My Advice is Don't use Qmail if you looking for something simple and easy to understand. Use Postfix, Exim, or Sendmail. They are supported in some form or another with various distros.
Qmail is Great if your a sysadmin, and/or programmer, and you do not mind dinking with several different patch sets, and don't mind recompiling, and installing stuff yourself until it is setup just the way you want.
Oh, and what happens if you leave the company, who is going to take care of it if qmail breaks, or needs an update. Qmail is not a good long term bet.
Commercial support would be a nice option, but then there is that pesky licence that qmail uses. No binaries allowed, Ahhhg!
Nope, linux is still free, regardless of how you value your time.
My time is highly valuable to me, and I charge my clients for it. My clients love Linux because it "just works". Email server with uptimes of over a year or more, file servers that boot right up, no problem, after a power failure and the UPS is drained. Backups, networking, routing, firewalling, it all just works. No blue screens, no registraions, no licensing issues, no hassles, easy software patches, and best of all CHOICES of vendors.
Sure there are problems with various distos of linux. With any complex software there will be issues. But on the whole, Linux runs circles around windows in terms of the lack of headaches and reliability.
You should "practice" restoring the systems you are responsible for backing up to a new hard drive and ensure the systems and data are restored correctly.
Can I get an "AMEN" brother!
This is the most important aspect of running a network, and the least tested.
I'm a high school student and I've ended up reading with my powerbook next to me so that I can use the dictionary on it when I come across a word I'm not sure about. I've noticed other students go the considerably cheaper route and buy a hand-held electronic dictionary because it's so much easier than actually using the dictionary, and odds are that the electronic one has more words than the abridged class version.
I'm a crumudgiony old fart, and I have to disagree with you about your use of the computer as applied to the general population. You look at your computer as a tool (a productivity tool to boot). Most kids look at a computer and think "Coool! Games", or "how am I going to get this thing to work?". Most adults look at a computer an think, "Can I get my email?", or "Why does it run so slow? I wonder if it has a virus." In general both classes of people have not a clue as to the true power that they have at their finger tips.
Technology is great when it can be applied properly. A basic understanding of how to fully utilize a computer for the work you use it for is not out there in the general public. (This will change over time as the tech becomes more ubiquitous, and more parents become fluent in computers).
Also, there is nothing wrong with a dog-eared paperback dictionary. It is as portable as the electronc doohicky dictionary and does not require batteries. When the terrorist lets off a EMP-bomb, your good old paperback dictionary will still work, your iBook and the wireless net your using will be toast.
Teach the basics, let the students build on them from there. The ones that are interested in advancing will.
Stop buying new servers and extend the lifetime of older ones.
This only makes sense if continuing to use the old equipment you are not losing out using more power efficient hardware, that will result in an overall power savings, thus saving $$$.
Account for the energy costs of manufacture as well as running costs.
These costs are accounted for when you purchase the hardware, you paid for these manufactuing costs up front.
I would suspect that your arguments would be better focused on the waste or lack of recycling side, since it sounds like you are aproching it from a eco-friendly vantage point. Most old equipment is just thrown away (eventualy), and it could be argued that the end user (or company) does not really bear the true costs of thowing this equipment away.
but perhaps it would be better if Groklaw let the courts decide this particular case.
Yes, perhaps we should stop reporting on what goes on in the courts, and even better corporate boardrooms. Why bother, what could the public possibly gain from a though scrutiny of these public entities? The courts can decide for themselves what is right and wrong with out the help of Groklaw. I would really hate for the data that has been compiled on Groklaw to get into the wrong layers hands, it could thorw the whole case off for SCO. How dare PJ attempt to refute each and every accusation put forth by SCO. I mean SCO would _never_ use the media like this, would they?
How about blinders for the public too, no need for all these messy details to make it outside of the court room. We simple folk cannot possibly comprehend the subtiles of SCO trying to bludgeon linux by suing IBM, we should just quietly wait while the fate of open and free software is tested in the courts.
It would help to at the very least block all packets on the typical windows ports as those ports are not intended for internet use (135-139,445).
If you buy service from the phone company do you want them telling you what numbers you can and cannot call?!?! Secure your system, the problem must be solved at the origin. If an ISP sees blatant abuse of its network then they can deal with it, but automatic and capricious shutdown of services because they "may" cause a problem is not the answer! (why not block port 80, you know that a lot of these viruses propagate via HTTP)
Another simple thing would be checking port 25 outgoing for unusually high amounts of data (nobody uses his own private mail server to send several hundred megs of email per day). Nobody says ISPs can or should monitor their users in detail but at least the worst cases should be found and removed from the net.
Great ideas! Who should I pass the costs associated with this on to? The virus writers? My customers?
Your machines (PCs, whatever) are hooked up to a world wide network with millions of others. The most economic solution for you is to protect yours from the rest of them, not the other way around.
ISPs will secure their networks because it makes buisness sense to them, not because it will keep the Internet a "nice" place. The the business economics work the problem.
I swear I've posted this like 5 times this week, but ISPs should be held liable for malicious traffic comming from their networks if they don't do anything about it. It's getting ri-freakin-diculous people!
Speaking as the owner of a very small ISP, this is very nearly imposible. How do you define "don't do anything about it"? Which ISP are you going hold liable? The one that sells bandwidth to the offending PC (IP address)? Or the upstream ISPs. What if the middle ISP is multi-homed? Perhaps some guy just left his WiFi open, and a neighbors infected laptop has latched on to it (I've seen this happen). Would the Open WiFi guy be the ISP in this scenario?
It is not just getting "ri-freakin-diculous", it has been pretty bad for quite a while now. With better and cheaper bandwidth becoming more and more readly avaiable the problem will continue to get worse. However the ISPs here are common carriers, they cannot (and I do not want then to) track ever IP packet that travels over their network.
Perhaps you could whip on the OS makers where the majority of these problems originate from?
The patent office should be doing the searc finding for prior art themselve but since they are inundated with applications they dont have the time to do it thoroughly.
Just because they are busy is no excuse for shoddy work. Perhaps if the patent office were to do a complete, and possibly time consuming job the companies applying for these questionable patents would either stop submitting them, or demand more funding for the office to do its job in a timley fashion.
Bringing in the community to do its work is only addressing the symptom, not the problem.
I think you are missing their point. Content producers do not want a free economy. That would mean that they have to compete on their products merits instead of controlling the means of distribution.
I undersood the content companies point, what I am saying is that the content companies fail to grasp that they do not control the markent place anymore. People/companies will subvert their control when they do not offer a product at a reasonable price. By not putting up their content they are creating a black market or an opportunity for others to take that market away from them, leagaly or not.
What the content companies fail to understand is that the adoption of getting content over a new medium (The Internet) is the ultimate expression of a free economy. Whether the copying, downloading, or deploying of this content is legal or not, these companies are missing the boat. When the market place starts to move in a new direction, DESPITE your best efforts not to allow it to do so, the writing is on the wall for you. Either start to look at the new market place as an opportunity, or prepare to get slammed by illegal downloading, or better yet, legal companies that provide the service that consumers are yearning for.
if your single AC to DC converter failed everything would go down
Assuming that you only have one converter. The nice thing about AC to DC conversion is you can have multiple AC converters all feeding the same DC voltage to a single set of conductors to run the DC power out to the machines. The converters can even be out of phase. If the power conversion system is designed right, any one or two converters can fail, be disconnected from the power feed, and the remaining good converters will pick up the slack.
I have no problem stealing from the rich. However I get angry when people steal from the poor.
Why sould you distinguish between the two? Stealing is stealing. Since you make a distinction between the two, how do you define rich and poor? What if some poor soul has the same attitude, sees you as rich, and then steals from you?
I checked the website out, but they want me to store my data on their servers. If I could get something like that server/client combination to work localy, it would be perfect...
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Qmail is Great if your a sysadmin, and/or programmer, and you do not mind dinking with several different patch sets, and don't mind recompiling, and installing stuff yourself until it is setup just the way you want.
Oh, and what happens if you leave the company, who is going to take care of it if qmail breaks, or needs an update. Qmail is not a good long term bet.
Commercial support would be a nice option, but then there is that pesky licence that qmail uses. No binaries allowed, Ahhhg!
Nope, linux is still free, regardless of how you value your time.
My time is highly valuable to me, and I charge my clients for it. My clients love Linux because it "just works". Email server with uptimes of over a year or more, file servers that boot right up, no problem, after a power failure and the UPS is drained. Backups, networking, routing, firewalling, it all just works. No blue screens, no registraions, no licensing issues, no hassles, easy software patches, and best of all CHOICES of vendors.
Sure there are problems with various distos of linux. With any complex software there will be issues. But on the whole, Linux runs circles around windows in terms of the lack of headaches and reliability.
Nope, it is clear they they do not have access to a war chest built by fleecing the public via "regulation" for several decades.
When you are talking deep pockets, they do not get deeper then the ILECs. These guys are huge, and they own most congress critters.
sync;sync;sync;inw -f
You can't be too safe, you know?
It is just your regularly scheduled weekly test...
Ahh the good ol' days, dialed up at 1200 baud 'till 4 am.
A poem of bills life? Yikes! She is only 9, I guess she is not old enough to have grown a hard sarcastic shell yet.
Can I get an "AMEN" brother!
This is the most important aspect of running a network, and the least tested.
I'm a crumudgiony old fart, and I have to disagree with you about your use of the computer as applied to the general population. You look at your computer as a tool (a productivity tool to boot). Most kids look at a computer and think "Coool! Games", or "how am I going to get this thing to work?". Most adults look at a computer an think, "Can I get my email?", or "Why does it run so slow? I wonder if it has a virus." In general both classes of people have not a clue as to the true power that they have at their finger tips.
Technology is great when it can be applied properly. A basic understanding of how to fully utilize a computer for the work you use it for is not out there in the general public. (This will change over time as the tech becomes more ubiquitous, and more parents become fluent in computers).
Also, there is nothing wrong with a dog-eared paperback dictionary. It is as portable as the electronc doohicky dictionary and does not require batteries. When the terrorist lets off a EMP-bomb, your good old paperback dictionary will still work, your iBook and the wireless net your using will be toast.
Teach the basics, let the students build on them from there. The ones that are interested in advancing will.
The interface on her ears were port mapped, not momory mapped
ba ding ching...
This only makes sense if continuing to use the old equipment you are not losing out using more power efficient hardware, that will result in an overall power savings, thus saving $$$.
Account for the energy costs of manufacture as well as running costs.
These costs are accounted for when you purchase the hardware, you paid for these manufactuing costs up front.
I would suspect that your arguments would be better focused on the waste or lack of recycling side, since it sounds like you are aproching it from a eco-friendly vantage point. Most old equipment is just thrown away (eventualy), and it could be argued that the end user (or company) does not really bear the true costs of thowing this equipment away.
Yes, perhaps we should stop reporting on what goes on in the courts, and even better corporate boardrooms. Why bother, what could the public possibly gain from a though scrutiny of these public entities? The courts can decide for themselves what is right and wrong with out the help of Groklaw. I would really hate for the data that has been compiled on Groklaw to get into the wrong layers hands, it could thorw the whole case off for SCO. How dare PJ attempt to refute each and every accusation put forth by SCO. I mean SCO would _never_ use the media like this, would they?
How about blinders for the public too, no need for all these messy details to make it outside of the court room. We simple folk cannot possibly comprehend the subtiles of SCO trying to bludgeon linux by suing IBM, we should just quietly wait while the fate of open and free software is tested in the courts.
Gimme a break...
If you buy service from the phone company do you want them telling you what numbers you can and cannot call?!?! Secure your system, the problem must be solved at the origin. If an ISP sees blatant abuse of its network then they can deal with it, but automatic and capricious shutdown of services because they "may" cause a problem is not the answer! (why not block port 80, you know that a lot of these viruses propagate via HTTP)
Another simple thing would be checking port 25 outgoing for unusually high amounts of data (nobody uses his own private mail server to send several hundred megs of email per day). Nobody says ISPs can or should monitor their users in detail but at least the worst cases should be found and removed from the net.
Great ideas! Who should I pass the costs associated with this on to? The virus writers? My customers?
Your machines (PCs, whatever) are hooked up to a world wide network with millions of others. The most economic solution for you is to protect yours from the rest of them, not the other way around.
ISPs will secure their networks because it makes buisness sense to them, not because it will keep the Internet a "nice" place. The the business economics work the problem.
Speaking as the owner of a very small ISP, this is very nearly imposible. How do you define "don't do anything about it"? Which ISP are you going hold liable? The one that sells bandwidth to the offending PC (IP address)? Or the upstream ISPs. What if the middle ISP is multi-homed? Perhaps some guy just left his WiFi open, and a neighbors infected laptop has latched on to it (I've seen this happen). Would the Open WiFi guy be the ISP in this scenario?
It is not just getting "ri-freakin-diculous", it has been pretty bad for quite a while now. With better and cheaper bandwidth becoming more and more readly avaiable the problem will continue to get worse. However the ISPs here are common carriers, they cannot (and I do not want then to) track ever IP packet that travels over their network.
Perhaps you could whip on the OS makers where the majority of these problems originate from?
Just because they are busy is no excuse for shoddy work. Perhaps if the patent office were to do a complete, and possibly time consuming job the companies applying for these questionable patents would either stop submitting them, or demand more funding for the office to do its job in a timley fashion.
Bringing in the community to do its work is only addressing the symptom, not the problem.
I undersood the content companies point, what I am saying is that the content companies fail to grasp that they do not control the markent place anymore. People/companies will subvert their control when they do not offer a product at a reasonable price. By not putting up their content they are creating a black market or an opportunity for others to take that market away from them, leagaly or not.
What the content companies fail to understand is that the adoption of getting content over a new medium (The Internet) is the ultimate expression of a free economy. Whether the copying, downloading, or deploying of this content is legal or not, these companies are missing the boat. When the market place starts to move in a new direction, DESPITE your best efforts not to allow it to do so, the writing is on the wall for you. Either start to look at the new market place as an opportunity, or prepare to get slammed by illegal downloading, or better yet, legal companies that provide the service that consumers are yearning for.
Assuming that you only have one converter. The nice thing about AC to DC conversion is you can have multiple AC converters all feeding the same DC voltage to a single set of conductors to run the DC power out to the machines. The converters can even be out of phase. If the power conversion system is designed right, any one or two converters can fail, be disconnected from the power feed, and the remaining good converters will pick up the slack.
the real terrorism is perpitrated by Anhueser Busch
Gahh! How people dring that stuff is beyond me...
It is only $70, you can use the other $30 for a Brew ingredients Kit
Nothing beats home made beer.
This sounds great, but what does your accountant run?
I am stuck with quickbooks... for my accountants sake. :-/
Why sould you distinguish between the two? Stealing is stealing. Since you make a distinction between the two, how do you define rich and poor? What if some poor soul has the same attitude, sees you as rich, and then steals from you?
I checked the website out, but they want me to store my data on their servers. If I could get something like that server/client combination to work localy, it would be perfect...