RE: [cobalt-users] OT actinic - was Qube3 max disk size - loading RAQ4r ISO - RAM size as backup box?

["Phil Beynon" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >>I have a number of old PCs hanging around - I just bought 3
> from a dentist's office which might take this OS - I'll download
> the ISO and have an experiment in my notorious SPARE TIME....
> (yeah... one day...)
> >>
> >As long as you are happy working through an SSH command line,
> trustix is great (the creators are also hyper security consious,
> so its secure by default and you have to turn on services you
> want, eg FTP, Apache - so no security holes on things you aren't
> using). They've a helpful email group too (not as busy as here
> though).  Having said that its much easier to just 'use' the GUI
> of a qube so pros and cons really.
>
>
> lol - 17+ years unix - I think I can handle SSH/Command line -
> when I started, unix wasn't that new a thing, and we didn't know
> what a gui was! ;{)
>
> >
> >I think I remember somewhere that to connect to a device on scsi
> (with the Qube now)  you need to use telnet/ssh and 'mount' the
> drive.  Sounded simple, but knowing my luck I'd make a hash of it
> and end up reinstalling everything from scratch several times.
>
>
> Yeah - and I don't have any scsi devices hanging around... hang
> on.. yes I do - but they're 9Gb drives... kind of waste of space...
>
> >
> >>
> >>>Hope this helps,
> >>>Steve
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>Is this the old Actinic user group gone server?
> >>
> >>
> >:) With you, Phil and me here it seems that way :)
>
>
> That's what I figured...
>
>
> >By the way, I came accross some people who were just right to
> start their online business with an Actinic style programe,
> Blackbird....... Did they ever call you? I gave them your URL,
> If they didn't and you're interested I'll give you their details
> and 'history' if you like..
> >
>
> No - I never heard from them - but a lot of my calls never reach
> me - I have other people take messages and return calls that I
> need to.  If I know I'm expecting a call, that gets put right
> through - if not, screen away.  I'd never get anything done
> without a "system" of screening.
>
> I'd definitely be interested in a solution that competes with
> Actinic head to head - the software itself needs to be feature
> rich and PC based.  I'm certainly interested in exploring my
> options with a sofware solution that I can resell... we have a
> lot of dialup customers in this part of Colorado!
>
> thanks
>
> Greg
Hi Steve, Greg,
The actinic group moved onto a web based system, most of the email regulars
dropped away afterwards.
Just to much of a pain in the rear to try and keep up with it.

Spare time - I wish, I was writing a new Worldpay PHP acceptance module last
night till 12:45

Phil

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