Archive for May, 2007
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
Update on Neokast - Now Streaming at 640×480
Our beta testing with Neokast is going well. We are now running a 640×480 29.97 fps stream at 732 Kbps. We will continue testing at this rate for the for another week and see how it goes. If you would like to check it out, tune in to the bible study tomorrow [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Streaming by Andrew Mitry
Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Dynamic Church 07
My coworker, John Basta, and I will be heading down to Dallas, Texas for the first annual Dynamic Church 07 conference next week. Dynamic Church is a Fellowship Technologies user and developer conference. We have been using the Fellowship One Church Management System (ChMS) at St. Mark’s for the past two years and [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Fellowship One by Andrew Mitry
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Links for 2007-05-08
GFI: EndPointScan - Scan your network for devices online
via The Healthcare IT Guy
InfoWorld: Ubuntu plans mobile Linux version
via Download Squad
Signal vs. Noise: James Dyson on living a life of failure
2 Comments » - Posted in Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Washington, DC Metro Church IT RoundTable
David Russell, David Clark and I have started planning a Washington, DC Metro Church IT RoundTable (CITRT). We have tentatively scheduled a lunch at Ebenezers for noon on May 24th, 2007. We welcome anyone active in using technology in a Christian environment to attend.
Goals for our first meeting:
Introduce the CITRT, [...]
10 Comments » - Posted in DC CITRT by Andrew Mitry
Monday, May 7th, 2007
CopticWorld.org
The Coptic Archdiocese of North America and Saint Anthony Coptic Orthodox Monastery, with the blessing of His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, have started work on CopticWorld.org, a centralized community site for Coptic Orthodox Christians.
From their FAQ…
CopticWorld.org aims to bring together the Coptic Community together in three ways:
Unite - Support - Provide
CopticWorld.org can help UNITE [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Monday, May 7th, 2007
Spider-Man 3
Yesterday, my wife and I went to see Spider-Man 3. We aren’t frequent moviegoers, but we had heard so many great reviews we couldn’t resist. Fortunately we weren’t disappointed, it was nice to watch a movie with a well thought out story line and teaches a good lesson at the same time.
Check out [...]
Comments Off - Posted in General by Andrew Mitry
Monday, May 7th, 2007
Links for 2007-05-07
Creative Synergy Podcast: Episode 5 on Church Copyright
via Tony Dye
O’Reilly Network: Top 7 Things System Administrators Forget to Do
via Geeks Are Sexy
TechCrunch: Rescue Time: Automated Time Management meets Web 2.0
Jason, this may help quantify just how much time is spent on distractions
The Savvy Technologist: Tricking administrators into using technology
Using iPods to [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Orthodox Christian Resources
Here are a few of my favorite sites for resources on Orthodox Christianity:
Ancient Faith Radio - A pan-Orthodox internet based radio station on the air 24 hours a day.
CopticChurch.Net - Daily lectionary, articles, hymns, and sermons.
OrthodoxWiki - A free-content encyclopedia and information center for Orthodox Christianity.
OrthodoxBookstore.org - Offers a vast selection of Coptic and general [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Christianity, Orthodoxy by Andrew Mitry
Friday, May 4th, 2007
Beta Testing with Neokast
Shortly after posting Serving up Live Streaming Video, I got an email from Neokast asking if I would like to experiment with their platform. I jumped at the opportunity and they got me setup in no time.
Neokast connected directly to my existing Windows Media publishing point and listed me on their site (still in [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in AudioVisual, Streaming, Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Links for 2007-05-03
Regular Expression: Dell to use Ubuntu on Linux PCs
Linux takes one more step towards mass adoption
TechSoup: Tips for Creating and Managing Content
Tools and tricks for posting good content to your nonprofit’s Web site
VOIPSpeak: trixbox 2.2 released
A much improved version of Asterisk based trixbox 2.0
ZDNet: How to REALLY erase a hard drive
Secure Erase, a set [...]
