It's a shame you didn't move to 6.5. It's purtier than 6.0!
I was on a project for a client once that moved from GroupWise 6.5 to Exchange/Outlook 2003. My job was to walk around the floor and answer people's questions. Every single question involved things user couldn't do any more:
1. Why can't I get properties on my sent items and see if someone read a message without getting a return receipt? 2. Why can't I take a category in my personal address book and share it out? 3. Why can't I share out a folder easily? 4. Where's my document library?
GroupWise really is Exchange+Sharepoint. It's a damn good product.
That would make sense if Novell didn't already make this product called GroupWise, which consistently spanks Microsoft in the groupware category of every major PC magazine's awards.
GroupWise is an awesome product, whose collaboration features far surpass those of Outlook/Exchange. Hula was a good idea, but I think Novell would be better of simply open sourcing GroupWise.
I have used Domino/Notes 6.5.5, Outlook/Exchange 2003 and GroupWise 6.5, and of the three, I prefer GroupWise.
Amen brother. Nobody wants a real solution. If we fix global warming, then there will be nothing to donate money to, until someone comes up with the next big environmental thing.
Nobody wants to deal with the issue, they just want to keep you scared.
I like this article alot. My biggest complaint about the THEORY of Global Warming is the fact that people are now taking this THEORY and molding it into further fear tactics against educated people to put them in state a fear and make them donate money to environmental groups.
The newest theory that came about was this notion that methane gas is trapped at the bottom of the ocean and that most of the mass extinctions that have occurred on the planet have happened because global warming has caused this trapped gas to get released into the atmosphere and kill off most of the species on the planet. There are thousands of educated biologist, climatologists, chemists, and physicists out there, and not a single one even thought to look at this as possible cause of mass extinction, till global warming suddenly became a threat to our survival. Heck, global warming was blamed for the 1995 Hurricane season in the Atlantic and Carribean. If the global air and ocean temperature was increasing, the temperature should have been HIGHER this year and we should have seen even MORE hurricanes. But, we didn't. This was a rather mild hurricane season.
Another thing of interest is that in the 1970, we had the theory of global cooling. We were all heading for another ice age and everyone was a in a big panic about that.
The earth cools and the earth warms up. We're in a period of warming now. We could be in a period of cooling in the next 20 years. The earth does what it wants to do.
I do agree with the article that Redhat's pricing is way too expensive. If you want to deploy a Linux solution, then Novell/Suse's pricing is much more reasonable. You can get a SLES 10 server for about $800 and a SLED 10 desktop for around $80, I think.
Considering Novell's aggressive pricing (as compared to Redhat), I don't understand why SLES and SLED aren't becoming Linux defacto standards. Suse is deinitely cheaper that Windows and way cheaper than Redhat.
Novell also has consultants that will deploy a Linux based solution, and can provide on-site support staff for you that will sit at a desk for 40 hours a week and do your bidding.
Well, then you would have the say the Zen M and iPod can also play widescreen content by letterboxing it. Overall, the only thing new in the Zune is the peer-to-peer wifi. Just remains to be seen if anyone is actually going to care about it.
The Zune screen is 320x240, the same as the iPod. It's just slightly larger (larger pixels) and rotated differently. Any belief you can play widescreen content on it is seriously misguided.
Andy
Apple has a similar lock in to the digital music player, that Microosft has on the desktop. All peripherals work with iPods. Car manufacturers provide integarted ipod controls in their vehicles. And a LOT of people are using iTunes out there, which the Zune won't support because iTunes doesn't do WMA and any Microsoft DRM.
Still, competition is good. I'm sure future iPods will have a wide screen and wifi built in. This will just cause Apple to have to innovate all the harder.
Personally I don't see the Zune taking off, with so many other choices out there such as Creative, RCA, Samsung. Name brands like the Rio and the Zen are very well known names, but still don't sell as well as the iPod. And Microsoft is not known for it's outstanding consumer electronics. I could see people waiting to see what Sony's new MP3 player is going to be like, I don't know if anyone is going to patiently wait to see what Microsoft's MP3 player will be like.
There's a pretty healthy group of Scientists that do not believe that global warming is being caused by Humanity. And there's a big group that also believes that global warming, as a phenomenon, does not exist. They all have excellent data to back their position, so I think we can say that predicting global climatic change is not nearly as easy as you think it is.
Despite what anyone says about "Saving the planet", we're not trying to save the planet, we're simply trying to save our own asses. The planet will get by without us, should our own stupidity wipe us out.
I still say plants more forrests. They're great CO2 scrubbers.
Part poor attempt at humor, part not. Is the Earth getting warmer? Appears to be so. Is is all our fault? Definitely not. The planet goes through cycles. I'll bet greenhouse gas levels were way higher during the age of the dinosaurs, and the planet was much warmer. Somehow those levels went down without humans doing anything about it.
If you want to stop increaese in CO2 levels, perhaps we should stop chopping down the rainforests, which are the largest and most effective CO2 scrubbers on the planet.
The entire Northeast corridor of the US, from Maryland to Maine used to be one big forrest. How much CO2 do you think that forrest consumed 300 years ago? I would bet a hell of a lot.
=sarcasm= Plants are our salvations. If you want to blame someone for global warming, I would blame loggers, builders and vegetarians! =/sarcasm=
A halt to fossil fuel burning is only PART of the solution IF global warming is a phenomenon we caused and have control over.
We're at a CO2 level even highter that what we had during the height of the ice age, yet the arctic glaciers that swept through all of Europe and North America somehow are not advancing on us at the alarming rate they should be?
You mean, we have no idea how to properly predict climatology? Any changes we attempt to make may be a moot point, because the planet in the end may have complete control?
Microsoft makes LOTS of money off of IE. IE helps sell copies of FrontPage, IIS, Office, and God knows how many other Microsoft products. Programs like SharePoint and OWA REQUIRE IE. So by having IE as a defacto standard on Windows, it allows MS to make money by selling you other products, and locks out other OSes such as Mac, Linux, Desktop BSD, etc.
I have NeoOffice installed on my Mac. it's a pretty nice package overall, but I believe it also lacks VBA support. I prefer to store stuff in a wiki somewhere, rather than in a Word document.
And what is the justification to remove VBA support from MS Office for Mac? It's not like the code doesn't exist? I think part of the issue may be getting a Universal Binary. Do you believe there won't be a third party plugin of some kind to support this, or Apple won't add support for this to Pages?
I guarantee you by version 4.0, Pages will be a perfect drop-in replacement for MS Word, which is what Apple probably wants. MS Office makes Microsoft a LOT of money. And Apple fanatics will be more than happy to buy an Apple office suite over MS Office.
When iWork gets as good as MS Office, it's time to port it to Windows. It won't be a nail in Microsoft's coffin, but it will surely piss them off.
Now all we need is Yellow Box for Windows finished and released and GnuStep to support most of the OS X APIs, and people can program in Cocoa and port to other environments with a simple recompile...
I'd like to see Safari for Windows. That would REALLY PISS Microsoft off.
The author has it all wrong. LAMP is obviosuly being phased out by the use of WISA, a much more stable acronym. LAMPs can be turned off, which is totally unacceptable for high availabilty sites. The WISA approach is much better:
W - Windows I - IIS S - MS SQL A - ASP.NET:-)
It's not coincidence that WISA is so close to VISA, cause you'll max out your credit cards paying for the system and the support contracts required.
The biggest problem with a WISA app is, no one wants to carry the pager to support it...
Sharepoint REQUIRES MS Office and MS IE. We're about to implement Sharepoint for my department for a documentation repository. You HAVE TO use IE, and viewing any documentation requires Office be installed.
Personally I would prefer some home grown solution that uses a content management system, bugzilla and dokuwiki. The use of a wiki for documentation is a much better solution than Sharepoint.
Andy
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The price of both the iPod line and the creatve line are almost identical. The big reason to choose Apple is longevityof the company, available third party add-ons, and the UI. Apple wins on all three.
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It's a shame you didn't move to 6.5. It's purtier than 6.0!
I was on a project for a client once that moved from GroupWise 6.5 to Exchange/Outlook 2003. My job was to walk around the floor and answer people's questions. Every single question involved things user couldn't do any more:
1. Why can't I get properties on my sent items and see if someone read a message without getting a return receipt?
2. Why can't I take a category in my personal address book and share it out?
3. Why can't I share out a folder easily?
4. Where's my document library?
GroupWise really is Exchange+Sharepoint. It's a damn good product.
That would make sense if Novell didn't already make this product called GroupWise, which consistently spanks Microsoft in the groupware category of every major PC magazine's awards.
GroupWise is an awesome product, whose collaboration features far surpass those of Outlook/Exchange. Hula was a good idea, but I think Novell would be better of simply open sourcing GroupWise.
I have used Domino/Notes 6.5.5, Outlook/Exchange 2003 and GroupWise 6.5, and of the three, I prefer GroupWise.
Andy
Amen brother. Nobody wants a real solution. If we fix global warming, then there will be nothing to donate money to, until someone comes up with the next big environmental thing.
Nobody wants to deal with the issue, they just want to keep you scared.
Grow up people.
I like this article alot. My biggest complaint about the THEORY of Global Warming is the fact that people are now taking this THEORY and molding it into further fear tactics against educated people to put them in state a fear and make them donate money to environmental groups.
The newest theory that came about was this notion that methane gas is trapped at the bottom of the ocean and that most of the mass extinctions that have occurred on the planet have happened because global warming has caused this trapped gas to get released into the atmosphere and kill off most of the species on the planet. There are thousands of educated biologist, climatologists, chemists, and physicists out there, and not a single one even thought to look at this as possible cause of mass extinction, till global warming suddenly became a threat to our survival. Heck, global warming was blamed for the 1995 Hurricane season in the Atlantic and Carribean. If the global air and ocean temperature was increasing, the temperature should have been HIGHER this year and we should have seen even MORE hurricanes. But, we didn't. This was a rather mild hurricane season.
Another thing of interest is that in the 1970, we had the theory of global cooling. We were all heading for another ice age and everyone was a in a big panic about that.
The earth cools and the earth warms up. We're in a period of warming now. We could be in a period of cooling in the next 20 years. The earth does what it wants to do.
Doesn't SELinux require the use of ext3 or xfs?
I do agree with the article that Redhat's pricing is way too expensive. If you want to deploy a Linux solution, then Novell/Suse's pricing is much more reasonable. You can get a SLES 10 server for about $800 and a SLED 10 desktop for around $80, I think.
Considering Novell's aggressive pricing (as compared to Redhat), I don't understand why SLES and SLED aren't becoming Linux defacto standards. Suse is deinitely cheaper that Windows and way cheaper than Redhat.
Novell also has consultants that will deploy a Linux based solution, and can provide on-site support staff for you that will sit at a desk for 40 hours a week and do your bidding.
Well, then you would have the say the Zen M and iPod can also play widescreen content by letterboxing it. Overall, the only thing new in the Zune is the peer-to-peer wifi. Just remains to be seen if anyone is actually going to care about it.
Just checked Apple's site. It's still 320x240. It will just downsize 640x480 vidoes and play them on the screen.
The Zune screen is 320x240, the same as the iPod. It's just slightly larger (larger pixels) and rotated differently. Any belief you can play widescreen content on it is seriously misguided. Andy
Apple has a similar lock in to the digital music player, that Microosft has on the desktop. All peripherals work with iPods. Car manufacturers provide integarted ipod controls in their vehicles. And a LOT of people are using iTunes out there, which the Zune won't support because iTunes doesn't do WMA and any Microsoft DRM.
Still, competition is good. I'm sure future iPods will have a wide screen and wifi built in. This will just cause Apple to have to innovate all the harder.
Personally I don't see the Zune taking off, with so many other choices out there such as Creative, RCA, Samsung. Name brands like the Rio and the Zen are very well known names, but still don't sell as well as the iPod. And Microsoft is not known for it's outstanding consumer electronics. I could see people waiting to see what Sony's new MP3 player is going to be like, I don't know if anyone is going to patiently wait to see what Microsoft's MP3 player will be like.
Andy
There's a pretty healthy group of Scientists that do not believe that global warming is being caused by Humanity. And there's a big group that also believes that global warming, as a phenomenon, does not exist. They all have excellent data to back their position, so I think we can say that predicting global climatic change is not nearly as easy as you think it is.
Despite what anyone says about "Saving the planet", we're not trying to save the planet, we're simply trying to save our own asses. The planet will get by without us, should our own stupidity wipe us out.
I still say plants more forrests. They're great CO2 scrubbers.
Part poor attempt at humor, part not. Is the Earth getting warmer? Appears to be so. Is is all our fault? Definitely not. The planet goes through cycles. I'll bet greenhouse gas levels were way higher during the age of the dinosaurs, and the planet was much warmer. Somehow those levels went down without humans doing anything about it.
If you want to stop increaese in CO2 levels, perhaps we should stop chopping down the rainforests, which are the largest and most effective CO2 scrubbers on the planet.
The entire Northeast corridor of the US, from Maryland to Maine used to be one big forrest. How much CO2 do you think that forrest consumed 300 years ago? I would bet a hell of a lot.
=sarcasm=
Plants are our salvations. If you want to blame someone for global warming, I would blame loggers, builders and vegetarians!
=/sarcasm=
A halt to fossil fuel burning is only PART of the solution IF global warming is a phenomenon we caused and have control over.
We're at a CO2 level even highter that what we had during the height of the ice age, yet the arctic glaciers that swept through all of Europe and North America somehow are not advancing on us at the alarming rate they should be?
You mean, we have no idea how to properly predict climatology? Any changes we attempt to make may be a moot point, because the planet in the end may have complete control?
This is truly a sad day for Science...
Microsoft makes LOTS of money off of IE. IE helps sell copies of FrontPage, IIS, Office, and God knows how many other Microsoft products. Programs like SharePoint and OWA REQUIRE IE. So by having IE as a defacto standard on Windows, it allows MS to make money by selling you other products, and locks out other OSes such as Mac, Linux, Desktop BSD, etc.
If you think IE is free, you're sadly mistaken...
What happened to .Net being platform independant? And, since when has Microsoft actually developed an app using .NET?
Very early alpha. Can't use authenticated proxy. Will wait a couple more revs before I reinstall it again...
I have NeoOffice installed on my Mac. it's a pretty nice package overall, but I believe it also lacks VBA support. I prefer to store stuff in a wiki somewhere, rather than in a Word document.
And what is the justification to remove VBA support from MS Office for Mac? It's not like the code doesn't exist? I think part of the issue may be getting a Universal Binary. Do you believe there won't be a third party plugin of some kind to support this, or Apple won't add support for this to Pages?
I guarantee you by version 4.0, Pages will be a perfect drop-in replacement for MS Word, which is what Apple probably wants. MS Office makes Microsoft a LOT of money. And Apple fanatics will be more than happy to buy an Apple office suite over MS Office.
When iWork gets as good as MS Office, it's time to port it to Windows. It won't be a nail in Microsoft's coffin, but it will surely piss them off.
Now all we need is Yellow Box for Windows finished and released and GnuStep to support most of the OS X APIs, and people can program in Cocoa and port to other environments with a simple recompile...
I'd like to see Safari for Windows. That would REALLY PISS Microsoft off.
Install Network Manager. Done. That's all I did.
I think Google does that on purpose so they can make major changes at will, and when people complain, they can say "Hey, it is a beta after all!"
The author has it all wrong. LAMP is obviosuly being phased out by the use of WISA, a much more stable acronym. LAMPs can be turned off, which is totally unacceptable for high availabilty sites. The WISA approach is much better:
.NET :-)
W - Windows
I - IIS
S - MS SQL
A - ASP
It's not coincidence that WISA is so close to VISA, cause you'll max out your credit cards paying for the system and the support contracts required.
The biggest problem with a WISA app is, no one wants to carry the pager to support it...
Sharepoint REQUIRES MS Office and MS IE. We're about to implement Sharepoint for my department for a documentation repository. You HAVE TO use IE, and viewing any documentation requires Office be installed.
Personally I would prefer some home grown solution that uses a content management system, bugzilla and dokuwiki. The use of a wiki for documentation is a much better solution than Sharepoint.
Andy
The price of both the iPod line and the creatve line are almost identical. The big reason to choose Apple is longevityof the company, available third party add-ons, and the UI. Apple wins on all three.
Install MacDrive in Windows and mount the Mac partition. Copy data off, and reinstall the whole thing.
Andy