Kathi from the Bread of Life, our food pantry, Benefit Bank, commodities distribution, and government assistance distribution asked me to look into some video surveillance for their building. Many people are in and out of the space and they want to be able to keep an eye on things. Not so much for stealing (because [...]
I recently purchased another Watchguard Firebox X Core unit on ebay. This time I picked up an X1000 for $31 including shipping. This is intended to be more of an experimental box. So I also ordered a PIII 1.4ghz processor (CPU ID SL6BY) to replace the 1.2ghz Celeron. Next step will be more memory and [...]
I have recently been exploring Visual Web Developer 2008. I have virtually no development background aside from a few classes in high school and college. At first I started at home on my XP Professional box. Installation of not only VWD but SQL 2008 Express was easy using the Windows Platform Installer. This utility figures [...]
A church, as with almost every other organization, is concerned about what its users view on the internet. While there are tons of options available for security we have found that OpenDNS is both highly effective and completely FREE. If you’re not familiar, OpenDNS is a service that keeps your web traffic safe and clean. [...]
Our old Watchguard Firebox x700 has reached its end-of-life according to Watchguard. On top of that our subscription expired more than a year ago. We ran it anyway since a new gateway security device wasn’t in the card until recently. Check out the post on our new hardware here. Rather than put the x700 on [...]
First Church has a new gateway security device this holiday season. Mark Moreno hooked us up with a great deal on a Sonicwall NSA 2400. Configuration was pretty straight-forward using a web interface compatible with Firefox which makes me happy. I would say it is moderately easier than our old Firebox x700. Some of the [...]
Here is a follow-up from a post about 6 weeks ago. Working with Mark Moreno about upgrading our Firebox x700 to a Sonicwall NSA device. Lately the Firebox has been flaky. Since we use Google Apps, Fellowship One, and live on the web, we can’t have a flaky security appliance. UPDATE: The NSA 2400 is [...]
Working with Mark Moreno about upgrading our Firebox x700 to a Sonicwall NSA device. Lately the Firebox has been flaky. Since we use Google Apps, Fellowship One, and live on the web, we can’t have a flaky security appliance. Repairing a network cable Mike decided to cut in a fit of cleaning rage at The [...]
You may recall this post from earlier this year about our solution to get data to our TBOL ministry. While this solution has worked GREAT, and I mean rock solid, we are approaching the limits of the bandwidth of the NanoStation Loco 5. So I called Jason at Quantum Communications, they installed our internal fiber [...]
This morning I was trying to use Remote Desktop from home to get some work done on a computer at church. It wasn’t connecting so I knew that there was a problem. Come to find out we had a power failure during a strong storm last night. Normally this would be bad. However, I was [...]
