Sweet Success

From: Stephen Kuhn (skuhn_at_telpacific.com.au)
Date: 08/20/03

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Date: 20 Aug 2003 16:49:49 +1000

    I just want to relate the happiness I have over the successful
    installation of yet another RedHat server for a small business customer
    of mine;

    They were in need of a low-cost, dependable server machine to be used as
    a file server and a printer server - a machine on which they could load
    a high-end architectural/accounting package; originally they were faced
    with spending upwards of $6000 (for a MS type box, of course); my total
    "drop in" cost for the box ended up being $2200 - loaded with RH9 +
    updates, Samba, MySQL, using SENDMAIL/FETCHMAIL/PROCMAIL + SpamAssassin,
    F-Prot and ClamAV - as well as being the gateway for an 802.11b 2.4ghz
    network in our area. Actual software load and configuration was one
    evening here at home - about 2 hours total; drop in on site with client
    machine configurations was one day. Done deal. No dramas, no sweat, no
    problems. Even had time to show the admin how to use VNC to access the
    server desktop; script was setup to backup to CDRW once per week. EZ as
    pie.

    Had this have been a Windows box I would have spent three days with it -
    for one thing or another - I'm used to that crap, and the monstrous size
    of the patches/updates/fixes.

    So, for anyone with any doubts, it's really easy - it's really simple.
    Plus, the customer was more than happy to know that they have IMAP/POP
    functionality, a proxy (privoxy) and a firewall - without license fees
    and BS associated. They even have a nice big round RH sticker on the
    front door now...(couldn't say "No" to the admin - was her idea). 

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Wed Aug 20 16:35:01 EST 2003
 16:35:01 up 2 days, 19:01,  1 user,  load average: 0.29, 0.16, 0.05
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|       _ /  `._ \|_|_.-'      | stephen kuhn                   |
|      | /  \__.`=._) (_       | email: skuhn@telpacific.com.au |
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      Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586
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have a quarter?"
	The Martian asked, "What's a quarter?"
	The panhandler thought a minute, brightened, then said, "You're 
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