Yeah, too bad qmail has almost died of starvation already due to djb's stupidity about licencing and his lack of understanding of community supported software.
If he had allowed the community to support it as much as people tried to do in spite of him, then postfix might never have been heard of.
If I want to keep running qmail, then I have to live with the inadequacies and incomaptibilities it has for at least a year while a fledgling community forms around the carcass of djb's overgrown baby. Too bad he didn't let it mature on its own.
Why wait for it to be sorted out? I can use Postfix now.
Once this thing is really happening, maybe people like you will stop trying to convince me that M$ office is the "standard". It is everywhere, but I don't accept it as a standard since it's not open enough to work with. OpenOffice has done an incredible job of making it a non-proprietary format but I'd rather just simply reject it. I have no problem telling clients and others that DOC files as email attachments are a waste of my time, even though I can open them with the word processor of my choice.
And as for Corel, I've been mad at them since they gave up shipping a word pro for Linux. Not that they were ever really good at it but they were trying for a while. WINE is not a word pro for Linux.
This is the only possible explanation, and the first one that came to mind when I read the list of requirements. Your boss probably has enough technical background to know buzzwords, but not enough experience to know which ones matter.
If you knew what _business problem_ you were solving, these requirements would be irrelevant.
First, if your domain is expiring and you want it to remain active, you may have to phone NSI and renew by credit card (when you call, you may ask to speak to Satan directly). Renewing this way you don't have to worry about any authentication - they'll always take your money. Rule #1 is to stay in business.
Second, boycot NSI.
Third, pick another registrar and do the transfer.
I received a copy of an e-mail one of my clients received from NSI that explains their policies on retaining domains. It illustrates that you need to do the transfer before actual expiry, and you can't do the transfer just after renewal either - they have a waiting period (?!).
These guys have instructions on how to escape from NSI. The NSI web site is a waste of time - don't look for answers there.
I think the responsible thing for all us geeks to do is to convince everyone else to boycot NSI because when they send out renewal notices people don't realize that they have a choice. Often, explaining the $$ savings is enough. The freedom is that much better.
fwiw, we are an affiliated OpenSRS vendor, but we only use it internally for our clients' registrations. It's much easier that way because we can make sure that the reg'ns are done correctly by us. I'd recommend any site using OpenSRS.
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Yeah, too bad qmail has almost died of starvation already due to djb's stupidity about licencing and his lack of understanding of community supported software.
If he had allowed the community to support it as much as people tried to do in spite of him, then postfix might never have been heard of.
If I want to keep running qmail, then I have to live with the inadequacies and incomaptibilities it has for at least a year while a fledgling community forms around the carcass of djb's overgrown baby. Too bad he didn't let it mature on its own.
Why wait for it to be sorted out? I can use Postfix now.
Once this thing is really happening, maybe people like you will stop trying to convince me that M$ office is the "standard". It is everywhere, but I don't accept it as a standard since it's not open enough to work with. OpenOffice has done an incredible job of making it a non-proprietary format but I'd rather just simply reject it. I have no problem telling clients and others that DOC files as email attachments are a waste of my time, even though I can open them with the word processor of my choice.
And as for Corel, I've been mad at them since they gave up shipping a word pro for Linux. Not that they were ever really good at it but they were trying for a while. WINE is not a word pro for Linux.
This is the only possible explanation, and the first one that came to mind when I read the list of requirements. Your boss probably has enough technical background to know buzzwords, but not enough experience to know which ones matter.
If you knew what _business problem_ you were solving, these requirements would be irrelevant.
First, if your domain is expiring and you want it to remain active, you may have to phone NSI and renew by credit card (when you call, you may ask to speak to Satan directly). Renewing this way you don't have to worry about any authentication - they'll always take your money. Rule #1 is to stay in business.
Second, boycot NSI.
Third, pick another registrar and do the transfer.
I received a copy of an e-mail one of my clients received from NSI that explains their policies on retaining domains. It illustrates that you need to do the transfer before actual expiry, and you can't do the transfer just after renewal either - they have a waiting period (?!).
These guys have instructions on how to escape from NSI. The NSI web site is a waste of time - don't look for answers there.
I think the responsible thing for all us geeks to do is to convince everyone else to boycot NSI because when they send out renewal notices people don't realize that they have a choice. Often, explaining the $$ savings is enough. The freedom is that much better.
fwiw, we are an affiliated OpenSRS vendor, but we only use it internally for our clients' registrations. It's much easier that way because we can make sure that the reg'ns are done correctly by us. I'd recommend any site using OpenSRS.
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