Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:11:36 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vikki Roemer) wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:32:46AM -0500, BruceG wrote: > > Anyway - you might want to include a few distributions, as not > > everyone may be interested in Debian. I found Mandrake, SuSE

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 13:58, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:51:56PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Well, it works now. Before, when it was empty, was just: > > > > > > Maybe your webserver got overloaded? > > Could be. I've been having problems lately with connectio

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:51:56PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Well, it works now. Before, when it was empty, was just: > > > Maybe your webserver got overloaded? Could be. I've been having problems lately with connections refused and stuff. Dunno what the problem could be. I though

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "Vikki Roemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 1:14 PM Subject: Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"] No problems g

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 12:14, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:51:42AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:11, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > maintaining a website for them. See http://bchomeschool.homelinux.com/ > > > > It's empty > > *shrug* I'm having no prob

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Vikki Roemer wrote: > *shrug* I'm having no problems with it, and no one else seems to either-- > people are going to my site and the server is sending data, and I haven't > had any complaints from the group. Anybody else here having problems? I just tried it here, because

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:51:42AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:11, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > maintaining a website for them. See http://bchomeschool.homelinux.com/ > > It's empty *shrug* I'm having no problems with it, and no one else seems to either-- people are goin

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:11, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:32:46AM -0500, BruceG wrote: [snip] > maintaining a website for them. See http://bchomeschool.homelinux.com/ It's empty -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:32:46AM -0500, BruceG wrote: > Anyway - you might want to include a few distributions, as not everyone may > be interested in Debian. I found Mandrake, SuSE and Red Hatto have a very > good look and feel. With RHL moving towards Project Fedora, and Fedora Core > at 1.0 -

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread BruceG
Vikki - your plan sounds god to me! I looked at your website a while back and was pretty impressed. Along the way I decided to mess with Debian (I was running Mandrake on my desktop and switched to SuSE 8.2 Personal, and running dual-boot WinXP/Red Hat 9.0 on my work laptop). Anyway - you might wa

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:03:12AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..you lost your Wintendo-vs-Linux paper, url? http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/~vikki/windowsvlinux.html > > Basic Plan: > > When a patch for your distro is released, I will patch the system. I > > will also set up a firewall cust

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:44:16PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > great idea and plan ... but ... > > - everybody can do this ??? and does ... Not total newbies who view computers as a tool. They don't know how to compile a kernel or set up a firewall-- most of them prolly have barely heard of

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya scruloose ( cool name :-) ) On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, ScruLoose wrote: > > > > Basic Plan: > > > > When a patch for your distro is released, I will patch the system. I will > > > > also set up a firewall customized for your needs. Whenever you feel you need > > > > a kernel upgrade, I'll custo

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 21:48, ScruLoose wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:44:16PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:04:07PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > > fun stuff !!! i shoulda been reading this thread earlier :-) > > > > > > Well, I've come up with this much (quote

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-11 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:44:16PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:04:07PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > fun stuff !!! i shoulda been reading this thread earlier :-) > > > > Well, I've come up with this much (quote from my website > > > http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/f

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:04:07 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vikki Roemer) wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:32:18PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > ..oh, daring. You oughtta come up with a policy on how you > > wanna sysadmin or coach your clientele, and upfr

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-11 Thread Tom
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:44:16PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Tom wrote: > > Services consulting varies from $25-$400/hour. The services you are > > offering tend to be valued on the low side. > > and even highter ... try $50,000/yr with no minimum gurantee of anything $50,0

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-11 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Tom wrote: fun stuff !!! i shoulda been reading this thread earlier :-) > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:04:07PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > Well, I've come up with this much (quote from my website > > http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/foosoft.html): > > FooAdmin > > For a m

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:04, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:32:18PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > ..oh, daring. You oughtta come up with a policy on how you wanna > > sysadmin or coach your clientele, and upfront. Good luck! ;-) > > Well, I've come up with this much

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-11 Thread Tom
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:04:07PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Well, I've come up with this much (quote from my website > http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/foosoft.html): > FooAdmin > For a monthly fee, I will administer your computers. There are 2 plans. > > Basic Plan: > When a patch for your

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-11 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:32:18PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..oh, daring. You oughtta come up with a policy on how you wanna > sysadmin or coach your clientele, and upfront. Good luck! ;-) Well, I've come up with this much (quote from my website http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/foo