Re: Multiple PC's for one user?

2006-03-08 Thread .
Scott Fitzgerald wrote: could also run a cgi search script, I would be able to have a intranet with customized content and a search engine that worked only for me. So, I would like to set up a box and start it out as a web server (intranet style.) You would run apache and a search engine

Re: Multiple PC's for one user?

2006-03-08 Thread grey
Scott Fitzgerald said: If I yank exim off my desktop box, and run something detached, how can I set it up so any error report will try to go over another box on the 192.168.0.* network? nullmailer Also on email, would it make sense to ssh-or-telnet-or-remote-X onto the heavy box for the

Re: Multiple PC's for one user?

2006-03-08 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1141793963, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To be honest the only reason I keep telnet around is to talk directly to the POP/SMTP/IMAP daemons when my dad calls up telling me his email client can't connect. Other than specialized use telnet would be yanked off my boxes in a heartbeat. Today's

Re: Multiple PC's for one user?

2006-03-08 Thread Steve Lamb
Jon Dowland said: Today's your lucky day: use netcat for those jobs, as it's more flexible :) Sayonara, telnet! More flexible how, exactly? I want an interactive session with the server so I can see what is going on and try different things. AFAIK netcat ain't high on the interactive

Multiple PC's for one user?

2006-03-07 Thread Scott Fitzgerald
Instead of buying a commercian muscle box I think it would be more   fun to instead link two pc's to serve one user, namely, myself.   Thinking about this, I wanted to contact the group.     Has anybody else done this?  I would like to know so I could just   follow in the footsteps of somebody

Re: Multiple PC's for one user?

2006-03-07 Thread Bart van den Heuvel
I guess this is all up to you... The debian systems I use all more or less depend on each other. I've got one DB instance, One SMTP mail instance, One IMAP mail instance, gameservers, One central system that runs Cron over the network. These services are all shared/used by other machines over the

Re: Multiple PC's for one user?

2006-03-07 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 07:23:12AM -0500, Scott Fitzgerald wrote: Instead of buying a commercian muscle box I think it would be more   fun to instead link two pc's to serve one user, namely, myself.   Thinking about this, I wanted to contact the group.     Has anybody else done this?  I

Re: Multiple PC's for one user?

2006-03-07 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 07:23:12AM -0500, Scott Fitzgerald wrote: Instead of buying a commercian muscle box I think it would be more   fun to instead link two pc's to serve one user, namely, myself.   Thinking about this, I wanted to contact the group.     Has anybody else done this?  I

Re: Multiple PC's for one user?

2006-03-07 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 03:23, Scott Fitzgerald wrote: Instead of buying a commercian muscle box I think it would be more   fun to instead link two pc's to serve one user, namely, myself.   Thinking about this, I wanted to contact the group.     Has anybody else done this?  I would like to

Re: Multiple PC's for one user?

2006-03-07 Thread Scott Fitzgerald
posted mailed OK, Bart, Andreas, and Paul, Let me start by saying thanks for replying. Needing more detail on the question seems to be a common need. My major uses are email and web, but I want to learn some shell scripting, and do some python programming. One way I love to use the web is to

Re: Multiple PC's for one user?

2006-03-07 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:52:18PM -0500, Scott Fitzgerald wrote: posted mailed OK, Bart, Andreas, and Paul, Let me start by saying thanks for replying. Needing more detail on the question seems to be a common need. My major uses are email and web, but I want to learn some shell