The problems were document portability AND integration with other users. This is there MS cleans up and where OSS falls down completely.
Given that the problems were integration with MS Office, perhaps a move to OpenOffice.org would have been so much cheaper. This is where the closed source, propietary MS stuff sucks for the world. If MS Office had truly open standards, that integration would not have been a problem.
That is based on the assumption that your potential customers are individuals, and the cost of replication is high.
With software, the cost of creation is high and the cost of replication is negligible. There is no economy of scale for production, but there is for distribution.
If the cost of creating software can be lowered significantly, it is possible for the cost of software itself to go down. Oh, and those Indians will be buying software too. And there are a lot more of them.
So your economy of scale theory would still work out, just not where you want it to.
Give your document providers a LaTeX stylesheet. Then they can get around with producing content,while your stylesheet handles _all_ formatting and possibly layout.
Disclaimer: I work for a _very_ large email hosting company. If you have less than a few thousand users, don't even think about hosting with us.
Your choices will depend on budget and administrative flexibility.
1> Outsourced hosting: This is probably the easiest and cheapest method available. However, it is also likely that if your hoster is primarily a webhost, you will be hurt by someone else putting up bad scripts or software on the same box. Going with companies dedicated to hosting email is probably a better choice.
2> Running your own server colocated in a datacentre: This gives you full control on the box, and attendant responsibility. If you choose your hosting company properly, you will find that you can email almost anywhere. (There _are_ people who will block even large hosts with very little justification).
3> Do it inhouse: You need minimal business class connectivity (permission to run servers, static IP and proper reverse DNS). Hire someone to setup the box for you, or use an appliance. Using a non appliance box gives you more flexibility, but some more responsibility as well.
What you need to do is decide on a) What OS/distribution to use. b) Which MTA to use c) Which IMAP server to use.
I would go with a well supported Linux distribution (RedHat/SuSE for the commercial, Debian for free) or a FreeBSD 4.x box. My personal MTA of choice is Postfix, with Courier-IMAP doing POP3 and IMAP with webmail served by Squirrelmail.
If you _need_ a web based UI for management, use Webmin.
For spam filtering, SpamAssassin and Clamav for the antivirus. Wrap both these with amavisd-new.
The documentation for all these products is excellent, and plugging stuff in is trivial.
Your (Free) alternatives for MTA are: Exim, Qmail, Sendmail. For the IMAP server: Cyrus, Dovecot and UW-IMAP.
Some people here recommend a backup MX. I would suggest avoiding the backup MX, since mail is queued for 5 days normally. If you have downtime > 5 days, you have bigger problems.
The cost of doing this inhouse would be in terms of the time you spend in updating packages and reading the documentation.
Full scale all out conventional war is less expensive in terms of lives than terrorism and proxy war. A nuke on a couple of big cities would be bad, but nothing India couldn't recover from.
20 million in Mumbai is less than 2% of the current population.
But what actually happened is that there's been no general war along this border for an unusually long 35 years, and it now seems the Pakistanis and Indians are realizing they will just have to uneasily get along, as the Soviets and Americans did during the Cold War, since each now has the capacity to obliterate the other.
Pakistan has been supporting terrorism in Kashmir for the past 17 years. They used weapons supplied by the US and China to arm terrorists. Indians generally don't care about Pakistan, but the Pakistani government needs Kashmir as part of Pakistan to justify its own existence.
As for the general war, the proxy war fought with terrorists and the Kargil invasion negate that theory. It just didn't escalate to all out war.
It is never, ever ok to spam. Spam is Unsolicited, Bulk Messaging. If a friend sends me a message, even if it is a forward, it does not meet the unsolicited criterion. Ergo, not spam.
Merely being bulk does not make it spam. Merely being unsolicited does not make it spam.
Both together is spam.
To use an analogy, getting drunk is legal (if you are above the legal drinking age). Driving is legal (with appropriate licenses), Drunk driving is penalised.
If Pakistan objected they should have been crushed too because the Pakistan secret service more than any other organization help nurture and create the Taliban and Al Qaeda and they are still unscathed today.
As much as I dislike the ISI, the Taliban was armed by the CIA.
Granting an IP via DHCP is implicit permission to use the network. The client requests an IP, the DHCP server allocates it (knock on door, be invited in).
Allowing open access lets you connect to the DHCP server. Like walking down someones pathway and knocking on the door.
PCs give a lot of freedom. However, in the hands of clueless administrators, PCs are a large cost.
Remove control from those people who are not willing to accept the responsibility that goes with it, or capable of it. They get the thin clients and dumb terminals. The rest can use PCs.
Just because you can drive a SUV does not mean you should.
5 minutes to bus stop. 3 minutes (max) waiting for the bus 10 minute bus ride (4 km) 1 minute to the station 3 minutes (max) for the train. 40-50 minutes train travel for 35 km (depending on whether the train was one that skipped intermediate stations or not) 10 minutes to $ORK.
And that was available for 22 hours out of 24.
That is 82 minutes for 40 km (including walked distance), or about 30 km/hr.
Keep in mind that a train carries about 5500 people on average, and there are two pairs of tracks, so 11000 people go every 3 minutes from one end to the other. Not a very bad deal.
The problem with personal transport is that it doesn't scale well to high densities. A 5 minute walk to the nearest bus stop, hop into a train, hop out, 10 minutes walk to work is pretty efficient.
Now show me 15 million people in a single city driving cars and getting parking in the business district.
Sure. As soon as the US ends its subsidies to the agricultural sector.
*My* job is in no danger, but I sure could move freely to the US for more money. I suspect you don't understand what a few million people competing for your jobs can do to the US economy.
Quite a bit of the data entry jobs are being done in India at less than 100 USD/month (and that is by families whose annual income used to be that much). A payrise by an order of magnitude definitely sounds good to me, and bad for the average American clerk:).
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It runs Emacs.
The problems were document portability AND integration with other users. This is there MS cleans up and where OSS falls down completely.
Given that the problems were integration with MS Office, perhaps a move to OpenOffice.org would have been so much cheaper. This is where the closed source, propietary MS stuff sucks for the world. If MS Office had truly open standards, that integration would not have been a problem.
That is based on the assumption that your potential customers are individuals, and the cost of replication is high.
With software, the cost of creation is high and the cost of replication is negligible. There is no economy of scale for production, but there is for distribution.
If the cost of creating software can be lowered significantly, it is possible for the cost of software itself to go down. Oh, and those Indians will be buying software too. And there are a lot more of them.
So your economy of scale theory would still work out, just not where you want it to.
Give your document providers a LaTeX stylesheet. Then they can get around with producing content,while your stylesheet handles _all_ formatting and possibly layout.
Disclaimer: I work for a _very_ large email hosting company. If you have less than a few thousand users, don't even think about hosting with us.
Your choices will depend on budget and administrative flexibility.
1> Outsourced hosting: This is probably the easiest and cheapest method available. However, it is also likely that if your hoster is primarily a webhost, you will be hurt by someone else putting up bad scripts or software on the same box.
Going with companies dedicated to hosting email is probably a better choice.
2> Running your own server colocated in a datacentre: This gives you full control on the box, and attendant responsibility. If you choose your hosting company properly, you will find that you can email almost anywhere. (There _are_ people who will block even large hosts with very little justification).
3> Do it inhouse: You need minimal business class connectivity (permission to run servers, static IP and proper reverse DNS). Hire someone to setup the box for you, or use an appliance. Using a non appliance box gives you more flexibility, but some more responsibility as well.
What you need to do is decide on
a) What OS/distribution to use.
b) Which MTA to use
c) Which IMAP server to use.
I would go with a well supported Linux distribution (RedHat/SuSE for the commercial, Debian for free) or a FreeBSD 4.x box. My personal MTA of choice is Postfix, with Courier-IMAP doing POP3 and IMAP with webmail served by Squirrelmail.
If you _need_ a web based UI for management, use Webmin.
For spam filtering, SpamAssassin and Clamav for the antivirus. Wrap both these with amavisd-new.
The documentation for all these products is excellent, and plugging stuff in is trivial.
Your (Free) alternatives for MTA are: Exim, Qmail, Sendmail.
For the IMAP server: Cyrus, Dovecot and UW-IMAP.
Some people here recommend a backup MX. I would suggest avoiding the backup MX, since mail is queued for 5 days normally. If you have downtime > 5 days, you have bigger problems.
The cost of doing this inhouse would be in terms of the time you spend in updating packages and reading the documentation.
vi!
Full scale all out conventional war is less expensive in terms of lives than terrorism and proxy war. A nuke on a couple of big cities would be bad, but nothing India couldn't recover from.
f _1965
20 million in Mumbai is less than 2% of the current population.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Kashmir
lists over 29000 Indian casualties
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_War_o
lists just over 7000 combined on both sides.
But what actually happened is that there's been no general war along this border for an unusually long 35 years, and it now seems the Pakistanis and Indians are realizing they will just have to uneasily get along, as the Soviets and Americans did during the Cold War, since each now has the capacity to obliterate the other.
. aspk argil-99.htm2 .stm
Pakistan has been supporting terrorism in Kashmir for the past 17 years. They used weapons supplied by the US and China to arm terrorists. Indians generally don't care about Pakistan, but the Pakistani government needs Kashmir as part of Pakistan to justify its own existence.
As for the general war, the proxy war fought with terrorists and the Kargil invasion negate that theory. It just didn't escalate to all out war.
http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/research/kargil/index
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kargil
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/38770
http://terrorism.freeservers.com/kargil.html
I seem to remember this little company named Compaq which reverse engineered the IBM BIOS and started the clone wars.
It is never, ever ok to spam. Spam is Unsolicited, Bulk Messaging. If a friend sends me a message, even if it is a forward, it does not meet the unsolicited criterion. Ergo, not spam.
Merely being bulk does not make it spam.
Merely being unsolicited does not make it spam.
Both together is spam.
To use an analogy, getting drunk is legal (if you are above the legal drinking age). Driving is legal (with appropriate licenses), Drunk driving is penalised.
He who controls the past controls the future. This is possibly an attempt to rewrite history from Microsoft.
</conspiracy theory>
If Pakistan objected they should have been crushed too because the Pakistan secret service more than any other organization help nurture and create the Taliban and Al Qaeda and they are still unscathed today.
As much as I dislike the ISI, the Taliban was armed by the CIA.
Granting an IP via DHCP is implicit permission to use the network. The client requests an IP, the DHCP server allocates it (knock on door, be invited in).
Allowing open access lets you connect to the DHCP server. Like walking down someones pathway and knocking on the door.
I am sorry Dave, I cannot do that
PCs give a lot of freedom. However, in the hands of clueless administrators, PCs are a large cost.
Remove control from those people who are not willing to accept the responsibility that goes with it, or capable of it. They get the thin clients and dumb terminals. The rest can use PCs.
Just because you can drive a SUV does not mean you should.
They can't outsource it _yet_.
Unless you are the guy that actually prints the money in the first place.
Ah, my travelling used to be like this:
5 minutes to bus stop.
3 minutes (max) waiting for the bus
10 minute bus ride (4 km)
1 minute to the station
3 minutes (max) for the train.
40-50 minutes train travel for 35 km (depending on whether the train was one that skipped intermediate stations or not)
10 minutes to $ORK.
And that was available for 22 hours out of 24.
That is 82 minutes for 40 km (including walked distance), or about 30 km/hr.
Keep in mind that a train carries about 5500 people on average, and there are two pairs of tracks, so 11000 people go every 3 minutes from one end to the other. Not a very bad deal.
Or just more jobs outsourced!
How big is the business district? A couple of square miles?
The problem with personal transport is that it doesn't scale well to high densities. A 5 minute walk to the nearest bus stop, hop into a train, hop out, 10 minutes walk to work is pretty efficient.
Now show me 15 million people in a single city driving cars and getting parking in the business district.
Saying that things don't work will not get help. Giving specific information works, regardless of what you are asking for help with.
Unless you want to pay someone to come over and diagnose things for you.
That is what mailing lists and irc and usenet and LUGS are for.
How to ask:
I wanted to do X when my system was doing X'.
I did the following steps:
X1
X2
X3...
I now get the following symptoms:
S1
S2
S3...
How can I get back to a system which does X' (the original state), or to a system which does X (preferred)?
Corporate voting is generally one share, one vota. In this case, all shareholders have one share
Sure. As soon as the US ends its subsidies to the agricultural sector.
:).
*My* job is in no danger, but I sure could move freely to the US for more money. I suspect you don't understand what a few million people competing for your jobs can do to the US economy.
Quite a bit of the data entry jobs are being done in India at less than 100 USD/month (and that is by families whose annual income used to be that much). A payrise by an order of magnitude definitely sounds good to me, and bad for the average American clerk