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My apologies for offending. DIY is "do it yourself". An enthusiast (like myself) would prefer to use OpenVPN or FreeSWAN instead of a Cisco ASA, would rather
by spudlyo 17y ago
My apologies for offending. DIY is "do it yourself". An enthusiast (like myself) would prefer to use OpenVPN or FreeSWAN instead of a Cisco ASA, would rather use iptables on a Linux box than a commodity firewall, would rather slap a wireless card into an OpenBSD machine rather than to buy a commodity access point, etc. This is cool and all, but it makes it harder for other folks to deal with. Let's say your on vacation and there is a problem with the wireless. If you had used a commodity access point, somebody could have just reset it, as opposed to have to log into the OpenBSD box and unload/load the kernel driver, or frobbed it with ifconfig, or whatever.
- skorgu 17y agoSmall companies and large companies have entirely different time/money tradeoffs and it can be hard to make the transition. At my previous employer it was fine to spend a week making something work by cobbling together existing projects with some glue code. It was fun and I learned a lot. So when I started this job (working with large companies) helping out with a co-worker's task I started trying to solve a particular problem the skinflint way, ok we can repurpose this box here to serve a filesystem while the other box is down for the vendor to swap the firmware and then... My co worker (rightly) pre-empted me and recommended $20,000 of SAN equipment to replace the problematic device. Neither way is better in the absolute, it's a question of what variable you're optimizing for.