As some of you may be aware, I'm a computer technician (cough*geek*cough) at a really big Jr college. My life is somewhat controlled by the cycles of the school year, with one difference; I can take time off almost any time I want. This year I took my big trip in September. You can read more about that here: My trip to London. To continue, I also sometimes take time during the semester, maybe a week at the end of November. This year, because of other obligations, I wasn't able to take any time until now; the week between the holidays. I really needed the break!
Although work is not stressful; most of my days are pretty consistent, there are days when I feel like a human pinball; Some days I don't see my office.
During my time off my broadband router died, went belly up, crapped out, fell down-go boom...you get the idea. I needed a replacement. I setup a linux based firewall appliance, Smoothwall Express It will run on almost anything. I had an old P2 233 MHz with 256MB of ram, I needed a CD-ROM drive for the install and a floppy for backups. I was on my way!
It has been up and running for almost 3 weeks, not a wimper or a complaint for it. As with most Linux systems, it just runs. With the help of the Smoothwall Community Forums I added a couple of modifications that make the system even easier to use. I'm not sure if I'm more impressed with myself or the Smoothwall box sitting in the corner of my office. It is worth a look.
A big hello goes out to anyone visiting from The Langa List
HELLO!!
Ok time to do some work :-)
3 comments:
Hello via Fred Langa!
The "computergeekfirstclass" caught my attention.
Know what I find most helpful in blogs?
Throws us your daily on-the-job run of the mill problems you encounter and how you solved them.
Share your experience of being a geek even if it seems like everyone should know the solution.
Congrats on the London Trip!
someday...someday....
My word verification was:
xilbt
(sorry I always do that)
u r traffic will rise like a mountain this 15 days
cause last time mine did 2
Hello Computer Geek First Class via Fred Langa List : )
Like your site, going to add you to my favorites! I am a self tought still learning geek myself. Any advice you have on HTML would be greatly appreciated. Nice site, keep up the good works! Happy new Year!!
Dor
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