"Yes, you have to buy, install and maintain the blackberry software and hardware to run it on, in addition to your existing email server. The iphone will work with virtually any existing mail server that supports imap, preferably with SSL."
The point is that plain IMAP just doesn't cut it for corporate use. The place I work at uses Domino with BES, just about anything you can do in notes can be done on the blackberry. Can plain IMAP also handle syncing contacts and calendar entries?
If something like Blackberry connect was available to the IPhone, this would be easy since we could just create a BES account, point it to the BES and be done with it.
The only people who tried to get support for their IPhones from were not execs. They already have the newest blackberrys, anything that it can't handle is done by their secretary.
"Oxxford's O'Keefe, who has been in help desk support for more than two decades, says he sometimes encounters a particular breed of users who don't think it's their job to do things like run Windows updates when instructed to do so.
"How do I deal with them? It depends on how [bleeped] off I want to make everyone," he says, only partially kidding. If O'Keefe sucks it up and does the update for the user, he makes a mental note to be sure the favor is returned someday."
The fact that he thinks these jerks are going to "return the favor" might explain why he's been stuck working helpdesk for over 20 fucking years.
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, my name is Julius Sumner Miller, and physics is my business."
Holy crap, someone else remembers Julius Sumner Miller? I used to be addicted to his old PBS show "Demonstrations in Physics", it was like watching some crazed elf trying to teach physics to kids. One time he did some demo on air pressure with metal cans and said "I'm going to do that again. Why? BECAUSE I LIKE IT!" and proceeded to crush about 4 more metal cans. You could even hear one of the camera men laugh during this.
Oh hay I got just an email from some guy on the internet and he's looking for his lost puppy. Also he has lots of candy and he said he knows my mom so everythings cool. Should I reply to this email? Please advise, thx.
I just downloaded Scratch and in a few minutes made a picture of a pig move around the screen while rotating and making fart noises. Honestly, this is all I really want out of any programming language.
That would sound awesome except for that whole working part. I guess some people can't really enjoy the tropics without a LCD screen in your face or banging away like a crazed badger at your blackberry while shoving fistfulls of Pocky into your eat-hole.
Either work or dont work, stop half-assing it already. You dont travel to someplace nice just to do the same shit you do at the office because it's like going to England just to eat at McDonalds. You updated some dohicky from India just the same as you could from home. That's really fucking impressive. Be sure to tell us all what you DIDN'T do there since you dont have the will power to PUT DOWN THE FUCKING LAPTOP ALREADY.
You are just wasting your time. Even though you are getting paid, you are stuck someplace great that you cant enjoy fully since your bizarre nerd ego demands that you never stop working at all. I bet the grankids will love that story of how you were deep in some jungle when you BRAVELY REPLIED TO THAT IMPORTANT EMAIL. Wow, dad! Tell us again how bad the signal strength was!
Before you shoot someone, do a bunch of searches for "poisons". That way the cops will expect you to poison someone and when they find the body they will be all like "Welp, he wasn't poisoned, so I guess you didn't do it".
You still might need to fix some machines anyway with the patch. We rolled out the patch at work and some workstations had their timezones set to some random TZ in Asia. Easy to fix, but weird when people call you up and ask why meetings you sent out are being held at 3:00 am.
Yup, Comcast rents out a router for the same price as a modem ($2). They also toss in a crappy USB wireless thing for free. The router is just 4 feet from my computer so I just took off the anntena rather than messing with wireless, I dont think there is an option for disabling wireless anyway on their braned routers.
The Magic Bullet can make any pasta sauce, fresh salsa, omlettes, smoothies and even kill the president! All in under 10 seconds! It's the ultimate party machine!
If you look closely, you can see where explosives were planted near the base. There is no way the self could have collapsed on its own. And isn't it strange how no penguins came to work that day?
Canada should totally start rebuilding that ice shelf just to show those terrorists that NOBODY messes with Canada, eh?
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"Yes, you have to buy, install and maintain the blackberry software and hardware to run it on, in addition to your existing email server.
The iphone will work with virtually any existing mail server that supports imap, preferably with SSL."
The point is that plain IMAP just doesn't cut it for corporate use. The place I work at uses Domino with BES, just about anything you can do in notes can be done on the blackberry. Can plain IMAP also handle syncing contacts and calendar entries?
If something like Blackberry connect was available to the IPhone, this would be easy since we could just create a BES account, point it to the BES and be done with it.
The only people who tried to get support for their IPhones from were not execs. They already have the newest blackberrys, anything that it can't handle is done by their secretary.
The fact that he thinks these jerks are going to "return the favor" might explain why he's been stuck working helpdesk for over 20 fucking years.
Try reading this:
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WARGAM.html
I got a copy for free, and it's the most annoying book I've ever read.
Strange that people like yourself can't tell the difference between a cockroach and a dog.
Dude, roaches and dogs taste COMPLETELY different.
At least Mr. Buttle wasn't hurt..
or was it Tuttle?
The version they stock is the R-rated softcore version.
i ons
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477457/alternatevers
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, my name is Julius Sumner Miller, and physics is my business."
Holy crap, someone else remembers Julius Sumner Miller? I used to be addicted to his old PBS show "Demonstrations in Physics", it was like watching some crazed elf trying to teach physics to kids. One time he did some demo on air pressure with metal cans and said "I'm going to do that again. Why? BECAUSE I LIKE IT!" and proceeded to crush about 4 more metal cans. You could even hear one of the camera men laugh during this.
Damn it, now there will never be a port of brickbreaker to the Iphone.
Oh hay I got just an email from some guy on the internet and he's looking for his lost puppy. Also he has lots of candy and he said he knows my mom so everythings cool. Should I reply to this email? Please advise, thx.
I just downloaded Scratch and in a few minutes made a picture of a pig move around the screen while rotating and making fart noises. Honestly, this is all I really want out of any programming language.
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That would sound awesome except for that whole working part. I guess some people can't really enjoy the tropics without a LCD screen in your face or banging away like a crazed badger at your blackberry while shoving fistfulls of Pocky into your eat-hole.
Either work or dont work, stop half-assing it already. You dont travel to someplace nice just to do the same shit you do at the office because it's like going to England just to eat at McDonalds. You updated some dohicky from India just the same as you could from home. That's really fucking impressive. Be sure to tell us all what you DIDN'T do there since you dont have the will power to PUT DOWN THE FUCKING LAPTOP ALREADY.
You are just wasting your time. Even though you are getting paid, you are stuck someplace great that you cant enjoy fully since your bizarre nerd ego demands that you never stop working at all. I bet the grankids will love that story of how you were deep in some jungle when you BRAVELY REPLIED TO THAT IMPORTANT EMAIL. Wow, dad! Tell us again how bad the signal strength was!
Before you shoot someone, do a bunch of searches for "poisons". That way the cops will expect you to poison someone and when they find the body they will be all like "Welp, he wasn't poisoned, so I guess you didn't do it".
Uh oh, NASA forgot to put the shuttle in the garage after they got back from the mall. Their dad is gonna be SO pissed.
Heh, it's like something robots would do at recess:
Robot #1: Gimme yer lunch credits, shakylegs!
Robot #2: Yo mamma's a segway!
I dont know who this Newton guy is, but I ain't buying any phone with a ghost in it.
So, Vista is gonna prevent me from winning Ipods?
Screw that, if i'm the 999,999th vistor I deserve a prize and I dont care what no washington computer fatcat wants to do with my internet windows.
You still might need to fix some machines anyway with the patch. We rolled out the patch at work and some workstations had their timezones set to some random TZ in Asia. Easy to fix, but weird when people call you up and ask why meetings you sent out are being held at 3:00 am.
Yup, Comcast rents out a router for the same price as a modem ($2). They also toss in a crappy USB wireless thing for free. The router is just 4 feet from my computer so I just took off the anntena rather than messing with wireless, I dont think there is an option for disabling wireless anyway on their braned routers.
Good thing we hired contractors to do all the IT stuff, we can just blame them for all the fuckups around here.
Stop horking the movies, eh?
MS presents the Xbox 361: The Do-Over Edition
Duh, dont you watch infomercials?
http://www.buythebullet.com/
The Magic Bullet can make any pasta sauce, fresh salsa, omlettes, smoothies and even kill the president! All in under 10 seconds! It's the ultimate party machine!
If you look closely, you can see where explosives were planted near the base. There is no way the self could have collapsed on its own. And isn't it strange how no penguins came to work that day?
Canada should totally start rebuilding that ice shelf just to show those terrorists that NOBODY messes with Canada, eh?