Personally, I really like the API they're using for WebOS. The whole thing is a Javascript toolkit, and it makes a lot of sense. Developing apps for it will be a piece of cake.
Every time I let myself get roped into managing an email server, it's Barracuda that I always have the most trouble with.
They're unresponsive, slow, and mean. The reason it's a problem is because of the high number of Barracuda firewalls that are out there at the moment. Companies large and small use them. Barracuda firewalls are evil. Pure evil. They serve no productive purpose, and have features that when enabled cost companies millions of dollars in lost productivity. They cover the whole spectrum of web services running from web to email, to pretty much anything else. If you've ever felt the pain of working for a company that has one of these disruptive internet molesters installed, you'll understand.
Anyway, The easiest way to get a timely response, and yourself removed from their list is to write their removal department a pissy email where you call them idiots, and threaten legal action. Works beautifully.
You can always set up a your webmail on a private ip subset, or a whitelist dmz using iptables, where only you can access it. That would at least solve the scanning probing problem. Or a private VPN! Yay! Then you're learning about how vpn's work. Like I said, Dante may have known hell. But he did not know email servers at all. They would have scared the shit out of him.
The whole beauty of gmail isn't that you get a lot of neat features. It's the fact that your email almost always gets from point a to point b. This is because you have the luxury of being on a "big" mail server. Smaller mail servers, like one that you or I would set up do not get special treatment. The whole system right now is stacked against small mail servers. The minute you hit operation, you'll find that you might already be on spam lists, and that you have to fight to get yourself off of them. The minute you find that you're off the lists, you'll probably end up back on them because someone three ip addresses away has been sending welcome emails from his web site, and someone forgot that they asked for one.
If none of that scares you, the following list will get you close to what gmail can do.
So here is what you need first and foremost:
1. A dedicated server just for Zimbra with Domain Keys installed 2. A block of 24-32 ip numbers. (49 ip numbers would be ideal, but it's harder to buy odd blocks like that.) Put your mail server as close to the middle of that range as possible. It sounds like a lot, but most collocation facilities can hook you up with this for 300-500 usd a month. 3. Proactive attention to getting your ip block removed from all spam lists (especially Barracuda, their list is the most annoying for the high number of false positives) before the fact. Just let them know you exist. 4. Pray that all of the hundreds of moving pieces you've just put in place don't break, that bad hackers don't brute force their way into your server. Strong passwords don't really help as much as people tell you they do either. That's now something you have to worry about too.
So there you go. It doesn't make sense to me that you would try to do this for something that only you would use. The expense is too high, and the benefit just isn't there.
Over the last few years, I've been offloading my email to the social networks and blogs. Facebook, Linked In, personal Drupal installations, Twitter, etc.
They don't have a lot of the core problems that email has, and pretty much everyone I communicate with will use one or multiples of those.
For everything else, I use Gmail for domains because, even if I end up upgrading and paying per account... it's still less of a headache than the Dante inspired hell that is managing my own email server.
I hate running fucking email servers. Hate them. Hate. Hate. Hate.
It's still very funny. This whole business of calling it a "study" though is bad to begin with. A study requires some work. What this was at best was metrics, or "analysis."
I've heard the term more often in the midwest, than anywhere in California. I thought the rule was "if you're over 25, you're too old to say things like 'dude,' and 'hella cool,' "
Other companies here in the US have been doing it too. Clear, for example has been promising 6mb 4g wireless service, and throtlling over 3gb. After about a week, the service is slower than 56k. It's so slow in fact, that you can't even finish a speed test. Of course, if you visit the Clear Facebook fan page, you can see how well it's working out for them. Their customers hate their guts. AT&t really seems hell bent on killing customer satisfaction. If that's what they want to do, let them. There are tons of other options.
In a related news story, apples will replace oranges, pineapples will be outmoded by the superior engineering that is the banana, and red bull will totally replace water... except in toilets.
Doesn't make it useful either. I have yet to see a compelling reason to use a web based os, Chromium included.
Why is everyone trying to change the landscape in ways that set us back twenty five years? That really is what we're talking about with this kind of stuff. Sure it can be done, but why bother?
Okay, so now I'm supposed to give up my PC which has everything I need on it, and replace it with a mobile device that has serious issues (not the least of it being battery life), and a completely different software stack, that incidentally, doesn't include anything I need or want. Sure, why not?
After the last three generations of Firefox web browsers, which I only run for my extensions... why on earth would I choose to run Mozilla anything as on os, anywhere?
Not when there's a slew of already established mobile os's like regular Android, WebOS, iOs, and numerous others to choose from. Maybe I'm old and cynical. But I just don't see this one taking off.
Mozilla should stick to what they do well, which isn't a lot these days.
The majority of retail systems I've seen over the years run some kind of Unix or Linux. Occasionally, you see one that runs windows with a pretty touch screen, but those are few and far between. First place I would look for this kind of thing would be Alibaba. If you can think of it, you can probably find it there. Even though the ads look like shit, most of the Gold Certified wholesalers are pretty good. And you can usually get a deal when ordering multiple units. If you can't find what you want in terms of quantities or freight on board pricing, post a buys ad and describe what you're looking for in very short sentences. Then, watch the oems and wholesalers from around the world scramble for your business. Free trade. It's a beautiful thing.
It's been my experience that most geeks have people skills.
The only geeks I've ever run into that don't have people skills are self important idiots that consider themselves artists, rather than producers, that can't be bothered with trivial things like writing competent documentation, or tracking their time honestly. Dangerous notions like, "Good code speaks for itself, so you don't need comments" or "Would you cost estimate the Mona Lisa?" come from this camp.
Everybody else can take an abstract idea, and communicate it in a way that's appropriate for their audience, at the very least.
Geeks with talent have people skills, can tell a client what they want or need, and can communicate it all with a product that just works.
This isn't difficult stuff to understand. If any of these basic concepts are too much for you, maybe you're in the wrong business.
It was alluded to. And obviously, since people can't be bothered to write or scale SQL properly, the only solution has to be to go with an obscure untested solution like VoltDB, right?
Right. And the troll in the original article couldn't even point out anything facebook specific. Not even so much as "I have a friend who knows somebody who works there, and he said...."
No, all he could say was Facebook, and "worse than death" and basically say that it's worse than death because it's sharded, and since he's not competetent enough to understand that, then it must be bad.
Whatever. If MySQL is doing the job, and Facebook isn't losing database admins in droves (which they're not), then there's nothing wrong with their cluster. Period.
It's complete horseshit. I have zero respect for VoltDB. Zero.
The most interesting piece of information in this article is the fact that there's nothing in it other than the vague assertion that its a "fate worse than death" that's actually specific to Facebook.
If I didn't know better, I would say it almost sounds like he's being a media troll, and trying to hock his relatively obscure product by mentioning one of the biggest data consumers in the world, and his most successful direct competitor. It's a good thing I know better though, because if I didn't, I would have to say it's a gutless business marketing move, along the lines of old school Microsoft tactics, that is wholly lacking in integrity.
See, if you have to stoop to mentioning the perceived weaknesses of a major competitor without provocation or reason, that only means that your product has no merit to stand on. And we all know what a fine upstanding database system VoltDB is.
How is it going over the top? You're totally stripping due process out of the equation. If someone makes a living from their website, and you kill that website, you are basically killing someone.
The metaphor is fair. Doesn't take a lot of imagination to see that.
But I'm pretty sure most states in the US have the same targeting rule. That's how the assert jurisdiction over sites like Craigslist, Yahoo Local, and others. Of course, proving that the site is geographically targeted at one place or another is going to be tenuous with something like this.
Slashdot Mirror
It is. I've been waiting to buy one.
Personally, I really like the API they're using for WebOS.
The whole thing is a Javascript toolkit, and it makes a lot of sense. Developing apps for it will be a piece of cake.
You have the best Slashdot cig ever, by the way.
Yeah it is.
Every time I let myself get roped into managing an email server, it's Barracuda that I always have the most trouble with.
They're unresponsive, slow, and mean. The reason it's a problem is because of the high number of Barracuda firewalls that are out there at the moment. Companies large and small use them. Barracuda firewalls are evil. Pure evil. They serve no productive purpose, and have features that when enabled cost companies millions of dollars in lost productivity. They cover the whole spectrum of web services running from web to email, to pretty much anything else. If you've ever felt the pain of working for a company that has one of these disruptive internet molesters installed, you'll understand.
Anyway,
The easiest way to get a timely response, and yourself removed from their list is to write their removal department a pissy email where you call them idiots, and threaten legal action. Works beautifully.
You can always set up a your webmail on a private ip subset, or a whitelist dmz using iptables, where only you can access it. That would at least solve the scanning probing problem. Or a private VPN! Yay! Then you're learning about how vpn's work. Like I said, Dante may have known hell. But he did not know email servers at all. They would have scared the shit out of him.
Well said.
I was surprised at how nice RoundCube is these days.
I still like Zimbra better though.
The whole beauty of gmail isn't that you get a lot of neat features. It's the fact that your email almost always gets from point a to point b. This is because you have the luxury of being on a "big" mail server. Smaller mail servers, like one that you or I would set up do not get special treatment. The whole system right now is stacked against small mail servers. The minute you hit operation, you'll find that you might already be on spam lists, and that you have to fight to get yourself off of them. The minute you find that you're off the lists, you'll probably end up back on them because someone three ip addresses away has been sending welcome emails from his web site, and someone forgot that they asked for one.
If none of that scares you, the following list will get you close to what gmail can do.
So here is what you need first and foremost:
1. A dedicated server just for Zimbra with Domain Keys installed
2. A block of 24-32 ip numbers. (49 ip numbers would be ideal, but it's harder to buy odd blocks like that.) Put your mail server as close to the middle of that range as possible. It sounds like a lot, but most collocation facilities can hook you up with this for 300-500 usd a month.
3. Proactive attention to getting your ip block removed from all spam lists (especially Barracuda, their list is the most annoying for the high number of false positives) before the fact. Just let them know you exist.
4. Pray that all of the hundreds of moving pieces you've just put in place don't break, that bad hackers don't brute force their way into your server. Strong passwords don't really help as much as people tell you they do either. That's now something you have to worry about too.
So there you go.
It doesn't make sense to me that you would try to do this for something that only you would use.
The expense is too high, and the benefit just isn't there.
Over the last few years, I've been offloading my email to the social networks and blogs. Facebook, Linked In, personal Drupal installations, Twitter, etc.
They don't have a lot of the core problems that email has, and pretty much everyone I communicate with will use one or multiples of those.
For everything else, I use Gmail for domains because, even if I end up upgrading and paying per account... it's still less of a headache than the Dante inspired hell that is managing my own email server.
I hate running fucking email servers.
Hate them.
Hate.
Hate.
Hate.
There. I feel better now.
It's still very funny. This whole business of calling it a "study" though is bad to begin with. A study requires some work. What this was at best was metrics, or "analysis."
I've heard the term more often in the midwest, than anywhere in California.
I thought the rule was "if you're over 25, you're too old to say things like 'dude,' and 'hella cool,' "
Either way.
Other companies here in the US have been doing it too. Clear, for example has been promising 6mb 4g wireless service, and throtlling over 3gb. After about a week, the service is slower than 56k. It's so slow in fact, that you can't even finish a speed test. Of course, if you visit the Clear Facebook fan page, you can see how well it's working out for them. Their customers hate their guts. AT&t really seems hell bent on killing customer satisfaction. If that's what they want to do, let them. There are tons of other options.
In a related news story, apples will replace oranges, pineapples will be outmoded by the superior engineering that is the banana, and red bull will totally replace water... except in toilets.
You're missing out. My internet is huge!
Doesn't make it useful either.
I have yet to see a compelling reason to use a web based os, Chromium included.
Why is everyone trying to change the landscape in ways that set us back twenty five years?
That really is what we're talking about with this kind of stuff. Sure it can be done, but why bother?
Okay, so now I'm supposed to give up my PC which has everything I need on it, and replace it with a mobile device that has serious issues (not the least of it being battery life), and a completely different software stack, that incidentally, doesn't include anything I need or want. Sure, why not?
After the last three generations of Firefox web browsers, which I only run for my extensions... why on earth would I choose to run Mozilla anything as on os, anywhere?
Not when there's a slew of already established mobile os's like regular Android, WebOS, iOs, and numerous others to choose from. Maybe I'm old and cynical. But I just don't see this one taking off.
Mozilla should stick to what they do well, which isn't a lot these days.
The majority of retail systems I've seen over the years run some kind of Unix or Linux. Occasionally, you see one that runs windows with a pretty touch screen, but those are few and far between. First place I would look for this kind of thing would be Alibaba. If you can think of it, you can probably find it there. Even though the ads look like shit, most of the Gold Certified wholesalers are pretty good. And you can usually get a deal when ordering multiple units. If you can't find what you want in terms of quantities or freight on board pricing, post a buys ad and describe what you're looking for in very short sentences. Then, watch the oems and wholesalers from around the world scramble for your business. Free trade. It's a beautiful thing.
Note of clarification: I meant "you" in the abstract sense, not the parent.
It's been my experience that most geeks have people skills.
The only geeks I've ever run into that don't have people skills are self important idiots that consider themselves artists, rather than producers, that can't be bothered with trivial things like writing competent documentation, or tracking their time honestly. Dangerous notions like, "Good code speaks for itself, so you don't need comments" or "Would you cost estimate the Mona Lisa?" come from this camp.
Everybody else can take an abstract idea, and communicate it in a way that's appropriate for their audience, at the very least.
Geeks with talent have people skills, can tell a client what they want or need, and can communicate it all with a product that just works.
This isn't difficult stuff to understand.
If any of these basic concepts are too much for you, maybe you're in the wrong business.
I think that the movie should be based on this Slashdot conversation.
It would still be long and plotless, but at least it would be amusing.
It was alluded to. And obviously, since people can't be bothered to write or scale SQL properly, the only solution has to be to go with an obscure untested solution like VoltDB, right?
Why? Nobody at Facebook has even said there's a problem.
Right. And the troll in the original article couldn't even point out anything facebook specific. Not even so much as "I have a friend who knows somebody who works there, and he said...."
No, all he could say was Facebook, and "worse than death" and basically say that it's worse than death because it's sharded, and since he's not competetent enough to understand that, then it must be bad.
Whatever. If MySQL is doing the job, and Facebook isn't losing database admins in droves (which they're not), then there's nothing wrong with their cluster. Period.
It's complete horseshit.
I have zero respect for VoltDB. Zero.
Damn right it is.
The most interesting piece of information in this article is the fact that there's nothing in it other than the vague assertion that its a "fate worse than death" that's actually specific to Facebook.
If I didn't know better, I would say it almost sounds like he's being a media troll, and trying to hock his relatively obscure product by mentioning one of the biggest data consumers in the world, and his most successful direct competitor. It's a good thing I know better though, because if I didn't, I would have to say it's a gutless business marketing move, along the lines of old school Microsoft tactics, that is wholly lacking in integrity.
See, if you have to stoop to mentioning the perceived weaknesses of a major competitor without provocation or reason, that only means that your product has no merit to stand on. And we all know what a fine upstanding database system VoltDB is.
Or do we?
How is it going over the top?
You're totally stripping due process out of the equation.
If someone makes a living from their website, and you kill that website, you are basically killing someone.
The metaphor is fair.
Doesn't take a lot of imagination to see that.
Yep. We're as bad as China. Just in different ways. Difference is, here in the US, we're fucking hypocrites about it.
But I'm pretty sure most states in the US have the same targeting rule. That's how the assert jurisdiction over sites like Craigslist, Yahoo Local, and others. Of course, proving that the site is geographically targeted at one place or another is going to be tenuous with something like this.