Andy Lee wrote:
> Andy
> (sadly working on home PC at this time on a Saturday night)
>
Well me too, but we cannot all be like Hotch with his endless galavanting.
I am pleased as I bought a Dell Poweredge 2200 server dual PII 200s or
thereabouts for 85 quid from E-bay. Stuck an IDE 120 MB drive on a
Promise controller in it, downloaded and installed Mandrake 9.2 and have
now a working SMB server to manage all the music and other files in the
house. I have an old laptop with Mandrake 9.2 and XMMS doing the MP3
client to the amp in the living room via WiFi. I also get to turn the
poweredge into a testing server for web design in due course.
I set up my web site using Mambo server (http://www.mamboserver.com)
which is GPL software onto Apache and PHP / Mysql which let me put
together a reasonable web site in 10-14 days.
I have done all this with Free software (apart from the HTML editing,
for which I used Dreamweaver and simple text editors).
Why, oh why, would I have considered going out and spending buckets on
MS Servers and IIS to do this stuff? I would have to have gone out in
the snow for starters, which is just a non-starter really.
I am continuously amazed at the quality, depth and breadth of open
source software.
Anyway, I'm off to bed.
:-)
http://www.doctormiller.co.uk
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Paul
Glasgow
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