I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest Xandros. The Open Circulation Edition is older, but it's got the heritage of Corel Linux. Honestly, it's the only distro that just worked right out of the box. It would be a really good intro to Linux for anyone, particularly for your sister.
This is also their downfall, with such ease of use, also comes great vulnerability. When a script on a website can cause damage to your operating system, someone might want to rethink the design of the OS. Microsoft is the epitome of making it work, making it work easily, and making it work...
Install Windows XP Professional over Windows XP Home, settings will be preserved. Of course the Domain profile will be new, so you'll have to back that up and then restore it.
Linux doesn't run the Internet, Cisco does. Just because Apache is the most popular webserver doesn't mean it's all running on Linux. Apache can run on Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, Irix, lots of operating systems.
Actually, I always find it a good thing to have two GC servers, so that if one goes down, people can still login. The only time it causes load problems is when there are scads of directory objects. As for an upgrade, I hate them, but they do occasionally work. 2003 is actually quite good at...
I've got two machines cvsup'ed already, ready to buildworld and kernel. I'm eager to see the SMP improvements they've made.
Remember, FreeBSD will get you laid, OpenBSD won't let you get laid without a condom, NetBSD will make you try 23 positions, and Linux will leave you sad and lonely.
It would be faster to compress the whole directory into one file, then copy that one file over. Copying lots of little files over will slow down any transfer, regardless of the operating system.
Until it breaks, then you'll be in hell. Not to thread crap, but I ran away from ArcServe a few years ago, never felt better about a decision. BackupExec is my current choice.
I dual boot FreeBSD 5.4 and Windows 2000 right now, but I don't think I've booted up into Windows in weeks. FreeBSD does everything. I recommend getting used to it, then pick up a copy of BSD Hacks, that book is amazing for tips and ideas.
I know that, I just wanted to point out that it looks like the source tree has been tagged as 5.4-RELEASE, and if you want to cvsup now, you can. This is my personal workstation at home, I'm not moving any production machines to any release until the say-so hits the FreeBSD Announce mailing list.
I think it was the lack of software for it, and then you get into RPMS that don't work with the distro, plus I couldn't get it to work with an Adaptec 2400 card at all. Not without some painful workarounds.
Now, that could be me just moaning about an RPM distribution, but Fedora left a bad...
You don't like tapes??? That's a little silly considering the actual shelf life of DVD media. I guess you've never run a nice SCSI DLT or LTO tape drive, the transfer rates would crush any burner on the market, even a DAT drive would be faster.
You are probably eligible for Microsoft...
Solaris is the biggest commercial UNIX out there. It's arguably one of the most scalable OS's out there as well. It's been 64 bit for years, and yes a new version did recenttly come out, so you might have gotten that a little mixed up.
Ditching Solaris on UltraSPARC hardware is silly. If it was an older Sun box, sure, run a lightweight distro on it, or I'd suggest NetBSD. Solaris is actually a really nice OS, sheesh, it's not HP-UX :)
How do you get away with a game server on a corporate network?
I've been adminning exchange since the 5.5 days, and store.exe is always supposed to take as much memory as it can get. It'll give it back, don't worry about it, this is normal behaviour, it's doing this by design.
I'd check for anything else that might be causing it, usually something with...
I've lusted after this for years.
http://www.motu.com/products/motuaudio/896/body.html/en
Just plug in mics and lay tracks down right off the floor, enough channels that you can easily record a 3 piece band without any need for multitracking. Record, master, burn, real sexy for doing a demo.
This is the way I look at it, BSD is what happens when you get a bunch of UNIX hackers together to write an OS for PC hardware, Linux is what you get when you get a bunch of PC hackers together to write a UNIX.
Even Alan Cox, one of the preeminent Linux kernel hackers has given kudos to...
Windows is an all purpose OS, compared to something like Cisco PIX OS running on top of a Finesse microkernel. With complexity comes the possibility of vulnerabilities. If Microsoft would pare down Windows, integrate it with ISA 2004, they could have a killer level 7 firewall that would be a...
How well do you want to know Unix and Unix workalikes? Cause
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8989/ur0408e/
would give you a really nice overview of the whole system.
My condolences :D
Naw, I had a boss who believed the whole, write once run everywhere hype too too much. That plus he wanted to use Java for everything, even things for which it simply wasn't appropriate. He wasn't too openminded once he got an idea in his head.
Actually, I'm looking to...
First, I hope you misspelled my nick just as an accident! :D
And thanks, you just gave me some incentive to take a look at it, mostly because we are in the SMB market and we deal alot with SBS. I still feel that anyone that puts a live Exchange server on the internet should be shot, well at...
Hell, the primary creator of Java is Canadian and you don't see me getting all enthusiastic about that! :)
Actually that's a different matter, Java makes me cranky mostly because of the bloody overhead. Anyways, take a look at the OpenBSD FAQ, it has most of what you want...
Look, I don't want to get into this silly argument, but if you actually think you are going to prove to me that Exchange Server's store.exe is the same as inetd, then I'd love to read what you have to say.
I've used proxy server 1 and 2 back in the day with SBS, that was enough to make me pretty much avoid ISA on 2k. But from what I've read, ISA on 2k3 is worth a look. I'd still say for a small network, use OpenBSD as a firewall, and if you really want something that's very nice, yet not too...