>Legit email does not usually start with an attachment in the first email
I guess you are not counting the many many corporate users who send a vcf card with all of their e-mails by default using outlook. This appears as an attachment. Or that have a jpeg/gif of their company logo in their signature (not that I like either of these things -- but they happen a lot!)
Generalizing, that 'well this never happens to me' usually does not work -- or is that a generalization.
And if you read the about the patches you would notice that many of those 13 holes were with other products such as about 3 or 4 dealing with Office, some with Exchange, and some with windows DNS. These may or may not apply to Vista depending on what software you have installed on it.
Although I really hope someone is not trying to run Exchange on Vista. *grins*
As you stated -- "Having and using open standards is a big advantage to the consumer".
So therefore the consumers get together and form a "union" -- hmm, lets call it the EU -- and they say, 'you must use open standards because it is better for us'. If MS does not use open standards. Then they pay a fine.
Or they can just decide not to sell their product under those rules. That is their choice.
Hmmm, does this mean that the United States is oppressing the rest of the world by not allowing any person who wants to to move to the United States tomorrow?
I don't think so. The United States has the right to democratically make laws about what they allow into their country. Just as the EU has the right to democratically make laws about what a company can do in their countries. No one is being oppressed here. They are just being told, if you want to come into our country you have to abide by our rules.
Yes, the rest of the world has different rules then the United States. That is their choice and there is nothing wrong with that. MS can either play by those rules or take their ball and go home.
Instead of your mobile device periodically asking your mail server, 'hey, got any new e-mails for me', and it initiating the connection. The e-mail when received by the server is automatically "pushed" to the mobile device and received as soon as it arrives (in theory -- assuming no network delays).
Windows mobile used to poll for new e-mail every 5 minutes or so, which resulted in large data bills for anyone with a windows mobile device, whether they got e-mails or not. BB offered "push email" and thus instant access and less data charges, since the BES server would only talk to your device when you had e-mail. Basically the BES server has direct access to wireless networks.
As of Exchange 2003 SP2 and WM5, Windows Mobile now also has "push email", but it is kinda cheating -- it operates by opening a socket between the mobile device and the Exchange server and just leaving that socket open although sending zero data down it until there is a new e-mail. When a new e-mail arrives the server "pushes" the e-mail down the open idle socket that the mobile device created.
This has a few problems. Every time you move from one cell tower to another you have to open a new socket, so there still is some ongoing data charges for this, but it is way better then before. Open idle sockets can die and have to be re-opened if there are any network issues. The Exchange server has to keep all these open idle sockets around, which does take up memory and network resources. There is some kind of limit to the number an Exchange server can handle before it slows down (no idea how many).
Not that a BES server does all that well in scaling to large number of users either, but it should in theory be better since it is talking directly to cell phone networks.
I am not 100% sure this is all accurate, but this is my understanding of how "push" email to mobile devices work.
The Zimbra server seems to work well and is very nice to setup and admin. Much nicer then Exchange if you know linux at least. The mail admin, is extremely easy and mostly done via a web interface, although a few things require some command line LDAP settings. Not sure how the server scales to large numbers of users yet as I have not used it with a large installed base.
It works very well if you are using it with Outlook and the Outlook connector (only available with the commercial version of Zimbra). It is almost exactly as if you are connected to an Exchange server except with a few features missing. The functionality of the web based interface is very good, but the perfomance can be a bit lacking at times. This will apparently be improved when the next generation of browsers add in better Web2.0 support. zdesktop also seems to help the performance of the web interface, but it really is very alpha right now and crashes.
They are adding in quite good support for Mac via Mac Mail, iSync and iCalendar, although some of this is still new and being worked on.
The mail functionality works very well on any linux client via IMAP, but for Linux Calendar use you pretty much have to use the web client. At least i know of no way to integrate it with any linux calendar client.
The mobile support is excellent if you are using a windows mobile device. Seemlessly acts just like Exchange. This also only works with the commercial version of zimbra.
The mobile support for a blackberry devices is done via tacking on extra software to the blackberry and quite frankly it integrates in a very unacceptable manner. They claim to be working on this. This one is a bit of a show stopper for some enterprise class customers. I suspect this is more RIMs fault then Zimbra's, they would love to fix this, I gather from talking to them.
Very good and works now for many environments. Shows promise for the future in the areas it is lacking.
With IPv4 the routing is kinda random and is done by routers publishing and storing routing tables of what addresses they know about. This works, but it would not scale too well.
When the designed IPv6 the thought about this and they actually built it with a plan for scalable routing.
Now I remember reading once how this worked, but that knowledge has gotten lost in this too small brain. So either wait for someone else here to explain it or research it and you can explain it to me.
I do not guarantee this is true, but this is what I have heard.
- Volume licensing will not support Ultimate. - A Volume licensing customer will have to setup a special server which will do the Activation for all of their Vista Volume licensing machines - The Volume licensing machines will have to "check in" with the Activation Server every six months to stay activated (I have no idea what will happen if they do not check in every six months, perhaps just fail to get updates).
Now on the good side, there are great new tools in Vista to support, modify, customise, install and update image files. IE. no longer do you need to create a new image file to add a security patch you can actually apply the new patches directly to the image file which is saved on the hard disk.
OpenOffice.org does not run on a Mac because it is either a X11 or Windows GUI app. It has nothing to do with the CPU. OpenOffice.org runs perfectly well on my Linux/PPC.
So until someone ports the GUI for OpenOffice.org to Mac Quartz nothing will change.
Maybe your right and Konqueror will end up being the best browser, but if I have to install all the KDE 2.0 libraries just to get a browser on my system my responce is no thank you.
And we all thought that Mozilla was getting bloated with an e-mail client -- now you have to install a destop with your Browser.
First it was not Sun's instistance that SO run with its own Desktop manager. This is how SO has been for a long time and Sun just bought it a few months ago.
The new SO 6.0 which will be the first real Sun version is going to be the one adding the Gnome enhancements. Given this use of Gnome we will likely see the integrated desktop disappear.
You are forgetting one very important thing. I would be willing to bet that the vast majority of all Ferrari's have something that most Toyota's dont -- an extra pedal on the floor. It is called a clutch. Yes most sport cars still come with a standard transmission, and if you take your average driver who has only ever driven an automatic and stick them in a Ferrari with a standard transmission and they will probably not be able to make the thing move more then a few feet without stalling it. So you analogy of all cars being the same fails. Next we have to ask why do sports cars still come with these annoying and ancient standard transmissions? Most drivers who take the time to learn this old standard transmission interface will tell you that it allows them better control and speed once they have mastered it. I will leave it up to you to extend this analogy to computer interfaces on your own.
And if you are correct then people can switch to FreeBSD. It's license already fits your ideals -- why should we change the GPL when what you want to change it too already exists.
The choice is there. Personaly I will stick to the GPL.
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The tools you link to are run locally on the computer.
This exploit reveals your passwords to a website that you visit (although I have not RTFA), which is a bit different.
So really your point is irrelevant.
>Legit email does not usually start with an attachment in the first email
I guess you are not counting the many many corporate users who send a vcf card with all of their e-mails by default using outlook. This appears as an attachment. Or that have a jpeg/gif of their company logo in their signature (not that I like either of these things -- but they happen a lot!)
Generalizing, that 'well this never happens to me' usually does not work -- or is that a generalization.
And if you read the about the patches you would notice that many of those 13 holes were with other products such as about 3 or 4 dealing with Office, some with Exchange, and some with windows DNS. These may or may not apply to Vista depending on what software you have installed on it.
Although I really hope someone is not trying to run Exchange on Vista. *grins*
Who cares how it benefits MS?
As you stated -- "Having and using open standards is a big advantage to the consumer".
So therefore the consumers get together and form a "union" -- hmm, lets call it the EU -- and they say, 'you must use open standards because it is better for us'. If MS does not use open standards. Then they pay a fine.
Or they can just decide not to sell their product under those rules. That is their choice.
Hmmm, does this mean that the United States is oppressing the rest of the world by not allowing any person who wants to to move to the United States tomorrow?
I don't think so. The United States has the right to democratically make laws about what they allow into their country. Just as the EU has the right to democratically make laws about what a company can do in their countries. No one is being oppressed here. They are just being told, if you want to come into our country you have to abide by our rules.
Yes, the rest of the world has different rules then the United States. That is their choice and there is nothing wrong with that. MS can either play by those rules or take their ball and go home.
Instead of your mobile device periodically asking your mail server, 'hey, got any new e-mails for me', and it initiating the connection. The e-mail when received by the server is automatically "pushed" to the mobile device and received as soon as it arrives (in theory -- assuming no network delays).
Windows mobile used to poll for new e-mail every 5 minutes or so, which resulted in large data bills for anyone with a windows mobile device, whether they got e-mails or not. BB offered "push email" and thus instant access and less data charges, since the BES server would only talk to your device when you had e-mail. Basically the BES server has direct access to wireless networks.
As of Exchange 2003 SP2 and WM5, Windows Mobile now also has "push email", but it is kinda cheating -- it operates by opening a socket between the mobile device and the Exchange server and just leaving that socket open although sending zero data down it until there is a new e-mail. When a new e-mail arrives the server "pushes" the e-mail down the open idle socket that the mobile device created.
This has a few problems. Every time you move from one cell tower to another you have to open a new socket, so there still is some ongoing data charges for this, but it is way better then before. Open idle sockets can die and have to be re-opened if there are any network issues. The Exchange server has to keep all these open idle sockets around, which does take up memory and network resources. There is some kind of limit to the number an Exchange server can handle before it slows down (no idea how many).
Not that a BES server does all that well in scaling to large number of users either, but it should in theory be better since it is talking directly to cell phone networks.
I am not 100% sure this is all accurate, but this is my understanding of how "push" email to mobile devices work.
"You are coming to a sad realization. Allow or Deny?"
- I could not resist.
Some comments on running Zimbra.
The Zimbra server seems to work well and is very nice to setup and admin. Much nicer then Exchange if you know linux at least. The mail admin, is extremely easy and mostly done via a web interface, although a few things require some command line LDAP settings. Not sure how the server scales to large numbers of users yet as I have not used it with a large installed base.
It works very well if you are using it with Outlook and the Outlook connector (only available with the commercial version of Zimbra). It is almost exactly as if you are connected to an Exchange server except with a few features missing. The functionality of the web based interface is very good, but the perfomance can be a bit lacking at times. This will apparently be improved when the next generation of browsers add in better Web2.0 support. zdesktop also seems to help the performance of the web interface, but it really is very alpha right now and crashes.
They are adding in quite good support for Mac via Mac Mail, iSync and iCalendar, although some of this is still new and being worked on.
The mail functionality works very well on any linux client via IMAP, but for Linux Calendar use you pretty much have to use the web client. At least i know of no way to integrate it with any linux calendar client.
The mobile support is excellent if you are using a windows mobile device. Seemlessly acts just like Exchange. This also only works with the commercial version of zimbra.
The mobile support for a blackberry devices is done via tacking on extra software to the blackberry and quite frankly it integrates in a very unacceptable manner. They claim to be working on this. This one is a bit of a show stopper for some enterprise class customers. I suspect this is more RIMs fault then Zimbra's, they would love to fix this, I gather from talking to them.
Very good and works now for many environments. Shows promise for the future in the areas it is lacking.
Another one to look at is http://postpath.com/
With IPv4 the routing is kinda random and is done by routers publishing and storing routing tables of what addresses they know about. This works, but it would not scale too well.
When the designed IPv6 the thought about this and they actually built it with a plan for scalable routing.
Now I remember reading once how this worked, but that knowledge has gotten lost in this too small brain. So either wait for someone else here to explain it or research it and you can explain it to me.
You can backup the BitLocker key from the TPM module AFAIK
I do not guarantee this is true, but this is what I have heard.
- Volume licensing will not support Ultimate.
- A Volume licensing customer will have to setup a special server which will do the Activation for all of their Vista Volume licensing machines
- The Volume licensing machines will have to "check in" with the Activation Server every six months to stay activated (I have no idea what will happen if they do not check in every six months, perhaps just fail to get updates).
Now on the good side, there are great new tools in Vista to support, modify, customise, install and update image files. IE. no longer do you need to create a new image file to add a security patch you can actually apply the new patches directly to the image file which is saved on the hard disk.
You need to get a better understanding of Cryptography.
He license is the cryptographic key. Cracking the DRM when you have the key is much much easier then doing so without it.
I know someone who asked for the title Strategic Head of Information Technology. At first they agreed to it then someone figured it out.
FreeBSD has had init.d since 5.0
NetBSD has had it since 1.6 (and it includes dependancies rather then silly sym-links with a start up order and starts equivlant items in parallel).
OpenBSD does not have init.d -- they do not like it.
Try getting some knowledge before you generalize.
About OpenOffice.org you are WRONG!
OpenOffice.org does not run on a Mac because it is either a X11 or Windows GUI app. It has nothing to do with the CPU. OpenOffice.org runs perfectly well on my Linux/PPC.
So until someone ports the GUI for OpenOffice.org to Mac Quartz nothing will change.
That would be a fork and people would be rightly upset.
Please remember Mozilla is the root of the tree. RedHat's packaged version is just a branch. This is an important distinction.
Updates need to flow in the correct direction.
Perhaps it is because some of us don't believe in the same things as you do and actually consider copyright to be bad.
The list is supposed to be "deceased" Authors.
So many of the authors people are mentioning are not dead.
p.s. I do admit that I am surprised Douglas Adams is not on the list.
Cool -- I guess I will never view your website then since I DO NOT HAVE FLASH installed. And see no reason to do so.
It's your choice though.
That was the "free" Solaris 7 license. The "free" Solaris 8 license really is free.
Other then the fact that you have to pay $80 shipping the CD and the book. But the OS is free and has no wacky licenses.
Maybe your right and Konqueror will end up being the best browser, but if I have to install all the KDE 2.0 libraries just to get a browser on my system my responce is no thank you.
And we all thought that Mozilla was getting bloated with an e-mail client -- now you have to install a destop with your Browser.
>btw, the last xfree that correctly implemented dualhead with a pair of matrox cards was 3.9.16. nothing newer works for me
I am using a G400 AGP & a G200 PCI with 4.0.1.
It works ok -- occasional crashes
First it was not Sun's instistance that SO run with its own Desktop manager. This is how SO has been for a long time and Sun just bought it a few months ago.
The new SO 6.0 which will be the first real Sun version is going to be the one adding the Gnome enhancements. Given this use of Gnome we will likely see the integrated desktop disappear.
And this is a good thing!
You are forgetting one very important thing. I would be willing to bet that the vast majority of all Ferrari's have something that most Toyota's dont -- an extra pedal on the floor. It is called a clutch. Yes most sport cars still come with a standard transmission, and if you take your average driver who has only ever driven an automatic and stick them in a Ferrari with a standard transmission and they will probably not be able to make the thing move more then a few feet without stalling it. So you analogy of all cars being the same fails. Next we have to ask why do sports cars still come with these annoying and ancient standard transmissions? Most drivers who take the time to learn this old standard transmission interface will tell you that it allows them better control and speed once they have mastered it. I will leave it up to you to extend this analogy to computer interfaces on your own.
And if you are correct then people can switch to FreeBSD. It's license already fits your ideals -- why should we change the GPL when what you want to change it too already exists.
The choice is there. Personaly I will stick to the GPL.