Currently trying to find any kind of Open Source collaboration Server - I can assure you that the software costs alone are within 5% on any of the decently known and supported alternatives such as Zimbra, Zafura, eGroupware, open-Xchange etc. Zafura is the closest in terms of quality, but based on my testing, I have noticed that with my 15-user test groups (all users using at least three devices to sync continuously) Zimbra is the closest to Exchange in terms of efficiency, and if you remove OS resource usage I have noticed that the Exchange daemon is the most efficient. I hadn't gone through any kind of upgrade testing to see how easy that is (which could alone still sway me away from my current direction of updating Exchange) but when compared to how much easier it is to tie Exchange into Active Directory and properly apply any domain-controlled policies to clients, Exchange wins hands-down in any system that isn't wholly unix from the ground-up.
In conclusion, you are misinformed if you think any kind of FOSS system can compete with Exchange. If you want any kind of collaboration utilities (Calendar or Contact sync and grouping, etc) then you discard the F part and usually the OS part too - and the supposed knights of FOSS are even more greedy than Moneyholesoft from Redmond. At least Redmond allowed us a 3-month trial with 60 users to test out compared to the others. VMWare let us try Zimbra with 30 users for 30 days before they wanted to charge us - nobody else would even let us trial their packages at all.
What is sad is that most of those WEP AP's were done (some likely recently) by supposedly knowledgeable people, such as WorstBuy's IdiotSquad.
As a consultant it's infuriating how often I will come across new clients (even many companies) whose WiFi networks were secured by those morons out of incompetence. I have even seen them install small business servers with direct-to-internet connections and not even a NAT firewall, because "You can't have a VPN server behind a firewall" which we all know is bullsh**.
I believe you are amazingly shortsighted that you think postal systems are irrelevant. Can you think of any other completely effective way to physically deliver large quantities of physical items to households covering a large geographical area, without the expense of storefronts etc?
I quite disagree that postal systems are dieing - I believe that in this day of internet shopping postal systems are becoming far more widely utilized than ever.
I don't see how that is any less anti-competitive than the other two who have Konquer(Linux) and Safari(Mac) as equally entrenched. Of those three, Unix and Windows are the only two which actually have the ability to run in a completely or nearly GUI-less environment.
There is nothing which prevents any person from installing a secondary mailbox similar to those used by us in more rural areas for newspapers.
I hate government sponsored monopolies as much as anyone else, but the USPS actually provides a rather critical service even in these days of easily accessible alternatives such as e-mail. Without the pressure of the USPS being able to provide affordable prices for shipping to more poorly covered or less easily accessed areas (such as Alaska and Hawaii) only the people in major metropolitan areas would receive reasonable parcel and letter services. As much as that may not affect you there are still many millions of other people who are equally as valuable and important to you who would be royally bunged if things happened the way you obviously wish.
Honestly, as a married man I don't understand why anyone would think that...
My first thought was of more efficient ball bearings. Such perfect ball bearings alone could reduce world-wide energy usage by a large percentage. Technology like this is the truly "green" tech that we need to proliferate in addition to the other forms we are currently working on.
Last I checked, Xerox was the first one to create a windowed OS, Apple simply pirated it as blatantly as the Chinese pirate anything these days.
And the original "Power PC" processors were Motorola chips that Apple managed to sneak a contract to get, despite the expectations that Atari et-all would have exclusivity towards.
The article posts about supporting a product, as if it is a bad thing to do. The fact that Microshaft is still standing behind a 6-year-old operating system while it has two newer ones stands for their integrity. Let's see Apple do that - oh wait, they don't have a new OS in as much time, and make you pay for the major patches...
My T-Mobile MDA has been dropped more times than I can count and stepped on a couple times. Aside from having to replace the cover for the antenna / camera lens, it has only minor scratches. It works as perfect as the day I bought it.
Either you got a bad phone, or you are performing tasks on the order of attempting to make a call from 100 ft under water without a waterproof cover. A friend's 8525 was recently cracked open while he was in Iraq. He replaced the casing and screen and it worked perfect as of when I saw him this weekend...
I must be doing something wrong then, because on my up-to-date MCE box, I recorded a movie off HBO yesterday then watched it last night when I was home. I am 100% up-to-date, and had no issues...
I apologize for the harsh bluntness of this following statement; but hopefully those included in that "Better us" will not include the hypocrites such as yourself.
First of all the planet can easily sustain a populous double our current size, if people would just use the grey matter known as our brains that we have been greatly blessed with. There is plenty of arable and forest-able land left that we can continue to grow our overcrowded cities and support them. Sure, if everyone would just farm their own materials and become self-sufficient then the world would be a small fraction of our current population, but can you not imagine how inefficient AND how bad that would be for the human species?
I hear so many of the far leftists say "stop breeding" and such mantra to that effect, but you are unquestionably the most promiscuous people there are. That is like saying that we should all stop eating, yet you continue to grow in girth at an alarming rate. By your own philosophies and beliefs, if you let nature do it's work unobstructed then it will balance itself. Especially those on the left push us farther and farther from this law of selection.
It will be a very long time before we have discovered all of the species of the ocean, let alone consumed said species. Again, there are laws of selection that nature lives by, and if left alone all will balance out. This 'make everyone equal (financially) so they can all have the same lobster dinner' and such mentality of "you can't be better than me" goes so directly against the law of Natural Selection that even I (who convenes regularly with friends who are marine biologists and assure me otherwise) am starting to wonder the validity of the leftist "we are killing the ocean" propaganda.
Foremost, for you specifically, or anyone who sees this post, to balk at consumerism - especially that of technology - is amongst the highest form of hypocrisies possible. Every employed person in the world is employed due to consumerism. Every successful individual, every technology every war and every medical advancement is due to consumerism either directly or indirectly. For anyone to say "stop consuming" is equivocal to saying "stop living" because consumption is the number-one basic instinct of all that exists.
If I remember right, weren't some Cyrix processors based on RISC architecture using a solid-state translation system a while ago? Whoever it was, I remember that already happening but the translation made it about half the speed of competing systems.
I think with virtualization growing, that a future architecture change is almost unavoidable. What we should focus on is developing virtualization to the point where we can switch to RISC or ARM and then run a virtualized system for any x86 based compatibility.
Last I checked, Pirates of the Silicon Valley was written and directed by Martyn Burke whose own website says he has only authored FICTION. Not only is he a fiction writer (fiction is the opposite of reality for those of you who are dictionary-deficient) but in every interview done of him, he has expressed a preference for MAC.
That would be like saying the guy who created and stars in the Mac ads (who has said he has only used macs) is a better expert on Winblows than anyone else on the face of the planet. Then believing him when he said that Winblows has a tune singing "Santa Claus is gunning you down" for it's startup theme right out of the MS box.
I pay $80 per month, for 10mbit (down)/ 768 up DSL and Phone (w/ long distance) using Surewest (www.surewest.net) in Roseville, CA. When I am downloading from Fileshack, I have seen 12mbit speeds.
In other news: Comment moderated off-topic because one person mentioned that many people thought "Oh crap we are screwed" when they found out that the Democrats took house. Reports of anti-Democrat bias swept as another non-Democrat post was left unmoderated.
On a "normal" workday I have about 70 windows open average, 60 minimum (8-monitor setup) on my primary work box... That is one window to keep an eye on the stats for every server I manage (remotely and locally.) There are also additional windows for FF (avg 5 tabs,) Putty, IE (MY Uninterpretable Power Supply power management system only works right in IE,) Office (mood reflects whether it is OpenOffice or Microshaft Office) VB.net, command prompt and Remote desktop (more often than not to home.) If it is a lax day I will usually also have Trillian open. Of course, I rarely look at more than 3-4 windows at a time, I still have them open to glance at throughout the day.
For the record, the only time my computer has been restarted (never shut down) in the past month is for monthly Windows updates. That is the only time it ever restarts or logs off (lock is your friend.)
Speaking as a Fundamentalist Christian, I can certainly tell you not only are you very, VERY far from any knowledge of Christianity; but what you consider a 'fundamentalist christian' is just a puppet of a church called Catholicism which is leading the Christian faith farther and farther towards human disdain and a fiery hell.
You are down to that topsoil level maybe if you are in a desert on the opposite side of the world from the closest volcano (extinct or active.)
Here, however, the nutritious topsoil is about 19' deep on average - some years annually growing with river deposits. Also, in California there are an estimated 1500+ very-long extinct volcanic vents which are loaded with nutritious soil thousands of feet deep. The only places in the world that have only "9 inches" of topsoil are deserts. Just because you only dig down nine inches in your San Francisco condominium and find the concrete structure below does not mean that there is only 9" of topsoil in the whole world.
Oh, and the places in the ocean where there is no life have always had no life. Talk to any REAL marine biologist (not some liberally-biased person) and they will tell you that the oceanic population is not even 1% lower than it was hundreds of years ago (so far as they can tell)...
While we may be overpopulated in the metropolitan areas, but I am absolutely positive that you cannot say you do not contribute to that overpopulation. Go to any truly rural area - like Montana or Alaska - and you will see that overpopulation of the planet is probably not within the grasp of our children's, children's, grandchildren's wildest imaginations.
However, many of the richer nations (especially us Americans) are generally extremely wasteful. The true problem that you should be concerned with is NOT lack of oil, lack of food or lack of space; but generation of waste. So many of the third-world nations are even more wasteful than we Americans (have you ever seen Mexico outside of the tourist-y areas???) There needs to be a more efficient and intelligent means of waste disposal addressed. Granted there is Recycling to help, and compaction techniques are very advanced, that doesn't account for the fact that only 6% of recyclable material is actually recycled, and (estimated) around 45% of garbage is compost able.
This seems to be the case. When I go to my Fiance's college, the websites for Michael Savage and Sean Hannity are blocked, as well as I have been in public places where the (real) Whitehouse's site has been blocked.
Web censorship DOES seem to be a trend, especially at the numerous colleges I have lectured at or visited in their bids for donations.
You are somewhat wrong, and somewhat right. There certainly is a government entity that choses the voting system, but it is the Department of Voting. In major metro areas (Such as the Cities of Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks in AK) or more rural counties (The rest of AK including where I will be soon residing) each department has different officials and different systems. Being an in-law to someone who is the president of the voting department (forget their official name) there is infinitely more than who contributes or who has the best product. My in-law (and his minions) spends at least a hundred hours a week looking at the plethora of different systems, performing tests, performing contract negotiations etc etc etc and then has to deal with the financial departments and administrative departments to get permission to perform semi-live tests or even go for public opinion on new systems. It's a bureaucratic nighmare, and a lot more job than most of us can imagine.
Having designed a couple consumer devices where we had to burn silicon, I can say the grandparent post is the correct one. "Taping Out" is a referance to the stamp having been successfully created. This used to be accomplished by using lenghts of electrical tape on sheets of glass, but the templates I have taped-out (and I assume the rest of modern templates) are done by silk-screening the pathways directly onto high-temp plexiglass.
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Currently trying to find any kind of Open Source collaboration Server - I can assure you that the software costs alone are within 5% on any of the decently known and supported alternatives such as Zimbra, Zafura, eGroupware, open-Xchange etc. Zafura is the closest in terms of quality, but based on my testing, I have noticed that with my 15-user test groups (all users using at least three devices to sync continuously) Zimbra is the closest to Exchange in terms of efficiency, and if you remove OS resource usage I have noticed that the Exchange daemon is the most efficient. I hadn't gone through any kind of upgrade testing to see how easy that is (which could alone still sway me away from my current direction of updating Exchange) but when compared to how much easier it is to tie Exchange into Active Directory and properly apply any domain-controlled policies to clients, Exchange wins hands-down in any system that isn't wholly unix from the ground-up.
In conclusion, you are misinformed if you think any kind of FOSS system can compete with Exchange. If you want any kind of collaboration utilities (Calendar or Contact sync and grouping, etc) then you discard the F part and usually the OS part too - and the supposed knights of FOSS are even more greedy than Moneyholesoft from Redmond. At least Redmond allowed us a 3-month trial with 60 users to test out compared to the others. VMWare let us try Zimbra with 30 users for 30 days before they wanted to charge us - nobody else would even let us trial their packages at all.
What is sad is that most of those WEP AP's were done (some likely recently) by supposedly knowledgeable people, such as WorstBuy's IdiotSquad.
As a consultant it's infuriating how often I will come across new clients (even many companies) whose WiFi networks were secured by those morons out of incompetence. I have even seen them install small business servers with direct-to-internet connections and not even a NAT firewall, because "You can't have a VPN server behind a firewall" which we all know is bullsh**.
Are you seriously so stupid that you didn't notice it was an april fools post?
First read the text, and read all of the business commentary compared to the exact same commentary in any of Forbes' other thousands of posts.
After that, look at the damned post date.
You are seriously stupid that you're falling for this.
I believe you are amazingly shortsighted that you think postal systems are irrelevant. Can you think of any other completely effective way to physically deliver large quantities of physical items to households covering a large geographical area, without the expense of storefronts etc?
I quite disagree that postal systems are dieing - I believe that in this day of internet shopping postal systems are becoming far more widely utilized than ever.
Why would anyone balk at a chance to wear lab coats in a 'professional' office?
I don't see how that is any less anti-competitive than the other two who have Konquer(Linux) and Safari(Mac) as equally entrenched. Of those three, Unix and Windows are the only two which actually have the ability to run in a completely or nearly GUI-less environment.
There is nothing which prevents any person from installing a secondary mailbox similar to those used by us in more rural areas for newspapers.
I hate government sponsored monopolies as much as anyone else, but the USPS actually provides a rather critical service even in these days of easily accessible alternatives such as e-mail. Without the pressure of the USPS being able to provide affordable prices for shipping to more poorly covered or less easily accessed areas (such as Alaska and Hawaii) only the people in major metropolitan areas would receive reasonable parcel and letter services. As much as that may not affect you there are still many millions of other people who are equally as valuable and important to you who would be royally bunged if things happened the way you obviously wish.
Honestly, as a married man I don't understand why anyone would think that...
My first thought was of more efficient ball bearings. Such perfect ball bearings alone could reduce world-wide energy usage by a large percentage. Technology like this is the truly "green" tech that we need to proliferate in addition to the other forms we are currently working on.
Last I checked, Xerox was the first one to create a windowed OS, Apple simply pirated it as blatantly as the Chinese pirate anything these days.
And the original "Power PC" processors were Motorola chips that Apple managed to sneak a contract to get, despite the expectations that Atari et-all would have exclusivity towards.
This is why you Mac Zealots fail so.
The article posts about supporting a product, as if it is a bad thing to do. The fact that Microshaft is still standing behind a 6-year-old operating system while it has two newer ones stands for their integrity. Let's see Apple do that - oh wait, they don't have a new OS in as much time, and make you pay for the major patches...
Oh yes, Apple is SOO much better than Microsoft.
My T-Mobile MDA has been dropped more times than I can count and stepped on a couple times. Aside from having to replace the cover for the antenna / camera lens, it has only minor scratches. It works as perfect as the day I bought it.
Either you got a bad phone, or you are performing tasks on the order of attempting to make a call from 100 ft under water without a waterproof cover. A friend's 8525 was recently cracked open while he was in Iraq. He replaced the casing and screen and it worked perfect as of when I saw him this weekend...
I must be doing something wrong then, because on my up-to-date MCE box, I recorded a movie off HBO yesterday then watched it last night when I was home. I am 100% up-to-date, and had no issues...
I apologize for the harsh bluntness of this following statement; but hopefully those included in that "Better us" will not include the hypocrites such as yourself.
First of all the planet can easily sustain a populous double our current size, if people would just use the grey matter known as our brains that we have been greatly blessed with. There is plenty of arable and forest-able land left that we can continue to grow our overcrowded cities and support them. Sure, if everyone would just farm their own materials and become self-sufficient then the world would be a small fraction of our current population, but can you not imagine how inefficient AND how bad that would be for the human species?
I hear so many of the far leftists say "stop breeding" and such mantra to that effect, but you are unquestionably the most promiscuous people there are. That is like saying that we should all stop eating, yet you continue to grow in girth at an alarming rate. By your own philosophies and beliefs, if you let nature do it's work unobstructed then it will balance itself. Especially those on the left push us farther and farther from this law of selection.
It will be a very long time before we have discovered all of the species of the ocean, let alone consumed said species. Again, there are laws of selection that nature lives by, and if left alone all will balance out. This 'make everyone equal (financially) so they can all have the same lobster dinner' and such mentality of "you can't be better than me" goes so directly against the law of Natural Selection that even I (who convenes regularly with friends who are marine biologists and assure me otherwise) am starting to wonder the validity of the leftist "we are killing the ocean" propaganda.
Foremost, for you specifically, or anyone who sees this post, to balk at consumerism - especially that of technology - is amongst the highest form of hypocrisies possible. Every employed person in the world is employed due to consumerism. Every successful individual, every technology every war and every medical advancement is due to consumerism either directly or indirectly. For anyone to say "stop consuming" is equivocal to saying "stop living" because consumption is the number-one basic instinct of all that exists.
If I remember right, weren't some Cyrix processors based on RISC architecture using a solid-state translation system a while ago? Whoever it was, I remember that already happening but the translation made it about half the speed of competing systems.
I think with virtualization growing, that a future architecture change is almost unavoidable. What we should focus on is developing virtualization to the point where we can switch to RISC or ARM and then run a virtualized system for any x86 based compatibility.
Last I checked, Pirates of the Silicon Valley was written and directed by Martyn Burke whose own website says he has only authored FICTION. Not only is he a fiction writer (fiction is the opposite of reality for those of you who are dictionary-deficient) but in every interview done of him, he has expressed a preference for MAC.
That would be like saying the guy who created and stars in the Mac ads (who has said he has only used macs) is a better expert on Winblows than anyone else on the face of the planet. Then believing him when he said that Winblows has a tune singing "Santa Claus is gunning you down" for it's startup theme right out of the MS box.
I pay $80 per month, for 10mbit (down)/ 768 up DSL and Phone (w/ long distance) using Surewest (www.surewest.net) in Roseville, CA. When I am downloading from Fileshack, I have seen 12mbit speeds.
In other news: Comment moderated off-topic because one person mentioned that many people thought "Oh crap we are screwed" when they found out that the Democrats took house. Reports of anti-Democrat bias swept as another non-Democrat post was left unmoderated.
On a "normal" workday I have about 70 windows open average, 60 minimum (8-monitor setup) on my primary work box... That is one window to keep an eye on the stats for every server I manage (remotely and locally.) There are also additional windows for FF (avg 5 tabs,) Putty, IE (MY Uninterpretable Power Supply power management system only works right in IE,) Office (mood reflects whether it is OpenOffice or Microshaft Office) VB.net, command prompt and Remote desktop (more often than not to home.) If it is a lax day I will usually also have Trillian open. Of course, I rarely look at more than 3-4 windows at a time, I still have them open to glance at throughout the day.
For the record, the only time my computer has been restarted (never shut down) in the past month is for monthly Windows updates. That is the only time it ever restarts or logs off (lock is your friend.)
Just my daily routine window-wise.
Speaking as a Fundamentalist Christian, I can certainly tell you not only are you very, VERY far from any knowledge of Christianity; but what you consider a 'fundamentalist christian' is just a puppet of a church called Catholicism which is leading the Christian faith farther and farther towards human disdain and a fiery hell.
You are down to that topsoil level maybe if you are in a desert on the opposite side of the world from the closest volcano (extinct or active.)
Here, however, the nutritious topsoil is about 19' deep on average - some years annually growing with river deposits. Also, in California there are an estimated 1500+ very-long extinct volcanic vents which are loaded with nutritious soil thousands of feet deep. The only places in the world that have only "9 inches" of topsoil are deserts. Just because you only dig down nine inches in your San Francisco condominium and find the concrete structure below does not mean that there is only 9" of topsoil in the whole world.
Oh, and the places in the ocean where there is no life have always had no life. Talk to any REAL marine biologist (not some liberally-biased person) and they will tell you that the oceanic population is not even 1% lower than it was hundreds of years ago (so far as they can tell)...
While we may be overpopulated in the metropolitan areas, but I am absolutely positive that you cannot say you do not contribute to that overpopulation. Go to any truly rural area - like Montana or Alaska - and you will see that overpopulation of the planet is probably not within the grasp of our children's, children's, grandchildren's wildest imaginations.
However, many of the richer nations (especially us Americans) are generally extremely wasteful. The true problem that you should be concerned with is NOT lack of oil, lack of food or lack of space; but generation of waste. So many of the third-world nations are even more wasteful than we Americans (have you ever seen Mexico outside of the tourist-y areas???) There needs to be a more efficient and intelligent means of waste disposal addressed. Granted there is Recycling to help, and compaction techniques are very advanced, that doesn't account for the fact that only 6% of recyclable material is actually recycled, and (estimated) around 45% of garbage is compost able.
This seems to be the case. When I go to my Fiance's college, the websites for Michael Savage and Sean Hannity are blocked, as well as I have been in public places where the (real) Whitehouse's site has been blocked.
Web censorship DOES seem to be a trend, especially at the numerous colleges I have lectured at or visited in their bids for donations.
You can get CD storage units that hold 150 CD/DVDs and can be plugged into USB so that you can search through a catalog and recall the CD that way. Here is an example of what I am talking about (http://www.tracertek.com/cdstorage.htm) These aren't the cheapest, but should be the most efficient and cost effective.
You are somewhat wrong, and somewhat right. There certainly is a government entity that choses the voting system, but it is the Department of Voting. In major metro areas (Such as the Cities of Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks in AK) or more rural counties (The rest of AK including where I will be soon residing) each department has different officials and different systems. Being an in-law to someone who is the president of the voting department (forget their official name) there is infinitely more than who contributes or who has the best product. My in-law (and his minions) spends at least a hundred hours a week looking at the plethora of different systems, performing tests, performing contract negotiations etc etc etc and then has to deal with the financial departments and administrative departments to get permission to perform semi-live tests or even go for public opinion on new systems. It's a bureaucratic nighmare, and a lot more job than most of us can imagine.
I thought Al Gore invented the internets...
What will he invent next? He already invented Global Warming.
Having designed a couple consumer devices where we had to burn silicon, I can say the grandparent post is the correct one. "Taping Out" is a referance to the stamp having been successfully created. This used to be accomplished by using lenghts of electrical tape on sheets of glass, but the templates I have taped-out (and I assume the rest of modern templates) are done by silk-screening the pathways directly onto high-temp plexiglass.