On the other hand, people in IT seem to typically have one of two situations. Either they're paid per hour, but not time-and-a-half or anything for nights and weekends.
Most plumbers are freelance/own their own shops after finishing their apprenticeships. So they can charge what the market will bear. If you want time and a half, emulate that business model. (Technically, even easier with IT since IT doesn't require licensure, etc.)
You'll have to be your own bookkeeper, PR, advertising, etc at the beginning, but the result may be financially as well as personally rewarding.
I prefer the other model: I work my ass off for 8 hours, with a 10-minute break for launch and for visiting the bathroom, but that's about it. The rest of the day is mine, and mine alone.
I prefer model #3 -- I'm freelance, work around 6 hr a day on average for small companies/startups, and bill 2-3x as much for my services as I would get if I were working as an employee. And I've met some really interesting people at some of the companies that I've done work for...
The US has a barge-based nuclear reactor on Lake Gatun in the Panama Canal Zone in the 60s and 70s -- the USS Sturgis. Provided power to the Canal operating equipment as well as to residents of the Zone (I think).
A heat pump (pumping hot air out and pumping cold air in) is not an air-conditioning.
A heat pump is a generic term for a system that uses compression and expansion of refrigerant to transfer heat. It can either be run as an A/C to cool a space and dump heat to the outside, or as a heater to heat a space by taking heat from a ground loop.
What you're talking about is a simple ventilation blower, not a heat pump.
It's the other way around with A/C, you have to put 2x-3x the energy into the system to get 1x the cooling energy.
The O.P. has it right, actually. You can move more heat than energy put in - read up on Coefficient of Performance (C.O.P.). A heat pump/AC is basically a heat engine run in reverse mode.
Who cares about offline compose? Composing is easy - it can be done in your text editor of choice. I want to be able to *read* the complete mailbox offline and be able to compose replies with snippets of original message text offline.
And Groupwise is a screaming c*nt to set up, especially under Linux, mostly due to poor documentation. You need a certain service pack revision of GW 7 to even be able to install without tweakage on SuSE 10, but, no, this isn't actually well-documented. Once it's running, though, it's rock-solid (unlike Exchange) though the non-Windows client leaves a *lot* to be desired.
Although I am for freedom of speech, this looks more like diffamation, I am sure that the myspace page about this girl has nothing to do with this case.
Well, if it was obviously and patently fake, it could be considered a satire, and thus protected as free speech. Even if it was defamation, defamation is a _civil_ offense, not one that an adult would draw probation for. A lawsuit verdict or an injunction, sure; but not a criminal's sentence.
Safetey pins, medical tape, belt loops, basically we wore the entire contents of our purses attached to our clothes, in our hair, anywhere we could get them to latch on. A friend of mine made what, i can only describe as a duct tape belt, with keyrings going through it that she could hang things on.
All I can say is "beautiful, kudos to you all, and a large stinking rotten egg for the administration." Sometimes bureaucrats need to be taught their place.
Translation: "we can't find an actual crime that would stick in a court of law in front of a competent judge or jury, so we'll charge her for not knowing her place in society (under the stomping feet of her elders)"
Catch-all laws like that annoy me, even if they were originally well meant.
Anyhow, I just wanted to chime in and say that the "right" way to do what the OP wants is to manage his mail spool with an imapd and have the clients (pine, thunderbird) connect to it.
*Can* pine connect to an IMAPd? I thought it was strictly an application for reading/managing local spool files. If it can, then I agree that yours is the 100% correct solution.
Is this just a web-browser-plus (the attachment, etc, features) or is this a real client that can be used offline in addition to on-. If it's just a specialized web-browser, it's still useless to a lot of people who use desktop mail clients.
I'm testing Zimbra right now, and my only real complaint is that it seems to need a whole lot more in the way of hardware resources than my current Sendmail, etc., systems.
Have you tried Desknow, BTW? Similar product to Zimbra, except perhaps a bit more small-business oriented. Java, so runs (actually runs fast) on almost anything, and the trial version seems to be working pretty well for a client of mine.
ll OK, but I still have not figured a way to make pine and thunderbird to share the same "received" "sent" etc mail files so that I could transparently use them on either system. Any help?????
Thunderbird and pine both store mail in the mbox format. So you'd just have to link your/mail directory to Thunderbird's storage directory and create a link for your/var/spool/mail/ file to the/mail directory. Not sure if either client would shit bricks if you decide to run both at once.
Sadly none do (including outlook + exchange which is still stuck in 1997).
I'm running Thunderbird. Very fast on an XP laptop with 256MB RAM, decent (not as good as GMail, since it only looks at titles) threading, and support for multiple accounts, signatures (what's up with GMail supporting up to 5 accounts but only one signature?!?), etc.
The problem with having a traditional email setup is that most ISPs block outgoing SMTP traffic, even if authenticated.
Port 587 - SMTP Auth. - isn't usually blocked. Besides, I actually VPN into my mail/backup server. The only ports that are open are VPN and control channels...
2. While Google's triple redundant approach to backups sounds pretty good, what if they accidentally delete my mailbox?
When several dozen e-mails suddenly disappeared from my GMail account, tech support's response was "sorry... nothing we can do... we're still a beta product."
Short of doing funky stuff with procmail and multiple files (is this what you did?), there doesn't appear to be any solution so long as you're using mbox.
There's maildir, which is a standard (sort-of) but isn't really a classic DB either. 1 message per file...
Just friggin' type them in a text file and copy and past them later.
Fine if you're writing e-mails from scratch; not replying to others' e-mails. Otherwise, you'd want to have new messages around so you can reply to them offline, and the easiest way to do this is to run a desktop mail client.
Given a good hosting/mail solution, you can have both. A desktop client for a day-to-day use as well as for a local backup, and a webmail program that lives above the IMAP hosting. 1and1 does this for $10/mo for three domains and I am sure that others do this as well.
I see no reason to switch back to a desktop client anytime soon.
Good desktop clients have much less latency than any web interface, especially when you're going over a slow EV-DO/aircard connection. Plus, if you set it up correctly (IMAP or sticky POP), the data is on the server AND the desktop clients, so if the server or the client takes a poop, you can restore the messages.
My (admittedly small) company recently carried out a survey of which mail client our users preferred from Outlook, Thunderbird and Gmail. Gmail won almost universally.
Whereas, I mentioned to one of my clients (an ad agency) that they might consider switching to GMail domain hosting. Their almost universal answer was "shit no, it's slow as crap from an aircard on the road and we can't read/write mails offline and preserve a folder structure - GMail doesn't do IMAP."
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Most plumbers are freelance/own their own shops after finishing their apprenticeships. So they can charge what the market will bear. If you want time and a half, emulate that business model. (Technically, even easier with IT since IT doesn't require licensure, etc.) You'll have to be your own bookkeeper, PR, advertising, etc at the beginning, but the result may be financially as well as personally rewarding.
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I prefer model #3 -- I'm freelance, work around 6 hr a day on average for small companies/startups, and bill 2-3x as much for my services as I would get if I were working as an employee. And I've met some really interesting people at some of the companies that I've done work for...
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Technically more than 90% OR under $1000 is fine.
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A heat pump is a generic term for a system that uses compression and expansion of refrigerant to transfer heat. It can either be run as an A/C to cool a space and dump heat to the outside, or as a heater to heat a space by taking heat from a ground loop.
What you're talking about is a simple ventilation blower, not a heat pump.
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I also read that some IBM mainframe core memory units were oil-cooled.
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Or pure mineral oil. Impurities/additives generally cause oil to become more conductive, and car oils are not meant to be good insulators.
The really good insulating oils - containing PCBs - were phased out due to their environmental toxicity in the 50s.
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The O.P. has it right, actually. You can move more heat than energy put in - read up on Coefficient of Performance (C.O.P.). A heat pump/AC is basically a heat engine run in reverse mode.
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Who cares about offline compose? Composing is easy - it can be done in your text editor of choice. I want to be able to *read* the complete mailbox offline and be able to compose replies with snippets of original message text offline.
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And Groupwise is a screaming c*nt to set up, especially under Linux, mostly due to poor documentation. You need a certain service pack revision of GW 7 to even be able to install without tweakage on SuSE 10, but, no, this isn't actually well-documented. Once it's running, though, it's rock-solid (unlike Exchange) though the non-Windows client leaves a *lot* to be desired.
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Well, if it was obviously and patently fake, it could be considered a satire, and thus protected as free speech. Even if it was defamation, defamation is a _civil_ offense, not one that an adult would draw probation for. A lawsuit verdict or an injunction, sure; but not a criminal's sentence.
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All I can say is "beautiful, kudos to you all, and a large stinking rotten egg for the administration." Sometimes bureaucrats need to be taught their place.
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Catch-all laws like that annoy me, even if they were originally well meant.
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*Can* pine connect to an IMAPd? I thought it was strictly an application for reading/managing local spool files. If it can, then I agree that yours is the 100% correct solution.
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Have you tried Desknow, BTW? Similar product to Zimbra, except perhaps a bit more small-business oriented. Java, so runs (actually runs fast) on almost anything, and the trial version seems to be working pretty well for a client of mine.
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Thunderbird and pine both store mail in the mbox format. So you'd just have to link your /mail directory to Thunderbird's storage directory and create a link for your /var/spool/mail/ file to the /mail directory. Not sure if either client would shit bricks if you decide to run both at once.
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I'm running Thunderbird. Very fast on an XP laptop with 256MB RAM, decent (not as good as GMail, since it only looks at titles) threading, and support for multiple accounts, signatures (what's up with GMail supporting up to 5 accounts but only one signature?!?), etc.
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Port 587 - SMTP Auth. - isn't usually blocked. Besides, I actually VPN into my mail/backup server. The only ports that are open are VPN and control channels...
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When several dozen e-mails suddenly disappeared from my GMail account, tech support's response was "sorry ... nothing we can do ... we're still a beta product."
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There's maildir, which is a standard (sort-of) but isn't really a classic DB either. 1 message per file...
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Fine if you're writing e-mails from scratch; not replying to others' e-mails. Otherwise, you'd want to have new messages around so you can reply to them offline, and the easiest way to do this is to run a desktop mail client.
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Given a good hosting/mail solution, you can have both. A desktop client for a day-to-day use as well as for a local backup, and a webmail program that lives above the IMAP hosting. 1and1 does this for $10/mo for three domains and I am sure that others do this as well.
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Good desktop clients have much less latency than any web interface, especially when you're going over a slow EV-DO/aircard connection. Plus, if you set it up correctly (IMAP or sticky POP), the data is on the server AND the desktop clients, so if the server or the client takes a poop, you can restore the messages.
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Whereas, I mentioned to one of my clients (an ad agency) that they might consider switching to GMail domain hosting. Their almost universal answer was "shit no, it's slow as crap from an aircard on the road and we can't read/write mails offline and preserve a folder structure - GMail doesn't do IMAP."
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