Thursday, March 04, 2004 - Posts
I've just read an interesting review of the most famous Email client written by Kreide. This is a comparison of the features available in the next generation of mail clients and their usability in dealing with large number of messages.
The mail clients reviewed are:
- Evolution 1.5.2 (unstable)
- KMail 1.6 (part of KDE 3.2)
- Opera 7.50 (preview 2)
- Mozilla 1.6 / Thunderbird 0.5
- Microsoft Outlook 2002 SP-1 (part of Microsoft Office XP)
and these are the results (read the entire review):
Quick summary
| Client: |  Evolution |
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| Homepage: | http://www.ximian.com/products/evolution/ |
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| License: | GPL |
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| Pros: | Groupware functionality, search folders, good IMAP support, optional Microsoft Exchange connectivity, GNOME centered |
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| Cons: | GNOME centered |
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| Bottom line: | For GNOME users wanting an advanced mail client with groupware functionality or Linux users need to access Microsoft Exchange |
| Client: |  Kontact |
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| Homepage: | http://www.kontact.org/ |
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| License: | GPL |
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| Pros: | Groupware functionality, search folders, very configurable, leverages KDE apps like the graphical regex editor, KDE centered |
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| Cons: | Still immature IMAP, missing follow-up feature, KDE centered |
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| Bottom line: | For KDE users wanting an advanced mail client with groupware functionality |
| Client: |  Opera M2 |
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| Homepage: | http://www.opera.com/products/user/m2/ |
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| License: | Closed source; free ad-sponsored version or pay $39 |
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| Pros: | Adapts to the user automatically, very quick searches including message bodies, integrated with Opera browser, includes RSS and IRC, multi-platform |
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| Cons: | Not free, not very configurable, takes some time to adjust to the new experience, missing encryption support, no IMAP server search |
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| Bottom line: | For users wanting an advanced and slick mail client, but without the hassle of configuration |
| Client: |  Microsoft Outlook |
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| Homepage: | http://www.microsoft.com/outlook/ |
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| License: | Closed source; part of the expensive Microsoft Office suite |
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| Pros: | Groupware functionality, hundreds of (though mostly useless) options, Microsoft Exchange connectivity |
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| Cons: | Expensive, Windows-only, easy to get lost in all the options, no IMAP server search |
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| Bottom line: | Only consider it of you must work in Windows and need the groupware and/or Exchange connectivity |
A little curiosity... if you go to http://search.msn.com/ and search for 'XFree86', it tells you that you've 'entered a search term that is likely to return adult content, and directs you to the porn search engine NightSurf.com, which lists some porn sites that ostensibly match the term 'XFree86'.
If you search for 'XFree86' on Google, however, the top matching terms returned by a normal search, are XFree86 sites, and not porn sites.
The other curiosity is that if you search something like 'XFree87', the research reports correct results. Why this?
The Windows Installer Cleanup Utility is updated...
The Windows Installer CleanUp Utility does:
- Provide a dialog box where you can select one or more programs that were installed by Windows Installer. You select the programs on the Installed Products list in the Windows Installer CleanUp dialog box. After you make this selection, the utility removes only the Windows Installer configuration information that is related to those programs.
- Remove the files and registry settings that make up the Windows Installer configuration information for programs that you select.
The Windows Installer CleanUp Utility does not:
- Remove Windows Installer.
- Remove files of any programs that are installed by Windows Installer, such as Microsoft Office 2003.
I've just tryed the Virtual Desktop for Windows XP, that offers you the possibility to Manage up to four desktops from the Windows taskbar (one of the best feature that Linux have in its User Interface).
Virtual Desktop is great... Right click on the taskbar, click Toolbars, and then click Desktop Manager: 4 buttons appear... you can choose a different background for each desktop and run different applications on different desktops.
Really wonderful!!
An interesting guide about
Managing the Windows Server Platform Active Directory Directory Service Product Operations is ready to download. This guide describes processes and procedures for improving the management of Microsoft® Active Directory® directory service in an information technology (IT) infrastructure.