YWAM Information Technology

I stumbled across this blog Seven Different Linux/BSD Firewalls Reviewed. I agree with a lot of their conclusions because I have studied most of these myself and concluded that PFSense was one of the best.

Found this very insightful video that all YWAM IT people need to watch and take heed!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0

I'm not becoming an evangelist for FreeBSD, but thought I would post some links in the interests of promoting thought and education in the YWAM IT network.

I still remember the first copy of RedHat 4.0 and copy of the Linux Bible that I owned in 1995. Linux was still in its infancy and most of the mainstream press had not picked up on it.

On my home test server at www.dmpnet.org, I was occasionally having times when someone would hit it hard with a brute force attack on ssh, ftp or pop3 services. I have my box locked down pretty hard and in a DMZ, but thought I needed to do a bit more.

I have written a Blog on my website: Hello My Name Is Donovan and I Have An Email Problem. Maybe some of you will find it useful. In posting blog on ywamit.com, I was amazed though that there is no category for email or email management.

Paul Hopkins just posted on ywamkb.net his work in doing a small XML feed project that we have been wanting to do some time.

Here's an interesting article on Drupal versus WordPress. I agree mostly with the article, except the bit about multiple users on WordPress.... currently, they are adding a fair bit to WordPress to accommodate this at the expense of other things I wished they would work on!