Re: Re:[U2] New UV system

2007-06-14 Thread Don Kibbey
This guy wants low cost equipment. If they have been running on a 486 box up until now, speed is certainly not an issue. I'd suggest browsing ebay for a 1-2 year old dual core server or workstation. You'd be surprised at how cheap they are once they come off lease. I do this myself every couple

RE: Re:[U2] New UV system

2007-06-14 Thread Ross Craig
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Youngman Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 6:29 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: Re:[U2] New UV system Your memory is faulty :-( though I would advise people to do what you suggest. We've had serial

RE: [U2] New UV system -- AMD Opteron v. Xeon? PC architecture experts?

2007-06-14 Thread Glen Batchelor
day, June 14, 2007 12:34 AM > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: Re: [U2] New UV system -- AMD Opteron v. Xeon? PC architecture > experts? > > Considering all the discussion here, I'd like to ask a question and make a > statement for those a little more familiar with server archite

Re: [U2] New UV system -- AMD Opteron v. Xeon? PC architecture experts? experts?

2007-06-14 Thread Gabriel Green
16G is supported on x64 (and I suppose Itanium) versions only. 32-bit versions are limited to 4G. On 6/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I have a year old Sun Fire x4200 server, two Dual Core Opteron 275s, > which > >performed much better with UV and in general than my bran

RE: Re:[U2] New UV system

2007-06-14 Thread Anthony Youngman
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 June 2007 03:01 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: Re:[U2] New UV system The other 'fun' you'll have is if they have serial printers. If memory serves, you'd have to convert the

Re: [U2] New UV system -- AMD Opteron v. Xeon? PC architecture experts? experts?

2007-06-14 Thread mgolden
>I have a year old Sun Fire x4200 server, two Dual Core Opteron 275s, which >performed much better with UV and in general than my brand spankin' new Dell >PowerEdge 1950, with two Xeon Woodcrests (Core 2 Duo-based). Each machine >has 16G RAM and similar hard drive configurations. Both run Wind

RE: [U2] New UV system

2007-06-14 Thread Anthony Youngman
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 June 2007 18:45 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] New UV system Wol, One reason for using uvbackup is that the index file path names within UV are hard coded and I have had interesting issues when not using uvbackup to move work directory/accounts around be

RE: [U2] New UV system

2007-06-14 Thread brian
I also have a Dell Xeon server at home, and it was horribly noisy until I switched off the default ultra-fast disk option (it made no noticeable difference to performance). That dropped the noise level by about 60-70%. Their case design has a fan in the front of the drive bay that rattles like

Re: [U2] New UV system -- AMD Opteron v. Xeon? PC architecture experts?

2007-06-13 Thread Gabriel Green
Considering all the discussion here, I'd like to ask a question and make a statement for those a little more familiar with server architecture I have a year old Sun Fire x4200 server, two Dual Core Opteron 275s, which performed much better with UV and in general than my brand spankin' new Dell Pow

RE: Re:[U2] New UV system

2007-06-13 Thread bpaige
om: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MAJ Programming Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 7:05 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: Re:[U2] New UV system Thanks for all who responded. I have to see how much gets printed versus gets downloaded (accuterm) and printed from the d

Re: Re:[U2] New UV system

2007-06-13 Thread MAJ Programming
Thanks for all who responded. I have to see how much gets printed versus gets downloaded (accuterm) and printed from the desktop. Thanks Mark Johnson - Original Message - From: "Ken Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 6:44 PM Subject: Re:[U

Re:[U2] New UV system

2007-06-13 Thread Ken Hall
Dave Taylor did a wonderful job explaining the difference in porting UV from NIX to NT and many of the things that should influence the choice of base platforms. As someone who is porting from UV from AIX to Linux, I will add even NIX to different NIX has its challenges in the area of printing

Re:[U2] New UV system

2007-06-13 Thread Dave Taylor
uthorized IBM Business Partner - Original Message - From: "MAJ Programming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:17 AM Subject: [U2] New UV system --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

RE: [U2] New UV system

2007-06-13 Thread David Murray
. Cheers, David Murray .learn and do .excel and share -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Youngman Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:05 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] New UV system Why do you need uvbackup? I&#

Re: [U2] New UV system

2007-06-13 Thread Timothy Snyder
> Seems to me a move to Linux would be better since they are probably more > familiar with a nix system. The spoolers are completely different. I agree with what Jerry said. In addition to his points, consider that changing the operating system means that you have to worry about any applicat

RE: [U2] New UV system

2007-06-13 Thread Glen Batchelor
) 763-5664 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- www.allspec.com --- > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:17 PM > To: u2-users@lis

RE: [U2] New UV system

2007-06-13 Thread Glen Batchelor
-Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen Batchelor > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 11:56 AM > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: RE: [U2] New UV system > > Cost-wise, consider a dual-core AMD X2

RE: [U2] New UV system

2007-06-13 Thread Bill Haskett
lways something, isn't it? :-) Bill >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen Batchelor >Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:56 AM >To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org >Subject: RE: [U2] New UV system > > Cost-wise, cons

RE: [U2] New UV system

2007-06-13 Thread Anthony Youngman
46 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] New UV system Hi, You can run a 5 users of uv on a lite box (I do it on a notebook) Use W2003 server (W2003 is more demanding in ressource like UV, it can run on XP too ). To switch from sco to windows, you must use *uvbackup* tool into sco to prepare a

RE: [U2] New UV system

2007-06-13 Thread Glen Batchelor
www.allspec.com --- > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MAJ Programming > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:17 AM > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: [U2] New UV system > > All: >

Re: [U2] New UV system

2007-06-13 Thread Charles Barouch
Mark, I'm moving a client to a new server right now. The specs we are using are Dual Core Xeon 5140, 4 GB memory, with Windows 2003. It sounds like you could get away with a much smaller system. I shy away from using desktops as servers, so I'd recommend you go with a rack-mountable if yo

Re: [U2] New UV system

2007-06-13 Thread Jerry
files. - Original Message - From: "MAJ Programming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:17 AM Subject: [U2] New UV system All: I have a client running UV on SCO on a 486/Pentium-1 looking box. They would like to move everything to a contemporary box.

Re: [U2] New UV system

2007-06-13 Thread Manu Fernandes
Message - From: "MAJ Programming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:17 PM Subject: [U2] New UV system All: I have a client running UV on SCO on a 486/Pentium-1 looking box. They would like to move everything to a contemporary box. While I don

Re: [U2] New UV system

2007-06-13 Thread will
Mark, We just went through a conversion from a UV box and can help you if you haven't already been overwhelmed by responses. Contact me at 919 567-0042 or at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will American Computer Technics, Inc. MAJ Programming wrote: All: I have a client running UV on SCO on a 486/Pen

[U2] New UV system

2007-06-13 Thread MAJ Programming
All: I have a client running UV on SCO on a 486/Pentium-1 looking box. They would like to move everything to a contemporary box. While I don't create systems, I would like some suggestions on which kind of W2000-class server to hold a 5 user version of UV. I don't want to switch databases to UD o