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Is the legacy SMTP client submit port "456" or "465"? What is the history of this wacky port and who uses it?

I see posts on the internet, Google Apps Engine, and a few others that make mention of this unusual client submit port. Can anyone clarify which is the oddball port I should support (in addition to port 587) for end user email submits?
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Where to download the latest 2.4.x Linux kernel while kernel.org is down?

I need to run the pre-paleolithic (10 years old!) SuSE 7.3 under VirtualBox. (Don't ask. I just do, ok?) I managed to successfully install it. It boots. It recognized the virtual NIC (pcnet32 module) and I can see it has the correct virtual MAC…
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Restrict access to network location from Windows Explorer

We have a legacy application which has data and PDF files available on a network share, and a locally-installed EXE to run it. The EXE uses a UNC path to access the data and PDFs. The customer is concerned that users can access the data and PDFs…
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Your experience with JBOD "raw" SATA setup

I need a cheap setup to store historic snapshots of a dataset in the 100-200GB range. These will see little use, but need to be kept online for some time (shared by Samba). The box housing the dataset is a Dell PowerEdge 750 with a PCI-X CERC…
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What are some good backup solutions that support legacy OSs?

I'm making a small network in our company that will comprise of 4 machines: 1 Windows 95 PC 1 Windows NT 4.0 PC 1 Windows XP PC 1 Windows XP Server I want to be able to run one solution that supports XP, NT 4.0, and 95. I was thinking that an…
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Where Can I Find Old Versions Of Veritas NetBackup?

I have a Veritas NetBackup 3.4.1 installation running on Solaris 2.6. I have a requirement to add some Windows 2000 Server systems to this backup system. Does anyone know where I might find the install media for a compatible Windows client? I do…
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Has anyone cloned an HDD for a Macintosh IIvx?

Where I work as a sysadmin, we have an old Macintosh IIvx that is the only one left in the world with an obscure program on it that will cost the company a ton of money if they can't use it. Well, the dreaded day has come. Yesterday, it wasn't…
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Cannot migrate ancient VM

Much as I would rather kill it off, I a required to migrate an ancient VM (2.4 kernel) from VMWare to KVM. Unfortunately I cannot get the migrated VM to read the root filesystem: kmod: failed to exec /bin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno = 2 VFS…
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Move Legacy system into virtualization

I currently have five windows hosts which all have graphics output. I would like to virtualise this setup as it is running on really old hardware and is using little resources by todays standards. How could I virtualise them and still have them each…
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Does Xeon Harpertown (E5400 series) support ECC DDR3?

Is it possible to use Xeon E5450 with 8GB (preferably 16GB) DIMMs of DDR3 Registered Buffered ECC RAM? I checked Intel's Spec page for Xeon E5450 and Wikipedia Xeon#Harpertown Harpertown spec table Information paragraph None explicitly mention ECC…
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Segmentation fault when building centos 5 chroot

For some legacy application I decided to use chroot with CentOS 5. I did install CentOS 5 on virtual machine, then I boot virtual machine with live CD and using tar, I "copied" the files from the virtual disk to my (Linux laptop's) HDD. Then I tried…
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What are some best-practice ways to view the occasional Java applet in the medium-term future?

I've just encountered a Java applet on a random website and I'd like to start it. Given Chrome's relentless incompatibility with plugins since time immemorial, I went and asked on irc.mozilla.org what the best older Firefox version to use might be,…
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Point email to Host A, website to Host B (without host-provided MX record)

I'm migrating a website from Host A to Host B, but keeping email on Host A. One complication is that Host A doesn't provide a conventional MX record; they just use the naked domain (which I understand is less than ideal but it's what I'm working…
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Printing with Old Application (Win2000) is Slow

I have a legacy application that I honestly do not know a whole lot about running on Windows 2000. Sometimes printing is slow. It creates a file at a remote location (I will call this location B) and then prints it. In order to create this file,…
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How to improve availability of a old legacy java application in AWS

I have a old java application running on an AWS EC2 but a couple of times per week the application is very slow or down and I have to restart the system which is very bad for our clients. It's an old application and it's using a lot of the local…
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