Thanks for the tips, Cory, that might come to use. Anyone got a favorite webmail BTW? I've been meaning to set up squirrelmail or the like... have been stuck on evolution, though. A very nice program, but a little heavy on the resources. If it could share memory on a multi-user system like LTSP... hmmm. I've been scheming up a mutation of LTSP, OpenMOSIX, and LVM, possibly virtual machine partitioning. TCO for many small and medium offices could plummet, and the direction of linux, regarding server vs. desktop, would be further blurred. The main goals of the project could be to make its IT mesh out of a mess, and also reliability and robustness. Anyone interested?
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:05, Cory Petkovsek wrote: > 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 Bummer, I got >time<, which is not recognizable as a [tax-deductible] donation unless I give it to an organization like OPN, with their fancy paperwork and 501(c)(3) legitimacy... who'd want to pay for a war anyway, you ask? Don't ask, it's the wrong list = ) I will be burning some knoppix's to spread to friends; I spend a fair amount of time advocating freedom in software and do so at some high-profile social events annually, for our LUG. And then there's my sometimes-helpful ranting on this very mailing list... So I feel pretty good about my contribution, thanks. All of our employers (and clients) support us... who has money for a LUG when so many are jobless, and the economy blah blah blah? I guess it would have been more appropriate, if I had earlier requested *participation* as a give-back. Wise. Thanks again! Ben _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
