Not really.....you have the same problems you mention regardless of the where the stuff is saved...
If I save stuff out to my workstation, then it's not available from other machines....if I put it on a fileserver then I still have the problem of the server going down.
And as I mentioned in my post, this sort of use doesnt stress Cryus at all.....
I've been running it for more than two years with exactly this sort of usage, and have never had any downtime. (Other than hardware upgrades etc., of course)
I used the Washington Uni IMAPd on our branch mailserver for a little while, but it became painfully slow due to the mbox format it used.
Try this simple mbox experiment - delete one email from a folder containing 1000 mails, or a few emails with megabyte attachments.
with only 15 - 20 users the (admitedly underpowered - P133 16meg) server was on it's knees most of the time. It was rare to see a load average of less than 3
So I upgraded to a PII 266 with 64meg, and installed the Cyrus Imapd, and since then, the userbase has doubled, and since quite a few of us don't ever delete most of our emails (you never know when you might need to recall a conversation with a client from 2 years ago), the server now handles around 50,000 emails totaling nearly a couple of gig of data, without breaking a sweat. I've never seen the load hit 1, and nobody has ever complained about speed since.
IMAP is the easiest and safest way of making your mail available from any machine. And since the mail is stored on a central server, there's no synchronisation problems at all.
But if you don't want go to the (rather small) trouble of installing an IMAPd, or your favourite mail program that you just cant be without doesnt support IMAP, then I would say that maildir is the way to go unless you tend to delete messages as soon as you've read them, in which case it probably doesnt matter much. (although I noticed another comment that maildir works well over NFS due to not needing file level locking).
But the issue here is not finding or developing a replacement to.doc for the masses, it is about choosing an appropriate existing standard to require standards drafts to be submitted in.
This means two things
1.) you CAN tell the user what to use, as in this case, we are dealing with a very defined set of users.
but only when you consider that -
2.) you don't have much to choose from.
Standard cross platform editable wordprocessor file formats are nearly non existant.
I have a feeling that they are going to have to stick with Word and Framemaker for now...
The article does mention SCSI a little further down, under 'How it Works'
Today, CPRM is implemented on DVD and removable SD disks. But the SCSI and ATA/ATAPI proposals incorporate an extension of the scheme to allow the encryption to be used on hard drives, in addition to removable drives and ATAPI devices such as CD-ROMs and DVD drives.
A little harsher than I would have put it, but pretty much correct.
Once you're happy with the effects on your track, you should definitely apply them, so as to free up processor power for more effects and tracks..
and if you dont want to lose your original recording, then you simply make a copy of the original track before applying the effects and leave it muted.
You should only be using realtime effects to allow you to adjust the settings on the fly to get the sound you're looking for.
Actually, I think what he's implying is that he uses KDE as his desktop, so therefore KDE applications are his first choice (no need to have two toolkits in memory, consistant look and feel etc).
But as he said there's no KDE IMAP mail client, the next choice would then be any other IMAP capable mail client, and as he said Evolution has a way to go yet.
I'm in a similar situation at work, I have to use Communicator 4.7 because there's no other GUI IMAP capable mail client for linux.
I had high hopes for Netscape 6, but the mail interface is painfully slow, and there's no support for roaming profiles or LDAP address books.
So it's going to be a long time before our organisation makes the switch.
Why is is that people always fail to see that Mozilla and Netscape Communicator have NEVER been intended to be a lightweight pure web browser.
They have always been intended to be complete internet communication suites for the masses, which implies WWW, FTP, News, Email, IM, and the rest.
Of course you dont have to install everything if you dont want it, but it has still been designed with doing everything in mind.
THIS IS NOT A BAD THING...just not what you and a few others want.
A lot of people DO want this, which is exactly why they are making it that way.
If you want a speciallized application, why are you looking at Mozilla at all?
More like the poster must've been on something to mistake the 250 bugs listed in bugzilla for 2500.......
perhaps they forgot to limit the query, and got results for every redhat product ever released?
This story is extreme sensationalism...and very close to an outright lie.
OTOH, I think the figures in the article are mixed - I'd be very surprised if "Seventy per cent of Internet traffic between the two countries is from Australia into the US". I thought it would have been the other way around. Or does that mean 70% of requests?
I wondered about that at first too....but if you think about the difference in population between the two countries, it sounds a little more possible.
My organisation got hit with this a number of months ago....
It was rather embarrasing for our other branches....
But for my branch...it was just an irritation...
I'm just glad I'm able to keep Outlook at bay...and have all my users on Netscape Messenger.
Mind you, we do have one person in the branch that insists on using Outlook express.....and the first thing he did when he got the first CheckThis email...was to open the.vbs file.....fortunately it only affects those using the full-blown outlook.
ACTEW trialled Fibre To The Curb broadband service in Aranda last year. The final copper segment is VDSL..... It's called TransAct, and I believe the trial was a sucess, and they intend to go live sometime this year.
It's definitely something to look out for if you live in the ACT. And it'll happen regardless of what happens with Telstra.
there's more info at http://www.transact.actew.com.au
That has got to be the most ignorant generalisation I have ever seen.
Saying it's not meant as flame bait doesnt forgive it either.
Even if it were true that the continent was one big penal colony, what relevance does that have on the current population?, That was 200 years ago.
Australia has an extremely broad range of cultures and peoples ('white' or otherwise), most of which had nothing whatsoever to do with convicts of any sort.
I am not an Australian myself, but I am a New Zealander who has lived in Australia for 7 years now, and I can tell you that it is definitely too big and diverse a country to make insulting generalisations like that about.
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Not really.....you have the same problems you mention regardless of the where the stuff is saved...
If I save stuff out to my workstation, then it's not available from other machines....if I put it on a fileserver then I still have the problem of the server going down.
And as I mentioned in my post, this sort of use doesnt stress Cryus at all.....
I've been running it for more than two years with exactly this sort of usage, and have never had any downtime. (Other than hardware upgrades etc., of course)
to tell you the truth, I honestly have no idea...
however, I would imagine it would not handle the load too badly, afterall it was designed to handle the requirements of a university (CMU).
Mind you.....so was the WU-IMAPd, and that just doesnt scale at all.....so I guess the only way to tell would be to try it....
but..the poster seems to imply that it'st just for personal use...so in the scope of this AskSlashdot....it probably doesnt really matter....
I have to agree here.
I used the Washington Uni IMAPd on our branch mailserver for a little while, but it became painfully slow due to the mbox format it used.
Try this simple mbox experiment - delete one email from a folder containing 1000 mails, or a few emails with megabyte attachments.
with only 15 - 20 users the (admitedly underpowered - P133 16meg) server was on it's knees most of the time. It was rare to see a load average of less than 3
So I upgraded to a PII 266 with 64meg, and installed the Cyrus Imapd, and since then, the userbase has doubled, and since quite a few of us don't ever delete most of our emails (you never know when you might need to recall a conversation with a client from 2 years ago), the server now handles around 50,000 emails totaling nearly a couple of gig of data, without breaking a sweat. I've never seen the load hit 1, and nobody has ever complained about speed since.
IMAP is the easiest and safest way of making your mail available from any machine. And since the mail is stored on a central server, there's no synchronisation problems at all.
But if you don't want go to the (rather small) trouble of installing an IMAPd, or your favourite mail program that you just cant be without doesnt support IMAP, then I would say that maildir is the way to go unless you tend to delete messages as soon as you've read them, in which case it probably doesnt matter much. (although I noticed another comment that maildir works well over NFS due to not needing file level locking).
But the issue here is not finding or developing a replacement to .doc for the masses, it is about choosing an appropriate existing standard to require standards drafts to be submitted in.
This means two things
1.) you CAN tell the user what to use, as in this case, we are dealing with a very defined set of users.
but only when you consider that -
2.) you don't have much to choose from.
Standard cross platform editable wordprocessor file formats are nearly non existant.
I have a feeling that they are going to have to stick with Word and Framemaker for now...
Hopefully the future will bring better news..
The article does mention SCSI a little further down, under 'How it Works'
Today, CPRM is implemented on DVD and removable SD disks. But the SCSI and ATA/ATAPI proposals incorporate an extension of the scheme to allow the encryption to be used on hard drives, in addition to removable drives and ATAPI devices such as CD-ROMs and DVD drives.
A little harsher than I would have put it, but pretty much correct.
Once you're happy with the effects on your track, you should definitely apply them, so as to free up processor power for more effects and tracks..
and if you dont want to lose your original recording, then you simply make a copy of the original track before applying the effects and leave it muted.
You should only be using realtime effects to allow you to adjust the settings on the fly to get the sound you're looking for.
Actually, I think what he's implying is that he uses KDE as his desktop, so therefore KDE applications are his first choice (no need to have two toolkits in memory, consistant look and feel etc).
But as he said there's no KDE IMAP mail client, the next choice would then be any other IMAP capable mail client, and as he said Evolution has a way to go yet.
I'm in a similar situation at work, I have to use Communicator 4.7 because there's no other GUI IMAP capable mail client for linux.
I had high hopes for Netscape 6, but the mail interface is painfully slow, and there's no support for roaming profiles or LDAP address books.
So it's going to be a long time before our organisation makes the switch.
Actually, it does mention netscape's plans as they are understood now.
However, the original poster wasn't asking about Netscape's plans.....he was asking about Mozilla's plans.
Why is is that people always fail to see that Mozilla and Netscape Communicator have NEVER been intended to be a lightweight pure web browser.
They have always been intended to be complete internet communication suites for the masses, which implies WWW, FTP, News, Email, IM, and the rest.
Of course you dont have to install everything if you dont want it, but it has still been designed with doing everything in mind.
THIS IS NOT A BAD THING...just not what you and a few others want.
A lot of people DO want this, which is exactly why they are making it that way.
If you want a speciallized application, why are you looking at Mozilla at all?
More like the poster must've been on something to mistake the 250 bugs listed in bugzilla for 2500.......
perhaps they forgot to limit the query, and got results for every redhat product ever released?
This story is extreme sensationalism...and very close to an outright lie.
The fact that with napster you can download any song you want, whenever you want.
It's just like standing in a huge CD store, pocketing what you want...and walking straight out the door.
just without a 300lb security guard crash tackling you on the way out...hehe...
If you think ETerm has real transparency, then try this.
Drag your ETerm window over the top of your Netscape window.
Do you see Netscape underneath?
...yeah well....it happens to all of us at some point...hehe....
The 'inconsistancies' you speak of are probably due to the fact that a lot of very different people read slashdot..
There's no screening process that makes sure we all follow the 'official' slashdot point of view...
in fact...as far as i can tell there IS no official slashdot point of view....
People just speak up when an article interests or concerns them...and different articles interest different people...
hmmmm.....it's small....but hardly practicle as a portable entertainment system...
I'm not entirely sure what market Sony is aiming this at...
Afterall....the full sized playstation is not really all that clumsy to lug around......
The mobile phone link is interesting though....especially since the article says it will be avialable for the PS2 too....
OTOH, I think the figures in the article are mixed - I'd be very surprised if "Seventy per cent of Internet traffic between the two countries is from Australia into the US". I thought it would have been the other way around. Or does that mean 70% of requests?
I wondered about that at first too....but if you think about the difference in population between the two countries, it sounds a little more possible.
If you read the article, it said that 70% of the trafic between the US and Australia was going FROM Australia TO the USA.
So i dont see why the USA shouldn't have to share the cost.
Besides, the operative word there is SHARE.
I would assume the pricing would appropriately reflect the ratios involved.
My organisation got hit with this a number of months ago....
.vbs file.....fortunately it only affects those using the full-blown outlook.
It was rather embarrasing for our other branches....
But for my branch...it was just an irritation...
I'm just glad I'm able to keep Outlook at bay...and have all my users on Netscape Messenger.
Mind you, we do have one person in the branch that insists on using Outlook express.....and the first thing he did when he got the first CheckThis email...was to open the
ACTEW trialled Fibre To The Curb broadband service in Aranda last year.
The final copper segment is VDSL.....
It's called TransAct, and I believe the trial was a sucess, and they intend to go live sometime this year.
It's definitely something to look out for if you live in the ACT. And it'll happen regardless of what happens with Telstra.
there's more info at http://www.transact.actew.com.au
Maybe he's got a 'Get out of jail free' card?
*grin*
hmmm....I've seen links to broadcast 2000 before...
:)
It always looked like vapourware...or just a dream....
but 'm downloading it now....so i'll guess I'll find out the reality soon
They just want someone to run their servers.
This is no more significant or strange or thought provoking than if any other company wanted administrators for any other operating system.
hmmmm......what exactly is 'The Natural Balance' anyway?
And does it even exist?
That has got to be the most ignorant generalisation I have ever seen.
Saying it's not meant as flame bait doesnt forgive it either.
Even if it were true that the continent was one big penal colony, what relevance does that have on the current population?, That was 200 years ago.
Australia has an extremely broad range of cultures and peoples ('white' or otherwise), most of which had nothing whatsoever to do with convicts of any sort.
I am not an Australian myself, but I am a New Zealander who has lived in Australia for 7 years now, and I can tell you that it is definitely too big and diverse a country to make insulting generalisations like that about.
hmmmm......just reading that....i dont think the cracker was even an Australian.....
I have never heard anyone here ever use the phrase 'buy a clue', or anything to that effect....
not that the nationality of the cracker really means much anyway....but still.....