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No, no, no! Don't slam your head against the cold black stone.
Feel the smooth, cool, soothing surface. Be comforted by the solid,
serene, support it gives. Then, when you've rested, take up your
sword and fight on!
<p>My brother will be setting up a medical practice shortly. He plans
to do as much as he can with computers (rather than paper) - patient records,
accounting, scheduling, web browsing, email. Since he plans to do
it himself, I plan to help him (he's a doctor, not a computer wizard).
If he wanted an all NT network, I'd tell him to go hire someone.
Trying to set up Exchange scares the heck out of me. Since I know
next to nothing about NT servers, how long would it take me to learn how
to set up an Exchange server so that it needed minimal maintenance?
But I think I can set up and learn qmail or something similar (heck, even
sendmail if I bought the book) in a week or less.
<p>Perhaps Exchange has improved, but I knew some NT admins (smart guys
even so) who spent a week just getting it to install. Then when they
tried to configure it, they realized they had to reinstall it.
<p>The reason I'm not afraid of a Unix mail server is that I understand
how email works. I can read the RFCs, I have a basic idea of what
SMTP, POP, etc. are doing. And in the Unix world, servers live pretty
close to the protocols. So there's little mystery to what can be
configured. I read recently that Exchange isn't an MTA, it's a "corporate
messaging server" (see <a href="http://unix-vs-nt.org/kirch/sendmail-exchange.html">Microsoft
Exchange versus Sendmail</a>). I don't know what coporate messaging
is, but I'm pretty sure my brother doesn't need it.
<p>BTW, people might also be interested in John Kirch's <a href="http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/kirch/">Microsoft
Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX</a>. This is dated, but some things
haven't changed in 2.5 years.
<p>Dave
<p>"David L. Willson" wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I frequently find myself wondering why, as a Windows
expert, I continue to
<br>be attracted to this confusticated mule of an OS. Why, when I
have achieved
<br>near-mastery of the Windows family, with it's ease-of-use and popularity,
do
<br>I continue to slam my head against the cold black stone of the Linux
command
<br>line interface?
<br>There is something pure, good, almost holy, about finding the one line
in
<br>the one configuration file, that solves the problem. It is good
to know
<br>that I know exactly what happened within every component, because I
was the
<br>one who made the changes.
<br>Today, I have slain the dragon... Well OK, I knocked it out long
enough to
<br>run to a safe distance. The mis-configuration which prevented
my
<br>Linux-to-W2000-over-Samba backups from processing is gone...
My hands feel
<br>good.
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