[ale] Re: [ale-admin] Linux General Store

[Geoffrey]

I'm posting this to the ale list rather than the ale-admin list.  You
might have a more takers on your request...

If you're looking for a provider who will give you some Linux based
support as well as have someone who knows something about it, I'd
recommend http://www.atlnet.com .  They do dsl, static ip, Linux
friendly.  It's pretty much a one man show, in that Todd the owner, does
the installations.  When he set up my dsl, there were routing problems
which he helped me figure out (it was my firewall).

I don't think you'll find any other provider who's going to give you
this kind of support.  Todd stays busy, but when you have a problem,
he'll get it straightened out.  I've been with atlnet for a while now
and I've been pleased.  I also work from home and have to have a
constant connection to work via vpn, so I might have a better handle on
support issues then the average guy who goes online a couple of hours a
day.

I have a relatively complex firewall set up for the average home user.
I've got a two machine firewall which consists of a bastion and choke,
with a dmz between.  I have a web server in the dmz and I have 7
machines (3 linux, 1 hpux, 3 windows) on my local network, behind the
choke firewall.  It's patterned after the book Linux Firewalls (Robert
Ziegler, New Rider
http://www.newriders.com/books/title.cfm?isbn=0735709009 ). It's been
tweeked a bit to properly handle masq/nat of ipsec and pptp vpn
connectivity.

I've also used Maximum Linux Security and Real World Linux Security to
harden my machines further.  I highly recommend Bob Toxen's RWLS
(http://www.realworldlinuxsecurity.com/).

The point is, I'm no expert, but I'd be glad to assist you with
questions/problems.


> From: "Rosenberg, Adam (SCH)" <Adam.Rosenberg at 6c.com>
> To: "'ale-admin at ale.org'" <ale-admin at ale.org>
> CC: "'adam at psionic.mn.org'" <adam at psionic.mn.org>
> Subject: [ale-admin] Linux General Store
> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:44:23 -0400
>
>      I have three "standalone" computers, Linux, Windows NT, and DOS.
> (The Windows NT machine is coming so I can support some work I did,
> but it isn't here in Atlanta yet.)  I currently use a UUCP emulator
> and a modem on my DOS laptop and it just isn't doing the job.
> I would also like to enhance my Linux machine with CD writing and
> image scanning capability as well as building a computer network.
> Just to make matters more annoying, the video card that came with
> my Linux machine is a Mach64 clone that seems to be missing a couple
> of genes.  I got a web page and telephone number for the Linux General
> Store and tried calling them today.
>
>      The telephone number has been disconnected and the Linux General
> Store web page, http://www.linuxgeneralstore.com, seems also to be
> no more.  Is there somebody I can contact who, for a price of course,
> can help me get hooked up to a good internet provider with high speed
> access and help me configure my machine the way I want them?
>
>      I'm happy to bring the machines to somebody else and leave them
> for a few days or have somebody come out to my place and help me out.
> Right now I have nothing but a single telephone line and a 14.4 Kbaud
> modem so I would have to get a cable modem or DSL-plus-hardware pretty
> soon for higher speed access.
>
>      Does anybody at this e-mail have anybody to recommend?  Is the
> Linux General Store truly defunct?  I truly want to devote my own
> efforts to the programming and writing tasks I do well and delegate
> my administration to somebody else.  I live "up" in Dunwoody, twelve
> o'clock on the Atlanta perimeter, so finding somebody who lives near
> there may be the best ticket.

--
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at denali.atlnet.com

"I don't want a Microsoft Passport, and Microsoft can't have my wallet."