Archive for March, 2008

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Random Updates

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 [...]

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Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Server Room Overhaul Phase 2

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 [...]

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Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Light Speed with FiOS

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 [...]

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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Server Room Overhaul Phase 1

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 [...]

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Friday, March 7th, 2008

AudioVisual Setup in the Gym

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, [...]

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Thursday, March 6th, 2008

GooSync Trial

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 [...]

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Thursday, March 6th, 2008

iPhone and Google in the News

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 [...]

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Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Job Opportunities in Kenya

“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
Coptic Hospital in Nairobi
Do you have a medical degree or experience in Hospital administration?
With the mission of providing the best quality care to those who otherwise could not access [...]

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