> The problem wasn't Linux; it was the fact that I was changing several things at once, and when it didn't work, it was hard to figure out just where the problem was.
heh-heh. One has to admire it when a person knowing better than to try multiple changes at the same time tries it anyway <g>... Even more so when he/she "stays the course" and plows through all adversity, eventually ending up where he/she wanted to be in the first place. Personally, I do not think I would have had the gonads to pull off what Ed just managed to get through on-the-fly with live equipment. Ed called me last night, and shared his harrowing tales of challenging moments (days). Persistence counts, but when it comes with the desired end result, it counts really big. If anyone in our group is considering moving from Red Hat to Ubuntu, I am certain Ed would be willing to share his hard learned lessons (for a nominal fee, of course <g>. Seriously, I would not attempt it without chatting with someone who did it successfully first. A sincere Thank You to Ed for his efforts. And for getting ProFox back up, of course! Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 7:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Yet another tech test > > > Virgil Bierschwale wrote .. > > > I just formatted the drive on the spare computer, removed fedora and I'm > > in > > the process of putting xp on it and thinking about vista on my laptop > > (worried about quicken and zip forms) > > > > My opinion of linux. > > Could be very nice, but you need to be a tinkerer and I don't > want to spend > > time tinkering as I want to turn the key and run with it.. > > > > Final analysis, back to windows for me and linux isnt ready for > the average > > user. > > The problem wasn't Linux; it was the fact that I was > changing several things at once, and when it didn't work, it was > hard to figure out just where the problem was. I was also using > several programs that were over 3 years old, since they were > still working fine, and I have better things to do than tinker > with my server all the time. > > The reason that the regular list worked and the tech list > didn't was that there are several custom programs I wrote to do > the filtering magic, and they relied on several external > programs, one of which changed a setting name going from the old > version I was using to the new version. In Windows, the > equivalent would be calling a procedure in a DLL whose parameters > changed from one version to the next. > > -- Ed > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/mixed > text/plain (text body -- kept) > --- > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
