Give Ximian Evolution a try it is a perfect replacement for Outlook!
But I think what you really meant to say was Exchange. And here the solution is far more difficult. But, you don't have to replace Exchange in order to replace Outlook.
Using Evolution you can connect to and use your existing Exchange server via POP3 or better yet IMAP4. But if you want full on Exchange functionality in Evolution you need to buy the Evolution Exchange Connector. It is a per client add-on that Ximian sells for $40 (I think).
Additionally, replacing Exchange itself will get a whole lot easier in the next couple months. Look for OpenExchange from Suse and Kolab from KDE.
The formula that more correctly explains this phenomenon follows.
Fewer Employees + Same Work + Greater Threat of Layoff + Derth of Other Jobs = Higher Productivity
You see, there are additional contributing factors to the equation that offer significant motivation to the Fewer Remaining Employees. If you aren't more productive, there are numerous others that are presently unemployed who will happily be more productive. Basically, if you don't watch your ass, you're out of there!
You've got an interesting idea here but, frankly I think you have forgotten a couple of steps along the way.
When ever you increase the performance of one area in a system, another area becomes the bottleneck. Right now, your bottleneck is assumed to be the network.
As you said you could possibly, do bonding on the interfaces to multiply the bandwidth. However, to accomplish this you will need a better switch that is capable of this bonding. Nortel offers a small switch that can do this, the Baystack 450 is the lowest end capable of what they call multi-link trunking. Cisco offers several switches that are also capable of this. Cisco calls it ether-channel and I think the Catalyst 3500 is their entry point switch with this capability. These switches can bond up to 4 links, I believe, giving you up to a 400Mbps trunk per switch. To do this with multiple systems you would really need a larger and significantly more expensive switch.
You dismissed Gigabit saying that you will suffer the same limitations due to serial communication. However, I believe that Gigabit will be the best solution in this case. Your gigabit performance will not be limited by serial communication as you think. Gigabit communication will be limited by the PCI bus in the system. In fact, your system will not be able to drive gigabit cards beyond 600Mbps because of the PCI bus speed. If you are plugging a disk controller into this PCI bus and further sharing the PCI bandwidth you will further limit the performance that you can expect from your gigabit cards.
There are only two ways around this limitation and only by combining them will you be able to truely maximize the gigabit performance. The first method is to have a system with dual peer PCI buses. This allows you to run disk controllers on one bus and network controllers on another, giving you the full bandwidth of the bus to each controller. This still limits you to around 600Mbps though. To go beyond that, you need to have a 64 bit PCI bus, preferrably dual peer. The drawback here is that you will need to acquire a true high-end server to get these features. Desktop systems and low-end servers do not have 64 bit PCI buses and rarely have dual peer PCI buses.
So, basically gigabit ethernet will provide the highest possible performance on your existing systems. If you want to go beyond that you need to replace your systems with high-end servers with multiple 64 bit PCI buses, running multiple gigabit NICs, multi-link trunked to a high-end gigabit switch.
One final note about your parrallel processing idea, it's a good idea. It's also been done, more or less. 3Com NICs have had a somewhat similar feature that they call "Parrallel Tasking" for years now. The Parrallel Tasking cards off load network operations to a processor on the NIC, leaving the main CPU free for other operations. I'm sure there are other NIC manufacturers that do similar things but, 3Com has always hyped up this feature so they are the first to come to mind. But no matter how fast your processor and your NIC card, you still have to cross a PCI bus and at 32 bits wide it is the PCI bus that will be your bottleneck.
Oops... We did it again:) So you can play your favourite brand-new quicktime movie trailers with mplayer! Oops... you cannot yet... at least the code is working, and was uploaded to CVS, but it needs some hacking to get it work... (not so bad, you need some DLLs from QT5 player and sdk, and libwine from wine-20020310 and some config.h editing) - okay, we'll work on getting this more user-friendly...:) so be patient, it'll be available in next (pre)release for sure!
Wouldn't it be simpler to just run QT5 under WINE? This doesn't really look like support, from my point of view.
Did you mean hours?? Or minutes? 8 - 10 hours to copy an image and install it is ridiculous. Norton Ghost takes about 15 minutes each way, a total of 30 minutes on similar hardware. Granted that isn't the sector by sector copy method but why use that if you don't have to? Norton Ghost handles ext2/3 partitions with no problem at all.
Bzzt! Ghost walker works great!!
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I have installed thousands, yes thousands of images of Windows 95 - 2000, as well as restored Windows 2000 domain controllers from backup images with Ghost and Ghost Walker. It works great.
Try an OS upgrade on >2000 machines and then tell me this. Better yet, try an OS replacement, say Windows 95 to Linux on >50 machines and then tell me you don't see the point of cloning workstations.
Re:Ghost doesn't work with non-PC's...
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Plug your Sparc disk into the SCSI controller of an Intel box and Ghost can image it just fine. However, you are correct, having a native Unix version is good.
Yes, that's right. Remember that Knopppix was initially intended as a demo CD. The most important criteria was for it to not use a hard drive. But, Linux really likes to know that it has a swap partition even if it doesn't really need one. Knoppix fools Linux into thinking it has a swap partition by creating a small one in RAM. Knoppix also loopback mounts a crompressed file system tree which is accessed via symlinks in the / (root) tree but, the tree is a RAM disk. It is a beutiful piece of trickery to get Linux to run with NO HARD DRIVE AT ALL!
Ghost handles all file systems as well. They call it a sector by sector disk copy. In this case Ghost does not care what is on the disk, it copies the DISK rather than the filesystem or partition as it does by default. But as with g4u you can't resize and so forth with a sector by sector copy.
The only problem with Ghost is the licensing cost.
Check out Knoppix. It has Galeon. It was up to Gnome 2.0, although KDE is the default desktop, but recently Knopper fell back to an earlier version of Gnome because he was having a lot of problems with 2.0. I would expect him to return to 2.x once the bugs are worked out.
The only thing it doesn't have is Flash and Real Player because of licensing issues with those products.
Does anyone have first hand experience?
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I'd really like to know what the performance is like. Ghost can be very fast sometimes.
It's too bad that it won't allow you to resize partitions, as you can with Ghost but, it looks like a great start, so long as it isn't too slow.
No Knoppix does not require a hard drive at all. Inserting the CD and booting Knoppix creates a RAM disk for swap space and symlinks to the rest of the OS on CD. Knoppix runs entirely from RAM and the CD. Knoppix does not touch your hard disk!!!!
However, Knoppix does a great job of detecting all present disks and sets up the FSTAB to allow you to access any of the disk partitions. This is read-only acess by default. Knoppix creates desktop icons for each of the disk partitions. Should you need to access data on the hard disk(read-only by default) simply click the icon and Knoppix auto-mounts the partition, ext2/3, fat, fat32, NTFS, what have you.
Knoppix is awesome and WELL worth the download! Although I suspect that the mirrors are being Slashdotted right now.:(
Knoppix is a GREAT distro. I regularly give it to people to try out Linux. It also makes a great recovery disk. I can go anywhere and pop it into a PC with a CD-ROM drive and it boots giving me all the tools I need.
What? Your Windows 2000 server's dynamic disk has crashed, again? No problem. Insert Knoppix. Copy/mnt/WINNT to/mnt/GoodDisk. Have a nice day.
This is EXACTLY what they did to her, but only in the "virtual" world..
So she should virtually win the case. The ISP should virtually pay here large amounts of virtual cash for her virtual damages. Seems virtually fair to me.
Government efforts to tighten Internet security and investigate online attacks have long been hampered by reluctance from companies to admit they were victims, even in cases where executives quietly paid thousands of dollars in extortion to hackers.
Ok, someone needs to prove this, otherwise I get the highly suspect that it's some government propaganda. Honestly, who pays a script kiddie to remove the pr0n and racist/anti-gay shit from their site?
True dat. This little gem is popping up more and more frequently. It is utter BS but, as more people hear it in more places they will accept it as fact. It is total BS!! NO corporation is paying extortion money to hackers. Unless they are counting the dollars wasted on "Security Consultants".
This is the lamest story I think I've ever seen on Slashdot. Hasn't Mrs. Taco started steering you into the real world yet? For Christ's sake, you're a thirty odd year old "man". Isn't it time to let go of the childish fantasies?
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Give Ximian Evolution a try it is a perfect replacement for Outlook!
But I think what you really meant to say was Exchange. And here the solution is far more difficult. But, you don't have to replace Exchange in order to replace Outlook.
Using Evolution you can connect to and use your existing Exchange server via POP3 or better yet IMAP4. But if you want full on Exchange functionality in Evolution you need to buy the Evolution Exchange Connector. It is a per client add-on that Ximian sells for $40 (I think).
Additionally, replacing Exchange itself will get a whole lot easier in the next couple months. Look for OpenExchange from Suse and Kolab from KDE.
The formula that more correctly explains this phenomenon follows.
Fewer Employees + Same Work + Greater Threat of Layoff + Derth of Other Jobs = Higher Productivity
You see, there are additional contributing factors to the equation that offer significant motivation to the Fewer Remaining Employees. If you aren't more productive, there are numerous others that are presently unemployed who will happily be more productive. Basically, if you don't watch your ass, you're out of there!
You've got an interesting idea here but, frankly I think you have forgotten a couple of steps along the way.
When ever you increase the performance of one area in a system, another area becomes the bottleneck. Right now, your bottleneck is assumed to be the network.
As you said you could possibly, do bonding on the interfaces to multiply the bandwidth. However, to accomplish this you will need a better switch that is capable of this bonding. Nortel offers a small switch that can do this, the Baystack 450 is the lowest end capable of what they call multi-link trunking. Cisco offers several switches that are also capable of this. Cisco calls it ether-channel and I think the Catalyst 3500 is their entry point switch with this capability. These switches can bond up to 4 links, I believe, giving you up to a 400Mbps trunk per switch. To do this with multiple systems you would really need a larger and significantly more expensive switch.
You dismissed Gigabit saying that you will suffer the same limitations due to serial communication. However, I believe that Gigabit will be the best solution in this case. Your gigabit performance will not be limited by serial communication as you think. Gigabit communication will be limited by the PCI bus in the system. In fact, your system will not be able to drive gigabit cards beyond 600Mbps because of the PCI bus speed. If you are plugging a disk controller into this PCI bus and further sharing the PCI bandwidth you will further limit the performance that you can expect from your gigabit cards.
There are only two ways around this limitation and only by combining them will you be able to truely maximize the gigabit performance. The first method is to have a system with dual peer PCI buses. This allows you to run disk controllers on one bus and network controllers on another, giving you the full bandwidth of the bus to each controller. This still limits you to around 600Mbps though. To go beyond that, you need to have a 64 bit PCI bus, preferrably dual peer. The drawback here is that you will need to acquire a true high-end server to get these features. Desktop systems and low-end servers do not have 64 bit PCI buses and rarely have dual peer PCI buses.
So, basically gigabit ethernet will provide the highest possible performance on your existing systems. If you want to go beyond that you need to replace your systems with high-end servers with multiple 64 bit PCI buses, running multiple gigabit NICs, multi-link trunked to a high-end gigabit switch.
One final note about your parrallel processing idea, it's a good idea. It's also been done, more or less. 3Com NICs have had a somewhat similar feature that they call "Parrallel Tasking" for years now. The Parrallel Tasking cards off load network operations to a processor on the NIC, leaving the main CPU free for other operations. I'm sure there are other NIC manufacturers that do similar things but, 3Com has always hyped up this feature so they are the first to come to mind. But no matter how fast your processor and your NIC card, you still have to cross a PCI bus and at 32 bits wide it is the PCI bus that will be your bottleneck.
Oops... We did it again :) So you can play your favourite brand-new quicktime movie trailers with mplayer! Oops... you cannot yet... at least the code is working, and was uploaded to CVS, but it needs some hacking to get it work... (not so bad, you need some DLLs from QT5 player and sdk, and libwine from wine-20020310 and some config.h editing) - okay, we'll work on getting this more user-friendly... :) so be patient, it'll be available in next (pre)release for sure!
Wouldn't it be simpler to just run QT5 under WINE? This doesn't really look like support, from my point of view.
The Slashdot effect is beyond "getting old" now. I'm sick of story after story that is inaccessible.
It's just so lame now. Oh, by the way, posting is still broken.
I strongly recommend you read this, definitive guide to establish your procedures and develop your SLAs.
They should have built it before they announced it. That way, maybe they could survive the low-grade Sunday Slashdotting.
Did you mean hours?? Or minutes? 8 - 10 hours to copy an image and install it is ridiculous. Norton Ghost takes about 15 minutes each way, a total of 30 minutes on similar hardware. Granted that isn't the sector by sector copy method but why use that if you don't have to? Norton Ghost handles ext2/3 partitions with no problem at all.
I have installed thousands, yes thousands of images of Windows 95 - 2000, as well as restored Windows 2000 domain controllers from backup images with Ghost and Ghost Walker. It works great.
Thanks for playing.
Try an OS upgrade on >2000 machines and then tell me this. Better yet, try an OS replacement, say Windows 95 to Linux on >50 machines and then tell me you don't see the point of cloning workstations.
Plug your Sparc disk into the SCSI controller of an Intel box and Ghost can image it just fine. However, you are correct, having a native Unix version is good.
Yes, that's right. Remember that Knopppix was initially intended as a demo CD. The most important criteria was for it to not use a hard drive. But, Linux really likes to know that it has a swap partition even if it doesn't really need one. Knoppix fools Linux into thinking it has a swap partition by creating a small one in RAM. Knoppix also loopback mounts a crompressed file system tree which is accessed via symlinks in the / (root) tree but, the tree is a RAM disk. It is a beutiful piece of trickery to get Linux to run with NO HARD DRIVE AT ALL!
Ghost handles all file systems as well. They call it a sector by sector disk copy. In this case Ghost does not care what is on the disk, it copies the DISK rather than the filesystem or partition as it does by default. But as with g4u you can't resize and so forth with a sector by sector copy.
The only problem with Ghost is the licensing cost.
Check out Knoppix. It has Galeon. It was up to Gnome 2.0, although KDE is the default desktop, but recently Knopper fell back to an earlier version of Gnome because he was having a lot of problems with 2.0. I would expect him to return to 2.x once the bugs are worked out.
The only thing it doesn't have is Flash and Real Player because of licensing issues with those products.
I'd really like to know what the performance is like. Ghost can be very fast sometimes.
It's too bad that it won't allow you to resize partitions, as you can with Ghost but, it looks like a great start, so long as it isn't too slow.
No Knoppix does not require a hard drive at all. Inserting the CD and booting Knoppix creates a RAM disk for swap space and symlinks to the rest of the OS on CD. Knoppix runs entirely from RAM and the CD. Knoppix does not touch your hard disk!!!!
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However, Knoppix does a great job of detecting all present disks and sets up the FSTAB to allow you to access any of the disk partitions. This is read-only acess by default. Knoppix creates desktop icons for each of the disk partitions. Should you need to access data on the hard disk(read-only by default) simply click the icon and Knoppix auto-mounts the partition, ext2/3, fat, fat32, NTFS, what have you.
Knoppix is awesome and WELL worth the download! Although I suspect that the mirrors are being Slashdotted right now.
Have you tried Knoppix? Did you read the article? I would think that Knoppix would fit your bill perfectly.
Did I just get trolled?
Knoppix is a GREAT distro. I regularly give it to people to try out Linux. It also makes a great recovery disk. I can go anywhere and pop it into a PC with a CD-ROM drive and it boots giving me all the tools I need.
/mnt/WINNT to /mnt/GoodDisk. Have a nice day.
What? Your Windows 2000 server's dynamic disk has crashed, again? No problem. Insert Knoppix. Copy
This is EXACTLY what they did to her, but only in the "virtual" world..
So she should virtually win the case. The ISP should virtually pay here large amounts of virtual cash for her virtual damages. Seems virtually fair to me.
Government efforts to tighten Internet security and investigate online attacks have long been hampered by reluctance from companies to admit they were victims, even in cases where executives quietly paid thousands of dollars in extortion to hackers.
Ok, someone needs to prove this, otherwise I get the highly suspect that it's some government propaganda. Honestly, who pays a script kiddie to remove the pr0n and racist/anti-gay shit from their site?
True dat. This little gem is popping up more and more frequently. It is utter BS but, as more people hear it in more places they will accept it as fact. It is total BS!! NO corporation is paying extortion money to hackers. Unless they are counting the dollars wasted on "Security Consultants".
- so what do you see when the driver crashes?"
Porn Screen Of Death?
That's way better than the sicko Mac porn Slashdot posted a couple of days ago.
Slashdot completely broken in aborted switch over test. News at 11. Maybe?....
This is the lamest story I think I've ever seen on Slashdot. Hasn't Mrs. Taco started steering you into the real world yet? For Christ's sake, you're a thirty odd year old "man". Isn't it time to let go of the childish fantasies?
Second half 2003. Which almost always slips so the real meaning is assumed to be Q403(4th quarter 2003) or even Q104(First quarter 2004).