Software tools discovered

Ok this week I have a mixed bag of offering for you to take a little look at.. The first is a bit of software called Sharpdevelop. This is a open source version of Visual studio aimed specifically at c#  and VB.net users. the look is similar to visual studio but without the visual bit, this is aimed at true coders. Microsoft have there own free solutions called Visual studio Express they are free but have limitation

I discovered Sharpdevelop. via a tip on a message board in a discussion about Version control software, I have recently installed the sourceforge free 15 user Management system what I have to say is an excellent management tool for development projects. This came with a choice of Subversion or CVS. I had been using WinCVS along with CVSNT but found it lacked a lot of features I would like and could be problematic at times. So I decided to take a look at Subversion, Its not perfect but its a lot closer to perfect than CVSNT. I would fully recommend you use TortoiseSVN if your using a windows based environment.  so all these tools together along with my old fav's have come together to make a great development environment for me to work in. if your using the Sourceforge system I would Highly recommend you get a copy of Sourceforge explorer as well as many other great add in's. Now I know last time I said I would try to blog more often but and I still hope to do that just sometimes life get in the way. and maybe I have spent to much time on the IMVU boards. debating Linux disto's and laughing at BSD users who think they are better than Linux users

Centos and Networking

So I have my improved network environment now I have gone for a TP-Link router as my internal Router, and so far I have been very impressed with this bit of kit, this router is my main firewall between my internal network and my DMZ and also have excellent wireless capabilities because one of my Wireless card is quite old I have decided to use WEP to secure my Wireless network and it works like a dream. Then I have my old D-link router with NAT switch off but rule based firewall enabled to protect my DMZ and to make the actual connection to the Internet, I have two Servers in my DMZ and a further two servers on my internal network only. This gives me two SMTP server using one as a backup using the MX records and two HTTP servers, one running Windows 2003 and the other running Centos Linux. Security seems pretty tight in this arrangement. basically I have 2 firewalls between my clients and the Internet and each server in the DMZ has its one firewall enabled so there is two between each server in the DMZ and the Internet. but is this enough, well I am planning a routine of testing this environment from the outside as well as monitoring all the ports.

 

Syshelpman seems to be taking up a lot of my time hence not blogging much of late, I will try to get better, Today's Recommendation thou is one a lot of Linux hacks will know about, Webmin, what a great tool as much as I love the command line and I use it a great deal both in windows and Linux sometimes its nice to have a well laid out admin interface and that's the best way to describe Webmin, when Webmin first came out it was limited to say the least but now days with all the modules written for it its become a one stop shop for all admin needs, if you manage Linux servers take a look at it .

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