I'm a satisfied user of Google Apps for Education. We did this transition back in August of this year for our users. We do not currently do student email through the service as there is not a good way short of the address formating to specify a student account vs a faculty or staff user. But we are going to have student email accounts next semester.
To clear up a few misconceptions: 1. Ads are turned off for our domain. Nobody will see a google ad in their email client. 2. There is POP and IMAP support just like the normal gmail accounts. 3. It is the most stable beta I've ever seen.
The reason I pushed this is that it is relatively easy and their spam and virus filtering are way better than anything we tried here. I am the only one of the four IT staff that has a serious clue as to running a successful email system and I plan on leaving soon to pursue other opportunities as they say. Gapps is easy for my boss and the other support staff to manage.
We are on connection that has not gone down for an unplanned outage since it was installed in May. Our previous connections were almost as stable with less than 10 minutes of downtime in a year.
It is speedy, it is ubiquitous, and it is cost effective. If students have privacy concerns they can learn how to forward stuff to a POP account someplace else and delete the mail from the gmail box.
Same here. Except that I work in the MIS department for my community college and we are supposed to provide free tech support to the B&N employees. I refuse to do so and have told my boss as well as the administration that I am not supporting them until I can charge them the standard labor rate of $100 an hour (2 hour minimum) for any little call.
Because you really want to put 5000+ pieces of network equipment (a router none the less) designed for the home into an enterprise network. I find it amazing that companies the world over have not gone that route and replaced their managed Cisco wireless access points with unmanaged d-links from Office Depot.
Looks like Microsoft a) does not make a enterprise level access point & b) does not even make a home/home office level router/ap anymore.
This is non-news. Good for Microsoft, they made a business desision to buy hardware capible of serving the needs that they have. Whoopity-Do it runs Linux.
The last 10 or so PCs (Optiplexes? Optiplexi?) we got from Dell had Google Desktop already installed on them along with the Google Toolbar integrated into IE. They were ordered and received back in the late March early April time frame.
I have a friend who inherited a working install between a bunch of OLD wireless access points for an inventory system. He has converted everything else over to the Ether Bunny, but his management is not in the mood to put in and replace a bunch of RF equipment.
I used to order stuff on my personal cc and have it shipped to my work address because I knew a) I would be there during the day and b) it would get there by 10:30am every time (we were one of the first places on the UPS and FedEx routes). I never had a problem with newegg shipping to me at work with out having that address on file with the credit card company. They were in the same city and zip code though, so that might have something to do with it.
Re:Sigh... This really is a FEATURE
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Gmail Mis.delivered?
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Question is, if an account named username@gmail.com already exists, can you create an account named user.name@gmail.com ?
No you cannot. And vise versa. You cannot create an account someuser@gmail.com if someone already has some.user@gmail.com. It seems to retire all dot variations of a name when you register the nondotted basename. I personally registered a firstname.lastname@gmail.com account. When I send mail to firstnamelastname@gmail.com it comes to the registered account with the dot in it.
This is a non-issue. Chicken.Little@gmail.com, the sky is not falling and some l33t hacker is not reading your mail because they own chickenlittle@gmail.com, you own chickenlittle@gmail.com, you jackass.
As a Bellsouth telephone subscriber, fuck yea they charge a fat monthly fee. That said, I'll never use them again, if I can help it. Most places around here, it cannot be helped. Either you have to use them for phone service and/or there are no other options for high speed internet in a home. If you are smaller than x number of phone lines, you have to hang dollars bills around your neck to get a CLEC to talk to you.
I don't see this idea surving a legal challenge. Bellsouth could become GooglePhone if they are not careful.
WARNING if you are on Windows uninstall.....
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Uninstall your old versions of Thunderbird before running the installer for 1.5. I and a few other have had trouble when we let the installer for 1.5 just overwrite the older version. Backup your profiles, uninstall old version, install 1.5, and you should be good to go.
Zebra 2844Z beats the Dymo stuff hands down. My dad uses Dymos to print his prescription lables in his veterinary clinic and they are a pain in the ass to support because they sometimes just stop working.
I personally have used a ton of Zebra products from the rebadged Eltrons that come from FedEx and UPS to their large industral quality printers. The 2844Z is easy to use, easy to clean, and has a well documented control language to control the printer. The Z stands for ZPL or Zebra Printer Language and is fully documented.
WARNING: The 2844 with no Z is the rebaged Eltrons that UPS send out. I have not had that great of success with them when doing anything but using them with UPS Worldship. They are durable printers in the warehouses of the world though, so your mileage may vary.
I wonder how much they have done that since the CLECs have moved in.
1. Customer Switches to competitor
2. Threaten Customer with Exorbitant Bill for BS contract that never existed
3. ???
4. Add to profit by writing off fake charges!
It is not a secret at all. Ask any lineman you see sitting at box by the road with a laptop; they do not respond as quickly to request that are on circuits serviced by competitors. I have seen it time and time again in dealing with Bellsouth in the last 10 years. I've had a service request for an Frame that required a "reset" of a card in a street-side box. The 1st time it was a Bellsouth circuit; took them literally 2 hours to get out, reset it, and have it back up. The 2nd time the parent company had switched the provider to a CLEC and for the EXACT SAME PROBLEM/RESOLUTION took 3 days. The lineman confirmed that it was the same problem it was 2 months earlier. Same lineman, same location, different service provider.
Their system can and most likely does prioritize Bellsouth circuits higher than ITC/Deltacom, Sprint, MCI, or whatever other telecom you can think of. The how is easy. The why is obvious.
I wish I could get rid of the $70 a month I pay them for home telecommunications extortion service (it barely qualifies as such). There are no other phone companies where I live in Alabama for home service.
That said, at work when we switched from Bellsouth to another CLEC here, Bellsouth sent us a bill for $30,000 for "Unfulfilled Contract". That was all it showed, a line item for "Unfulfilled Contract" Cost $30,000. They could not produce a copy of the contract that we supposedly had not fulfilled. Needless to say, it did not get paid.
Reneging on their offer to house the NOPD just screams of a whiney corporation not getting their way. Jackasses!
When iTunes first opened up on Windows, they had songs that were long still priced at 99 cents. I know because I bought Miles Davis's Bitches Brew and it rings in at a tick longer than 27 minutes. After checking, it is still 99 cents.
I think it has more to do with the labels or artist preferences. I think it is stupid that they want me to buy the whole album because the song went over 8 minutes. I do not want the whole album, just that song.
PVR-500MCE is $138 at Newegg...
I have one in my Pundit-R. It works beautiflly with SageTV, BeyondTV, and GBPVR. Had to use a shoe horn to get it in the the box though, it is a large card.
Two NASA test stands for engine and spacecraft development. Dynamic Engine test stands at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. Used to test the F1 Engines for the Saturn V as well as the Space Shuttle main engines. Dynamic test stand also at MSFC. Also if you look to the upper left you can see the first test stand that was used at Redstone Arsenal for rocket engine testing by Werner Von Braun and his team.:)
Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL
Here you can see one Saturn V on its side, one mock up Space Shuttle with Fuel Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters, one full size Saturn V replica standing upright, and a whole bunch of other rockets from the last 60+ years. There is also an A12 (SR-71 predecessor) out front close to the the interstate, but it does not show up that well in the image.
Because people are fucking dumb?
I mean seriously, how dense to you have to be to realize that there is no expectation of privacy at work. It is usually spelled out in the policies. If they own or pay for the computer, the network, or whatever other methods your connect with, they are going to be able to know what is passing between those devices.
Yeah,
But the folks there at Quantigy have only had 9.5 years to plan for it. Most of the good people there left for other places years ago.
USC/Auburn would have been a good game. I think we could have at least given SC a better game than OU did...
War Eagle!
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I'm a satisfied user of Google Apps for Education. We did this transition back in August of this year for our users. We do not currently do student email through the service as there is not a good way short of the address formating to specify a student account vs a faculty or staff user. But we are going to have student email accounts next semester.
To clear up a few misconceptions:
1. Ads are turned off for our domain. Nobody will see a google ad in their email client.
2. There is POP and IMAP support just like the normal gmail accounts.
3. It is the most stable beta I've ever seen.
The reason I pushed this is that it is relatively easy and their spam and virus filtering are way better than anything we tried here. I am the only one of the four IT staff that has a serious clue as to running a successful email system and I plan on leaving soon to pursue other opportunities as they say. Gapps is easy for my boss and the other support staff to manage.
We are on connection that has not gone down for an unplanned outage since it was installed in May. Our previous connections were almost as stable with less than 10 minutes of downtime in a year.
It is speedy, it is ubiquitous, and it is cost effective. If students have privacy concerns they can learn how to forward stuff to a POP account someplace else and delete the mail from the gmail box.
Same here. Except that I work in the MIS department for my community college and we are supposed to provide free tech support to the B&N employees. I refuse to do so and have told my boss as well as the administration that I am not supporting them until I can charge them the standard labor rate of $100 an hour (2 hour minimum) for any little call.
Press Release on Red Envelope having 2 years of uptime at 365 Main - San Francisco from today: http://365main.com/press_releases/pr_7_24_07_red_e nvelope.html
What I find intresting is that Microsoft do not even list that Router/AP on their hardware products page anymore: http://www.microsoft.com/products/info/default.asp x?view=22&pcid=c250fb0a-1613-4550-983d-ba203f35769 8
Looks like Microsoft a) does not make a enterprise level access point & b) does not even make a home/home office level router/ap anymore.
This is non-news. Good for Microsoft, they made a business desision to buy hardware capible of serving the needs that they have. Whoopity-Do it runs Linux.
Well done.
What makes this different?
I have a friend who inherited a working install between a bunch of OLD wireless access points for an inventory system. He has converted everything else over to the Ether Bunny, but his management is not in the mood to put in and replace a bunch of RF equipment.
I used to order stuff on my personal cc and have it shipped to my work address because I knew a) I would be there during the day and b) it would get there by 10:30am every time (we were one of the first places on the UPS and FedEx routes). I never had a problem with newegg shipping to me at work with out having that address on file with the credit card company. They were in the same city and zip code though, so that might have something to do with it.
Question is, if an account named username@gmail.com already exists, can you create an account named user.name@gmail.com ?
No you cannot. And vise versa. You cannot create an account someuser@gmail.com if someone already has some.user@gmail.com. It seems to retire all dot variations of a name when you register the nondotted basename. I personally registered a firstname.lastname@gmail.com account. When I send mail to firstnamelastname@gmail.com it comes to the registered account with the dot in it.
This is a non-issue. Chicken.Little@gmail.com, the sky is not falling and some l33t hacker is not reading your mail because they own chickenlittle@gmail.com, you own chickenlittle@gmail.com, you jackass.
All that said, my ISP is not Bellsouth, thank Dog.
I don't see this idea surving a legal challenge. Bellsouth could become GooglePhone if they are not careful.
Uninstall your old versions of Thunderbird before running the installer for 1.5. I and a few other have had trouble when we let the installer for 1.5 just overwrite the older version. Backup your profiles, uninstall old version, install 1.5, and you should be good to go.
I recommend using the comment page here
I personally have used a ton of Zebra products from the rebadged Eltrons that come from FedEx and UPS to their large industral quality printers. The 2844Z is easy to use, easy to clean, and has a well documented control language to control the printer. The Z stands for ZPL or Zebra Printer Language and is fully documented.
WARNING: The 2844 with no Z is the rebaged Eltrons that UPS send out. I have not had that great of success with them when doing anything but using them with UPS Worldship. They are durable printers in the warehouses of the world though, so your mileage may vary.
I wonder how much they have done that since the CLECs have moved in. 1. Customer Switches to competitor 2. Threaten Customer with Exorbitant Bill for BS contract that never existed 3. ??? 4. Add to profit by writing off fake charges!
Their system can and most likely does prioritize Bellsouth circuits higher than ITC/Deltacom, Sprint, MCI, or whatever other telecom you can think of. The how is easy. The why is obvious.
That said, at work when we switched from Bellsouth to another CLEC here, Bellsouth sent us a bill for $30,000 for "Unfulfilled Contract". That was all it showed, a line item for "Unfulfilled Contract" Cost $30,000. They could not produce a copy of the contract that we supposedly had not fulfilled. Needless to say, it did not get paid.
Reneging on their offer to house the NOPD just screams of a whiney corporation not getting their way. Jackasses!
I think it has more to do with the labels or artist preferences. I think it is stupid that they want me to buy the whole album because the song went over 8 minutes. I do not want the whole album, just that song.
I smell a DMCA violation on the /. front page!
Cue the Sony lawyers in 4..3..2....
PVR-500MCE is $138 at Newegg... I have one in my Pundit-R. It works beautiflly with SageTV, BeyondTV, and GBPVR. Had to use a shoe horn to get it in the the box though, it is a large card.
Dynamic Engine test stands at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. Used to test the F1 Engines for the Saturn V as well as the Space Shuttle main engines.
Dynamic test stand also at MSFC.
Also if you look to the upper left you can see the first test stand that was used at Redstone Arsenal for rocket engine testing by Werner Von Braun and his team.
Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL
Here you can see one Saturn V on its side, one mock up Space Shuttle with Fuel Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters, one full size Saturn V replica standing upright, and a whole bunch of other rockets from the last 60+ years. There is also an A12 (SR-71 predecessor) out front close to the the interstate, but it does not show up that well in the image.
The Keyhole LT Client is kind of fun to play with as well.
Same Problem 2 boxes = 2 SKU Pain in the ass from an inventory management perspective.
I mean seriously, how dense to you have to be to realize that there is no expectation of privacy at work. It is usually spelled out in the policies. If they own or pay for the computer, the network, or whatever other methods your connect with, they are going to be able to know what is passing between those devices.
Duh.
Yeah, But the folks there at Quantigy have only had 9.5 years to plan for it. Most of the good people there left for other places years ago. USC/Auburn would have been a good game. I think we could have at least given SC a better game than OU did... War Eagle!