Looks like Amazon stuck a tarket="blank" attribute in each of their search result links to conveniently open up new a window when you click on a result. This will be great for idiots who would otherwise be confused by the extremely complicated "click-on-a-link-and-go-elsewhere" concept.
For people who have used the this new-fangled World Wide Web device before this morning, it is a pain in the butt.
As a control freak my personal take is this: Abandon Search Engine. I'll stick with Google until Amazon realizes that if I want a new window I'll open it from a context menu myself (better yet, I'll open a new tab). I like to control my browser window, thank you very much.
Congratulations on your wise-ass comment, Anonymous Coward. Actually I didn't suggest that I have a final solution, nor that there can be one (we might be doomed). But if I find a brilliant idea I'll post it here.
Until there is a universal anti-spam framework in place across the internet, this move won't help anyone. It will help Savvis's reputation (at least, it will help them eventually; people will still block them for a while). But it won't help spam recipients, because the spammers will simply go elsewhere. Spammers, being the leeches that they are, adapt pretty damn fast.
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Contrary to what I'm sure a lot of others will write, I actually like the current direction of Star Trek, particularly Enterprise. I actually think Enterprise is one of the best shows yet, probably on par with Next Generation (feel free to argue below - I can take it). It's been a very inventive and original series, and I've been impressed with the ways they've linked our near-future with the events and concepts of the existing Star Trek universe (Andorians vs. Vulcans, not seeing the Romulans in person, etc.). One of my big complaints about Star Trek before Enterprise was that they rarely revisited old storylines and species. Enterprise is the first series to connect the dots to my satisfaction.
That said, they've made a lot of mistakes recently (not making Captain Sulu on the Exelsior into a series, making Voyager suck for most of its run, and so forth). Their biggest mistake: no hiatus. I actually realized this was a problem a decade ago when Deep Space Nine first aired. I loved the idea of two series airing in parallel, and hoped they'd do some cross-over episodes with TNG (which they failed to do). But after a while it seemed like a lot of work to watch two hours of Star Trek every week, and I realized that one of the things that had driven my interest in the past was the decade of no Trek before the movies, the two years between each film, and so forth. After TNG, they started building on their success a bit too thoroughly. I think Roddenberry wouldn't have treated it as much like a Trek Factory as Berman has.
I hope they keep going in their current direction with Enterprise, and that it becomes more popular. But I also hope that when it ends, they do the smart thing and take a couple years off. No movies, no nothing. The series needs a rest. And the payoff: after a hiatus, a new movie or series will actually excite fans again for the first time in years.
If you've been to mozilla.org recently, make sure you refresh once or twice. I discovered an odd-looking page when I followed the link, and I was sure that the designers must have gone crazy. Turns out that my browser (Firefox) was using a cached version of their old CSS file and was applying it to the content of the new site. Yuck. Refreshing fixed this.
I think the site looks beautiful. Clean, slick graphics. The old site made great use of CSS, but the color scheme here is a lot more likeable. And they've really pushed Firefox, once a little project you had to surf through the site to find, to the forefront. Clearly they know what people are looking for these days. I'm waiting for the next release.
Then again, this case is a bit different. SCO is fighting on multiple legal fronts, and the outcome of the Novell suit has a direct impact on whether SCO's claims in the IBM suit will hold water. If the Novell suit goes badly for SCO, some of SCO's IBM claims will vanish. So yes, you're right that a case like this would usually be put before a jury, but it's clear that what'll happen on the 15th could be this:
In all likelihood SCO's copyright claims will be dismissed due to (a) failure in the discovery process, and (b) Novell's claims about the copyright transfer. The result would be a limited contract suit that would indeed probably go to a jury. But the resulting suit would hold little interest for the/. community. In other words, no more SCO stories on this website.
Wow, thanks! I'm online waiting for the conference now. Should be amusing, interesting or boring. Or maybe infuriating. Either way, Mod Parent Up. This is useful...
Keep in mind that Sunbird is just the standalone app's codename, like Firefox or Thunderbird, which will replace the Navigator and Mail & Newsgroups components you see in the Mozilla suite. The real app name as it will appear for users of the suite is "Calendar," or "Mozilla Calendar." In fact in my Linux FireFox extension version it says that, rather than Sunbird, in the title bar.
Would everyone pipe down? This all makes perfect sense - it comes down to basic supply and demand. As the demand for SCO licenses has decreased, so the cost must significantly increase.
Of course, once it gets to the point where SCO's customer base closes on zero, the price will soar toward infinity. The good news for Darl McBride is that as the cost of Linux licensing approaches infinity, SCO will only need to sell one license to become the wealthiest company on Earth.
The SCO sales team is swarming around the EV1 Servers building as we speak.
I thought it had to be April Fools Day when I read the post, which to me sounded a bit like "Microsoft sells Office, Windows and Linux Bashing divisions to Apple, concentrates on PocketPC, TabletPC and FrontPage Express licensing."
But on second thought, maybe this makes sense. Writing CDs and DVDs used to be slow and cumbersome. The operating systems didn't support it, so Roxio and other software filled a niche. These days more and more people own computers that can burn natively. The market for this software is likely to shrink, or at the very least become commoditized. Watch Longhorn get iTunes-like music burning support. The Easy CD Creator market is doomed, and perhaps Roxio decided that their best bet for growth is to copy Apple.
A few people above have already commented on this, but this is exactly what SCO did when it was Caldera. Caldera/SCO decided that since Linux was so popular, they could run Linux software on UNIX. They thought this was a pretty neat idea, even though no one was asking for it.
The flaw in this business plan is that if you have a lot of Linux apps, a good possible choice of OS to run them on is (and this is just a suggestion) Linux. There is rarely a need for a declining UNIX system to emulate a popular UNIX-like system. Perhaps if Caldera had grasped that its UNIX purchase was pointless and concentrated on out-Linuxing RedHat and SuSe, they'd still be called Caldera and would be in the Linux support and services business today. And hey, maybe they'd be earning a profit.
This is not to suggest that Solaris is a useless OS. It isn't. But if compatibility with Linux is something a customer wants, Linux is going to be the best choice, nine times out of ten. So the only possible reasons for Sun to do this are:
Lack of understanding of the OS market - not implausible.
Desire to be the go-to company if Linux becomes mired in lawsuit crossfire.
I've seen this happen before. Many times. And as I write this, Microsoft is calling HP to remind them of the terms of their mandate^H^H^H^H^H^H^H contract. And as the conversation progresses, the potential cost increases to HP's Windows licenses might get a mention.
Five seconds until HP fires off a press release stating that they are not really selling a Linux laptop. Four. Three. Two....
Schare said the Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies, expected to be released later this summer, will deliver improved security infrastructure that will help reduce a PC's vulnerability to certain types of attacks.
You can almost see the little TM symbol next to the Advanced Security Technologies, reassuring us that Microsoft is busily developing corporate-speak acronyms to protect our systems.
Of course my experience using and supporting products with the "improved security" underlying those acronyms is that I get nagged all the time about apparent bugs that are actually "features." Outlook Express and Outlook, for example, protect users from attachments that could be harmful by... (drumroll)... hiding the attachments. What moron decided that was a good idea? I guess the calls to the help desk saying "Everyone else got that attachment except me" help keep me at work, but I'm still not impressed. And my boss can't sync his Palm with Outlook without being warned that an external program is trying to access his address book. Microsoft omitted the "allow this particular program to do this and never pester me about it again" button, so I get complaints about this "feature" every couple months.
While Microsoft now tries to clean up this mess by asking CERT to "rephrase" their warning (wait a couple days - they will), I'll keep suggesting my users switch away from their products. It's been a good solution so far.
Look, if someone's political views go the line of Communism, that's all well and good. You can go live in China, where you will be told what software you are allowed to use, and when, and god help you if you make the mistake of complaining about governmental policy there. But if you're going to live in the capitalist world, you have to grow up and accept the fact that sometimes a company you personally don't like still has a right to exist, and has just as much right to protect its interests as the underdog.
That's a bit of an exaggeration. "Lack of patents" and "communism" are not the same thing (at least, I don't think that the only difference between China and the US is a lack of patents in China). You clearly don't like the idea of government involment in software choices, why advocate a system in which the government is stuck with the task of enforcing artifical monopolies? If anything, a lack of patents is more of a free market than the beurocratic system you suggest.
Software patents have been abused far too much, and opposing them has nothing to do with liking or disliking big business. It's a separate debate entirely. We've seen too much evidence that the software community (commercial and non-commercial alike) works better without them. My compliments to the Dutch.
ISPs can read e-mail? Finally. Now maybe someone at an ISP will reply to the several dozen "One of your customers is sending me spam" messages. It's about time ISPs got around to reading e-mail.
On the simulated Dashboard you can have all sorts of nifty mini-programs called Widgets. One of Apple's sample programs is a stock price table, and they're up 7.36 percent. Microsoft is the only stock on the fictional list that's down. Direct link to the image here.
Nice to see Apple's sense of humor. And in fact this sort of functionality is a real smack in the face to Redmond, who have updated little on their desktop (XP) in three years, while Apple has had three release cycles that have been better each time.
Re: liberal. Liberal does not mean "bigger." It means (from dictionary.com) not limited... by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
Re: conservative. Conservative does not mean "smaller." It means (ibid) favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change. So my comment "I thought conservative meant that you didn't want to move forward" was accurate, and shows how the group trying to get this film out of theaters should at least think of a new name.
Of course when applied to politics these words take on different connotations than their basic dictionary meanings, but they're not accurate most of the time. President Bush, for example, is not fiscally conservative. He's "a Conservative," maybe with a capital C. But not fiscally so. He's done the usual program-cutting associated with decreasing the size of budget, and he has cut taxes as if pretending that we're using less money, but that's not really the same thing as being fiscally conservative. Cheney famously stated that the deficit we're building doesn't matter (even though logically, someone must eventually pay). In the past couple of years it's actually been the liberals who have complained more about spending.
I agree that this Disney fiasco is probably at least somewhat invented - or overdramatized - by Moore himself. And this is coming from someone who actually likes his movies, and agrees with (most of) his viewpoints. Let's face it: he knows how to generate publicity.
In fact the pre-release of this film has been a new and striking lesson in the old saying that there is no such thing as bad publicity. Consider:
As mentioned above, Moore used the difficulty in distributing this film as a point of controversy. In reality I doubt there was much difficulty releasing it at all - especially after the Cannes prize. But Moore did an amazing job using Disney's reluctance to build up publicity.
More recently the attempts to stop theatre chains from showing the film by groups like Move America Forward (hey, I thought the word "conservative" meant you didn't want to move forward) has been a huge boost to the interest in the film.
In the past couple weeks a more wisely-named group called Citizens United tried to get the FEC to block advertising of the film, saying it is election-related. Quoth Moore: "I am deeply concerned about whether or not the FEC will think I paid Citizens United to raise these issues regarding Fahrenheit 9/11. How else can you explain the millions of dollars of free publicity this right wing group has given the movie. I plan on sending them a very nice Holiday card this year."
Again: there is no such thing as bad publicity. Unless you're a politician, that is.
Read the fake suit ... then write your Senator
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This lawsuit is creepy, but extremely plausible. After reading so much Grooklaw recently I felt like I was reading a real lawsuit. Time to write our senators this weekend. Find your senators here:
I think the Red Hat certs are very useful, and even portable. The test is surprisingly hard; you can know your stuff and still fail, but you can't possibly pass if you're not very familiar with Linux. I took the RHCE exam this past Friday. And passed. Which was a relief, because I failed it the first time.
RHCE is definitely a test about doing things. You can't read the guides they give you and be done with it. Studying involves setting up every service and configuration they discuss in class, and remembering how to do it in the absence of your notes. Because there is no multiple choice. It's all "Fix your system," and "Configure your system to do the following."
There is some stuff in the RHCE curriculum that is RH-specific, but I think that would be true regardless of what sort of test you take. And it doesn't amount to much: most of the skills are VERY portable. OK, maybe RPM is not used by every distro, and maybe the installer is RH-specific. And I know, KDE is in the wrong directory. But where things differ, it's never too hard to figure it out. I've done plenty of things I learned in these classes on other distros. Of course there are also a lot of Red Hat utilities you can use to configure services, but they're not really taught in class, believe it or not. Red Hat recommends that students learn the command line way of doing things first. Most admins don't use the GUI config tools, so RH pretty much skips them.
I'd imagine the Architect curriculum must be pretty good, based upon my RHCE experience. Particularly the "Directory Services and Authentication" class, which would be useful if you wanted to do clever things with Samba/LDAP/Kerberos.
Understandable, but it's worth keeping in mind that it's really nothing personal - there is an overwhelming trend these days to block DHCP-assigned home cable and DSL clients, and it's not because postmasters don't like you, but rather because the vast majority of the mail coming from them is spam. In an ideal world, the way you set up mail servers would be perfectly reasonable, but in this spam climate your choices inadvertently associate you with the spam scum of the earth. Not a good place to be - and not your fault, either, but it calls into question your choice of providers.
Of course if Shaw were to be more careful about who it allows to send mail, like Comcast says it will in the parent article, there will no longer be a need for me to block it. You might want to put some pressure on them. Whenever someone complains to me about this I advise them to use a designated SMTP relay for their ISP, and to complain to their ISP about allowing spam.
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We're the People's Front of Judea! Judean People's Front!?
No, it did it that way by default. Odd. Nice to see that they have preferences.
Looks like Amazon stuck a tarket="blank" attribute in each of their search result links to conveniently open up new a window when you click on a result. This will be great for idiots who would otherwise be confused by the extremely complicated "click-on-a-link-and-go-elsewhere" concept.
For people who have used the this new-fangled World Wide Web device before this morning, it is a pain in the butt.
As a control freak my personal take is this: Abandon Search Engine. I'll stick with Google until Amazon realizes that if I want a new window I'll open it from a context menu myself (better yet, I'll open a new tab). I like to control my browser window, thank you very much.
Congratulations on your wise-ass comment, Anonymous Coward. Actually I didn't suggest that I have a final solution, nor that there can be one (we might be doomed). But if I find a brilliant idea I'll post it here.
Until there is a universal anti-spam framework in place across the internet, this move won't help anyone. It will help Savvis's reputation (at least, it will help them eventually; people will still block them for a while). But it won't help spam recipients, because the spammers will simply go elsewhere. Spammers, being the leeches that they are, adapt pretty damn fast.
Contrary to what I'm sure a lot of others will write, I actually like the current direction of Star Trek, particularly Enterprise. I actually think Enterprise is one of the best shows yet, probably on par with Next Generation (feel free to argue below - I can take it). It's been a very inventive and original series, and I've been impressed with the ways they've linked our near-future with the events and concepts of the existing Star Trek universe (Andorians vs. Vulcans, not seeing the Romulans in person, etc.). One of my big complaints about Star Trek before Enterprise was that they rarely revisited old storylines and species. Enterprise is the first series to connect the dots to my satisfaction.
That said, they've made a lot of mistakes recently (not making Captain Sulu on the Exelsior into a series, making Voyager suck for most of its run, and so forth). Their biggest mistake: no hiatus. I actually realized this was a problem a decade ago when Deep Space Nine first aired. I loved the idea of two series airing in parallel, and hoped they'd do some cross-over episodes with TNG (which they failed to do). But after a while it seemed like a lot of work to watch two hours of Star Trek every week, and I realized that one of the things that had driven my interest in the past was the decade of no Trek before the movies, the two years between each film, and so forth. After TNG, they started building on their success a bit too thoroughly. I think Roddenberry wouldn't have treated it as much like a Trek Factory as Berman has.
I hope they keep going in their current direction with Enterprise, and that it becomes more popular. But I also hope that when it ends, they do the smart thing and take a couple years off. No movies, no nothing. The series needs a rest. And the payoff: after a hiatus, a new movie or series will actually excite fans again for the first time in years.
If you've been to mozilla.org recently, make sure you refresh once or twice. I discovered an odd-looking page when I followed the link, and I was sure that the designers must have gone crazy. Turns out that my browser (Firefox) was using a cached version of their old CSS file and was applying it to the content of the new site. Yuck. Refreshing fixed this.
I think the site looks beautiful. Clean, slick graphics. The old site made great use of CSS, but the color scheme here is a lot more likeable. And they've really pushed Firefox, once a little project you had to surf through the site to find, to the forefront. Clearly they know what people are looking for these days. I'm waiting for the next release.
Then again, this case is a bit different. SCO is fighting on multiple legal fronts, and the outcome of the Novell suit has a direct impact on whether SCO's claims in the IBM suit will hold water. If the Novell suit goes badly for SCO, some of SCO's IBM claims will vanish. So yes, you're right that a case like this would usually be put before a jury, but it's clear that what'll happen on the 15th could be this:
In all likelihood SCO's copyright claims will be dismissed due to (a) failure in the discovery process, and (b) Novell's claims about the copyright transfer. The result would be a limited contract suit that would indeed probably go to a jury. But the resulting suit would hold little interest for the /. community. In other words, no more SCO stories on this website.
Wow, thanks! I'm online waiting for the conference now. Should be amusing, interesting or boring. Or maybe infuriating. Either way, Mod Parent Up. This is useful ...
Keep in mind that Sunbird is just the standalone app's codename, like Firefox or Thunderbird, which will replace the Navigator and Mail & Newsgroups components you see in the Mozilla suite. The real app name as it will appear for users of the suite is "Calendar," or "Mozilla Calendar." In fact in my Linux FireFox extension version it says that, rather than Sunbird, in the title bar.
Would everyone pipe down? This all makes perfect sense - it comes down to basic supply and demand. As the demand for SCO licenses has decreased, so the cost must significantly increase.
Of course, once it gets to the point where SCO's customer base closes on zero, the price will soar toward infinity. The good news for Darl McBride is that as the cost of Linux licensing approaches infinity, SCO will only need to sell one license to become the wealthiest company on Earth.
The SCO sales team is swarming around the EV1 Servers building as we speak.
I thought it had to be April Fools Day when I read the post, which to me sounded a bit like "Microsoft sells Office, Windows and Linux Bashing divisions to Apple, concentrates on PocketPC, TabletPC and FrontPage Express licensing."
But on second thought, maybe this makes sense. Writing CDs and DVDs used to be slow and cumbersome. The operating systems didn't support it, so Roxio and other software filled a niche. These days more and more people own computers that can burn natively. The market for this software is likely to shrink, or at the very least become commoditized. Watch Longhorn get iTunes-like music burning support. The Easy CD Creator market is doomed, and perhaps Roxio decided that their best bet for growth is to copy Apple.
I think you mean the "semantic" web. not that I want to start a big Symantec argument about it.
A few people above have already commented on this, but this is exactly what SCO did when it was Caldera. Caldera/SCO decided that since Linux was so popular, they could run Linux software on UNIX. They thought this was a pretty neat idea, even though no one was asking for it.
The flaw in this business plan is that if you have a lot of Linux apps, a good possible choice of OS to run them on is (and this is just a suggestion) Linux. There is rarely a need for a declining UNIX system to emulate a popular UNIX-like system. Perhaps if Caldera had grasped that its UNIX purchase was pointless and concentrated on out-Linuxing RedHat and SuSe, they'd still be called Caldera and would be in the Linux support and services business today. And hey, maybe they'd be earning a profit.
This is not to suggest that Solaris is a useless OS. It isn't. But if compatibility with Linux is something a customer wants, Linux is going to be the best choice, nine times out of ten. So the only possible reasons for Sun to do this are:
I've seen this happen before. Many times. And as I write this, Microsoft is calling HP to remind them of the terms of their mandate^H^H^H^H^H^H^H contract. And as the conversation progresses, the potential cost increases to HP's Windows licenses might get a mention.
Five seconds until HP fires off a press release stating that they are not really selling a Linux laptop. Four. Three. Two ....
You can almost see the little TM symbol next to the Advanced Security Technologies, reassuring us that Microsoft is busily developing corporate-speak acronyms to protect our systems.
Of course my experience using and supporting products with the "improved security" underlying those acronyms is that I get nagged all the time about apparent bugs that are actually "features." Outlook Express and Outlook, for example, protect users from attachments that could be harmful by ... (drumroll) ... hiding the attachments. What moron decided that was a good idea? I guess the calls to the help desk saying "Everyone else got that attachment except me" help keep me at work, but I'm still not impressed. And my boss can't sync his Palm with Outlook without being warned that an external program is trying to access his address book. Microsoft omitted the "allow this particular program to do this and never pester me about it again" button, so I get complaints about this "feature" every couple months.
While Microsoft now tries to clean up this mess by asking CERT to "rephrase" their warning (wait a couple days - they will), I'll keep suggesting my users switch away from their products. It's been a good solution so far.
That's a bit of an exaggeration. "Lack of patents" and "communism" are not the same thing (at least, I don't think that the only difference between China and the US is a lack of patents in China). You clearly don't like the idea of government involment in software choices, why advocate a system in which the government is stuck with the task of enforcing artifical monopolies? If anything, a lack of patents is more of a free market than the beurocratic system you suggest.
Software patents have been abused far too much, and opposing them has nothing to do with liking or disliking big business. It's a separate debate entirely. We've seen too much evidence that the software community (commercial and non-commercial alike) works better without them. My compliments to the Dutch.
ISPs can read e-mail? Finally. Now maybe someone at an ISP will reply to the several dozen "One of your customers is sending me spam" messages. It's about time ISPs got around to reading e-mail.
Now to read the article ...
Hey, check out the Dashboard page here:
On the simulated Dashboard you can have all sorts of nifty mini-programs called Widgets. One of Apple's sample programs is a stock price table, and they're up 7.36 percent. Microsoft is the only stock on the fictional list that's down. Direct link to the image here.
Nice to see Apple's sense of humor. And in fact this sort of functionality is a real smack in the face to Redmond, who have updated little on their desktop (XP) in three years, while Apple has had three release cycles that have been better each time.
Re: liberal. Liberal does not mean "bigger." It means (from dictionary.com) not limited ... by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
Re: conservative. Conservative does not mean "smaller." It means (ibid) favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change. So my comment "I thought conservative meant that you didn't want to move forward" was accurate, and shows how the group trying to get this film out of theaters should at least think of a new name.
Of course when applied to politics these words take on different connotations than their basic dictionary meanings, but they're not accurate most of the time. President Bush, for example, is not fiscally conservative. He's "a Conservative," maybe with a capital C. But not fiscally so. He's done the usual program-cutting associated with decreasing the size of budget, and he has cut taxes as if pretending that we're using less money, but that's not really the same thing as being fiscally conservative. Cheney famously stated that the deficit we're building doesn't matter (even though logically, someone must eventually pay). In the past couple of years it's actually been the liberals who have complained more about spending.
I agree that this Disney fiasco is probably at least somewhat invented - or overdramatized - by Moore himself. And this is coming from someone who actually likes his movies, and agrees with (most of) his viewpoints. Let's face it: he knows how to generate publicity.
In fact the pre-release of this film has been a new and striking lesson in the old saying that there is no such thing as bad publicity. Consider:
Again: there is no such thing as bad publicity. Unless you're a politician, that is.
This lawsuit is creepy, but extremely plausible. After reading so much Grooklaw recently I felt like I was reading a real lawsuit. Time to write our senators this weekend. Find your senators here:
And the EFF's action item on this, complete with a sample letter, is here.
We should all make a habit of this - I personally don't write these people often enough.
I think the Red Hat certs are very useful, and even portable. The test is surprisingly hard; you can know your stuff and still fail, but you can't possibly pass if you're not very familiar with Linux. I took the RHCE exam this past Friday. And passed. Which was a relief, because I failed it the first time.
RHCE is definitely a test about doing things. You can't read the guides they give you and be done with it. Studying involves setting up every service and configuration they discuss in class, and remembering how to do it in the absence of your notes. Because there is no multiple choice. It's all "Fix your system," and "Configure your system to do the following."
There is some stuff in the RHCE curriculum that is RH-specific, but I think that would be true regardless of what sort of test you take. And it doesn't amount to much: most of the skills are VERY portable. OK, maybe RPM is not used by every distro, and maybe the installer is RH-specific. And I know, KDE is in the wrong directory. But where things differ, it's never too hard to figure it out. I've done plenty of things I learned in these classes on other distros. Of course there are also a lot of Red Hat utilities you can use to configure services, but they're not really taught in class, believe it or not. Red Hat recommends that students learn the command line way of doing things first. Most admins don't use the GUI config tools, so RH pretty much skips them.
I'd imagine the Architect curriculum must be pretty good, based upon my RHCE experience. Particularly the "Directory Services and Authentication" class, which would be useful if you wanted to do clever things with Samba/LDAP/Kerberos.
Wow, I've been waiting for this since the 1980s. Just pull my left wrist up toward my chin and speak loudly into my watch: "KITT, I'm in trouble!"
Understandable, but it's worth keeping in mind that it's really nothing personal - there is an overwhelming trend these days to block DHCP-assigned home cable and DSL clients, and it's not because postmasters don't like you, but rather because the vast majority of the mail coming from them is spam. In an ideal world, the way you set up mail servers would be perfectly reasonable, but in this spam climate your choices inadvertently associate you with the spam scum of the earth. Not a good place to be - and not your fault, either, but it calls into question your choice of providers.
Of course if Shaw were to be more careful about who it allows to send mail, like Comcast says it will in the parent article, there will no longer be a need for me to block it. You might want to put some pressure on them. Whenever someone complains to me about this I advise them to use a designated SMTP relay for their ISP, and to complain to their ISP about allowing spam.