Email Platform: Exchange/Outlook Type of Business: Government Number of Users: Unknown
Our current mailbox limits are:
40MB - issue a warning
45MB - stop user from sending
50MB - stop user from sending and receiving
Yes, that's MEGA-BYTES. We also have limited options for PST files; as the users' personal drive is limited to 250MB. We have no "recommended best procedure" for storing email; we encourage clients to delete what they don't need.
A few years back I wanted to keep my ADSL service, loose my land line, and get a cell phone. The phone company here on the east coast of Canada, Aliant, unfortuately told me that it couldn't be done. Well the CRTC was VERY responsive when I brought them my concerns. Aliant back-peddled slightly; informing me that it was the technology they used, they were considering a new technology that would work without requiring local phone service, yadda yadda.
I didn't pursue the matter then, but in light of this post I might just call Aliant and see if they have that "new" technology rolled out yet...
Very similar to how things work in New Brunswick. Our main phone company,NBTel/Aliant, which I believe used to be Government funded and I know used to be a monopoly owns all lines in the province. I used to work for a small independant dial-up provided here and we had to buy all our bandwidth from said company (at very unreasonable rates I might add).
Now on to the ADSL issue; I personally wrote to the CRTC to speak out against the policies of ADSL in my province. All I wanted was to keep my ADSL internet access but drop my local phone service altogether in preference for a cell phone (from a competing company). After some "lost" email between myself and the company was finally directed to the right people they responded simply telling me that thier technology did not make it possible to provide ADSL service without a local phone line. Knowing that there were regulations and tariffs preventing such a policy I wrote the CRTC. They were very encouraging in thier initial response and several months later wrote back with an update and hinted that this very legislation was forthcoming.
Whatcha gonna do now NBTel? I'm calling customer service immediately to talk about cancelling my local phone service again....
Here are some of our most-visited. I have a 7 year old girl.
http://www.pbskids.org http://www.kidsdomain.co m http://www.ytv.com http://www.clueintosafety.c om http://www.homestarrunner.com http://www.dltk -kids.com http://www.spacestation42.com (click "free paper toys" for fun craft projects you can print out.)
I'm sure there are more in my bookmarks file, especially under games: http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/amyt/bookmark. htm
Ad placement is really the only option. What's the point of commercial skip if we end up sitting through unskippable 30 second spots?
If it went to a pay per show type system, people would end up watching a whole lot less TV. Think about it. How many shows do you watch just because they're on?
Less viewership means fewer eyeballs. I think THAT'S what they're really afraid of.
The Canadian Dept of National Defense tested Linux as a desktop solution when they were planning to upgrade all thier workstations from Windows 95.
They considered Red Hat and Corel distributions. I think the biggest drawback was that they needed Linux to be able to work with all of the hardware and applications that DND already had in place under Win95. This included support for peripherals such as smart-card readers for encryption/security, and support for Office 97 and 2000 documents. The workstations would also have to interact with all the Windows NT and Novell servers in place.
Certainly some would complain that asking Linux to work with MS apps is an unfair test. I'm satisfied that my government even considered an alternative to Windows.
A magical phrase is, "Place me on your do not call list."
Very true An even more magical phrase is "Don't call again or I will sue you."
You have to understand there are usually two entities involved when a telemarketer calls; the telemarketing firm and the company that has hired them. If you ask to be put on a "do not call list" then they send that information back to the company they are soliciting for and you are put on that company's list. If you threaten to sue however, you are also added to the "do not call list" of the telemarketing firm and will recieve no more calls from them regardless of the company they are calling on behalf of.
Alas, this is the story being played out in development shops worldwide. By all means you should make a move into management; you'll be worth your weight in gold. Once you are worth your weight in gold perhaps you'll look for a more receptive place to work as well?
As most people who read slashdot know, there is a certain amount of personal interest involved that draws people into the computing field (because right now it's not the money or abundance of jobs). It's a totally different frame of mind that would draw someone to business and I personally don't understand that frame of mind. I doubt that a large number of people who enjoy science and technology have a large interest in business management and vice-versa. This is the reason we have so many managers who don't understand the limitations of technology, and the proper procedures when developing a new program, etc. I suppose in reality the best we can do is try to communicate the complexities of our jobs to our managers; try to bridge the gap.
It's too bad there's no intermediate-level "boot camp" for technical project managers. It's not that I ask for a boss that can *do* my job, merely one that understands what is and isn't possible to accomplish.
Most of the time when you're contacted by a telemarketer they work for a telemarketing company that has been contracted to call people on behalf of another company. I have a close friend who works for a company that does telemarketing *and* customer service for AT the telemarketing company is given the list of leads (names and phone numbers) of the people to call by the larger company.
If you ask "Take me off your call list" or "Don't call me again" then that information is sent back to the parent company and you are taken off thier list.
However; if you want to do better than that then say something more like "Don't call me again or I'll sue you". You will be taken off the call list at the parent company AND your information will be kept by the telemarketing company and filtered from ALL future campaigns regardless of parent company.
Okay so the idea of letting people choose their own favorite sites is great and all, but I don't think it's going to work as more than just an idea if there isn't a lot of thought put into it. We'll end up getting a million popup 'vote for my site' windows when we visit CNN, a-la those stupid warez sites...
I feel that as long a the net's being used as a competitive marketplace the results that search engines return will never be fully relevant.
One skill commonly found among autistic savants is the ability to calculate the day of the week for a particular date in only seconds. Autism (brought to life by Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man) is a developmental disorder usually apprearing early in life. The fact that this complex (to the average person) algorithm is needed to perform this task only highlights the amazing abilities of these special people. There is still so much we don't understand about the mind. Please see the Austism Society's website: www.autism-society.org
my company IS a small mom-and-pop ISP, we haven't been taken over yet, but we'd probably be better off if we were. we compete with the phone company here, which up until a few years ago, was a complete monopoly (this is in new brunswick, canada btw). we were actually competing well until they phone company started rolling out DSL, now everyone is jumping ship for high speed (including me and my dial-in account is free!).
not only that, but of all the irony, we have to buy our own lines from the phone company!
I don't know if it's fair, but i guess that's business.
my mom-and-pop ISP company website: notthephonecompany.com
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Email Platform: Exchange/Outlook
Type of Business: Government
Number of Users: Unknown
Our current mailbox limits are:
40MB - issue a warning
45MB - stop user from sending
50MB - stop user from sending and receiving
Yes, that's MEGA-BYTES. We also have limited options for PST files; as the users' personal drive is limited to 250MB. We have no "recommended best procedure" for storing email; we encourage clients to delete what they don't need.
A few years back I wanted to keep my ADSL service, loose my land line, and get a cell phone. The phone company here on the east coast of Canada, Aliant, unfortuately told me that it couldn't be done. Well the CRTC was VERY responsive when I brought them my concerns. Aliant back-peddled slightly; informing me that it was the technology they used, they were considering a new technology that would work without requiring local phone service, yadda yadda.
I didn't pursue the matter then, but in light of this post I might just call Aliant and see if they have that "new" technology rolled out yet...
I'll start listening to SCO's advice on business models when thier CEOs stop selling all thier shares in the company.
Very similar to how things work in New Brunswick. Our main phone company,NBTel/Aliant, which I believe used to be Government funded and I know used to be a monopoly owns all lines in the province. I used to work for a small independant dial-up provided here and we had to buy all our bandwidth from said company (at very unreasonable rates I might add).
Now on to the ADSL issue; I personally wrote to the CRTC to speak out against the policies of ADSL in my province. All I wanted was to keep my ADSL internet access but drop my local phone service altogether in preference for a cell phone (from a competing company). After some "lost" email between myself and the company was finally directed to the right people they responded simply telling me that thier technology did not make it possible to provide ADSL service without a local phone line. Knowing that there were regulations and tariffs preventing such a policy I wrote the CRTC. They were very encouraging in thier initial response and several months later wrote back with an update and hinted that this very legislation was forthcoming.
Whatcha gonna do now NBTel? I'm calling customer service immediately to talk about cancelling my local phone service again....
Here are some of our most-visited. I have a 7 year old girl.
o mc omk -kids.com
. htm
http://www.pbskids.org
http://www.kidsdomain.c
http://www.ytv.com
http://www.clueintosafety.
http://www.homestarrunner.com
http://www.dlt
http://www.spacestation42.com (click "free paper toys" for fun craft projects you can print out.)
I'm sure there are more in my bookmarks file, especially under games:
http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/amyt/bookmark
amyt
Ad placement is really the only option. What's the point of commercial skip if we end up sitting through unskippable 30 second spots?
If it went to a pay per show type system, people would end up watching a whole lot less TV. Think about it. How many shows do you watch just because they're on?
Less viewership means fewer eyeballs. I think THAT'S what they're really afraid of.
The Canadian Dept of National Defense tested Linux as a desktop solution when they were planning to upgrade all thier workstations from Windows 95.
They considered Red Hat and Corel distributions. I think the biggest drawback was that they needed Linux to be able to work with all of the hardware and applications that DND already had in place under Win95. This included support for peripherals such as smart-card readers for encryption/security, and support for Office 97 and 2000 documents. The workstations would also have to interact with all the Windows NT and Novell servers in place.
Certainly some would complain that asking Linux to work with MS apps is an unfair test. I'm satisfied that my government even considered an alternative to Windows.
AmyT
A magical phrase is, "Place me on your do not call list."
Very true An even more magical phrase is "Don't call again or I will sue you."
You have to understand there are usually two entities involved when a telemarketer calls; the telemarketing firm and the company that has hired them. If you ask to be put on a "do not call list" then they send that information back to the company they are soliciting for and you are put on that company's list. If you threaten to sue however, you are also added to the "do not call list" of the telemarketing firm and will recieve no more calls from them regardless of the company they are calling on behalf of.
amyt
Alas, this is the story being played out in development shops worldwide. By all means you should make a move into management; you'll be worth your weight in gold. Once you are worth your weight in gold perhaps you'll look for a more receptive place to work as well?
As most people who read slashdot know, there is a certain amount of personal interest involved that draws people into the computing field (because right now it's not the money or abundance of jobs). It's a totally different frame of mind that would draw someone to business and I personally don't understand that frame of mind. I doubt that a large number of people who enjoy science and technology have a large interest in business management and vice-versa. This is the reason we have so many managers who don't understand the limitations of technology, and the proper procedures when developing a new program, etc. I suppose in reality the best we can do is try to communicate the complexities of our jobs to our managers; try to bridge the gap.
It's too bad there's no intermediate-level "boot camp" for technical project managers. It's not that I ask for a boss that can *do* my job, merely one that understands what is and isn't possible to accomplish.
amyt
~what, no witty signature?~
Most of the time when you're contacted by a telemarketer they work for a telemarketing company that has been contracted to call people on behalf of another company. I have a close friend who works for a company that does telemarketing *and* customer service for AT the telemarketing company is given the list of leads (names and phone numbers) of the people to call by the larger company.
If you ask "Take me off your call list" or "Don't call me again" then that information is sent back to the parent company and you are taken off thier list.
However; if you want to do better than that then say something more like "Don't call me again or I'll sue you". You will be taken off the call list at the parent company AND your information will be kept by the telemarketing company and filtered from ALL future campaigns regardless of parent company.
Okay so the idea of letting people choose their own favorite sites is great and all, but I don't think it's going to work as more than just an idea if there isn't a lot of thought put into it. We'll end up getting a million popup 'vote for my site' windows when we visit CNN, a-la those stupid warez sites...
I feel that as long a the net's being used as a competitive marketplace the results that search engines return will never be fully relevant.
One skill commonly found among autistic savants is the ability to calculate the day of the week for a particular date in only seconds. Autism (brought to life by Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man) is a developmental disorder usually apprearing early in life. The fact that this complex (to the average person) algorithm is needed to perform this task only highlights the amazing abilities of these special people. There is still so much we don't understand about the mind. Please see the Austism Society's website: www.autism-society.org
my company IS a small mom-and-pop ISP, we haven't been taken over yet, but we'd probably be better off if we were. we compete with the phone company here, which up until a few years ago, was a complete monopoly (this is in new brunswick, canada btw). we were actually competing well until they phone company started rolling out DSL, now everyone is jumping ship for high speed (including me and my dial-in account is free!). not only that, but of all the irony, we have to buy our own lines from the phone company! I don't know if it's fair, but i guess that's business.
my mom-and-pop ISP company website:
notthephonecompany.com