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The server room overhaul is just about wrapped up and the network documentation and diagrams are coming together nicely.  The Fluke LINKRUNNER recommended by Chris-scbc on the #citrt was a big help with sorting out all those cables.

Got a couple of updated sonogram pics of the baby.

Headed out to Oklahoma City for MinistryTECH/CITRT tomorrow, still working on the materials for my Asterisk breakout session.

The second phase of the server room overhaul is coming along nicely, we got all the switches, patch panels and Neat-Patch installed on the telecom rack. We are almost done running 24 cables to move a switch/patch panel from our senior priest’s office to the server room (that required drilling holes through two concrete block walls). Next step is to reassign some of the ports to different vlans and cleaning up the wiring.

Once again, mega props to volunteers Miranda, Samer and Tina for all their hard work.

We got Verizon Fios fiber Internet installed at the house today, it took the technician about 4 hours to complete the install but he did do a nice, clean job. Overall I was pretty impressed with how smoothly it went, the technician arrived half an hour early and was very courteous. The only snag was that I didn’t have an analog line for the tech to dial out on and activate the service (you would think they would give them an EVDO card), so the tech had to call customer service and wait for them to do it. We are up and running, I think the speed test says it all…

Download Speed: 15497 kbps (1937.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 14344 kbps (1793 KB/sec transfer rate)

We started on our server room overhaul last night with moving our old server cabinet to the basement computer lab and putting a new server cabinet in the server room. Today we will run additional wiring, cleaning up the wiring rack and install a shelf for the security camera servers.

Props to the volunteer team that got everything moved and back up amazingly fast last night.

Photos on Flickr.

This Sunday we are moving our Light & Life (contemporary young adult) service back from the chapel to the gym. This means we are going back to a portable setup that goes up and comes down every week. We used most of our equipment from the previous setup to outfit the chapel, so we had to get a few new pieces to make things work.

Audio:
We currently have an awesome portable Fender Passport system that we use on retreats and for meetings up to 100 people. The speakers clip in to the mixer/amp and the wires are stored in the back of mixer amp. The unit we have now is too small for the gym, so we went with the 500-watt Passport Deluxe PD-500.

Video:
We already have a portable Canon GL2 Digital Camcorder to capture video but we needed something to mix in the presentation video feed for recording. We went with another trusty Edirol V4 mixer (we already use one in our main sanctuary). This allows us to take up to four video feeds, mix them and output s-video to an Osprey 100 capture card in a desktop computer. From there we use Windows Media Encoder to stream or record video.

Lighting:
We already have a complete portable lighting system from All Pro Sound, unfortunately it looks like their site is having issues so I can’t give a direct link.

I gave GooSync a whirl with one of our school teachers who has a Palm Treo 680, calendar sync to Google seems to work pretty well, but the contacts sync only connects to GooSync, not Google. To get your contacts in/out of Google you have to import/export CSV files. Hopefully we will get a better solution soon now that Google has released their Contacts Data API.

Steve Jobs announced today that the iPhone will have full ActiveSync support allowing it work with Microsoft Exchange. ActiveSync as well as the feature packed SDK also announced today will be available as a free update in June. Full coverage at Engadget.

Yesterday, Google released Calendar Sync which “allows you to sync events between Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar. You’ll be able to determine the direction of information flow, as well as the sync frequency.”

Today, Google released its Contacts Data API which “allows client applications to view and update Contacts content in the form of Google Data API feeds.”

Additional Coverage:
GigaOM – iPhone Ready to Rumble With Blackberry
David Szpunar – Apple’s iPhone Getting Exchange ActiveSync! And Google does Outlook Sync, too.
Google Code – 3. 2. 1. Contact. The API has landed
Google Enterprise – Introducing Google Calendar Sync

“The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His Harvest.” – Luke 10:2

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