…1600 pages for every detail of the making of a LHC, 6546 pages in the specs for OOXML and it’s still not enough detail to let you open and create OOXML documents. Obviously the LHC is not adequately complex.

For the first two parts of this review series, please view the following links: Practically Replacing Microsoft Exchange Server - A 3 Part Series - 1 of 3 Practically Replacing Microsoft Exchange Server - A 3 Part Series - 2 of 3 - Zimbra Collaboration Suite Kerio MailServer 6.5 - The Exchange Killer Kerio MailServer, like Zimbra, has until only recently been an ‘almost but not quite’ Exchange alternative. It has offered Outlook support and integration with Active Directory since 2002, but did not initially support groupware features such as calendaring and shared contacts properly until years later.

I’ve moved www.brad-x.com into colocation. Until now the server had been operating on various types of local business class connectivity, providing limited bandwidth capacity. This quickly proved inadequate and went unresolved for a long time, so I’m glad to say the server is finally where it belongs, on 100mbps fiber. Hosted users are being moved one at a time, so your virtual host may still seem slow for a while. Not to worry - once these are all moved, they’ll be faster than ever.

The Slashdot comments on Paid Support Not Critical For Linux Adoption illustrates a very common problem with the Linux community. Many Linux users equate their personal computer use with that of large enterprises, or in other words they give advice based on their own very limited experience and not on facts. The two comments below were both modded interesting and summarize the rest of the discussion The Ubuntu forums are very helpful.

The Slashdot comments on Paid Support Not Critical For Linux Adoption illustrates a very common problem with the Linux community. Many Linux users equate their personal computer use with that of large enterprises, or in other words they give advice based on their own very limited experience and not on facts. The two comments below were both modded interesting and summarize the rest of the discussion “The Ubuntu forums are very helpful.

It is impossible to have a conversation about Linux without someone brining up Ubuntu Linux. Whenever I mention that I dislike Ubuntu people either giving me the introduction to Linux speech or simply look at me funny. The matter usually comes up unexpectedly and I do not have adequate time to get my thoughts together and properly explain my disapproval. Ubuntu is being promoted as the first easy to use desktop oriented Linux distribution.

It is impossible to have a conversation about Linux without someone brining up Ubuntu Linux. Whenever I mention that I dislike Ubuntu people either giving me the introduction to Linux speech or simply look at me funny. The matter usually comes up unexpectedly and I do not have adequate time to get my thoughts together and properly explain my disapproval. Ubuntu is being promoted as the first easy to use desktop oriented Linux distribution.

iChm is a chm reader for Mac OS X, before iChm the two most popular clients lacked some of the major features and are absolutely hideous. iChm is Cocoa based, has an excellent tabs feature, is able to search through documents, and it has tons of other useful quirks.

After ages of preferring Safari I think I’ve just convinced myself to switch to Firefox 3. I’ve added a few extensions to make it work pretty nicely the way I like, and fill in some features it’s missing (and some that Safari itself doesn’t have): FoxMarks, so I can sync my bookmarks on all machines where I use Firefox 3, optionally to my own server and not some untrusted organization “in the cloud” Fast Video Downloader, for better, more efficient thievery of embedded flash videos and most importantly: