Actually, I bought just such a beast (with the macro keys and all) as a Univeral All in One. It works great for my VCR, TV, Satellite, and Stereo. It's brand marked (just looked) as Cinema-6. Seems to work fine and it CAN learn new commands from your old remotes, though I haven't needed to do that. Even like smart sound and the TV's menu system are on the buttons already there (they may not make much sense (the smart sound is the surround sound button...well that's sort of right)). Anyway, it was only $22 at Wal-Mart.
While I am not (thank god) the Exchange Admin, over the 2-3 years we've had it, we've had 2-3 complete mailbox corruption issues and lost the entire database. We've had 3 weeks or so total where it was unavailable (3 1-week blocks). It doesn't scale well at all (NT doesn't...so Exchange doesn't) and those boxes look in pain as they try to do what people ask them to. However, response-wise, it frequently "pauses" to check new mail and your composing is also paused...what a great product!:) I am frequently asked by management, why it's so slow. Unix solutions will be far less headache if anyone understands Unix in your environment and the support is gonna be worth training someone, versus paying Microsoft to vainly (in our case) strive to repair your dead Exchange databases/servers. Our company is STILL headed into a MS only environment and it's sickening. Ok...enough rant and rave.
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Actually, I bought just such a beast (with the macro keys and all) as a Univeral All in One. It works great for my VCR, TV, Satellite, and Stereo. It's brand marked (just looked) as Cinema-6. Seems to work fine and it CAN learn new commands from your old remotes, though I haven't needed to do that. Even like smart sound and the TV's menu system are on the buttons already there (they may not make much sense (the smart sound is the surround sound button...well that's sort of right)). Anyway, it was only $22 at Wal-Mart.
While I am not (thank god) the Exchange Admin, over the 2-3 years we've had it, we've had 2-3 complete mailbox corruption issues and lost the entire database. We've had 3 weeks or so total where it was unavailable (3 1-week blocks). :) I am frequently asked by management, why it's so slow.
It doesn't scale well at all (NT doesn't...so Exchange doesn't) and those boxes look in pain as they try to do what people ask them to. However, response-wise, it frequently "pauses" to check new mail and your composing is also paused...what a great product!
Unix solutions will be far less headache if anyone understands Unix in your environment and the support is gonna be worth training someone, versus paying Microsoft to vainly (in our case) strive to repair your dead Exchange databases/servers. Our company is STILL headed into a MS only environment and it's sickening. Ok...enough rant and rave.