Only $20-30? LOL My wife occasionally prays for power outages...
-ASB - http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:12 AM, N Parr <npar...@mortonind.com> wrote: > Bah!, it's required for true geektum. Running Vsphere 4 at home for > months now. I had a cobbled together Dell Precision workstation and was > running ESX 3.5 on it. When we upgraded our triad at work to get the > CPU's to all match I talked my boss in to letting me take home the > Poweredge 2900 that didn't match any more. Dual Quad Xeon's with 24 gig > of ram and about a TB of internal 15k SAS. Then I put together a > storage server and installed Starwinds free ISCSI server on it. So now > I can do full blown vmotion on shared storage between the Precision and > Poweredge. And my electric bill has only gone up $20-30/month. ;^) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] > Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 9:25 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: SPAM Solution > > You, sir, have just gone to the top of the geek list, for having ESXi > and VMs installed at home... > > >>> tony patton <tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com> 9/3/2009 12:21 AM >>> > +1 for untangle, i have it running in a vm on esxi at home, really like > +it > and pretty easy to set up. > > Regards > > Tony Patton > Desktop Operations Cavan > Ext 8078 > Direct Dial 049 435 2878 > email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com > > > > From: > Roger Wright <rhw...@gmail.com> > To: > "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > Date: > 03/09/2009 02:59 > Subject: > Re: SPAM Solution > > > > I think Sunbelt's Ninja/VIPRE is a great choice for an in-house > Exchange-based solution and should be in your short list of products for > consideration. > > Another option for an "in the cloud" solution is Postini by Google > Message Security. Last fall I switched two networks to it at just > $3/user/year for inbound filtering. It's been nearly perfect but I > don't know if they still offer that same minimal service at that price. > > You might want to check out UnTangle (http://www.untangle.com/home). > It's not too difficult to install and will probably meet your client's > needs for the cost of a spare PC. > > > Roger Wright > ___ > > > > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Matt Plahtinsky <cbusitl...@gmail.com> > wrote: > I have a client that is really tight on money. I need to implement a > Anti-SPAM solution. In the past I have worked with 3 different products > Barracuda, GFI, and xWall. My favorite by far is Barracuda b/c of the > ability to easily sort through the logs to tighten the rules. I HATE > GFI, it might be a good product but I was never able to get it to work > well for me. > > This client currently has GFI (which is up for renewal) and I don't > think I they can afford a Barracuda appliance. I'm going to be looking > at VIPRE but didn't know if there were any other reasonably priced > solutions I should be evaluating. > > Exchange 2003 / 60 email accounts / old hardware. > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
