I run the systems for one of the largest e-commerce sites on the net. We have extream precautions when it comes to credit card info. We do not however publish the details about that security because it's like giving a map to the loot to a theif. All our credit card info is passed to the authentication service via SSL and then stored in a double firewalled machine with console only access for a period before they are totally expunged. Similar precautions are used for the customer e-mail base and other such goodies. Our hosting facility requires retna scans and palm scans in order to enter the site and an escort to our cage, where we store our cluster. We designed the systems to be ultra secure from day one. Customer security is priority one. In short, we didn't use Microsoft products and companies like egghead that trust their solutions to people like Microsoft are basically doomed from day one. Large companies that f*ck up like that give companies like ours a bad name.
Yah I had trouble with the Redhat install, untill i downloaded the orielly Samba Acrobat file and read up on it. I ended up renaming the smb.conf and writing my own, it was quite simple after that. The windows encrypted password took my the longest to figure out. Samba seems quite portable too, the smb.conf is the same on RS6000 AIX! Learn it at home and use it a work!
I am a systems engineer at a computer admin firm. We admin about %50 of the networks around our small city, and I end up working 70-80 hours a week. I am on salary and I get screwed... overtime is minimal and the salary is not all the great either, I would love to get paid by the hour, I would be making almost double what I do now. The problem seems to be that the market is really flooded with so called "admins" that get out of a low grade IT school (that we admin, because the instructors of the ADMIN courses can't even admin their own network!!) and only know how to create users and load MS Office, my boss uses the fact that he can replace us for cheap as leverage to keep our salary down. I would love to get paid when I work till 7AM restoring a PDC... oh well.
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I have had toughbooks for work. I find they are quite rugged, (infact our panasonic rep dropped one from eye level onto the floor of our tech area, and picked it up, brushed it off and booted it!) but i find the floppy/cdrom swapping to be extreamly annoying, and i also like the Thinkpad trackpoint system better. The screen is quite nice and the keyboard, as far as laptop ones go, it quite good. They are definatly my fav laptop!
Damn, multiple processor PII??? T3 or better??? But only 4 phone lines... is this guy on crack???? He sounds like the Tim the Tool Man Taylor of the computer world, i bet he has a 450hp lawnmower!!! I am a systems engineer, and we have a 750 client nt4 server for our intranet, there are two p-166 with 256 megs ram, that's 750 users, at least 400 simultaniously.... and that's a lan, serving apps, data and web access through fiber optic leased line... not a dialup server... all a dialup server does is authenticate passwords, route data and store e-mail. I am friends with the sysop of a local isp... they have a 1500 users, which is respectible... here is what they have.
- a decent pentium class computer (166 or 200 is nice) with at least 64 mb ram (it's cheap so go with 128). You can get buy with a 2 gig hard drive at first if you are just going to provde dialup access and e-mail. (5 megs for user record, 10 megs for e-mail, and 5 megs for web space) so count on having 20 megs at least for each user. IDE drives will do, but scsi is better because you can RAID controll them, that way if one drive dies the other will just keep on truckin, the system will never know the diff. I have mirrored IDE drives in NT4 but i am not sure if that can be done in linux. If you can't afford flashy raid controllers, at least get a good backup and run it on a different box (if you use a backup on the server box, it will not be able to serve during that time, so suck the files down over the lan and backup on a dedicated backup box, it only has to be a 486 if that is all it is doing)
- Most isp's i know use slackware, but BSD is a good stable choice too. You can go NT, but i would not reccomend it unless you like to give away thousands of hard earned dollars on licences and hardware.
- Apache is a good web server, and there are tons of free e-mail daemons out there. If you want to do news groups you can but it consumes a lot of cpu load, bandwidth and disk space to maintain them, you'll want a second box for news.
- Buy modems in at least a 1:8 ratio, because no one likes a busy signal (one modem for every 8 users) a 1:5 ratio is better. You will want to buy modem rack units (if you just use plain modems you have to buy special hardware to interface them all to one box) rack units will connect via NIC card and not hogg all your resouces. You of course need phone lines. Count on having at least 10 to start off. Talk to the telco about that, they will be able to tell you about there rates and services.
-Talk to your Telco about getting a leased line with a stattic IP of course. A t-1 is nice, but you can get buy with 512k frame at first. T-1's are expensive (especially if you only have 10 simultainius users). Remember that not everyone connected will be downloading 20 meg files from an ftp... Most http requests are small and infrequent, no steady drain of bandwidth.
-you need to get a domain name, talk to internic about that (about 100 bucks)
- and you should have someone that knows the OS of choice. Remeber this is going to be the backbone of your business, no time for system crashes. If your system goes down, u go down.
Hopefully that will help. I might have missed something, but i had to comment, gees, I wonder if this guy has a quad PII450 for cruisin the web and word processing. HA!
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I run the systems for one of the largest e-commerce sites on the net. We have extream precautions when it comes to credit card info. We do not however publish the details about that security because it's like giving a map to the loot to a theif. All our credit card info is passed to the authentication service via SSL and then stored in a double firewalled machine with console only access for a period before they are totally expunged. Similar precautions are used for the customer e-mail base and other such goodies. Our hosting facility requires retna scans and palm scans in order to enter the site and an escort to our cage, where we store our cluster. We designed the systems to be ultra secure from day one. Customer security is priority one. In short, we didn't use Microsoft products and companies like egghead that trust their solutions to people like Microsoft are basically doomed from day one. Large companies that f*ck up like that give companies like ours a bad name.
Yah I had trouble with the Redhat install, untill i downloaded the orielly Samba Acrobat file and read up on it. I ended up renaming the smb.conf and writing my own, it was quite simple after that. The windows encrypted password took my the longest to figure out. Samba seems quite portable too, the smb.conf is the same on RS6000 AIX! Learn it at home and use it a work!
I am a systems engineer at a computer admin firm. We admin about %50 of the networks around our small city, and I end up working 70-80 hours a week. I am on salary and I get screwed... overtime is minimal and the salary is not all the great either, I would love to get paid by the hour, I would be making almost double what I do now. The problem seems to be that the market is really flooded with so called "admins" that get out of a low grade IT school (that we admin, because the instructors of the ADMIN courses can't even admin their own network!!) and only know how to create users and load MS Office, my boss uses the fact that he can replace us for cheap as leverage to keep our salary down. I would love to get paid when I work till 7AM restoring a PDC... oh well.
I have had toughbooks for work. I find they are quite rugged, (infact our panasonic rep dropped one from eye level onto the floor of our tech area, and picked it up, brushed it off and booted it!) but i find the floppy/cdrom swapping to be extreamly annoying, and i also like the Thinkpad trackpoint system better.
The screen is quite nice and the keyboard, as far as laptop ones go, it quite good. They are definatly my fav laptop!
Thanx for pointing that out, i am definatly no expert but i had to say something about the t3 dual PII guy's comments!!
Damn, multiple processor PII??? T3 or better??? But only 4 phone lines... is this guy on crack???? He sounds like the Tim the Tool Man Taylor of the computer world, i bet he has a 450hp lawnmower!!!
I am a systems engineer, and we have a 750 client nt4 server for our intranet, there are two p-166 with 256 megs ram, that's 750 users, at least 400 simultaniously.... and that's a lan, serving apps, data and web access through fiber optic leased line... not a dialup server... all a dialup server does is authenticate passwords, route data and store e-mail. I am friends with the sysop of a local isp... they have a 1500 users, which is respectible... here is what they have.
- a decent pentium class computer (166 or 200 is nice) with at least 64 mb ram (it's cheap so go with 128). You can get buy with a 2 gig hard drive at first if you are just going to provde dialup access and e-mail. (5 megs for user record, 10 megs for e-mail, and 5 megs for web space) so count on having 20 megs at least for each user. IDE drives will do, but scsi is better because you can RAID controll them, that way if one drive dies the other will just keep on truckin, the system will never know the diff. I have mirrored IDE drives in NT4 but i am not sure if that can be done in linux. If you can't afford flashy raid controllers, at least get a good backup and run it on a different box (if you use a backup on the server box, it will not be able to serve during that time, so suck the files down over the lan and backup on a dedicated backup box, it only has to be a 486 if that is all it is doing)
- Most isp's i know use slackware, but BSD is a good stable choice too. You can go NT, but i would not reccomend it unless you like to give away thousands of hard earned dollars on licences and hardware.
- Apache is a good web server, and there are tons of free e-mail daemons out there. If you want to do news groups you can but it consumes a lot of cpu load, bandwidth and disk space to maintain them, you'll want a second box for news.
- Buy modems in at least a 1:8 ratio, because no one likes a busy signal (one modem for every 8 users) a 1:5 ratio is better. You will want to buy modem rack units (if you just use plain modems you have to buy special hardware to interface them all to one box) rack units will connect via NIC card and not hogg all your resouces. You of course need phone lines. Count on having at least 10 to start off. Talk to the telco about that, they will be able to tell you about there rates and services.
-Talk to your Telco about getting a leased line with a stattic IP of course. A t-1 is nice, but you can get buy with 512k frame at first. T-1's are expensive (especially if you only have 10 simultainius users). Remember that not everyone connected will be downloading 20 meg files from an ftp... Most http requests are small and infrequent, no steady drain of bandwidth.
-you need to get a domain name, talk to internic about that (about 100 bucks)
- and you should have someone that knows the OS of choice. Remeber this is going to be the backbone of your business, no time for system crashes. If your system goes down, u go down.
Hopefully that will help. I might have missed something, but i had to comment, gees, I wonder if this guy has a quad PII450 for cruisin the web and word processing. HA!