Anyone Using Vista?

I had an old Ultra 60 as my home server that replaced my sparc 5 but I got tired of Sun's prices for RAM and disk drives and donated my server to my work place and bought a Mac running OS X instead. That way I got to keep my olde sun running at my desk at work, got a tax deduction for it and got a machine with cheaper RAM/disk storage at home :D
 
I just set up VNC through SSH and login to my servers that way.

That way I can use some of the apps on my Fedora boxes without actually logging in locally. I also do this when I am on travel (like now).. I also setup the FTP server (fedora) to use SSH also.

I am toying with the idea of moving my Fedora SSH/FTP/Apache to WinServ2003. Of course these are my home servers.... At work NMCI rules the roost and I cannot even use SSH at work. I cant even get to my home web site from NMCI. I don't know why...It works everywhere else in the world.....
 
SSH is the one application that keeps me sane and why I keep using a nice simple mail client like pine. If the Mac was truly using Xwindows for its application display I could export a GUI email client, but since it isn't I keep the firewall door open for an incoming ssh session. I do have a more secure backdoor where I can VPN into my work environment and then utilize and encryption tunnel from there to a PIX firewall at my house to get to my home network. Either of the connection techniques gives me constant access to my email.

I have an ssh client on my phone called putty that lets me use Verizon's broadband to do ssh sessions as well but a VT100 emulation on a WM6 phone screen is painful to read.
 
putty and winscp, two of my favorite apps. Since I run the network, i actually have an IPSec tunnel between my home and work so i'm always online. It's particularly helpful in the middle of the night when Asia or Europe have issues and I get the dreaded phone call. That, and I use the company DNS as an alert from home to let me know if a firewall has died or a server is having issues and Big Brother can't get an alert to me. It's helped a number of times.

I was using a Treo app that let me do a shell session, but it really sucked. I couldn't get around the fact that it wasn't real time. You'd send a command and then refresh the screen to see the response. Not a particularly easy way to do vi.

I like shipkiller's idea of VNC over ssh. I got my replacement doing that so he'd stop calling me to ask silly questions like how to add a user or a printer from the command line because he couldn't see the admintool. I've got a couple pix's at work, but I prefer my Junipers just because I have their ssl boxes and about 10 of their firewalls around the world.
 
Shipkiller said:
I cant even get to my home web site from NMCI. I don't know why...It works everywhere else in the world.....
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I had an issue like that with my boss' website. It was the ONLY thing we couldn't access from the corporate lan. I added a forwarder to our circuit provider's DNS and then everybody was happy.

Unless you really need those IIS extensions, i'd just leave Win2k3 alone. Fedora and RHEL seem to be doing a real good job of securing their systems out of the box. No more need for OpenBSD anymore.
 
I have tried BSD but could never get it to work properly. It was just too hard to setup, configure and use. I have been a Redhat user since RH 4.2. I even spent two weeks at RH and got certified.

The only problem I have now, it I can't get Apache to list the directory contents. I use to be able to do this but I have forgotten how over time. I will work on this when I get back home.
 
Shipkiller said:
I have tried BSD but could never get it to work properly. It was just too hard to setup, configure and use. I have been a Redhat user since RH 4.2. I even spent two weeks at RH and got certified.

The only problem I have now, it I can't get Apache to list the directory contents. I use to be able to do this but I have forgotten how over time. I will work on this when I get back home.
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Comment out the following section in the httpd.conf file (then restart apache):

Code: 
<LocationMatch "^/$>
    Options -Indexes
    ErrorDocument 403 /error/noindex.html
</LocationMatch>

Hope that helps :D
 
Shipkiller said:
I have tried BSD but could never get it to work properly. It was just too hard to setup, configure and use. I have been a Redhat user since RH 4.2. I even spent two weeks at RH and got certified.

The only problem I have now, it I can't get Apache to list the directory contents. I use to be able to do this but I have forgotten how over time. I will work on this when I get back home.
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Not sure what version RHL I started on, but about 11 years ago, my son and I had a weekend ritual where we'd build a computer (same parts every week), then install RedHat on it and he'd play with things like text editors just to see things come up on the screen.

My boss kept telling me that I needed to move the company intranet to windows iis 5 because it would be easier on the web guys, so I did. They had nothing but trouble and for the first 3 weeks, the server's average uptime was something like 16 hours (FreeBSD box was up for something like 350 days). I had the CIO in the server room screaming at me that I had to fix everything and do it now, so I moved everything back to FreeBSD and Apache, got a dev windows box, told the boyz to figure out their issues and call me when they were done. We now have IIS and I only get to use apache for my personal stuff. I'm pretty simple, if I can't modify my page in vi, I don't do it. In fact all my personal web sites have been completely unchanged for the past couple years. Time for a new winter hobby.
 
On my last deployment in 2003, before I retired, my home firewall/FTP server ran for 399 days without a reboot or restart. It was RH 6. Hell, I was in the Gulf shooting missiles.... :evil: I could not fix anything being that far away and my son and wife were able to access the internet and send me email the whole eight + months I was away

Until recently, (on submarines) for the Combat Systems side of the house, HP UX ruled the roost. I really hate HP-UX.

Now the new systems, are all RH 7.3 with a couple HP-UX and some new Trusted Solaris boxes. Don't like TS either... The TS box's are so locked down that when I do a new system installation or have to go onboard to fix something, the only thing you can do to it is to reinstall the OS. They (The Navy) require that 'root' is locked out.....
 
Well I got a new latop and decided on Vista rather than XP. I only just got it and I was out last night so I haven't really used it much, but Vista seems pretty slow, even though I have 4gb RAM. Is that normal?
 
Wondermike said:
Well I got a new latop and decided on Vista rather than XP. I only just got it and I was out last night so I haven't really used it much, but Vista seems pretty slow, even though I have 4gb RAM. Is that normal?
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Yup... I would not recommend staying with XP as I believe it is inevitable everyone will eventually end up on Vista, but I must say I do not know of ANY benefit of Vista over XP at all.

P.S. Vista was so shocking that it made me jump ship to MAC!
 
Ah cheers maybe it needs a bit more time then, while I get used to it and tinker with it a bit. Either way, I'm stuck with it for 3 years anyway.

sp3ctre - I did think about a Mac too but I really need easy 100% compatibility with my work laptop so I decided against it.
 
Wondermike said:
sp3ctre - I did think about a Mac too but I really need easy 100% compatibility with my work laptop so I decided against it.
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I was the same but I took the plunge with the intel macbook pro, as you can put xp/vista on it either dual boot or as a VM. The in-built VM thingy (parallels) is cool, in that you can seemingly run a windows app within OSX... works really well, but after a week or two I really never used it.. useful o have the option though.
 
Hmmm maybe I should have gone down that route with XP as a dual boot on a Macbook. I've actually got an unused OEM copy of XP Pro so I reckon I'm going to install that as a dual boot anyway, for some reason I can't access our work extranet with Vista (was the same when I was running the Beta version) so I need to sort that anyway.
 
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