Whether or not you agree with the NSA and its mission, they do have a lot of smart people over there, who have access to all the things we just sit here and speculate about.
There are certain pockets in the US govt that are working toward more incorporation of open source products, thanks (from my perspective) in a large part to Apache. (Oracle's port didn't hurt, either) Also, the govt buys hardware from the same vendors other companies buy hardware from - and you can get some delicious rackmount servers from Dell with Linux on them.
For every project that succeeds with an open source product, the door opens a little wider for more projects...and government contracting means big money. Why should micro$oft benefit?
I think it would be great to see companies like VA , RedHat, Lineo, etc, to get attention from the federal sector. Maybe then the commercial sector will pay more attention.
And we could get frickin' Quicken, or Bryce, or Flash for Linux.
"Trusted Software" or trusted systems in general are supposed to meet a spcification that was written by the DoD in 1983 (which was an update to docs written in the early 1970's) that outlines appropriate guidelines for access to remote systems and embedded software.
Specifically, it wants all access to all objects on the system to be fully logged, leveled security, and blatant marking, plus whatever else is in there and too dry to read.
However, remote access to systems is a job not only for the operating system of the host, but also for the network it runs on. Being that networks in 1983 were a little different than they are now, I would hope that a system that was meant to provide access to possibly classified data would rely on more than simply the security of the selected operating system, regardless of the openness of the sourcecode. The system in that case would take into consideration the OS, the firewall, and the network connection from client to server. The possibility probably exists to buld a system based on Linux that could be trusted, but would need to be spec'd out with "system" referring to more than just the OS of a host computer.
When it comes down to it, would you really want the good name of Linux drug in the mud by some military stiffs who can't secure the Army web servers?
Unfortunately, I couldn't agree with this less. From the perspective I had in school, the worst part of the whole deal was that local residents and the state government had too much say in the way the school was run.
When talking about local school districts, the chance of having intelligent people elected to sit on them, especially in a rural area similar to where I grew up, is slim to none. And yet these people are the ones who choose many specific policies, fund allocation, and the hiring of teachers.
In many cases, these people are parents, but that doesn't make them able to provide education for their children. For example, in the school district I survived, the school board hired new secondary teachers from the local state university, despite the fact that the existing faculty had published a statement to the district that they would no longer accept student teachers from that school because they were not qualified to student teach, let alone be hired as teachers.
Holding schools and teachers to higher national standards will only become more important as communications technology continues to shrink the distance between people. We have almost reached the point (in the Rust Belt, anyway) where there are too few regionally-dependent jobs (manufacturing, agribusiness) to support the claims that the national government doesn't need to be involved in steering education in a beneficial, forwarding-thinking direction.
That's just my thoughts. I grew up in a community more concerned with the football team than promoting literacy, and my high school still graduates people who can't read well enough to fill out applications to work at the grocery store.
We're driving. From Virginia. Got the oil changed in the beetle today.
I'm just going for the opportunity to leer at all you delicious he-geeks...mmm yeah! Should be better than the MarketPro Computer Show crowd at the Capitol Expo Center.
One really cool thing about Cisco is that their IOS isn't all copyrighted - Juniper and Redback both use large parts of Cisco's software on their equipment, and the interfaces work the same way.
The other thing about networking equipment, it has to obey the protocol. Cisco hasn't gone out and written it's own version of IP, frame relay, or ATM that is going to fsck someone putting equipment from multiple vendors on the same network or force certain hardware. Juniper routers can be put into an ISP's network, as can Redback aggregates, and still talk to the cisco border and transfer routers. UUNet uses equipment from all three vendors in mass quantities.
Cisco hasn't shot itself in the foot yet, and I doubt they intend to. In contrast to Microsoft, Cisco has become the networking giant because their products actually work. Redback and Juniper have come into the game in niche positions, and Cisco has left them there, rather than trying to kill them off.
Something I looked into last year, as an admin at my school, was computer usage, and where it was likely to go. There were some concerns such as planning for a bigger pipe, which IS freaking expensive (go buy your own) and often has to include hours of research and talking to idiot salespeople at ISPs. Our other concern was the shear number of students bringing computers to campus.
In 1994, it was rare for students to take computers to campus. For most schools, this was the dawning of the connected era, when they were thinking about the procurement process for full scale fiber ethernet networks. Some schools wrote grant applications, begged alums, asked the state govt, raised tuition to pay for their "pipe dreams".
So, for a few years, in most cases, the bandwidth that was planned in the mid 90's has held out. But in the past two years, hardware prices have fallen through the floor, and evry kid wants to bring his or her computer to school.
At my school last spring, when I sat down to look, less than 5% of seniors had computers on the campus network (all computers have to be listed as students' usernames for easy ID). More than 70% of freshmen did. The explosive growth of end-user computing sent the computer from the realm of luxury item to the realm of more-important-than-a-tv.
So the procurement process has to start again, admin staff trying to get money to upgrade the network, keep faculty in working machines, provide multimedia teaching facilities in classrooms, provide public use computers for students who don't bring computers, spend money selling the school through its website, and making sure CS students have access to labs that will allow them to actually learn something. Add to that the personnel cost of manning the network, admining accounts, going to meetings to get more money, and researching new tech for upgrades, and you've got a pretty hefty bill, even in cases where a lot of the grunt work is done by students. Not to mention that hefty chunks of 1999's budget probably went to Y2K upgrades.
In short, bandwidth is a very expensive commodity for departments with short budgets, and students abusing it before the school can get what it needs deserve to be shut down. The angst-ridden middle class kid syndrome will whine to no end, though, thinking they were really paying what the resources are worth. Yeah, right.
Of course, the faculty were more concerned with "what do you do with students who spend all their time on the net and no time working? They already recentered the SAT for them. Now what?" But that's for another day...
There might be other legal issues involved, too - ask your profs if they are allowed to take class material they have written with them if they go to another institution.
Your school may or may not have a policy, but there may be certain expectations that are unwritten but made relatively clear to faculty, that the school considers class material (of all genres) to be property of the institution.
While working at UUNet (yeah, i know...) i had training in these things, before IBM bought Whistle. They are NEAT little boxes for people you wouldn't want to have messing around with servers...
The best thing about them, from the ISP perspective, is that they can be configured through a dial-up; ie, a UUNet customer with an InterJet dials into a pop, puts a code in the box, and it downloads its new configuration. Pretty sweet.
From a consumer perspective, someone with a whistle is more likely to get help from isp tech support when they have a problem, than if they're running some homebrew.
I found that they are especially handy with reseller customers, who have a contractor come in to set them up and leave them running. A small office underbudgeting it's IT needs can get this product, complete with web hosting and mail, without hiring a fulltime guru (NT), or hunting down an intermittant Linux guy, for a comparable price to routers usually available from ISPs.
While running a porn site off one isn't a good bet, running internet/intranet and mail for a modest office (upto ~100 wkstns) and a modest connection (upto T1) is going to suit most business needs without a huge outlay of cash and time. (remember, these people are supposed to be working, which doesn't always include hours surfing the net)
--mandi
__________ my $.02 presents no capitol gains tax risk
Listings are at www.imax.com. You can click on the Fantasia 2000 image at the bottom of the page to see where it's playing. Ticketmaster is selling tickets.
I saw it Saturday in Baltimore, and the place was packed with yuppie parents and very small children. I didn't really think it was little kid material, but all the shows were sold out Saturday.
I thought it was awesome, but I'd performed most of that music at one time or another in high school. I think they did a fine job of picking out classical music that common people have heard before and can appreciate.
Now, if they'd just do Holst's The Planets or DelBorgo's Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, everything would be right with the world.:)
--mandi
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Blegh. Teach people something. You only talk babytalk to an infant for so long before you expect it to pick up real language.
These articles are coming out, it seems, every few weeks. And every few weeks, there is new fuel for the "women just don't make good geeks" fire.
There will always be exceptions to every generalization anyone cares to make about people, but I think Dr. Borg is really trying to get to societal dogma. Our society has built itself in a certain way, and as a people we have just finally reached a plateau on which all people can be judged by merit and deed rather than physical characteristics.
Unfortunately, in the arena where that very idea should be most deeply ingrained, since face-to-face contact is for suits, the other shoe has yet to drop. There is less social stigma now for a man to become an elementary school teacher than there is for a woman to go into a high-tech field. This matter has only really come to the mainstream media in the last few years; it's not like our educational system has taken the long hard look at itself and said 'yeah, our teachers don't give equal face time and attention to boys and girls'. The system is still trying to figure out what it all means...
Someone made the comment that most elementary school teachers are women. THERIN LIES A HUGE STUMBLING BLOCK. Women who are old enough to be teachers now and for the past decade are still from a generation where women were caregivers first, members of the workforce second. They are passing their ideals onto the children they teach; it's easy enough to do - boys should be rewarded for being agressive so they can be breadwinners, girls should be rewarded for being thoughtful and respectful.
So, at least in the US, almost everyone here now is a product of that dogma. There are a few, like Dr. Borg, who have been freed from societal contraints and set free to go on their own. Most others are still clinging to the idea that women are meant to do certain tasks, and encouraging them to be mathematicians or computer programmers would be counter to the 'nature' of being born female.
Before we get any improvement, that sentiment has to move more toward "PEOPLE are meant to become members of society, in fields they have an individual APPTITUDE for, REGARDLESS of their GENDER, race, or age (etc), and should be given ample opportunity to explore fields without suffering societal punishments."
We have a way to go. We probably have about 20 years to flush out the old biddies in the educational system, at least.
I don't usually recommend Perl to beginners. It's been my experience with most disciplines that a newbie is better off starting out with a more strict approach, and then running off into fancy jumps and kicks and whatever.
For example, it's hard to explain the importance of memory allocation in ints, chars, floats, etc, to a person who is used to Perl taking care of all that stuff, compared to bringing a C++ programmer over the the more relaxed environment of Perl.
For me anyway, I appreciate Perl's string processing and hashes more because of what a pain in the neck they can be in C++, which was my first language.
someday i'll look at python. when i have a minute... --mandi
I definately agree with you. I happen to be female and have a 4 digit member number. In the beginning, i used to read/. constantly. Now i may not even check it every day.
And the decrease in performance of the site is a huge turn-off as well. Sometimes I can't even get here.
So, is it time for a splinter group? My roommates and I have been around for a couple years here, and the prediction at the house it that/. has less than a year left in its life. it's already on the downward spiral.
Microsoft has done something totally bizarre with Exchange. They have made it totally unmanagable. Exchange server has some design anomilies that make it ridiculous, like keeping all of the e-mail in one huge file. Run by one process, store.exe, which has a tendency to Dr. Watson if things aren't going well.
There are also some other issues to think about when working with Exchange. One is the way users are going to receive their mail. You can use any generic POP3 client with an Exchange server, which makes life easier if you're worried about Outlook and the VB holes in the Office API. If your users are going to be leaving mail (which can be limited) on the server, then you have an issue with provisioning the hard disk on the machine. The size of the store file is ridiculous. Plan for double the HD space you think you'll need. Exchange also has an HTTP back door. I don't recommend using it, as it depletes the resources on the machine at amazing rates. IIS is another poorly designed system.
Other issues to be addressed if you are even considering Exchange are the stupid things users like to do. If your users are going to be e-mail huge documents to each other instead of putting things on file servers, then you're going to run into problems. Administrative users tend to like to mail each other Word docs that are upwards of 10MB, with pretty pictures, letterhead, and stuff like that. Then you have a network provisioning issue, because you really don't want to be sending huge messages over e-mail anyway. That's what file servers are for.
The biggest pain I had with Exchange (5.0 - dangerous upgrades aren't my thing) is that you can't do anything to filter on the smtp port. People can spin spam through your server and it'll just smile and nod. There was a rumour that this was going to be mended in 5.5, but it's Microsoft.
Microsoft basically is living in a dreamworld with this server. It's not SA-friendly at all. It crashes, it's slow, and it doesn't create managable logs. Log files are anywhere from 5 to 25 MB, and are written over continuously. So if you're going looking for a spammer, you better be aware of the actions within an hour of anything happening, otherwise you'll never get to see it in the logs. And to read the logs, you'll have to turn all the services off for Exchange server, or it will crash. (I crashed an Exchange server reading a file of SMTP conversations once. What a pain)
In all, Exchange is poorly designed for a mission-critical application. It's convenient in that if you have only a few users, you can run all the services and the server will be moderately content, and extra drive space can be devoted to file sharing. (But don't make it a P/BDC. Too much work there.) You can add users from flat file, there are tools you can buy for that.
Unfortunately, everything about running Exchange server is expensive, especially if you're going to run Exchange client. (FYI - Exchange client doesn't use the Office API, so is not affected by viruses like Melissa) You need a big machine, big disks, and lots of patience. Oh, and Pepto. Don't forget to order a case of Pepto.
What, were they trying to get Apache to serve ASP pages?
IIS is horrible. All the configs are in weird places, it logs in weird places, asp pages run the client machines like mad...sometimes inetinfo just up and forgets that it's supposed to be serving pages. Oops! And that's only when it's limited to 200 connections....
bah. run linux. you need stuff from nt you don't want to move? smbmount is there for you, babe.
Bang, I shoot you, you're dead. No more questions. You go to meet your maker, or whatever your religious beliefs are.
This time, I rape you. I force you to submit your most private parts to me, against your will. I force you to lie there; maybe I tie you down, maybe I have enough of an advantage over you, size -wise, that I don't have to.
I take away your trust in men, I take away your self respect, I take away your self-image.
I cause you to constantly wonder if it really was your fault. I tell you you wanted it, so it must be your fault.
You have to live with this every day. I took away your sexual/emotional/physical comfort and replaced it with fear, trepidation, anger, and emptiness. You may never recover. You might live in fear forever.
And it's hell...
And I go on and do it again and again, because I want to. It's not all like TV, where the woman that was raped is hard-core, someone who is willing to stick up for herself, go to court, and send that guy off to jail.
Wake up, guys. You have no idea what you're dealing with.
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There are certain pockets in the US govt that are working toward more incorporation of open source products, thanks (from my perspective) in a large part to Apache. (Oracle's port didn't hurt, either) Also, the govt buys hardware from the same vendors other companies buy hardware from - and you can get some delicious rackmount servers from Dell with Linux on them.
For every project that succeeds with an open source product, the door opens a little wider for more projects...and government contracting means big money. Why should micro$oft benefit? I think it would be great to see companies like VA , RedHat, Lineo, etc, to get attention from the federal sector. Maybe then the commercial sector will pay more attention.
And we could get frickin' Quicken, or Bryce, or Flash for Linux.
--mandi
You might as well post M$ internal memos!
Dammit, rent a brain! only $45,999USD from Redmond...(single processor only)
--mandi
Baaah Humbug! Sheep!
'course, I like my games on the 36" tv, not on the 17" computer screen.
But it seems pretty satisfied with Oracle to keep it busy.
--mandi
Baaah Humbug. Sheep!
could they make a cool show any more stupid? surely there has to be a better format for this than some jock-strapped sports show.
you take a bunch of really smart people, have them build robots, and then send in fourth graders to talk to them.
Yeah, okay.
now, if they put jon stewart in there, well, then i'd be taping the show...and that might begin to counterbalance the inanity of the rest of the crew.
Specifically, it wants all access to all objects on the system to be fully logged, leveled security, and blatant marking, plus whatever else is in there and too dry to read.
However, remote access to systems is a job not only for the operating system of the host, but also for the network it runs on. Being that networks in 1983 were a little different than they are now, I would hope that a system that was meant to provide access to possibly classified data would rely on more than simply the security of the selected operating system, regardless of the openness of the sourcecode. The system in that case would take into consideration the OS, the firewall, and the network connection from client to server. The possibility probably exists to buld a system based on Linux that could be trusted, but would need to be spec'd out with "system" referring to more than just the OS of a host computer.
When it comes down to it, would you really want the good name of Linux drug in the mud by some military stiffs who can't secure the Army web servers?
--m
When talking about local school districts, the chance of having intelligent people elected to sit on them, especially in a rural area similar to where I grew up, is slim to none. And yet these people are the ones who choose many specific policies, fund allocation, and the hiring of teachers.
In many cases, these people are parents, but that doesn't make them able to provide education for their children. For example, in the school district I survived, the school board hired new secondary teachers from the local state university, despite the fact that the existing faculty had published a statement to the district that they would no longer accept student teachers from that school because they were not qualified to student teach, let alone be hired as teachers.
Holding schools and teachers to higher national standards will only become more important as communications technology continues to shrink the distance between people. We have almost reached the point (in the Rust Belt, anyway) where there are too few regionally-dependent jobs (manufacturing, agribusiness) to support the claims that the national government doesn't need to be involved in steering education in a beneficial, forwarding-thinking direction.
That's just my thoughts. I grew up in a community more concerned with the football team than promoting literacy, and my high school still graduates people who can't read well enough to fill out applications to work at the grocery store.
--mandi
I have the plate PERL GRL reserved, but LNX CHK is available, too. I just don't know....
--mandi
I'm just going for the opportunity to leer at all you delicious he-geeks...mmm yeah! Should be better than the MarketPro Computer Show crowd at the Capitol Expo Center.
I bin plannin dis fo' months!
--mandi
The other thing about networking equipment, it has to obey the protocol. Cisco hasn't gone out and written it's own version of IP, frame relay, or ATM that is going to fsck someone putting equipment from multiple vendors on the same network or force certain hardware. Juniper routers can be put into an ISP's network, as can Redback aggregates, and still talk to the cisco border and transfer routers. UUNet uses equipment from all three vendors in mass quantities.
Cisco hasn't shot itself in the foot yet, and I doubt they intend to. In contrast to Microsoft, Cisco has become the networking giant because their products actually work. Redback and Juniper have come into the game in niche positions, and Cisco has left them there, rather than trying to kill them off.
--mandi
In 1994, it was rare for students to take computers to campus. For most schools, this was the dawning of the connected era, when they were thinking about the procurement process for full scale fiber ethernet networks. Some schools wrote grant applications, begged alums, asked the state govt, raised tuition to pay for their "pipe dreams".
So, for a few years, in most cases, the bandwidth that was planned in the mid 90's has held out. But in the past two years, hardware prices have fallen through the floor, and evry kid wants to bring his or her computer to school.
At my school last spring, when I sat down to look, less than 5% of seniors had computers on the campus network (all computers have to be listed as students' usernames for easy ID). More than 70% of freshmen did. The explosive growth of end-user computing sent the computer from the realm of luxury item to the realm of more-important-than-a-tv.
So the procurement process has to start again, admin staff trying to get money to upgrade the network, keep faculty in working machines, provide multimedia teaching facilities in classrooms, provide public use computers for students who don't bring computers, spend money selling the school through its website, and making sure CS students have access to labs that will allow them to actually learn something. Add to that the personnel cost of manning the network, admining accounts, going to meetings to get more money, and researching new tech for upgrades, and you've got a pretty hefty bill, even in cases where a lot of the grunt work is done by students. Not to mention that hefty chunks of 1999's budget probably went to Y2K upgrades.
In short, bandwidth is a very expensive commodity for departments with short budgets, and students abusing it before the school can get what it needs deserve to be shut down. The angst-ridden middle class kid syndrome will whine to no end, though, thinking they were really paying what the resources are worth. Yeah, right.
Of course, the faculty were more concerned with "what do you do with students who spend all their time on the net and no time working? They already recentered the SAT for them. Now what?" But that's for another day...
--mandi
Your school may or may not have a policy, but there may be certain expectations that are unwritten but made relatively clear to faculty, that the school considers class material (of all genres) to be property of the institution.
--mandi
The best thing about them, from the ISP perspective, is that they can be configured through a dial-up; ie, a UUNet customer with an InterJet dials into a pop, puts a code in the box, and it downloads its new configuration. Pretty sweet.
From a consumer perspective, someone with a whistle is more likely to get help from isp tech support when they have a problem, than if they're running some homebrew.
I found that they are especially handy with reseller customers, who have a contractor come in to set them up and leave them running. A small office underbudgeting it's IT needs can get this product, complete with web hosting and mail, without hiring a fulltime guru (NT), or hunting down an intermittant Linux guy, for a comparable price to routers usually available from ISPs.
While running a porn site off one isn't a good bet, running internet/intranet and mail for a modest office (upto ~100 wkstns) and a modest connection (upto T1) is going to suit most business needs without a huge outlay of cash and time. (remember, these people are supposed to be working, which doesn't always include hours surfing the net)
--mandi
__________
my $.02 presents no capitol gains tax risk
I saw it Saturday in Baltimore, and the place was packed with yuppie parents and very small children. I didn't really think it was little kid material, but all the shows were sold out Saturday.
I thought it was awesome, but I'd performed most of that music at one time or another in high school. I think they did a fine job of picking out classical music that common people have heard before and can appreciate.
Now, if they'd just do Holst's The Planets or DelBorgo's Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, everything would be right with the world. :)
--mandi
Blegh. Teach people something. You only talk babytalk to an infant for so long before you expect it to pick up real language.
--mandi
These articles are coming out, it seems, every few weeks. And every few weeks, there is new fuel for the "women just don't make good geeks" fire.
There will always be exceptions to every generalization anyone cares to make about people, but I think Dr. Borg is really trying to get to societal dogma. Our society has built itself in a certain way, and as a people we have just finally reached a plateau on which all people can be judged by merit and deed rather than physical characteristics.
Unfortunately, in the arena where that very idea should be most deeply ingrained, since face-to-face contact is for suits, the other shoe has yet to drop. There is less social stigma now for a man to become an elementary school teacher than there is for a woman to go into a high-tech field. This matter has only really come to the mainstream media in the last few years; it's not like our educational system has taken the long hard look at itself and said 'yeah, our teachers don't give equal face time and attention to boys and girls'. The system is still trying to figure out what it all means...
Someone made the comment that most elementary school teachers are women. THERIN LIES A HUGE STUMBLING BLOCK. Women who are old enough to be teachers now and for the past decade are still from a generation where women were caregivers first, members of the workforce second. They are passing their ideals onto the children they teach; it's easy enough to do - boys should be rewarded for being agressive so they can be breadwinners, girls should be rewarded for being thoughtful and respectful.
So, at least in the US, almost everyone here now is a product of that dogma. There are a few, like Dr. Borg, who have been freed from societal contraints and set free to go on their own. Most others are still clinging to the idea that women are meant to do certain tasks, and encouraging them to be mathematicians or computer programmers would be counter to the 'nature' of being born female.
Before we get any improvement, that sentiment has to move more toward "PEOPLE are meant to become members of society, in fields they have an individual APPTITUDE for, REGARDLESS of their GENDER, race, or age (etc), and should be given ample opportunity to explore fields without suffering societal punishments."
We have a way to go. We probably have about 20 years to flush out the old biddies in the educational system, at least.
--mandi
no tax on my 2 cents
For example, it's hard to explain the importance of memory allocation in ints, chars, floats, etc, to a person who is used to Perl taking care of all that stuff, compared to bringing a C++ programmer over the the more relaxed environment of Perl.
For me anyway, I appreciate Perl's string processing and hashes more because of what a pain in the neck they can be in C++, which was my first language.
someday i'll look at python. when i have a minute...
--mandi
And the decrease in performance of the site is a huge turn-off as well. Sometimes I can't even get here.
So, is it time for a splinter group? My roommates and I have been around for a couple years here, and the prediction at the house it that /. has less than a year left in its life. it's already on the downward spiral.
Anyone know of another place to hang out?
--
mandi
mandi AT linuxchick DOT org
There are also some other issues to think about when working with Exchange. One is the way users are going to receive their mail. You can use any generic POP3 client with an Exchange server, which makes life easier if you're worried about Outlook and the VB holes in the Office API. If your users are going to be leaving mail (which can be limited) on the server, then you have an issue with provisioning the hard disk on the machine. The size of the store file is ridiculous. Plan for double the HD space you think you'll need.
Exchange also has an HTTP back door. I don't recommend using it, as it depletes the resources on the machine at amazing rates. IIS is another poorly designed system.
Other issues to be addressed if you are even considering Exchange are the stupid things users like to do. If your users are going to be e-mail huge documents to each other instead of putting things on file servers, then you're going to run into problems. Administrative users tend to like to mail each other Word docs that are upwards of 10MB, with pretty pictures, letterhead, and stuff like that. Then you have a network provisioning issue, because you really don't want to be sending huge messages over e-mail anyway. That's what file servers are for.
The biggest pain I had with Exchange (5.0 - dangerous upgrades aren't my thing) is that you can't do anything to filter on the smtp port. People can spin spam through your server and it'll just smile and nod. There was a rumour that this was going to be mended in 5.5, but it's Microsoft.
Microsoft basically is living in a dreamworld with this server. It's not SA-friendly at all. It crashes, it's slow, and it doesn't create managable logs. Log files are anywhere from 5 to 25 MB, and are written over continuously. So if you're going looking for a spammer, you better be aware of the actions within an hour of anything happening, otherwise you'll never get to see it in the logs. And to read the logs, you'll have to turn all the services off for Exchange server, or it will crash. (I crashed an Exchange server reading a file of SMTP conversations once. What a pain)
In all, Exchange is poorly designed for a mission-critical application. It's convenient in that if you have only a few users, you can run all the services and the server will be moderately content, and extra drive space can be devoted to file sharing. (But don't make it a P/BDC. Too much work there.) You can add users from flat file, there are tools you can buy for that.
Unfortunately, everything about running Exchange server is expensive, especially if you're going to run Exchange client. (FYI - Exchange client doesn't use the Office API, so is not affected by viruses like Melissa) You need a big machine, big disks, and lots of patience. Oh, and Pepto. Don't forget to order a case of Pepto.
--Mandi Walls
walls@nospam.juniata.edu
IIS is horrible. All the configs are in weird places, it logs in weird places, asp pages run the client machines like mad...sometimes inetinfo just up and forgets that it's supposed to be serving pages. Oops! And that's only when it's limited to 200 connections....
bah. run linux. you need stuff from nt you don't want to move? smbmount is there for you, babe.
--Mandi walls@NOSPAM.juniata.edu
aka kerolin
No more questions. You go to meet your maker, or whatever your religious beliefs are.
This time, I rape you. I force you to submit your most private parts to me, against your will. I force you to lie there; maybe I tie you down, maybe I have enough of an advantage over you, size -wise, that I don't have to.
I take away your trust in men, I take away your self respect, I take away your self-image.
I cause you to constantly wonder if it really was your fault. I tell you you wanted it, so it must be your fault.
You have to live with this every day. I took away your sexual/emotional/physical comfort and replaced it with fear, trepidation, anger, and emptiness. You may never recover. You might live in fear forever.
And it's hell...
And I go on and do it again and again, because I want to. It's not all like TV, where the woman that was raped is hard-core, someone who is willing to stick up for herself, go to court, and send that guy off to jail.
Wake up, guys. You have no idea what you're dealing with.
--Mandi