Zimbra fits your roll perfectly. It's able to scale to the levels of the University I work at, so I'm sure it could handle a 10 man team.

It also supports ActiveSync pushing so it can automatically send appointments to your iPad/iPhone/Android device etc. It also web browser based so no need for a stand alone email client (but you could still use one if you wish).

Also, you can view other peoples Calendars, etc.. and push invites to those people (which my boss does.. she'll push out maintenance calls etc to all of us which automatically get added into our calendar)

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"and some game called 'words' which has message capability"

So the guy wants to wire tap everything they use, period. Even a freaking games? Most of those games already filter "bad words".

One thing you can do is set all their DNS servers to use OpenDNS's FamilyShield. It will do a pretty good job of filtering bad sites/etc at the DNS level.
As for logging, I wouldn't. That just sounds like not only violating your family's privacy (okay so they're under-age? That may be okay) but should anyone else happen to use the device and have no clue the things they were typing or doing were being recorded could pose a big issue.

It's a thought anyhow.

Most of the devices use the ffmpeg libraries to handle the decoding (and encoding on those that can rip or record).. which always made me wonder why some don't support certain formats/codecs while others do considering they're nearly all built using ffmpeg...

You can gget a drug interaction app for android and I assume others. You can also download the full blown deal on your PC... or go to a bookstore (maybe more so one on a campus) and purchase the "official" book off of the shelf....

I guess the secret is to use Google Services... let them host the email, use their Calender system, Google talk, etc.
You don't get the spiffy BES service, but the encrypted email is enough, right? Or switch to android and use TextSecure and RedPhone, problem solved (until they are cracked, although TextSecure uses AES).

After a month or so getting that all setup, you now get to sit on a beach sipping drinks as the IT support mostly falls on someone else... issue solved!

So, it's not killing texts, but just making texts and iMessages look the same *to you*. What you just said is it doesn't matter how it's sent, the application works it out.. that's great and all, except all your friends without iMessage and/or smartphones are receiving text messages... the very item you claim this application is going to kill.

Junta is absolutely correct with gTalk, AIM, etc. You *could* count iMessage if you don't count any portions that send the messages as texts. The other clients/messengers don't use texts, only sending via their protocols over data. *That* is what will kill text messaging (except for the fact carriers put crazy prices on data plans, so either way you're kind of screwed)

Your neighbors gone wild! Awesome bedroom footage from above!

Back in 99/2000, the university at the time called me in to judicial affairs because the MPAA had sent a letter or other wise contacted them about a file that was available on my "personal page" hosted at the university. Now granted I hadn't had access to the page in over two years or so at the time as I was now out of school and no longer had access. Anyhow, the file was the source for DeCSS, which the MPAA contacted the school about because its "copyright violation", which the judicial affairs lady told me the university took very seriously (but the lady didn't seem to understand I had no control over or access to the page anymore, as I was no longer a student).

I also interned under a guy who had received two notices from Comcast within a week or so of each other (which he had shown me).. his first and second strike letters for downloading TV shows and movies

But those stats don't count those who are running ICS unofficially are they? (Not being smart, I'm actually curious)

There's a lot of people running oscomic, CM9, and other AOSP builds on devices that don't have ICS.. such as me with my galaxy s gt-i9000

Weird.. as CyanogenMod 7 and 9 both run on my wife's Verizon Samsung Fascinate just fine (and that's an AOSP release)

Typically Verizon and att use 850/900/1800/1900 MHz bands. Sprint is the same. T-Mobile uses 850/900/1700AWS/2100 iirc but I may be off on that

You *can* do this in the US with certain phones/carriers. My Immix Wireless Galaxy S is unlocked out of the box and I can insert any sim and go. Now my neighbors super plain Jane at&t phone won't accept my immix sim as the phone is sim locked.

Same with my old Verizon Blackberry Storm. I had to call Verizon and tell them I was traveling to Europe and being provided a sim for them to unlock the phone.. which I then promptly moved to immix wireless using an immix sim card

I had to update my resume (word 97/2003 format or whatever the "standard" is).

The weird thing is OpenOffice opened "more correctly" than Libre did. While the font was off, the breaks between pages were all correct along with the rest of the formatting. Libre had it all messed up.

Do what we did.. Use OpenDirectory. We had it connect to and push Active Directory info from our Windows Server so both the PC side of things and the Mac side of things were all mapped and setup on boot.

As for deploying packages, we used BigFix.. but after issues (such as the one Firefox update we pushed that caused issues for end users), we experimented with Munki and found it to be a great tool to push updates. I even wrote a script to automatically do all of the manual stuff you had to do to setup the program package file to work with the munki update system (though I still had one bug.. it worked at the time I left but have since lost my copy of the script). Best part is, the updates show up just like normal OS X updates and don't require a root login to apply (whoever boots the machine just hits OK).

Also, DeployStudio is a great way to image machines or have other tools setup should shit hit the fan on the Mac. Just network boot and you'll have access to tools, images if it needs to be re-images, etc.

All it all the setup worked out pretty well