OT: Linux most breached OS

[Bill Vermillion]

In the last exciting episode of the filePro saga, 
John Esak was heard to say:" 
if: Mon, Nov 22 00:12  
then: nm = John Esak 
if:
then: show nm < "said:"  
John Esak said: 


> > Press tab to move to that panel, move down to 'install and remove
> > software', and the next menu move to 'search' type in hylafax,
> > a moment later it is highlighted, and you can choose to install it
> > right then and there.

> > If anyone with reasonable intelligence can't handle that they
> > shouldn't be adding software to the system.

> Yes, sounds easy... not as easy as loading a CD or a downloaded
> file and pressing Next, Next, Next, Finish... but pretty good.

Easier than downloading a file as it can do it for you.

> However, I was asking JP if the HylaFax itself was easy to
> administer.

You didn't say that - you asked about installation.

> I mean VSI*FAX has some simple administrative menus that
> let you add fax modems, group them, etc. Simple for anyone.
> All that I've heard of HF is that you configure from the
> command line, editing files, etc. No chore for the average
> administrator, but more than a business owner could handle.

I'll not argue those points - and VF is designed like that.

Hylafax - and a lot of Unix programs - are designed to work very
well and take some expertise to set up - and then the end users
can just run them and run them - often for years.  

But that's typical of most Unixen isn't.  If you want easy to set
up without having any outside help, then MS fits the bill with
the proviso you do things the way MS thinks you should do them.

Hylafax is setup with a program called 'faxsetup'.  Pure text
questions and answers.  It will add the 'fax' user to your password
file, puts in Faxmaster in aliases, etc.  All have default answers
that work for most people.

Yes you do configure it from the command line, but even in graphic
environments you do have enter text now and then.

I really only used Hylafax years ago when people using our services
for web service did not have email.  So I set up email to fax
so all their emails would go to their fax machine.

That was in the kinder gentler days of the 'net before spam 
became king of bandwidth useage - and you might only see two
or three emails a month like that.

Bill
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