[Ale-study] hey finally got it right

Donald Norman donald at dwnorman.net
Tue Nov 16 15:18:29 EST 2010


I just got the book in the mail today.  As in an earlier post I am a  
virtualization virgin.  I would love a little direction; which  
vendor/technology should I use?  I think if I decide which one to use I  
can figure it out enough to as intelligent questions.

Donadl


On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:52:16 -0500, John <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

> I'm waiting for the book to arrive from Amazon.  Before it does, I have
> two tasks to complete.
>
> a) Install an Ubuntu Server 10.04 x64
> b) Install a CentOS Server 5.5 x64
>
> Both will have minimal setups, just ssh servers, static IPs on my
> internal network, nothing else. Each will be just 4GB of storage in a
> virtual machine. I already have the Ubuntu ISO and used bittorrent to
> get the CentOS 5.5 x64 ISO. It took about 2 hrs. Of course, validate the
> MD5 signature.  The book may say that a different install is needed, but
> with a base system like this, adding anything else should be easy enough.
>
>
> On 11/15/2010 11:26 PM, Joshua wrote:
>> I finally got on the list.  Fancy that.  I tried earlier, but I guess I
>> had a bad password or something.  I like to use some special characters
>> in my passwords that are not always accepted by servers.  Sometimes I
>> don't get a message, it just never works.
>>
>> Anyway I am up and here.  Can anyone tell me if there is anything
>> important that I missed in the last 24, or are we still talking about
>> books and apps to use for communication?
>>
>> Joshua
>>
>
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Thanks,
Donald Norman


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