I guarantee you that any self-hosted system will have more downtime, and more overall management time than just sticking with Google or another provider.
I wouldn't put the e-mail server and the Web/database server on the same machine. In fact, if you're going to do this right, you probably want a mail server in a datacenter that does nothing but receive the incoming mail and hold it back in case your local e-mail server is down. And once you've done that, you might as well be using a "cloud" e-mail provider.
That said, I have used Zimbra, and it works. I will also support the recommendation of Roundcube.
When comparing Windows XP to Windows 2000, you will find that XP is faster than 2k, no matter what, as long as the reference machine has at least 128 megs of RAM.
XP boots and shuts down twice as fast. With the eye candy turned off and "classic" Explorer enabled, the interface will be far more responsive on an XP machine.
I speak from experience. My fastest computer is an 850MHz Athlon, and I use both Linux and Windows on machines as slow as 75MHz on a daily basis.
Try running XP without accelerated graphics and you'll see where its improvements lie.
The Mac OS evolved quite a bit. With Switcher, it gained the ability to run more than one program simultaneously and to switch between them seamlessly. The MultiFinder took that paradigm all the way. Over the years, memory and file management changed, and the way windows behaved and were drawn changed. The Mac OS changed just as much as Windows did. Even if the only milestones that the article touched on were System 6, Mac OS 7.5, and Mac OS 8.1, it should have talked about what each of those releases brought to the table.
Interesting. You ought to write more about early X history.
I'm just a young (20) geek who grew up in a house with techie parents and older sisters.
The first computer that I got to play with a lot ran MS-DOS 3.3 and a 1.x OS/2. I quickly learned that if I wanted to get anything done, I had to click the "DOS" icon.
I remember games like Dark Castle on the old, one-piece beige Macs, and how it took me a couple of weeks to figure out that unless I exited programs from their menus, they were still running, even if they had no open windows. Nobody bothered to explain MultiFinder to me.
I remember Windows 3.x being a joke (but it came with good games, like Taipei and Ski Free), because I had seen an X terminal at my dad's work. He showed me how applications were attached to terminal windows, and told me that the keyboard, monitor, and mouse I was looking at were actually one set of many that were in separate people's offices but all hooked up to the same computer. And they could be used at the same time!
I remember being much more impressed by X, because it really had multiple programs running at once, that you could switch between with no lag. And because, unlike a computer I had to share with a mother and sisters, lots of people could be using the system at the same time.
I definitely don't think X copied MS until the MS-a-like WMs came along, in any way, shape or form. It was a different beast.
Showing an early KDE screenshot in no way represents the 10 years of X history that came before that, nor does it speak to the competitive features of early X Windows software, such as network transparency.
Where were the 8 major versions of the Mac OS that appeared between System 1 and OS X?
The article doesn't even touch on Windows XP, except to show it on the final timeline!
Are you doing a custom install?
You should be able to put Firefox some place that you have access to and have it install and run properly.
I miss the good old days of zip file binary distributions, which could be unzipped and run right from the desktop, but still behaved correctly in where they stored their profile settings and temp data.
"The jump from 32-bit systems to 128-bit systems did usher in a great new realm of possibilities."
Aren't today's game systems still 32-bit? I know for a fact that the Xbox is, because it's powered by a crippled Pentium III. The graphics architecture is certainly still 32-bit.
That would work fine if people didn't have 10GB+ "My Music" subfolders.:-D
Even for 650MB of data or less, the WinXP burning wizard SUCKS, because it has to cache every file that it's going to copy to CD. On a one-disk, one-partition system, this is both absurd and slow. It then does what seems like more duplication during the "adding data to the CD image" phase.
I'm no fan of Ahead/Nero's CD burning or backup software, but using either, you can have the first (or only) disk of your backup set burned long before the Windows CD writing wizard has finished setting itself up.
Roxio's software, on which the Windows wizard is actually based, is no better than XP's built-in stuff.
I'm definitely not pro-Republican, by any means, but I think that only makes sense.
People who are sufficiently antisocial to become supervillains would care more about their own specific, petty grievances than any sort of broad, platform ideology. Supposedly the only way to get those issues heard is to vote for the parties that make them a primary concern.
Crazy people are really myopic and fight niche battles in limited-scope wars of attrition. It's a pity that the best a non-Republican, non-Democratic candidate can hope for is to have his issues "heard," with no hope of resolution, but I'm really glad that there aren't any overfunded evildoers using devious methods to push a short-sighted, selfish agenda on our public policy. Oh...wait.
Written portions of standardized tests are graded by human beings, according to rubrics.
AFAIK, they don't take off for penmanship. Because if they did, I would not have gotten a perfect score on my SAT II Writing test, or a perfect IB English HL score. Given my handwriting, QED.
Some people are awfully attached to their superstitions. These people run the world, or at least they run the Bible Belt.
Me, I see nothing sacred about a dead human body. I don't see a need to perform rituals over it, embalm it, or waste untold acres burying it. I'd rather see the course of civilization be advanced.
Still, no matter how catchy and memorable the tunes of Super Mario Bros. may be, they remain distinctly chirpy and fruity--saccharine for hyperactive adolescents. Please don't think that I'm trying to undervalue the superb work of Shigeru Miyamato.
He doesn't know the difference between Koji Kondo and Shigeru Miyamoto, and even if he did, he wouldn't spell their romanized names correctly.
As a big chiptune fan, I have to say that this guy's SID bias is appalling and that his writing is even more frustrating. He needs an editor.
I found the most amusing such game to be the Monolith Burger sequence from Sierra's Space Quest 4, in which the main character works a stint at a fast food restaurant to get enough money to advance in the game, building burgers piece-by-piece as the conveyer belt that brings them to him becomes ridiculously fast. The Monolith Burger game eventually made it into a collection of Space Quest mini-arcade-game sequences such as (Ms.) Astro Chicken.
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I guarantee you that any self-hosted system will have more downtime, and more overall management time than just sticking with Google or another provider.
I wouldn't put the e-mail server and the Web/database server on the same machine. In fact, if you're going to do this right, you probably want a mail server in a datacenter that does nothing but receive the incoming mail and hold it back in case your local e-mail server is down. And once you've done that, you might as well be using a "cloud" e-mail provider.
That said, I have used Zimbra, and it works. I will also support the recommendation of Roundcube.
When comparing Windows XP to Windows 2000, you will find that XP is faster than 2k, no matter what, as long as the reference machine has at least 128 megs of RAM.
XP boots and shuts down twice as fast. With the eye candy turned off and "classic" Explorer enabled, the interface will be far more responsive on an XP machine.
I speak from experience. My fastest computer is an 850MHz Athlon, and I use both Linux and Windows on machines as slow as 75MHz on a daily basis.
Try running XP without accelerated graphics and you'll see where its improvements lie. The Mac OS evolved quite a bit. With Switcher, it gained the ability to run more than one program simultaneously and to switch between them seamlessly. The MultiFinder took that paradigm all the way. Over the years, memory and file management changed, and the way windows behaved and were drawn changed. The Mac OS changed just as much as Windows did. Even if the only milestones that the article touched on were System 6, Mac OS 7.5, and Mac OS 8.1, it should have talked about what each of those releases brought to the table.
Interesting. You ought to write more about early X history.
I'm just a young (20) geek who grew up in a house with techie parents and older sisters.
The first computer that I got to play with a lot ran MS-DOS 3.3 and a 1.x OS/2. I quickly learned that if I wanted to get anything done, I had to click the "DOS" icon.
I remember games like Dark Castle on the old, one-piece beige Macs, and how it took me a couple of weeks to figure out that unless I exited programs from their menus, they were still running, even if they had no open windows. Nobody bothered to explain MultiFinder to me.
I remember Windows 3.x being a joke (but it came with good games, like Taipei and Ski Free), because I had seen an X terminal at my dad's work. He showed me how applications were attached to terminal windows, and told me that the keyboard, monitor, and mouse I was looking at were actually one set of many that were in separate people's offices but all hooked up to the same computer. And they could be used at the same time!
I remember being much more impressed by X, because it really had multiple programs running at once, that you could switch between with no lag. And because, unlike a computer I had to share with a mother and sisters, lots of people could be using the system at the same time.
I definitely don't think X copied MS until the MS-a-like WMs came along, in any way, shape or form. It was a different beast.
This article was rather omissive, in my opinion.
Showing an early KDE screenshot in no way represents the 10 years of X history that came before that, nor does it speak to the competitive features of early X Windows software, such as network transparency.
Where were the 8 major versions of the Mac OS that appeared between System 1 and OS X?
The article doesn't even touch on Windows XP, except to show it on the final timeline!
Are you doing a custom install? You should be able to put Firefox some place that you have access to and have it install and run properly. I miss the good old days of zip file binary distributions, which could be unzipped and run right from the desktop, but still behaved correctly in where they stored their profile settings and temp data.
You want this.
http://gaim-extprefs.sourceforge.net/
Were this and the ability to disable file transfer and direct connection built into mainstream GAIM, I'd never look twice at any other client.
<aside>Why the hell do I have to use HTML formatted mode to make URLs into links?</aside>Aren't today's game systems still 32-bit? I know for a fact that the Xbox is, because it's powered by a crippled Pentium III. The graphics architecture is certainly still 32-bit.
I think you mean "addendum."
I'd have been less anal about correcting you if your mistake seemed like a simple typo, but the "d" and "m" keys aren't anywhere near each other.
Nobody believes me about that damned sound.
I used to get huge headaches in the computer labs at school.
That would work fine if people didn't have 10GB+ "My Music" subfolders. :-D
Even for 650MB of data or less, the WinXP burning wizard SUCKS, because it has to cache every file that it's going to copy to CD. On a one-disk, one-partition system, this is both absurd and slow. It then does what seems like more duplication during the "adding data to the CD image" phase.
I'm no fan of Ahead/Nero's CD burning or backup software, but using either, you can have the first (or only) disk of your backup set burned long before the Windows CD writing wizard has finished setting itself up.
Roxio's software, on which the Windows wizard is actually based, is no better than XP's built-in stuff.
I'm definitely not pro-Republican, by any means, but I think that only makes sense.
People who are sufficiently antisocial to become supervillains would care more about their own specific, petty grievances than any sort of broad, platform ideology. Supposedly the only way to get those issues heard is to vote for the parties that make them a primary concern.
Crazy people are really myopic and fight niche battles in limited-scope wars of attrition. It's a pity that the best a non-Republican, non-Democratic candidate can hope for is to have his issues "heard," with no hope of resolution, but I'm really glad that there aren't any overfunded evildoers using devious methods to push a short-sighted, selfish agenda on our public policy. Oh...wait.
Soundwave superior, Constructicons inferior.
The Xbox is 733MHz, AFAIK, and it's a Celeron.
I don't know if you know this or not, but you can still get a Directory Opus environment. I use it on a daily basis on my XP laptop.
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The original developers make Directory Opus for Windows.
http://www.gpsoft.com.au/
There's a project that has forked the DO4 code and maintains the AmigaOS port.
http://dopus.free.fr/index.html
The people who maintain the Amiga port have compiled a list of commercial and F/OS clones/ports.
http://dopus.free.fr/lookalike.htm
Do you mean the control key? And isn't the "Apple key" called the command key? :-)
Cut me some slack. I'm feeling pedantic tonight. At least I didn't use the karma bonus.
I know. It could have been pulled off better. Pardon my pedantry.
Written portions of standardized tests are graded by human beings, according to rubrics.
AFAIK, they don't take off for penmanship. Because if they did, I would not have gotten a perfect score on my SAT II Writing test, or a perfect IB English HL score. Given my handwriting, QED.
I've seen Pi. I made no reference to a single, all-important number. I talked about multiple numbers.
Is what?
I was referring to my penchant for possibly bogus configuration optimizations on my computer.
I have a few superstitions to which I'll patently admit. But most of them involve numbers on lines in plaintext configuration files. :-)
Some people are awfully attached to their superstitions. These people run the world, or at least they run the Bible Belt.
Me, I see nothing sacred about a dead human body. I don't see a need to perform rituals over it, embalm it, or waste untold acres burying it. I'd rather see the course of civilization be advanced.
Too bad you can't get new iMac TFTs anymore, and nobody knows what the G5-powered ones that come out next month are going to cost. :-(
Some chiptune fan the author is...
He doesn't know the difference between Koji Kondo and Shigeru Miyamoto, and even if he did, he wouldn't spell their romanized names correctly.
As a big chiptune fan, I have to say that this guy's SID bias is appalling and that his writing is even more frustrating. He needs an editor.
Or BurgerTime, or Tapper.
I found the most amusing such game to be the Monolith Burger sequence from Sierra's Space Quest 4, in which the main character works a stint at a fast food restaurant to get enough money to advance in the game, building burgers piece-by-piece as the conveyer belt that brings them to him becomes ridiculously fast. The Monolith Burger game eventually made it into a collection of Space Quest mini-arcade-game sequences such as (Ms.) Astro Chicken.