1) Trash the trash, spam and junk. Trash the messages the stuff that was never important. Trash the stuff that was important but no longer. Then delete your trash!
My work e-mail does not receive spam. The (very) few mailing lists I am on end up junked unless there is something specific I need. I keep all business related e-mail other than "what's for lunch" type messages.
2) Save the stuff you want to save. Create new *local* email folders, and manually archive stuff to them as appropriate. If the mail is just an attachement, download the attachment.
Local e-mail folders are not saved in the tape backup. Local e-mail folders are a pain to search, and have to be done in a separate context from my main e-mail. Okay, I'll assume that by "local" you mean a mapped share and not C: because when I ran things saving corporate material to C: was a firing offense. Actual local drives were not backed up and if you lost CAD drawings, documents or other critical info because it wasn't on a network drive, your ass was out the door. I saw it happen twice, and with good reason.
3) If you need to keep your old email for accountability purposes, then print them out and file them. Or print them to PDF and burn them. or just keep them on a second harddrive.
Print them out? What happened to all the paper-saving benefits? Not to mention printouts are not searchable, and PDFs are also a pain to search in context; ditto for offline archives.
4) If people are routinely sending you obscenely large emails, tell them to stop. Repeat, tell them to stop. Stop using email as a project directory. Use group websites, or shared folders, or Sharepoint, or something similar instead.
I don't want them to stop. E-mail saves not only the information but the context. I want to see the state last week (or month), what was attached, what was the context, etc. Being in customer support, I want to see it VERBATIM and not notes or a summary.
E-mail can be a very efficient for a storing, searching and retaining knowledge. 90% of our inter-personnel communication is via e-mail, so if I need to find something that is where it is.
Finally, the computer should adapt to MY work habits and NOT the other way around.
Our current setup (Exchange,30 users) limits people to 100 Mb of online e-mail storage. I consider this obscenely small, but I'm not the admin here and HAVE been on the other side of the fence, so can see the reasons.
Last time I was admin it was 50 users, Exchange 2000 and the biggest e-mail boxes were 2 Gb or so.
This is actually a simple issue, if you look at it from a business perspective.
E-mail is a mission-critical service in most businesses. If e-mail stops, lots of places will grind to a halt. So, it needs to be treated with the appropriate respect and budget.
Get all the costs necessary for a proper setup: RAID-5 or RAID-10 SCSI, or maybe a SAN. Proper backup, either e-Vaulting or automated tape with weekly off-site rotation (GFS scheme). You might want to consider redundant equipment for a warm stand-by. Price all that out and give it to management, then limit them to what management will pay for since much of your cost will be dictated by Gb.
While 500 Gb IDE drives may be cheap, a corresponding RAID array of server-class SCSI drives isn't and proper tape storage is also not cheap. Let business necessities provide the answers here.
...if the patents that based NTP's lawsuit were going to be ruled invalid, what was the basis for the settlement? Why didn't RIM just tell NTP to go fuck themselves and wait for the patent office to finish. No patent == no patent infringement == no lawsuit.
There are som things open source just cant supply legally. MP3, WMA, and some other media formats are amongst those. To be able to get those from CNR would be wonderful. CNR can license those things in another way than an open source dist can. It would be a nice complement and make it easier for the users.
And they do this already for Linspire users. If you purchased a subscription to CNR, then a legally-licensed DVD-CSS plugin to Xine is $5. I believe MP3 comes free with a purchased Linspire account. They also distribute Garage Games software via CNR. Very slick.
Expanding this to Ubuntu/Kubuntu (after all, Linspire is big on KDE) would be great.
So you must be unaware that there are several departments in the government that are prohibited by policy from using Check Point products due to the parent company being foreign (Israeli)?
You sound also equally unaware that the Israeli's are routinely in the top 5 countries that use gov't-sourced espionage to illegally assist native (Israeli) businesses? (France and China are two others. I can't remember the rest off the top of my head.)
What is boils down to is Israel is more like the U.S. that almost anywhere else in when push comes to shove, they will put their best interests first and fuck everyone else and everone else's opinion.
The comments about "...was giving his in-laws their weekly fix of Desperate Housewives..." and "...are looking at a big hole in their metaphorical dyke." would generate more outrage than anthing about encryption.:-)
I've been waiting over a year for your damn Nano-ITX motherboard to ship, or a decent "legacy-free" Mini-ITX. It looks like Apple has beaten you to it and will be getting my hard-earned cash. The only benefit I can see to the VIA is the built-in crypto accelerator, but that can easily be remedied by replacing the 802.11g mini-PCI card in the Mac Mini with a Soekris VPN1411 crypto accelerator, if needed.
Bring Your Own Damn Keyboard & Mouse was how I first read this. Considering KVM has been in use for DECADES, why the hell did Apple change a well known acronym? I should probably expect as much from a company that once tried to convice people to pronounce "SCSI" as "Sexy" instead of "Scuzzy".
However, the coffee doesn't spill. Actually, the article says the contest rules required the mug to be dropped on its side. While this mug is self-righting, the starting position would sort of preclude any coffee to begin with....I wonder if a design that that could be used to transport hazardous or toxic liquids. The design has one function -- to protect from a drop. It does nothing for impacts from any other direction. Smack it hard enough and it would shatter. I doubt that would be very useful for transporting toxic materials.
It took two days for the Communist Party in China to realize that the information had travelled beyong their reach and they had no choice but to back down.
Back down? How about "bide their time". The journalist, Mr. Li, has already been reassigned to a "news research" department which apparantly does neither news nor research. Their policy will be quietly reintroduced after the furor has died down.
Similar to the way things work in the U.S., when an unpopular bill gets defeated then all the nasty parts show up as clauses in other bills and effectively get in under the radar. The people get their "victory", many politicians get to thump their chests and say "I stood up for your rights", but nothing changes. Status quo.
In practice, offices don't do that. It'll be easier for the PHB to have it explained that you can do this in a browser than how to turn on sharing.
Uh, no. Tools --> Share Workbook.
And PHBs may not know much, but I guarantee you they grasp the basics of at least PowerPoint and Excel, with the Outlook Calendar not far behind.
In practice, most offices that use spreadsheets at all do just that. They put the sheet on a shared drive that is mapped on boot and access it thru a link in their "My Documents" or on their desktop. Excel is massively popular and sharing workbooks is very simple. The main drawback is it is difficult to do thru the Internet or a WAN link.
Have you ever used a wiki? If two people edit simultaneously but one finishes first, the second has to merge the first edit into the second. That's all. SVN works like this too. There's no "stuff moving on the screen."
Quoth the article: "Bricklin's answer is to make it possible for anyone using WikiCalc to enter data and for anyone else to edit that data and have those edits be reflected on everyone's computers instantaneously."
I updates come across to my screen when someone else merges, then that is what I'm talking about. What happens when 20-30 people hit "merge" a few seconds apart? What is *my* screen going to do? If it starts popping in updates while I'm scrolling/typing/editing it is going to create serious problems.
Spreadsheets aren't text documents. With a traditional wiki the vast majority of your users are doing one word edits then updating. If this thing automatically updates when someone finishes editing a cell, then chaos will ensue in direct proportion to the number of people editing.
If it doesn't do this, then how the hell is it all that different from Excel or any traditional spreadsheet that allows multiple users to edit at the same time? If it is just because it is "on the web", that isn't a huge deal and not what they seem to be pushing.
And what happens when, like the author suggests, you get 40 people together to edit a single spreadsheet? Let me see how well they -- the people -- handle seeing a spreadsheet automagically updating it self from 40 different sources at once. They're not going to know what is safe to touch, what is up to date, or WTF is going on. It is going to be sensory overload as stuff keeps chaning on your screen while you're typing.
To clarify, he's talking about doing instantaneous updates which would be an excellent feature that Excel does NOT have. But, to slam Excel as not being able to share AT ALL is pure BS.
"With (Excel), you get people playing e-mail volleyball with attachments all day long, so it's grossly inefficient," Mayfield said. "How do you track changes on a spreadsheet? What happens if you don't have just two people going back and forth, (but) have a finance department of 40 people trying to roll up numbers."
Share the workbook and multiple people can edit at the same time. I do this daily and have been using this feature for quite some time. Changes are highlighted w/notes on who made what change whenever you save. I haven't played "e-mail volleyball" regarding spreadsheets.
More than likely they'll end up doing this. The more then can sell, the cheaper they'll be to produce. Simple economics of scale. You might not get a $1,000 model, but what about a $2,500 one?
It takes me 6 minutes to rip/encode a typical CD using FLAC on a 1.7 GHz Sempron64+, 52x CD-R running Slackware and using Konqueror to drag-n-drop the files.
...that professor of psychology is doing a study. What is THE SINGLE BIGGEST heaping pile of bullshit people can be made to swallow if you follow it up with "but if you think about it this way...".
I'll bet he is studying the psychology of cult and conspiracy theory mentalities and he just suckered one of the biggest wannabe cult leaders and PC-conspiracy nuts out there -- Dvorak.
It looks like someone's PhD thesis is going to all but write itself.
I run my own mail server and have it set to do things like:
*REQUIRE* SSL/TLS + AUTH to send/receive mail if you have an account on my system Bounce, as if my address doesn't exist, any non-whitelisted e-mail ClamAV, updated twice daily, just to be extra safe
To open a bank account I had to show up in person and give them two forms of ID (DL and Passport in my case). It *is* possible to open an account via a telephone, but you'll have to have photocopies of your IDs notarized and faxed/mailed in.
Use an address of a relative with the same last name or a PO box for the initial correspondence and then put in a "moved, no forwarding address" card. Voila! No address on record. Until they try and mail you something, they'll never know. I had an account with a Credit Union for almost 2 years with them having no address on record (and they knew it). I finally gave them a PO box when they needed to mail me another debit card because my first one had expired.
Check out http://www.howtobeinvisible.com/ for info on how a U.S. Citizen can open a Canadian bank account for even more privacy.
Correct. This is the method I use for most of my interaction with the bank. They even have an "opt out" of mailing you your written statements. Instead, I get an e-mail telling me the monthly statement is available online on their secure system.
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1) Trash the trash, spam and junk. Trash the messages the stuff that was never important. Trash the stuff that was important but no longer. Then delete your trash!
My work e-mail does not receive spam. The (very) few mailing lists I am on end up junked unless there is something specific I need. I keep all business related e-mail other than "what's for lunch" type messages.
2) Save the stuff you want to save. Create new *local* email folders, and manually archive stuff to them as appropriate. If the mail is just an attachement, download the attachment.
Local e-mail folders are not saved in the tape backup. Local e-mail folders are a pain to search, and have to be done in a separate context from my main e-mail. Okay, I'll assume that by "local" you mean a mapped share and not C: because when I ran things saving corporate material to C: was a firing offense. Actual local drives were not backed up and if you lost CAD drawings, documents or other critical info because it wasn't on a network drive, your ass was out the door. I saw it happen twice, and with good reason.
3) If you need to keep your old email for accountability purposes, then print them out and file them. Or print them to PDF and burn them. or just keep them on a second harddrive.
Print them out? What happened to all the paper-saving benefits? Not to mention printouts are not searchable, and PDFs are also a pain to search in context; ditto for offline archives.
4) If people are routinely sending you obscenely large emails, tell them to stop. Repeat, tell them to stop. Stop using email as a project directory. Use group websites, or shared folders, or Sharepoint, or something similar instead.
I don't want them to stop. E-mail saves not only the information but the context. I want to see the state last week (or month), what was attached, what was the context, etc. Being in customer support, I want to see it VERBATIM and not notes or a summary.
E-mail can be a very efficient for a storing, searching and retaining knowledge. 90% of our inter-personnel communication is via e-mail, so if I need to find something that is where it is.
Finally, the computer should adapt to MY work habits and NOT the other way around.
-Charles
Our current setup (Exchange,30 users) limits people to 100 Mb of online e-mail storage. I consider this obscenely small, but I'm not the admin here and HAVE been on the other side of the fence, so can see the reasons.
Last time I was admin it was 50 users, Exchange 2000 and the biggest e-mail boxes were 2 Gb or so.
This is actually a simple issue, if you look at it from a business perspective.
E-mail is a mission-critical service in most businesses. If e-mail stops, lots of places will grind to a halt. So, it needs to be treated with the appropriate respect and budget.
Get all the costs necessary for a proper setup: RAID-5 or RAID-10 SCSI, or maybe a SAN. Proper backup, either e-Vaulting or automated tape with weekly off-site rotation (GFS scheme). You might want to consider redundant equipment for a warm stand-by. Price all that out and give it to management, then limit them to what management will pay for since much of your cost will be dictated by Gb.
While 500 Gb IDE drives may be cheap, a corresponding RAID array of server-class SCSI drives isn't and proper tape storage is also not cheap. Let business necessities provide the answers here.
-Charles
"Developers are not permitted to build Custom Clients that are multi-headed or interoperable with any other IM network."
The definition of "almost, but not quite totally useless" seems more appropriate.
-Charles
...if the patents that based NTP's lawsuit were going to be ruled invalid, what was the basis for the settlement? Why didn't RIM just tell NTP to go fuck themselves and wait for the patent office to finish. No patent == no patent infringement == no lawsuit.
There are som things open source just cant supply legally. MP3, WMA, and some other media formats are amongst those. To be able to get those from CNR would be wonderful. CNR can license those things in another way than an open source dist can. It would be a nice complement and make it easier for the users.
And they do this already for Linspire users. If you purchased a subscription to CNR, then a legally-licensed DVD-CSS plugin to Xine is $5. I believe MP3 comes free with a purchased Linspire account. They also distribute Garage Games software via CNR. Very slick.
Expanding this to Ubuntu/Kubuntu (after all, Linspire is big on KDE) would be great.
-Charles
So you must be unaware that there are several departments in the government that are prohibited by policy from using Check Point products due to the parent company being foreign (Israeli)?
You sound also equally unaware that the Israeli's are routinely in the top 5 countries that use gov't-sourced espionage to illegally assist native (Israeli) businesses? (France and China are two others. I can't remember the rest off the top of my head.)
What is boils down to is Israel is more like the U.S. that almost anywhere else in when push comes to shove, they will put their best interests first and fuck everyone else and everone else's opinion.
The comments about "...was giving his in-laws their weekly fix of Desperate Housewives..." and "...are looking at a big hole in their metaphorical dyke." would generate more outrage than anthing about encryption. :-)
I've been waiting over a year for your damn Nano-ITX motherboard to ship, or a decent "legacy-free" Mini-ITX. It looks like Apple has beaten you to it and will be getting my hard-earned cash. The only benefit I can see to the VIA is the built-in crypto accelerator, but that can easily be remedied by replacing the 802.11g mini-PCI card in the Mac Mini with a Soekris VPN1411 crypto accelerator, if needed.
Bring Your Own Damn Keyboard & Mouse was how I first read this. Considering KVM has been in use for DECADES, why the hell did Apple change a well known acronym? I should probably expect as much from a company that once tried to convice people to pronounce "SCSI" as "Sexy" instead of "Scuzzy".
Can the Mac Mini boot via PXE? I'd love to be able to rip out the hard drive and just have a couple of these boot and run via GigE...
However, the coffee doesn't spill. ...I wonder if a design that that could be used to transport hazardous or toxic liquids.
Actually, the article says the contest rules required the mug to be dropped on its side. While this mug is self-righting, the starting position would sort of preclude any coffee to begin with.
The design has one function -- to protect from a drop. It does nothing for impacts from any other direction. Smack it hard enough and it would shatter. I doubt that would be very useful for transporting toxic materials.
-Charles
Okay, is this just one big conspiracy or not? I have *NEVER* had a Coral Cache link work. Not once.
/me reaches for tin foil hat
I think you're all just messing with my head.
-Charles
It took two days for the Communist Party in China to realize that the information had travelled beyong their reach and they had no choice but to back down.
Back down? How about "bide their time". The journalist, Mr. Li, has already been reassigned to a "news research" department which apparantly does neither news nor research. Their policy will be quietly reintroduced after the furor has died down.
Similar to the way things work in the U.S., when an unpopular bill gets defeated then all the nasty parts show up as clauses in other bills and effectively get in under the radar. The people get their "victory", many politicians get to thump their chests and say "I stood up for your rights", but nothing changes. Status quo.
-Charles
In practice, offices don't do that. It'll be easier for the PHB to have it explained that you can do this in a browser than how to turn on sharing.
Uh, no. Tools --> Share Workbook.
And PHBs may not know much, but I guarantee you they grasp the basics of at least PowerPoint and Excel, with the Outlook Calendar not far behind.
In practice, most offices that use spreadsheets at all do just that. They put the sheet on a shared drive that is mapped on boot and access it thru a link in their "My Documents" or on their desktop. Excel is massively popular and sharing workbooks is very simple. The main drawback is it is difficult to do thru the Internet or a WAN link.
-Charles
Have you ever used a wiki? If two people edit simultaneously but one finishes first, the second has to merge the first edit into the second. That's all. SVN works like this too. There's no "stuff moving on the screen."
Quoth the article: "Bricklin's answer is to make it possible for anyone using WikiCalc to enter data and for anyone else to edit that data and have those edits be reflected on everyone's computers instantaneously."
I updates come across to my screen when someone else merges, then that is what I'm talking about. What happens when 20-30 people hit "merge" a few seconds apart? What is *my* screen going to do? If it starts popping in updates while I'm scrolling/typing/editing it is going to create serious problems.
Spreadsheets aren't text documents. With a traditional wiki the vast majority of your users are doing one word edits then updating. If this thing automatically updates when someone finishes editing a cell, then chaos will ensue in direct proportion to the number of people editing.
If it doesn't do this, then how the hell is it all that different from Excel or any traditional spreadsheet that allows multiple users to edit at the same time? If it is just because it is "on the web", that isn't a huge deal and not what they seem to be pushing.
-Charles
And what happens when, like the author suggests, you get 40 people together to edit a single spreadsheet? Let me see how well they -- the people -- handle seeing a spreadsheet automagically updating it self from 40 different sources at once. They're not going to know what is safe to touch, what is up to date, or WTF is going on. It is going to be sensory overload as stuff keeps chaning on your screen while you're typing.
-Charles
To clarify, he's talking about doing instantaneous updates which would be an excellent feature that Excel does NOT have. But, to slam Excel as not being able to share AT ALL is pure BS.
-Charles
"With (Excel), you get people playing e-mail volleyball with attachments all day long, so it's grossly inefficient," Mayfield said. "How do you track changes on a spreadsheet? What happens if you don't have just two people going back and forth, (but) have a finance department of 40 people trying to roll up numbers."
Share the workbook and multiple people can edit at the same time. I do this daily and have been using this feature for quite some time. Changes are highlighted w/notes on who made what change whenever you save. I haven't played "e-mail volleyball" regarding spreadsheets.
-Charles
More than likely they'll end up doing this. The more then can sell, the cheaper they'll be to produce. Simple economics of scale. You might not get a $1,000 model, but what about a $2,500 one?
It takes me 6 minutes to rip/encode a typical CD using FLAC on a 1.7 GHz Sempron64+, 52x CD-R running Slackware and using Konqueror to drag-n-drop the files.
..it was recently announced that Linux had been ported to run on a standard wrist watch.
:-)
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You may think you're being funny, but IBM did this back in 2001. So it is hardly "recent".
http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/ngm/wp10
Hell, they even have a version with a 640x480 OLED display.
-Charles
...that professor of psychology is doing a study. What is THE SINGLE BIGGEST heaping pile of bullshit people can be made to swallow if you follow it up with "but if you think about it this way...".
I'll bet he is studying the psychology of cult and conspiracy theory mentalities and he just suckered one of the biggest wannabe cult leaders and PC-conspiracy nuts out there -- Dvorak.
It looks like someone's PhD thesis is going to all but write itself.
-Charles
Hmmm... I wasn't very specific.
I run my own mail server and have it set to do things like:
*REQUIRE* SSL/TLS + AUTH to send/receive mail if you have an account on my system
Bounce, as if my address doesn't exist, any non-whitelisted e-mail
ClamAV, updated twice daily, just to be extra safe
-Charles
To open a bank account I had to show up in person and give them two forms of ID (DL and Passport in my case). It *is* possible to open an account via a telephone, but you'll have to have photocopies of your IDs notarized and faxed/mailed in.
Use an address of a relative with the same last name or a PO box for the initial correspondence and then put in a "moved, no forwarding address" card. Voila! No address on record. Until they try and mail you something, they'll never know. I had an account with a Credit Union for almost 2 years with them having no address on record (and they knew it). I finally gave them a PO box when they needed to mail me another debit card because my first one had expired.
Check out http://www.howtobeinvisible.com/ for info on how a U.S. Citizen can open a Canadian bank account for even more privacy.
-Charles
Correct. This is the method I use for most of my interaction with the bank. They even have an "opt out" of mailing you your written statements. Instead, I get an e-mail telling me the monthly statement is available online on their secure system.