Oh my god! If this isn't the biggest case of sexual discrimination, I don't know what is.
Tonight I was ENRAGED to hear about a Bar in Melbourne has decided to ban Hetrosexuals simply because they are scared of us.
Ok, I really feel angry about this so I'll pause, then break down what I believe is the issue I have about this.
1. A government has allowed a law (whatever) to pass that allows someone (anyone, I don't care who) to discriminate against someone else based on their sexual preference.
2. Patrons of the bar (esp. the owner) felt that their security was SO badly at risk that they couldn't employ any other means other than apply for this whatever it is to be implemented.
3. The Equal Opportunities Board of Australia decided that being unequal is the solution that they wish to endorse.
I'm hetrosexual. I've never had gay tendencies or been tempted to "join the other side", and now because of this, I'm unable to go to their bar simply because this is the way I am?
What gives them the right to make me feel like I've done something wrong by being the person I am simply because they have a different sense of sexuality?
--- checked out a website ---
How funny...I've just been to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission website to enquire about how such a law could be passed when it so blatentley biased only to find 26, no shit, twenty six articles on how women's rights have to be protected and god knows more about women's rights than you can poke a stick at.
I then had a look to see what articles were posted about men's rights and shock horror, nothing. I did a search on men and guess what I found, "Gay men and lesbian rights".
At no point did I find a reference to what rights I have as a man. Even a search revealed that without a lot of digging, I'm probably not going to find a document called, basic_mens_rights.pdf or i_am_not_a_woman_aboriginal_torres_straight_islander_gay_lesbian_so_what_are_my_rights.pdf document either am I?
I feel so ashamed of the government, so very ashamed. The woman from the EEO commission on the news who so smugly promoted the "win" for gay people said that this is something that needs to be done if other gay people are to have a safe and secure social life.
The problem with that is, if I go to a bar, I'm just as likely going to get smashed in the face by a bunch of rowdy idiots as anyone else is, and I bet they're not going to ask me if I'm gay before I take a hit to the head, so where is my EEO commission person saying that rowdy people can't come into some bar so hetrosexuals can have a safe and secure social life. What a pathetic joke.
If I knew her name, I'd tell you to your face that you are a sad, sad woman who sees not five minutes in front of her own actions.
Next, we're going to have gay aboriginals bars, gay non-aboriginal bars and so on. Where does this stupidity end?
2007-05-06
Zimbra on Fedora Core 6
Having built my own web-based email client and experiencing how much effort goes into parsing the email message itself, and then moving on to building my own web-based Calendar, I appreciate when a company goes to all that trouble and releases a free version of a very good collaboration tool such as Zimbra.
Here is my experience with deploying Zimbra Collaboration Suite on Fedora Core 6 (minimal installation specifically designed to server as an "applicance" server and nothing more).
I downloaded zcs open edition and proceeded to jump right in. After un-taring the tarball I went straight into the directory and looked at what was in there. I checked out the README and saw that you need to run ./install.sh, so I did.
After agreeing to the License agreement (who reads these things anyhow?), it checked for the pre-req's, two of which I didn't meet.
I needed to install GPM and libstdc++. A simple yum install gpm was sufficient to have this installed. But I have to go to RPMFind and look for libstdc++ and find the compat-libstdc++ RPM manually.
After installing these two packages, all the requirements were met. It checked for any of the Zimbra packages that might be installed (none were found obviously) and moved on to asking whether or not it could install these packages.
After installing the packages, it went directly to the System Config script (/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmsetup.pl). After going through the "your server is not set up in the DNS correctly" and bypassing certain config issues simply because I had to, I got to the installation of LDAP.
The error that came back said something about su (or sudo) failing because I needed a TTY. A quick bit of research found that in the /etc/sudoers file (visudo) the DEFAULTS requiretty was enabled, literally killing the install scripts ability to execute what it needed to.
After commenting this out, re-running the zmsetup.pl script, LDAP installed correctly.
Other than this, there were no other issues with the install script.
Everything got to the end and the "Setup Completed - Press any Key" prompt graced my presence and I was happy.
I su - zimbra and issued the zmcontrol status command and found that tomcat wasn't running.
I checked the /var/log/zimbra.log and a few other log files and it turned out that something was not able to access the MySQL server that zimbra installed.
After at least three days of searching, a very simple solution presented itself to me.
The order of my /etc/hosts file was incorrect, which caused MySQL to use the incorrect "domain" as part of it's authentication process for the zimbra system which caused tomcat to fail to start.
I put my 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost entry as the first line in my /etc/hosts file and issued a zmcontrol stop; zmcontrol start; zmcontrol status command to find that bingo, everything started up and was running perfectly.
I've since created an account, auto-forwarded my email from my original mail server to the appliance server and so far so good. I'm in the process of training the SPAM and HAM filters (love the concept of HAM btw) and am about to convert my entire company to Zimbra.
As for the user interface on both the web client and admin console, I have worked with DHTML/AJAX applications for years and the easy of use combined with the beautiful/sexy interfaces is a triumph for Zimbra. They have done extremely well! Congratuations Zimbra Inc.
As far as the Network Edition (NE), if I felt that the Open Source (OS) version was incapable of performing the tasks that the NE version does then I'm more than happy to have my company pay for the licenses, but until then, the OS version is spot on perfect.
I'm in the middle of reading about how I can make a contribution to the ZCS but I'm afraid that my area's of expertise might not be where they would need it the most, but I am still going to try to contribute.
I very much do recommend Zimbra as a solution to your corporate email issues.
Here is my experience with deploying Zimbra Collaboration Suite on Fedora Core 6 (minimal installation specifically designed to server as an "applicance" server and nothing more).
I downloaded zcs open edition and proceeded to jump right in. After un-taring the tarball I went straight into the directory and looked at what was in there. I checked out the README and saw that you need to run ./install.sh, so I did.
After agreeing to the License agreement (who reads these things anyhow?), it checked for the pre-req's, two of which I didn't meet.
I needed to install GPM and libstdc++. A simple yum install gpm was sufficient to have this installed. But I have to go to RPMFind and look for libstdc++ and find the compat-libstdc++ RPM manually.
After installing these two packages, all the requirements were met. It checked for any of the Zimbra packages that might be installed (none were found obviously) and moved on to asking whether or not it could install these packages.
After installing the packages, it went directly to the System Config script (/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmsetup.pl). After going through the "your server is not set up in the DNS correctly" and bypassing certain config issues simply because I had to, I got to the installation of LDAP.
The error that came back said something about su (or sudo) failing because I needed a TTY. A quick bit of research found that in the /etc/sudoers file (visudo) the DEFAULTS requiretty was enabled, literally killing the install scripts ability to execute what it needed to.
After commenting this out, re-running the zmsetup.pl script, LDAP installed correctly.
Other than this, there were no other issues with the install script.
Everything got to the end and the "Setup Completed - Press any Key" prompt graced my presence and I was happy.
I su - zimbra and issued the zmcontrol status command and found that tomcat wasn't running.
I checked the /var/log/zimbra.log and a few other log files and it turned out that something was not able to access the MySQL server that zimbra installed.
After at least three days of searching, a very simple solution presented itself to me.
The order of my /etc/hosts file was incorrect, which caused MySQL to use the incorrect "domain" as part of it's authentication process for the zimbra system which caused tomcat to fail to start.
I put my 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost entry as the first line in my /etc/hosts file and issued a zmcontrol stop; zmcontrol start; zmcontrol status command to find that bingo, everything started up and was running perfectly.
I've since created an account, auto-forwarded my email from my original mail server to the appliance server and so far so good. I'm in the process of training the SPAM and HAM filters (love the concept of HAM btw) and am about to convert my entire company to Zimbra.
As for the user interface on both the web client and admin console, I have worked with DHTML/AJAX applications for years and the easy of use combined with the beautiful/sexy interfaces is a triumph for Zimbra. They have done extremely well! Congratuations Zimbra Inc.
As far as the Network Edition (NE), if I felt that the Open Source (OS) version was incapable of performing the tasks that the NE version does then I'm more than happy to have my company pay for the licenses, but until then, the OS version is spot on perfect.
I'm in the middle of reading about how I can make a contribution to the ZCS but I'm afraid that my area's of expertise might not be where they would need it the most, but I am still going to try to contribute.
I very much do recommend Zimbra as a solution to your corporate email issues.
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