With a score of 4, I don't think that other./-ers think my comment is useless.
Third party software can connect with Microsoft Exchange servers - the protocol is not described, but this has not hindered the people from Samba to discover the SMB protocol. Microsoft has tried hard to keep it closed and difficult to interoperate but until now, Samba performs at least as good as Microsoft software.
As you, I am happy that proprietary protocols are being replaced by open standards, as this is the only way to move forward.
I really don't get your remark regarding this intellectual hole. At work I must use Microsoft Windows and Exchange, otherwise I cannot communicate with my clients. I can, however choose what else to install on my computer (OO.o, FF). I really would like to use Linux, just as I'm doing at the moment (at home, using Fedora Core 3) - but I need all the items I mentioned.
I know that 2 Gb the max is that Outlook can handle. If you read my remark again you will see that I have 2 Gb of PST files. I don't have one PST file that is 2 Gb in size, no, I have multiple PST files, all around 200-400 Mb. And I would like to search information residing in there. Pretty quickly just like with the combo Outlook & Nelson Email Organiser (5 seconds full text search).
I have tried to migrate my PST files, and perhaps to your surprise, this *IS* possible. Thunderbird knows how to do this. So my migration path will be use Thunderbird to migrate my data from MS Outlook to Thunderbird; then move this data onto Linux (hoping the data is platform independent) and from there pick a decent e-mail client.
A comparision side by side of the features of all these programmes. Can I handle my 2 Gb of PST files with Evolution and Kontact? If not, then I'm not interested. Can I search pretty quickly? If not, forget it.
Can I connect to POP3 / IMAP / Exchange / Notes servers? If not, come back when I can. Integration with calendar requests from MS Exchange and Lotus Notes? I think that is very necessary.
This sort of eyecandy is very nice to look at, but utterly useless.
Excuse me for a moment, you are all talking about aliens, I don't get it. Are there real aliens living in the USA? How come that we have never seen them in Belgium? How do they look like? Can you explain me that?
Seriously. I'm doing some work for a company dealing in PreMAX (as they call it now), they have just a couple of antennaes for covering a small city. Plus WiMAX will be build into all laptops in the next years, just as wireless is now. USB plugs will be available, it will be just another revolution.
For more information, mail me. I have an account on Yahoo named mtetrode.
I am a bit amazed how this is working in the US of A - 2 weeks seems rather short to me. Let me tell you how this works in Belgium and The Netherlands, two countries where I have worked.
When you boss wants to fire you it depends how long you have worked for the company and how much you earn. If my boss currently would want to fire me he'd need to keep me (or only pay me) 4 or 5 months.
When you want to quit, you have to work at least one month, depending on how you arrange it with your employer.
The difference between a show and a song is that a (good) song you will listen to 1000 times (Think: Roxanne You don't have to put on that red light. Walk the streets for money. You don't care if it's wrong or if it is right...) but a show? I can't imagine that I would look at a show more than 10 times. So pricing is different.
- Everyone at the company wears the exact same uniform (supplied by the company)
wear it upside down. Inside out. Be creative!
- I'm not allowed to decorate my office, bring in furniture other than their supplied furniture and can only have one picture in my office.
Not difficult. Mao! 2 x 3 feet!
- I'm not allowed to have facial hair, wierd haircuts (dreads count as wierd), tattoos, peircings, etc.
You still can have tatoos and piercings - just on other places. So you can show them to other people. Big deal. You still can tell them all about your butpiercing during lunch, can't you?
- I am micromanaged to death
Don't let them micromanage you! Micromanage yourself. Keep track of everything you do. Note the number of coffees you drink. Put them down in a spreadsheet. Report them at meetings. Ask your bosses to have the same reports of others. After all, you know how much coffee comes in to the company, but you also should know where the coffee goes out. And by the way - do you already know how much time you spend on the toilet?
Methinks it might be time to check the intarweb thingy for another job.
Sure. Real 'real' programmers don't give a rats' ass in what OS/environment they work. Take for for instance. I used to work in the webservices department; running all these apache servers, java servlets on linux on these big iron S390 was kinda nice.
But hey, they needed someone do an update of the telephony taxation programme in brainf*ck on a SCO openserver. It is quite old, I must say, I had to set the date back 10 years, so I don't run into Y2K problems.
Anyway, I don't care what environment I work in. And I start to like Brainf*ck.
I think I do my next assignment in Ook. Preferably in Ook.NET - I already made my first programme, look:
Ook. Ook? Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook! Ook? Ook? Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook? Ook! Ook! Ook? Ook! Ook? Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook.
My comments still hold; spend more money, because you will get quality.
When you spend 200$ for a all in one super duper whatever printer/fax/scanner/dishwasher/coffemaker, isn't there a little quality bell ringing in your head?
When you want duplexing, colour or large format, go for a brand name, expensive, office printer, not for a home printer.
I am the very lucky owner of an HP Laserjet 4P laserprinter. It works. That is the only thing I can say of it; I turn it on, I ask a print, she prints. Tens of thousands of pages she has served me, and tens of thousands more will follow.
How is it then possible that today's printers don't do that? Allmost all my colleagues and friends have printers with problems that are described in the various posts above.
I will tell you how this is possible. You know what I payed for my HP Laserjet 4P? Around 800$. Which would be 1200$. Really. You can buy a very nice color laser printer with network interface currently for that money. But, more options = less reliability.
So, when you want to buy a reliable printer, don't spend your money on options, but on quality.
I don't have
- colour
- network interface
- A3
- double sided
- speedy printing
- all in one (scanning, copying, faxing, whatever)
- and all those other options that they sell you
But I have
- a quality printer (can't remember a paper jam)
- which is sturdy
- that still works after 10 years
- and will still work the next 10 years
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With a score of 4, I don't think that other ./-ers think my comment is useless.
Third party software can connect with Microsoft Exchange servers - the protocol is not described, but this has not hindered the people from Samba to discover the SMB protocol. Microsoft has tried hard to keep it closed and difficult to interoperate but until now, Samba performs at least as good as Microsoft software.
As you, I am happy that proprietary protocols are being replaced by open standards, as this is the only way to move forward.
I really don't get your remark regarding this intellectual hole. At work I must use Microsoft Windows and Exchange, otherwise I cannot communicate with my clients. I can, however choose what else to install on my computer (OO.o, FF). I really would like to use Linux, just as I'm doing at the moment (at home, using Fedora Core 3) - but I need all the items I mentioned.
I know that 2 Gb the max is that Outlook can handle. If you read my remark again you will see that I have 2 Gb of PST files. I don't have one PST file that is 2 Gb in size, no, I have multiple PST files, all around 200-400 Mb. And I would like to search information residing in there. Pretty quickly just like with the combo Outlook & Nelson Email Organiser (5 seconds full text search).
I have tried to migrate my PST files, and perhaps to your surprise, this *IS* possible. Thunderbird knows how to do this. So my migration path will be use Thunderbird to migrate my data from MS Outlook to Thunderbird; then move this data onto Linux (hoping the data is platform independent) and from there pick a decent e-mail client.
Mark
A comparision side by side of the features of all these programmes. Can I handle my 2 Gb of PST files with Evolution and Kontact? If not, then I'm not interested. Can I search pretty quickly? If not, forget it.
Can I connect to POP3 / IMAP / Exchange / Notes servers? If not, come back when I can. Integration with calendar requests from MS Exchange and Lotus Notes? I think that is very necessary.
This sort of eyecandy is very nice to look at, but utterly useless.
If this makes you tick, build it, but there are easier options, such as the squeezebox from slimp3
Mark
Or do you think they will ever pay up?
...
Don't be redicilous - they will find their way around it. The same as they find their way around not paying taxes,
Speaking for The Netherlands, Belgium:
Insurance companies don't take decisions, doctors do, here.
You don't need to sign any document before you go in.
They will treat anyone, regardless whether this person has a credit card or not. That is called humanity.
Your turn!
Really, wake up. The US is not the best anymore. There are other equal countries.
To add some: The Netherlands, Belgium, France. And I'm pretty sure of Spain and Portugal too
Where are my mod points when I need them?
Mark
Excuse me for a moment, you are all talking about aliens, I don't get it. Are there real aliens living in the USA? How come that we have never seen them in Belgium? How do they look like? Can you explain me that?
Thank you
Mark
I'm currently working to implement some software for a WiMAX provider in Europe.
Very interesting. You can take your laptop & ADSL with you around the city, no problem. Next, they will do voice, all without the wire!
Yes, I like that one, a FireFox distro. With (as one poster above mentioned) MSI for active directory, group policy and the like.
Just like linux. It is free and still people are paying for RH/SUSE.
Listen to the big corporations!
Wishing you luck
Seriously. I'm doing some work for a company dealing in PreMAX (as they call it now), they have just a couple of antennaes for covering a small city. Plus WiMAX will be build into all laptops in the next years, just as wireless is now. USB plugs will be available, it will be just another revolution.
For more information, mail me. I have an account on Yahoo named mtetrode.
So, could anyone explain this to the rest of the world?
Thank you in advance,
Mark
Or, if you are not native English speaking, ask the slashdot editors to check your spelling?
Ehh, nevermind
I am a bit amazed how this is working in the US of A - 2 weeks seems rather short to me. Let me tell you how this works in Belgium and The Netherlands, two countries where I have worked.
When you boss wants to fire you it depends how long you have worked for the company and how much you earn. If my boss currently would want to fire me he'd need to keep me (or only pay me) 4 or 5 months.
When you want to quit, you have to work at least one month, depending on how you arrange it with your employer.
The difference between a show and a song is that a (good) song you will listen to 1000 times (Think: Roxanne You don't have to put on that red light. Walk the streets for money. You don't care if it's wrong or if it is right ...) but a show? I can't imagine that I would look at a show more than 10 times. So pricing is different.
- Everyone at the company wears the exact same uniform (supplied by the company)
wear it upside down. Inside out. Be creative!
- I'm not allowed to decorate my office, bring in furniture other than their supplied furniture and can only have one picture in my office.
Not difficult. Mao! 2 x 3 feet!
- I'm not allowed to have facial hair, wierd haircuts (dreads count as wierd), tattoos, peircings, etc.
You still can have tatoos and piercings - just on other places. So you can show them to other people. Big deal. You still can tell them all about your butpiercing during lunch, can't you?
- I am micromanaged to death
Don't let them micromanage you! Micromanage yourself. Keep track of everything you do. Note the number of coffees you drink. Put them down in a spreadsheet. Report them at meetings. Ask your bosses to have the same reports of others. After all, you know how much coffee comes in to the company, but you also should know where the coffee goes out. And by the way - do you already know how much time you spend on the toilet?
Methinks it might be time to check the intarweb thingy for another job.
Sure. Real 'real' programmers don't give a rats' ass in what OS/environment they work. Take for for instance. I used to work in the webservices department; running all these apache servers, java servlets on linux on these big iron S390 was kinda nice.
+ ++[-]>+.
But hey, they needed someone do an update of the telephony taxation programme in brainf*ck on a SCO openserver. It is quite old, I must say, I had to set the date back 10 years, so I don't run into Y2K problems.
Anyway, I don't care what environment I work in. And I start to like Brainf*ck.
>+++++++++[-]+++++++[-]>>++++++++[-]
>>+++++++
I think I do my next assignment in Ook. Preferably in Ook.NET - I already made my first programme, look:
Ook. Ook? Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook! Ook? Ook? Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook? Ook! Ook! Ook? Ook! Ook? Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook.
My comments still hold; spend more money, because you will get quality.
When you spend 200$ for a all in one super duper whatever printer/fax/scanner/dishwasher/coffemaker, isn't there a little quality bell ringing in your head?
When you want duplexing, colour or large format, go for a brand name, expensive, office printer, not for a home printer.
Yes, I have done that some years after that when I had more than one computer and set up a network.
Oops - that is:
Which would be 1200$ now.
I am the very lucky owner of an HP Laserjet 4P laserprinter. It works. That is the only thing I can say of it; I turn it on, I ask a print, she prints. Tens of thousands of pages she has served me, and tens of thousands more will follow.
How is it then possible that today's printers don't do that? Allmost all my colleagues and friends have printers with problems that are described in the various posts above.
I will tell you how this is possible. You know what I payed for my HP Laserjet 4P? Around 800$. Which would be 1200$. Really. You can buy a very nice color laser printer with network interface currently for that money. But, more options = less reliability.
So, when you want to buy a reliable printer, don't spend your money on options, but on quality.
I don't have
- colour
- network interface
- A3
- double sided
- speedy printing
- all in one (scanning, copying, faxing, whatever)
- and all those other options that they sell you
But I have
- a quality printer (can't remember a paper jam)
- which is sturdy
- that still works after 10 years
- and will still work the next 10 years
Mark
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Well, that's very good advice...
They cannot even get this intarweb thingy correct.
Losers...
http://thankpoland.info/
Mark
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