I ran several mailing lists for the last company I worked for. We had a 200mhz Pentium with 128 MB of RAM running RedHat 5.2. We used qmail for the delivery and Majordomo for the list management. We also ran a caching nameserver on another box to help speed things up. That machine was a Pentium 200mhz, 128 MB RAM, and RedHat 5.2.
One of the lists was similar to yours in that it was used for broadcast and not really for discussion. We sent out a computer security newsletter once a week to about 18,000 subscribers. I think when I left the company the total had risen as high as 20,000. This same machine also handled several discussion lists. Although they were small, one of them was quite active and had about 7,500 to 8,000 subscribers.
My experience has been that for lists this size you don't need a fast machine as much as you need RAM. Also, Sendmail doesn't seem to be as efficent as qmail. There was a noticable increase in delivery times once we moved to qmail from Sendmail. For the 18,000+ subscriber list, I kept my personal email address at the top and bottom of the mailing list addresses and there would be about a four hour delay between receiving the first message and the last one. Not too bad. I don't remember the times for Sendmail but it wasn't quite that fast.
Where are these TV shows from? The United States? If so, from what part? What if I want to see my favourite Icelandic television show and I'm not home to record it? Can I see it from this site as well?
Although these phones sound great at first, they depend on a 'call manager' program that only works on WinNT. The call manager keeps track of the phones and what IP address each phone is located at. If that NT box goes down, all the phones managed by that box are useless until it comes back up.
<sarcasm> But hey, we all know how reliable NT is so there's nothing to worry about, is there? </sarcasm>
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The decription of this article is completly misleading. This article is about why these people don't use MySQL on their site, not about why no one should use MySQL.
One thing that I haven't seen people mention is that companies like DoubleClick aren't the only perpetrators. Yes, their ads load on certain pages, that's true. But for them to be able to harvest information such as telephone number and address, they have to get to submitted to them somhow. That happens via the sites we visit that use their ads. I don't think we should be give any information to companies that participate in DoubleClick's scheme.
I'm getting tired of reading about people thinking that if you have a domain name that you MUST have a website. There are other uses of domain names in case you haven't noticed.
This truly sickens me to see Amazon.com patent and enforce the patent on such a blatantly obvious technique. There are some people in this world who will knowingly do things just because they feel that they can get away with it. It is my impression that Amazon.com falls into this category.
It's clear to everyone that Amazon is willfully abusing the patent system. As such, they are showing their true colours and demonstrating their lack of business ethics and common sense.
In light of this, I can honestly say that I will not purchase anything else from Amazon now or in the future, no matter what the outcome of the patent situation. Even if they were to give up their patents, the damage has been done and Amazon has been exposed for what it truly is. I will always remain a former Amazon customer.
So? It's not any different than an affiliate program in the non-wired world. Just because it's suddenly happening on a computer doesn't make it that different. I get a kick back from my apartment complex if I refer someone who becomes a new tennant. Some ISPs used to give kickbacks for refering people to sign up with them. Amazon give kick backs for refering people to their "bookstore." Suddenly they can patent that? I don't think so. Sound like this will be defeated in a second if it's challenged in court.
Write a letter to the author and CC the technology editor. leander@wired.com is the email address of the author, jgartner@wired.com is the technology editor.
Kindly let them know what you think of poorly researched articles.
The Proof: Despite Sun's claim that their high-end servers are highly reliable and built with redundant components, customers report that failures in service processors, controllers, processor cards, and other components have caused entire production systems to fail.
So I take it that Microsoft's service processors, controllers, processor cards, and other components are more reliable. [laughing] These guys don't even know how to draw comparisons. How sad.
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One of the lists was similar to yours in that it was used for broadcast and not really for discussion. We sent out a computer security newsletter once a week to about 18,000 subscribers. I think when I left the company the total had risen as high as 20,000. This same machine also handled several discussion lists. Although they were small, one of them was quite active and had about 7,500 to 8,000 subscribers.
My experience has been that for lists this size you don't need a fast machine as much as you need RAM. Also, Sendmail doesn't seem to be as efficent as qmail. There was a noticable increase in delivery times once we moved to qmail from Sendmail. For the 18,000+ subscriber list, I kept my personal email address at the top and bottom of the mailing list addresses and there would be about a four hour delay between receiving the first message and the last one. Not too bad. I don't remember the times for Sendmail but it wasn't quite that fast.
Where are these TV shows from? The United States? If so, from what part? What if I want to see my favourite Icelandic television show and I'm not home to record it? Can I see it from this site as well?
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But hey, we all know how reliable NT is so there's nothing to worry about, is there?
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Amen.
The decription of this article is completly misleading. This article is about why these people don't use MySQL on their site, not about why no one should use MySQL.
Because CmdrTaco can afford the $5000.
How can you have an OS for an OS?
So, does this mean that the phone company is responsible for things that I say over the phone to people?
One thing that I haven't seen people mention is that companies like DoubleClick aren't the only perpetrators. Yes, their ads load on certain pages, that's true. But for them to be able to harvest information such as telephone number and address, they have to get to submitted to them somhow. That happens via the sites we visit that use their ads. I don't think we should be give any information to companies that participate in DoubleClick's scheme.
I'm getting tired of reading about people thinking that if you have a domain name that you MUST have a website. There are other uses of domain names in case you haven't noticed.
It's clear to everyone that Amazon is willfully abusing the patent system. As such, they are showing their true colours and demonstrating their lack of business ethics and common sense.
In light of this, I can honestly say that I will not purchase anything else from Amazon now or in the future, no matter what the outcome of the patent situation. Even if they were to give up their patents, the damage has been done and Amazon has been exposed for what it truly is. I will always remain a former Amazon customer.
Amazon.com, I wish you everything you deserve.
So? It's not any different than an affiliate program in the non-wired world. Just because it's suddenly happening on a computer doesn't make it that different. I get a kick back from my apartment complex if I refer someone who becomes a new tennant. Some ISPs used to give kickbacks for refering people to sign up with them. Amazon give kick backs for refering people to their "bookstore." Suddenly they can patent that? I don't think so. Sound like this will be defeated in a second if it's challenged in court.
Write a letter to the author and CC the technology editor. leander@wired.com is the email address of the author, jgartner@wired.com is the technology editor.
Kindly let them know what you think of poorly researched articles.
Although a big download, StarOffice makes an excellent browser uner Linux. It even handles fonts very well.
They said that there is a public CVS. http://www.eazel.com/developer.html
So I take it that Microsoft's service processors, controllers, processor cards, and other components are more reliable. [laughing] These guys don't even know how to draw comparisons. How sad.
God, I love SGI. I'm glad to see another big company actually put their source code where their mouth is. Sun are you listening?