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depends on what you are planning on using it for !however id format the hard disk and install a Linux Distro on it..... (or buy macOsX if you prefere)

Regular Backups are the Job of the Administrator.on a well maintained server, every week or so the hard drives will be dumped to tape and put in storeage. its not your job to backup in this way. talk to the adminitrator of the server and ask them about what backup procedures they have in place.

ping shows the network is working... but thats not the end of it. you also make sure the correct ports are open on the firewalls.

yess... lets assume you down want to download the entire server, then upload to a second server... that would be time consuming.. and limited to your ISP provided bandwidth. you will need ssh or evil telnet access. do a remote loggin to serverA with telnet or preferably ssh. one inside ServerA, open a FTP connection to ServerB with the program FTP. switch to binary mode with the ftp cammand bin. then upload all the files to server B.

first.. make sure the firewall rules on both windows and linux will allow them to communicate on all the desired ports.then make sure that data is actually getting through... try a ping (making sure the firewall is set yo allow pings on both windows and linux)next, install samba and configure it.... there are many ways, possibly the easyest is with konqueror or kde controll center (assuming you are using KDE)

yes.. MS IIS... which is more buggy.... more expensive (apache is free) and MS IIS will only run on MS windows. plus if you run IIS, you are just asking to be hacked ! my server long show 20 MS specific hack attempts for every nother kind of hack attempt. as for controlling what users can access what files... well that depends who the ftp users login as. they willl be able to access all the files owned by them in there home directory. if you allow annonymous loggins, then the files they can access will be in a folder specified by the config files. i would recomend vsftpd (very secure ftp daemon) but BulletProof is great too. there all quite similar. just make sure you google for your ftpd and version number for possible security explaoits. and always make sure you are running the latest version.

could it be a feature designed to stop web pages forcing constant refrshes to bump up there HIT count and get extra dosh from advertisers ???

from what ive read, one the the places an attacker gains access to a machine is by hacking a CGI script...Buffer overflows in binary CGI's or Code Injection attacks on Script CGI'safter reading about how buffer overflow attacks work, ive re-examined some of my C++ programs and fould un-checked buffers... meaning they COULD be vunerable.also, protecting CGI scripts from things like SQL injection is a nightmare... it seems you have to thourily validate all input for possibly malicouse code.this got me thinking... why dont more poeple use binary Java as CGI programs.Java programs are protected extremely well from buffer overflow exploits, and any kind of Code Injection would be extremely difficult.and get i never ever see a Java CGI program... is there any particular reason for this ?i understand the advantages of PERL scripts... but surely the added security of java outweighs PERL's convinience, and there are PERL extensions in java right ?

if you wanna play games, get a games console :)anyways.. the fact that linux does nto support 100% or hardware is a mixed blessing.Alone, with no outside software, the Linux kernel supports much much much more hardware than the windows kernel alone. the difference, is that hardware manufacturers also make windows drivers..so if windows doesnt have a driver for a device, the user can install a driver off a cd that comes with the device.the advantages of this are obviouse..... any uptodate hardware will work with any uptodate windows machine... but the down side is stability.... A Driver Written by a Kernel Porgrammer who has access to the kernel source code will always be more stable than a driver written by a hardware manufacturer with no access to windows source code.drivers have to run in kernel space with very high access rights.. any imperfect driver can bring down the whole system.not all BSODS are MS fault.. some are due to buggy drivers.so if a device works in linux (that needs a kernel driver) you can be sure its of a very high standard.

windows is NOT based on Unix.... windows couldnt have been less Unix like even if they tried.

My Computing Hostory...i got a ZX Sinclair spectrum.... great machine.. you could either program in interpreted basic... or program in machine code, and poke the machine code instructions into memory with interpreted basic... great !then my needs increced.. i got an Amiga 1200 running workbench 3.1 GREAT os ! even bought a HUGE 500meg hard disk...then, technoloy moved on, amiga died , i got a PC. windows 98... sucked, 2000, sucked, xp... sucked...then Redhat 9... Great... then Fedora, then fedorea core 2.... now i was comfortable in linux i moved to a different DIstro.. Mandrake.. good, but too similar to redhat.. then i tried Slackware.. good... but the was just somthing about it thta made me uneasy.... i wanted to get deeper.. so i tried Linux From SCratch..... perfect.... well. almost.. i found myself reading makefiles to work out optional dependency's and what the thing would do with / without different progrms...thenn i found... GENTOO !!!!!AMASING !!!what more can i say ?bleeding edge software, the most up to date distro ever.. package management like no other system can provide.. lighting fast optimisation... perfect.

i think you are confused tux. the type of conversion you are talking about is type casting... for example... type casting the character 'A' to an integer would create Integer 65 (the ascii code of A) you can convert a char string into a long integer with the command strtol... since your name is tux, ill asume your owrking in linux.. read the man page. "man strtol" an example program... long int number;char string = new chat[ 1024 ];cout << "neter a number" << endl;cin >> stringnumber = strtol(string,(char **)NULL, 10);cout << "you entered " << number << endl;delete [ ] string where the parameter 10 means use base 10 uniits, and the parameter NULL means use NULL as the string terminator.

what ! are you joking !!! ???ofcourse it does... POP3 and IMAP. and with libgmain installed it will work with gmail too.

Sending Files securely..... you probably mean you want to encrypt them right ?use GnuPG (GPG) goto https://www.gnupg.org/

I read that many spam emails were sent by zombie machines....so why not fight spam at the source, Put more pressure on poeple to keep there systems secure.

It looks good, but i just dont think its user friendly enough for every day use yet....to me, its just eye candly, wasted cpu cycles, higer minimum sys requirements.

so you actually paid for kazaa ?ill never understand why people pay for software when the best software is free.

how big is the universe ???how many times do you have to drive round a rounf about before you get to the end ?

Unix isnt an operating system... more of a collection of operating systems...Solaris... (by SUN)*BSD's from calafornia UNIversity..IBM's unix..and loads more.. i forget all the names.FreeBSD is a pree UNIX, and the most secure, stable and widely used, and a great server.but if you want a server / desktop then linux is a good solution.

Linux is definatly more user friendly....get a pre-installed linux computer and you are sorted for life...get a pre-installed windows computer, and you have to learn how to re-install things when they stop working, update virus scanners, defrag the hard disk, and then after a year or so.. totally re-install the whole system.when you say you dont like linux's user interface... well.... which one ?GNOME, KDE, iceWM, fmv, looking glass... what ?

Linux Doesnt give a Crap about the company that sold you your scanner... its just a name... all thats important is the electronics inside the scanner (identified by the usb devices ID#) you might find that your scanners insides are exactly the same as the other scanners insides, so the same drivers will work for each scanner. anyways.... you need to install sane-frontends, sane-backends and xsane (xsane is optional, but i like it better than kooka which is KDE's scanning tool) make sure your scanner is in the compatability list at http://www.sane-project.org/ then you will need to download the firmware driver and copy it to the correct location (wich will be given why you try to start xsane) also make sure your /proc/bus/usb files are readable and writeable by the user wishing to scan.

one thing you gotta admit...Microsoft is definatly leading the world in the search for the *perfect* shade of blue.and thats all i noticed afrom the longhorns screen shots... its a DIFFERENT shade of blue.thats all that seems to chanmge...windows 9X... blue.2K softer blueXP darker blue.Longhorn.. darker still blue.i wonder how many designers worked for how many hours to create the perfect shade of blue ?and why doesnt the desktop Blue match the BSOD blue ?and has MS patented that shade of blue yet ? or has IBM patented blue ?

or maybe you are already listed in the search on google page 123,198,003,12 ! i find google will find your ssite eventually.. it just takes time. it took a few months.. but google pcked up my siite, now i get plenty of hits.. for a few keywords like "download amiga kickstart rom 3.1" my site is sometimes on page 1... which is an achievment in itself !

if anyone knows how to do the oppisite.. convert an AVI to a VCD id be greatfull. ive folled lost of tutorials... but often after hours of converting, i end up with somthign gone wrong.. like a missing audio stream or far too few FPS.

The whole thing about Linnux havving fewer drivers available is part of a trade off.he thing about drivers is they run with the very highest privilages...even on a perfect OS, a bad driver can damage hardware, cause random crashes. and system slowdowns.in windows, you just have to hope that the developers of your hardware worked very hard on the driver, to make it bug free and perfect. you are putting your system reliability into the hands of many different people.for example, i bought a very very cheap and nasty webcam for £5... if the cam is only £5. how much testing did the driver go through ???in linux, the job of building drivers lies with the kernel developers. who you can trust to try there very best to keep the drivers reliable....