> Hi James, I am surely not going to be the only one to suggest 
> it, but what you are describing is the perfect fit for a 
> Linux box. Take the plunge... Us that old pentium box you 
> were about to throw out, and borrow a friend to help get you 
> bootstrapped in to the Linux world.... 

Been there, done that, got the disconnect notice from my ISP for allowing a
cracker to turn the box into a spam relay. In fact, I've been there 3 times:
twice by myself (after reading the recommended books and having friends over
to help) and once with a freaking professional solaris hurder remotely
admining the box. ALL THREE TIMES: crACKED. 

Since then, a total of 5 M$ servers. Starting with, and I'm NOT kidding: A
Windows 98 box running Personal Web Server. Which. Did. Not. Get. cracked.
For the year or more that it was up. Not one NT box has EVER been cracked.
Go ahead, prove me wrong: 66.13.172.18 crack away.

Fool me once (twice, thrice..)? I will run a *nix box when pigs fly out my
butt.

> (How about creating a [Linux] tag on PIClist ... ;-)

Yeeeeaaaaaahhhhhh..... 

After all that free publicity, you would think M$ could cut me a deal on an
updated version of SQL Server.

Sorry, I should have thought to put the kibosh on the *nix thing before I
posted the question.

I want something that I can't mess up.

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James.
 

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