Hey Megamaced, here are three very basic proposals for your network deployment. It's up to you which will suit the need the best! Let me know if...
Your school is probably using a print server. Windows doesn't quite work that way, I'm afraid, and the print spooler in that OS is terrible. In...
Try Avast, it seems to be lighter and less troublesome than AVG. As for anything bearing the "Norton" or "Symantec" names, avoid like the plague. ;)
BTW, it might please you (and your landlord) to know that your DIY firewall is actually spec'd higher than a $2500 Cisco PIX firewall: PIX-515E...
It's a UNIX platform, so since it sets the 'nice' value for F@H as high as possible, all other system processes get a higher priority. This said,...
NP dude! :) Squid is a fantastic proxy, and it performs extremely well for a proxy. But it will still introduce latency and complexity by its very...
Nah, it's nonsense. I don't mean to come on too strongly here, but I do work with proxies for a living. The speed up may be true of larger files,...
My advice: Don't use a proxy unless you have good reason to do so, e.g. you want web content filtering or have a connection with extremely high...
VNC is not something I would ever let out through a firewall directly. Whenever possible, you should have a secure tunnel into your network, via...
Squid is the ubiquitous proxy server for UNIX. It is the proxy used for most network appliances and content filters in the world which utilize...
IPCop. It's a fork of Smoothwall anyway. I'd install the addon engine and the BOT (block outward traffic) module, which will give you access to...
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