I've used the Postfix + Courier-IMAP combination with Maildir on a production mail server and it worked very well.
Every now and then I would have a customer call who was having problems getting their mail due to a corrupt bad message in their mailbox. Getting rid of the offending e-mail was a simple 'rm' command in the shell.
There is no governing body which says who can or can not issue SSL certificates. It pretty much comes down to whether the browsers are aware of the certificate authority.
You're not talking about improving the standard, but instead changing the standard. That's much tougher.
MP3 is the standard because of its wide acceptance among users. It will be difficult to get people to use something other than MP3. It has become synonymous with digital music to many people.
PNG has the same problem. PhotoShop and other software out there still support GIF. There is no reason for developers to switch. The only motivation, at this point, is political and most companies or developers don't care.
He wasn't wrong. The FreeBSD-CURRENT branch was vulnerable, but that is the development branch and few people use it. Developers are the only ones that use it, for the most part.
So, as he said, none of the releases or the -STABLE branch were vulnerable to the OpenSSH vulnerability from a few weeks back.
Please read what the guy says before you start jumping on his bones.
I have landed four jobs through people I knew professionally or personally.
I'm currently doing system administration on *NIX and Win2k boxes for a small Web hosting and design company. I like my job, and it was sure a long time getting here.
It all started when I moved to Cleveland, Ohio. I knew a guy who's family owned an ISP. He informed me of an opening in dial-up support, which I was able to get because of my communication skills and my experience in the computer labs at my university. [Job 1] I was only there for about four months, at which time I moved back to Indianapolis.
About 15 months after leaving Cleveland, I got a phone call from one of my former co-workers in Cleveland. The company that acquired the ISP in Cleveland had also acquired a company here in Indy and they were hiring Web hosting support people. So, I landed that job with the help of a personal recommendation from one of the managers (former co-worker in Cleveland) in the department. [Job 2]
Two co-workers in the Web hosting group decided to quit their jobs and work full-time for their own Web design firm. They later added hosting to their business and eventually found themselves needing to hire someone to administrate their servers and support their customers. I had great rapport with these guys so they hired me when I was ready to leave the big Web hosting company. [Job 3]
Between Job 1 and Job 2, I spent a short period of time working for a big ISP here in Indy. I got it through my friend Andy who was working there at the time. [Job 4] It was a shitty job I took after moving back from Cleveland.
The moral of my story is that you should not forget who you know and what they know. Personal connections are often the best way to get work.
I read on a rumor site that spring-loaded folders (or whatever they're called) will be appearing in the next major release of OS X (10.2 ??), which is supposed to be out this Summer.
I would have appreciated information on other certifications such as those provided by Sun or some other UNIX vendors. All we have here is Microsoft and Linux stuff.
Darwin is no less free than Linux or Hurd. I can download it now and run it without paying Apple a dime. If you want to get into details, I'd say the BSD license is about as "free" licenses get, but I am no expert on licenses.
At my old job in the web hosting group of a big ISP, we would occassionally strole over to a bar down the street and get drunk on tequilla shots.
Does that count?
It was all too convenient being that our office was located in an area full of bars and restaurants.
At my current job, there are three of us in the whole company, and we have occassionally done some things, especially if the company is footing the bill.
Microsoft makes a tool called hfnetchk.exe that will check your box for hotfixes that have yet to be applied. Works on Win2K and NT. It checks for system patches, IIS4 and IIS5, and SQL Server.
I found, on one of servers, that there were _12_ patches that I didn't know about and have not been posted to Windows Update.
Also, Microsoft has a tool called qchain.exe that allows you to apply multiple patches a the same time. Just use a batch file with -z and -m for each patch, and then run qchain. Once that is run, you can reboot and that's it. No rebooting after every freakin' hotfix.
Well, Apple has managed to get all of their key developers online with OS X (Adobe, Macromedia, MIcrosoft, etc.) and _that_ is going to make the biggest impact on their core base of users (i.e. designers, graphic artists, etc.)
It is too close to the release date for Apple to postpone it any further.
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I've used the Postfix + Courier-IMAP combination with Maildir on a production mail server and it worked very well.
Every now and then I would have a customer call who was having problems getting their mail due to a corrupt bad message in their mailbox. Getting rid of the offending e-mail was a simple 'rm' command in the shell.
There is no governing body which says who can or can not issue SSL certificates. It pretty much comes down to whether the browsers are aware of the certificate authority.
If that is a pie menu, then it is what they also use in Neverwinter Nights.
It may not have dump / restore, but it does have tar and gzip, which a lot of us use for backup and restore.
I would think something browser-based would be a lot easier and simpler instead of writing a GUI and then having to use VNC to access it.
Thanks. I also cancelled my order and re-ordered with this promotion code.
... probably the same group of people that run macosrumors.com.
Dammit! I just bought my copy of Jaguar from the Apple Store. I knew I should have shopped around for it.
I think it is entirely possible to get Apple interested in Ogg Vorbis and possibly have them included support for it in the iPod.
Don't use that link, please. Here is one that is specific to iTunes.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html
You're not talking about improving the standard, but instead changing the standard. That's much tougher.
MP3 is the standard because of its wide acceptance among users. It will be difficult to get people to use something other than MP3. It has become synonymous with digital music to many people.
PNG has the same problem. PhotoShop and other software out there still support GIF. There is no reason for developers to switch. The only motivation, at this point, is political and most companies or developers don't care.
I think this is a great idea.
I wouldn't want to use it to reguarily charge my phone, but it could come in handy in an emergency situation.
He wasn't wrong. The FreeBSD-CURRENT branch was vulnerable, but that is the development branch and few people use it. Developers are the only ones that use it, for the most part.
So, as he said, none of the releases or the -STABLE branch were vulnerable to the OpenSSH vulnerability from a few weeks back.
Please read what the guy says before you start jumping on his bones.
I have landed four jobs through people I knew professionally or personally.
I'm currently doing system administration on *NIX and Win2k boxes for a small Web hosting and design company. I like my job, and it was sure a long time getting here.
It all started when I moved to Cleveland, Ohio. I knew a guy who's family owned an ISP. He informed me of an opening in dial-up support, which I was able to get because of my communication skills and my experience in the computer labs at my university. [Job 1] I was only there for about four months, at which time I moved back to Indianapolis.
About 15 months after leaving Cleveland, I got a phone call from one of my former co-workers in Cleveland. The company that acquired the ISP in Cleveland had also acquired a company here in Indy and they were hiring Web hosting support people. So, I landed that job with the help of a personal recommendation from one of the managers (former co-worker in Cleveland) in the department. [Job 2]
Two co-workers in the Web hosting group decided to quit their jobs and work full-time for their own Web design firm. They later added hosting to their business and eventually found themselves needing to hire someone to administrate their servers and support their customers. I had great rapport with these guys so they hired me when I was ready to leave the big Web hosting company. [Job 3]
Between Job 1 and Job 2, I spent a short period of time working for a big ISP here in Indy. I got it through my friend Andy who was working there at the time. [Job 4] It was a shitty job I took after moving back from Cleveland.
The moral of my story is that you should not forget who you know and what they know. Personal connections are often the best way to get work.
LAYING! They're better at LAYING!
That one could have been really funny.
I read on a rumor site that spring-loaded folders (or whatever they're called) will be appearing in the next major release of OS X (10.2 ??), which is supposed to be out this Summer.
I thought Apple had a few billion in the bank.
I would have appreciated information on other certifications such as those provided by Sun or some other UNIX vendors. All we have here is Microsoft and Linux stuff.
You mean the SysV way of doing it?
They are more likely to adopt NetBSD's new rc.d system, which retains a BSD-likeness.
Darwin is no less free than Linux or Hurd. I can download it now and run it without paying Apple a dime. If you want to get into details, I'd say the BSD license is about as "free" licenses get, but I am no expert on licenses.
This doesn't sound like their problems were the fault of XP or Microsoft. It sounds like they did very little planning BEFORE making the switch to XP.
At my old job in the web hosting group of a big ISP, we would occassionally strole over to a bar down the street and get drunk on tequilla shots.
Does that count?
It was all too convenient being that our office was located in an area full of bars and restaurants.
At my current job, there are three of us in the whole company, and we have occassionally done some things, especially if the company is footing the bill.
Oh?
At my company, I'm both systems administrator and technical support. In a nutshell, I do the following.
You name it and I've probably had the unfortunate duty of dealing with it.
Microsoft makes a tool called hfnetchk.exe that will check your box for hotfixes that have yet to be applied. Works on Win2K and NT. It checks for system patches, IIS4 and IIS5, and SQL Server.
I found, on one of servers, that there were _12_ patches that I didn't know about and have not been posted to Windows Update.
Also, Microsoft has a tool called qchain.exe that allows you to apply multiple patches a the same time. Just use a batch file with -z and -m for each patch, and then run qchain. Once that is run, you can reboot and that's it. No rebooting after every freakin' hotfix.
Is that so?
Well, Apple has managed to get all of their key developers online with OS X (Adobe, Macromedia, MIcrosoft, etc.) and _that_ is going to make the biggest impact on their core base of users (i.e. designers, graphic artists, etc.)
It is too close to the release date for Apple to postpone it any further.