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CyberKnights is a computer service company based in Western Australia.
We provide stable, reliable, flexible and secure systems and service targetted mainly at small to medium sized businesses, although we do cater to individuals and do invoke enough resources to deal seamlessly with quite large enterprises.
For 2Q 2006, we are offering complete Mandriva Linux workstations for AUD$799+GST (21½” 8ms LCD, Core2 Duo 2500x2 CPU, 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD, optical scrollmouse, keyboard, audio, DVD-RW or better), AUD$999+GST (23” flatscreen, 750GB HDD) or AUD$1280+GST (4GBtwin RAM, 2TB hard disk (can RAID this)).
These systems all include an office suite, graphics editors, audio & video editors, games, DVD rippers, PDF publishers & readers, HTML (web page) editors/managers, an enormous range of other software, & configuration to suit your own LAN (if not automatic, unless notably unstandard).
There is also a current special on an all-in-one as above but 1600 CPU, 1GB RAM, 80GB HDD, wireless, AUD$699+GST with 21½” LCD screen.
We are also offering excellent servers for about AUD$1999+GST (call for current price) headless in a rackmount (4RU) case, including a dual-core 4.8GHz 64-bit CPU or better, 8GB of RAM, 1TB of controller-independent RAID-1 storage [losing a controller is not like the traditional agony], a 1TB fast & removable backup unit, dual gigabit network, 16x or better DVD-RW.
This includes config to suit your standard LAN or colocation, the basic DNS, email & “flat” webserver configuration for up to 3x different Internet domains including virus filtering, spam control, webmail, web scripting, foundational SQL databases, FTP and SecureSHell access, & very much more.
Additional backup units, scanners, screens, wireless, MIDI interfaces and the like are easy to arrange as needed.
Ask us about file servers, domain controllers, monitoring, security, specialist firewalling and other applications.
We also recommend gentle & smooth but ongoing software update service & security monitoring, which due to the reliability of our systems we are able to offer at roughly half of the expense of competing firms (some others don’t even get to offer such services at all).
In addition to remote monitoring of your backup systems, we can arrange regular exchange & testing of backup media, remote backups, reliable & cost-effective ISP services & still more facilities.
In 2009, CyberKnights will offer self-contained network appliances to allow “drop in” independent facilities like Active Directory Domain Controllers, file/data storage servers, SQL databases, intranet, “Backup Collectors”, Spam/Virus Filters and (VoIP) Telephone Exchanges for typically less than half a grand apiece in quantity.
We have also set up “appliance-like” facilities where a single netbook plus a couple of wireless routers can provide staff internet facilities and your-customer wireless Internet access with cache, accounting, and optional obscenity filtering.
For extremely unit-cost-sensitive applications CyberKnights can set up fully featured thin clients (ethernet and up to 4 USB devices) based on discounted consoles or highly secure small-footprint high-capacity workstations.
We generally use the secure and reliable Linux™ operating system throughout.
Terminal Server-style capability is built right in to Linux™ (and has been for decades). Where a workstation requires general office functionality, we primarily advocate using the OpenOffice.org office suite and its other Free (GPLed) derivatives. We also have solutions (think “no viruses” and “No Spyware”) for situations in which MS-based software must still be run – we can run many MS packages under Linux™ at roughly twice the speed you would expect from 9X/NT/ME/Vista on the same hardware.
To cater to our market, which is booming despite the general slump in IT activity, we are currently exploring workable methods for becoming big while remaining small. If you are a competent technical and support person (not just a script-reader), can show that to us, and are willing to learn about Linux™, we hope to be able to keep you busy for some considerable time. We also share knowledge and resources with other reliable local providers.
Here’s a special event page for the curious: a detailed listing of all 2539 packages in the Mandriva 2007.0 release, including contributions, with links to the original packages’ sites. This list is updated as significant extensions or improvements are made to the software.
We’re also big on doing business with locals as much as possible. We also support & contribute to the BurningWell image library.
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There is something a little bit surreal about sitting in a meeting of the Jamaica Linux Users Group (JaLUG), in a cafe beside a waterfall — with Linus, Ted, Eric and other luminaries in the front of the room and an attentive audience filling the rest of the space — while a veteran local IBM executive stands up and describes the adoption of Linux by the company’s customers with adjectives like “huge”. — Doc Searles
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