On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 05:49:19PM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote:
> Thanks, Roger!  Knoppix s is REALLY COOL.  I suggest it to anyone who's
> considering the Switch(tm)... to Real Computing.  It is an impressive
> system, and I am curious to know more about what else it is capable of,
> when "installed".  My boss has been trying to learn bits-N-pieces of
> linux for a while now, and (after recovering some critical data when
> nothing else worked) he is finally ready for a dual-boot setup.  Can
> anyone suggest some "simplistic" routines for making use of those silly
> .pst file backups and also the "Favorites"??  I speak of outlook and
> explorer files, for those purists among you.  Maybe some fancy
> conversion scripts to make .pst's into mbox's or something? 

You have an imap server right?  ;)
Install one, then upload your .pst stuff to it through windows.  If you have
problems with outlook and imap, install windows mozilla mail, convert from
import from outlook and upload via mozilla.  Then you have centrally managed and
backed up email services for your whole company regardless of platform.  
Install ldap and you have a global address book.  Although I don't think
outlook can do ldap.  I just learned that mutt can do ldap.  I need to try it
out:
http://mesh.eecs.umich.edu/pipermail/mesh-discuss/2002-March/000286.html
http://mesh.eecs.umich.edu/pipermail/mesh-discuss/2002-March/000287.html


> Note on knoppix:  I wanted to do some root operations, right off the
> bat, and was a little frustrated (but also pleased) that they didn't
> make it easy (for those like me who didn't RTFM to find out the root
> password!)... but I could in fact do anything I wanted through the
> appropriate GUI:  for example, clicking on a drive mounted it, and
> unmounting is also possible from the GUI.

No root password.

Want a root shell? You can either click on it in the menu.  It's called
"Root Shell" or run this command:
sudo su

Want to run any other command as root w/o a root shell: sudo <command>

> ciao and cheers, all, thanks for the support!

Be sure to send in your contribution check to Euglug.

Cory
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