Hmm, I guess those cities suck then. I live out in the sticks in Ohio (my neighbors are a farm, a horse farm, and another 1 acre plot) and I have the option of two cable companies, U-verse (fiber to the curb), somewhat slow DSL from many providers, or wireless broadband. All of them but the wireless ISP offer triple play options. Not to say I wouldn't like higher speeds, but other than digital VoD I can't think of many technologies that won't run over all of my available options.
Just so you know next time you can mount the registry over the network. From regedit go to File->Connect network Registry. Useful for turning on remote desktop on a machine you forgot to click the check box on.
Uh, there are PLENTY of Notes consultants. Almost every nationwide consulting firm has a Notes practice along with an Exchange practice. If you are talking about Bob's Server Fixit, probably not as much since Notes hasn't typically played in the space their clients are in.
No, OST's are simply a local cache of the users mailbox on the Exchange server, they are throw away copies. The real mail resides in the Exchange Information Store. If you want to archive you use a real server based archive solution, not some convoluted PST based ad-hoc archiving solution which will all but guarantee lost data. You also have real control over retention policy which can significantly reduce discovery costs as there is no asking for file server tapes to try to recover mail from PST's.
$20K to support OST?!?!? WHAT! It reduces cost by ensuring that all email is on the server where it belongs, where it's cheap and easy to back up! I'm sorry but if you are still running Office 2000/XP you're going to have to upgrade eventually and if you're running Exchange it's just stupid not to. (We run Notes at my current employer and so are running about half Office 2000 but we've been upgrading for the last year as we know it goes out of support soon). Oh and maildir restore solutions suck absolute ass. Have you ever had to restore hundreds of gigs in tens of millions of files? It ain't pretty or fast. Also you are costing a ton more for storage because you aren't using single instance store. In fact for many organizations the Exchange licenses can pay for themselves because they perform data deduplication, ain't that the storage buzzword today =)
Coupled with Outlook's habit of saving all your email in a single.PST file
Uh, the first thing I do to an Exchange org is turn of PST's and required OST's.
that can't be incrementally backed up
Get a better backup solution there are products that can incrementally backup PST's
and has a maximum isze of 2 GB,
Hasn't been true for 5 years, since Outlook 2003
you have a ridiculously poor mail service that requires extensive client backup to protect email.
As I said, I don't let the clients have more than a cache of what's on the Exchange server.
It doesn't mirror well, it doesn't fail-over well, and it doesn't spread the load well with less than a $100,000 investment in hardware and server room and configuration time.
True enough, though I did it for a heck of a lot less than $100K, but it had worse failover time than an Exchange native solution. Notes takes quite a bit of effort to failover correctly as well.
Only with Exchange 2003 SP2 and only if you set the registry key to expand the store limit from 18GB to 75GB. In RTM and SP1 the limit is 16GB. Also if you don't want to run into silent corruption issues you better keep the information store small enough to do maintenance in your window or use one of your stores as a swing facility. You empty all users from a store to the swing store then delete and recreate the original store then move the users back. Failure to do this WILL result in problems, many of which are hard to diagnose and may affect only older data which is not frequently accessed. Of course you need to do the same kind of maintenance in a Notes environment too.
There's only a finite amount of wealth if we were still on the gold standard. Since we are ever increasing the amount of material possessions and increasing life expectancy and lowering the need for manual labor I would argue that we are increasing "wealth" all the time. Of course you can measure wealth as the input to the stuff we consume and in that case the limiting factor is *energy*, exactly what we hope to expand by going to non-fossil fuels.
Uh ask the user? It's not so difficult! You can even use this thing called cookies to store that preference on the device so that the user need not be tied to a specific access method across devices.
Latency is horrible to satellites and bandwidth is limited by device transmit power. A much better idea is very high altitude balloons. Use solar power to keep the balloon within tolerance and you have basically solved both problems while having a launch cost a fraction of what even a small comm satellite costs.
Not to mention that the first loss was completely avoidable if they had just listened to their technical advisor's! The shuttle program was designed with a loss rate of 1 in 100 launches and if it wasn't for the stupid PHB's we would be at 20% better than that. The follow up is designed with a loss rate of 1 in 1000 launches, but at a reduced technical capability.
Hmm, well India is now a partner in GLONASS so there will soon be a total of three global positioning networks. Assuming they all use different frequencies a smart device should be able to do much quicker and much more accurate atmosphere corrections. I can't imagine that being a bad thing =)
Majority, yes, but it's just barely a supermajority. There's around 30% of web users in the US that are on non-broadband connections and I would argue that the number is actually growing as small wireless devices use grows and the number of people stuck on dialup is fairly static at this point.
Uh, use style sheets and some dynamic scripting to offer something ala slashdot's lite mode. It's not just people on dialup, an increasing number of web users access the internet through small smart devices that due to the need to run on batteries use slower cpu's and have less ram and generally slower network connections. To get the biggest audience you need to be able to scale your site to the clients needs, and afterall that is the point of a markup language =)
I'd argue that the average flash object is probably smaller than the average animated GIF. Of course that's counterbalanced by the fact that you have to run the flash interpreter which bloats local ram usage. Oh and flashblock and image.animate_mode once take care of both from a distraction standpoint =)
Often they are welded on and there are leads for connecting another battery when it dies. These are often just another set of jumper leads and are not clearly labeled.
I just asked our helpdesk guys and it's about 2.5% per year for the client machines. Brands there are all over the place as Lenovo puts whatevers cheapest in the machines.
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After listening to the interview on NPR yesterday with the CEO I'm not in the least bit surprised. He seemed to be a fairly cool idealist who was building a site to scratch a need and then happened to develop it into a successful small company. He has repeatedly refused to turn the company into a commercial cash cow, and as he points out 95+% percent of the dotcom's that were started with the intent of going commercial are now out of business. He has a small company with a good product that makes enough money to support their costs and keep a small number of IT people employed.
Ok, how many Seagate drive have you had fail? I currently have about 500 spinning in my datacenter. That failure rate is for the last 22 months. Mostly I'm pointing out that your anecdotal evidence of a couple failures is bunk compared to the huge number of installations out there running the stuff with little or no problems.
Yeah for example they can use firewire DMA mode to read the crypto password from RAM. Since this is a hardware fault with the design of the Firewire spec there is no way to guard against it other than to turn off all firewire ports or remove them.
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Hmm, I guess those cities suck then. I live out in the sticks in Ohio (my neighbors are a farm, a horse farm, and another 1 acre plot) and I have the option of two cable companies, U-verse (fiber to the curb), somewhat slow DSL from many providers, or wireless broadband. All of them but the wireless ISP offer triple play options. Not to say I wouldn't like higher speeds, but other than digital VoD I can't think of many technologies that won't run over all of my available options.
NTFS already supports large cluster sizes up to 64K so it isn't a problem on Windows. I assume most modern FS's have variable cluster size support.
Driving more write pins cost electricity and causes heat, both things that are often to be avoided when you are using flash.
Just so you know next time you can mount the registry over the network. From regedit go to File->Connect network Registry. Useful for turning on remote desktop on a machine you forgot to click the check box on.
Landesk already does all that and supports mac's and handhelds as well.
Uh, there are PLENTY of Notes consultants. Almost every nationwide consulting firm has a Notes practice along with an Exchange practice. If you are talking about Bob's Server Fixit, probably not as much since Notes hasn't typically played in the space their clients are in.
No, OST's are simply a local cache of the users mailbox on the Exchange server, they are throw away copies. The real mail resides in the Exchange Information Store. If you want to archive you use a real server based archive solution, not some convoluted PST based ad-hoc archiving solution which will all but guarantee lost data. You also have real control over retention policy which can significantly reduce discovery costs as there is no asking for file server tapes to try to recover mail from PST's.
$20K to support OST?!?!? WHAT! It reduces cost by ensuring that all email is on the server where it belongs, where it's cheap and easy to back up! I'm sorry but if you are still running Office 2000/XP you're going to have to upgrade eventually and if you're running Exchange it's just stupid not to. (We run Notes at my current employer and so are running about half Office 2000 but we've been upgrading for the last year as we know it goes out of support soon). Oh and maildir restore solutions suck absolute ass. Have you ever had to restore hundreds of gigs in tens of millions of files? It ain't pretty or fast. Also you are costing a ton more for storage because you aren't using single instance store. In fact for many organizations the Exchange licenses can pay for themselves because they perform data deduplication, ain't that the storage buzzword today =)
Coupled with Outlook's habit of saving all your email in a single .PST file
Uh, the first thing I do to an Exchange org is turn of PST's and required OST's.
that can't be incrementally backed up
Get a better backup solution there are products that can incrementally backup PST's
and has a maximum isze of 2 GB,
Hasn't been true for 5 years, since Outlook 2003
you have a ridiculously poor mail service that requires extensive client backup to protect email.
As I said, I don't let the clients have more than a cache of what's on the Exchange server.
It doesn't mirror well, it doesn't fail-over well, and it doesn't spread the load well with less than a $100,000 investment in hardware and server room and configuration time.
True enough, though I did it for a heck of a lot less than $100K, but it had worse failover time than an Exchange native solution. Notes takes quite a bit of effort to failover correctly as well.
Only with Exchange 2003 SP2 and only if you set the registry key to expand the store limit from 18GB to 75GB. In RTM and SP1 the limit is 16GB. Also if you don't want to run into silent corruption issues you better keep the information store small enough to do maintenance in your window or use one of your stores as a swing facility. You empty all users from a store to the swing store then delete and recreate the original store then move the users back. Failure to do this WILL result in problems, many of which are hard to diagnose and may affect only older data which is not frequently accessed. Of course you need to do the same kind of maintenance in a Notes environment too.
There's only a finite amount of wealth if we were still on the gold standard. Since we are ever increasing the amount of material possessions and increasing life expectancy and lowering the need for manual labor I would argue that we are increasing "wealth" all the time. Of course you can measure wealth as the input to the stuff we consume and in that case the limiting factor is *energy*, exactly what we hope to expand by going to non-fossil fuels.
Uh ask the user? It's not so difficult! You can even use this thing called cookies to store that preference on the device so that the user need not be tied to a specific access method across devices.
Latency is horrible to satellites and bandwidth is limited by device transmit power. A much better idea is very high altitude balloons. Use solar power to keep the balloon within tolerance and you have basically solved both problems while having a launch cost a fraction of what even a small comm satellite costs.
Not to mention that the first loss was completely avoidable if they had just listened to their technical advisor's! The shuttle program was designed with a loss rate of 1 in 100 launches and if it wasn't for the stupid PHB's we would be at 20% better than that. The follow up is designed with a loss rate of 1 in 1000 launches, but at a reduced technical capability.
Hmm, well India is now a partner in GLONASS so there will soon be a total of three global positioning networks. Assuming they all use different frequencies a smart device should be able to do much quicker and much more accurate atmosphere corrections. I can't imagine that being a bad thing =)
Majority, yes, but it's just barely a supermajority. There's around 30% of web users in the US that are on non-broadband connections and I would argue that the number is actually growing as small wireless devices use grows and the number of people stuck on dialup is fairly static at this point.
Uh, use style sheets and some dynamic scripting to offer something ala slashdot's lite mode. It's not just people on dialup, an increasing number of web users access the internet through small smart devices that due to the need to run on batteries use slower cpu's and have less ram and generally slower network connections. To get the biggest audience you need to be able to scale your site to the clients needs, and afterall that is the point of a markup language =)
I'd argue that the average flash object is probably smaller than the average animated GIF. Of course that's counterbalanced by the fact that you have to run the flash interpreter which bloats local ram usage. Oh and flashblock and image.animate_mode once take care of both from a distraction standpoint =)
Often they are welded on and there are leads for connecting another battery when it dies. These are often just another set of jumper leads and are not clearly labeled.
I just asked our helpdesk guys and it's about 2.5% per year for the client machines. Brands there are all over the place as Lenovo puts whatevers cheapest in the machines.
After listening to the interview on NPR yesterday with the CEO I'm not in the least bit surprised. He seemed to be a fairly cool idealist who was building a site to scratch a need and then happened to develop it into a successful small company. He has repeatedly refused to turn the company into a commercial cash cow, and as he points out 95+% percent of the dotcom's that were started with the intent of going commercial are now out of business. He has a small company with a good product that makes enough money to support their costs and keep a small number of IT people employed.
Ok, how many Seagate drive have you had fail? I currently have about 500 spinning in my datacenter. That failure rate is for the last 22 months. Mostly I'm pointing out that your anecdotal evidence of a couple failures is bunk compared to the huge number of installations out there running the stuff with little or no problems.
Uh, our failure rate for Seagate drives is 0.5% per year, you're doing something horribly wrong.
Eh? I would think the 3G PHY chip and the screen would dominate the power draw there, not the processor.
Yeah for example they can use firewire DMA mode to read the crypto password from RAM. Since this is a hardware fault with the design of the Firewire spec there is no way to guard against it other than to turn off all firewire ports or remove them.