Hotmail classifies me as a heavy-duty spammer. Check your spam folder. if it was our hosting friend I'd say take my address out of the killfile (OOOOOLD) but you're on coldmail, so there's no such thing.
Cheers! On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Paul Saenz<[email protected]> wrote: > speaking of email problems. I've noticed that Dante's emails don't get > through to me. I noticed in the last month that as various threads progress, > people respond to Dante's emails of which I had never received. I thought > that was kind of strange. > > Paul > > ________________________________ > From: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:32:22 -0400 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LinuxUsers] little off topic > > I agree with Dante here. IMHO you need to install and use a Windows machine > at home, you aren't going to learn enough about fixing small business issues > if you aren't using it. I don't mean the occasional usage, I mean actually > setting it up and trying to do the same things that small businesses are > going to be doing. Networking, file sharing, email, etc, this will help you > understand what causes problems, how to fix them, and suggestions to make on > software. Knowing the Outlook is a pain doesn't mean that Thunderbird is > going to be a better solution for that company and you aren't going to know > the use cases if you don't use it and see the benefits. > For most of the small businesses I have done work for I would never have > recommended a move to Linux. For one, the software they needed required > Windows and cross platform alternatives were crap. Even Openoffice is very > much lacking in dealing with Office documents properly and businesses need > to be able to send and receive documents to and from other companies and > residential customers. Those customers are not going to have Openoffice > installed or have anything that supports open formats. > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Paul Saenz<[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I am planning to offer IT services to small business, and I know that when >> I >> go >> and do so, many people are going to say that their computers are running >> slow, so >> what I need to do first is to research and find what are the typical and >> most likely >> kinds of problems that are causing computers slow down. > > If you're adventuring into this market, be ready to ditch linux > in a commercial way. It's gonna be restricted to your personal > time. Unless the small businesses in your area operate > completely different from the ones in San Diego, of course. > > And performance-wise, when there's a problem, there is rarely > a program that will be point-and-click, much manual troubleshooting > involved. > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > > -- > Peter Manis > (678) 269-7979 > > ________________________________ > Get free photo software from Windows Live Click here. > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
