Posts by Rob H

Happy birthday, Linux: From a bedroom project to billions of devices in 30 years

FW: hyvää syntymäpäivää!

On 25-08-1991, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Hello everybody out there using minix-

>

> I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big

> and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has

> been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like

> any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix; as my OS

> resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-sytem

> due to practical reasons) among other things.

>

> I’ve currently ported bash (1.08) an gcc (1.40), and things seem to work.

> This implies that i’ll get something practical within a few months, and I’d

> like to know what features most people want. Any suggestions are welcome,

> but I won’t promise I’ll implement them :-)

>

> Linus Torvalds [e-mail]

>

Radar gremlins GROUND FLIGHTS across southern Blighty

In the mean time, at Eindhoven.nl airport

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It's the end of TV as we know it

Why is this project named after a Belgian Broadcaster ?

see http://www.canvas.be

Cnavas is a Belgian Public Broadcasting station

Microsoft's support tweaks leave some email admins out in the cold

RE: Why on Earth ... Bloated list

You really did some list padding there,

Almost everything is mentioned two times, why, you need to install post-fix twice to get it to work or something ?

I would also count all the various Linux distributions as the same (Linux kernel version) OS, repackaged by the company that created the Linux distribution. (And so does most of the OSS world BTW).

the same goes for the BSD variations (including MAC OS X) they are all the same kernel, repackaged, but the same OS. You also don't mention the amount of work people like Keitaro Yoshimura and Simon J Mudd had to do to get their packages to work.

And to make your list even longer, Post-fix is also available on the windows platform.

All that aside, there is a big difference in functionality between a full unified messaging and collaboration solution like Microsoft Exchange 2007 and a simple dime a dozen email handler like post-fix. for instance does post-fix do calender sharing or resource planning ? How about PABX integrations or recieving Faxes. (without add-ons)

Sorry to come down on you like that, but comparing post-fix with Exchange really is comparing Apples with Oranges.

Oh and some of you may now think that I am pro Microsoft or anti Linux (OSS) , this is not the case, I am a email admin on both platforms, with multi year experience with Post-fix, Sendmail Lotus Notes and MS Exchange and think this kind of MS bashing is soooo last century, not to mention career limiting. as a professional sysadmin you must be prepared to support whatever comes your way.

Rob.

Doctor investigated for posting inkblots to Wikipedia

What's the fuss

This information is publicly available in any decent bookstore or library where they have a section for med/psych students, so maybe there is a copyright violation, but by no means the Doc revealed a "Secret"

Rob.

Mars rover stalks mystery space alien object

Helo Dave...

That is just a rock,

Any decent mysterious object from an alien civilization looks like this:

http://tcal.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/2001.jpg

Rob