Archive for July, 2006
Monday, July 31st, 2006
Biographical Study on Ishmael
A couple weeks ago we had a reunion for those of us who had gone on a mission trip to Africa this summer. Father Anthony Messeh shared a word with us about Abraham and his two sons, Isaac and Ishmael. Father Anthony was comparing Isaac and Ishmael, contrasting what the Spirit accomplishes versus what the [...]
10 Comments » - Posted in Bible Study by Andrew Mitry
Friday, July 28th, 2006
Network Management - OpenNMS
At our first tech night last week, Magued one of our uber volunteers who is responsible for maintaining our Cisco firewalls and switches, lobbied us to get a network management platform up and running. Magued had lobbied for quite some time that we must get some kind of monitoring system up so that we [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Open Source, Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Monday, July 24th, 2006
Always wanting that new toy?
I will admit that I am always craving the latest gadget, looking for a legitimate way to justify getting it. Now I have an excuse to lobby the wife, it’s genetic…
Got to get that gadget? It may be your genes
I don’t think she’ll buy it though.
1 Comment » - Posted in Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Monday, July 24th, 2006
Switch from Vonage to Verizon/PhoneGnome
We have had Vonage at home for about three and half years and have been reasonably happy with them. We mainly had two issues, one was that we would be out of phone service during extended power/internet outages and two was that international calls frequently did not go through (when they would connect fine [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in VoIP/Telecom by Andrew Mitry
Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
Father Bishoy is Bloggin
I would like to welcome our senior priest at St. Mark’s, Fr. Bishoy Andrawes to the blogosphere!
www.frbishoy.com
Check out his blog and add him to your RSS reader.
Comments Off - Posted in Christianity by Andrew Mitry
Friday, July 21st, 2006
DansGuardian and SpamAssassin
Two of summer interns, Kyle and Travis, are wrapping up testing on their assigned projects. The first is an open source web content filter, we chose to use DansGuardian running on CentOS 4.3. The second is an open source spam/virus mail filter, we chose to use SpamAssassin and ClamAV, they found a pre-configured [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Open Source, Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Monday, July 17th, 2006
Biographical Study on St. Andrew the Apostle
I got to spend a wonderful time today studying St. Andrew the Apostle, I am glad that God encouraged me to start spending more time studying His word. I look forward to doing this on a weekly basis.
Biographical Study Form from Rick Warren’s Bible Study Methods:
1. NAME St. Andrew the Apostle
2. REFERENCES
Scripture
Matthew 4:18-20
Matthew [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Bible Study by Andrew Mitry
Friday, July 14th, 2006
Filling Up
God has definitely been trying to drive home a point with me these past couple weeks. He is telling me that I need to give significantly more time to the study of His word. Yes, maybe I spend half an hour to an hour a day in quiet time, praying, reading, and [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Bible Study, Christianity by Andrew Mitry
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
The Big Announcement is Here!
The big announcement I posted about earlier is the release of OrthodoxSermons.org, where our entire collection of sermons is available for FREE. The site contatins the largest collection of Orthodox sermons in English on the web and we still have many more to add.
The challenge now is to keep up with bandwidth demands, we [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Christianity, Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
IBM Decides to use Drupal for its New developerWorks Series
Found this on Digg, IBM engineers take a look at open source content management systems and decide to go with Drupal.
Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site, Part 1: Introduction and overview
We are currently testing out Drupal as a potential replacement for Joomla!, our current content management system for [...]
