The hot post today that has the blogosphere churning is this essay by Paul Graham entitled “Microsoft is Dead.”
I like the way the author of this post has just suddenly realized that Microsoft’s business model is in trouble. I had an epiphany much like this while I was in the very den of the [...]
There’s an enlightening and interesting article up on InformationWeek discussing the Leopard server product. It’s basically a guy who headed out to the sites covering public information on Leopard server and summarized it. It’s still a good read. My favorite piece? Clustering for email and iCal servers!
One thing the author did [...]
If you thought your Exchange deployment ever made your life miserable, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. If you’re the Exchange admin of a small business deployment, you’re likely to strut around your office and just tell people to get over it.
If you’re an admin of a large enterprise, March is your Month of Suffering. [...]
So, Aquatix pointed out (correctly) that the coffee-n-cream theme didn’t have a login button. File that one under WTF.
Part of the reason I keep changing these themes is because I keep finding little items missing. While I like Sapphire significantly, it takes out the blogroll. That sucks because I really want you [...]
You know you’re a Linux badass when you’ve got everything working… and I mean everything:
Printing works with cups over USB, shared to another Windows desktop with IPP
VPN server works with PPTPD
LDAP
Webalizer
Postfix/SpamAssassin/Courier/ClamAV/AmavisD-New
Squid
DHCP
DNS
Dynamic DNS registration for said DHCP/DNS
Shares with Windows and Linux machines alike
Backup jobs
Mailman lists
Apache
MySQL
DVD playback
DVD record
CD record
DVD ripping (har!)
Music playback of entire 9.4gb library
Rich-media plugins [...]
(info: this post was started several days ago)
There’s so much more that can be said about Microsoft and the mistakes they are continuing to make. In my experience, product quality is going down… regression bugs are coming back into some products (Exchange 2003 and clustering!)… many enterprise products are a mishmash of spaghetti code… [...]
So what do you do with a day off when the system still manages to go down?
Well, you spend most of the day on the phone, honestly. That gets old. We had the day planned to spend running around town knocking out personal business that has been put aside for far too long. It was [...]