by wwarren | Sep 22, 2010 | Microsoft, Security
I have severals tweaks with group policy that combined with a decent a/v malware is reduced to a small chance. Now that this is now true as soon as they open up the partner branding I have one client that uses avg, another that uses Kaspersky(which is currently...
by wwarren | Sep 15, 2010 | Church, Linux, NPO's, Open Source
I just need to get the final list of current mailboxses and get the DNS switched over. Staff meeting this Monday to see if they’ll give the green light. I have found several extensions(called zimlets) that really extend the featureset of the Zimbra platform....
by wwarren | Sep 15, 2010 | Church, Linux, Microsoft, NPO's, Open Source
Well I have gotten one of the donated servers fired up. It’s a dual Xeon 2.0 GHZ HT with dual 36 gig 10 SCSI hdd’s in raid 1. This is now running Untangle as the firewall. This frees up the Dell server (which is a Xeon 3.0 GHZ HT 2 gig dual 250 gigs...
by wwarren | Sep 14, 2010 | Hardware, Intel, Microsoft, Vendors, Windows
Ok folks. Here it comes. MS and Intel(Wintel is NOT dead) wants to have everything signed by it so that there’s no more bad or malicious code. Of course this would put an end to the open source movement and several other industries in the software arena(which...
by wwarren | Sep 8, 2010 | Vendors
Given the fact that verizon’s total debt nearly matches it’s market cap(not it’s actual income which is lower) I’m betting Verizon either sells off all it’s landlines AND fios lines and then buys out voda here in the us or they get bought...
by wwarren | Aug 31, 2010 | Cloud Computing, Hardware, Intel
They are jumping right into virtualization. Their biggest concern is they are hitting the limits of their colos power envelope before they start getting charged. They are going to reduce their server footprint by about half and hopefully save some power as well....
by wwarren | Aug 28, 2010 | Vendors
I’ve been using Astaro since they were at version 4. I’ve noticed a disturbing trend. V4 was, in my opinion, the best version they have ever released. Version 5 was badly bug ridden upon released necessitating at least 2 updates before it was running...
by wwarren | Aug 19, 2010 | Security, Security Alerts
Yet another reason to not use Facebook. In their latest non-security decision others can now tag you as being somewhere even if you don’t want them to…or if you aren’t even there. Like this is a good idea. Here’s how to turn it off(other...
by wwarren | Aug 16, 2010 | Church, NPO's
What are the needs that this server can address? At this time the church’s website is hosted by powweb on their free package for non profits. Unfortunately their e-mail services are horrendously unreliable. We have a business class internet connection with a...
by wwarren | Aug 15, 2010 | Church, Hardware, Intel, Linux, NPO's, Open Source
You can read about the donation here. I have three IBM x335’s on the way with dual p-4 xeon 2.8 ghz cpu’s, dual 36 gig 10k rpm SCSI drives with hardware raid 1, 4 gigs of ram, all the cables needed including ILO, and rails. All for the cost of shipping....
