Fwd: [Israel.pm] Tel Aviv Perl Mongers meeting on May 25th (next Wednesday!)

2011-05-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [Israel.pm] Tel Aviv Perl Mongers meeting on May 25th (next Wednesday!) Date: Sunday 15 May 2011, 16:43:56 From: sawyer x xsawy...@gmail.com To: Perl in Israel p...@perl.org.il Hey everyone, We're having another Tel Aviv Perl Mongers (TA.pm)

File Server for SOHO?

2011-05-20 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi All, A friend of mine has a small biz with 6 PC running Windows XP Home set up as a Workgroup. He has a dedicated app that saves files to a shared folder on one of them, and all other PC access these files as clients... This specific PC that acts as a server is dying (the hard disk is failing

Re: File Server for SOHO?

2011-05-20 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Amichai, I think that you would be best to tell your friend to use genuine Microsoft Windows for the server for the following reasons: a) He will remain your friend and will not curse you for setting up something that he can't understand and is not motivated to understand b) He will not

Re: File Server for SOHO?

2011-05-20 Thread Amichai Rotman
I beg to differ... A friend of mine (not the same - one that installs and developes Linux based solutions for businesses) implemented such a solution for his CPA - a file server where all the office files are located (all 'My Documents' folders point to the share) and the CPA says he had not one

Re: how do you handle (un)supported linux distributions?

2011-05-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 07:44, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: So it is a supported OS. Your subject line implied that it is no longer receiving [security] updates. That's case for some of the companies I encounter. Not for the places where I am in charge. I see. According to