Hello JohnO, Sunday, September 21, 2003, 12:43:52 PM, you wrote:
J> I said the comment about *NIX to see if anyone would come forward about J> FreeBSD Secure Server. I would be very interested in tour process of J> pulling it together. J> Are you going to do a weblog like you have with your fine art info? That J> info would be very useful for those of us who would rather find out the J> pitfalls others have stepped into. Drop me a personal email because I J> have some info which might interest you about FreeBSD. Funny you should ask.<g>... I already have a 'computing' page set up for the weblog, it just hasn't appeared yet, because I haven't added any commentary to it yet. How I got to the FreeBSD secure server, is that I outgrew both space and bandwidth allotment, on my previous 'hosted' website... and also, wanted to start running some on-line services like mysql, php, etc., that my hosted site did not make available... so I upgraded to a virtual server using FreeBSD, with full root privileges (the 'right to trash' my box, with an errant keystroke<g>), unlimited bandwidth, and 1.5 GIG of HD space... one step short of a dedicated physical machine. Naturally, this made me paranoid, so I took one of my 'found in the trash' boxes... an HP Vectra Pentium Pro (amazing the things people throw out), and loaded FreeBSD 4.8 (stable) into it, so I could use it as a shadow for my on-line virtual server. This way, I can try stuff out off-line, before implementing it on-line, where it might risk bringing down my website, which is my primary source of income. Once I start having interesting stuff to post to my blog on the topic, I will post a heads-up here. Right now, I am still having 'network fun'... trying to get the various boxes to communicate with each other. I have a lot to learn. -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ -weblog http://radio.weblogs.com/0128450/ A business is as honest as its advertising. . To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
