Nigel

I also was very upset about the gates that are up now. i really just don’t understand them for the admin guide I liked the 2.0 version a lot better it had alot more information in it as for the users guide it is just horrible. i now use ipcop “would love for some one to start smoobuntu I know I would use it sinse my whole house is ubuntu anyway infact would be nice to have a DEB for the server ed. to turn it into smoobunbtu… Have a Great smoothwall free day dude.

Neuro, short for Neuromancer

I didn’t do what you did, and this wasn’t a job; it was a volunteer project nominally separate from the company I worked for from 2001 to 2004. I decided to quit the project for the reasons above in my post, not to hold a grudge (which I don’t), but because there’s no point in hanging around something you’re not enjoying, pure and simple.

I spent 20yrs developing and implementing training courses for
heavy earthmoving operators in mining and construction.
In 2000 the company I worked for sold out to a larger company.
I was the first casualty … turned up for work Monday to be informed
that my position was being taken over by a snotty nosed brat straight
from university.. a twit who had never even sat in the saddle of large
machinery.
Did I have a big dummy spit? You bet I did?
Before leaving I downloaded ALL my forms, documents, training
manuals, etc. etc. Then completely erased the HDD by filling it with
zeros seventeen times.
At the time it gave me great satisfaction.
Some months later, during what had become a regular Friday night
booze-up at the local pub, I overheard a remark by an old codger,
which made me realise that I was being totally selfish, thinking only
of how I had been hurt.
On the grapevine I had heard that the “brat” was having problems.
Swallowing what bit of pride I had left, I contacted the company and
offered to do some casual work for them to assist the youngster in
his endeavours. That was the turning point in my life. That was when
I woke up to the fact that there is no “i” in “us”.
Sure, it was a big comedown from being the boss-cocky, but I now
do casual work for several companies, and am glad to be able to
assist the young ones as they move up the ladder.
Holding a grudge does no-one any good.

Statchew a semi-retired Australian workplace trainer.

Somehow they make smoothie even more difficult to get. With all the gates and everything

I wish you all the best man!!!!!

Another quite food firewall/router project is m0n0wall/pfSense.

And then there’s Untangle. Untangle is now what SmoothWall should have been. Untangle is great. SmoothWall was, once. Quite some time back.

I’m glad that you’ve moved on to bigger and better things, Neuro. I hope you can also, like the rest of us, get the bitter aftertaste of SmoothWall and especially SmoothWall Limited out of your mouth – I know a few of us did it by tasting better products and better projects, which can only be good for you and OSS in general.

It has been a while, my friend. I can’t believe that you were treated the way you were. You certainly didn’t deserve to be downgraded to basically “helpdesk software”. You gave many good years to SmoothWall, both the GPL version and the corporate version. I am sorry that they didn’t value your contribution more.

I hope you will be valued by Linden Labs. You deserve it. You are talented and I learned a lot from you. All my best. And Bill sends his best as well.

B

BTW, go get M0n0wall… its does everything for free. I left Smoothy and found m0n0wall, never looked back since… Hey! M0n0wall could use a fresh interface!