The only advantage that Exchange / Outlook have over your average standards-compliant IMAP/LDAP client is that Outlook is a great launching point for viruses.
I grant you that I haven't found a decent group calendaring solution yet, though.
Besides, any shop that standardizes on Exchange for their mail server automatically locks their user base into Windows. Not particularly nice if you are doing development on multiple platforms.
$ftp = Net::FTP->new($remote_host) or die "cannot connect to ftp server";
$ftp->login("ftp","dmerrill\@nexen.com") or die "cannot login to ftp server";
$ftp->cwd("$remote_path") or die "cannot chdir to remote package dir";
@update_list = ();
foreach $_ ($ftp->ls) {
print "checking $_...\n" if $VERBOSITY > 0;
next unless/\.rpm/;
($name,$version,$pkg,$arch) =/(.*)-(.*)-(.*)\.(.*)\.rpm/;
print "$name is not installed.\n" unless (($rpm{$name}) or ($VERBOSITY 1));
next if $rpm{$name} ge "$version-$pkg";
# don't actually install kernel upgrades, but make sure to point out that
# they're available.
if (/kernel/) {
print "Kernel update $_ is available (currently at $rpm{$name})\n";
next;
}
# add it to the list
push(@update_list,"$name-$version-$pkg.$arch.rpm") ;
}
Doesn't "collector's edition" imply that there are people out there who actually collect these things? I've personally never played a computer game that kept me remotely interested more than six months or so.
DVD movie? Bonus RPG? Signed by the development team? SO WHAT!
If any of these "extras" are worth anything, sell them as separate products, or at least make them more permanently available somehow. If not, why make them in the first place?
Anyway, the only thing that kept my interest in Diablo once the novelty of multiplayer mode wore off was the bug that allowed you to clone objects in your inventory.:-)
If you're trying to make a profit by selling your software, would you write your application for the OS that runs on (a) 90% of the computers out there, or (b) 4% of the computers out there (I'm making up the numbers)?
The critical mass for Linux to really catch on -- I mean really catch on -- is an order of magnitude or more than it is now.
Don't get me wrong -- I love Linux. However, I don't see many corporations switching their standard desktops to Linux-based PC's.
Linux finds itself challenging Windows for the general population's desktop, but it's based on an OS that nobody ever planned to do this with.
If you want to successfully implement a decent sized project, you have to spend some up front time writing design docs. I don't care how talented you are, it won't get you around this.
I'd rather lose some brainpower on my team rather than have to scrap the whole project because johnny doesn't want to tell everyone what he's going to write.
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I saw this, too, and I thought it was an error someone made. It looks like it's gone now.
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Bah!
The only advantage that Exchange / Outlook have over your average standards-compliant IMAP/LDAP client is that Outlook is a great launching point for viruses.
I grant you that I haven't found a decent group calendaring solution yet, though.
Besides, any shop that standardizes on Exchange for their mail server automatically locks their user base into Windows. Not particularly nice if you are doing development on multiple platforms.
If you want to store mail on a central server, just have your users use IMAP instead of POP. IMAP is supported by lots of mail programs.
Also, my understanding is that you can tie Netscape mail to an LDAP server to get your global address list.
Heck, I just use the following Perl script to keep my system up to date...
/(.*)-(.*)-(.*)/;
...\n" if $VERBOSITY > 0;
/\.rpm/;
/(.*)-(.*)-(.*)\.(.*)\.rpm/;
) ;
p date_list);
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::FTP;
$remote_path = "/mirrors/redhat/updates/6.2/i386";
$remote_host = "";
$VERBOSITY = $ENV{VERBOSE} || 0;
open(RPM,"rpm -qa |") or die;
while() {
($name,$version,$pkg) =
$rpm{$name} = "$version-$pkg";
# printf "%-30s %-10s %s\n",$name,$version,$pkg;
}
close(RPM);
$ftp = Net::FTP->new($remote_host) or die "cannot connect to ftp server";
$ftp->login("ftp","dmerrill\@nexen.com") or die "cannot login to ftp server";
$ftp->cwd("$remote_path") or die "cannot chdir to remote package dir";
@update_list = ();
foreach $_ ($ftp->ls) {
print "checking $_
next unless
($name,$version,$pkg,$arch) =
print "$name is not installed.\n" unless (($rpm{$name}) or ($VERBOSITY 1));
next if $rpm{$name} ge "$version-$pkg";
# don't actually install kernel upgrades, but make sure to point out that
# they're available.
if (/kernel/) {
print "Kernel update $_ is available (currently at $rpm{$name})\n";
next;
}
# add it to the list
push(@update_list,"$name-$version-$pkg.$arch.rpm"
}
grep(s/^/ftp:\/\/$remote_host$remote_path\//,@u
unless(@update_list) {
print "No packages need to be updated.\n" if $VERBOSITY > 0;
exit 0;
}
print "The following packages need to be updated:\n\n";
print join("\n",@update_list);
print "\n";
#print join(" ","rpm","-Fvh",@update_list),"\n";
system("rpm","-Fvh",@update_list);
DVD movie? Bonus RPG? Signed by the development team? SO WHAT!
If any of these "extras" are worth anything, sell them as separate products, or at least make them more permanently available somehow. If not, why make them in the first place?
Anyway, the only thing that kept my interest in Diablo once the novelty of multiplayer mode wore off was the bug that allowed you to clone objects in your inventory. :-)
The critical mass for Linux to really catch on -- I mean really catch on -- is an order of magnitude or more than it is now.
Don't get me wrong -- I love Linux. However, I don't see many corporations switching their standard desktops to Linux-based PC's.
Linux finds itself challenging Windows for the general population's desktop, but it's based on an OS that nobody ever planned to do this with.
If you want to successfully implement a decent sized project, you have to spend some up front time writing design docs. I don't care how talented you are, it won't get you around this.
I'd rather lose some brainpower on my team rather than have to scrap the whole project because johnny doesn't want to tell everyone what he's going to write.
I'm sure that W2K can crush Linux -- by sheer weight if nothing else.