First of all, it is technically open source, but the license the community edition uses means it cannot legally be used by businesses. It is definitely not a free alternative to M$ Exchange. Each user license costs $52 for this product, an M$ Exchange CAL costs about as much, maybe a few bucks more.
Whoever designed the web access GUI went icon crazy and they are not very meaningful either. Outlook Web Access is simple, this contraption had me guessing at what buttons do.
I manage an Exchange 2007 environment with roughly 700 users depending on it. Originally having no experience, I got a test server up and running within a day. The administrator tools are simple, powerful, and reliable; overall we have not had any serious issues in the past three years. I also know that if something goes wrong, there is M$ support, service packs, backup software, DB repair tools, forums, etc.
Here is what happens with an open source product: You install the product and spend the next couple of hours wading through text config files. When you do manage to get the product to work, the thing does not work as expected. You spend the next couple of hours cranking up debugging output and wading through source code. If you are really masochistic you end up compiling your own build after you have found a bug.
Now in some cases going open source is worth the pain, especially when it brings additional functionality and cost savings. Unfortunately, this open source product has the goal of duplicating functionality at a similar price point. An additional thing to consider is that most open source products need more maintenance and labor. This additional labor is highly in demand and is not at all cheap, which might make this an even more expensive solution than the original.
My high school was 80+ years old when I was going there. At some point some students noticed that the school water tasted funny. Somebody took a sample of the water and had the local university analyze it. The next week, we were banned from drinking from the water fountains and water colors were put in place.
I am sure we had mold problems in some areas.
Once in a while a sound proofing tile would smack a slacker awake, always a hoot.
It was reconstructed shortly afterward.
Before these parents start blaming radio waves for the sickness they should have the health department check the school out.
I work for a non-IT company with a small IT department. We have one woman on our team. Here are some things that I have noticed.
Completing a Task: When one of the guys gets a task, we jump into it immediately and release something quickly (even if it doesn't work). When the woman on our team gets a task, she thinks about it, asks for some help, comes up with a solution, and eventually releases it in perfect working order. One would think that the woman is doing things the right way, a working solution that takes 2-3 times longer to produce will always beat out a nonworking one. Unfortunately, others may see her as being slow and inefficient. In addition, one of the cardinal sins in IT is asking for help, once you do that you are seen as weak and unintelligent.
Team Socialization: On a slow day, all of the IT guys will somehow converge into someones office and talk about random stuff, sometimes work related, sometimes not. Rarely does the woman on our team join in unless we somehow managed to converge within her office, in which case she usually stays quiet unless asked for input. I am not exactly sure why this occurs, but it is hurting her career as socialization within the team is one of the easiest ways to gain recognition and respect.
Performance Review Time: Come performance review time all of the guys are on high alert. We do PR engineering, damage control, boasting, extra work, and anything else needed to get a good appraisal from upper management. The woman on our team simply continues on with her normal routine, sometimes asking one of us in private whether it's that time of the year. Who do you think gets a better raise?
Personally, I think if you want to succeed in IT you have to be aggressive (taking control of each situation) and relatively thick skinned (ignoring egomaniacal VPs without losing sleep). You have to be able to socialize with people within your team and outside, while at the same time not losing self dependency. I am not sure if women want to work in that kind of environment.
In a decade those speeds might be weak. However, I doubt that the fiber that they lay will become outdated.
Kind of like how DSL runs over copper that was laid decades ago at much higher bandwidth than originally conceived.
The equipment running the system will probably be upgraded over the years without digging up the streets and running new media. The cost will be negligible compared to the initial roll-out.
If you have ever heard the term "At Will Employment" it means that either you or your employer may terminate your employment at the company without informing the severed party of the reason.
As long as your employer fires you and does not tell you why, you probably won't have much recourse. Even if they tell you, unless it legally classified as discrimination (e.g race, religion, sex, disabilities...), there is not much you can do.
Companies that do not want to pay nor use company time for employee training have their reasons. These companies are usually afraid that you will finish the training and leave to greener pastures, leaving them with a bill to foot. Some companies will pay, but may make you sign a contract stipulating that you work for them for a certain time period after training.
There are some nasty employers out there, you may be working for one of them. It's usually easier to find a job while you still have one, maybe its time to seek a new job.
Well eventually it will probably be narrowed down to two pipes. You will have a fixed wired connection and a wireless connection, two simply due to bandwidth differences. You will probably carry something like a MiFi that intelligently acts as a gateway for all of your gadgets. That's the hope anyway...
This is Slashdot, wake up people. How hard is it to forge headers, it's not like his email was signed with a cert? Maybe I should send a story in with fake headers and see if it gets posted...
Holy shit! You mean I just wasted over a hundred thousand dollars on the 230 Cisco 1142 access points that I purchased and installed over the last couple of months? Why didn't someone warn me?;^)
Not really... Cisco is pretty reliable stuff and they are well supported. I currently run 1121Gs at work and they are rock solid. If it works for you business, it's not wasted money. The problem with Netgear is that they generally assume you will buy the next iteration rather than fixing the current iteration. We bought two Netgear Rangemax N APs, not only did the things go offline with more than a few clients, but eventually both plain died.
Unless you live in an area with no wireless neighbors, getting the 40-MHz wide channels working in the 2.4GHz spectrum is going to be a challenge. Those 40-MHz wide channels occupy either Ch 1 and 6 or 6 and 11. Even Cisco recommends not using the 40MHz-wide stuff in the 2.4 spectrum.
I live in a house with a few weak access points surrounding it. Shouldn't be an issue.
I would get this thing if it were certified with the final 802.11n standard. There just isn't any point to get a draft n 2.0 product months before the final is released. Also this thing is capable of 300mbits at 2.4ghz, while most of the new Intel cards are capable of 450mbits at 2.4ghz and 5.8ghz.
I applaud Netgear on the whole OSS thing, but the timing just isn't right.
Taking away the facial recognition technology, it's not that much difference than facebook. A friend takes a photo of me somewhere, sticks it on their facebook profile, labels me in the picture, and links it to my facebook profile. Then your pictures can be searched.
Given enough labeled pictures of me, one could run it through a facial recognition system. It would have the same applications, without the initial creepy factor.
Talking about facebook, I guess soon people will not need to label you. Facebook will label you automatically. Recognition error rates can be reduced by making sure you are in the same circle of friends.
More than a decade ago while still in school I was reading some space exploration books for kids. I was obsessed with anything containing science in a digestible manner. All of these books stated that by 2020 humans would be on Mars.
Now the latest Bush policy proposes going to the moon by 2020. Who cares about the moon, we've been there four decades ago. Yes, it could have been faked, but still...
This latest post about sending a robot to one moon or other by 2020 is appalling.
Getting a job in IT without a degree is extremely challenging.
Without a degree you may be able to get a Hell Desk job at most. From there depending on the company and your performance, you might be able to climb the ladder.
To get yourself promoted, take on projects outside of your normal duties, making sure you can succeed at them. Nobody gets promoted simply by keeping clientele at bay on a daily basis.
In order to receive pay raises, you may need to switch companies. Companies rarely notice (salary wise) how much experience an employee has gained over the years.
In the end though, you may be out of luck. The company I work for did not give me a decent paycheck until three months before I got my BS. I had a two year degree already, which is probably what allowed me to get my foot in the door.
Consider getting at least a two year degree from a reputable community college. Avoid private technical colleges like the plague, nobody takes them seriously. Load up on credits that you can transfer to a four year public university, and get a BS degree in something.
A degree might take five years, but that five years will last a lifetime. However, five years of job experience may only last a decade.
Once software HD-DVD players come out won't this whole thing become moot. I mean are they really going to get the software to check whether your monitor is connected through an HDCP compatible link just to play a dvd.
I am sure that five years from now most of the people who are interested enough in HD-DVD will just get an inexpensive 1080p or higher LCD with a decent computer and not have to bother with B.S. And even if there are software HDCP issues, I am sure it won't be hard to break by going on the net.
It's funny cause the copy protection seems to only effect Windows. If you have Linux, Mac, or any other OS it won't hinder anything.
Kind of shows how dumb the music industry is.
I am sure it wouldn't be hard to find the service/dll causing the problem and remove it. Somebody should develop Copy Protection Definitions and a program to remove them automatically, kind of like virusscan.
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1. Open new tab
2. Type about:config in address bar and accept warning
3. In the search box type pocket
4. Toggle extensions.pocket.enabled to false
I do this for all new Firefox installations. Also disabled hello (aka loop) until they removed it.
First of all, it is technically open source, but the license the community edition uses means it cannot legally be used by businesses.
It is definitely not a free alternative to M$ Exchange.
Each user license costs $52 for this product, an M$ Exchange CAL costs about as much, maybe a few bucks more.
Whoever designed the web access GUI went icon crazy and they are not very meaningful either.
Outlook Web Access is simple, this contraption had me guessing at what buttons do.
I manage an Exchange 2007 environment with roughly 700 users depending on it.
Originally having no experience, I got a test server up and running within a day.
The administrator tools are simple, powerful, and reliable; overall we have not had any serious issues in the past three years.
I also know that if something goes wrong, there is M$ support, service packs, backup software, DB repair tools, forums, etc.
Here is what happens with an open source product:
You install the product and spend the next couple of hours wading through text config files.
When you do manage to get the product to work, the thing does not work as expected.
You spend the next couple of hours cranking up debugging output and wading through source code.
If you are really masochistic you end up compiling your own build after you have found a bug.
Now in some cases going open source is worth the pain, especially when it brings additional functionality and cost savings.
Unfortunately, this open source product has the goal of duplicating functionality at a similar price point.
An additional thing to consider is that most open source products need more maintenance and labor.
This additional labor is highly in demand and is not at all cheap, which might make this an even more expensive solution than the original.
My high school was 80+ years old when I was going there.
At some point some students noticed that the school water tasted funny.
Somebody took a sample of the water and had the local university analyze it.
The next week, we were banned from drinking from the water fountains and water colors were put in place.
I am sure we had mold problems in some areas.
Once in a while a sound proofing tile would smack a slacker awake, always a hoot.
It was reconstructed shortly afterward.
Before these parents start blaming radio waves for the sickness they should have the health department check the school out.
I work for a non-IT company with a small IT department. We have one woman on our team.
Here are some things that I have noticed.
Completing a Task:
When one of the guys gets a task, we jump into it immediately and release something quickly (even if it doesn't work).
When the woman on our team gets a task, she thinks about it, asks for some help, comes up with a solution, and eventually releases it in perfect working order.
One would think that the woman is doing things the right way, a working solution that takes 2-3 times longer to produce will always beat out a nonworking one.
Unfortunately, others may see her as being slow and inefficient. In addition, one of the cardinal sins in IT is asking for help, once you do that you are seen as weak and unintelligent.
Team Socialization:
On a slow day, all of the IT guys will somehow converge into someones office and talk about random stuff, sometimes work related, sometimes not.
Rarely does the woman on our team join in unless we somehow managed to converge within her office, in which case she usually stays quiet unless asked for input.
I am not exactly sure why this occurs, but it is hurting her career as socialization within the team is one of the easiest ways to gain recognition and respect.
Performance Review Time:
Come performance review time all of the guys are on high alert.
We do PR engineering, damage control, boasting, extra work, and anything else needed to get a good appraisal from upper management.
The woman on our team simply continues on with her normal routine, sometimes asking one of us in private whether it's that time of the year.
Who do you think gets a better raise?
Personally, I think if you want to succeed in IT you have to be aggressive (taking control of each situation) and relatively thick skinned (ignoring egomaniacal VPs without losing sleep).
You have to be able to socialize with people within your team and outside, while at the same time not losing self dependency.
I am not sure if women want to work in that kind of environment.
In a decade those speeds might be weak.
However, I doubt that the fiber that they lay will become outdated.
Kind of like how DSL runs over copper that was laid decades ago at much higher bandwidth than originally conceived.
The equipment running the system will probably be upgraded over the years without digging up the streets and running new media. The cost will be negligible compared to the initial roll-out.
If you have ever heard the term "At Will Employment" it means that either you or your employer may terminate your employment at the company without informing the severed party of the reason.
As long as your employer fires you and does not tell you why, you probably won't have much recourse. Even if they tell you, unless it legally classified as discrimination (e.g race, religion, sex, disabilities...), there is not much you can do.
Companies that do not want to pay nor use company time for employee training have their reasons. These companies are usually afraid that you will finish the training and leave to greener pastures, leaving them with a bill to foot. Some companies will pay, but may make you sign a contract stipulating that you work for them for a certain time period after training.
There are some nasty employers out there, you may be working for one of them. It's usually easier to find a job while you still have one, maybe its time to seek a new job.
Well eventually it will probably be narrowed down to two pipes.
You will have a fixed wired connection and a wireless connection, two simply due to bandwidth differences.
You will probably carry something like a MiFi that intelligently acts as a gateway for all of your gadgets.
That's the hope anyway...
This is Slashdot, wake up people.
How hard is it to forge headers, it's not like his email was signed with a cert?
Maybe I should send a story in with fake headers and see if it gets posted...
Holy shit! You mean I just wasted over a hundred thousand dollars on the 230 Cisco 1142 access points that I purchased and installed over the last couple of months? Why didn't someone warn me? ;^)
Not really... Cisco is pretty reliable stuff and they are well supported. I currently run 1121Gs at work and they are rock solid.
If it works for you business, it's not wasted money.
The problem with Netgear is that they generally assume you will buy the next iteration rather than fixing the current iteration.
We bought two Netgear Rangemax N APs, not only did the things go offline with more than a few clients, but eventually both plain died.
Unless you live in an area with no wireless neighbors, getting the 40-MHz wide channels working in the 2.4GHz spectrum is going to be a challenge. Those 40-MHz wide channels occupy either Ch 1 and 6 or 6 and 11. Even Cisco recommends not using the 40MHz-wide stuff in the 2.4 spectrum.
I live in a house with a few weak access points surrounding it. Shouldn't be an issue.
I would get this thing if it were certified with the final 802.11n standard.
There just isn't any point to get a draft n 2.0 product months before the final is released.
Also this thing is capable of 300mbits at 2.4ghz, while most of the new Intel cards are capable of 450mbits at 2.4ghz and 5.8ghz.
I applaud Netgear on the whole OSS thing, but the timing just isn't right.
Taking away the facial recognition technology, it's not that much difference than facebook. A friend takes a photo of me somewhere, sticks it on their facebook profile, labels me in the picture, and links it to my facebook profile. Then your pictures can be searched.
Given enough labeled pictures of me, one could run it through a facial recognition system. It would have the same applications, without the initial creepy factor.
Talking about facebook, I guess soon people will not need to label you. Facebook will label you automatically. Recognition error rates can be reduced by making sure you are in the same circle of friends.
More than a decade ago while still in school I was reading some space exploration books for kids. I was obsessed with anything containing science in a digestible manner. All of these books stated that by 2020 humans would be on Mars.
Now the latest Bush policy proposes going to the moon by 2020. Who cares about the moon, we've been there four decades ago. Yes, it could have been faked, but still...
This latest post about sending a robot to one moon or other by 2020 is appalling.
Getting a job in IT without a degree is extremely challenging.
Without a degree you may be able to get a Hell Desk job at most. From there depending on the company and your performance, you might be able to climb the ladder.
To get yourself promoted, take on projects outside of your normal duties, making sure you can succeed at them. Nobody gets promoted simply by keeping clientele at bay on a daily basis.
In order to receive pay raises, you may need to switch companies. Companies rarely notice (salary wise) how much experience an employee has gained over the years.
In the end though, you may be out of luck. The company I work for did not give me a decent paycheck until three months before I got my BS. I had a two year degree already, which is probably what allowed me to get my foot in the door.
Consider getting at least a two year degree from a reputable community college. Avoid private technical colleges like the plague, nobody takes them seriously. Load up on credits that you can transfer to a four year public university, and get a BS degree in something.
A degree might take five years, but that five years will last a lifetime. However, five years of job experience may only last a decade.
Once software HD-DVD players come out won't this whole thing become moot. I mean are they really going to get the software to check whether your monitor is connected through an HDCP compatible link just to play a dvd.
I am sure that five years from now most of the people who are interested enough in HD-DVD will just get an inexpensive 1080p or higher LCD with a decent computer and not have to bother with B.S. And even if there are software HDCP issues, I am sure it won't be hard to break by going on the net.
It's funny cause the copy protection seems to only effect Windows. If you have Linux, Mac, or any other OS it won't hinder anything. Kind of shows how dumb the music industry is. I am sure it wouldn't be hard to find the service/dll causing the problem and remove it. Somebody should develop Copy Protection Definitions and a program to remove them automatically, kind of like virusscan.
Nite Rider