CLI tools: vim, curl, wget, aptitude on Debian based distros.
GUI tools: Chrome, (Libre/Open)Office, Thunderbird.
Any other is as required at "runtime".
Webmail as your primary MUA?! Are you kidding me?
I guess that's like saying skateboarding should be your primary transportation vehicle. Some people do it I suppose, but is it the best idea?
Get your own infrastructure and access your emails as you wish, like for example mutt on a remote terminal, or webmail (squirrelmail), or in any mobile IMAP client (my iPhone works great).
What about backups? What if tomorrow they change the policy of old/archived message?
I do have a couple of gmail accounts, but those are mostly for redundancy and seldom used by me.
I run my own mail server(s) and actually the number of spams I get is quite low with a daily average of 0.75 spams per day. That's down from ~20 spams a day before I enabled gray listing, RBL on my MTA and HELO restrictions.
There 0.75 spam/day emails are detected by my MUA's spam filter, meaning I tend to never have a spam email in my inbox!
You can find good/reliable VPS'es from $10/mo. that'll allow you to:
Run your own DNS servers.
Run your own SMTP/IMAP/POP servers (Postfix/Dovecote make a great combo).
Run your own web server.
Practice/learn sysadmin skills.
No lock-in to any vendor.
I rather pay for my own VPS than pay Google for a freaking email account and/or their App Engine.
To click icons and tick boxes you need to first understand the meaning of them, rationalize which of these elements fulfill your desired goal, and then activate the proper GUI widgets... each time to you're confronted with the GUI.
...Teach a man how to fish and he'll eat every day.
Using the CLI you need to know before hand the arguments/parameters that will fulfill your desired goal. It requires preparation (i.e. read the man page), but once you learn it it stays with you.
IMO CLI provides a more immutable interface, as opposed to GUI widgets that can and will change over time.
Software is a tool than when someone uses routinely its sensible to expect him to learn how to use it properly... for the rest of the human race there is Windows.
I couldn't be happier that the Linux experience is different from the Windows experience! Attempting to make a Linux or OSX experience Windows-er is as wrong, futile and useless as trying to compare a high-school romance with your spouse.
I have a similar setup, but got tired of content filters at the MTA level. My solution was to configure Postfix (my MTA) to abide more closely by RFCs (specifically for ELO|HELO commands) and install postgrey (`aptitude install postgrey`). Of course ensure you're not an open relay.
These measures decreased the number of spam arriving at my inbox by 90%. The spam that reaches my mailbox is handled by my MUA (Mail.app currently). The volume is low enough for me to check if its working. It does!
As it was already commented read your mail logs... they make a fun read!
As for your sudden decrease of mostly spam incoming emails, some theories:
1. Some big telco closed port 25 for residential customers?
2. The recent DNS saga called sysadmins around the globe to check their servers and apply security patches and perhaps close open relays.
I suffer from MS; the last I heard of a vaccine was last year: they shut the study after a couple of patients died.
This is are very interesting and promising news for me. Perhaps in a couple of years I won't need my daily anti-fatigue pills, weekly interferon beta 1a shots, and those occasional hospital corticoid shock treatments. Probably I'll never recover for the disabilities I've already got, but at least I won't develop any further because of MS!
I always wonder (and I asked their support personnel several times) why they don't insert the same spamfilters in their OUTgoing mail flow as they do in their INcoming.
That would almost solve their bad reputation as spam senders immediately. If I had mod points I would give you +10 (hammer hits nail).
Simple and realistic! The perfect solution.
Seriously, I've found NeoOffice enough to manage the daily flow of doc/xls/ppt files. I mostly view those files, the exception being Excel spreadsheets I routinely send to other departments. The spreadsheets are dumps of SQL queries, which I can produce as CSV and later import in OO Calc, or run under Parallels a Windows 2000 instance (pretty snappy in my Macbook) and EMS SQL Manager for MySQL to get the report straight as an Excel file (and character encoding issues are handled better).
Bingo! So why does this blogger vs blogger dispute gets front page? I repeat: I don't see the connection. I do see there is a dispute, just that I didn't expected/. to cover the "issue".
Just to mention a few totally wrong points (quoting):
"The hardware lock-in and lack of quality freeware makes owning and maintaining a Macintosh an expensive endeavor." WTF? What are they evaluating? What is a "quality freeware"? Dude, this is *nix, you can get most everything, just try Fink.
"While AbiWord and NeoOffice are both available, as is OpenOffice through X11, the none had the full functionality that we needed, not to mention that we had a hell of a time getting anything in X11 to work at all". Sorry guys, NeoOffice does NOT use X11! It is native, that's the reason there is NeoOffice in the first place.
The Mac Mini I purchased originally would have been fine to complete this test if it had come with more RAM, but replacing the RAM was so daunting a task due to the ultra-compact form factor, I didn't bother." OK so I guess they didn't bother in doing a proper review either.
All I can say is that this "review" is at least misleading (though I personally think its just BS).
This has nothing to do with a "parser". A parser parses a source, or said another way: without a source there is nothing to parse. You still need to code the source;)
Wether to code the source by hand or with the help of an IDE depends on several things:
Personal preferences
The task at hand (would you create an image banner file by filling 1s and 0s in vi?)
The tools availble (a really small shop may be unable to buy the new/best IDE)
And what's your point? Certainly it can't be software, as your critical Access app is so tied to Windows as Quark Xpress is to Mac OS.
If the problem is the cost of Quark Xpress license, then that's a fact of your industry and cannot be blamed on Apple. And whatever Apple machine you were thibking about, it certainly is capable of doing more that once a week file conversions. It seems as your company did not have a case to justify buying Apple, for sure not a General Enterprise Case.
There's no WAY MS won't be giving license keys to
legitimate purchasers of XP (especially considering the vast majority are
pre-activated shelf-delivered versions).
I meant closed as in you can't buy a new mobo in Fry's. x86 architecture is pretty standard and open from any other perspective.
On a PC you can mix and match mobo, CPU, video, etc. On Macs the decision has been made for you already. That's a sacrifice I'm willing to do in exchange of the smooth integration I enjoy while using my Mac.
I'm sorry for any misunderstanding my words may have caused.
I'm a developer, a web developer. Within my daily tasks besides coding is ssh'ing to several machines, do some cvs|svn dancing, etc.
I've switched to Mac almost a month ago. I would never, ever, return to Windows. I don't care about the UI (though it's elegant and efficient). The selling point to me is having a nice bash prompt right in front of me, and having good hardware support (I don't care it's "closed" hardware).
I turn on my Macbook and voila! Skype is ready for me. I can video chat with my collegues while at the same enjoying the bsd heritage.
To me Mac OS X is like Windows XP with cygwin tighly integrated minus DLL hell, registry hell and all that crap.
Let me state to all who haven't realized yet: This is a crazy, crazy world.
I find your statements entirely consistent with mine. Indeed! I wasn't arguing against you, just filling the conceptual blanks that your post made in my mind;)
Your argument can be extrapolated ad infinitum. What about religion? What about supernatural phenomenas? And UFOs? No proof of the above for the non *believers*, though try to convince a beliver otherwise.
Once you get into the realm of BELIEFS, no rational/scientific proof/disproof is useful.
When mothers say with joy "I hope all of my kids die as martyrs" (e.g. one of her kids just blow up killing himself and innocent people), you start to dimension the power of BELIEFS over mutual concensus.
Let me state to all who haven't realized yet: This is a crazy, crazy world.
Mod parent up! It's the most insightful post I've seen in this thread. This guy is thinking like governments do. It'a called disuasion. Maybe I have PTb info about you... maybe I don't. Would you take the risk? Smart thinking Crouty!
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CLI tools: vim, curl, wget, aptitude on Debian based distros.
GUI tools: Chrome, (Libre/Open)Office, Thunderbird. Any other is as required at "runtime".
Damn, no mod points when needed. Most insightful (and IMHO true) comment I've read in ages. ;)
Less is more
I've been happy with http://cheapvps.co.uk/ (Xen).
FreeBSD VPS I don't know, I've always used Linux ones (Debian in particular).
Webmail as your primary MUA?! Are you kidding me?
I guess that's like saying skateboarding should be your primary transportation vehicle. Some people do it I suppose, but is it the best idea?
Get your own infrastructure and access your emails as you wish, like for example mutt on a remote terminal, or webmail (squirrelmail), or in any mobile IMAP client (my iPhone works great).
What about backups? What if tomorrow they change the policy of old/archived message?
I do have a couple of gmail accounts, but those are mostly for redundancy and seldom used by me.
There 0.75 spam/day emails are detected by my MUA's spam filter, meaning I tend to never have a spam email in my inbox!
You can find good/reliable VPS'es from $10/mo. that'll allow you to:
I rather pay for my own VPS than pay Google for a freaking email account and/or their App Engine.
Give a man a fish...
To click icons and tick boxes you need to first understand the meaning of them, rationalize which of these elements fulfill your desired goal, and then activate the proper GUI widgets... each time to you're confronted with the GUI.
Using the CLI you need to know before hand the arguments/parameters that will fulfill your desired goal. It requires preparation (i.e. read the man page), but once you learn it it stays with you.
IMO CLI provides a more immutable interface, as opposed to GUI widgets that can and will change over time.
Software is a tool than when someone uses routinely its sensible to expect him to learn how to use it properly... for the rest of the human race there is Windows.
I couldn't be happier that the Linux experience is different from the Windows experience! Attempting to make a Linux or OSX experience Windows-er is as wrong, futile and useless as trying to compare a high-school romance with your spouse.
I attest that Y is a consonant in Spanish. Vowels are only five: A, E, I, O, U.
I have a similar setup, but got tired of content filters at the MTA level. My solution was to configure Postfix (my MTA) to abide more closely by RFCs (specifically for ELO|HELO commands) and install postgrey (`aptitude install postgrey`). Of course ensure you're not an open relay.
These measures decreased the number of spam arriving at my inbox by 90%. The spam that reaches my mailbox is handled by my MUA (Mail.app currently). The volume is low enough for me to check if its working. It does! As it was already commented read your mail logs... they make a fun read!
As for your sudden decrease of mostly spam incoming emails, some theories:
1. Some big telco closed port 25 for residential customers?
2. The recent DNS saga called sysadmins around the globe to check their servers and apply security patches and perhaps close open relays.
Planet Moon?
Following your logic technically they weren't cured either.
I suffer from MS; the last I heard of a vaccine was last year: they shut the study after a couple of patients died.
This is are very interesting and promising news for me. Perhaps in a couple of years I won't need my daily anti-fatigue pills, weekly interferon beta 1a shots, and those occasional hospital corticoid shock treatments. Probably I'll never recover for the disabilities I've already got, but at least I won't develop any further because of MS!
That would almost solve their bad reputation as spam senders immediately.
If I had mod points I would give you +10 (hammer hits nail).
Simple and realistic! The perfect solution.
I'm pretty happy with Vim ;)
Seriously, I've found NeoOffice enough to manage the daily flow of doc/xls/ppt files. I mostly view those files, the exception being Excel spreadsheets I routinely send to other departments. The spreadsheets are dumps of SQL queries, which I can produce as CSV and later import in OO Calc, or run under Parallels a Windows 2000 instance (pretty snappy in my Macbook) and EMS SQL Manager for MySQL to get the report straight as an Excel file (and character encoding issues are handled better).
Bingo! So why does this blogger vs blogger dispute gets front page? I repeat: I don't see the connection. I do see there is a dispute, just that I didn't expected /. to cover the "issue".
- A student vs. a pro?
- A blogger vs. another blogger?
- Pro Israel vs. Pro Palestinians? (*)
I thought Groklaw was for David vs. Goliath legal affairs.(*) I reserve my personal interpretation to myself (Am I pro something? Being pro something is not compatible with being pro something-else?).
Wouldn't it be better evidence to request the attached speakers? Perhaps some expert witness can find traces of the stolen music ;)
- "The hardware lock-in and lack of quality freeware makes owning and maintaining a Macintosh an expensive endeavor."
- "While AbiWord and NeoOffice are both available, as is OpenOffice through X11, the none had the full functionality that we needed, not to mention that we had a hell of a time getting anything in X11 to work at all".
- The Mac Mini I purchased originally would have been fine to complete this test if it had come with more RAM, but replacing the RAM was so daunting a task due to the ultra-compact form factor, I didn't bother."
All I can say is that this "review" is at least misleading (though I personally think its just BS).WTF? What are they evaluating? What is a "quality freeware"? Dude, this is *nix, you can get most everything, just try Fink.
Sorry guys, NeoOffice does NOT use X11! It is native, that's the reason there is NeoOffice in the first place.
OK so I guess they didn't bother in doing a proper review either.
Dude, your language is a bit confusing. What you mean is an XSLT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT/) template applied to an XML (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML/) datasoure generates an (X)HTML ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML/) output. And may I ask, who creates the XSLT template?
This has nothing to do with a "parser". A parser parses a source, or said another way: without a source there is nothing to parse. You still need to code the source ;)
Wether to code the source by hand or with the help of an IDE depends on several things:
And what's your point? Certainly it can't be software, as your critical Access app is so tied to Windows as Quark Xpress is to Mac OS.
If the problem is the cost of Quark Xpress license, then that's a fact of your industry and cannot be blamed on Apple. And whatever Apple machine you were thibking about, it certainly is capable of doing more that once a week file conversions. It seems as your company did not have a case to justify buying Apple, for sure not a General Enterprise Case.
There's no WAY MS won't be giving license keys to legitimate purchasers of XP (especially considering the vast majority are pre-activated shelf-delivered versions).
It's Vista not XPI meant closed as in you can't buy a new mobo in Fry's. x86 architecture is pretty standard and open from any other perspective.
On a PC you can mix and match mobo, CPU, video, etc. On Macs the decision has been made for you already. That's a sacrifice I'm willing to do in exchange of the smooth integration I enjoy while using my Mac.
I'm sorry for any misunderstanding my words may have caused.
I'm a developer, a web developer. Within my daily tasks besides coding is ssh'ing to several machines, do some cvs|svn dancing, etc.
I've switched to Mac almost a month ago. I would never, ever, return to Windows. I don't care about the UI (though it's elegant and efficient). The selling point to me is having a nice bash prompt right in front of me, and having good hardware support (I don't care it's "closed" hardware).
I turn on my Macbook and voila! Skype is ready for me. I can video chat with my collegues while at the same enjoying the bsd heritage.
To me Mac OS X is like Windows XP with cygwin tighly integrated minus DLL hell, registry hell and all that crap.
Intel Macs are the best thing ever invented!
Your argument can be extrapolated ad infinitum. What about religion? What about supernatural phenomenas? And UFOs? No proof of the above for the non *believers*, though try to convince a beliver otherwise.
Once you get into the realm of BELIEFS, no rational/scientific proof/disproof is useful.
When mothers say with joy "I hope all of my kids die as martyrs" (e.g. one of her kids just blow up killing himself and innocent people), you start to dimension the power of BELIEFS over mutual concensus.
Let me state to all who haven't realized yet: This is a crazy, crazy world.
Mod parent up! It's the most insightful post I've seen in this thread. This guy is thinking like governments do. It'a called disuasion. Maybe I have PTb info about you... maybe I don't. Would you take the risk? Smart thinking Crouty!