I agree with the general sentiment that maintaining electronic records (and emails are most definitely legal electronic records) is imperative. The IRS suggests maintaining at least 7 years worth of documentation in the event of an audit. It should be no different for electronic records.
Where I don't agree with the general sentiment is the fear-mongering of privacy concerns with gmail. I switched to gmail (via Google Apps) about three years ago. It is without a doubt the best digital move I've ever made. Google's privacy policy is quite clear on how your data is stored and managed.
If you still feel the need to maintain a local archive of your mail records, simply download them on a regular basis to a client of your choice. While I understand the interest of a hobbyist to create some elaborate local server/client for their mail, I (and I suspect many others) have more important things to to with our spare time. Enjoy the services that exist today to help you manage these records, instead of re-inventing the wheel.
I had the same problem with the clock synch running a Fedora VM. I wrote this network timserver pinger and set it up in crontab, works pretty well. Run it every 15 minutes and it resynchs the clock silently (requires a working network connection of course...):
and many traditional institutions can't figure out how to flatten with it. 5 years ago, a student might have published an editorial criticizing their school or teachers. How big an audience do you really think it could possibly reach? Nowadays, a student posts a blog and suddenly they are reaching a potentially massive audience.
While I don't agree with teacher's and school's actions, I can understand the sensitivity and concern. The schools don't know how to deal with this new flat method of communication, and so in a time honored tradition of ignorance and fear, they are blindly lashing out. It is a real problem though... a blog post on the internet is a very different creature from a local newspaper editorial or any print medium.
now now, don't blame the language... it's the "programmers" who are to blame for not understanding how to write secure apps. It's only to be expected that such a popular langauge with a low barrier to entry is going attract amateurs who just want to see the end result without having to really understand the finer points of application development.
what we really need is for vmware for to produce an intel mac version of their product. Imagine being able to vm any linux distro or windows under osx...
Quality of life has to be taken into consideration as part of compensation. If your quality of life improves significantly as a result of not having to commute into an office and play office politics, this can be worth a good sum of money to many people.
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I agree with the general sentiment that maintaining electronic records (and emails are most definitely legal electronic records) is imperative. The IRS suggests maintaining at least 7 years worth of documentation in the event of an audit. It should be no different for electronic records.
Where I don't agree with the general sentiment is the fear-mongering of privacy concerns with gmail. I switched to gmail (via Google Apps) about three years ago. It is without a doubt the best digital move I've ever made. Google's privacy policy is quite clear on how your data is stored and managed.
If you still feel the need to maintain a local archive of your mail records, simply download them on a regular basis to a client of your choice. While I understand the interest of a hobbyist to create some elaborate local server/client for their mail, I (and I suspect many others) have more important things to to with our spare time. Enjoy the services that exist today to help you manage these records, instead of re-inventing the wheel.
I had the same problem with the clock synch running a Fedora VM. I wrote this network timserver pinger and set it up in crontab, works pretty well. Run it every 15 minutes and it resynchs the clock silently (requires a working network connection of course...):
/usr/sbin/ntpdate -s -b -p 8 -u 129.132.1.21
#!/bin/bash
and many traditional institutions can't figure out how to flatten with it. 5 years ago, a student might have published an editorial criticizing their school or teachers. How big an audience do you really think it could possibly reach? Nowadays, a student posts a blog and suddenly they are reaching a potentially massive audience.
While I don't agree with teacher's and school's actions, I can understand the sensitivity and concern. The schools don't know how to deal with this new flat method of communication, and so in a time honored tradition of ignorance and fear, they are blindly lashing out. It is a real problem though... a blog post on the internet is a very different creature from a local newspaper editorial or any print medium.
now now, don't blame the language... it's the "programmers" who are to blame for not understanding how to write secure apps. It's only to be expected that such a popular langauge with a low barrier to entry is going attract amateurs who just want to see the end result without having to really understand the finer points of application development.
what we really need is for vmware for to produce an intel mac version of their product. Imagine being able to vm any linux distro or windows under osx...
Quality of life has to be taken into consideration as part of compensation. If your quality of life improves significantly as a result of not having to commute into an office and play office politics, this can be worth a good sum of money to many people.