Re: Services Offered by Freelance Network and Infrastructure Engineer

2017-10-05 Thread Bat Phil
But then again, If you can't do the basic stuff yourself, you have no business running a network of any kind. So is he actually going to get any work advertising such services here? Just a thought. On 5 Oct 2017 18:10, "fred roller" wrote: > +3 > > On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 11:44 AM, InvalidPath

Re: Some newbie questions

2014-09-07 Thread Bat Phil
:36, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote: > On 09/07/2014 06:29 PM, Bat Phil wrote: > >After a weekend of installing and re-installing, I thought I would > share what I have found: > > Hardware setup: > > AMD Semperon 300+ (old) > 64MB AGP graphics card &

Re: Some newbie questions

2014-09-07 Thread Bat Phil
do like the look of Cinnamon so far (despite not being able to get it to work yet). Many thanks to everyone who contributed their knowledge and opinions. Phil On 5 September 2014 21:22, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/05/2014 01:08 PM, Bat Phil wrote: > >> Best thing then is to set u

Re: Constant Guard Service Alert

2014-09-07 Thread Bat Phil
When you say you got an "alert" do you mean an e-mail or an instant message type alert? The internet is full of so-called security companies who use these sort of tactics scare users into believing that they have a problem with their system, that usually doesn't actually exist, and that the soluti

Re: Some newbie questions

2014-09-05 Thread Bat Phil
Under normal circumstances yes of course, but at the moment it's just a case of playing with a system that will only have dummy data on it so it doesn't matter if I screw things up. Phil On 5 September 2014 21:22, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/05/2014 01:08 PM, Bat Phil wrote: > &g

Re: Some newbie questions

2014-09-05 Thread Bat Phil
More of clarification than a retraction Paul ;-) but point noted. Sounds like it won't be a problem once I've upgraded the RAM though. Cheers Phil On 5 September 2014 21:20, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 03:31:38PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > 1. I am using older hardwa

Re: Some newbie questions

2014-09-05 Thread Bat Phil
Best thing then is to set up a 2-drive system, put some non-critical data files in the home directories and try it out then. Although presumably, if I do manage to balls up the IDs and block the data, then it's just a case of logging in as root and sorting out permissions?? Cheers Phil On 5 Sep

Re: Some newbie questions

2014-09-05 Thread Bat Phil
doing this. Cheers Matthew Phil On 5 September 2014 20:31, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 07:10:58PM +0100, Bat Phil wrote: > > 1. I am using older hardware - AMD Semperon 3000+ (socket 754), which I > > understand is a 64 bit CPU. Will this run better, worse or

Re: Some newbie questions

2014-09-05 Thread Bat Phil
Got it Marvin, cheers Phil On 5 September 2014 19:56, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > No .. > > You need to recreate all the users accounts on the new install. > > HTH > > Marvin > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Bat Phil wrote: > >> Thanks

Re: Some newbie questions

2014-09-05 Thread Bat Phil
Well that's easy then, I can cope with that. Thanks again Joe Phil On 5 September 2014 19:51, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/05/2014 11:46 AM, Bat Phil wrote: > >> I figured (but didn't make it clear) that I'd have to tell anaconda >> about the existing home par

Re: Some newbie questions

2014-09-05 Thread Bat Phil
d settings would be preserved and available under the new install. Thanks again Phil On 5 September 2014 19:36, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/05/2014 11:10 AM, Bat Phil wrote: > >> >> 3. Am I correct in my assumption that my mail client (I will be using >> Thunderbird) stores

Some newbie questions

2014-09-05 Thread Bat Phil
Hello all Please forgive my ignorance, but I've decided to upgrade to Linux. I've had a play with both Ubuntu and Fedora 20 (both with the LXDE desktop) and done a few installs, updates, application installs, etc. and am getting more confident / knowledgeable as I go. I have decided to go for Fed