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Leave all of the files on your computer - download the Opera browser and use the Opera Unite feature to share all of the artwork right from your computer. If the audience is small and the load is not an issue and you have a good DSL connection - this might be the easiest way to do it. Opera Unite will give you a URL to share and you can password protect the content also. Greg

There is a lively group of Ruby on Rails programmers in my neck of the woods who like the scalability of Rackspace.com for hosting. You might want to check them out- it is a grow on demand infrastructure (that is what you need) I recently installed a Windows SBS 2011 server - It was bundled on a Dell server with a quad core processor and 12 gigs of RAM. This hardware is spec'd per Microsoft for 75 users. So if you really think you are going to be getting the SQL traffic you outlined above, a Rackspace.com or cloud service would be my only recommendation for hosting. I supported web hosting for 10 years. You are lucky to be coding now, 10 years ago the server above cost $40k from SUN, now these things sell for under $2k and the cloud model is perfect for what you describe. Good Luck

I have been to 6 Novell Classes, 6 Microsoft classes, 6 Sun Java Programming classes, taken 12 Unix Computer based training programs while maintain Unix servers in a web hosting environment for about 10 years. I have been an IT Professional in some very large environments for 15 years. --- Unix has never had a virus and I install Ubuntu 10.10 on every broken Windows laptop that crosses my path. When I show people how open office works, how easy it is to surf the web, how much faster their 3-5 year old PC works after installing Ubuntu, they sing my praises and say thank you. --- Anyone over $500 million in revenue thinks they are being smart by buying into the church of Microsoft and if you want gaming or multi-media it's probably the way to go, but for most people MS is just a pain to maintain and Microsoft learned long ago they can do more to kill the competition with one press release than any other means available. --- I will give Microsoft kudos, MS Exchange client is pretty hard to beat. Nothing on the market is really as good. For collaboration Share Point is great but the effort required on the backend to maintain, move around and configure is really expensive and time consuming. Most small business could do just a well with Xwiki for collaboration and Osmo on Ubuntu to replace MS Exchange.

some practical things like using aliases in their profile to start and stop applications. aliases to basically create short cuts to long commands ---- use of vmstat, top for system /application monitoring ---- ssh with -X command to bring up remote applications on other Ubuntu terminals (a good one is loading a bunch of songs in rhythmbox on one desktop then calling rhythmbox remotely from another desktop to play songs over a speaker on remote computer) ---- Install NX nomachine server on one box and use the NX client to connect --- grep commands to search strings in text files advanced features i.e. search and replace in vi

I too recently recovered a song on a cassette tape that was 15 years old. I connected the RCA jacks to my mixing board and created a digital copy of the track via a PC and Sound Forge. Worked like a dream and the sound quality is perfect. I've also restored Commander Keen to a PCMCIA drive on a Fujitsu 1000 Stylistic touch screen, though Commander Keen is 1990 and to be fair the PCMCIA drive was 1995 but it all still works and boots to DOS and Keen lives Generally speaking tape seems to stand the test of time. I am more afraid of DVD failure than tape failure

I have some web development skills i.e. html, css, java script etc and I have taken a bunch of java programming classes, a skill I never developed (programming in java) Do you have any recommendations for getting acquainted with Ruby on Rails? Are there any demos I can build or DIY tutorials you recommend to get started proto typing or building a basic apps to learn the basics of Ruby on Rails ? Thanks in advance for the useful links and info above

I connected an Asus eee 701 which I purchased used for $25 to my Samsung - easy breezy - that and a $35 dollar wireless keyboard/touchpad- presto - Internet TV- talk about over thinking a technical issue- EEE runs Xandros too. Don't even need to pay for software

If you already own MS server 2003 or 2008 or 2010 - WSS 3.0 (the free version) has great discussion board for release notes, development notes, release notes, version control on document libraries and RSS feeds from all to our favorite RSS reader. I disagree with the process haters. You can crash a space shuttle without processes. If you want to move fast with no accountability, fly solo, but still, don't forget to file a flight plan (oops there's a process). I have a few posts on WSS 3.0 at http://gregstechblog.wordpress.com/

Love Ubuntu 10.x - best yet

I posted an article last spring on how to fix windows viruses using Unix and responders contributed information creating a very useful guide to securing windows operating systems in the most unlikely of places: a linux forum: details: http://virus.gregrank.us/ will redirect you to the article mentioned above. I have built my windows desktop AV standards around the ideas obtained from responders (with great success)

Install Ubuntu 10.x and search the software repository for word processors Abiword, Zoho api or Gnumeric (excel like) just a few

Isn't that why we manufacture electronics in China and shoes in India? It's so business can continue to exploit the worker , keep costs down and stock prices high. Put more money in Asian money market funds! Go exploiters, love the returns without the liability. Rich people thank you

I sift through 6000 articles daily, it's a breeze, For unix I use akregator, for windows jet brains omea rss reader, both have easy to use key word search which is why they are my favorites. Also put sharepoint behind the firewall at work and use an rss feed reader to keep up with everyone at work. it's all free and the way I cope

I submitted an article on using Ubuntu and NX nomachine at home to prevent exactly this type of attack. No one commented http://slashdot.org/submission/1365444/A-personal-private-cloud-server