[mdlug] Speaking of networking and job opportunities....

[Jim Broughton]

Ken Siersma wrote:
> I have a friend who is thinking of starting up a small print shop in the
> southern Oakland county area, and needs some help getting it up and
> running.  She's looking for a (cheap) freelance IT person who could setup
> her network, which would include ~5 Macs, a print server, phones, etc.  Any
> advice on who to contact?
>
> -Ken
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  I have extensive print shop experience (30 years). Being employed in 
one currently.
I am the Sheet Fed pressman as well as the resident IT tech.
We have a diverse shop including Macs, Windows PC's and 3 Linux boxes.
Being a print shop we have a diverse selection of print and copy 
equipment that
is interfaced to the shops computer systems ie they all just look like 
printers to any
computer on the network.

  I have an outstanding record for intrusion mitigation and prevention 
with only
2 virus's and one nasty piece of malware making it to the internal 
windows computers
in over 7 years and those only because of faulty user internet interactions.

 The number one Linux box is a network firewall/web server with a custom 
written
(by me) iptables firewall that has yet to be penetrated in 7 years. 
Linux box 2 is a file server
for the entire network although it is currently used primarily by the 
Mac's as a
pre backup storage system and as a method of keeping the Mac's hard 
drives from
filling up as graphics files can sometimes become quite large.
Linux box 3 is a custom web server utilizing a external vendor provided 
proprietary
web server system with online ordering and back end production control 
system
with external traffic from the internet routed to through the firewall box.
All the Linux boxes have in excess of 99% uptime (power failures 
notwithstanding).

  The Phones part is my one area of weakness. I have no VOIP experience 
other
than using Vonage for my home service. VIOP routing through a Linux 
firewall box
however is not a problem should they choose a VOIP router solution from 
Vonage
or some other vendor.

Contact me off list and I'll see what I can do for your friend.

Jim