I'm evaluating the Bynari software now and looking for people with real-world experience with the server. I've had problems getting the client to work reliably with a mirapoint IMAP server but the company claims, fairly enough, that they can only guarantee the connector will work if you use their server. Anyone out there use it? Any other good experiences with the client and other IMAP servers?
All told the bynari people seem eager and their product has some great promise. Yea, I know it's not open source but right now I'd take ANY non-exchange solution for calendaring/contact management in an Outlook client environment. My god exchange is a horror.
I can confirm this - I overinstalled many other versions of mozilla with no problems but when I overinstalled 1.3.2 with 1.4rc3 I had lots of rendering problems (win2k server).
So definately uninstall previous versions, or install 1.4 into a new directory. It does recommend this in the install documentation, btw.
I agree, not only have the all-in-wonder drivers been so bad I've been forced to remove the card (under win2k) but, and this is what really makes me never want to buy ATI again, they continued to screw up the machine after the card was gone because they didn't uninstall properly. I had to get in and manually hunt down services, drivers, and driver files and kill them all like so many termintes inside my wall.
If I hear ATI has mended their ways I'll consider them again but so long as these articles keep coming out...
Anyone at ATI listening? *knocks on screen* Hello? Do you care about your customers?
Prediction: to account for the possibility that people watching reality television are brain-dead and, while not forwarding through commercials, are not watching them exept to try and eat food that appears in some spots, Tivo has introduced a new on-demand service, interactive TV with links to live web chats on the current program bundled with TiVo-CU, the Tivo eye which scans the living room to record number of viewers and general state of consciousness. Video will automatically pixilate all faces.
Next Month: Reality television shows based on Tivo-cu footage are found to have the highest advirtising watch-thru.
wow, thanks! I'm actually burned out on spam-filters, I just had a marathon of testing but I've got your link and when I can next bring myself to look at the things I'll be installing yours first.
I use outlook because my clients use outlook (though mostly I just use the awsome web interface that fastmail.fm provides). My clients use outlook because it has great, integrated calendaring and it syncs with their various PDAs. Such is life.
I recently reviewed 7 client-side spam filters and ended up picking Spambully. It's not free and it's not perfect but for our environment (Win/outlook 2k2 w/ a weird mirapoint IMAP server and multiple PCs per user (so email needs to stay on the server)) it was the best. Very tight outlook integration (i'm a little worried about instabilities but so far it's smooth) and baysian.
But it's really just the best of a bad lot. It's great to see someone working on an open source filter that might work w/ IMAP - we can't have enough of these since right now, well, we have almost none.
smoke crack much? Google "Trink Guarino" IBM and there are news stories on ZDNet, among others, referring to her as an IBM spokeswoman including references to this page.
how, exactly, much effort is it to add a topic category under slash? I mean, there's some kind of admin interface, right? or at least config files. and maybe a stored procedure, but whatever, there must be some tools, so, like, what, 5 minutes?
I just think it's funny because I do that all the time, think little admin tasks are a big pain. *shrug*
ah, but how? maybe like the evil bit RFC we can implement a pr0n bit that can be reliably used by filtering software keep pr0n available where it's badly needed and far away from those who shouldn't know about people's parts and how they fit together.
god it makes me angry when people say that. Just because i don't like opera doesn't mean opera composers don't have talent, or artistic merrit. Maybe Puffy isn't the greatest, ok, Puffy is not the greatest hip hop producer out there but don't say it's a lack of talent to re-roll samples into new music. Have you ever tried it? I'd say it's just as hard to make a good song out of samples and original stuff mixed together as it is to make a good song from 'nothing' - which never happens anyway, I challenge you to find one song, ever, that had no relationship whatsoever to the music that came before it. If you sample in your mind or on your DAT it's irrelevent.
"I don't see any creativity in this..." Then you haven't listened. Hip-hop was the successor to jazz and rock as a new, vital, interesting music form. Once. Listen to the first Tribe Called Quest album (for one). Just because people make sounds from a clarinet or guitar instead of from a tape doesn't matter, what matters is the end product is different from the original in a significant way. You are making arbitrary judgements - why is replaying a lick you heard someone else play on a guitar different from reprocessing sounds recorded elsewhere into new sounds? They're not stealing, they're building, and that's the heart of creativity, building on the works of others.
Whenever deploying new patches OR antivirus DAT files (they cause havok as well) we did a full regression test of the standard desktop image.
Fist a high level person would look at the patch (usually using install shield's application repackager), read the documentation, etc. and look for possible conflicts with the production environment. This took between 2-4 hours per patch x $60/h. The regression test took one lower-level tech about 2 days to do. We'd lump a few patches together so say 1 tech x $40/h (at least, w/ benefits, etc.) x 2 days / 3 patches per test = about $213/patch + eval ($180 per patch) = around $400 per patch to test. Deployment took another hour to write the install script (rarely did we rely on MS's installer alone), 1 hour to document and send to the regional offices and each office probably spent an hour implementing the thing. Total cost around $600 per patch for a 1,000 desktop, 11 office environment.
OK, real world - hosts.allow won't work with even remotely mobile users. Unless you provide users with home DSL and mobile dial-up ISP services and killer, light laptops as part of your compensation package. In which case, can I work for you?
"use computer generated passwords" - won't work, anything a user can't remember a user writes down. Semi-weak user passwords are better than strong passwords written down on postits all over the place. Make a decent password complexity policy and let users make something they can, well, use. If you want better passwords, use keyfob encryption keys on top of passwords.
"If your only authentication scheme is passwords, then this is crucial, there is no "just" about it."
Which is why you make sure the security you have is not only reliant on authentication; whatever you do, never trust the client. erm, user. erm, anyone. Ever. The main security problems with networks is they're hard on the outside but soft and chewy in the middle. Security means presuming there are malicious employees on the network. Presuming someone owns all your lower priveledge passwords. Making sure that behind every gate there is a door.
Personally I'm too lazy to do this but if I paid someone to do my security that's what I'd tell 'em to do...
but pa, howdowhe know which ones to round up? I mean, whose a gonna say whose a spammer and who'se just some wetbehindthears adMIN-nostrator with one of those there open relays? I mean to say that I know when I'm looking at porn (you know that olde sayin' about how to tell porn from art?) but spam... say I russle up some of those there Real Audio executive, for example, now I'd say their tricky sign up where the check boxes for 'send me spam' are hidden below the margin in a combo box so's you have to scroll down to see 'em, them there's a deceitful practice leadin to some unwanted email. Should we shoot 'em?
Sure, i rekon anything from Nigeria, Viagra, Pam who wants me to see her boobies or penis stretchin devices are spam, no question. After that I get somewhat confused...
Ideally the solution will involve a to-disk short term backup (emphasizing some of the strengths of disk backup) and have leisurely tape backup running of the backup arrays (say a full backup per week?).
I wonder about the client software though, the backup software is always a bitch to use, I always thought that was because there were some tricky challenges to backing up data that's in-use but maybe it's because they all wrote their crappy software in Boreland C and they're too cheap to overhaul it?
Or maybe the backup system's software is buggy as hell - notice they didn't include any user feedback in the article. No interview with the administrator that actually runs the thing.
Me? I'm doing disk-to-disk backup, over a DSL VPN from the webserver to the backup location (same city but at least a couple miles away). What I need is a smart backup program that watches requests for bandwidth from the webserver daemon and only uses excess for the file transfer. Dynamic bandwidth utilization? Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?
You might anticipate anyone who is silly enough to want to move Mt Fuji may be fickle enough to be displeased with the new location as well. Making a procedure would be wise.
@echo off j: cd \. rem make room for the mountain if exist j:\south goto skipmake md south [colon]skipmake rem note the/q switch is important to rem avoid environmental activists/y deals with rem unwilling legislatures and/e is included due rem to arcane union rules requiring payment for rem for moving things even if they don't exist xcopy j:\north\mt\fuji*.* j:\south\mt\fuji*.*/e/q/k/c/i/h/r/y dir j:\south\mt\/s >> surveyorecords.txt del | y j:\north\mt\fuji*.* I haven't written a batch file in a decade but i think that's what they look like.
Have you ever USED their software? It may be best selling but it's certainly not best. Or even great. The fact that MS has SUCH amazing capital and SO many (allegedly) bright people and STILL makes so many horrible decisions (really, a lot of why their software sucks appears to me to be bad decision making not poor programming technique (though that's in abundance too I'd reckon)). I'd say whatever they do in interviews should be studied as a lesson of what not to do to make a great product. How did apple hire people in the 80s (when apple really was amazing). How about other companies that have done really unbelievable things (google?).
Microsoft's genius is not in software, it's in business practices. Talk about how they screen MBAs...
Yea the HP LJ III and IV were really great but their laser printers have gone downhill since the 5 series, mostly due to mind-numbingly horrible drivers but their printer quality, like the number of paper jams and service requests, seems to have gone down as well. I don't have workplace experience with other lasers but the epson inkjets due a pretty amazing job with photos and a pretty amazingly bad job of plain print, and the others out there are all disposable. Just toss it when the ink cartridge runs out like an oil tycoon changes Cadillacs when the ashtray fills up.
Me, I still have a HP III si - it's by far the oldest piece of equipment I own and still runs like a charm even though it browns-out the power of 1/2 the house every time it heats up.
I'd say the most important OS disk will be windows 98, because it had a nasty habbit of not installing all the.cab files when the OS installed and because on older hardware windows98 must have a huge market percentage.
Also, hacker tools are essential. Think recovering lost (or never known) admin passwords and breaking into lightly encrypted or otherwise protected file systems (ntfsfordos avail. on the w0rm boot disk among other places, originally from sysinternals) is great.
Lastly, hardware. Good, known hardware. Power supplies, bios batteries, vid and nic cards, all frequently die before the mobo and cpu do. A fan or two wouldn't hurt either.
I'm hoping somone here will post the.iso for their favorite swiss army knife util cd (other than a link to the knoppix isos...)
No, you're thinking along the wrong lines. We want live satellite info to feed into this thing. Send text messages in burning letters in your neighbors yard. Play pranks on friends painting embarrasing things on their roof. Maybe even communicate via laser pointer morse code. The possiblities are endless.
Hello, a decent Word document converter has been needed for ages. Thing is, postscript converters will loose things like tables (?) auto numbering and lots of other things that make working in modern word processors such a joy. MS has completely obfuscated the.doc file format (the way the document is encoded is a nightmare) so converters have been limited... if someone out there could suffer through the.doc and write a converter this whole waiting for MS to get with XML would be moot.
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how do you sync w/ PDAs?
I'm evaluating the Bynari software now and looking for people with real-world experience with the server. I've had problems getting the client to work reliably with a mirapoint IMAP server but the company claims, fairly enough, that they can only guarantee the connector will work if you use their server. Anyone out there use it? Any other good experiences with the client and other IMAP servers?
All told the bynari people seem eager and their product has some great promise. Yea, I know it's not open source but right now I'd take ANY non-exchange solution for calendaring/contact management in an Outlook client environment. My god exchange is a horror.
I can confirm this - I overinstalled many other versions of mozilla with no problems but when I overinstalled 1.3.2 with 1.4rc3 I had lots of rendering problems (win2k server).
So definately uninstall previous versions, or install 1.4 into a new directory. It does recommend this in the install documentation, btw.
I agree, not only have the all-in-wonder drivers been so bad I've been forced to remove the card (under win2k) but, and this is what really makes me never want to buy ATI again, they continued to screw up the machine after the card was gone because they didn't uninstall properly. I had to get in and manually hunt down services, drivers, and driver files and kill them all like so many termintes inside my wall.
If I hear ATI has mended their ways I'll consider them again but so long as these articles keep coming out...
Anyone at ATI listening? *knocks on screen* Hello? Do you care about your customers?
Prediction: to account for the possibility that people watching reality television are brain-dead and, while not forwarding through commercials, are not watching them exept to try and eat food that appears in some spots, Tivo has introduced a new on-demand service, interactive TV with links to live web chats on the current program bundled with TiVo-CU, the Tivo eye which scans the living room to record number of viewers and general state of consciousness. Video will automatically pixilate all faces.
Next Month: Reality television shows based on Tivo-cu footage are found to have the highest advirtising watch-thru.
wow, thanks! I'm actually burned out on spam-filters, I just had a marathon of testing but I've got your link and when I can next bring myself to look at the things I'll be installing yours first.
I use outlook because my clients use outlook (though mostly I just use the awsome web interface that fastmail.fm provides). My clients use outlook because it has great, integrated calendaring and it syncs with their various PDAs. Such is life.
I recently reviewed 7 client-side spam filters and ended up picking Spambully. It's not free and it's not perfect but for our environment (Win/outlook 2k2 w/ a weird mirapoint IMAP server and multiple PCs per user (so email needs to stay on the server)) it was the best. Very tight outlook integration (i'm a little worried about instabilities but so far it's smooth) and baysian.
But it's really just the best of a bad lot. It's great to see someone working on an open source filter that might work w/ IMAP - we can't have enough of these since right now, well, we have almost none.
smoke crack much? Google "Trink Guarino" IBM and there are news stories on ZDNet, among others, referring to her as an IBM spokeswoman including references to this page.
So I think that could be a real press release...
how, exactly, much effort is it to add a topic category under slash? I mean, there's some kind of admin interface, right? or at least config files. and maybe a stored procedure, but whatever, there must be some tools, so, like, what, 5 minutes?
I just think it's funny because I do that all the time, think little admin tasks are a big pain. *shrug*
ah, but how? maybe like the evil bit RFC we can implement a pr0n bit that can be reliably used by filtering software keep pr0n available where it's badly needed and far away from those who shouldn't know about people's parts and how they fit together.
god it makes me angry when people say that. Just because i don't like opera doesn't mean opera composers don't have talent, or artistic merrit. Maybe Puffy isn't the greatest, ok, Puffy is not the greatest hip hop producer out there but don't say it's a lack of talent to re-roll samples into new music. Have you ever tried it? I'd say it's just as hard to make a good song out of samples and original stuff mixed together as it is to make a good song from 'nothing' - which never happens anyway, I challenge you to find one song, ever, that had no relationship whatsoever to the music that came before it. If you sample in your mind or on your DAT it's irrelevent.
"I don't see any creativity in this..."
Then you haven't listened. Hip-hop was the successor to jazz and rock as a new, vital, interesting music form. Once. Listen to the first Tribe Called Quest album (for one). Just because people make sounds from a clarinet or guitar instead of from a tape doesn't matter, what matters is the end product is different from the original in a significant way. You are making arbitrary judgements - why is replaying a lick you heard someone else play on a guitar different from reprocessing sounds recorded elsewhere into new sounds? They're not stealing, they're building, and that's the heart of creativity, building on the works of others.
Let them, for if they strike Lord Napster down he shall become more powerful than they can possibly imagine.
Whenever deploying new patches OR antivirus DAT files (they cause havok as well) we did a full regression test of the standard desktop image.
Fist a high level person would look at the patch (usually using install shield's application repackager), read the documentation, etc. and look for possible conflicts with the production environment. This took between 2-4 hours per patch x $60/h. The regression test took one lower-level tech about 2 days to do. We'd lump a few patches together so say 1 tech x $40/h (at least, w/ benefits, etc.) x 2 days / 3 patches per test = about $213/patch + eval ($180 per patch) = around $400 per patch to test. Deployment took another hour to write the install script (rarely did we rely on MS's installer alone), 1 hour to document and send to the regional offices and each office probably spent an hour implementing the thing. Total cost around $600 per patch for a 1,000 desktop, 11 office environment.
Now you know.
OK, real world - hosts.allow won't work with even remotely mobile users. Unless you provide users with home DSL and mobile dial-up ISP services and killer, light laptops as part of your compensation package. In which case, can I work for you?
"use computer generated passwords" - won't work, anything a user can't remember a user writes down. Semi-weak user passwords are better than strong passwords written down on postits all over the place. Make a decent password complexity policy and let users make something they can, well, use. If you want better passwords, use keyfob encryption keys on top of passwords.
"If your only authentication scheme is passwords, then this is crucial, there is no "just" about it."
...
Which is why you make sure the security you have is not only reliant on authentication; whatever you do, never trust the client. erm, user. erm, anyone. Ever. The main security problems with networks is they're hard on the outside but soft and chewy in the middle. Security means presuming there are malicious employees on the network. Presuming someone owns all your lower priveledge passwords. Making sure that behind every gate there is a door.
Personally I'm too lazy to do this but if I paid someone to do my security that's what I'd tell 'em to do
but pa, howdowhe know which ones to round up? I mean, whose a gonna say whose a spammer and who'se just some wetbehindthears adMIN-nostrator with one of those there open relays? I mean to say that I know when I'm looking at porn (you know that olde sayin' about how to tell porn from art?) but spam ... say I russle up some of those there Real Audio executive, for example, now I'd say their tricky sign up where the check boxes for 'send me spam' are hidden below the margin in a combo box so's you have to scroll down to see 'em, them there's a deceitful practice leadin to some unwanted email. Should we shoot 'em?
Sure, i rekon anything from Nigeria, Viagra, Pam who wants me to see her boobies or penis stretchin devices are spam, no question. After that I get somewhat confused...
Ideally the solution will involve a to-disk short term backup (emphasizing some of the strengths of disk backup) and have leisurely tape backup running of the backup arrays (say a full backup per week?).
I wonder about the client software though, the backup software is always a bitch to use, I always thought that was because there were some tricky challenges to backing up data that's in-use but maybe it's because they all wrote their crappy software in Boreland C and they're too cheap to overhaul it?
Or maybe the backup system's software is buggy as hell - notice they didn't include any user feedback in the article. No interview with the administrator that actually runs the thing.
Me? I'm doing disk-to-disk backup, over a DSL VPN from the webserver to the backup location (same city but at least a couple miles away). What I need is a smart backup program that watches requests for bandwidth from the webserver daemon and only uses excess for the file transfer. Dynamic bandwidth utilization? Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?
You might anticipate anyone who is silly enough to want to move Mt Fuji may be fickle enough to be displeased with the new location as well. Making a procedure would be wise.
/q switch is important to /y deals with /e is included due /e /q /k /c /i /h /r /y /s >> surveyorecords.txt
@echo off
j:
cd \.
rem make room for the mountain
if exist j:\south goto skipmake
md south
[colon]skipmake
rem note the
rem avoid environmental activists
rem unwilling legislatures and
rem to arcane union rules requiring payment for
rem for moving things even if they don't exist
xcopy j:\north\mt\fuji*.* j:\south\mt\fuji*.*
dir j:\south\mt\
del | y j:\north\mt\fuji*.*
I haven't written a batch file in a decade but i think that's what they look like.
Have you ever USED their software? It may be best selling but it's certainly not best. Or even great. The fact that MS has SUCH amazing capital and SO many (allegedly) bright people and STILL makes so many horrible decisions (really, a lot of why their software sucks appears to me to be bad decision making not poor programming technique (though that's in abundance too I'd reckon)). I'd say whatever they do in interviews should be studied as a lesson of what not to do to make a great product. How did apple hire people in the 80s (when apple really was amazing). How about other companies that have done really unbelievable things (google?).
Microsoft's genius is not in software, it's in business practices. Talk about how they screen MBAs...
Yea the HP LJ III and IV were really great but their laser printers have gone downhill since the 5 series, mostly due to mind-numbingly horrible drivers but their printer quality, like the number of paper jams and service requests, seems to have gone down as well. I don't have workplace experience with other lasers but the epson inkjets due a pretty amazing job with photos and a pretty amazingly bad job of plain print, and the others out there are all disposable. Just toss it when the ink cartridge runs out like an oil tycoon changes Cadillacs when the ashtray fills up.
Me, I still have a HP III si - it's by far the oldest piece of equipment I own and still runs like a charm even though it browns-out the power of 1/2 the house every time it heats up.
I'd say the most important OS disk will be windows 98, because it had a nasty habbit of not installing all the .cab files when the OS installed and because on older hardware windows98 must have a huge market percentage.
.iso for their favorite swiss army knife util cd (other than a link to the knoppix isos...)
Also, hacker tools are essential. Think recovering lost (or never known) admin passwords and breaking into lightly encrypted or otherwise protected file systems (ntfsfordos avail. on the w0rm boot disk among other places, originally from sysinternals) is great.
Lastly, hardware. Good, known hardware. Power supplies, bios batteries, vid and nic cards, all frequently die before the mobo and cpu do. A fan or two wouldn't hurt either.
I'm hoping somone here will post the
No, you're thinking along the wrong lines. We want live satellite info to feed into this thing. Send text messages in burning letters in your neighbors yard. Play pranks on friends painting embarrasing things on their roof. Maybe even communicate via laser pointer morse code. The possiblities are endless.
Hello, a decent Word document converter has been needed for ages. Thing is, postscript converters will loose things like tables (?) auto numbering and lots of other things that make working in modern word processors such a joy. MS has completely obfuscated the .doc file format (the way the document is encoded is a nightmare) so converters have been limited... if someone out there could suffer through the .doc and write a converter this whole waiting for MS to get with XML would be moot.