09-21-2006
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The Hello Thread
This seems like as good a place as any to start the posting. Allo *Waves*. My name is Phil and I work IT. I have recently been hit with a big bomb in my world of work. I realized just fixing computers was not enough i needed to pic a specialty. Well, that was a bit hit for me, i never really specialized in anything or computers, except hardware architecture really :-(
ANYWHO, this brings me to why i am here. I have AWLAYS loved *nix, it has always had a special place in my heart. I have just never really had time to learn it on my own at home, or had the money to take my courses, WELL my Boss has recently told me if i have courses i want to take the company will pay for them. I am excited.
SO the reason i am here, aside from general *nix knowledge. I am starting a project for my company, i want to setup, for them, a Unix Firewall server. A friend of mine a while bad, had a dad with a Unix firewall. It was set up on X-mas of 95 and was only powered down once, when his backup ran out of battery during the blackout in 2001. He also never rebooted, it, of sure he took it ofline to aply rules but no power cycles an no rebooting. I was very impressed, and then knew the power of Unix.
Anywho, his computer was setup to take about 1 billion packets, he had intercepted more than twice that. I thought it was funny.
SO that is my big reason, i am always told, when it comes to unix, you do not just Use it, it is best to have a reason why youw ant to use it, when it comes to learning it. SO now i have one, and i am excited.
No need to continue that here though, this is my intro with some background on me, i will start the unix question in a different thread :-)
Pleasure meeting you all, and i hope i am not too annoying asking far too many questions.
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