RE: [PCTECH] I learned something about certificatesandencrypting file systems the other day ...

[Ken Sims <mr3111@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bob -

> Not trying to start a religious discussion here (but I fear we have), but it
> still sounds like the fat man preaching about the evils of high 
> calorie/high fat
> diets while eating an ice cream cone!

I don't see it that way.  I have used WinNT4 for five years.  It is 
relatively stable.  With the crap that MicroShaft has done with Win2000, 
and even more with WinXP, there is no way that I am "upgrading" from WinNT4.

So I'm moving on to GNU/Linux, I'm just doing it very slowly.

> And yes.  My firewall (IPCop) is based on a Linux derivative...but it is 
> packaged
> so well, you don't have to actually know anything about Linux.

Since I want to know about GNU/Linux, when I installed RH9 I told it "no 
firewall" and I wrote up a script with iptables commands from scratch, not 
using any kind of GUI or anything, so I know exactly what it is doing.

> And I've recently loaded RH 8 into a virtual machine (using VMWare) for 
> experimentation purposes.

I'm going the other direction.  I will be using VMWare (which I still have 
to get around and buy) to run my WinNT4 system as is, in a virtual machine 
on GNU/Linux.  Then I'll be gradually switching to GNU/Linux 
applications.  Then I'll set up separate virtual machines for these few 
Windoze apps that I need to retain: VPN+CAE, OzWinII, and maybe a few other 
minor things; plus the ability to check my website with Internet Exploder 
to try to maintain compatibility with as many browsers as possible.

> A question: I'm new to the PCTECH list...is this discussion even 
> appropriate here
> or should it be elsewhere?

Not only is it appropriate here, it is more appropriate here than on any 
other of the midrange.com lists.

Ken
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