Re: [Leica] mejac working again

["Jeff S" <segawa@netone.com>]

Joe, for what it's worth, I have a newish Team Internet at the office. This
handy $2K device is an (Apache) webserver (admittedly, a slow one, even for
office use), email server and DHCP server. With a single phone line, it
provides 20+ people in the office with internet access, with decent
performance (but we're not talking streaming audio here). A look inside
revealed that it was nothing more than a '486 with 1G hard drive and Linux
OS. Real magic is that these folks have made system admin a snap--it's all
GUI'd, and accessed via a web browser!

But...the software isn't designed to be customized, and doesn't include
Majordomo, which really could stand to be GUI'd or something. I agree that
the docs are atrocious, containing a great deal of information, but
organized in such a way that finding the answer to fairly straightforward
questions may require wading through a lot of seemingly irrelevant junk.
This sort of problem is why I went with a prepackaged system like Team
Internet, rather than "rolling my own": It's nice to have a life sometimes
:-)

Jeff

- -----Original Message-----
From: Joe Berenbaum <joe-b@dircon.co.uk>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] mejac working again


>At 23:26 19/10/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>The computer mejac.palo-alto.ca.us broke permanently on Sunday 18th
>>October 1998. I have replaced it with a fast new computer with much
>>more modern software. I will be watching carefully for a while to see
>>if there are any startup problems.
>>Thank you for your patience.
>>Brian Reid
>>owner of mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>>keeper of the Leica-users mailing list
>
>Brian, thanks for that!
>
>I don't know if anyone else asked this, but I am curious. I would be very
>interested to know what spec the recently deceased machine actually was.
>The idea of mejac being an elderly 486 is intriguing.
>
>Joe Berenbaum
>