Sorry, this isn't going to work. It won't even help a little bit. As a long-time email administrator and the author of an email server I can tell you, with absolute certainty, that spammers ignore the priority of your MX records. In fact, they exploit multiple MX's much of the time, by sending spam to your secondary server(s) even if the primary one is up. In addition to extra target capacity, they often manage to take advantage of badly configured secondaries that might not have spam filtering that's as good as the primary, and in many cases the primary has its secondaries whitelisted to make sure no mail gets accidentally dropped.
What would truly be wonderful is if they figured out a way to get it to tie back into any VoIP arrangement you may already have at home. Real VoIP (plugging in a Vonage black box doesn't count) is still the domain of hackers, at least in the SOHO market. Apple has the talent and the marketing skills to really kick it to the next level.
Much of what Novell was promising for Hula was ideas that have been either implemented or planned in the Citadel project [http://www.citadel.org] anyway. (We pitched Citadel to them about six months before the Hula announcement... and they said they weren't interested, and then they announced their project. Draw your own conclusions.)
Anyway, do try Citadel -- it is a very well-integrated collaboration server with an ajax-style web user interface, built-in data stores, lightweight implementations of all relevant protocols (POP, IMAP, SMTP, etc.)... very easy to install, and just a joy to use.
You know why teens don't think CD copying is a crime?
Because it isn't.
Not inherently, anyway. The natural state of information is free. The pigopolists have made up (read: bought) laws that create an artificial crime out of duplicating otherwise freely available bits. It's all in their imagination, of course, but they've managed to make their farce a reality. Teens see right through that farce and are just ignoring it. Good for them.
True. A couple of years ago there was a dearth of open source PIM software out there. Now there's quite a bit. For the AJAX-minded, there's server software like Citadel. For those who want a fat client, there really isn't anything better than Kontact, which really has come into its own with end-to-end PIM and groupware functions. Put the two together and you've really got an end-to-end solution.
Listen up, pigopolists. LimeWire isn't responsible. YOU are responsible. Your rampant, unchecked greed is the reason we download music using P2P instead of obtaining it directly from you for a nominal fee. LimeWire may be the current conduit, but you are not going to stop P2P by stopping LimeWire. In fact, you are making your own lives more difficult by encouraging the P2P community to devise and deploy a new music sharing system that has no central controlling entity that you can sue. The more heavy-handed you get with us, the harder we are going to fight back. We are NOT going to succumb to your greed. You made your bed, now you can f$%*ing sleep in it.
Cool, if you're doing it to have the best possible level of understanding of the architecture, then more power to you. I can't say I've never done that -- the web interface to my primary software project is written in C and contains its own web server. How's that for archaic?:)
What does that do that this doesn't (other than use a pretty wrapped package)?
Well, for one thing, where you wrote 16 lines of code, doing the same thing in Prototype would have taken 1 line of code. Isn't that the point of wrapper libraries? To make repetitive, commonly used tasks like this one more convenient? (Not to mention, the 1-line Prototype call would also work in IE5 and FF1.0)
Nobody calls XmlHttpRequest() directly anymore. It's too much work, and there are slight differences between browser implementations. Nowadays everyone is using a wrapper library. Prototype is a very common one (it's certainly my favorite) -- abstracts everything into a nice set of functions for you -- you just specify the HTTP call you want to make, and the function you want it to call when the data comes back (because, in case you're not already aware, XmlHttpRequest() returns its data asynchronously).
The other nice thing you can do with Prototype is to avoid XML parsing altogether by saying "ok, here's the URL I want you to call; it's going to return pre-rendered HTML, and when it does, I want you to stick it in this DIV over here; don't bother me about it" and you can do things like automatically update portions of your page without reloading. You can even have an automatically recurring update, which is very cool for things like tickers, clocks, etc. We used it in our AJAX webmail/calendar system and it really worked well.
"Not only are we going to kill Google, we're going to kill Adobe and IBM and Red Hat and Sybase and Oracle! We're going to kill Yahoo and SalesForce.com and eBay! And we're going to kill RealNetworks and AOL and Sony and Nintendo! And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to throw chairs in the White House! Yeeeeeaaaaaah! Developers developers developers!!!"
Sendmail was more useful as a litmus test than as an MTA;)
Actually, that was UUCP. Back when you couldn't just search the web for documentation, if you wanted to get UUCP running you had to figure it out yourself. If you could do a full mesh of three machines into a UUCP network then you were a guru indeed.
1. Random Microsoft dude insults Linux and/or open source 2. Slashdot editors post the story 3. Hordes of slashbots drool and fester and act like it matters -- generating ad revenue for Slashdot in the process 4. PROFIT!
When you think about it, Slashdot is no less of a click troll than Dvorak/ZDnet/etc.
This could be interesting. They don't want to lend support to rivals like Red Hat or Ximian, so they go with a more neutral player. Ubuntu seems to have a lot of steam behind it in the community, and it's a fairly well put together system. Sun may be doing something right this time.
...or at least they want to be. Specifically, the group formerly known as Ximian, who for all practical purposes are in charge now.
Look at their long list of projects that were started because of "Not Invented Here" syndrome, a known Microsoft tactic: GNOME, Mono, etc. etc. the list goes on and on.
Ximian (Novell) are megalomaniacs and they want to take over the Linux space. Let there be no doubt about it.
Yikes... most of Yahoo! runs on unix based servers. Many thousands of them, in fact. Imagine the chaos and ugliness that would ensue over there if Microsoft were to acquire them. They'd have to cut everything over to Windows, and it wouldn't be pretty. In fact, it would give Google an operational advantage over MicroHoo.
This proves that piracy was never the issue, and the RIAA knows it. The real issue has always been that digital distribution eventually renders the RIAA member companies irrelevant. View this as an early desparation move. Maybe they're even moving early enough to stay a little bit relevant for the long term.
Come on people, this is Microsoft we're talking about here. The kings of pre-announcing software the moment they even think of an idea for a product. If they had something in the pipeline, Gates would be talking about how innovative his world is, and Ballmer would be even more hyper and sweaty than usual.
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For a very good Exchange replacement, try Citadel -- http://www.citadel.org/ Your mileage may vary, but the February issue of Linux Journal has declared, "Microsoft Exchange, Meet Your Replacement."
Sorry, this isn't going to work. It won't even help a little bit. As a long-time email administrator and the author of an email server I can tell you, with absolute certainty, that spammers ignore the priority of your MX records. In fact, they exploit multiple MX's much of the time, by sending spam to your secondary server(s) even if the primary one is up. In addition to extra target capacity, they often manage to take advantage of badly configured secondaries that might not have spam filtering that's as good as the primary, and in many cases the primary has its secondaries whitelisted to make sure no mail gets accidentally dropped.
Great idea!
The problem of stock spam can be fixed by the stock market. Zero tolerance. Automatically delist any stock advertised by spam.
What would truly be wonderful is if they figured out a way to get it to tie back into any VoIP arrangement you may already have at home. Real VoIP (plugging in a Vonage black box doesn't count) is still the domain of hackers, at least in the SOHO market. Apple has the talent and the marketing skills to really kick it to the next level.
I'm sure that under President Gates, our beloved stars and stripes will be replaced by the Red, White, and Blue Screen of Death!
Much of what Novell was promising for Hula was ideas that have been either implemented or planned in the Citadel project [http://www.citadel.org] anyway. (We pitched Citadel to them about six months before the Hula announcement ... and they said they weren't interested, and then they announced their project. Draw your own conclusions.)
... very easy to install, and just a joy to use.
Anyway, do try Citadel -- it is a very well-integrated collaboration server with an ajax-style web user interface, built-in data stores, lightweight implementations of all relevant protocols (POP, IMAP, SMTP, etc.)
You know why teens don't think CD copying is a crime?
Because it isn't.
Not inherently, anyway. The natural state of information is free. The pigopolists have made up (read: bought) laws that create an artificial crime out of duplicating otherwise freely available bits. It's all in their imagination, of course, but they've managed to make their farce a reality. Teens see right through that farce and are just ignoring it. Good for them.
...go to http://www.ie7.com
(Seriously. The best browser is there.)
True. A couple of years ago there was a dearth of open source PIM software out there. Now there's quite a bit. For the AJAX-minded, there's server software like Citadel. For those who want a fat client, there really isn't anything better than Kontact, which really has come into its own with end-to-end PIM and groupware functions. Put the two together and you've really got an end-to-end solution.
Listen up, pigopolists. LimeWire isn't responsible. YOU are responsible. Your rampant, unchecked greed is the reason we download music using P2P instead of obtaining it directly from you for a nominal fee. LimeWire may be the current conduit, but you are not going to stop P2P by stopping LimeWire. In fact, you are making your own lives more difficult by encouraging the P2P community to devise and deploy a new music sharing system that has no central controlling entity that you can sue. The more heavy-handed you get with us, the harder we are going to fight back. We are NOT going to succumb to your greed. You made your bed, now you can f$%*ing sleep in it.
Cool, if you're doing it to have the best possible level of understanding of the architecture, then more power to you. I can't say I've never done that -- the web interface to my primary software project is written in C and contains its own web server. How's that for archaic? :)
Well, for one thing, where you wrote 16 lines of code, doing the same thing in Prototype would have taken 1 line of code. Isn't that the point of wrapper libraries? To make repetitive, commonly used tasks like this one more convenient? (Not to mention, the 1-line Prototype call would also work in IE5 and FF1.0)
Nobody calls XmlHttpRequest() directly anymore. It's too much work, and there are slight differences between browser implementations. Nowadays everyone is using a wrapper library. Prototype is a very common one (it's certainly my favorite) -- abstracts everything into a nice set of functions for you -- you just specify the HTTP call you want to make, and the function you want it to call when the data comes back (because, in case you're not already aware, XmlHttpRequest() returns its data asynchronously).
The other nice thing you can do with Prototype is to avoid XML parsing altogether by saying "ok, here's the URL I want you to call; it's going to return pre-rendered HTML, and when it does, I want you to stick it in this DIV over here; don't bother me about it" and you can do things like automatically update portions of your page without reloading. You can even have an automatically recurring update, which is very cool for things like tickers, clocks, etc. We used it in our AJAX webmail/calendar system and it really worked well.
"Not only are we going to kill Google, we're going to kill Adobe and IBM and Red Hat and Sybase and Oracle! We're going to kill Yahoo and SalesForce.com and eBay! And we're going to kill RealNetworks and AOL and Sony and Nintendo! And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to throw chairs in the White House! Yeeeeeaaaaaah! Developers developers developers!!!"
...or maybe the inanity, your choice. He mentions Vista and CSS in the same sentence, and then focuses on CSS for a rant about things that don't work?
Sendmail was more useful as a litmus test than as an MTA ;)
Actually, that was UUCP. Back when you couldn't just search the web for documentation, if you wanted to get UUCP running you had to figure it out yourself. If you could do a full mesh of three machines into a UUCP network then you were a guru indeed.
1. Random Microsoft dude insults Linux and/or open source
2. Slashdot editors post the story
3. Hordes of slashbots drool and fester and act like it matters -- generating ad revenue for Slashdot in the process
4. PROFIT!
When you think about it, Slashdot is no less of a click troll than Dvorak/ZDnet/etc.
This could be interesting. They don't want to lend support to rivals like Red Hat or Ximian, so they go with a more neutral player. Ubuntu seems to have a lot of steam behind it in the community, and it's a fairly well put together system. Sun may be doing something right this time.
...or at least they want to be. Specifically, the group formerly known as Ximian, who for all practical purposes are in charge now.
Look at their long list of projects that were started because of "Not Invented Here" syndrome, a known Microsoft tactic: GNOME, Mono, etc. etc. the list goes on and on.
Ximian (Novell) are megalomaniacs and they want to take over the Linux space. Let there be no doubt about it.
Yikes ... most of Yahoo! runs on unix based servers. Many thousands of them, in fact. Imagine the chaos and ugliness that would ensue over there if Microsoft were to acquire them. They'd have to cut everything over to Windows, and it wouldn't be pretty. In fact, it would give Google an operational advantage over MicroHoo.
This proves that piracy was never the issue, and the RIAA knows it. The real issue has always been that digital distribution eventually renders the RIAA member companies irrelevant. View this as an early desparation move. Maybe they're even moving early enough to stay a little bit relevant for the long term.
Holy crap, they're actually going to try it. They're actually going to build a television that won't let you change the channel during a commercial.
Hopefully this will be the catalyst that finally gets Joe Sixpak pissed off enough for anti-DRM angst to go mainstream.
Come on people, this is Microsoft we're talking about here. The kings of pre-announcing software the moment they even think of an idea for a product. If they had something in the pipeline, Gates would be talking about how innovative his world is, and Ballmer would be even more hyper and sweaty than usual.