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I highly doubt there are many of you reading this that don’t also read Terry Storch. But just in case, he posted a link today to this blog that I thought was 100% accurate. The article talks about when it’s time to ditch an RSS feed or blog. And honestly, it made [...]

I finally have an IT project at Church!  Unfortunately, I screwed it up.   We are implementing an open wireless network to provide internet access to ‘Common Grounds’, our new in-house coffee shop/bookstore.  This is a huge step for us.  I was trying to find the best way to protect our local network from [...]

I was lucky enough to score a free copy of Vista and Office 2007. I was also able to see a demonstration of both.
I was very under-whelmed with Vista. As a geek, I like a lot of the stuff it offers. But as a professional, I won’t be able to provide all [...]

My syslog trials were a bust. Zenoss failed to impress. It was overly complicated. After some searching, I found many other ones that are quite a bit easier to work with. I liked the idea of Zenoss, but it was more frustration than it was worth.
I did some more tweaking of [...]

We’ve been wanting some centralized syslogging at work. While we are waiting to purchase a commercial system, we’ve been looking at some free ones. The one that caught my attention was Zenoss.
Setting up this thing has been a nightmare. I never did get it to work right with Fedora. Today, I [...]

I try to keep things techie around here. However, recent events have caused me to want to clear my head about something. I’m almost afraid to even put in my two cents on the topic (and that is rare for me).
For those of you who haven’t made the connection yet, my hometown of [...]

I’ve had this lingering technology idea floating around in my head recently. I don’t think it’s at all inspired. I know someone has thought of this long before me. But I honestly can’t say I’ve ever seen it in function or practice. So anyone who wants to point out my ignorance [...]

To those of you who read, it’s not fair that you take the time to subscribe to my feed or randomly check my site, only to be disappointed by the lack of posting. I think I should at least give you good reason for my absence.
Mostly things have been very busy with my ‘real’ [...]

Finally, the time has come. I have a file server set up. I know how to run it. I know how to secure it. I know how to back it up. The time has finally come to ‘centralize’ NMCC’s network.
Before I can begin, I need a router. Because the [...]