Hula and Zimbra: requirements at a glance

Posted: October 3rd, 2005 | Author: telcor | Filed under: Business with Linux, Information Technology (IT), Linux | No Comments »

Zimbra Requirements:

  • 512 MB RAM - base
  • 3 GB HDD space - space
  • RHEL 4, or Fedora Core 3 (likely any GNU/Linux distro would work)

Hula Requirements:

  • 10 MB RAM / 128 MB RAM (depends upon configuration) - Base
  • 60 MB HDD space - base
  • RHEL AS 3, or SLES 9 (likely any GNU/Linux distro would work)

With a wimpy (P2, 256 MB RAM) testing system, which do you think I should (or will) pick for testing purposes?


Sign of a broken Mac

Posted: October 3rd, 2005 | Author: telcor | Filed under: Information Technology (IT), WWW, Work | No Comments »

Today I’ve worked on getting an old iMac fucntional. My wife purchased it rather cheap ($25 at a garage sale). Perfect for those projects that need to be cross-platform since previously I had no Mac. There is only one problem: the MacOS install is totally borked!

Here’s the situation I found myself in. I need to perform testing in IE for MacOS (don’t ask!). To install IE 5 requires Stuffit Expander 5.5 or later (this is for MacOS 8.x). Ok, goto the Allume’s website, downlaod a version for MacOS 8.1. Umm, I don’t have a browser on my Mac, so I’ll download it on my Windows box, copy it to a CD and install it. That seems to work, until I double click the Stuffit file on the Mac.

Apparently to install Stuffit on Mac OS, you need to have Stuffit installed!

Thankfully a friend had a spare MacOS 8.5 isntall CD available. There are still problems, but I think I got stuffit installed now.