh some pages wrongly, but someone could reweigh those (reset to zero? or plus 1?) so that they'd come back into the 'normal' view. Hmmm... I think a slashdot moderation based search engine would be great. You would have the same limit we have here: Can't moderate your own urls, only a limited number of points at a time. Moderation checks and balances. Etc. Rob or Hemos... remember me if you end up the next Jerry Yang! Seth
Ken's reply was that that Harvard's claim was itself libelous, and he intends to hire legal eagles in response.
Harvard's playing this as if they didn't nothing wrong, which is nonsense. "Sexually" related material? Out of How many GIGS of Data, they found something they didn't like? Sorry, I think not. I think they yanked it without ever looking at it to start with - they just pulled the plug on a single (JP) complaint.
To: uis-webadmin@harvard.edu, provost@harvard.edu Subject: Letter of Protest
Dear CAIS and the Harvard Computing Community,
I am writing to protest strongly Harvard's confiscation of Ken Williams' site PacketStorm.
Ken is one of the brightest talents in the security community, has worked tirelessly for years on security related issues and has freely shared his work with the rest of the community.
To pull his site and prohibit him from accessing his own content is outrageous.
As a professional network administrator, I used his site services at least once a day, and found his content to be professional accurate and trustworthy. His content helped me PROTECT MY NETWORK, and according to all reports, you've destroyed all of his content, his hard work, and a RESOURCE that I used. This is absurd. His content, regardless of libelousness, existed BEFORE it came to Harvard's domain, and libel suit threat aside, destroying data like that is a crime. If you wanted it removed, pull the plug on the machine, and RETURN the data to Ken.
It is my sincere hope that you will reconsider your actions.
Thank you for your considerate attention.
Sincerely,
Seth Cohn network administrator of [removed for privacy]
I want to let them know that Packet Storm was a VERY valuable ANTI-hacker tool for me, as a professional sysadmin, and that I strongly object to their onesided handling of this. Packet Storm contained 'antiJP' stuff long before it moved to Harvards domain, and deleting the content was more than wrong, it was criminal.
When JWZ left, he stated quite clearly the reasons why and why Netscape's Mozilla had foundered. He was in the middle of it, and he saw this coming I'll bet.
Release EARLY. Release Often. Release something that works, so that lots of LITTLE changes can happen. Not a mass of bloated unusable code that 99% of the people will never be able to make small changes to.
Open Source works when you follow the principles that it's based on. Netscape didn't, and has paid the price - it's slowly getting better, but I can't use Mozilla today INSTEAD of Netscape 4.6, which if they'd done it right, we'd be able to.
Regarding ICQ, ICQ was reverse engineered, so even if AOL stopped it tomorrow, we could still have 3rd party software, clients AND servers, and keep it alive. Same goes with advertising on it, etc. Basically, the day they screw it up, I will ICQ all of my friends, give them my new server address, and a link to a free clone of icq, and we'll all switch to that.
I'd like to know what browsers people recommend for Linux... Netscape 4.6 is nice, but a pig, Lynx is great but text only, KDE browser is simple but slightly too simple. What other good browsers are there for Linux? For Windows, Opera is nice...
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But there is also the fact that they can't STOP OTHERS from redistributing the material after that. If I buy the program for $10,000, I can resell it for $1, or give it away, and under GPL, I have that right. In fact, it's a key core idea in GPL. It is why M$ won't use GPLed code in Office, for instance. Because we'd give it away after that.:) After we ported it to Linux.
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And gee, who worked on Doom? Why, it was Dave Taylor.:)
I've often wondered why more games didn't support multiple screens like this. I can think of few games that were too crowded on one monitor to play.
I expect that the cheaper computers get, and the more Linux and other 'networked from the ground up' OSes spread, the more we will see games that be run off of multiple screens/cpus/videocards...
I buy 10,000 shares of Redhat, or 10,000 shares of 'Linux.Business.whatever.inc' and now I have the incentive to help make laws that protect those companies. If the average 'suit' doesn't have a stake in GPL_using companies, he doesn't have a stake in insuring that the GPL is soundly legal and well supported.
For instance: Someone sues Redhat over patent infringement on a GPL'ed program they distribute. They sue Redhat because Redhat has money, as opposed to FSF or Debian who have nothing. As a Redhat Stockholder, it is in my selfinterest to get laws passed that protect Redhat's position. Thus I will help get GPL protecting laws passed. And fight software patent laws at the same time.
Dave's point on why they don't use GPL'd code right now: Because the legal shakiness means people don't want to put all their eggs in one basket. Try convincing your boss to let you use GPLed code inside your product, and watch how the legal aspects tied everything up in knots. It's not that the GPL is so bad, it's that people don't trust it because it's legally untested and unprotected still.
P.S. Substitute BSD, Artistic, other open_license for GPL as you wish. Do not substitute APSL, NPL, other_barely_Open, as you wish.:)
p.p.s. I am a big fan of GPL. I personally think it'll stand up court, should it ever come to it. Your lawyer_droids might disagree. If so, please send them back the factory for reprogramming.
And device enumeration... is it _really_ needed? How many people actually have more than one display device? (Add ons like Voodoo not included...) Why wouldn't I want to use the primary device?
Did you READ the article?
Dave talks about how the future is in multiple monitors. 2 17 inchers beats 1 21 incher any day.
Place 3 monitors in front of you, and bingo: widescreen MEGA Game. Turn the outer 2 slightly toward you, and you have amazing feel of realness due to the extra degrees of field of vision. Add more monitors as your CPU/3D/budget/wife allows.
And, if the decision stands, how quickly do you think that these cable providers will be upgrading the out of date systems to handle two-way data. I can tell you, plans will grind to a deafening halt. If there's no pipes to run through, they can't share them, can they?
If they stall upgrading, the local cable commissions can pull the franchise from them. Right now, local boards are loathe to do this over a matter of a channel or 2 of television. After all, the hassles of forcing the existing cable company out because some customers can't get VH-1 or maybe another 'adult' channel, doesn't seem worth it, but if AT&T or one of these major players is withholding internet access because they don't want to share... I suspect that will galvanize many of the board members to say "put up or get out" finally. Many local boards are disgusted with the 'public access' channels fiascoes (such as public access that isn't very public, requiring people to buy descramblers), and when they understand that 'internet' access is being withheld, I think that will be the straw that broke the camelcable's back.
Fine, let them rethink... that is the BEAUTY of this: Cable Franchise!!!!
If they decide 'oh, let's NOT do this', the local cable boards will KICK them OUT of the market, and let someone else in. It may take a few years, but they will lose it all... Nobody is willing to toss out TCI over a channel or 3, but if they refuse to provide services they CAN, throw the bastards out!
I look forward to whatever AT&T/TCI do... either way they lose, and the consumer wins. (and yes, I'm normally a libertarian, against government interference, but cable monopolies are a government created monopoly already.)
As an Oregonian, I applaud this. TCI needs the competition, and AT&T fears it.. knows that they will lose.
TCI lost me as a cable customer due to extremely poor service, which they admitted to but didn't care about... even when I told them I was going to switch to a DirecTV dish. They are too big to care, the loss of customers don't bother them, and customer service means nothing to them.
AT&T buying them makes it even worse... the coming cable modems will be poorly supported (and yes, they have plans to install in my area this year) especially when it comes to linux/alternativeOS... hell, I couldnt get them to support my VCR (new Sony vs. the TCI 'digital' box), you really think they'll do better with something like Linux?
I'm using US Worst for DSL, and after a few weeks of complaining on the phone, they finally got my DSL working... but it took that to get them to fix it all, calling every day, and waiting on hold every time. Thank god to independent ISPs who give decent support... I've heard horror tales about Uswest.net... my ISP is fine, and I have freedom of choice.
Cable monopolies are bad, and it's time open access happened. Let's open access the _TV_ side also... I'd like the see LittleJoe Cable compete with TCI and charge half as much for more channels. TCI adds tons of shopping channels but can't add real channels due to 'lack of space' HA.
Now if only US West could hand out static IPs for something cheaper than an additional $14.95 a month. Cripes!
Don't use US Worst as an ISP. My ISP gives me static IP as part of my $20 a month DSL connection to them... so US Worst only gets it's $30, not $50 (DSL + ISP).
Nvidia released for 'all' _CURRENT_ chipsets. Those of us who have older hardware are still out of luck. How about Nvidia release source for the older drivers, like the NV1??? That card died a fast death... and it was a nice little (slow) card with built in wavetable and more... the existing X drivers would surely benefit from open sourcing the full specs.
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For about 30 seconds, I thought about using this.
Then I remembered the truth: Outlooks sucks.
It's buggy, full of badly written and non-standards based code. 90% of the trouble with email I get calls from users on is Outlook's fault.
I want standards based stuff, NOT to throw HP's linux based crap on top of Microsoft's Win95 based crap.
I'll wait for the open source community to write a 'better than outlook' program, using standard, like POP3, IMAP, vcal, etc... the only reason it hasn't happened is that people keep trying to make Outlook work.
Somebody pulled a slashdot article on a tiny webserver a few weeks ago. It had some critics but other people felt it might be real. I was annoyed that the article was pulled instead of commented on, if it was a fake.
Anyone know for certain what it was?
Amen.
I am at the end of pulling an NT exchange system because it never worked right ONCE. I had users who couldn't access it reliably at all. I figure 20% failure on a regulaur basis. Email that was misdirected often (forced to use MSmail, not internet STMP address, which is what we wanted)
The nightmare is finally over... and this was only 50 users.
(Back to the linux system, which has never failed once... huge uptimes, 100 users....)
Look again: the GNU logo is the topic.
CVS is GPLed... AbiWord is GPLed...
HOW was I misleading?
That's the beauty of GPL or other open source software: Someone always steps up to the plate
and takes over.
Try to get support for anything 5 years old from a major 'software vendor'... good luck.
Try to get support for a GPLed program, and odds are someone will be willing and able... and it's almost never abandoned, unless something superior (and often compatible) comes along.
Good for SourceGear aka AbiSource
Linuxstart.com just started up a web based calendar, and they chose Webcal, because it's really simple to implement, open source (GPL), and does a nice looking job.
I'm using it to replace Outlook shared calendars, and it's made my users very happy. Next step is getting rid of Outlook, now that I've gotten rid of my only need for Exchange (I already run POP/STMP on a linux box) Outlook/Exchange is a god awful system, and I'm glad to be rid of it.
Webcal can be found at:
http://bulldog.tzo.org/webcal/webcal.html
and Michael promises a new release in a few weeks or so.
Has anyone found a good package that supports AS/400? I'd like to recommend to my boss something Linux based that will backup our NT boxes and the AS/400 over the network...
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Ken's reply was that that Harvard's claim was itself libelous, and he intends to hire legal eagles in response.
Harvard's playing this as if they didn't nothing wrong, which is nonsense. "Sexually" related material? Out of How many GIGS of Data, they found something they didn't like? Sorry, I think not. I think they yanked it without ever looking at it to start with - they just pulled the plug on a single (JP) complaint.
To: uis-webadmin@harvard.edu, provost@harvard.edu
Subject: Letter of Protest
Dear CAIS and the Harvard Computing Community,
I am writing to protest strongly Harvard's confiscation of Ken Williams' site PacketStorm.
Ken is one of the brightest talents in the security community, has worked tirelessly for years on security related issues and has freely shared his
work with the rest of the community.
To pull his site and prohibit him from accessing his own content is outrageous.
As a professional network administrator, I used his site services at least once a day, and found his content to be professional accurate and trustworthy. His content helped me PROTECT MY NETWORK, and according to all reports, you've destroyed all of his content, his hard work, and a RESOURCE that I used. This is absurd. His content, regardless of libelousness, existed BEFORE it came to Harvard's domain, and libel suit threat aside, destroying data like that is a crime. If you wanted it removed, pull the plug on the machine, and RETURN the data to Ken.
It is my sincere hope that you will reconsider your actions.
Thank you for your considerate attention.
Sincerely,
Seth Cohn
network administrator of [removed for privacy]
Could someone post an email address please?
I want to let them know that Packet Storm was a VERY valuable ANTI-hacker tool for me, as a professional sysadmin, and that I strongly object to their onesided handling of this. Packet Storm contained 'antiJP' stuff long before it moved to Harvards domain, and deleting the content was more than wrong, it was criminal.
When JWZ left, he stated quite clearly the reasons why and why Netscape's Mozilla had foundered. He was in the middle of it, and he saw this coming I'll bet.
Release EARLY. Release Often. Release something that works, so that lots of LITTLE changes can happen. Not a mass of bloated unusable code that 99% of the people will never be able to make small changes to.
Open Source works when you follow the principles that it's based on. Netscape didn't, and has paid the price - it's slowly getting better, but I can't use Mozilla today INSTEAD of Netscape 4.6, which if they'd done it right, we'd be able to.
Regarding ICQ, ICQ was reverse engineered, so even if AOL stopped it tomorrow, we could still have 3rd party software, clients AND servers, and keep it alive. Same goes with advertising on it, etc. Basically, the day they screw it up, I will ICQ all of my friends, give them my new server address, and a link to a free clone of icq, and we'll all switch to that.
I'd like to know what browsers people recommend for Linux... Netscape 4.6 is nice, but a pig, Lynx is great but text only, KDE browser is simple but slightly too simple. What other good browsers are there for Linux? For Windows, Opera is nice...
But there is also the fact that they can't STOP OTHERS from redistributing the material after that. If I buy the program for $10,000, I can resell it for $1, or give it away, and under GPL, I have that right. In fact, it's a key core idea in GPL. It is why M$ won't use GPLed code in Office, for instance. Because we'd give it away after that. :) After we ported it to Linux.
And gee, who worked on Doom? Why, it was Dave Taylor. :)
I've often wondered why more games didn't support multiple screens like this. I can think of few games that were too crowded on one monitor to play.
I expect that the cheaper computers get, and the more Linux and other 'networked from the ground up' OSes spread, the more we will see games that be run off of multiple screens/cpus/videocards...
I buy 10,000 shares of Redhat, or 10,000 shares of 'Linux.Business.whatever.inc' and now I have the incentive to help make laws that protect those companies. If the average 'suit' doesn't have a stake in GPL_using companies, he doesn't have a stake in insuring that the GPL is soundly legal and well supported.
:)
For instance: Someone sues Redhat over patent infringement on a GPL'ed program they distribute.
They sue Redhat because Redhat has money, as opposed to FSF or Debian who have nothing. As a Redhat Stockholder, it is in my selfinterest to get laws passed that protect Redhat's position.
Thus I will help get GPL protecting laws passed.
And fight software patent laws at the same time.
Dave's point on why they don't use GPL'd code right now: Because the legal shakiness means people don't want to put all their eggs in one basket. Try convincing your boss to let you use GPLed code inside your product, and watch how the legal aspects tied everything up in knots. It's not that the GPL is so bad, it's that people don't trust it because it's legally untested and unprotected still.
P.S. Substitute BSD, Artistic, other open_license for GPL as you wish. Do not substitute APSL, NPL, other_barely_Open, as you wish.
p.p.s. I am a big fan of GPL. I personally think it'll stand up court, should it ever come to it.
Your lawyer_droids might disagree. If so, please send them back the factory for reprogramming.
Did you READ the article?
Dave talks about how the future is in multiple monitors. 2 17 inchers beats 1 21 incher any day.
Place 3 monitors in front of you, and bingo: widescreen MEGA Game. Turn the outer 2 slightly toward you, and you have amazing feel of realness due to the extra degrees of field of vision. Add more monitors as your CPU/3D/budget/wife allows.
Extensive web searching (all major engines, including google, infind, and others) found no sites that related 'font' to Caliseo
Link please? Rob?
In the US, Slave Return laws were overturned when juries refused to convict those who refused to 'obey the law'.
If a law is wrong, it is your moral obligation to fight it and break it if need be.
http://www.fija.org
Fine, let them rethink... that is the BEAUTY of this: Cable Franchise!!!!
If they decide 'oh, let's NOT do this', the local cable boards will KICK them OUT of the market, and let someone else in. It may take a few years, but they will lose it all... Nobody is willing to toss out TCI over a channel or 3, but if they refuse to provide services they CAN, throw the bastards out!
I look forward to whatever AT&T/TCI do... either way they lose, and the consumer wins. (and yes, I'm normally a libertarian, against government interference, but cable monopolies are a government created monopoly already.)
As an Oregonian, I applaud this. TCI needs the competition, and AT&T fears it.. knows that they will lose.
TCI lost me as a cable customer due to extremely poor service, which they admitted to but didn't care about... even when I told them I was going to switch to a DirecTV dish. They are too big to care, the loss of customers don't bother them, and customer service means nothing to them.
AT&T buying them makes it even worse... the coming cable modems will be poorly supported (and yes, they have plans to install in my area this year) especially when it comes to linux/alternativeOS... hell, I couldnt get them to support my VCR (new Sony vs. the TCI 'digital' box), you really think they'll do better with something like Linux?
I'm using US Worst for DSL, and after a few weeks of complaining on the phone, they finally got my DSL working... but it took that to get them to fix it all, calling every day, and waiting on hold every time. Thank god to independent ISPs who give decent support... I've heard horror tales about Uswest.net... my ISP is fine, and I have freedom of choice.
Cable monopolies are bad, and it's time open access happened. Let's open access the _TV_ side also... I'd like the see LittleJoe Cable compete with TCI and charge half as much for more channels. TCI adds tons of shopping channels but can't add real channels due to 'lack of space' HA.
Nvidia released for 'all' _CURRENT_ chipsets. Those of us who have older hardware are still out of luck. How about Nvidia release source for the older drivers, like the NV1??? That card died a fast death... and it was a nice little (slow) card with built in wavetable and more... the existing X drivers would surely benefit from open sourcing the full specs.
It's not clear how I would affect the post in question. Maybe a +1, -1 after the word?
like:
Redundant -1
Funny + 1
Offtopic -1
Amazing +2
etc