For how long have we been hearing that the lack of Exchange connectivity is what's preventing Linux adoption on the desktop?
What really astonishes me is that open source has made such great leaps in other areas yet there's no apparent replacement for Outlook & Exchange. For a huge number of folk in business, having an open office suite is useless if they don't have calendar sharing, resource scheduling and email/contact sharing amongst groups. Is this really so difficult to achieve?
Push email has already taken off - where's the open source version mobile operators can take up (Though I presume this needs to be developed outside the US to avoid software patent litigation)?
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And if plays for sure had the market share that iTunes has, I'm sure they would be the target of this.
The thing is they don't. Apple might not be used to being in a controlling or dominant position in a market, but they sure as heck better get used to it.
Microsoft do license plays for sure and may indeed be forced to license their new codec as a result of legislation similar to this.
For those that suggest you can reript to another lossy codec, or burn to CD - if microsoft had 90% of the downloaded music market and suggested you do that, you'd be up in arms. Just because it's apple doesn't mean they can do no wrong.
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It's not so much that you need an iPod to enjoy your itunes purchases, but that you are locked into future hardware purchases from Apple
If you buy many albums from the iTunes sture you can enjoy them and all is rosy. Then two years later the battery on your iPod has died, so you look at what's available. You think there are some nice offerings from creative or sandisk but, trouble is, you can't listen to any of your existing purchases. Your locked to Apple.
It's well boyond time that other players were allowed to license Fairplay, and that other music providers be allowed to sell Fairplay encoded tracks.
Ermm, except then you have run two lots of lossy compression over the original music, so it sounds worse than ever. Each lossy format has strengths and weaknesses in different areas of the music. The trouble with two lots of conversion is you get double the weakness and the strengths don't mean it sounds any better, jsut those parts don't get that much worse.
Sure if you don't mind music with limited bass and treble, or are only downloading audiobooks you might be fine. For music to enjoy though, it's not really a solution.
To be fair, the article points out that they have already put in place a redirect.
They point out that it might not be entirely sensible for millions of newsreaders to rely upon downloading a static file from the web each time they open a feed. Most newsreaders (like the one built into Firefox use a local cached copy.
They restored the file so these newsreaders will continue to work for a period long enough that they can be altered to use a local copy.
Whether it's reasonable or not for them to remove the file is, I guess, up to the reader to decide. Personally though, I think it's a fair point that you should never rely on a file hsoted on a server which you have no control over - the file can be altered, vandalised, or in this case simply removed without warning and without you being able to do anything about it.
I have to believe it's a carrier issue - look at the Nokia E61. In Europe you get Wifi and (after firmware v.3) a decent VoIP stack. I mean one that's truly integrated into the phone calls come in and go out just like any cell phone call.
For the US market you get the E62 sans Wifi. So I can sit in starbucks in NYC and someone can call my desk in the UK - my phone rings. For someone from the US visiting London they get to pay roaming charges.
It's also worth pointing out that the E61 can be had for free from UK networks and will happily play MP3s, stream RealAudio content etc etc. I can already add a 2gb micro SD card for about $80 - buy the time the iPohone is released I will probably be able to get 4GB of MP3 storage for a lot less than an iPhone.
Of course we know from other media players that playing MP3s does not make it an iPod - but the Nokia has other benefits. While a proper keyboard may get in the way for some, for me it makes the phone - how easy will it be to compose text messages with a touch screen? Remember there are 40billion text messages sent a year in the UK. Plus the third party apps - I don't use putty much on the phone, but being able to SSH from it, via GPRS or via Wifi can bea lifesaver for a geek.
I'm not sure what you mean by this - surely with a properly caching nameserver, you add almost no additional load to the root nameservers by performing SPF lookups as the query never goes near them? Your own DNS servers might be heavily loaded - in which case you should can additional ones or pay for someone else to provide DNS service. DNS scales easily so that shouldn't be an issue.
A DNS request is tiny compared to bouncing about bits of mail - if you can reject the message before even processing the body thanks to SPF you significantly reduce bandwidth consumption, much more than that spent on a DNS lookup, especially now there are so many image based spams floating about.
yeah, sorry, you need the web n walk max to 'allow' VoIP. I suspect if you behave yourself and stay below the 1GB cap you'd be fine though. Or run it over an SSL tunnel so it looks like encrypted web traffic.
You mena other than T-mobile's web n walk package which costs about £15 / month for 'unlimited' use (capped at 1GB). And yes, you're allowed to do VoIP on that. Ay carrier in the US offer anything even close?
OEM Windows? That's a violation of the licensing agreement...
Why would it be a violation of the license to buy a new mac and an OEM copy of Windows - isn't that exactly what OEM copies are designed for, purchase with a new computer?
they're a big company, and maybe they're known more outside the US, but that brand is hardly on the same level as Google when it comes to world-wide recognition.
They are indeed a big company - owned by France Telecom. But yes, the Oramge brand is much more visible in the UK where they actually trade than in the United States. That's why the article was in a UK newspaper talking about a phone launch in the UK. I'd imagine if Google are planning a phone launch in the United States they'll probably choose to partner with a carrier that actually operates in the US.
We, and many others, still use RBLs as a front line tool to stop spam. Generally it'll stop several thousand emails a day from even entering the mail system.
Spamassassin is great, we have sever custom rules and find it very effective. However it is resource intensive, especially if you are to add features like OCR detection of image spam.
Is it really the case that folk should be accepting all this traffic from known open relays and then spending processor cycles analyzing it?
Is there a middle ground? Some third way that lets lets you reject as much as possible at the start of the SMTP transaction? Greylisting is certainly an option but it presents significant problems too - many companies simply won't respond. Automatic emails will be missed, signup to websites becomes problematic etc etc. What, if any, are the other options?
Nor will I ever recommend Novell products until Novell changes their attitude.
Interesting. So Novell enter an agreement that protects you from being sued by Microsoft, and as a result you'd recommend not using their products in future? What's your business case for that?
You never use cash? Not for getting a haircut? Buying a newspaper? Buying a coffee? Buying a bus ticket? How about buying a beer in a bar - do you pass your card to be swiped for each drink you purchase?
There are still a whole host of low value transactions where cash is the most appropriate way to pay. Perhaps you have changed your lifestyle to fit your no cash utopia, but to suggest that others do likewise because they had the misfortune to be born blind or to have lost their eyesight is plain wrong.
The US is the onlycountry on earth with notes that are indistinguishable from one another for the blind. Here's a hint, it's not because the rest of the world is waiting to catch up to the United States...
With really not a lot of work, this makes a perfect app for asterisk.
Buy an incoming phone number for a couple of $ a month. Setup an extension to accept incoming calls and after a pin gets entered write call to disk.
Playback message for approval.
If accepted send it to the webserver and rebuild the XML file.
Users can now produce a podcast by picking up the phone and calling a number. For the technophobic it just won't get easier than that. And the cost is a lot less than $2000
It's worth bearing in mind that VAT in the UK runs at 17.5%. - other prices (certainly in the US) don't include local sales tax as it varies state to state.
So, for example a UK price of £179 converts to a $US price of 336 or a VAT free price of 285. So there's still a bit of a mark up against as US price of $250, but it's around 15% rather than some of the inflated differences mentioned elsewhere.
With strace can you trace everything from I/O operations through to system calls to monitor your live application without taking anything offline and get almost no performance hit?
Like it or not, dtrace is a huge innovation - it's also open sourced and coming really soon to an operating system near you. I think anyone involved in major application deployments is going to welcome dtrace and think it worthy of the award.
Because when I hook my laptop up to the net away from home using wifi or gprs, it can't get to my ISP's smarthost. So instead I have a publicly accessible server with authetication and SSL set up that I can use from anywhere. This is way better than the last 8 years where I've had to manually change the outgoing server.
The question remains - why aren't you using your ISP's smarthost.
There's no reason you can't run an SMTP server at the end of your cable modem - it, however should still pass it's traffic directly to your ISP's smarthost for onward delivery.
That way you won't hit and RBL lsiting Cable / DSL users.
No. It's much the same as it ever was since the newswires popped up. Your average daily newspaper is composed of hundreds of stories straight of the AP
Actually this is a very US phenomenon as far as I can tell. In the States there tends to be one newspaper per city - even for small cities, usually owned by a conglomerate and employing a tiny handful of journalists backed up by ad sales staff.
In Europe the tendency is more towards papers with national coverage with much larger numbers of journalists required to differentiate their content.
Walk into a shop in the US and you'll likely see the local paper plus, maybe, a Washington Post, NYT or another _big_ paper. Walk into a shop in the UK and you'll have more than a dozen papers to select from, all of varying styles and political slants.
How come British Telecom can DSL enable every exchange then - even the ones in rural areas?
The technology is widely available to provide DSL to as few as 16/24 customers at the exchange and get a sensible ROI. Perhaps you should ask the phone company why they won't provide it?
Every phone exchange in the UK is DSL enabled - I think you'll find rural Scotland and Wales have as low a density as pretty much any rural area in the 48 states.
I've been using the Outlook 2003 remote calendars plugin which is effective in allowing you to share your calendar on Outlook with Thunderbird / Evolution etc.
Most newspapers are used to bying rights to a picture for use in a single issue, for print purposes and for distrobution in a single market. Because they license dozens or hundreds of such images each day tey know exactly what they're getting into. Equally press photographers are used to licensing on this basis too.
When you need to license for the web you need extended rights - how long will you keep the article available for, across multiple markets. Newspapers are getting better at this, and will continue to do so, especially as they derive more and more revenue from the internet. For now though, we just have to wait.
Seriously though, it' s trade-off. We could have this sort of thing in parts of North America, but it would require consumers and gov't to stop moaning and griping about where telecos and cablecos pick to choose their deployments. Cherry-picking, if you will.
British Telecom in the UK have ADSL2 enabled practically every telephone exchange in the UK, menaing over 98% of the population can get ADSL with speeds up to 8MB and pricing (with a monthly cap) starting well below $40US/month.
It might not be the gigabit speeds available elsewhere in Europe or Asia, but the US is nowhere close to offering near universal DSL with decent speeds at an affordable price.
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For how long have we been hearing that the lack of Exchange connectivity is what's preventing Linux adoption on the desktop?
What really astonishes me is that open source has made such great leaps in other areas yet there's no apparent replacement for Outlook & Exchange. For a huge number of folk in business, having an open office suite is useless if they don't have calendar sharing, resource scheduling and email/contact sharing amongst groups. Is this really so difficult to achieve?
Push email has already taken off - where's the open source version mobile operators can take up (Though I presume this needs to be developed outside the US to avoid software patent litigation)?
And if plays for sure had the market share that iTunes has, I'm sure they would be the target of this.
The thing is they don't. Apple might not be used to being in a controlling or dominant position in a market, but they sure as heck better get used to it.
Microsoft do license plays for sure and may indeed be forced to license their new codec as a result of legislation similar to this.
For those that suggest you can reript to another lossy codec, or burn to CD - if microsoft had 90% of the downloaded music market and suggested you do that, you'd be up in arms. Just because it's apple doesn't mean they can do no wrong.
It's not so much that you need an iPod to enjoy your itunes purchases, but that you are locked into future hardware purchases from Apple
If you buy many albums from the iTunes sture you can enjoy them and all is rosy. Then two years later the battery on your iPod has died, so you look at what's available. You think there are some nice offerings from creative or sandisk but, trouble is, you can't listen to any of your existing purchases. Your locked to Apple.
It's well boyond time that other players were allowed to license Fairplay, and that other music providers be allowed to sell Fairplay encoded tracks.
Ermm, except then you have run two lots of lossy compression over the original music, so it sounds worse than ever. Each lossy format has strengths and weaknesses in different areas of the music. The trouble with two lots of conversion is you get double the weakness and the strengths don't mean it sounds any better, jsut those parts don't get that much worse.
Sure if you don't mind music with limited bass and treble, or are only downloading audiobooks you might be fine. For music to enjoy though, it's not really a solution.
To be fair, the article points out that they have already put in place a redirect.
They point out that it might not be entirely sensible for millions of newsreaders to rely upon downloading a static file from the web each time they open a feed. Most newsreaders (like the one built into Firefox use a local cached copy.
They restored the file so these newsreaders will continue to work for a period long enough that they can be altered to use a local copy.
Whether it's reasonable or not for them to remove the file is, I guess, up to the reader to decide. Personally though, I think it's a fair point that you should never rely on a file hsoted on a server which you have no control over - the file can be altered, vandalised, or in this case simply removed without warning and without you being able to do anything about it.
I have to believe it's a carrier issue - look at the Nokia E61. In Europe you get Wifi and (after firmware v.3) a decent VoIP stack. I mean one that's truly integrated into the phone calls come in and go out just like any cell phone call.
For the US market you get the E62 sans Wifi. So I can sit in starbucks in NYC and someone can call my desk in the UK - my phone rings. For someone from the US visiting London they get to pay roaming charges.
It's also worth pointing out that the E61 can be had for free from UK networks and will happily play MP3s, stream RealAudio content etc etc. I can already add a 2gb micro SD card for about $80 - buy the time the iPohone is released I will probably be able to get 4GB of MP3 storage for a lot less than an iPhone.
Of course we know from other media players that playing MP3s does not make it an iPod - but the Nokia has other benefits. While a proper keyboard may get in the way for some, for me it makes the phone - how easy will it be to compose text messages with a touch screen? Remember there are 40billion text messages sent a year in the UK. Plus the third party apps - I don't use putty much on the phone, but being able to SSH from it, via GPRS or via Wifi can bea lifesaver for a geek.
A DNS request is tiny compared to bouncing about bits of mail - if you can reject the message before even processing the body thanks to SPF you significantly reduce bandwidth consumption, much more than that spent on a DNS lookup, especially now there are so many image based spams floating about.
yeah, sorry, you need the web n walk max to 'allow' VoIP. I suspect if you behave yourself and stay below the 1GB cap you'd be fine though. Or run it over an SSL tunnel so it looks like encrypted web traffic.
You mena other than T-mobile's web n walk package which costs about £15 / month for 'unlimited' use (capped at 1GB). And yes, you're allowed to do VoIP on that. Ay carrier in the US offer anything even close?
Why would it be a violation of the license to buy a new mac and an OEM copy of Windows - isn't that exactly what OEM copies are designed for, purchase with a new computer?
Spamassassin is great, we have sever custom rules and find it very effective. However it is resource intensive, especially if you are to add features like OCR detection of image spam.
Is it really the case that folk should be accepting all this traffic from known open relays and then spending processor cycles analyzing it?
Is there a middle ground? Some third way that lets lets you reject as much as possible at the start of the SMTP transaction? Greylisting is certainly an option but it presents significant problems too - many companies simply won't respond. Automatic emails will be missed, signup to websites becomes problematic etc etc. What, if any, are the other options?
Interesting. So Novell enter an agreement that protects you from being sued by Microsoft, and as a result you'd recommend not using their products in future? What's your business case for that?
There are still a whole host of low value transactions where cash is the most appropriate way to pay. Perhaps you have changed your lifestyle to fit your no cash utopia, but to suggest that others do likewise because they had the misfortune to be born blind or to have lost their eyesight is plain wrong.
The US is the onlycountry on earth with notes that are indistinguishable from one another for the blind. Here's a hint, it's not because the rest of the world is waiting to catch up to the United States...
Users can now produce a podcast by picking up the phone and calling a number. For the technophobic it just won't get easier than that. And the cost is a lot less than $2000
So, for example a UK price of £179 converts to a $US price of 336 or a VAT free price of 285. So there's still a bit of a mark up against as US price of $250, but it's around 15% rather than some of the inflated differences mentioned elsewhere.
And this is /. where folk think strace == dtrace
With strace can you trace everything from I/O operations through to system calls to monitor your live application without taking anything offline and get almost no performance hit?
Like it or not, dtrace is a huge innovation - it's also open sourced and coming really soon to an operating system near you. I think anyone involved in major application deployments is going to welcome dtrace and think it worthy of the award.
The question remains - why aren't you using your ISP's smarthost.
There's no reason you can't run an SMTP server at the end of your cable modem - it, however should still pass it's traffic directly to your ISP's smarthost for onward delivery.
That way you won't hit and RBL lsiting Cable / DSL users.
Actually this is a very US phenomenon as far as I can tell. In the States there tends to be one newspaper per city - even for small cities, usually owned by a conglomerate and employing a tiny handful of journalists backed up by ad sales staff.
In Europe the tendency is more towards papers with national coverage with much larger numbers of journalists required to differentiate their content.
Walk into a shop in the US and you'll likely see the local paper plus, maybe, a Washington Post, NYT or another _big_ paper. Walk into a shop in the UK and you'll have more than a dozen papers to select from, all of varying styles and political slants.
The technology is widely available to provide DSL to as few as 16/24 customers at the exchange and get a sensible ROI. Perhaps you should ask the phone company why they won't provide it?
Every phone exchange in the UK is DSL enabled - I think you'll find rural Scotland and Wales have as low a density as pretty much any rural area in the 48 states.
I've been using the Outlook 2003 remote calendars plugin which is effective in allowing you to share your calendar on Outlook with Thunderbird / Evolution etc.
When you need to license for the web you need extended rights - how long will you keep the article available for, across multiple markets. Newspapers are getting better at this, and will continue to do so, especially as they derive more and more revenue from the internet. For now though, we just have to wait.
It might not be the gigabit speeds available elsewhere in Europe or Asia, but the US is nowhere close to offering near universal DSL with decent speeds at an affordable price.