We recently tried to migrate from a Windows 2008/Exchange 2007 server to a OSX Snow Leopard Server box... what a nightmare!
Setting up all the mail accounts was strange, because you set up a primary email account username (let's say the username is bob for the email address bob@robert.com). Then you can add aliases for that account, like robert and rob. The weirdness comes into play when sometimes while adding aliases, for no reason, an alias name will take over as the primary account name (the primary account name will change from bob to robert). The only way to fix this is to REMOVE THE ACCOUNT, or to keep adding random aliases and removing them in hopes that the real account name will flop back to primary. This is all a known issue on Apple's support site.
The easiest part was moving mail (we just set up connections to the old exchange server and the new mac mail server, and dragged over the folders from one to the other, worked like a charm.)
Calendar export import was iffy, but eventually worked.
Contacts? Terrible. We copied our contacts over from Exchange to Mac Server. The Mac Server contacts format is CardDAV, a new standard for storing contact information. This would be OK if all of our iPhones support CardDAV (they don't!).
With Exchange, our iPhones synchronized flawlessly using Push for email/contacts/calendar events. Since iPhone doesn't support CardDAV, the only solution to get your contacts onto the iPhone is to set up Mac address book on a desktop machine to connect to the Mac Server. Then, YOU HAVE TO COPY ALL OF YOUR CONTACTS TO YOUR LOCAL MACHINE. Now you have two copies of all your contacts, one on the server, one locally. You can then tether your iPhone and sync the contacts with iTunes (iTunes won't sych contacts on the server, which is why you have to make a local copy of all the contacts). Any time you have a new contact on the server you will need to put it on your local machine as well.
So if that wasn't bad enough, here's the next fun thing: OS X SNOW LEOPARD SERVER DOES NOT SUPPORT PUSH EMAIL TO IPHONES (despite their site saying it does!). This was a big WTF moment for us, considering these are both Apple products.
Finally, we had a ton of problems with sending Calendar invitations -- these would (seemingly randomly) attach themselves to the wrong Calendars. Sometimes the event would attach to a local calendar, others to the calendar on the server. The only solution we found to this was to DELETE local calendars./sigh
Eventually we just sent the server back, Apple was kind enough to issue a full refund without a restocking fee. We moved everything back to Exchange.:(
No l33tness test here! I was just stating what settings I was on in case someone else was interested to try 3D gaming in a virtual environment. I don't have a linux box at my disposal currently, but I might switch one of my home machines if this can be done with something other than parallels! What VM software do you use?
Just as an FYI: 3D acceleration is supported to a degree in Parallels, I play Counter-Strike 1.6 in in 1920x1080 using OpenGL mode on my Mac. It isn't perfect for all games, but it does work!
The first oblivion glitch is actually a non-mod glitch using arrows to duplicate items. It can be used on the Xbox360 version as well as the PC version, so long as they are unpatched.
A few years ago my account was banned for botting through parts of the game that are terribly tedious. I am not admitting or denying guilt regarding this, but I do have two questions for someone in your position:
1) Can you unban accounts
and
2) Can you unban mine?
On a side note, (this might be more for Jeffrey Kaplan) make things less tedious!;)
Don't get me wrong, I still use a lot of wireless devices and they are a great tool! I use it at home for my network and I can browse easily and usually play online games without trouble. I still, and this is the key part here, don't replace my ethernet line to my web server or anything else I'd like to use with some sort of reliability.
That's what they are talking about here (replacing what would have been a fiber network with wireless), which I was at first against. However, according to a reply to my original post, the type of wireless implementation they are going to use is vastly different than my omni-directional consumer wireless devices. So until I have read and reasearched further, my position has changed from "skeptical" to "neutral"
All of my experience with wireless devices is in consumer based products, I don't know a whole lot about point-to-point/line-of-sight wireless transmission -- I just assumed (don't hurt me!) that they were very similar.
Based on your comment it sounds like this type of implementation would be more reliable than the wireless I am familiar with; I'm interested enough to do some reading on point-to-point wireless transmission in general and in other specific applications.
There are a lot of wireless technologies in use today that simply aren't reliable enough to be permanent replacements for their wired counterparts.
My wireless home network gets frazzled when the microwave runs and cant go 30ft through walls without significant signal loss. Wireless keyboards and mice and bluetooth can never transmit as far as spec, and god forbid someone else use the same model in a 90 foot radius.
I can't get my computer 20 feet away to pick up a wireless keyboard signal, but a wireless keyboard signal 50 ft away screws with mine?
Cell phones which are older and probably have had more money than wireless networking thrown at them still use coverage and dropped calls as major advertising points.
For now, my wired ethernet is faster and never has a problem, my wired keyboard and mouse always work (and dont need batteries), and a land line never drops a call. I am sure this wireless technology is great and useful, but using it as a replacement for fiber is probably a mistake.
Situation where a whitelist is good
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Good Email For Kids?
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· Score: 5, Insightful
I'd recommend looking for a service based on a whitelist rather than a service with great spam filtering. This will help you two ways:
1) Probably no spam 2) You can actively monitor and controlwho your children get email from (which is OK, these are children not adults!)
That calculates the house's odds. Even if you give every advantage to the player, the house still has the advantage if they are using more than one deck (which is almost always). So even in perfect player conditions, the house still has to be using only one deck for the player to have any advantage.
So, is it possible that my (generic "my", not me in particular) power level could be so much higher than yours that if I disclosed some information to you... I'd have to kill you?
I would agree that in this case the fault of the theft is the owner's. The first or second or third time a company sends its chips to be made in China and finds its chip/product copied/stolen, fine -- that's not the owner's fault. But once you know that's what is going to happen and you continue to do it anyway, it's hard to convince me that a) you care the stuff is being stolen or b) you aren't an idiot.
Warning: Analogy to follow
If I hire a cheap cleaning service for my house and they steal something, I fire the cleaning service and then take them to court. I do not say "Ahhh! Damn cleaning service! I can't believe you stole my stuff! Be here next week though, my house is dirty and your service is cheap!" At that point I would be accepting the theft as part of the cost of the service, which isn't so much "theft" anymore.
I have one already. I keep it on my desk next to my photo of bigfoot, plugged in to my pocket-sized cold fusion reactor. It runs Duke Nukem Forever like a dream!
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We recently tried to migrate from a Windows 2008/Exchange 2007 server to a OSX Snow Leopard Server box... what a nightmare!
Setting up all the mail accounts was strange, because you set up a primary email account username (let's say the username is bob for the email address bob@robert.com). Then you can add aliases for that account, like robert and rob. The weirdness comes into play when sometimes while adding aliases, for no reason, an alias name will take over as the primary account name (the primary account name will change from bob to robert). The only way to fix this is to REMOVE THE ACCOUNT, or to keep adding random aliases and removing them in hopes that the real account name will flop back to primary. This is all a known issue on Apple's support site.
The easiest part was moving mail (we just set up connections to the old exchange server and the new mac mail server, and dragged over the folders from one to the other, worked like a charm.)
Calendar export import was iffy, but eventually worked.
Contacts? Terrible. We copied our contacts over from Exchange to Mac Server. The Mac Server contacts format is CardDAV, a new standard for storing contact information. This would be OK if all of our iPhones support CardDAV (they don't!).
With Exchange, our iPhones synchronized flawlessly using Push for email/contacts/calendar events. Since iPhone doesn't support CardDAV, the only solution to get your contacts onto the iPhone is to set up Mac address book on a desktop machine to connect to the Mac Server. Then, YOU HAVE TO COPY ALL OF YOUR CONTACTS TO YOUR LOCAL MACHINE. Now you have two copies of all your contacts, one on the server, one locally. You can then tether your iPhone and sync the contacts with iTunes (iTunes won't sych contacts on the server, which is why you have to make a local copy of all the contacts). Any time you have a new contact on the server you will need to put it on your local machine as well.
So if that wasn't bad enough, here's the next fun thing: OS X SNOW LEOPARD SERVER DOES NOT SUPPORT PUSH EMAIL TO IPHONES (despite their site saying it does!). This was a big WTF moment for us, considering these are both Apple products.
Finally, we had a ton of problems with sending Calendar invitations -- these would (seemingly randomly) attach themselves to the wrong Calendars. Sometimes the event would attach to a local calendar, others to the calendar on the server. The only solution we found to this was to DELETE local calendars. /sigh
Eventually we just sent the server back, Apple was kind enough to issue a full refund without a restocking fee. We moved everything back to Exchange. :(
PocketGnome is the only OS X bot I am aware of and has been fully open sourced:
http://code.google.com/p/pocketgnome/source/checkout
No l33tness test here! I was just stating what settings I was on in case someone else was interested to try 3D gaming in a virtual environment. I don't have a linux box at my disposal currently, but I might switch one of my home machines if this can be done with something other than parallels! What VM software do you use?
Indeed, we play at lunch where I work. The office paid for the licenses which was easy to justify at $10 each! :)
Just as an FYI: 3D acceleration is supported to a degree in Parallels, I play Counter-Strike 1.6 in in 1920x1080 using OpenGL mode on my Mac. It isn't perfect for all games, but it does work!
This is a shameless plug, but if you played UO during T2A (98,99) and loved it you should try this FREE server:
http://www.uosecondage.com/
Here's the solution:
"Hey guys, we are going to do one more simulation, just step over here. We've made some improvements that make this ULTRA realistic."
Let them think it is a simulation until they get to Mars, then send them the "tricked you!" email when they get there.
Parallels, definitely! I play CS 1.6 and HL2 on my Parallels install with few/no problems!
If I could double mod you up, I would ;)
The first oblivion glitch is actually a non-mod glitch using arrows to duplicate items. It can be used on the Xbox360 version as well as the PC version, so long as they are unpatched.
This is directed at Paul Sams:
A few years ago my account was banned for botting through parts of the game that are terribly tedious. I am not admitting or denying guilt regarding this, but I do have two questions for someone in your position:
1) Can you unban accounts
and
2) Can you unban mine?
On a side note, (this might be more for Jeffrey Kaplan) make things less tedious! ;)
Thanks in advance!
-MobileMrX
My hope is that it would become a mutant bird with special powers (but only use them for good).
Don't get me wrong, I still use a lot of wireless devices and they are a great tool! I use it at home for my network and I can browse easily and usually play online games without trouble. I still, and this is the key part here, don't replace my ethernet line to my web server or anything else I'd like to use with some sort of reliability.
That's what they are talking about here (replacing what would have been a fiber network with wireless), which I was at first against. However, according to a reply to my original post, the type of wireless implementation they are going to use is vastly different than my omni-directional consumer wireless devices. So until I have read and reasearched further, my position has changed from "skeptical" to "neutral"
All of my experience with wireless devices is in consumer based products, I don't know a whole lot about point-to-point/line-of-sight wireless transmission -- I just assumed (don't hurt me!) that they were very similar.
Based on your comment it sounds like this type of implementation would be more reliable than the wireless I am familiar with; I'm interested enough to do some reading on point-to-point wireless transmission in general and in other specific applications.
Thanks for the info!
There are a lot of wireless technologies in use today that simply aren't reliable enough to be permanent replacements for their wired counterparts.
My wireless home network gets frazzled when the microwave runs and cant go 30ft through walls without significant signal loss. Wireless keyboards and mice and bluetooth can never transmit as far as spec, and god forbid someone else use the same model in a 90 foot radius.
I can't get my computer 20 feet away to pick up a wireless keyboard signal, but a wireless keyboard signal 50 ft away screws with mine?
Cell phones which are older and probably have had more money than wireless networking thrown at them still use coverage and dropped calls as major advertising points.
For now, my wired ethernet is faster and never has a problem, my wired keyboard and mouse always work (and dont need batteries), and a land line never drops a call. I am sure this wireless technology is great and useful, but using it as a replacement for fiber is probably a mistake.
I'd recommend looking for a service based on a whitelist rather than a service with great spam filtering. This will help you two ways:
1) Probably no spam
2) You can actively monitor and controlwho your children get email from (which is OK, these are children not adults!)
I put together a quick and dirty web implementation if anyone wants to try this out: http://puddleboy.com/MACLocate.asp
For reference: http://wizardofodds.com/blackjack/house-edge-calculator.html
That calculates the house's odds. Even if you give every advantage to the player, the house still has the advantage if they are using more than one deck (which is almost always). So even in perfect player conditions, the house still has to be using only one deck for the player to have any advantage.
Is it wrong to walk into a car?
;P
Warning: Analogy to follow
If I hire a cheap cleaning service for my house and they steal something, I fire the cleaning service and then take them to court. I do not say "Ahhh! Damn cleaning service! I can't believe you stole my stuff! Be here next week though, my house is dirty and your service is cheap!" At that point I would be accepting the theft as part of the cost of the service, which isn't so much "theft" anymore.
I'd have just amended my doctype to "CSSV", the popular "Comma Space Separated Values" format. ;)
Google + AOL?
Finally! An indisputable reason to call the company Gay-O-L.
I cant wait till I have 3mb up at my house.
This guy was driving and navigated to a bunch of yellow dashes in succession.
This method of action caused his car to crash.
I've only been able to replicate this bug on roads with > 2 cars.
Anyone experience this?
/waiting for roads v1.5
I have one already. I keep it on my desk next to my photo of bigfoot, plugged in to my pocket-sized cold fusion reactor. It runs Duke Nukem Forever like a dream!