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how about one on pvm@icnm.at ?! tnx

Knoppix can be really usefull, indeed. But I much more prefer some other players. FreeBSD if you're into it, or try Slackware - so far it gave me by far the best speed (and I don't mean the pills). I can't really explain why, but my experience shows me a significant difference. Haven't tried out Gentoo yet, I see that many people praise it, so there must be something to it. By the way, I use an old PIII 550 Katmai, so OS speed does matter. Why don't I buy a new comp? Why? This one does all the work.

Well, it is a Unix, right? So why don't you just dmesg and see what comes. Or even dmesg | grep hd Also try the equivalent of fdisk -l (minus el) That sould help you to figure out the name of the new device. Partition it, format it, mount it and that's it.

Try to search other forums. For starters, SuSE, Mandrake, Fedora and so on and so forth. Try to find some free time to consult with the ever friendly and smart google, and you will be surprised how easy it is to find the information about Linux. You will also find numerous "my dad is stronger than yours" conversations, but you can safely ignore them and try out different distros until you find one to your liking. It surely takes some time for Longhorn to grow to the production phase. It better be good and worth the wait for all those needy creatures.

sgies is here:unitedemailsystems.comI wander how they can maintain this service, though. There are absolutely no details about the service. The only thing they worte was that their server was powered by IBM and linux, but how on earth can someone support the cost if they don't charge for the email, if they don't support themselves by adds etc? It is a nice idea, but let us see how long it will last before some kind of money-making trick takes place.

For Windoes, Sygate offers a good firewall too. So does EZ (Computer Associates). All linux distros and all BSD distros come with excellent firewalls. If you are behind a well setup router/firewall, you probably won't need one.

Mizako has a good point here. It comes really handy when you have to integrade expect into your scripts. Some months ago I have had a real trouble trying to overcome such a problem. With TCL and EXPECT it seems so easy. Now, when you add the power of CGI to it, it really becomes appealing.

Luckilly, you can disable this.

If you don't have a lot to backup, you can use CDs as suggested by mizzako. Otherwise you can burn DVDs - neither DVD burners not the media itself are not that expensive in order not to be considered. If you have huge amounts of data to backup - the good old tapes.

If they decided to make SP2 it means that it should be installed. It probably won't be possible in the future to make further system updates without SP2 installed, and then it can really start hurting. Apart from many changes that they mention on their website, the only visible ones to me were the addition of a popup blocker and somewhat improved firewall. There must be a reason why their engineers spent many working hours trying to write it. I've updated my old PIII 550 without any problems. I don't use any exclusive software, so I can't say whether and how it affects userland.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to run a webserver at home, unless you are planning to do a lot o web-development. There are many free servers out there (Xisto being one of them) that make regular backups and are connected to fast networks. You don't want to think about server maintenance unless you have to. However, if you develop you will most probably need one. I would recommend spending some time with Apache.

If you want to use IE all you need to do is to update to SP2. It adds a popup blocker. You will not need any additional software. Without SP2, you can tryout google toolbar, that blocks popups fine, but I wouldn't compare it to integrated blockers that come with some broswers such as Mozilla.

You probably would not want to use Knoppix for this, because it installs a host of software you will never need for a web server. When it comes to Linux, I would vote for Slackware. You might also want to reconsider your choice, and use OpenBSD, FreeBSD or NetBSD which all make excellent servers.

The best way by far would be to have your email filtered on the server level. Many providers offer this commodity nowdays, including the free ones. If you want to do it on the client level, it will take a lot of manual work, because you will have to teach your client what emails should be treated as spam. You did not mention which platform you are using, so I can't give you any additional details, but, say, Outlook has a spam feature, as well as Mozilla, as well as many others.

You might as well use Knoppix installed on your HDD. This more or less translates to Debian. Just grab a fresh copy of Knoppix from their website. It will detect your hardware properly. Install it on your HDD and that's it. The latest one (3.6 if I am not mistaken) comes with KDE 3.3, so that you won't have to worry about updating it.