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I use it all the time and love it. It is the email client I set up for all of my converts from Windows as it is closest to Outlook. You can also purchase the exchange plugin to allow native exchange use.

My mistake in making a presumption You state that it is on a rented/dedicated server and that someone else takes care of the server. I presume then, that these people stay as up-to-date as possible, as in their business, down-time = lost clients. Once again, at this point I would not be worried about it. My Windows clients get scanned like this a couple of times a week. They have yet to have any issues. If you don't mind me asking, who do you use for web hosting? I am currently using 1&1.

Hey Darkelve, This is a standard attempt by script kiddies to access a Windows (IIS) web server. As you are running Apache (I presume), this is not an issue for you. The majority of these scripts are aimed at Windows. You are correct in your presumption that they are trying to access a DOS command shell.

For the previous two years, I have travelled North America implementing new systems for my employer. I visited 64 locations and setup 192 Dell Servers and 32,000 (give or take) Dell workstations. Of all of these, 1 server failed and was replaced by Dell within 24 hours and 3 workstations, also replaced within 24 hours. I had a RAID card die in one server and tech support would not have been able to get one too me within 12 hours as I needed. A support rep actually had the part in their office, so they hopped on a plane and hand delivered it to me. I have heard stories from some people that Dell support has become fairly poor, and I have also heard that it is still great. I do know that when they opened the call center in India (or somewhere over there) that there had been issues as a result of the language barrier. Overall, my experience with Dell (I personally have 14 Dell Workstations), has been great.

Hey PMPATRICK, I just got off the phone with the tech people. Unfortunately, even though they are working on the issue, they do not think it is likely for the next release or two. This is unfortunate, however I believe that there are some other options out there for you.

Seems I have inadvertenly created a bit of an OS war. Did not mean to do so. Now after reading through all of the posts, I would like to submit my thoughts on the matter. Please bear with me if I am jumping around, but there was a lot covered in this thread. To give you a bit of background on me, I have been working with computers for many years, my first computer was a TRS-80. I have run the gamit of Windows OS's, tried Apple and Linux off and on over the years. However, as the majority of users were using Windows, that is where I specialized. I currently work as an IT consultant, as well as running my own IT shop. The consulting that I do is for many different styles of businesses, howere 85% are in the graphics design/video editing industry. My clients clients include Labatt Breweries, Honda, Levis, Lexus, Toyota etc. On a personal note, I switched to Linux completely a year ago and am learning and loving it (remember, this is my personal opinion and I m not trying to push it on anyone). The topolgy of these clients is a mixture of Windows, Apple and Linux workstations, the numbers would be approx. 40/55/5 respectively. The reason for this is that Linux is a relative new comer to the design industry (hold your outrage, I am not finished). The Windows computers are mainly support staff (accounting, sales, management) and servers. The Apple computers are almost exlusively designers. The few Linux machines that are in place are mostly servers although there are a few workstations floating around. The reason for this breakdown is simple. This is the way in which people have been taught. Those that are in the support roles were taught in business school (or whatever they went to) to use MS Office on different flavours of Windows (3.11/9x/ME/W2K/XP). This is what was in the classroom or what their mentor used, so this is what they use. For the designers, they were taught on Macs as this is what platform the software they needed to use had been developed on (Photoshop, Macromedia, etc.). Only relatively recently have these applications been ported over to Windows. The Linux workstations come from different sources, but mainly due to some IT guy taking the time to learn the benefits of it and demonstrating it to some open minded employee. Which is better? That is a question that is not ever going to be answered. The reason for this, as we have seen throughout this thread, is that different people like/want/need different things from their OS. For job security, from my standpoint, Windows is the best OS as that is what tends to break and keeps me employeed. Personally, as I have mentioned, I preffer Linux and this is because I design/build/consult on networks and security, and the best tools (again, my opinion) for this are on the Linux platform. Having seen/played with Mac/Linux/Windows design applications, I would have to say that at this time the Macs are going to continue to rule (in the design industry), at least for the next few years. The industry standard applications, for print design, are Adobe and Quark, with a few lesser known apps thrown in. These were designed for Macs. This is what newcomers as well as the old pros have been trained in. For the video industry, it is a toss up between Linux and Macs. As has been mentioned, many studios are now using Linux on the desktop, and not just as a rendering farm. It will be interesting to watch this industry and see what happens. As more and more people become familiar with Linux and what it can do, I believe that software and hardware companies are going to get together to bring their products to all OSes. Those that don't will not survive. The biggest advantage to Linux and Open Source in general, is the trend of Governments migrating to Linux. Governments have significant clout, and if the White House in the US, Parliment Hill in Canada, etc. need to have hardware that works with the Linux platform that they are rolling out, then you will very quickly see the hardware/software vendors supporting Linux. Darkelve stated: This is exactly what I am attempting to do in my area. I have partnered with Mandrake and neTraverse and am working at some others in order to bring a complete desktop solution to the home user. It is slow going as I am having to break down the barriers that Microsoft and Apple have created, but it is coming. NOTE: If anyone has any ideas that would help with pushing Linux to home users, or can think of different partnerships I should look at, please email me. To sum up my little rant, I originally started this post to demonstrate that Linux is making in-roads at the desktop market. Somehow it has become an all out OS war. I have given my take on this, and I hope everyone that reads it takes it in the vein that I have written it, as MY OPINION. Disagree all you like. That is what makes the Open Source community special and why it is working.

PMPATRICK, Just wanted to let you know that I have contacted NeTraverse to get the answer for you. I will let you know as soon as I can. B)

Good article regarding a 4 year old using Linux. http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/...2/1424206.shtml

Win4Lin is available from Netraverse. What it does is allows you to run Windows 95/98/ME in a simulated environment on Linux. Yes, it does run slightly slower, but for most people that need it, it is not a huge difference. If you are looking at doing some gaming, then this may not be the option for you as it is slower. If you are looking at running older Windows applications then this is defintily a solution. Many times I have sold this product to clients as a way to ease them into using Linux and yet assuring them that they will be able to do everything they did on Windows (basically a safety blanket for them). The catch here is that you must have a valid licence of Windows 95/98/ME, unlike other flavours of WINE.

Came across this on Slashdot.org and thought you may wish to see it. Some of the replies are interesting. Keep in mind, this was written by a complete Mac-head! http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dan...es/010227.shtml

They do have some posters, which are be re-designed, as well as some brochure style .pdf's. I would like to see more, and hope that we will soon, especially as they are starting to make money again.

I am a Mandrake partner and reseller. I have found that the best way to do what you would like, is to become a partner/reseller. This allows you to use their logos, receive discounts, and use their marketing material.

http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5183642.html

http://www.osvdb.org/

Just recieved this via email. I am sure most of you have as well.

I have the Presario 2170CA which has the same video card. I am currently running Mandrake 9.2 on it with no issues.

I do not know if any of you have heard about this site, but I urge all Linux users to do there part and register as a user. http://counter.li.org I am registered user #350133.

Hey all, I am once again attempting to configure VPN client access from my Mandrake 9.2 linux laptop to both CISCO VPN devices and Windows VPN servers. I have configured access using webmin and when I attempt to connect I recieved the following error: It looks to me like the problem is that it is trying to connect via ppp0 instead of eth0. If this is a correct assumption, where do I go to reconfigured this? Any ideas?

Your welcome for the info. You hit the configuration right on the money for the partitions. For your question regarding the size of the FAT32 partition, and do I use much of it, the answer is yes. I am a computer consultant for many different clients and I need to have access to many files from both Windows and Linux while out of my office. What I do is copy my working directory off of my servers (Mandrake 9.2 and Windows 2000 in a domain configuration) and place it on the FAT32 drive. This way I can modify files from linux and then be able to access them in Windows (and reverse). It is a system that works quite well for me. Your question about ReiserFS is unfortunately not one I would be able to answer for you, as I too have only used EXT3. Let me know how everything goes when you do recieve the laptop. Good luck!

Looks like a good laptop to me. I myself have a Compaq Presario 2100 series laptop. Also, like you, I dual boot with XP and am currently using Mandrake 9.2. Also like you, I have a 40Gb HDD. I have it configured as follows: 6 partitions /dev/hda1 NTFS 10 Gb /dev/hda2 NTFS 10 Gb /dev/hda3 FAT32 5.8 Gb for XP/Linux file passing /dev/hda5 EXT3 5.8 Gb /dev/hda7 EXT3 5.0 Gb Remainder is Swap partition. Also, you ask about the recovery partition. If you have the recovery CD's and/or know what you are doing for rebuilding (just in case) then I would get rid of it. If you are unsure, leave it. As for the ATI card, I believe that 9.2 will discover and configure it for you, but I am sure someone else can confirm this for you. Let me know how it goes.

Just thought you all would like to see how great (NOT) Microsoft is. Seems my Mandrake 9.2 install needs 28 udpates and patches from Windows. Running Office XP using CrossOver Office. Testing this for a client that wants to move to Linux, but must stay with Office (due to multiple macros). Moved to Everything linux by Ixthusdan

I am, unfortunately, a technical consultant for mostly Microsoft products. I myself use Mandrake 9.2 for daily work. On my Mandrake laptop I run a program called F-Prot www.f-prot.com. Many times my Windows users get viruses that they ask me to get rid of for them. I mount their harddrives (hidden admin shares) and then scan them with f-prot from my linux laptop. Best part is I do not get infested myself.

I am looking at purchasing an ATI video card and wonder what everyone thinks about them. Good/Bad and the ugly stories are what I am looking for. I am looking to do some gaming so I would like to hear from gamers in particular (which is why I am posting here). What ATI card should I look at is also what I am wanting to hear. Thanks

As I have stated in a previous post, I have had issues with getting my DVD player to work. Now that I have URPMI configured, I have been able to get it working with no difficulty. I am assuming that those reading this now have URPMI setup, if not, please see my post "URPMI and newbies" in this forum. At the shell, I grabbed root (su) and typed the following commands in: I then put a DVD in and started Xine. DVD played with no problems at all. I have not yet tested any other DVD player, but I presume they would work as well. Hope this helps some of you out.

Thanks for your words of praise. I would love to share what I have done to get the URPMI repositories up and running. First, I went to http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php and selected the locations that I wished for. Then, I clicked on the "Proceed to Step 3" button which generated the following: I then opened a shell and grabbed root (su). At that point, I pasted in the above lines and pressed enter. This added the selections to the updates database. NOTE: one aspect that I found as a result of trial and error, when the web site gives you the code to enter, make sure that you add them individually. I copied all of the given text and found that I ended up with some errors. For Example: If you need to remove all entries that are already in the Update Database as I needed to as I corrupted it while playing around, you would need to type: (This removes everything) After that, when I wanted to install the libdvdcss package I just typed: