Comments on: What if managers had to do tech support?

By: Phil Crissman

Phil Crissman — Fri, 19 May 2006 16:40:59 +0000

ClarkConnect sounds interesting. I don’t know that I’m a Linux Guru — but I guess I know my way around. I imagine you won’t need to use the command line much, on that machine, so you should be okay! If you really want to learn Linux, I would just suggest picking an old, unused PC and installing a few different versions of Linux on it. It’s not that hard… ;-) Have fun.

If you don’t have a “spare” PC, another way to learn is cygwin — it emulates a Linux command shell on a Windows computer, and provides a lot of Linux programs and utilities that you can run and use on a Windows machine. It’s a good way to start learning the linux command line…again, if that’s something you want to do. It can come in handy, though.

Thanks for stopping by!

By: Andy Block

Andy Block — Fri, 19 May 2006 13:39:22 +0000

Hey Phil thanks for your comments on my blog regarding the current condition of the prosperity movement; they were well received.

Gapper and I went to lunch yesterday and I told him about a new gateway/firewall I installed at home. It’s called ClarkConnect; have you heard of it?

If you haven’t heard of it, ClarkConnect is a Linux-based gateway that just installs onto an old PC (I think it’s based on Red-Hat Linux, but not entirely sure). It takes two NIC cards (one to get the DHCP from you cable/DSL modem, one to connect to your LAN). Then I just use my wireless router as an access point.

ClarkConnect is really slick; Gapper said you were a Linux guru, so I thought this might interest you. It’s got a proxy server, content filter, advanced firewall, I guess this makes me a Linux newbie. Now if I can only figure out how to use the command line!

By: Bryce

Bryce — Fri, 19 May 2006 03:01:08 +0000

An amazing thing to imagine. Thought-provoking read.

I’ve worked in both types of environments and I can definitely say I prefer each for its own reasons. While I like working with the end-user, I’ve also enjoyed separating myself a bit. There are advantages to both but it would seem there are more disadvantages to customer-employee separation.

Good read!