Message-ID: <9812119133.AA913389065@hudsmtphq.hud.gov> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:15:44 -0500 From: mailto:michael_o._patterson@HUD.GOV Subject: Re: Urgent Need for Training in Linux/xNIX System Adminis... To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
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I would get one of those $50 books, from one of the 2 Linux suppliers, as a start, from Barnes & Noble, or Border's, or Amazon.com
I'd also scan the shelves for a good book on TCP/IP. The Microsoft course on it is rather deficient, in some ways, as is the Novell course. You need the massive books. Security basically means firewall programs, and proxy servers, and protocol blocking, i.e. running IPX/SPX in your LAN, and TCP/IP over the WAN and to the Internet. There are obvious things, like requiring passwords, and limiting users to 5 tries for login, having no modems on computers in your LAN other than your proxy server, that are part of any network planning,
Learn all you can from the experts, but the fact is you will have to develop your own experts, and the above is the cheapest way to start. I would find such experts by talking to smaller consultants. I know a fellow in Philadelphia, for example, who has several people who would like to teach, and have the knowledge to do so, however, they don't have the classroom time, and are thus volunteering wherever possible to acquire that classroom time so they can have enough to teach for him. Travel would be an issue.
If you are overseas, and don't have ready access to such books, well, let me know, perhaps we can work something out, though there must be other MCSE/CNE wannabes on this listserver who could even get such books at a discount.
Also, if you are a nonprofit, as it appears you are, Lotus openly advertises that it gives major breaks on software. You do need a 501c3 number; they may accept overseas equivalents, I've seen them taking the Canadian equivalent, for example.
Also, check out infoteam.com and icomm.ca, as they offer free or very close to free Web services, including e-mail. go to a search engine, like www.dogpile.com, and use search topics "hosting sites" and "nonprofit", you'll find others as well. That would cut some of your Total Cost of Operations.
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Brian Longwe <mailto:brian.longwe@MAF-EUROPE.ORG> AT INTERNET on 12/11/98 08:09:38 AM
To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU AT INTERNET@CCMAILDOM cc: (bcc: Michael O. Patterson/HSNG/HAR/HUD) Subject: Urgent Need for Training in Linux/xNIX System Administration
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Hi,
I've been lurking on the list for several weeks now and I think it's time to become a bit more active.
My name is Brian Longwe and I manage an email service to Christian Missions and organisations in Nairobi, Kenya. I am also the Dep. Secretary on the East African Internet Association, a gathering of ISPs, organizations and individual who are concerned about the development of the Internet and related technologies in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
The Association has been very active in the past months in lobbying through the privatization of Kenya's telecom sector. The Kenya Telecommunications Bill which has just been made law is an excellent Bill compared to the severely limiting and autocratic draft that was published a year ago. This has come about mostly through the activities of the Association together with other social interest groups in Kenya.
The EAIA has in recent days been talking more and more about the severe deficiency of skilled xNIX/ Linux administrators, programmers etc... The Association is seeking to address this need through workshops and seminars in the coming year where the existing "gurus" and "semi-gurus" will share their knowledge and seek to broaden one another's skills as well as equip others.
Ultimately, the Association would be interested in carrying out real workshops, where experts in the field can come in and impart knowledge to the attendants. This is where I put my request to this list's audience. We need experts in Linux / xNIX / TCPIP / Security etc... who can come to Kenya and conduct training sessions/workshops. What advice can you give us?
Thanks,
Brian
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Urgent Need for Training in Linux/xNIX System Administration in Nairobi, Kenya Hi,
I've been lurking on the list for several weeks now and I think it's time to become a bit more active.
My name is Brian Longwe and I manage an email service to Christian Missions and organisations in Nairobi Kenya. I am also the Dep. Secretary on the East African Internet Association, a gathering of ISPs, organizations and in ividual who are concerned about the development of the Internet and related technologies in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.< FONT>
The Association has been very active in the past months in lobbying through the privatization of Kenya's telecom sector. The Kenya Telecommunications Bill which has just been made law is an excellent Bill compared to the seve ely limiting and autocratic draft that was published a year ago. This has come about mostly through the activities of th Association together with other social interest groups in Kenya.
The EAIA has in recent days been talking more and more about the severe deficiency of skilled xNIX/ Linu administrators, programmers etc... The Association is seeking to address this need through workshops and seminars in th coming year where the existing "gurus" and "semi-gurus" will share their knowledge and seek to broa en one another's skills as well as equip others.
Ultimately, the Association would be interested in carrying out real workshops, where experts in the fie d can come in and impart knowledge to the attendants. This is where I put my request to this list's audience. We need ex erts in Linux / xNIX / TCPIP / Security etc... who can come to Kenya and conduct training sessions/workshops. What advice can you give us?
Thanks,
Brian
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