Wait a minute. Your boss is telling you to buy cables instead of toiling to make your own, and you're _complaining_? I don't think a self-terminated link of CAT6 will have the slightest trouble maintaining 20 megabits, but that's not the point.
Word of advice, take his word for him and nod. If he's willing to spend money to make your job easier, then keep that job!
You've only got 400 users? Put it to a vote. Explain your company's predicament, and then send them each an email asking if they'd prefer to either:
A) Pay more for an increase in upstream bandwidth
or
B) Accept throttling based on service and content
Personally, I don't have a problem with QoS-based filtering. For example, give torrents a lower priority so they'll wait in line behind real-time apps like voice or even web browsing
A little transparency in your decision-making process will gain you a lot of respect with your customers, and make them feel like they are part of both the problem and solution
Colors aside, why do they all have to play like Quake 1? How about some fresh ideas like we've seen from Valve recently.
It looks like you guys have done good with getting the engine running, now bring out some creativity beyond "futuristic shotgun, futuristic rocket launcher, futuristic plasma gun" and put some interesting mechanics that really give people a different experience.
Even if MS said that they weren't keeping the data, I'm not sure anybody would believe them. Well, since they say they're keeping it, that probably means they're just going to lose it
Due to the fact that I know the parent poster works for Zimbra (I recognize the username from the forums), I'd say that he has tried those features.
Now, my own personal experience with the PST importer, after having used it for several individuals, is that it works very well. It takes a while to import someone's 800 megabyte PST file over a T1 connection, but that's hardly worth complaining about.
As for the missing features that one would get with MS Exchange, there are a few. Most notably is Task support, which from what I understand is coming very soon.
From the tone of your posts, mister AC, I would guess that your bad experience is due to some combination of lack of ability to read the documentation, general incompetence, or some expectation that everything must be spoonfed to you. In your case, it's easier to make assumptions and rants than to sucesfully plan a migration from one product to a superior one.
Exactly. All the hundreds of devices independently converting AC voltage to DC all day long is far more power waste than what's inside the CAT5. Speaking of, whatever happened to the push for DC datacenters? As far as I can tell, there's still no widely-used DC standard as an option for most of the devices in a small-medium sized environment
Does that much current actually go over ethernet transmissions? It seems to be that more power could be saved by more efficient power supplies in the switches than by wasting a lot of time and research in figuring a way to throttle link speeds. Does anybody have a value for the amount of electricity used for an hour's worth of data at 10 megabits as opposed to 1 gigabit?
It just surprises me that +/-5 volts over copper really makes all that much difference compared to all the other waste in the datacenter.
Also, what's the difference in energy usage for copper vs fiber links??
I don't know where you are from, but I am from Southeastern North Carolina and here, the day after a hurricane, especially a major one, is the sunniest day of the year. Now, the area may be flooded and very dismal looking from all the destruction, but at least the sun is out! Why was this guy modded down? He's absolutely right. I live in south Louisiana and I've been through several hurricanes, and every time, the day after is VERY sunny and bright. Now, the chances of your solar panels surviving the winds, well.. hope you kept them protected.
Actually the real problem is the humans behind the spam. And humans have known and easily exploitable weaknesses that can prevent them from ever sending spam again. I just don't see enough of that kind of prevention going around yet
You're right. The only safe solution is to rename the filesystem to a name that's already stood the test of a trial by jury and been found innocent. I hereby place my vote for renaming reiserfs to ojsimpsonfs.
One thing to keep in mind is that if you have Linux on your system, you get put in the Linux queue for _any_ support call, including hardware issues. I have called about fan, hard drive, power supply, etc problems a few times, and upon hearing that I'm running Linux, I get put through to their Linux techs. Definitely something that wouldn't require assistance from Red Hat.
The fact that RH does get the business for the 10% of calls that Dell support can't handle on their own sounds like a good thing to me
Not that we're know for corruption down here or anything, but Roger Villere is also the chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party.
There were those who thought there might have been a connection between the florist licensing thing and him, but I dunno.
I work for the agency that does the certifications for florists. Our commissioner is no friend of the Republican party, so I seriously doubt there's any connection there.
Not saying it's good or bad, just that's why this thing is making so much news right now.
Either way, the platform is pretty powerful, and no matter the language, there will always be good developers and bad developers. You can't always blame that on the platform.
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Wait a minute. Your boss is telling you to buy cables instead of toiling to make your own, and you're _complaining_? I don't think a self-terminated link of CAT6 will have the slightest trouble maintaining 20 megabits, but that's not the point.
Word of advice, take his word for him and nod. If he's willing to spend money to make your job easier, then keep that job!
You've only got 400 users? Put it to a vote. Explain your company's predicament, and then send them each an email asking if they'd prefer to either:
A) Pay more for an increase in upstream bandwidth
or
B) Accept throttling based on service and content
Personally, I don't have a problem with QoS-based filtering. For example, give torrents a lower priority so they'll wait in line behind real-time apps like voice or even web browsing
A little transparency in your decision-making process will gain you a lot of respect with your customers, and make them feel like they are part of both the problem and solution
Or the diners after they've eaten a big mac
Colors aside, why do they all have to play like Quake 1? How about some fresh ideas like we've seen from Valve recently.
It looks like you guys have done good with getting the engine running, now bring out some creativity beyond "futuristic shotgun, futuristic rocket launcher, futuristic plasma gun" and put some interesting mechanics that really give people a different experience.
Nah
The prisoners are forced to troubleshoot printing problems with only the message "PC LOAD LETTER"
the moon dance
or run fiber, which is getting almost as cheap as copper these days
yeah and how are you going to get the mongoose out, smart guy?
Sunrise Earth?
(not sure if this is affiliated with Discovery Channel, though)
I wonder what you hear if you drive down the road in reverse
You gave consent. Re-read your EULA
Due to the fact that I know the parent poster works for Zimbra (I recognize the username from the forums), I'd say that he has tried those features.
Now, my own personal experience with the PST importer, after having used it for several individuals, is that it works very well. It takes a while to import someone's 800 megabyte PST file over a T1 connection, but that's hardly worth complaining about.
As for the missing features that one would get with MS Exchange, there are a few. Most notably is Task support, which from what I understand is coming very soon.
From the tone of your posts, mister AC, I would guess that your bad experience is due to some combination of lack of ability to read the documentation, general incompetence, or some expectation that everything must be spoonfed to you. In your case, it's easier to make assumptions and rants than to sucesfully plan a migration from one product to a superior one.
...can we stop "mashing" things. Right now.It is a silly new word, which brings no new meaning. New? I've been eating mashed potatoes for as long as I can remember
Exactly. All the hundreds of devices independently converting AC voltage to DC all day long is far more power waste than what's inside the CAT5. Speaking of, whatever happened to the push for DC datacenters? As far as I can tell, there's still no widely-used DC standard as an option for most of the devices in a small-medium sized environment
Does that much current actually go over ethernet transmissions? It seems to be that more power could be saved by more efficient power supplies in the switches than by wasting a lot of time and research in figuring a way to throttle link speeds. Does anybody have a value for the amount of electricity used for an hour's worth of data at 10 megabits as opposed to 1 gigabit?
It just surprises me that +/-5 volts over copper really makes all that much difference compared to all the other waste in the datacenter.
Also, what's the difference in energy usage for copper vs fiber links??
So, was that the first wii post?
Actually the real problem is the humans behind the spam. And humans have known and easily exploitable weaknesses that can prevent them from ever sending spam again. I just don't see enough of that kind of prevention going around yet
You're right. The only safe solution is to rename the filesystem to a name that's already stood the test of a trial by jury and been found innocent. I hereby place my vote for renaming reiserfs to ojsimpsonfs.
And Lose!
One thing to keep in mind is that if you have Linux on your system, you get put in the Linux queue for _any_ support call, including hardware issues. I have called about fan, hard drive, power supply, etc problems a few times, and upon hearing that I'm running Linux, I get put through to their Linux techs. Definitely something that wouldn't require assistance from Red Hat.
The fact that RH does get the business for the 10% of calls that Dell support can't handle on their own sounds like a good thing to me
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Not that we're know for corruption down here or anything, but Roger Villere is also the chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party. There were those who thought there might have been a connection between the florist licensing thing and him, but I dunno. I work for the agency that does the certifications for florists. Our commissioner is no friend of the Republican party, so I seriously doubt there's any connection there.
Not saying it's good or bad, just that's why this thing is making so much news right now.
Either way, the platform is pretty powerful, and no matter the language, there will always be good developers and bad developers. You can't always blame that on the platform.