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Ohio Linux Fest, September 10-12, 2010 Columbus, OH
Cisco ASA-5505 with other pics here and a Cisco command cheat sheet
Pictures of my toasted Cisco ASA-5505 main board here, here, and here
The email I received from Cisco about my died Cisco ASA-5505
APC Uninterrupted Power Supplies
Open Hardware and more links here
SmoothWall
Hak5 episode 718 on building your own firewall using SmoothWall
SheevaPlug wall wart server
FitPC palm size PC
OpenBlockS-600 micro server
Egnyte is like DropBox for the enterprise
Wuala is similar to DropBox and is crossplatform (Use this Promo Code to get 2 free GB of space PMH53KF77GJ3BB7FG5JK )
BackBlaze.com lets you have unlimited storage for $5 per month!
Reballing laptop motherboards by http://www.cheaptofix.co.uk/ with more videos here
LiberKey suite of portable apps
Fiverr.com is a place where you can get just about any job done for five bucks
WOT (Web of Trust) is a must-have browser plugin for Firefox and Chrome
101FreeTechBooks.com (Listener Adam did not have a good experience)
“Linux Basix” podcast
“Linux for the Rest of Us” podcast
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July 7th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Hello Ress,I just listend to ep 66 and feel for you. I do not work in IT and one reason might be that if I had to deal with the ten user limit for internet use do to broken (and uber closed so called Linux) hardware it would be just like I had been through a family death.
Glad to hear you got through it clearly it is because of the quality person on the job.
Regards
July 18th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Just caught up on your rant about Cisco and totally agree! I can’t figure out their business strategy – the enterprise line is overkill for SMB’s and the consumer line (Linksys) is being crippled and dumbed down to boot.
I hope that your president will let you phase in network infrastructure of better value.
Besides Smoothwall, have a look at Vyatta – the core O/S is free and they offer hardware ‘appliances’ that may fit your environment.
July 18th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Another thought – whoever sold you this POS needs to be called on the carpet. A super short warranty indicates that a) the build quality is total crap (verified :-\) and b) you are expected to have it on a maintenance contract (not affordable for many SMBs). Also, your supplier should have anticipated that nonsense with license keys on mission critical equipment. Plan for two of everything!