Re: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls

2009-12-13 Thread Chris Faulkner
I love Untangle myself, but it does go down about once a day and rebooting it takes about 10 minutes for it to come back live again. I mainly use IPFire right now with some kernel tcpip tweaks (latency for WoW is horrible without them). It has Content filtering, but I'm not liking the GUI as

Re: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls

2009-12-13 Thread Chris Faulkner
Untangle has a 7.1 Beta in 32 and 64bit 32Bit: http://www.untangle.com/download/untangle_710_beta_2.iso 64Bit: http://www.untangle.com/download/untangle_710_beta_amd64_2.iso On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Chris Faulkner cfaulkne...@gmail.com wrote: I love Untangle myself, but it does go

Re: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls

2009-12-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've got several Untangle servers at work and have been using it for years. I love it, but it dies require some resources to run well. I use a lot of modules and it takes at least 768 Mab of RAM to run well for me. What kind of hardware are you using? Chris On Sunday, December 13, 2009, Steven

Re: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls

2009-12-13 Thread ./aal
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Dave Manginelli dmangine...@comcast.net wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 11:20 -0600, Gibson Prichard wrote: For years I have used IPCop at home as a content-filtering firewall, protecting my kids from stuff they shouldn't see online. I noticed that IPCop seems to

Re: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls

2009-12-13 Thread Gibson Prichard
I've got it on a box with a Sempron 1800 /768mb ram/ 20gb hdd with only a few modules. The nics are 1 onboard and a cheapie no-name nic. Should I run it on something beefier? Gibson Prichard On Dec 13, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: I've got several

Re: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls

2009-12-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
That should work, but it just barely meets the requirements. If you have some beefier hardware it might be worth trying, particularly if this hardware is unstable, though the instability might just need some BIOS tweaking to fix. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Dec 13, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Gibson

Re: [nlug] MySQL Letter to the EC

2009-12-13 Thread andrew mcelroy
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Howard Coles dhcol...@gmail.com wrote: It's better than MS owning it, which is what has strongly been hinted at from Redmond. If a fork were to be made right this second of it, would oracle really have the power to force that fork to cease and desist? If so,

Re: [nlug] MySQL Letter to the EC

2009-12-13 Thread Tim Jackson
More reasons to use Postgres. -- Tim On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:57 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: I normally do not forward material to this list, but this is important enough to do so. I thought I post this link http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html

[nlug] [OT] My day job doesn't use Vista

2009-12-13 Thread Howard White
Pardon my interruption as I impose on all of my fine Open Source friends that find themselves working with Vista against their will. Got a call from a neighbor describing how their computer lost the plot with their Verizon Wireless mobile broadband. I grant you that at this moment I have not

Re: [nlug] MySQL Letter to the EC

2009-12-13 Thread Don Delp
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Tim Jackson jackson@gmail.com wrote: More reasons to use Postgres. -- Tim Care to list some of the other reasons? On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:57 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: I normally do not forward material to this list, but this is