A certain broadcasting company that I previously worked for consolidated their operations (6 stations in all) to a central location and monitors each feed with Windows Media. This was over private 256kb connections to each station. No delay, totally real-time, excellent quality.
The only effective way to kill off Outlook, or even compete with it effectively is to first kill off Exchange.
Until there is a feature-for-feature (or at least close) drop-in replacement for Exchange people will stick with Outlook. Now I'm not talking about assembling some IMAP/LDAP/SMTP/iCal monster from different parts, rather a true, pre-packaged installer that handles most if not all of the setup and configuration.
Once you liberate the back end server you'll have no problem with the client.
I'm sure there is some law which prohibits assisting in the distribution of copyrighted works.
IRL it would be similar to someone on the streetcorner announcing that he knows where to get priated copies of software and he'll show you where they are being distributed.
Or perhaps the middle-man that tells you were the drug dealer is selling.
"I'd like to see IBM endorse the Linux desktop as a solution"
By selling off their desktop business they've dodged the bullet of having to spend their own resources supporting Linux on the desktop. Now they get paid to do so on someone else's hardware.
He used xpire.info/fa?d=get which then redirects to a series of other pages on the same site, eventually landing at www.sp2fucked.biz/user28/2DimensionOfExploitsEnc.p hp which in turn prompts him with an error and a dialoge box asking if he wants to continue executing scripts, to which he clicks "yes" after which all hell breaks loose.
Many television stations still live by that mantra. They love their IBM equipment and are often willing to pay a large premium to keep everything IBM. I've had to come up with some pretty compelling reasons to even get them to CONSIDER anything but IBM.
Microsoft will embrace Linux by adding Linux support to Windows Services for UNIX or some other Linux compatibility layer. Thats the extent to which Microsoft will embrace Linux. No ports of Office, SQL or any other Microsoft product - with the possible exception of IE.
A better option would be to archive old messages rather than remove them entirely. From the article it sounds like they are keeping ALL messages active all the time. For example:
"They say the system is so overburdened that creating a daily backup has become impossible; there is so much data that it takes more than 24 hours to copy it."
So, it seems like the solution would be to periodically lop off old messages to offline storage (tape, spare drives, whatever). In the event of a lawsuit the old messages could be reasonably recovered and the cost for such a system would be extremely minimal.
add the kinds of value for employers that will make them want to look beyond direct costs and see other benefits
Nope. Sorry. Move on. Give any CEO a choice between reducing costs or getting "other benefits" and see which (s)he chooses.
Forget adding more value than what is needed - instead take the Outsourcer's dollar bid and compete against it. There are a million things other than (or in addition to) salary that you can cut from your yearly budget, its all in the packaging.
New servers? Nope, centralize your existing ones. More developers? No, fire 1/2 your staff and adjust your feature-set. QA? Fire 90% of your staff and set up automated testing and public betas. Licensing? Bzzt. Migrate to open-source for high-dollar back-end projects.
Outsourcing is a TEMPORARY problem brought on by the high cost of technology Stateside. Reduce those costs and adhere to a proper budget and you'll be FINE.
If you maintain a library that you take from job to job just make sure that your core code is under a BSD-style license (and that your employer is aware of this). That way, a few jobs down the line your past employers can't come screaming that you or your present employer are using "stolen" code.
I'm sure that Pixar didn't buy these things at "retail" prices. I'm sure that 1.) Apple cut them a sweet deal, 2.) Pixar's hardware was aging and in need of replacement or 3.) Both.
I'm no expert on Dell's products, but I've rolled out over $500K worth of their server products over the past 5 years and all I've seen are steady increases in quality. What were once glorified PC's are now matching IBM (and others) in both features and quality (and remaining MUCH cheaper).
Now on the desktop and (especially) laptop side of Dell's business I'm in total agreement with you.
A boycott would be futile. There are still enough people on this planet who would not take part that these companies would barely even notice the change in revenue.
Our best bet is to get the goverment to make the changes necessary to level the playing field. It will be difficult but it is the only sure-fire way to make change.
This was my first thought. I could imagine an automated sonic bulldozer of sorts going around pushing things down into the atmosphere where they'd be destroyed during re-entry.
Of course a massive orbiting wall of space junk would protect us from aliens, which is nice.
Really, who cares. I do most of my work via a ssh shell to various other machines. Why do I care whats on my desktop.
I don't have any reason NOT to run Windows. It does everything that I want it to do, why should I switch. There isn't a killer app to motivate me. Linux w/ X isn't any faster (I've tried); there is higher quality end-user apps on Windows, and more of them.
I like linux. I convert every server that I can. I save thousands of dollars in licensing fees for my employer every year with it, but Linux doesn't cut it for a modern, easy desktop OS.
The only other OS that has almost converted me away from Windows was beOS. It was clean, easy and fast. I liked the interface and the spankling of *nix. Alas it is mostly dead and the # of apps pales in comparison to Windows.
So here I sit... Windows XP, Office XP, IE 6 and all. Other than SecureCRT and Winamp there isn't a non-Microsoft app on my box. Sigh.
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Funny. In college I had a 486 that was attempting to do just this. During some testing it took weeks just to match a test paragraph.
Because the world does not consist of perfect people. Most people will f*ck up from time to time and hose something that they didn't want. While I won't be installing this on any of my systems I'm sure that some of the more consumer-oriented distros might want to add this type of functionality to their products.
That being said, I could see how something like this could be beneficial to many people, so having it as an option is a Good Thing. No one is forced to use it, but it's there for those who do.
Lets face it, the GNU Project isn't sexy. They have little corporate sponsorship and if you mentioned GNU to your average CEO you'd be met with blank stares. Mention Linux to that same CEO and you're likely to see some name recognition.
The GNU Project desperatly wants this type of attention. They want "GNU" shoved in front of as many eyeballs as possible. Using Linux as the vehicle to make this happen is all this is about.
It is sad to see the GNU Project grasping at straws like this. It detracts from their credibility and, frankly, makes them look as desperate as they actually are. Many "brand names" are complitations of lesser parts and various Linux distributions are no different.
Requiring or even ASKING for these types of name "changes" is sad and unfortunate.
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If you could prove this you'd be a rich man. Hire a lawyer, file a class-action lawsuit, change the world.
A certain broadcasting company that I previously worked for consolidated their operations (6 stations in all) to a central location and monitors each feed with Windows Media. This was over private 256kb connections to each station. No delay, totally real-time, excellent quality.
The only effective way to kill off Outlook, or even compete with it effectively is to first kill off Exchange.
Until there is a feature-for-feature (or at least close) drop-in replacement for Exchange people will stick with Outlook. Now I'm not talking about assembling some IMAP/LDAP/SMTP/iCal monster from different parts, rather a true, pre-packaged installer that handles most if not all of the setup and configuration.
Once you liberate the back end server you'll have no problem with the client.
I'm sure there is some law which prohibits assisting in the distribution of copyrighted works.
IRL it would be similar to someone on the streetcorner announcing that he knows where to get priated copies of software and he'll show you where they are being distributed.
Or perhaps the middle-man that tells you were the drug dealer is selling.
"I'd like to see IBM endorse the Linux desktop as a solution"
By selling off their desktop business they've dodged the bullet of having to spend their own resources supporting Linux on the desktop. Now they get paid to do so on someone else's hardware.
He used xpire.info/fa?d=get which then redirects to a series of other pages on the same site, eventually landing at www.sp2fucked.biz/user28/2DimensionOfExploitsEnc.p hp which in turn prompts him with an error and a dialoge box asking if he wants to continue executing scripts, to which he clicks "yes" after which all hell breaks loose.
Many television stations still live by that mantra. They love their IBM equipment and are often willing to pay a large premium to keep everything IBM. I've had to come up with some pretty compelling reasons to even get them to CONSIDER anything but IBM.
In the beginning of the animation is clearly states:
"A PARODY OF WOODY GUTHRIE' "THis Land""
Microsoft will embrace Linux by adding Linux support to Windows Services for UNIX or some other Linux compatibility layer. Thats the extent to which Microsoft will embrace Linux. No ports of Office, SQL or any other Microsoft product - with the possible exception of IE.
A better option would be to archive old messages rather than remove them entirely. From the article it sounds like they are keeping ALL messages active all the time. For example:
"They say the system is so overburdened that creating a daily backup has become impossible; there is so much data that it takes more than 24 hours to copy it."
So, it seems like the solution would be to periodically lop off old messages to offline storage (tape, spare drives, whatever). In the event of a lawsuit the old messages could be reasonably recovered and the cost for such a system would be extremely minimal.
He used fpdns which is a well-known and accurate tool. http://www.rfc.se/fpdns/
add the kinds of value for employers that will make them want to look beyond direct costs and see other benefits
Nope. Sorry. Move on. Give any CEO a choice between reducing costs or getting "other benefits" and see which (s)he chooses.
Forget adding more value than what is needed - instead take the Outsourcer's dollar bid and compete against it. There are a million things other than (or in addition to) salary that you can cut from your yearly budget, its all in the packaging.
New servers? Nope, centralize your existing ones. More developers? No, fire 1/2 your staff and adjust your feature-set. QA? Fire 90% of your staff and set up automated testing and public betas. Licensing? Bzzt. Migrate to open-source for high-dollar back-end projects.
Outsourcing is a TEMPORARY problem brought on by the high cost of technology Stateside. Reduce those costs and adhere to a proper budget and you'll be FINE.
It doesn't sound like they are making too much money off the process, rather that it is simply self-sufficient.
The gold harvested from the process pays for the cleanup - with money left over for training in sustainable agriculture.
I suppose they sould end the training and end up with some sort of profit.
If you maintain a library that you take from job to job just make sure that your core code is under a BSD-style license (and that your employer is aware of this). That way, a few jobs down the line your past employers can't come screaming that you or your present employer are using "stolen" code.
I'm sure that Pixar didn't buy these things at "retail" prices. I'm sure that 1.) Apple cut them a sweet deal, 2.) Pixar's hardware was aging and in need of replacement or 3.) Both.
I'm no expert on Dell's products, but I've rolled out over $500K worth of their server products over the past 5 years and all I've seen are steady increases in quality. What were once glorified PC's are now matching IBM (and others) in both features and quality (and remaining MUCH cheaper).
Now on the desktop and (especially) laptop side of Dell's business I'm in total agreement with you.
Paradroid rules!
I still fire my old c64 up once a year or so (just to make sure it works); the first thing I load up is Paradroid.
$1-$2K isn't all that expensive when compared to the cost of extra salaries, office space, insurance, etc.
If one views this as a tool to augment well trained IT staff then it really isn't a bad deal.
Rather than build one from scratch why not simply buy an existing chip manufacturer and start from there?
A boycott would be futile. There are still enough people on this planet who would not take part that these companies would barely even notice the change in revenue.
Our best bet is to get the goverment to make the changes necessary to level the playing field. It will be difficult but it is the only sure-fire way to make change.
This was my first thought. I could imagine an automated sonic bulldozer of sorts going around pushing things down into the atmosphere where they'd be destroyed during re-entry.
Of course a massive orbiting wall of space junk would protect us from aliens, which is nice.
Fist and foremost: laziness
Really, who cares. I do most of my work via a ssh shell to various other machines. Why do I care whats on my desktop.
I don't have any reason NOT to run Windows. It does everything that I want it to do, why should I switch. There isn't a killer app to motivate me. Linux w/ X isn't any faster (I've tried); there is higher quality end-user apps on Windows, and more of them.
I like linux. I convert every server that I can. I save thousands of dollars in licensing fees for my employer every year with it, but Linux doesn't cut it for a modern, easy desktop OS.
The only other OS that has almost converted me away from Windows was beOS. It was clean, easy and fast. I liked the interface and the spankling of *nix. Alas it is mostly dead and the # of apps pales in comparison to Windows.
So here I sit... Windows XP, Office XP, IE 6 and all. Other than SecureCRT and Winamp there isn't a non-Microsoft app on my box. Sigh.
Funny. In college I had a 486 that was attempting to do just this. During some testing it took weeks just to match a test paragraph.
>> tell the world why linux needs an undelete
Because the world does not consist of perfect people. Most people will f*ck up from time to time and hose something that they didn't want. While I won't be installing this on any of my systems I'm sure that some of the more consumer-oriented distros might want to add this type of functionality to their products.
That being said, I could see how something like this could be beneficial to many people, so having it as an option is a Good Thing. No one is forced to use it, but it's there for those who do.
Lets face it, the GNU Project isn't sexy. They have little corporate sponsorship and if you mentioned GNU to your average CEO you'd be met with blank stares. Mention Linux to that same CEO and you're likely to see some name recognition.
The GNU Project desperatly wants this type of attention. They want "GNU" shoved in front of as many eyeballs as possible. Using Linux as the vehicle to make this happen is all this is about.
It is sad to see the GNU Project grasping at straws like this. It detracts from their credibility and, frankly, makes them look as desperate as they actually are. Many "brand names" are complitations of lesser parts and various Linux distributions are no different.
Requiring or even ASKING for these types of name "changes" is sad and unfortunate.