Re: SOT: virtualization

2009-12-16 Thread Paul Mooring
Where I work we run Xen, VMware, and Virtualbox, and in my experience all 3 are good at different things. If you intended to use a workstation as the host (by that I mean you want to use X and a desktop environment on the linux host) I think virtualbox is the way to go it's really easy to use/set

Re: OT: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-16 Thread Matt Graham
From: Josef Lowder j...@actionline.com gm5...@gmail.com wrote: ALL HTML emails are auto deleted. Use inline or attach please. There are a ton of people who send HTML mail without text. Usually, these people are not worth listening to, but what do you do when you get a message that has the same

hdd ide to sata; which way to go

2009-12-16 Thread betty
This is the last forum for my research on this project, everyone's advice here has always been most helpful. Although i haven't needed too much advice lately (since linux is sooo stable !) I have an old pentium 3 with ide hdd that i have been using for many years. It is a little slow (to say

Re: hdd ide to sata; which way to go

2009-12-16 Thread tjones136
betty nicepeng...@webcanine.com wrote: This is the last forum for my research on this project, everyone's advice here has always been most helpful. Although i haven't needed too much advice lately (since linux is sooo stable !) I have an old pentium 3 with ide hdd that i have been

Anyone using Zimbra dot com?

2009-12-16 Thread Dazed_75
My ISP (mediacom) apparently switched their email systems to zimbra and things have not worked right ever since. Service has been intermittent and poor at best for a week now. Zimbra.com claims to service 50 million paid email accounts so I have a hard time believing this is so bad inherently.

Re: Anyone using Zimbra dot com?

2009-12-16 Thread Kurt Granroth
On 12/16/09 10:08 PM, Dazed_75 wrote: My ISP (mediacom) apparently switched their email systems to zimbra and things have not worked right ever since. Service has been intermittent and poor at best for a week now. Zimbra.com claims to service 50 million paid email accounts so I have a hard

Re: hdd ide to sata; which way to go

2009-12-16 Thread Joseph Sinclair
First, I'd definitely recommend going with a new SATA drive on the new machine. You'll find everything just works better and the added reliability of a newer drive makes for a lot less stress (although regular and frequent backups are definitely the best peace-of-mind tool). For the data

Re: hdd ide to sata; which way to go

2009-12-16 Thread Joseph Sinclair
Just noticed one more item: You should absolutely install a new copy of your favorite Linux Distro on the new machine, otherwise you'll have a system setup for the old hardware trying to run on the new hardware. Copying just your home directory onto the new machine (assuming you use the same