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Welcome to the new year
I know I haven’t updated in awhile but I’ve been busy with work and at home I’ve been finishing up my new CentOS server. I finished moving the mail over along with ASSP, I’ve also finished with the DNS server and DHCP (this was a pain getting dynamic dns updates to work). Pretty soon I will be retiring my old Win2k server, I’ve found a solution for WSUS, run a virtual machine with Win2k and WSUS running for my automatic updates. I’m going to do away with active directory completely.
If you might have noticed I’ve updated my blog software to WordPress. So far I really like the ability to add new functionality without having to hack into the php code. The admin interface is also alot more intuitive.
Diving into Linux
Recently at work I was introduced to a flavor of linux called CentOS. Now don’t get me wrong I’ve had some experience with linux. I’ve played with Red Hat 9, but that was just the workstation flavor. This OS is a full blown enterprise server, based on Red Hat Enterprise. So all yesterday I downloaded the four ISO disc set.
Eventually I plan on replacing the server I’m currently using with this new server. It was my old gaming machine so it will have plently of power. Namely, an Athlon 64 3400+, 3 gigs of ram, Gigabit Ehternet, and SATA Raid (don’t think I’m going to implement it though). The only thing I’ll miss is the Windows only WSUS. If you don’t know it handles Windows updates so they only have to be downloaded once then all computer on the network point to it to get Automatic Updates. I haven’t decided yet, I may leave the old server up as well.
A little about me.
Currently I’ve been attending college to acquire a degree in Computer Information Systems: Networking Specialist. I’ve taken and passed the A+ and Net+ certification tests, and I’m currently working on taking my CCNA. This Web site and for that matter this server have come about through many hours of tinkering and searching on google. I’ve also just recently gotten an email server and webmail server up and running. It’s overkill for a home network but so is 15+ computers, Gigabit Ethernet to the desktops, 10 printers, two Network Attached Storage devices, and 1 server with Web, Email, Ftp, Active Directory, WSUS running. I enjoy working with computers and networks what can I say.
