Not to mention that 250GB/month is the limit for ALL activity, not just downloading 700mb/hour TV shows. It doesn't all have to be television downloads or streams. Add in music downloads, netflix downloads, [legal] software downloads (iso anyone?), patches, updates, xbox live, wiiware, whathaveyou ad infinitum....having any sort of bandwidth cap that cuts you off is completely idiotic in this day and age. Sigh....
Whoa, that looks sharp! Not sure if it's $150 sharp, but that's the first time I've heard of them. Interesting...and I was fretting over spending $35 on a new USB Lenovo keyboard....hmmmm....
I've never used Notes/Domino, but what little I've heard here and there it seems like it's a much smaller mindshare than the Exchange/Outlook behemoth. I don't really see what open sourcing something that doesn't even really compete would do.
I do agree that the Exchange/Outlook/[Sharepoint] replacement would be a huge boost to the open source movement. What I don't get is why everything seems to just insist on chasing one part of the Microsoft ecosystem.
So there's a plethora of mail servers. Outlook can connect to those via IMAP or POP3. You can tack on "groupware" things like shared calendars or contacts, but it's hackey, clumsy, and never works as smoothly as Outlook/Exchange.
Or, you can connect to Exchange with a variety of email clients. But nothing uses the native protocols, so you have to have Exchange fall back to IMAP or POP3. You have to tack on shared calendars or contacts via connectors, but it's hackey, clumsy, and never works as smoothly as Outlook/Exchange.
I don't have the programming chops for it, but I never understood why everything seems to strive to just be like Outlook/Exchange. Firefox won out because it made web browsing *better* than IE. Where is the focused effort to take what everyone hates about Outlook/Exchange, and improve on those faults? But take what they do well, and improve on those,too. Make email and communicating with others easier and more productive, but make managing the whole mess not as much of a nightmare, both from the client and backend points of view. Build it on open protocols, and if there are no open protocols that do what you want to do, build them. Don't just try and mash things together and present it as something that mostly mimics the proprietary solution, but doesn't quite get it all the way right.
Make something friggin' *better*, not just "as good as, mostly, but without features X and Z, but hey! it's free!.
Haha, yes, I was being a smartass. Mostly I remember a professor in college who wrote the textbook required for his class. He encouraged students to *not* sell his book back to the bookstores at the end of the semester, because he said he didn't get royalties or whatever compensation on sales of used books - only new. I tongue-in-cheek treated this book story as the same way:-)
But not all of the functionality from the web interface is available in the VIC interface. Plus, it wasn't obvious to me that there was a thick client in the first place.:-/
Mostly, after using VMWare server since it was freely available, I was hoping for some fixes and improvements to some little things that I'd run across. Instead I got was feels like a completely different product.
I was hoping for some performance enhancements plus better support for things like Windows 2008. What I got was a huge download and install, a web-only interface that blows, and general flakiness.
I'm looking more and more at VirtualBox, especially since it's sort of open source, too. Does anyone know how VBox works in a server environment (sounds like there's a headless option) and if there's decent [free] management tools? That *was* the nice thing about VMWare...
I've been using VMWare for the last couple years in in a development environment. We don't run any VMWare stuff in our production datacenter, so for my uses it's mostly been to run pre-packaged VMs or making my own to run an older version of Windows or do something in linux.
However, after upgrading to the latest VMWare server, I REALLY hate the new server interface. It has been nothing but a pain to work with. I also recently tried VirtualBox on my Ubuntu laptop at home. It seemed very slick - fast, small, and I was able to create a VM myself without having to run a server instance in the background.
So, what are my options to work interchangeably between VirtualBox and VMWare? On a development workstation, I hate the new VMWare Server interface, and that I have to run a server instance in the background in order to create my own VMs in the first place. I want to create VMs ad-hoc, and then use them on the occasion I need to. But I do like using VMware on a development server, where I do run a few "server" VMs for other purposes.
But VirtualBox seems much more appropriate for my uses. I can create VMs ad-hoc, and it doesn't seem to eat up as much resources. But I don't think it has as easy to user "server" instance, does it? Are there any other things I should consider?
Haha, you're telling me. The stupid thing is, I've viewed the source (in Firefox) and they've got the friggin' javascript functions there, but commented out. With identical functions, only in clientside VBScript. It's all just basic redirect/navigation stuff, too. But alas, I'm don't maintain the site, and the higher ups don't see it as an issue.
It can't be considered a contender until it supports client-side VBScript. Seriously...we have a (public-facing!) classic ASP web application that uses client-side VBScript for all of it's navigation.
On a for-real serious note, it's exciting to see how Chrome has progressed. I tried the new version this afternoon and was impressed. I've been using FF3.1 betas for the last few weeks, and next to that Chrome feels much faster, loads up faster, and all around has some very nice polish. However, my list of requests:
Adblock. I used a bunch of extensions, but I could probably leave Firefox full-time if Chrome got a decent adblocking feature. But don't implement it like Opera's - I hate how they do it.
Find-as-you-type. I don't realize how much I miss this until I have to hit ctrl-F in Chrome to search the page.
MRU tab behavior. I hate the way tabs work by default in Firefox, but at least the ctrl-Tab extension (and others) fix it. I want ctrl-tab to toggle between two tabs, or cycle through everything if I hold down ctrl. If I jump from one tab to another, close the 2nd one, I want it to go back to the first tab, not whatever is nearest to the tab I just closed. At least let me customize it!
Linux support, of course. The nice thing about Firefox is that my browsing experience is pretty much identical between work and home. It would be nice to not have to maintain two browser experiences.
The Google Notebook extension. I love this in Firefox. It's not a requirement, but I use it a lot.
I just noticed this today - a way to "send page..." within Chrome? Within Firefox I use File->Send Link a lot, and have the browser set to use gmail by default. I like it better than using a bookmarklet (which I've found doesn't always work).
All in all I *have* found Chrome to be much snappier on Windows. Especially Slashdot - on Firefox (even with Tracemonkey turned on), after I write a comment there's a 5-10 second pause before I see the preview and can submit it. It seems to get better after I've sent the first one, but still. Chrome was instant. What gives?
Not that it matters, as this is responding to an AC....but Firefox and IE both suck from the couch, and neither work with my MCE remote anyway. I don't have a wireless keyboard and mouse yet. I could make it work, sort of...but it sucks as a solution.
In my experience, that is because there *is* no alternative to the Exchange/Outlook ecosystem. It sucks....I spent a lot of time looking for alternatives some time back. There is absolutely nothing out there that fully replicates the functionality of Exchange and Outlook as a mail and information management system.
There are lots of mail servers, lots of Outlook connectors (that you usually have to pay for), lots of half-attempts that get most of it right, but I never found anything that did the total package, integrating email, groupware, calendars, shared contacts, etc.
Hrm....I read that as him saying that's how the IT referred to connecting to AD - by "putting Active Directory on everyone's computers". Hence the "(Long story)" comment.
Any way to get Netflix on MCE 2005? I know theres a Vista Media Center plugin, but I haven't got around to reinstalling with Vista yet. That banks on my setup working in Vista in the first place!
That makes me wonder, is there a listing somewhere of what ISPs and providers support IPv6? Residential and/or commercial? Are the major home broadband providers (Comcast, AT&T, etc.) even on board yet?
It seems like every month we see something more about IPv6, and the pressures to move to it, etc. etc. My question is, from both a corporate and home end-user perspective, what should I be doing?
We're a small company, in a small office. We have a T1, we run a Windows domain, and host our own web and mail servers. We have NAT inside the office, and holes poked through our firewall for the external facing servers. We're all on XP workstations. What should we be doing, if anything?
At home, I'm on a residential cable modem. Everything is behind a WRT54G running DD-WRT. I'm running Ubuntu on my laptop, my wife has XP. I've got a couple other hobby PCs, but nothing publicly accessible yet, but everything inside the network is locally addressed 192.168.etc. What should I be doing, if anything?
I was thinking the same thing! It's a giant convoluted system to determine what he "thinks" is the best in some area. The notion of "success" in general seems to be very subjective.
I also take issue with the theme of self-censorship that was mentioned in the article. IF someone truly believes they have an insightful commentary or viewpoint, why would they *not* publish it, regardless of their potential audience? You're telling me musicians wouldn't make music, or essayists would write because of a perceived lack of audience? So what? I was under the impression that those who innovatively create do so primarily for their own fulfillment, not to get the most eyeballs on Digg or the most downloads on iTunes.
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Not to mention that 250GB/month is the limit for ALL activity, not just downloading 700mb/hour TV shows. It doesn't all have to be television downloads or streams. Add in music downloads, netflix downloads, [legal] software downloads (iso anyone?), patches, updates, xbox live, wiiware, whathaveyou ad infinitum....having any sort of bandwidth cap that cuts you off is completely idiotic in this day and age. Sigh....
Whoa, that looks sharp! Not sure if it's $150 sharp, but that's the first time I've heard of them. Interesting...and I was fretting over spending $35 on a new USB Lenovo keyboard....hmmmm....
I've never used Notes/Domino, but what little I've heard here and there it seems like it's a much smaller mindshare than the Exchange/Outlook behemoth. I don't really see what open sourcing something that doesn't even really compete would do.
I do agree that the Exchange/Outlook/[Sharepoint] replacement would be a huge boost to the open source movement. What I don't get is why everything seems to just insist on chasing one part of the Microsoft ecosystem.
So there's a plethora of mail servers. Outlook can connect to those via IMAP or POP3. You can tack on "groupware" things like shared calendars or contacts, but it's hackey, clumsy, and never works as smoothly as Outlook/Exchange.
Or, you can connect to Exchange with a variety of email clients. But nothing uses the native protocols, so you have to have Exchange fall back to IMAP or POP3. You have to tack on shared calendars or contacts via connectors, but it's hackey, clumsy, and never works as smoothly as Outlook/Exchange.
I don't have the programming chops for it, but I never understood why everything seems to strive to just be like Outlook/Exchange. Firefox won out because it made web browsing *better* than IE. Where is the focused effort to take what everyone hates about Outlook/Exchange, and improve on those faults? But take what they do well, and improve on those,too. Make email and communicating with others easier and more productive, but make managing the whole mess not as much of a nightmare, both from the client and backend points of view. Build it on open protocols, and if there are no open protocols that do what you want to do, build them. Don't just try and mash things together and present it as something that mostly mimics the proprietary solution, but doesn't quite get it all the way right.
Make something friggin' *better*, not just "as good as, mostly, but without features X and Z, but hey! it's free!.
You don't have to actually accept the meeting request, do you?
Ack - people ("normal" users??) still use icons to copy and paste?!? Doesn't everybody know ctrl-c and ctrl-v anymore??
ctrl-p? Just like almost every other program known to man?
F- that...if anything, I want to get *away* from everyone else.
But they become less efficient the more they are used!
Sprawling expensive mass transit is hardly a breakthrough product, though.
Haha, yes, I was being a smartass. Mostly I remember a professor in college who wrote the textbook required for his class. He encouraged students to *not* sell his book back to the bookstores at the end of the semester, because he said he didn't get royalties or whatever compensation on sales of used books - only new. I tongue-in-cheek treated this book story as the same way :-)
Or you could buy it used on Amazon and screw the original authors out of royalties, etc., too!
But not all of the functionality from the web interface is available in the VIC interface. Plus, it wasn't obvious to me that there was a thick client in the first place. :-/
Mostly, after using VMWare server since it was freely available, I was hoping for some fixes and improvements to some little things that I'd run across. Instead I got was feels like a completely different product.
I was hoping for some performance enhancements plus better support for things like Windows 2008. What I got was a huge download and install, a web-only interface that blows, and general flakiness.
I'm looking more and more at VirtualBox, especially since it's sort of open source, too. Does anyone know how VBox works in a server environment (sounds like there's a headless option) and if there's decent [free] management tools? That *was* the nice thing about VMWare...
I've been using VMWare for the last couple years in in a development environment. We don't run any VMWare stuff in our production datacenter, so for my uses it's mostly been to run pre-packaged VMs or making my own to run an older version of Windows or do something in linux.
However, after upgrading to the latest VMWare server, I REALLY hate the new server interface. It has been nothing but a pain to work with. I also recently tried VirtualBox on my Ubuntu laptop at home. It seemed very slick - fast, small, and I was able to create a VM myself without having to run a server instance in the background.
So, what are my options to work interchangeably between VirtualBox and VMWare? On a development workstation, I hate the new VMWare Server interface, and that I have to run a server instance in the background in order to create my own VMs in the first place. I want to create VMs ad-hoc, and then use them on the occasion I need to. But I do like using VMware on a development server, where I do run a few "server" VMs for other purposes.
But VirtualBox seems much more appropriate for my uses. I can create VMs ad-hoc, and it doesn't seem to eat up as much resources. But I don't think it has as easy to user "server" instance, does it? Are there any other things I should consider?
No, I *COULD* care less, but choose not to. Hah!
Haha, you're telling me. The stupid thing is, I've viewed the source (in Firefox) and they've got the friggin' javascript functions there, but commented out. With identical functions, only in clientside VBScript. It's all just basic redirect/navigation stuff, too. But alas, I'm don't maintain the site, and the higher ups don't see it as an issue.
On a for-real serious note, it's exciting to see how Chrome has progressed. I tried the new version this afternoon and was impressed. I've been using FF3.1 betas for the last few weeks, and next to that Chrome feels much faster, loads up faster, and all around has some very nice polish. However, my list of requests:
All in all I *have* found Chrome to be much snappier on Windows. Especially Slashdot - on Firefox (even with Tracemonkey turned on), after I write a comment there's a 5-10 second pause before I see the preview and can submit it. It seems to get better after I've sent the first one, but still. Chrome was instant. What gives?
Not that it matters, as this is responding to an AC....but Firefox and IE both suck from the couch, and neither work with my MCE remote anyway. I don't have a wireless keyboard and mouse yet. I could make it work, sort of...but it sucks as a solution.
In my experience, that is because there *is* no alternative to the Exchange/Outlook ecosystem. It sucks....I spent a lot of time looking for alternatives some time back. There is absolutely nothing out there that fully replicates the functionality of Exchange and Outlook as a mail and information management system.
There are lots of mail servers, lots of Outlook connectors (that you usually have to pay for), lots of half-attempts that get most of it right, but I never found anything that did the total package, integrating email, groupware, calendars, shared contacts, etc.
Hrm....I read that as him saying that's how the IT referred to connecting to AD - by "putting Active Directory on everyone's computers". Hence the "(Long story)" comment.
Any way to get Netflix on MCE 2005? I know theres a Vista Media Center plugin, but I haven't got around to reinstalling with Vista yet. That banks on my setup working in Vista in the first place!
Or, what about a MythTV plugin? Or XBMC?
That makes me wonder, is there a listing somewhere of what ISPs and providers support IPv6? Residential and/or commercial? Are the major home broadband providers (Comcast, AT&T, etc.) even on board yet?
It seems like every month we see something more about IPv6, and the pressures to move to it, etc. etc. My question is, from both a corporate and home end-user perspective, what should I be doing?
We're a small company, in a small office. We have a T1, we run a Windows domain, and host our own web and mail servers. We have NAT inside the office, and holes poked through our firewall for the external facing servers. We're all on XP workstations. What should we be doing, if anything?
At home, I'm on a residential cable modem. Everything is behind a WRT54G running DD-WRT. I'm running Ubuntu on my laptop, my wife has XP. I've got a couple other hobby PCs, but nothing publicly accessible yet, but everything inside the network is locally addressed 192.168.etc. What should I be doing, if anything?
When is the last time you heard of a bank burning to the ground???
Haven't they metaphorically been doing this for the past few months?
I was thinking the same thing! It's a giant convoluted system to determine what he "thinks" is the best in some area. The notion of "success" in general seems to be very subjective.
I also take issue with the theme of self-censorship that was mentioned in the article. IF someone truly believes they have an insightful commentary or viewpoint, why would they *not* publish it, regardless of their potential audience? You're telling me musicians wouldn't make music, or essayists would write because of a perceived lack of audience? So what? I was under the impression that those who innovatively create do so primarily for their own fulfillment, not to get the most eyeballs on Digg or the most downloads on iTunes.