Well, I'm similarly poor, so went with a el cheapo "RAID1" controller. Thats what it said on the packet, but, FreeBSD see's it as a plain old IDE controller. Not to worry, 4 x 120Gb drives, and then use gmirror to create a coupla metadrives with mirroring. Cheap? Yes. But, it works.
-L -- My Mrs looks over my shoulder to read my email, but ignores/. Go figure.
Email administrators for the largest and biggest corporations in the world don't do it all in-house. Even they contract out for support for their enterprise level products. Because their customers and bosses expect great reliability and performance and features and they don't want to wait for several days (or longer) while you read some half-assed documentation on a website, chat up some gurus in IRC and post to some web forums and usenet groups hoping for help.
Speaking as an email admin for an $80bn company, with around 10million internet messages/day, I can say that we do everything in house.
We're a sendmail shop, with mimedefang and spamassassin, and various in-house mods/changes. We deliberately stick with OSS, and have so far resisted the management pressure to go for a commercial 'supported' solution.
-L
8 outta 10.
By no means the cheapest, but then, I go for a business package, to support from working-from-home habit.
Connectivity is pretty much bullet proof
Speed is excellent & stable
Static IP's
no silly filters on what traffic I can/can't use/send
A real 'fire and forget' solution
I'd mark them higher but for their customer support; it's OK, but not first class. Having said that, it's getting slowly better, and they've always been pretty up-front by saying that their support dept needs improvement.
Been with them for four years now, so I guess that says something...
-L
As an ex-3Com employee, the network guys made extensive use of a whiteboard, followed by documenting what they'd done in Visio.
I doubt you'll get all information into one form of documentation; you'll most likely need various 'parts' of documentation. This implies different tools for the job.
Surely a "real" engineer can pull all this together without the need for specific tools?
I'll be keen to know how they can identify the different types if bugs that adorn my window/bumper/etc, as they are usually reduced to a thin layer of slime.
Maybe the 'splatometer' has a soft landing pad to have the bugs not quite so squished?
..and as such, shouldn't be relied upon as a "oh this is definately for rejection".
My firm uses an RBL as a plug in to SpamAssassin. Just being in the RBL by itself isn't enough to get rejected, but it bumps up the score a bit.
Unfortunately, because RBL's are easy to slave and use, too many people rely on them, when the use is now limited. Limited by the fact that the 'big' spammers are incredibly clever these days.
Having said all that, it wouldn't surprise me if AOL started blocking addresses with the '@' symbol...;)
Lee
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'I love spam. Come get me.'
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Well, I'm similarly poor, so went with a el cheapo "RAID1" controller. Thats what it said on the packet, but, FreeBSD see's it as a plain old IDE controller. Not to worry, 4 x 120Gb drives, and then use gmirror to create a coupla metadrives with mirroring. Cheap? Yes. But, it works.
/. Go figure.
-L
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My Mrs looks over my shoulder to read my email, but ignores
Speaking as an email admin for an $80bn company, with around 10million internet messages/day, I can say that we do everything in house.
We're a sendmail shop, with mimedefang and spamassassin, and various in-house mods/changes. We deliberately stick with OSS, and have so far resisted the management pressure to go for a commercial 'supported' solution.
-L
I'd mark them higher but for their customer support; it's OK, but not first class. Having said that, it's getting slowly better, and they've always been pretty up-front by saying that their support dept needs improvement.
Been with them for four years now, so I guess that says something...
-L
..nothing too complex.
As an ex-3Com employee, the network guys made extensive use of a whiteboard, followed by documenting what they'd done in Visio.
I doubt you'll get all information into one form of documentation; you'll most likely need various 'parts' of documentation.
This implies different tools for the job.
Surely a "real" engineer can pull all this together without the need for specific tools?
Guilty as charged m'lud...
I'll be keen to know how they can identify the different types if bugs that adorn my window/bumper/etc, as they are usually reduced to a thin layer of slime. Maybe the 'splatometer' has a soft landing pad to have the bugs not quite so squished?
> somewhat common mistake of treating Europe
> as a country. It isn't.
Yet...
..and as such, shouldn't be relied upon as a "oh this is definately for rejection". My firm uses an RBL as a plug in to SpamAssassin. Just being in the RBL by itself isn't enough to get rejected, but it bumps up the score a bit. Unfortunately, because RBL's are easy to slave and use, too many people rely on them, when the use is now limited. Limited by the fact that the 'big' spammers are incredibly clever these days. Having said all that, it wouldn't surprise me if AOL started blocking addresses with the '@' symbol... ;)
Lee
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'I love spam. Come get me.'
I guess that depends on whether you consider Windows suitable for enterprise use...