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• We are getting two new HP ML370 G5 servers, through an employee donation program, the first one arrived on Wednesday and the second will hopefully come in the next couple of weeks. We are now pricing out a second processor, RAM and hard drives to get them all souped up and ready for a new VMware environment.
• I am headed out on Tuesday for the Fall IT RoundTable in Leawood, KS.
• YouVersion.com, a new social enabled online bible, launched it’s first public beta.
• Our junior high kids managed to design and build their own site, loversofchrist.org, on WordPress.com – pretty impressive.
• We have our annual young adult fellowship getaway this weekend at Smith Mountain Lake, please pray that God uses this weekend for His glory.

At Little Flock Christian School, a lot of the curriculum and support materials comes in the PDF document format. Often teachers want to print multiple copies for their students, but found that Adobe Reader 8.1 is buggy when trying to print collated copies. We installed Foxit Reader 2.1 and it is working out great, not only printing collated copies but it is actually a lot faster and free! We may have to add Foxit Reader to our standard desktop image.

On three separate occasions we tried to swap out our firewall for a newer model but we kept having problems with inbound traffic on public IP addresses other than the one assigned to the WAN interface of the firewall.  Turns out that the switch on the ISP side wasn’t seeing the interface go down so the ARP cache was not clearing (I think this had something to do with the way our SONET Fiber ring is configured).  Once we got our ISP to clear the cache, inbound traffic routed correctly.  Cox, our ISP says the default timeout on their switch for the cache is 10 minutes.

I have been out of touch for a few weeks as we just took possession of a church next door, completely renovated it and opened it as chapel for weekday services and a meeting room for weekend services.  Part of the renovation included running fiber from our main server room to a closet in the chapel and outfitting all the audiovisual equipment.  I’ll try to post details on the whole setup soon.