Lotus Notes has a feature called mail delegation. It's commonly used by secretaries managing mail for their boss. Lotus Notes might be too big a change, but seemingly this feature exists in other groupware products too.
If you have a cheap router on the dd-wrt supported list, you could VLAN the ethernet segment used by your boss, to minimize risk to that segment. It might also provide useful for an 'I told you so' moment later, if he was segmented away somehow.
Also, what about setting this guy up with a thumb drive scanner, as a more secure method of password entry than now? Certain HP notebooks have this built on the right side.
If you can't run Winbooks under WINE in something like Ubuntu, then you can try running Windows and WinBooks in a virtual machine, (Possibly across the network, from an 'application' server) and both VMware and Virtual Box have a feature that makes The Windows OS disappear, while the Winbooks is available as a regular Gnome menu item. (Never tried it myself). VMware calls this feature Unity.
SANS Internet Storm Center has published these words, from a World Bank spokesman, regarding this Fox story specifically.
"The Fox News story is wrong and is riddled with falsehoods and errors. The story cites misinformation from unattributed sources and leaked emails that are taken out of context."
"Like other public and private institutions, the World Bank has repeatedly experienced hacking attacks on its computer systems and is constantly updating its security to defeat these. But at no point has a hacking attack accessed sensitive information in the World Bank's Treasury, procurement, anti-corruption or human resources departments."
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5161
Can such a gross and misleading news article by such a large and well-funded media organization, with such wide-reach, be attributable only to poor quality reporting and lack of editorial standards, or is Fox trying to start a run on the bank?
Oh wait. That doesn't make any sense, it isn't that kind of bank. But these aren't ordinary times, and who is this Fox after all? Sorry to be grabbing my tinfoil hat, for example, but clearly questions should be raised.
But most disturbing is when I visit the site that is linked, the Wall street Journal online, there's NO mention of anything to do with United & google, and a search even draws a blank:
Huh. That is really interesting about Toronto/ Buffalo. But I guess any OTA region with decent channels would deliver quality media for management with a MythTV setup.
When I visted family in the states, I was appalled at how prevalent Dish network and DirectTV were, even beating out the local cable companies in user-prefs, (but I guess they really really suck). Thing is, you gotta jump through hoops via long google sessions to figure out the *only* way to get MythTV manage one of those boxes, is to google, then rig up a $50 infrared transmitter/receiver setup, (in a dark room I guess, closet would do nicely) because the SAT Cos make the only tuning possiblity an infared remote, for a single stream per device.
Gotta hand it to microsoft, when they lock people out from anything other than their own solution, they go all the way.
No kidding! Even in the Netherlands, stuff like the Olympics is made available on the state-run television's website (a non-profit-pool thing; something like a cross between NPR, UPI, & the AP, to give you and idea).
This is where Dutch folks are supposed to tune in online, to see the video feeds live from China, without much influence from the TV broadcasters cutting away for ads. Of course M$ locked up this outlet with Silverlight, and they did exactly the same with the Tour de France too. (Because our NL IPs get us locked out from NBC in the US, for example).
And did they present options to pull in a wider audience? No, they did the classic, predictable, monopolist's lock-out with public-run and financed media.
I would have liked to have seen more Olympics, for sure. And the Tour De France!
Who is this North Winds Software of which you write? I did a quick google search for it, and only fielded a small collection of what really look like malware bait sites (so don't click any unless you have noscript).
Seriously, I was just trying to learn more about their niche. I've just unburied my head from GnuCash on Linux, and I wonder what's possible. Aside from reports, GnuCash is solid once you get going with all your accounts. Reports work too, once you get what amounts to a few work-arounds because development just isn't mature there yet. Still, a nice book-keeping app on GTK/Ubuntu.
Intuit/Quicken wants my local Dutch banks to pay a ransom to associate with Quicken, and all banks decline. I foolishly kept buying Quicken thinking this'll be the year. Until I realized Intuit expected cash from both me and the banks, and that's when I realized Intuit didn't serve me like I expected to be served; especially since Intuit was holding me, the customer, hostage until the banks ponied-up their share, which is never gonna happen here.
Why does this matter? Because until this year I had to enter every damn transaction by hand, and then balance the books given my input errors. UGGH! NOW, I can download my bank's transactions, like a human being. GnuCash has been an investment for me. I'd like more people to know about the developers' solid work, and I hope to see reports improved upon.
Please excuse me as I only submit wikipedia as a citation: "The United Kingdom is a union[7][8] of four constituent countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK
Actually what you are referring to as Britain, also encompasses all of England, but also Ireland, Scotland, & Wales. Some people refer to it as the United Kingdom, or the UK for short. Meaning England is only a portion of Britain.
Um, I don't really have a direct answer for you question, only this thought/suggestion... maybe a good option is to build a NAS box using old hardware pieces, using open source software as described above,...and when considering power consumption you might look at a (scripted?) Wake On LAN (WoL) process.
If you have a router running 24/7, like a dd-wrt, then WoL is all you need to switch the backup box on at will, and then you're using only the power required for the job. And maybe you use a but extra juice than a new machine, but ecologically, recycling the old parts becomes the better value.
But I don't know, haven't done the math, just thinking out loud is all. Happy Monday.
The GP's experience installing Alfresco seems to mirror mine. And I did then what you suggest now, and yes, just using the demo version made the difference.
In my case though, I was just trying to get either the latest version running, which was a v5 RC I think. I settled for a much easier to install version that was several Revs older than current, but it worked and certainly didn't affect the evaluation, which was favorable.
In comparison, the tiny Netherlands with all that cheese and those cows seems to have a lot of consumer ISPs to choose from. Here's a partial list:
Alice Comfort Argeweb 12move Abel Telecom CompuServe Concepts DDS Domestix EDPnet Fiberworld Filternet GreenOnline HCC Net Het Net InterNLnet KPN ADSL Orange Planet ADSL Primus Qfast ICT Quicknet Scarlet Solcon Speedlinq SpeedXS Studenten.net Supersnel ADSL Tele2 ADSL The One Hosting Tiscali ADSL TweakDSL Unet Vastelastenbond Internet+bellen xsDSL XS4ALL tip ZIEZO.biz
Even bloody Compuserve (yes that one!) will sell you 20down / 1up ADSL for 19.95 euros a month. For another 5 euros a month they'll add PSTN phone termination and a DID. 30 euros monthly for 20 mb down is most typical now. And little traffic shaping if any, to my knowledge.
In fact providers such as XS4all make a political statement against such practices, when they can under legal and contractual agreements, as they do with their statement of privacy too.
a 3400mAh battery?! Dude, that's like 3.5x what the 1st gen. Nokia bundles.
I can see this becoming a competitive, and potentially marketable arms-race... As the [insert your favorite sport-like-cycling here] rules are changed so that no larger batteries are allowed, and all energy net-carbon values derive from the cyclists themselves. SO, if the cyclists deem it necessary to pack along a Cray-in-a-pocket(tm), that's fine so long as they can power it the distance as well. And of course, no dumping of the Cray along the course should the batteries fail.
The Nokia n95 GPS with voice guided navigation, wireless via bluetooth headphones, that calmly lowers the MP3 volume...well that GPS is great for getting me out on my bicycle, and off into unexplored territories. I just love it. Except when it dies because it sucks too much juice, which is most of the time. (so I have learned to carry spares)
Hey, it is great to be using the GPS/MP3/bluetooth/GSm functions, but I shut them all down to save energy for priority GPS tracking using the Sports Tracker web service, on known courses: Nokia SportsTracker Web Services. But even that lone power-misered GPS application died after a handful of hours when I really wanted data from a special ride recently!
I understand power is the main drawback to cycling GPS units; this technology can't come into place fast enough IMHO. Google maps and GPS is enough to get me out moving fast when the weather is good. That presents a real challenge to GPS power usage for cycling use. Having to stop and re-orient according to paper maps suckz, so I stick with known cycling routes when I get time to ride.
As I understand it, Howard Dean used open source LAMP w/ Drupal and built an impressive organizational CRM/ event / fund-raising system for his Democratic presidential run in 2004. Once his campaign finished, he donated back to the community, and funded http://www.civicrm.org/ (but please do not mistake my trivial understanding for definitive fact).
If you ever wonder what those national political campaigns used for robo-dialing-CRM, there's a demo online for your trial use.
Civicrm forked awhile ago, and now drupal is not required, because CiviCRM also runs on Joomla now. (But I suggest you look closely at Drupal anyway).
That's a fascinating read! I tried to repay in-kind, only the Dutch realtor's site (http://www.nvm.nl) is now closed from the public internet. It was open the last time I looked, a loooong time ago. (Now it's login-only, like the USA realtor's public listings, discussed on slashdot a few days ago).
From my understanding, realtors are to the Dutch, what lawyers are to the Americans. No doubt due to the population density, and the competitiveness for decent housing in Holland.
My move was UK to Netherlands so it was easier as far as visas were confirmed (don't need one), but harder because of the language difference (which I've now solved by learning). But isn't finding a place to actually live, in the densely populated Netherlands difficult? How did you manage *that* hurdle, which you have failed to mention? (And I wonder how it compares to the UK?)
As tough as learning Dutch is, housing is a tough nut to crack, in Holland.
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Take that you GUI loving pansies!
What? poniez too?
Freakin' awesome. Must be my lucky day.
Ubuntu releases every 6 months like clockwork; and the quality is good. This simple fact must KILL Microsoft, (in all kinds of different ways).
Lotus Notes has a feature called mail delegation. It's commonly used by secretaries managing mail for their boss. Lotus Notes might be too big a change, but seemingly this feature exists in other groupware products too.
Here's the first article I could find discussing this feature in Evolution. http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/exchange-settings.html.en
If you have a cheap router on the dd-wrt supported list, you could VLAN the ethernet segment used by your boss, to minimize risk to that segment. It might also provide useful for an 'I told you so' moment later, if he was segmented away somehow.
Also, what about setting this guy up with a thumb drive scanner, as a more secure method of password entry than now? Certain HP notebooks have this built on the right side.
If you can't run Winbooks under WINE in something like Ubuntu, then you can try running Windows and WinBooks in a virtual machine, (Possibly across the network, from an 'application' server) and both VMware and Virtual Box have a feature that makes The Windows OS disappear, while the Winbooks is available as a regular Gnome menu item. (Never tried it myself). VMware calls this feature Unity.
Thank you for your military service.
SANS Internet Storm Center has published these words, from a World Bank spokesman, regarding this Fox story specifically.
"The Fox News story is wrong and is riddled with falsehoods and errors. The story cites misinformation from unattributed sources and leaked emails that are taken out of context."
"Like other public and private institutions, the World Bank has repeatedly experienced hacking attacks on its computer systems and is constantly updating its security to defeat these. But at no point has a hacking attack accessed sensitive information in the World Bank's Treasury, procurement, anti-corruption or human resources departments."
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5161
Can such a gross and misleading news article by such a large and well-funded media organization, with such wide-reach, be attributable only to poor quality reporting and lack of editorial standards, or is Fox trying to start a run on the bank?
Oh wait. That doesn't make any sense, it isn't that kind of bank. But these aren't ordinary times, and who is this Fox after all? Sorry to be grabbing my tinfoil hat, for example, but clearly questions should be raised.
When I click on TFA all I get is a blank page. When I view source, all I see is:
[html comment code start --] fastdynapage - sbkj2kwebp01 - Thu 09/11/08 - 00:13:47 EDT
[--!/html comment code end]
But most disturbing is when I visit the site that is linked, the Wall street Journal online, there's NO mention of anything to do with United & google, and a search even draws a blank:
http://online.wsj.com/public/search/page/3_0466.html?KEYWORDS=untied%20airlines%20google%20news&mod=DNH_S
Where's my tinfoil hat?! Oh wait, I'm still on Slashdot. Once NPR covers this tho'...
In the United States of America, your ISP chooses you.
Huh. That is really interesting about Toronto/ Buffalo. But I guess any OTA region with decent channels would deliver quality media for management with a MythTV setup.
When I visted family in the states, I was appalled at how prevalent Dish network and DirectTV were, even beating out the local cable companies in user-prefs, (but I guess they really really suck). Thing is, you gotta jump through hoops via long google sessions to figure out the *only* way to get MythTV manage one of those boxes, is to google, then rig up a $50 infrared transmitter/receiver setup, (in a dark room I guess, closet would do nicely) because the SAT Cos make the only tuning possiblity an infared remote, for a single stream per device.
Was I the only one that saw a 'Matrix' reference there?
No kidding! Even in the Netherlands, stuff like the Olympics is made available on the state-run television's website (a non-profit-pool thing; something like a cross between NPR, UPI, & the AP, to give you and idea).
This is where Dutch folks are supposed to tune in online, to see the video feeds live from China, without much influence from the TV broadcasters cutting away for ads. Of course M$ locked up this outlet with Silverlight, and they did exactly the same with the Tour de France too. (Because our NL IPs get us locked out from NBC in the US, for example).
And did they present options to pull in a wider audience? No, they did the classic, predictable, monopolist's lock-out with public-run and financed media.
I would have liked to have seen more Olympics, for sure. And the Tour De France!
Who is this North Winds Software of which you write? I did a quick google search for it, and only fielded a small collection of what really look like malware bait sites (so don't click any unless you have noscript).
http://www.google.nl/search?q=%22North+Winds+Software%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a
Seriously, I was just trying to learn more about their niche. I've just unburied my head from GnuCash on Linux, and I wonder what's possible. Aside from reports, GnuCash is solid once you get going with all your accounts. Reports work too, once you get what amounts to a few work-arounds because development just isn't mature there yet. Still, a nice book-keeping app on GTK/Ubuntu.
Intuit/Quicken wants my local Dutch banks to pay a ransom to associate with Quicken, and all banks decline. I foolishly kept buying Quicken thinking this'll be the year. Until I realized Intuit expected cash from both me and the banks, and that's when I realized Intuit didn't serve me like I expected to be served; especially since Intuit was holding me, the customer, hostage until the banks ponied-up their share, which is never gonna happen here.
Why does this matter? Because until this year I had to enter every damn transaction by hand, and then balance the books given my input errors. UGGH! NOW, I can download my bank's transactions, like a human being. GnuCash has been an investment for me. I'd like more people to know about the developers' solid work, and I hope to see reports improved upon.
Who just died recently, btw.
Hey? Did anyone else see that movie called Michael Clayton? I don't mean to give away much of the plot, but...
I'll consider their stuff. What I can't accept is non-acknowledgment, ostrich-style. That just loses me.
Please excuse me as I only submit wikipedia as a citation: "The United Kingdom is a union[7][8] of four constituent countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK
Actually what you are referring to as Britain, also encompasses all of England, but also Ireland, Scotland, & Wales.
Some people refer to it as the United Kingdom, or the UK for short. Meaning England is only a portion of Britain.
Um, I don't really have a direct answer for you question, only this thought/suggestion... maybe a good option is to build a NAS box using old hardware pieces, using open source software as described above, ...and when considering power consumption you might look at a (scripted?) Wake On LAN (WoL) process.
If you have a router running 24/7, like a dd-wrt, then WoL is all you need to switch the backup box on at will, and then you're using only the power required for the job. And maybe you use a but extra juice than a new machine, but ecologically, recycling the old parts becomes the better value.
But I don't know, haven't done the math, just thinking out loud is all. Happy Monday.
The GP's experience installing Alfresco seems to mirror mine. And I did then what you suggest now, and yes, just using the demo version made the difference.
In my case though, I was just trying to get either the latest version running, which was a v5 RC I think. I settled for a much easier to install version that was several Revs older than current, but it worked and certainly didn't affect the evaluation, which was favorable.
In comparison, the tiny Netherlands with all that cheese and those cows seems to have a lot of consumer ISPs to choose from. Here's a partial list:
Alice Comfort
Argeweb
12move
Abel Telecom
CompuServe
Concepts
DDS
Domestix
EDPnet
Fiberworld
Filternet
GreenOnline
HCC Net
Het Net
InterNLnet
KPN ADSL
Orange
Planet ADSL
Primus
Qfast ICT
Quicknet
Scarlet
Solcon
Speedlinq
SpeedXS
Studenten.net
Supersnel ADSL
Tele2 ADSL
The One Hosting
Tiscali ADSL
TweakDSL
Unet
Vastelastenbond Internet+bellen
xsDSL
XS4ALL tip
ZIEZO.biz
Even bloody Compuserve (yes that one!) will sell you 20down / 1up ADSL for 19.95 euros a month. For another 5 euros a month they'll add PSTN phone termination and a DID. 30 euros monthly for 20 mb down is most typical now. And little traffic shaping if any, to my knowledge.
In fact providers such as XS4all make a political statement against such practices, when they can under legal and contractual agreements, as they do with their statement of privacy too.
For more complete info: http://adsl.startpagina.nl/
a 3400mAh battery?! Dude, that's like 3.5x what the 1st gen. Nokia bundles.
I can see this becoming a competitive, and potentially marketable arms-race... As the [insert your favorite sport-like-cycling here] rules are changed so that no larger batteries are allowed, and all energy net-carbon values derive from the cyclists themselves. SO, if the cyclists deem it necessary to pack along a Cray-in-a-pocket(tm), that's fine so long as they can power it the distance as well. And of course, no dumping of the Cray along the course should the batteries fail.
The Nokia n95 GPS with voice guided navigation, wireless via bluetooth headphones, that calmly lowers the MP3 volume ...well that GPS is great for getting me out on my bicycle, and off into unexplored territories. I just love it. Except when it dies because it sucks too much juice, which is most of the time. (so I have learned to carry spares)
Hey, it is great to be using the GPS/MP3/bluetooth/GSm functions, but I shut them all down to save energy for priority GPS tracking using the Sports Tracker web service, on known courses: Nokia SportsTracker Web Services. But even that lone power-misered GPS application died after a handful of hours when I really wanted data from a special ride recently!
I understand power is the main drawback to cycling GPS units; this technology can't come into place fast enough IMHO. Google maps and GPS is enough to get me out moving fast when the weather is good. That presents a real challenge to GPS power usage for cycling use. Having to stop and re-orient according to paper maps suckz, so I stick with known cycling routes when I get time to ride.
Well CiviCRM actually, because Deanspace never went away.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deanspace
As I understand it, Howard Dean used open source LAMP w/ Drupal and built an impressive organizational CRM/ event / fund-raising system for his Democratic presidential run in 2004. Once his campaign finished, he donated back to the community, and funded http://www.civicrm.org/ (but please do not mistake my trivial understanding for definitive fact).
If you ever wonder what those national political campaigns used for robo-dialing-CRM, there's a demo online for your trial use.
Civicrm forked awhile ago, and now drupal is not required, because CiviCRM also runs on Joomla now. (But I suggest you look closely at Drupal anyway).
--> gumtree is the site for London property
That's a fascinating read! I tried to repay in-kind, only the Dutch realtor's site (http://www.nvm.nl) is now closed from the public internet. It was open the last time I looked, a loooong time ago. (Now it's login-only, like the USA realtor's public listings, discussed on slashdot a few days ago).
From my understanding, realtors are to the Dutch, what lawyers are to the Americans. No doubt due to the population density, and the competitiveness for decent housing in Holland.
As tough as learning Dutch is, housing is a tough nut to crack, in Holland.
Question: How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Answer: None are required, because Microsoft can declare Darkness(TM) to be the new standard.
Perhaps you are too influenced by someone's effective branding.