A client of mine had wanted to switch away from Exchange, and try a few of these out. Out of the ones mentioned:
Bynari Insight: We've tried working with the software, but testing resulted in much frustration in trying to set it up properly. I'll give kudos for the Bynari folk for helping out... but it looks like there's a long way to go. Maybe they need to upgrade their config to reflect Postfix changes...
CommunigatePro: Everyone favorite, because it's so eaaaaaaazzzzzzzzyyyyy. This one all I needed to do was manual tweak a few things and it's running perfectly. Expensive, but worth it.
Scalix: We're testing this one out now. It requires ether RedHat, Fedora, SuSE, or an RPM based system that you can fake out to be ether one of the three -- it ships as an RPM-based installer. It also runs on Java, but it comes with Tomcat, configures itself and Apache, and it works! The community edition is out and free, with some limitations, and there's no native mail fetching (but we can use Fetchmail).
We haven't tried Gordano, but we have tried exchange4linux (e4l) and that was a mess to set up.
Lets take this seriously for a minute. Duplicating whole CD's is one thing -- you get, what, 12-18 songs of variable quality? Which songs are good and which ones are bad are very subjective, down to person-to-person!!! This very reason is why folks like paying $1/song through iTunes, or are going P2P -- they want specific songs. Why pay for 18 songs when all you want is two or three at most?
The only way I've done that was to get a CD with "King Fu Fighter" on it, and it turns out there was another version on the same CD with the origional that I liked too.
There's only a few people who want to plunk down $15 to $25 per CD case when the CD's can be pressed for like $5 at most if you go to Walmart for your supplies. Also, there's a few artists who are worth buying the whole CD every time -- and as I said before, those are so subjective it's fine-grained down to every individual person.
The RIAA is trying to fight the effects from the cause: Just crappy music! The RIAA should take the page from what Apple started -- digital distribution, and if someone wants a CD in the store, it's burned then and there, in the store.
Belive it or not, I'm finding things cheaper, yet with good quality, on eBay. I'm also looking for hard-to-find parts (like 128Meg EDO SDRAM for a Dell CPi D266XT -- They won't take generic!) and finding them on eBay itself. Alot of vendors have fairly good stock of them.
Isolate your network, and secure it using a Linux-based firewall. Hopefully you have 1:1 mapping, so you won't need to NAT the resulting connection. Ether way, connections comming in one Ethernet port will hit the Linux box, but keep all outgoing traffic from the isolated network running safe.
Hopefully better tech than what was used in Ep III. That thing kept screaming at me "I'M COMPUTER GENERATED!!!!" at 24 frames per second. Most of the runs, flips, and similar action sequences would switch to the CGI, then switch back like nothing happened. ARGH!!!!! Ruin the film, why don't you? More practice Lucas needs. See Final Flight of the Osirus, he must. Completely forget it was computer generated, I did. Good animation it was.
Hard to hear you say that (I heard this on Slashdot, alas). I heard you had problems with sound cards in Linux. However, I do belive you may have the same problems with MacOS X -- you can't play two sounds at once.
Why? Most sound cards don't support it in the hardware. Ether you need a sucky ALSA plugin (dmix), sucky sound servers (ESD/ARTS/JACK), or... a sound card which has a hardware mixer and natively supports it.
I still have an old Creative Audio PCI card, an es1371 based card. It had two sound ports (dsp0 and dsp1). I would slap ESD/ARTS/whatever on dsp1 and let XMMS/VMWare/whatever have dsp0. I now have a Soundblaster Live! card, which under ALSA has only one sound port that can be opened fifty ways to San Diego at the same time, and it doesn't even jam.
Yes, Soundblaster Live. It just works.
I'd still keep the Mac. I'd slap Linux PPC on it and run MacOnLinux to keep MacOS X on it.
Since latency's going to be over lightyears away, and TCP's no good using standard broadcast methods......we'll have to use something different for IPN communications. Right now we have copper, fiber, and radio. We need something that'll be as fast as fiber, but will stretch way way longer in distance.
Current radio's a broadcast. Can't do that, especially with package leakage.
I belive there was some experiments in quantum transmissio of data, in which an electron was split and one half sent to Munich, the other sent to Venice, and transmissions where near-instantaneous.
HyperOS makes a IDE interfaced RAM drive named "HyperDrive III". It basically is a power-backed drive that stores the data onto ordinary DIMMs. Speedy drive, unfortunately it's up to 12 gigs now.
Given some of their ultraconservative politics towards including software (I mean, if you have to compile newer versions of code because the distro has years old stuff that's no-longer supported -- in essence recompiling the entire distro) this comes as no suprize.
Ask ISP's around if they still do ISDN. Granted, it's 128K, but since most everyone's broadband, the price should be cheap now. Plus, you don't need to light both B channels all the time. Keeping the D channel lighted at 9600 bps for small stuff will keep you online all the time anyway for monitoring (like POP or long, slow downloads), and for harder stuff (regular downloads, surfing, etc) you can light the B's up.
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A client of mine had wanted to switch away from Exchange, and try a few of these out. Out of the ones mentioned:
Bynari Insight: We've tried working with the software, but testing resulted in much frustration in trying to set it up properly. I'll give kudos for the Bynari folk for helping out... but it looks like there's a long way to go. Maybe they need to upgrade their config to reflect Postfix changes...
CommunigatePro: Everyone favorite, because it's so eaaaaaaazzzzzzzzyyyyy. This one all I needed to do was manual tweak a few things and it's running perfectly. Expensive, but worth it.
Scalix: We're testing this one out now. It requires ether RedHat, Fedora, SuSE, or an RPM based system that you can fake out to be ether one of the three -- it ships as an RPM-based installer. It also runs on Java, but it comes with Tomcat, configures itself and Apache, and it works! The community edition is out and free, with some limitations, and there's no native mail fetching (but we can use Fetchmail).
We haven't tried Gordano, but we have tried exchange4linux (e4l) and that was a mess to set up.
Lets take this seriously for a minute. Duplicating whole CD's is one thing -- you get, what, 12-18 songs of variable quality? Which songs are good and which ones are bad are very subjective, down to person-to-person!!! This very reason is why folks like paying $1/song through iTunes, or are going P2P -- they want specific songs. Why pay for 18 songs when all you want is two or three at most?
The only way I've done that was to get a CD with "King Fu Fighter" on it, and it turns out there was another version on the same CD with the origional that I liked too.
There's only a few people who want to plunk down $15 to $25 per CD case when the CD's can be pressed for like $5 at most if you go to Walmart for your supplies. Also, there's a few artists who are worth buying the whole CD every time -- and as I said before, those are so subjective it's fine-grained down to every individual person.
The RIAA is trying to fight the effects from the cause: Just crappy music! The RIAA should take the page from what Apple started -- digital distribution, and if someone wants a CD in the store, it's burned then and there, in the store.
Revise that: YES!!! Now I can find the nearest free WiFi hotspot using my laptop while sitting at a Starbucks! Maybe the coffee's cheaper too!
My father, who worked in NASA for a while, just joked recently "Bad gas cap" over SMS and when he returned, "Did they replace the gas cap yet?"
Belive it or not, I'm finding things cheaper, yet with good quality, on eBay. I'm also looking for hard-to-find parts (like 128Meg EDO SDRAM for a Dell CPi D266XT -- They won't take generic!) and finding them on eBay itself. Alot of vendors have fairly good stock of them.
Two weeks ago. I'm waiting for them to update it for their take on this weeks' movies.
Isolate your network, and secure it using a Linux-based firewall. Hopefully you have 1:1 mapping, so you won't need to NAT the resulting connection. Ether way, connections comming in one Ethernet port will hit the Linux box, but keep all outgoing traffic from the isolated network running safe.
Hopefully better tech than what was used in Ep III. That thing kept screaming at me "I'M COMPUTER GENERATED!!!!" at 24 frames per second. Most of the runs, flips, and similar action sequences would switch to the CGI, then switch back like nothing happened. ARGH!!!!! Ruin the film, why don't you? More practice Lucas needs. See Final Flight of the Osirus, he must. Completely forget it was computer generated, I did. Good animation it was.
When was the Internet created? Back in 1977? How about FTP? When was Sun's .au audio format created?
Or how about this: Find any audio file that was on a BBS before 1991, and locate the BBS's owner. Remember dialup?
This is what I posted to his LiveJournal.
Hard to hear you say that (I heard this on Slashdot, alas). I heard you had problems with sound cards in Linux. However, I do belive you may have the same problems with MacOS X -- you can't play two sounds at once.
Why? Most sound cards don't support it in the hardware. Ether you need a sucky ALSA plugin (dmix), sucky sound servers (ESD/ARTS/JACK), or... a sound card which has a hardware mixer and natively supports it.
I still have an old Creative Audio PCI card, an es1371 based card. It had two sound ports (dsp0 and dsp1). I would slap ESD/ARTS/whatever on dsp1 and let XMMS/VMWare/whatever have dsp0. I now have a Soundblaster Live! card, which under ALSA has only one sound port that can be opened fifty ways to San Diego at the same time, and it doesn't even jam.
Yes, Soundblaster Live. It just works.
I'd still keep the Mac. I'd slap Linux PPC on it and run MacOnLinux to keep MacOS X on it.
Anything to go faster for Gentoo's sake, the better! Anything to make compiles go fast!
Someone mod this one up, I was about to say it! As is, I tried running it in Wine and the latest version is a no-go!
Does it run Linux?
All kidding aside, it's a tri-core PowerPC computer. We got PowerPC distros. Just mod the kernel, and porting should be eazy.
Just reconfigure the guys that keep spewing to ether deny access, or return that the computer's IP address is 127.0.0.1.
When they come in complaining, babysit them at their computer.
Since latency's going to be over lightyears away, and TCP's no good using standard broadcast methods... ...we'll have to use something different for IPN communications. Right now we have copper, fiber, and radio. We need something that'll be as fast as fiber, but will stretch way way longer in distance.
Current radio's a broadcast. Can't do that, especially with package leakage.
I belive there was some experiments in quantum transmissio of data, in which an electron was split and one half sent to Munich, the other sent to Venice, and transmissions where near-instantaneous.
Can we run OpenOffice on Mönch?
HyperOS makes a IDE interfaced RAM drive named "HyperDrive III". It basically is a power-backed drive that stores the data onto ordinary DIMMs. Speedy drive, unfortunately it's up to 12 gigs now.
DO NOT trust MAPS. They are in an settlement agreement with a spammer NOT to blacklist them no matter what.
Spamhaus is cleaner, and is more accessible via news.admin.net-abuse.email.
Given some of their ultraconservative politics towards including software (I mean, if you have to compile newer versions of code because the distro has years old stuff that's no-longer supported -- in essence recompiling the entire distro) this comes as no suprize.
Seriously. Grab the Resident Set Size number from "top" or "ps" and compare it to...
wait for it...
fvwm 2 (latest dev build).
My Slackware compile has both the regular fvwm2 and FvwmButtons clocked in at 2800K+.
Blackbox's RSS supposedly clocks it in at 2200K.
Let's see...
PVP's 7 days a week for about a year or so now. Ever check the archives?
Not only Chris Crosby, Brad Guigar, Ryan Smith and Steve Troop have joined from KeenSPOT... ...but up and comming artists Jennie Breeden (The Devil's Panties), Bruce Goer (A Day in the Life), and Matt Johnson (Cortland) have joined from KeenSPACE.
The SPACE team WILL WIN!!!
Given the size of the Nerf darts on Thinkgeek, and the size of USB thumbdrives, yes, USB DartDrives are a good idea!
Ask ISP's around if they still do ISDN. Granted, it's 128K, but since most everyone's broadband, the price should be cheap now. Plus, you don't need to light both B channels all the time. Keeping the D channel lighted at 9600 bps for small stuff will keep you online all the time anyway for monitoring (like POP or long, slow downloads), and for harder stuff (regular downloads, surfing, etc) you can light the B's up.
Depends on the distro and how you install it, of course.
However, if you do put on X11 and mplayer natively, it's faster than Windows and Media Player.