{"id":47,"date":"2023-02-05T15:03:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T15:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drewsmith71.co.uk\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2023-02-05T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T15:03:18","slug":"information-technology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/drewsmith71.co.uk\/?page_id=47","title":{"rendered":"Information Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It has taken many years to develop my IT skills, which began way back in the DOS days. I have always had an interest in computers and when the home computer market took off I was right there. If I recall, my first computer was a Commodore +4, \u00a399 from one the high street stores. Lots of fun playing and trying my hand at coding.<br>These days it all about PC\u2019s, Macs and Linux.\u00c2\u00b7Linux over the last few years has been making strides in&nbsp; against Microsoft\u2019s market share. Regardless of the platform you choose, their will be argument for it\u2019s use.<br>To ensure I could rise to any challenge I dragged myself, initially back to college, but then onto University. Unfortunately, although I gained the necessary qualifications, academia does\u2019t always prepare you for the real world. It\u2019s only when you have a project to do, you begin to learn. The Internet is a source of excellent information and when a problem arises and I am unable to resolve it, I consult the net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is, an non-exhaustive, list of my current IT responsibilities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Website Development (Windows IIS and Apache)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Windows Server Administration<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Network Administration (TCP\/IP)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BroadBand Installation and Configuration<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>LAN Installation and Maintenance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Computer Network Communication (Email,FTP, SSH, etc\u2026)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Computer Internet Information Services (IIS hosted on Windows 2003)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MySQL\/MS Access Database generation and maintenance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Applications Development (VBA\/Visual Basic\/VB.Net\/ASP.NET\/ASP\/PHP)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>User Support:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>DOS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Windows 98\/NT\/2000\/XP\/Vista\/Windows 7\/Windows 2000 Server\/Windows 2003 Server)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Linux Ubuntu (Server\/Desktop)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Web Server<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>File Server<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FTP Server<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SSH Server<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MySQL Server<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Apache HTTP Server<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Postfix Server<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Joomla Content Management System<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Linux Fedora 2-15 (Server\/Desktop)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Postfix Mail Server<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mambo CMS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Networking Printing\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>HP Laser<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lanier PhotoCopier\/Network Printing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>OKI Microline 9 Pin Dot Matrix Printing Via Mini Print Servers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rsync Remote Backup Solution<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Disaster Recovery<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Computer Aided Programming\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Baumer OFS CNC 222 Programming and Machine Operation (Horizontal CNC Contour Cutting)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>F&amp;K F52 Programming and Machine Operation (Vertical CNC Contour Cutting)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Computer Security Services\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Firewall Installation (Software and Hardware)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Port Forwading<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IP Addressing (Static and Dynamic)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Routing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VPN Setup<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remote Access<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anitivirus\/Spyware, etc\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>External Mail Filtering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has taken many years to develop my IT skills, which began way back in the DOS days. I have always had an interest in computers and when the home computer market took off I was right there. If I recall, my first computer was a Commodore +4, &pound;99 from one the high street stores. &#8230; <a title=\"Information Technology\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/drewsmith71.co.uk\/?page_id=47\" aria-label=\"Read more about Information Technology\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drewsmith71.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drewsmith71.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drewsmith71.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drewsmith71.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drewsmith71.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drewsmith71.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/drewsmith71.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drewsmith71.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}