You mean less money to support (read: make freakin' rich) the small oligarchy of Olympic Officials?
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Most users would rather a burgeoning web browser support cookies, rather than run 10% faster. Just go ahead and ask any user(who knows what cookies are), and they'll agree.
Ha ha! I know a few that would rather not have cookies at all (And no, they're not paranoid or comp. techs.). I get your point. It just made me remember a discussion with them about how to really disable cookies.
You'd think that after all these years that some people would realise that technology isn't the magic bullet that'll solve all
our problems.
Then again, technology (by itself) isn't our enemy either.
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We shouldn't let the greed of a few corporations and the advocacy of tecnology fetishists blind us to the very real potential for disaster.
For crying out loud! You guys are watching way to many NBC made for TV movies. I think the greed of a [few] corporations can be just as harmful (does the/. crowd not agree?). Also, where does this come off as portraying these researchers and scientists ans 'tecnology [sic] fetishists'? It's more likely that people opposing this are alarmists and technophobes (or worried about their precious little patent).
Enforcing a policy is the problem. Actually, the entire network situation is the problem - it's a hack (not my fault! Really!).:P
So, yes, I'm sensitive about the issue. To a PHB, mailbox quota's and 'acceptable use' policies don't mean anything. They figure they're the exception, because they are so important. The best I can do is be discrete about it.
I'm not so much a Net. Admin. as I am a grunt - bottom of the food chain. Nothing is planned; It all just 'happens' due to some Big Wig's whim. However, it pays the bills and the benefits are good.
I don't like Exchange very much at all. While there are some useful tools, like the mailbox manager, but I find it quite inflexible in other areas. For example, there is no easy way to move a mailbox from one container to another. I figure that functionality should be as easy as a drag'n'drop. If it's gonna mean some sort of confusing workaround or complex set of instructions, it might as well be UNIX.
Well, saying that 'a dual PPro box with 1Gig of memory' couldn't handle the load of 100 users is misrepresenting Exchange.
How is the server going to know about the users if they don't exist? Or does your existing setup just automatically create a mailbox whenever someone connects to your mail server?
A mailbox is created, then the client (MS Outlook) needs to be set up with User Profile before the users can connect... but yes, the server does automagically create a mailbox when a someone connects. Try it for yourself; Connect to mail.jackass.com port 143.
Exchange is a system for transporting mail. Sendmail is just as adept at forwarding macro virus infected emails.
The MS Outlook client that was made to work with MS Exchange is vulnerable to these macro virus infected emails, but I'm sure you already knew that, just as I'm sure that is what you understood when you read the first comment. Sendmail does not provide the groupware functionality that MS Exchange does, But I'm sure you knew that too.
That's odd. We have 400 users on a dual PPro with 1/2 Gig of memory. No problems at all
Well, good for you! I'm glad that you have such opportunity to build a system to support 400 users, of which 25% of them are VP's that figure a an MS Exchange mail account doubles as a filing system in which they and their executive assistants can every store Word document, PowerPoint presentation and funny joke.exe they've accumulated for the past two years. I'm also happy that you have the position and power to enforce a policy that encourages this use of the system. In fact, I'd highly recommend this practice to you and all of your users.
just that you were a little off on some of your statements.
Well, I'm sure everybody here appreciates you setting me straight. I guess it's back to ditch digging for me.
That's right. If this small faction of fat pointy haired people want the full functionality of MS Outlook (i.e. shared calendars), they can set up net folders. They work great, plus the fact that I don't have to worry about opening up an Exchange server to other servers in other departments/offices because Joe Blow Big Wig wants to see Suzy Q's calendar, but their accounts are on different servers.
I don't like MS Exchange. I like the features it provides, but I hate the fact that it's protocol are hidden/proprietary and having to set up and configure 'Profiles' for every bloody user on the server. Then there's the whole virus/worm thing!
Also, we used to run the Exchange server on a dual PPro box with 1Gig of memory. This couldn't handle the load (of approx 100 users)!!! Users were complaining about very slow response times. We upgraded to a dual PIII 733MHz w/ 1.5Gig RAM. I'm more than confident a UNIX box running sendmail/pop/imap/webmail/etc. would be able to handle the load just fine, and then some.
See question 37:
Is there any way I can contribute to Parsec?
Right now we are not looking for new team members. We really appreciate all the input and feedback we're getting via e-mail, though. There will also
be many possibilities for contribution once we release model-specs and the game code.
I think they are just 'strong believers' in having total control over the source with a specific team of people. It's more of a guarantee that some hot headed dickwad isn't going to cause some trouble with development. Also, they probably don't want 17 different (incompatible) versions popping up all over the globe (GPL'ed Quake comes to mind).
Where would Quake(tm) be if it started out as open source?
My brother just took one of those 6 month crash course Oracle/VB/Powerbuilder thing that says they have a 99% placement rate.
The college I dropped out of made similar claims (90% placement rate). However, I took a closer look at the stats. 90% of that 90% had 'placements' in jobs totally unrelated to the diploma (in Computer Engineering) - Boston Pizza, Sport Check, Safeway, Kmart...
And I bet they were serving pizza, not building embedded systems
Disclaimer; this is a rumour and we all know about Apple rumors...
Yeah. Expect some people to get sued.
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Michael Dell tries to figure out why he's selling overpriced Linux systems.
Heh. I guess the hardware that runs Linux should be beer too, eh?
Dell can sell overpriced Linux systems because a good portion of Dell buyers (coorporate style business and higher education) can afford it. Oh well. Dell is evil. Dell is bad. Dell is Microsoft. Dell is awful because they've shipped me parts next day when a piece of hardware died.
Personally, I like Dell systems for servers. The hardware is decent, and the service contracts are good. So what if the price is higher - I feel that I'm getting what I paid for. Dealing with Dell has been a much better experience than dealing with, oh, HP or Compaq (who also overprice their systems.
Besides, Micheal Dell is freakin' rich; He didn't get that way by giving away computers.
University Psych. courses (University of Alberta, Canada), will teach that language and thought patterns go hand in hand. For example: Chinese speaking children (mandarin/cantonese) understand mathmatics more readily because there language supports a base 10 number system. Instead of counting...nine, ten, eleven, twelve..., they will count...nine, ten, ten and one, ten and two....
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You mean less money to support (read: make freakin' rich) the small oligarchy of Olympic Officials?
Ha ha! I know a few that would rather not have cookies at all (And no, they're not paranoid or comp. techs.). I get your point. It just made me remember a discussion with them about how to really disable cookies.
Then again, technology (by itself) isn't our enemy either.
For crying out loud! You guys are watching way to many NBC made for TV movies. I think the greed of a [few] corporations can be just as harmful (does the /. crowd not agree?). Also, where does this come off as portraying these researchers and scientists ans 'tecnology [sic] fetishists'? It's more likely that people opposing this are alarmists and technophobes (or worried about their precious little patent).
Actually, they were creeping in the bushes looking for you.
I thought your post was funny.
Well, it only happened 2 days ago...
You can find a more info (other than a newsgroup message :) at The Register.
Enforcing a policy is the problem. Actually, the entire network situation is the problem - it's a hack (not my fault! Really!). :P
So, yes, I'm sensitive about the issue. To a PHB, mailbox quota's and 'acceptable use' policies don't mean anything. They figure they're the exception, because they are so important. The best I can do is be discrete about it.
I'm not so much a Net. Admin. as I am a grunt - bottom of the food chain. Nothing is planned; It all just 'happens' due to some Big Wig's whim. However, it pays the bills and the benefits are good.
I don't like Exchange very much at all. While there are some useful tools, like the mailbox manager, but I find it quite inflexible in other areas. For example, there is no easy way to move a mailbox from one container to another. I figure that functionality should be as easy as a drag'n'drop. If it's gonna mean some sort of confusing workaround or complex set of instructions, it might as well be UNIX.
Well, saying that 'a dual PPro box with 1Gig of memory' couldn't handle the load of 100 users is misrepresenting Exchange.
Well, those are the facts. :)
A mailbox is created, then the client (MS Outlook) needs to be set up with User Profile before the users can connect... but yes, the server does automagically create a mailbox when a someone connects. Try it for yourself; Connect to mail.jackass.com port 143.
Exchange is a system for transporting mail. Sendmail is just as adept at forwarding macro virus infected emails.
The MS Outlook client that was made to work with MS Exchange is vulnerable to these macro virus infected emails, but I'm sure you already knew that, just as I'm sure that is what you understood when you read the first comment. Sendmail does not provide the groupware functionality that MS Exchange does, But I'm sure you knew that too.
That's odd. We have 400 users on a dual PPro with 1/2 Gig of memory. No problems at allWell, good for you! I'm glad that you have such opportunity to build a system to support 400 users, of which 25% of them are VP's that figure a an MS Exchange mail account doubles as a filing system in which they and their executive assistants can every store Word document, PowerPoint presentation and funny joke.exe they've accumulated for the past two years. I'm also happy that you have the position and power to enforce a policy that encourages this use of the system. In fact, I'd highly recommend this practice to you and all of your users.
just that you were a little off on some of your statements.
Well, I'm sure everybody here appreciates you setting me straight. I guess it's back to ditch digging for me.
That's right. If this small faction of fat pointy haired people want the full functionality of MS Outlook (i.e. shared calendars), they can set up net folders. They work great, plus the fact that I don't have to worry about opening up an Exchange server to other servers in other departments/offices because Joe Blow Big Wig wants to see Suzy Q's calendar, but their accounts are on different servers.
I don't like MS Exchange. I like the features it provides, but I hate the fact that it's protocol are hidden/proprietary and having to set up and configure 'Profiles' for every bloody user on the server. Then there's the whole virus/worm thing!
Also, we used to run the Exchange server on a dual PPro box with 1Gig of memory. This couldn't handle the load (of approx 100 users)!!! Users were complaining about very slow response times. We upgraded to a dual PIII 733MHz w/ 1.5Gig RAM. I'm more than confident a UNIX box running sendmail/pop/imap/webmail/etc. would be able to handle the load just fine, and then some.
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Penguins"
Cool!
So, uh, when do the linux drivers come out for this thing so I can get a command prompt displayed on one of these. :D
See question 37:
Is there any way I can contribute to Parsec?
Right now we are not looking for new team members. We really appreciate all the input and feedback we're getting via e-mail, though. There will also be many possibilities for contribution once we release model-specs and the game code.
I think they are just 'strong believers' in having total control over the source with a specific team of people. It's more of a guarantee that some hot headed dickwad isn't going to cause some trouble with development. Also, they probably don't want 17 different (incompatible) versions popping up all over the globe (GPL'ed Quake comes to mind).
Where would Quake(tm) be if it started out as open source?
First? No. This has been done: UofA Sunsite
There are probably others too.
The college I dropped out of made similar claims (90% placement rate). However, I took a closer look at the stats. 90% of that 90% had 'placements' in jobs totally unrelated to the diploma (in Computer Engineering) - Boston Pizza, Sport Check, Safeway, Kmart...
And I bet they were serving pizza, not building embedded systems
Except, in this case, even telling (linking) them where to go is illegal too.
..And then Apple sued them all.
Yeah. Expect some people to get sued.
Heh. I guess the hardware that runs Linux should be beer too, eh?
Dell can sell overpriced Linux systems because a good portion of Dell buyers (coorporate style business and higher education) can afford it. Oh well. Dell is evil. Dell is bad. Dell is Microsoft. Dell is awful because they've shipped me parts next day when a piece of hardware died.
Personally, I like Dell systems for servers. The hardware is decent, and the service contracts are good. So what if the price is higher - I feel that I'm getting what I paid for. Dealing with Dell has been a much better experience than dealing with, oh, HP or Compaq (who also overprice their systems.
Besides, Micheal Dell is freakin' rich; He didn't get that way by giving away computers.
University Psych. courses (University of Alberta, Canada), will teach that language and thought patterns go hand in hand. For example: Chinese speaking children (mandarin/cantonese) understand mathmatics more readily because there language supports a base 10 number system. Instead of counting ...nine, ten, eleven, twelve..., they will count ...nine, ten, ten and one, ten and two....
And just how the fuck do you define LOW END!!!!, Mr. "I-gotta-use-4-exclamation-points-to-make-my-point "?
asswipe...
Troll? What the fuck were you thinking, moderator bitch?
20 years? HA! Moores Law says they should hit the shelves in 2.
What you mean? They already have AIX.
...In a world where one's boss would believe a PC Mag review over the tech that work for him.