Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
RoundTable Notes
A few highlights from the DC Church IT RoundTable last week (I am doing this from memory, so please feel free to chime in).
National Church IT Round Table – October 2-4 in Leawood, Kansas.
Firebug – Firefox extension for tweaking CSS and more (Thanks guys for the help with fixing missionlifecenter.org).
SSL-Explorer – open source SSL-VPN solution [...]
Comments Off - Posted in DC CITRT by Andrew Mitry
Friday, August 31st, 2007
How to Be an Effective Missionary
This past Sunday, Fr. Abraham Fam, a missionary priest in Zambia and close friend, shared with us on how to be an effective missionary.
Coptic Mission / Mission Life Center
Comments Off - Posted in Mission by Andrew Mitry
Friday, August 31st, 2007
New Mission Life Center Web Site
We just finished combining the Mission Life Center website and blog into a single site that revolves around the blog. Previously we were using Joomla! for the main site and WordPress for the blog. Now the site is running entirely on WordPress. We also are using Flickr instead of Gallery for new [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Mission, Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
DC Metro Church IT RoundTable Tomorrow
Just a reminder that the DC Church IT RoundTable will be meeting tomorrow, August 24, noon at St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church in Fairfax. VA. Lunch will be provided.
2 Comments » - Posted in DC CITRT by Andrew Mitry
Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Exchange 2003 to Google Apps Migration Howto
Earlier this week we completed a migration from Microsoft Exchange 2003 to Google Apps Education Edition. This step by step howto is also valid when migrating to Google Apps Premier Edition or Non-Profit Edition, but not with the standard edition (Google only supports IMAP migration on premium accounts). There are many reasons why [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Google by Andrew Mitry
Thursday, August 16th, 2007
Migration from Exchange to Google Apps
Tuesday night we successfully migrated our school users from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps Education Edition. By the grace of God and the hard work of two volunteers, David Armanious and Samer Salama, the migration went smoothly. We used the new IMAP migration tool that Google provides on premium accounts (educational institutions and [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Google by Andrew Mitry
Monday, August 13th, 2007
Ubuntu on the Desktop
It has been a year since I made the switch to Ubuntu on my primary desktop and I can happily say that I have no regrets. Ubuntu has proven to be a stable, secure and usable operating system that can play reasonably well in a Windows environment. On the school side, we have [...]
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
David’s Praise to God
A friend of mine put together this beautiful letter sized print of 1 Chronicles 29:10-18.
High Quality Download: PDF (127mb) TIFF (220mb)
Comments Off - Posted in Christianity by Andrew Mitry
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
New Presentations Page at StShenoudaJC.org
St. George and St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Church launched a new web site (running on Joomla!) a few months ago. Â On the site you will find an updated presentations page containing the latest Coptic Presentation Applications as well as new interactive lessons that teach you how to read the Coptic language. Â Now if only we [...]
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Links for 2007-08-08
Apple iMovie Gets an Overhaul – NewTeeVee’s Liz Gannes
Carpe digital by Mark Batterson
Read/WriteWeb’s Richard MacManus highlights IBM’s Report on “Media’s Mean Streets”
Guy Kawaski on The Seven Sins of Solutions
