Re: [PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

2010-06-07 Thread Aaron Burt
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 11:01:15AM -0700, Michael Rasmussen wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 08:20:48PM -0700, Mike Connors wrote: On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.uswrote: A story of System Administration the *nix way:

Re: [PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

2010-06-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Aaron Burt wrote: Understandable, though, given that *nix has always been CLI, and had to funcion well that way, and Windows and its ecosystem is new to it. But DOS wasn't new to CLI. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list

[PLUG] VERY small embedded server

2010-06-07 Thread Pete Lancashire
http://www.lantronix.com/device-networking/embedded-device-servers/xport-pro.html ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

2010-06-07 Thread Joe Shisei Niski
On 06/07/2010 09:27 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Aaron Burt wrote: Understandable, though, given that *nix has always been CLI, and had to funcion well that way, and Windows and its ecosystem is new to it. But DOS wasn't new to CLI. Rich yes, but the MS-DOS

Re: [PLUG] Virtual Servers

2010-06-07 Thread D. Cooper Stevenson
Hi Scott, On 06/07/10 13:37, Scott Howard wrote: Where can I find a primer on application based virtual server. What is your application? For some applications, such as a developer sandbox, a Xen or Virtualbox server is a good route. For specialized purposes, BSD jails are highly efficient and

Re: [PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

2010-06-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Joe Shisei Niski wrote: yes, but the MS-DOS command languagewas sooo limited compared to its IXen *contemporaries - especially for scripting - that it was truly pitiful from the beginning. The current standard MS-Win command shell isn't much of an improvement. Joe, I

Re: [PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

2010-06-07 Thread Joe Shisei Niski
On 06/07/2010 02:43 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Joe Shisei Niski wrote: yes, but the MS-DOS command languagewas sooo limited compared to its IXen *contemporaries - especially for scripting - that it was truly pitiful from the beginning. The current standard MS-Win command

Re: [PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

2010-06-07 Thread Galen Seitz
Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Joe Shisei Niski wrote: yes, but the MS-DOS command languagewas sooo limited compared to its IXen *contemporaries - especially for scripting - that it was truly pitiful from the beginning. The current standard MS-Win command shell isn't much of an

Re: [PLUG] Virtual Servers

2010-06-07 Thread Aaron Burt
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 04:37:00PM -0400, Scott Howard wrote: Where can I find a primer on application based virtual server. That's quite a mouthful. Can you describe what you mean by that? You might be talking about linux-vserver, which, like BSD's jails, isolates applications from each other

Re: [PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

2010-06-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Joe Shisei Niski wrote: Would that be the good 'ol MKS Toolkit from Mortice Kern Systems? Yes. I used it from the mid-1980s until mid-1997 when I switched completely to linux. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Real Men Don't Click

2010-06-07 Thread mhewan1
Oh man, flash back. MKS was cool, when all you had was Windows and needed a real shell. - Original Message - From: Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com To: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic plug@lists.pdxlinux.org Sent: Monday, June 7, 2010 4:21:47 PM GMT

[PLUG] Virtual Servers

2010-06-07 Thread Scott Howard
Thank you for the responses. A friend back east is about to go live with many users accessing a virtual server. This cuts down on cost and keeps maintanance centralized. My image is that my windows user would each have a sandbox? From where they would run their programs. Yes this would