philipstorry

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by philipstorry 7d ago
Lotus/IBM didn't ignore those standards. The Notes directory was based on X.500 - it had the same attributes etc. Notes didn't implement DAP, but then almost nobody did, which is why we got LDAP. There was an add-on connector
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by philipstorry 7d ago
I worked with Notes for 15 years, and your point C baffles me. Could you please elaborate? I still remember the Notes/Domino Server TCP port number - 1352. I've used it so often in firewall configurations or communications with cu
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by philipstorry 7d ago
This. Microsoft was very aggressive in courting CIOs and senior management, and had a great sales team. I remember hearing that they had a storage calculator spreadsheet that would allow you to calculate how many IOPS you'd need from y
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by philipstorry 7d ago
I administered messaging and groupware systems for over 15 years. It was a large chunk of my career. I worked with both Exchange Server/Outlook and Lotus Domino/Notes, and generally preferred Lotus Domino - but both had their issu
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by philipstorry 4mo ago
Absolutely. I was, if anything, trying to caution against assuming that the segment the poster was in was the whole of the market. (Personally I think that the AVP market is too small for the modern Apple to care about, and I don't see
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by philipstorry 4mo ago
Hiya. Sorry, but you might not like what I have to say - I still hope that you read it all though. I doubt that this is the future. Maybe it is for a small number of people on HN, but outside of this site there's no way it's the f
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by philipstorry 4mo ago
Windows 1-3 ran on top of DOS, with a small caveat for Windows 3.x Windows 3.x running in 386 Enhanced Mode had a very small multi-threaded preemptive kernel, which it used to handle its MS-DOS windows. So whilst each Windows program ran co
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by philipstorry 5mo ago
SMTP won because it was simpler, but it's probably good to look at why it was simpler. SMTP handled routing by piggybacking on DNS. When an email arrives the SMTP server looks at the domain part of the address, does a query, and then a
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by philipstorry 5mo ago
What I really liked about ZoneAlarm wasn't just that it was a very nice technology - and it was; but also that it got the user expectations and training right from a very early stage. It was quite insistent on the fact that it would be
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by philipstorry 6mo ago
Yes and no. Yes. The incentives for writing reliable, robust code were much higher. The internet existed so you could, in theory, get a patch out for people to download - but a sizeable part of any user base might have limited access, so wo
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by philipstorry 6mo ago
Yo. Firstly, thanks for the trip down memory lane - well written, engaging, fun. My mind is still stuck in those days even after finishing the article, as you can tell from my anachronistic greeting. Secondly, as someone who spent 15 years
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by philipstorry 7mo ago
Not a bad article - thanks! Others are pointing out that you cannot understand everything - and that's true enough. But you only need to understand what's important. The experience of a good expert helps you to find that out. As a
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by philipstorry 1y ago
Quite the nostalgia blast for me! I'm honestly not sure I had a machine with more than 2 fixed disks until well into the days of Windows 7 and SATA. The exception would be logical disks such as Stacker or similar compressed volumes - b