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Tuesday, April 23, 2002via ActiveWin: Samba runs rings around Win2000
In terms of scalability, the results show that Linux and Samba can handle four times as many client systems as Windows 2000 before performance begins to drop off.
When I was working on an unattended Windows 2000 / IIS server roll-out project, with a stated goal of 1000 servers per month, I chose Linux and Samba for the back-end. From my perspective it was about lowering the administrative burden; a Linux back-end was already being used to build Linux and BSD servers and someone else was already responsible for them. Less work for me, and cash savings of $5,000+ per data center.
Non-imaged networked Windows installations are a nasty business, a few hundred megabytes comprising several thousand individual files must be initially transferred. Prior attempts at mass installations using a Windows file server had resulted in reduced reliability with more than two simultaneous installs. I benchmarked Samba out to a dozen with nary a hiccup and no measurable drop in performance, on a meager 450MHz server. I could never get my hands on enough spare servers to put a serious load on the Samba server, but it had already exceeded our performance requirements by a significant margin.
Samba is a credible threat against high-volume Windows file servers.
You've got users.
Being featured on Pocket PC Thoughts has brought some real flow, Pocket Blog has been downloaded about 70 times since yesterday and hits are trickling in from other PDA web sites. Folks are asking about support for Pocket PC 2000 and other things that I haven't a clue about.
Cool 
Pocket Blog v0.1.4 should go out this weekend. The primary change will be the implementation of continuous weblog polling. Presently Pocket Blog only posts updates and downloads new entries when a connection is initially detected. I will also clean up the Configuration menu and add an "Update Now" button.
I would like to know if anyone has encountered problems with Pocket Blog not detecting an Internet connection. Use the Feedback Button 
802.11b News: Another card designed to switch between Wi-Fi and cell networks announced. Although the card isn't slated to ship til year's end, it's part of the momentum for seamless WLAN/cell networks.
How long until a Compact Flash version?
Will Lechner: I just did a Radio update and I see that the Blogger API is now fixed along with the MetaWeblog API. That means that Radio will correctly upstream archive files when you post with either of these APIs. Thanks UserLand. Frank McPherson: Here are instructions for adding the Zaurus Zone package feed to the add/remove programs of the Zaurus SL-5500. Evhead: "The Cubik is the world's smallest megapixel digital camera." Doubles as a webcam.The Bluetooth Weblog: I actually saw someone using a Bluetooth headset here in Paris on Sunday!
Hopefully Bluetooth's chicken-and-egg affliction will soon be over. Bluetooth headsets are neat, but at $200+ only the hard-core early adopters have them. Jabra's forthcoming headset looks like it may be comfortable, unobtrusive, and priced more reasonably, but the product has been vapor for so long that I have trouble believing it.
Car speakerphone kits are what really excite me. I don't really care for headsets in the first place, but I would happily part with $300 for a high-end hard-wired car speakerphone with a "privacy handset." High-quality car kits have become virtually extinct outside of the new car market (the one in the BMW 5-Series is especially nice), Bluetooth should revitalize this niche because vendors won't have to support individual phones.
PDA Buzz: Toshiba launches e310 in America, available immediately. This is the new PocketPC that I proclaimed as the Palm m515 killer.
Also, Compaq has shipped 2 million iPaqs in two years.
Sam Kleinman writes about PocketBlog on Pocket PC Thoughts:
There is something really convient about having a database type program that automatically posts entries to the CMS. I think this might be something that would help my ability to Blog more effectively.
He would like to see a Spell Checker. Hopefully when the .NET Compact Framework is released it will be practical to implement this. Windows CE has a Spelling API, but it is not usable from Embedded Visual Basic.