there is also a `meta-registry' of whois servers - whois-servers.net. For each top-level domain tld, tld.whois-servers.net is a CNAME reference to appropriate whois server.
I think that a version of whois which ships with FreeBSD uses that service by default.
In this particular case,
org.whois-servers.net is a nickname for whois.publicinterestregistry.net
I just got my second dedicated voiceless Covad DSL circuit installed - first one was with an ISP using Covad lines, second one is with Covad directly (they bought some ISP so there is now covad.com ISP and covad.net the DSL provider.)
I suspect that I had to get a second line because of some database problems in Covad itself; also, one of them was using ADSL and another SDSL.
Both lines are actually provided by Pacbell - their technicians came here to install them.
By the way, minimal rate for voice line with per-minute charges (line-measured rate in Pacbell speak) is under 8 dollars a month. Basic service with flat rate costs under 11 dollars a month.
There NEVER will be a complete drop-in compatibility as long as Microsoft does not publish its formats. However everything works for any imaginable purpose, and the program is free as both speech and beer. It's absolutely ridiculous for any large organization not to switch to it, as the benefits are obvious, and shortcomings are largely from the realm of FUD.
the only valid reason I can think of a corporation to not switch away is an investiment into other office components which are not present in OpenOffice, or a (unconscious) belief that all software on their desktops must come from a single vendor to ensure compatibility (I mean M$ Project and Outlook here, as well as `OS' itself.)
Microsoft did not achieve dominance by being completely compatible with its competitors. This meabs that products that use open formats will not have to do that either.
Remember the embrace and extend strategy? It is wrong that Open Office is not compatible with M$ Office, it is, and the only places where it is not is when there is a
<marketing>
added value
</marketing>
which is good to the user.
Eh? Don't these guys know about Gandi dot Net [gandi.net]?
About US$10/year (EUR12/year) to have any of.COM,.NET, or.ORG domains. I have had all my domains registered through them for about three years.
As of now, EUR 12 is USD 11.65 (see
http://finance.yahoo.com/m5?a=12&s=EUR&t=USD),
and perhaps more in the future.
Still, gandi.net (as well as joker.com) are good places to register your domain; I use them both.
I have wrote a 3-layer script to copy entire exchange message store to maildir-style folders a couple of years ago. Pretty easy, once you get around exchange's folder name conventions.
Setup was as follows:
create special user in exchange with read access to all folders
write a script (storemessage) which would store a message in maildir folder
write script, fetchmailbox, which, using fetchmail, opens user's mailbox and reads it,
message by message; use -s option to start a local delivery agent; use storemessage script above
write third script, listmailboxes, which would fetch mailbox list from imap protocol; read map RFC for details
do listmailboxes | xargs -n1 fetchmailbox
now that you have messages on your file system, use your favourite maildir-capable server like courier-imap to serve them
Pay attention to attachments; those can require special processing (I have used mimetools for that; you can probably use perl.)
As for calendar/meeting data, it actually fetches as some kind of messages too.
Using find... -print | sed/awk/perl... to generate commands rather than just using find... exec is also better because you can preview commands list easily before executing, grep it, head it, etc.
now, my favourite way to remove all files older than a month without getting bitten with file names containing newlines is
Of course your firewall needs a mouse connected to operate properly.
The only drawback I see is lack of true serial port. Printers nowadays come with dual usb-and-parallel or just usb, and new mouse and keyboard can be had cheaply. (Or you can just use old 486 box as a print server.)
But serial ports... there are convertors to usb, but they usually run around $50 a piece. A viable option would be to use multi-port serial board; alas, those usually come in ISA flavor, unless you want to spend $500.
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there is also a `meta-registry' of whois servers - whois-servers.net. For each top-level domain tld, tld.whois-servers.net is a CNAME reference to appropriate whois server.
I think that a version of whois which ships with FreeBSD uses that service by default.
In this particular case,
org.whois-servers.net is a nickname for whois.publicinterestregistry.net
I live in San Francisco.
I just got my second dedicated voiceless Covad DSL circuit installed - first one was with an ISP using Covad lines, second one is with Covad directly (they bought some ISP so there is now covad.com ISP and covad.net the DSL provider.)
I suspect that I had to get a second line because of some database problems in Covad itself; also, one of them was using ADSL and another SDSL.
Both lines are actually provided by Pacbell - their technicians came here to install them.
By the way, minimal rate for voice line with per-minute charges (line-measured rate in Pacbell speak) is under 8 dollars a month. Basic service with flat rate costs under 11 dollars a month.
try allofmp3.com - download mp3 or ogg, pay per bandwidth used.
they seem to accept paypal.
make sure to become a vip member.
warning: they are in Russia, and so your agreement
is subject to their laws.
the only valid reason I can think of a corporation to not switch away is an investiment into other office components which are not present in OpenOffice, or a (unconscious) belief that all software on their desktops must come from a single vendor to ensure compatibility (I mean M$ Project and Outlook here, as well as `OS' itself.)
Microsoft did not achieve dominance by being completely compatible with its competitors. This meabs that products that use open formats will not have to do that either.
Remember the embrace and extend strategy? It is wrong that Open Office is not compatible with M$ Office, it is, and the only places where it is not is when there is a <marketing> added value </marketing> which is good to the user.
I have just read Theo's pledge to users and looks like there is a person's name listed who appears to be a sole decision maker on this issue.
;-)
I wonder how many phone calls it would take for him to get it
- create special user in exchange with read access to all folders
- write a script (storemessage) which would store a message in maildir folder
- write script, fetchmailbox, which, using fetchmail, opens user's mailbox and reads it,
message by message; use -s option to start a local delivery agent; use storemessage script above
- write third script, listmailboxes, which would fetch mailbox list from imap protocol; read map RFC for details
- do listmailboxes | xargs -n1 fetchmailbox
- now that you have messages on your file system, use your favourite maildir-capable server like courier-imap to serve them
Pay attention to attachments; those can require special processing (I have used mimetools for that; you can probably use perl.) As for calendar/meeting data, it actually fetches as some kind of messages too.seems to me that amazon.co.uk sells re-packaged RUSCICO edition (in PAL, of course) - is that true?
Using find ... -print | sed/awk/perl ... to generate commands rather than just using find ... exec is also better because you can preview commands list easily before executing, grep it, head it, etc.
/temp/dir -mtime +30 -type f -print0 | perl | perl -0 -ne unlink
now, my favourite way to remove all files older than a month without getting bitten with file names containing newlines is
find2perl
(yes, this is 3 perls working at once)
starting with already typed prefix, i.e.
would find `make clean'
Of course your firewall needs a mouse connected to operate properly.
The only drawback I see is lack of true serial port. Printers nowadays come with dual usb-and-parallel or just usb, and new mouse and keyboard can be had cheaply. (Or you can just use old 486 box as a print server.)
But serial ports... there are convertors to usb, but they usually run around $50 a piece. A viable option would be to use multi-port serial
board; alas, those usually come in ISA flavor, unless you want to spend $500.