Re: virus phone call scam: question/wacky replies

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Jones
Yeah these sort of phone calls can be a worry for elderly people. My Mother keeps getting them and depsite how many many times I've told her just to hang up the phone, she seems to think it's actually Microsoft calling them. But yeah, demand to talk to their supervisor, ask them what country

Recommendations for a home (vm) server

2012-06-21 Thread Stephen Rees-Carter
Hi all, My work has just given me $1,000 to spend on a new home server machine which I intend to run as a virtual machine host, either as 12.04 Virtualbox headless or ESXi. But the only hardware I've bought in the last 4 years has been two Lenovo laptops and a cheap Toshiba for my wife, so I'm a

Re: virus phone call scam: question/wacky replies

2012-06-21 Thread Ishwor Gurung
Hi there, On 20 June 2012 22:20, Tom Sparks tom_a_spa...@yahoo.com.au wrote: 'We have been getting phone calls say your computer has a problem... Most time I just hand up. But I've been think of give these caller a 10 question or some wacky replies [...] Check this out:

Re: Recommendations for a home (vm) server

2012-06-21 Thread Stephen Rees-Carter
Thanks David, sounds like that could be what I'm after. Do you know a good place to get one? :) Thanks, ~Stephen On 22 June 2012 00:31, David Shawcross david...@wcross.info wrote: HP Proliant N40L approx $260 with 4 bays you can fill with four 2-3GB drives. Max out the memory and runs Ubuntu

Re: virus phone call scam: question/wacky replies

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Debenham
On 21 June 2012 13:08, Chris Robinson fabricat...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Chris Debenham ch...@adebenham.com To: Boden Matthews boden.matth...@gmail.com Cc: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2012 10:02 AM Subject: Re: virus phone call scam:

Re: Recommendations for a home (vm) server

2012-06-21 Thread Dave Hall
Try staticice.com.au On 22/06/12 06:03, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote: Thanks David, sounds like that could be what I'm after. Do you know a good place to get one? :) Thanks, ~Stephen On 22 June 2012 00:31, David Shawcrossdavid...@wcross.info wrote: HP Proliant N40L approx $260 with 4 bays you

Re: Recommendations for a home (vm) server

2012-06-21 Thread Paul Gear
On 22/06/12 08:54, Dave Hall wrote: Try staticice.com.au On 22/06/12 06:03, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote: Thanks David, sounds like that could be what I'm after. Do you know a good place to get one? :) Thanks, ~Stephen On 22 June 2012 00:31, David Shawcrossdavid...@wcross.info wrote: HP

Re: Recommendations for a home (vm) server

2012-06-21 Thread Stephen Rees-Carter
Thanks guys, unless I can find something better at my local computer store I'll get the HP. I'd love to be able to get more than 8G RAM in it though... Thanks, ~Stephen On 22 June 2012 09:26, Paul Gear p...@libertysys.com.au wrote: On 22/06/12 08:54, Dave Hall wrote: Try staticice.com.au On