Well, tonight is another night for that New Year’s thing. First off, let me say… Happy 2007!
Today we ate/socialized with Whitey and Vo0 at Cheeburger Cheeburger in Providence. Funtastic time! Thanks for the Christmas gift, guys! I can hardly wait to play it! I’m glad you guys are back in town and enjoying it so far. This town has become so much more interesting lately – and it’s only getting better. Besides, you’re just keeping with the trend of everyone moving away… then coming back… heh.
You know you’re a Linux badass when you’ve got everything working… and I mean everything:
It’s all working. The only thing that doesn’t work… and it’s because I’ve purposefully not put any effort into it… is my TV card. That TV card is going to end up in a MythTV box somewhere. Just because.
Aquatix was asking on a post or two ago about, “How is deprecating webdav a good thing?”
The problem with webdav is that while webdav is meant to be a standard, I’ve rarely met a client that handled it properly. I would also point out that some of these problems were not implementations with the client, but implementations with the server side and the relation to the client.
The new model in Exchange 2007 is to deprecate webdav support in favor of web services (via SOAL/XML, etc.). This is a boon for clients because it uses a standardized model to feed data and the response is just XML. How badly can a client screw that up? That means the server-side is no longer an equation in poor Exchange support.
I hope the Evolution developers are sitting up and paying attention to Exchange 2007. Exchange 2007 is intended to be a bridge toward a web services model for communicating with the server for all functions external to the system. WebDAV is deprecated. I’ve seen it, it’s true, it’s exciting, and it’s a boon for Evolution and other webDAV clients that currently suck.
One blogger talks about it here.
I hope the Evolution developers are sitting up and paying attention to Exchange 2007. Exchange 2007 is intended to be a bridge toward a web services model for communicating with the server for all functions external to the system. WebDAV is deprecated. I’ve seen it, it’s true, it’s exciting, and it’s a boon for Evolution and other webDAV clients that currently suck.
One blogger talks about it here.
(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… argh, it’s a tough time to be an enterprise admin with Microsoft products.
There’s been a renaissance of Linux here in my house, led by the Mac issue and Not Having Money. I intend to replace all of the workstations with Macs, but in the meantime, I’ve dual-booted my system with Ubuntu Edgy and Windows. Now here’s the kicker: I’ve not booted into Windows in about three weeks, maybe longer. Taitai’s system is still on Windows because Linux is pretty rough around the edges, but she will be the first recipient of a new Mac when the first one is actually purchased.
