Chicken and Egg

[The Wassermans]

Having only recently loaded Ubuntu 7.1 on a spare computer, I am striving (on and off) to come to grips with it.  I plan, ultimately, to switch completely to Ubuntu if I can learn to live with it.  I have decided that the best way to determine it's suitability is simply to use it as much as I can and attempt to configure things as I go along.  But I have a chicken and egg problem - how to wean myself off of Windows (XP)?  I will also need to assess which, for me, are the most suitable OSS replacement for my favourite Windows based programs.  I figure this will take me a year.

First things first. Should I?:
1.  Set up a dual boot or,
2. Install a second HDD or
3. Simply network two computers?
In each case I might need some assistance/advice.

I have been watching, with great interest, the flow of emails from this group.  So much advice and information.  So much to know!  Trouble is I don't know what I don't know.  So I am tempted to save everything - just in case.  But that is ridiculous!  Does someone have a good management system for "just in case" information?  Maybe I should just ignore things that are not (yet) affecting me?

Compliments of the season to all

Dave W




  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Christopher Lees 
  To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com 
  Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 12:23 AM
  Subject: Re: ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 22, Issue 25


  On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 12:00 +0000, ubuntu-au-request at lists.ubuntu.com
  wrote:

  > Message: 4
  > Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:32:51 +1100
  > From: andremangan at gmail.com

  > Telstra was one of these ISPs after their email system
  > ground to a halt when they were inundated with spam both incoming and
  > outgoing just a few years ago.
  > 
  > Cheers,
  > Andre

  I remember this very well; the failure of their e-mail system disrupted
  non-Telstra e-mail traffic too, which caused me to lose important
  e-mails addressed to me, and also important e-mails that I sent. This in
  turn caused the break up of a team for a university assignment, which
  also caused me to fail that assignment, and caused me to fail the whole
  unit (by just four marks!) and meant I had to spend another semester at
  university!

  Moral of the story: Use SpamAssassin instead; it doesn't generate return
  traffic and it works extremely well to stop spam. You're looking at
  someone who doesn't get spam on their SA-protected account anymore!


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