If you really wanted to be paranoid about the whole thing, you could also do a lookup for ftp.internic.net via every root server listed in your current named.cache file, and look for discrepancies there as well before you download the file and update your system.
At previous jobs, I had a cronjob that would poll the file from InterNIC, and alert me if it had changed or failed to poll the file correctly. Worked great!
I do not rely on package maintainers to keep this file up to date.
The file doesn't change all that often, so checking it once a month should keep you up to date. If you needed a more immediate update schedule, I'd subscribe to the ICANN newsletter at:
You only need the commercial verions of Zimbra to interoperate with Outlook. If you dump Outlook, or don't use it in the first place, you can do all of the shared calendars, etc without needing the proprietary bits of Zimbra through the web interface.
As someone who has converted several businesses from Exchange and Outlook to Zimbra and the web interface, I can tell you plenty of people think Zimbra is a very good thing!
Outlook integration is great with Exchange, but you still have a bloated client that is tied to a PC. The web browser interface in Zimbra eliminates the need to be tied to one or more PCs, and works fairly well through smartphones these days without plugins.
Five years ago you used ReiserFS for high performance filesystem applications, or you didn't have a high performance filesystem.
Hans wrote something ahead of its time in the world of Linux, and I used it extensively on different systems and applications. It STILL smokes EXT3 in a lot of high volume, small file applications.
ReiserFS + Maildirs kicks ass, and that's what I use to this day on large mail systems with thousands of users and gigabytes of stored email.
Say what you want about Hans, but ReiserFS is incredible in certain applications. I've never lost data using ReiserFS, even in hardware failure situations.
It's a shame Hans was such a jackass to people, but he was a genius when it came to his filesystem. I personally hope someone as intelligent (but not so morally bankrupt, if the murder was committed) as Hans can take over the project and continue the work.
Ah, I misread part of the release announcement. My bad.
At any rate, the new web interface for mobile devices is pretty good. If you haven't seen it, it's worth trying out on a smartphone. It looks and works great on an iPhone!
Sounds like they need to get off their butts and do a SBS version of Zimbra.
I absolutely agree with Larry 100%. I implemented Zimbra at a WISP with over 4400 user accounts, and it performs flawlessly on dedicated hardware.
The machine Zimbra currently runs on is a lesser machine than the previous Windows based email server, and it runs circles around it with regards to performance and RELIABILITY.
After converting all of our users to the Zimbra server, we actually picked up several businesses and now host their email. They used to run a local Exchange server, but Zimbra proved to be more cost effective, provided better options for remote access, and an overall better experience.
Zimbra does a good job of managing their packages, their forums have good info and great people to work with, and the overall reliability of the product (we are running the NE version) is excellent.
If they are so expensive, and everything about them sucks, DROP THEIR SERVICE. You won't wither away and die if you can't watch TV!
Comcast recently bought out my cable company. I'm dropping them ASAP. I deal with slower DSL that I know I can run Bittorrent over reliably, and now I'll switch from cable to OTA for TV.
I will have nothing to do with Comcast, and I'll be able to survive just fine without them.
I understand that some people only have Comcast in their area for internet or cable TV. Hey, if that's all you have, then I guess you have to deal with them. It might not hurt to look around for wireless internet providers, or see if there are any OTA digital stations in your area, though.
I'd think a diesel electric hybrid along the lines of the Chevrolet Volt would probably hit 100mpg fairly easily. It's supposed to get 60mpg, and that's with a 1.0L turbocharged gasoline engine.
It's called "burst" on Canopy wireless equipment, and it works great.
I imagine this is what Comcast is doing, and it's a very acceptable practice, as long as it's advertised properly.
It works like this: Your sustained bandwidth feeds a "bucket" (measured in megabytes or megabits, not based speed/time measurements), which is your burst capacity. When you start a download, you will pull from this bucket, and run at the maximum speed possible for your connection. When the bucket is empty, you will continue to run on your sustained speed. When you go idle (your download finishes), the bucket will refill at the sustained speed rate.
So, if you have a 50MB bucket size, and you can burst to 10Mbit/s, you will run at 10Mbit/s until you've downloaded 50MB, and then you'd drop to your sustained rate (say, 384Kbit/s). When you finish downloading, you will refill your bucket at 384Kbit/s until it either tops off or you start using your connection again.
In my experience, with the equipment I've been using working at a WISP, this bucket applies to all connections, regardless of protocol or download size. YMMV, of course, depending on the hardware/software you are working with.
great, now they're going to rip our bones out to make sperm. Way to go, traitor!
I think he was referring to, uh, his "man-bone".
It was a joke. It was really funny. You, however, made the incorrect leap of logic, and are the one responsible for giving women the idea to harvest our skeletons for reproduction.
It isn't the case in our area. We have a 300' tower across the street from AT&T's 450' tower. We have battery (5-6 hours) and generator, they have very limited battery (2 hours or less, from what I can tell).
I can believe this. I've never had a problem using my CDMA cell phone during a widespread outage, where some of my co-workers with iPhones can't get a signal until the lights come back in a lot of places.
I work for a wireless ISP. Hell, even WE have battery backup at most of our towers (working on getting battery to ALL of the towers), and even have several generators that we can run around for a couple hours at a time to charge up batteries during an extended outage. Getting ready for another ice storm in the midwest!
That would work if you intend to keep the file on the same physical filesystem. Moving the file to another physical filesystem, drive, or network share will copy the entire file, then delete the original.
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And we (the US) are pissed at China for what, now? Sounds like this is taking a page out of their playbook for censorship.
Information wants to be free!
A shift in the way we think about copyright has to happen, or this is going to get out of control in a hurry.
That is true.
Set up a DNS server and use each root server individually to verify consistent answers for ftp.internic.net.
It is. :-)
If you really wanted to be paranoid about the whole thing, you could also do a lookup for ftp.internic.net via every root server listed in your current named.cache file, and look for discrepancies there as well before you download the file and update your system.
At previous jobs, I had a cronjob that would poll the file from InterNIC, and alert me if it had changed or failed to poll the file correctly. Worked great!
I do not rely on package maintainers to keep this file up to date.
The file doesn't change all that often, so checking it once a month should keep you up to date. If you needed a more immediate update schedule, I'd subscribe to the ICANN newsletter at:
http://www.icann.org/newsletter/
You can get the your root server hints files from:
ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.cache
Slashdot's junk filter won't allow a cut and paste of the file's contents into a post.
You only need the commercial verions of Zimbra to interoperate with Outlook. If you dump Outlook, or don't use it in the first place, you can do all of the shared calendars, etc without needing the proprietary bits of Zimbra through the web interface.
As someone who has converted several businesses from Exchange and Outlook to Zimbra and the web interface, I can tell you plenty of people think Zimbra is a very good thing!
Outlook integration is great with Exchange, but you still have a bloated client that is tied to a PC. The web browser interface in Zimbra eliminates the need to be tied to one or more PCs, and works fairly well through smartphones these days without plugins.
They can't even manage the systems they wrote them selves very well. What makes them think they can manage a totally different OS?
If I did drugs, I'd love to have what they're smoking in Redmond.
I think everyone who has the capability should start announcing the same netblock via BGP.
Five years ago you used ReiserFS for high performance filesystem applications, or you didn't have a high performance filesystem.
Hans wrote something ahead of its time in the world of Linux, and I used it extensively on different systems and applications. It STILL smokes EXT3 in a lot of high volume, small file applications.
ReiserFS + Maildirs kicks ass, and that's what I use to this day on large mail systems with thousands of users and gigabytes of stored email.
Say what you want about Hans, but ReiserFS is incredible in certain applications. I've never lost data using ReiserFS, even in hardware failure situations.
It's a shame Hans was such a jackass to people, but he was a genius when it came to his filesystem. I personally hope someone as intelligent (but not so morally bankrupt, if the murder was committed) as Hans can take over the project and continue the work.
Ah, I misread part of the release announcement. My bad.
At any rate, the new web interface for mobile devices is pretty good. If you haven't seen it, it's worth trying out on a smartphone. It looks and works great on an iPhone!
Sounds like they need to get off their butts and do a SBS version of Zimbra.
Recently announced:
http://www.zimbra.com/forums/announcements/17100-zimbra-starter-edition.html
Check it out, sounds like it's what you've been looking for.
I absolutely agree with Larry 100%. I implemented Zimbra at a WISP with over 4400 user accounts, and it performs flawlessly on dedicated hardware.
The machine Zimbra currently runs on is a lesser machine than the previous Windows based email server, and it runs circles around it with regards to performance and RELIABILITY.
After converting all of our users to the Zimbra server, we actually picked up several businesses and now host their email. They used to run a local Exchange server, but Zimbra proved to be more cost effective, provided better options for remote access, and an overall better experience.
Zimbra does a good job of managing their packages, their forums have good info and great people to work with, and the overall reliability of the product (we are running the NE version) is excellent.
If they are so expensive, and everything about them sucks, DROP THEIR SERVICE. You won't wither away and die if you can't watch TV!
Comcast recently bought out my cable company. I'm dropping them ASAP. I deal with slower DSL that I know I can run Bittorrent over reliably, and now I'll switch from cable to OTA for TV.
I will have nothing to do with Comcast, and I'll be able to survive just fine without them.
I understand that some people only have Comcast in their area for internet or cable TV. Hey, if that's all you have, then I guess you have to deal with them. It might not hurt to look around for wireless internet providers, or see if there are any OTA digital stations in your area, though.
Here are your hot grits, sir. Shall I pour them down your pants?
I'd think a diesel electric hybrid along the lines of the Chevrolet Volt would probably hit 100mpg fairly easily. It's supposed to get 60mpg, and that's with a 1.0L turbocharged gasoline engine.
It's called "burst" on Canopy wireless equipment, and it works great.
I imagine this is what Comcast is doing, and it's a very acceptable practice, as long as it's advertised properly.
It works like this: Your sustained bandwidth feeds a "bucket" (measured in megabytes or megabits, not based speed/time measurements), which is your burst capacity. When you start a download, you will pull from this bucket, and run at the maximum speed possible for your connection. When the bucket is empty, you will continue to run on your sustained speed. When you go idle (your download finishes), the bucket will refill at the sustained speed rate.
So, if you have a 50MB bucket size, and you can burst to 10Mbit/s, you will run at 10Mbit/s until you've downloaded 50MB, and then you'd drop to your sustained rate (say, 384Kbit/s). When you finish downloading, you will refill your bucket at 384Kbit/s until it either tops off or you start using your connection again.
In my experience, with the equipment I've been using working at a WISP, this bucket applies to all connections, regardless of protocol or download size. YMMV, of course, depending on the hardware/software you are working with.
I think he was referring to, uh, his "man-bone".
It was a joke. It was really funny. You, however, made the incorrect leap of logic, and are the one responsible for giving women the idea to harvest our skeletons for reproduction.
Thanks, man. Thanks a lot.
It isn't the case in our area. We have a 300' tower across the street from AT&T's 450' tower. We have battery (5-6 hours) and generator, they have very limited battery (2 hours or less, from what I can tell).
I can believe this. I've never had a problem using my CDMA cell phone during a widespread outage, where some of my co-workers with iPhones can't get a signal until the lights come back in a lot of places.
I work for a wireless ISP. Hell, even WE have battery backup at most of our towers (working on getting battery to ALL of the towers), and even have several generators that we can run around for a couple hours at a time to charge up batteries during an extended outage. Getting ready for another ice storm in the midwest!
Oh my god! You killed Kenny!
You bastard!
That would work if you intend to keep the file on the same physical filesystem. Moving the file to another physical filesystem, drive, or network share will copy the entire file, then delete the original.
Human beings are a virus that propagates through porn.
Maybe you should start looking at WISPs in your area. If you don't have any, maybe you should start one.