Last week I changed from using LightSpeed Total Traffic and Control to using the Open source based Untangle.¬¨‚Ć Why change from Lightspeed to Untangle?¬¨‚Ć The main reason was simply money,¬¨‚Ć Lightspeed wanted close to 5,000$ per year in licensing fees where as the education bundle of Untangle is 1,695$ per year.¬¨‚Ć Also when looking at […]
After I fixed a friends older Dell machine running XP Home I came across another friends older Dell that had a failed Hard Drive.¬¨‚Ć I decided to go with Vista with this machine and tweak it in a similar way I would tweak XP.¬¨‚Ć In short Vista running Service Pack 2 utlizing some basic performance […]
Recently I came across a friends older Dell Dimension Family PC.¬¨‚Ć This machine had 512 megs of RAM a pentium 4 clocked at 2.8 ghz and a older IDE hard drive at 80 gigs.¬¨‚Ć For fun I decided to clean and tweak the machine in an attempt to make it perform as fast and efficiently […]
This summer all of the labs at the Middle School and each lab at all three elementary schools were replaced with new IMAC’s (2.0 Ghz 2 Gigs or RAM).¬¨‚Ć With the task of imaging around 150 machines, using PSX imaging (netboot on a mac) was the only real solution to getting this job done quickly.¬¨‚Ć […]