Posted in Computing on Sep 29th, 2008
I had Dell’s OpenManage running on Citrix XenServer 4.5, along with MRTG & Munin. Life was good. Then we did the upgrade thing, wiping all that goodness out. We have a month old backup of the CentOS installation, which has most of the configurations. The only thing I really lost was some of the latest MRTG config updates.
Posted in Computing on Sep 5th, 2008
Time Warner Cable was out from about 9pm 2008 Sept 04 until about 2am 2008 Sept 06. Internet, both the digital and analog cable were affected. I don’t have phone service, so I can’t speak to that, but would bet it was affected too. The digital cable pictures started getting “snow” prior [...]
Posted in Computing on Jul 2nd, 2008
You’ll find that combining your individual PowerPoints (Announcements, Song Lyrics, Sermon Notes, Scripture, etc.) will make it much easier to manage on Sunday Morning. I’m not going to reinvent the wheel here, a decent link is this school site[1]. Another website also describes this process[2]. In this tutorial, they over-ride the default [...]
Posted in Computing on Jun 21st, 2008
Today I want to interrupt my series on using PowerPoint in Worship to cover an OpenSource presentation sofware know as OpenSong[1]. As an open source program, it is free {yeah!}, which is very helpful for small churches trying to get started with overhead projection during the service. I have recently begun using this [...]
Posted in Computing on Jun 13th, 2008
Now that the basics are out of the way lets begin on the template. I want to start with the Simple format because the Visual is an extension of that. My examples will refer to PowerPoint 2003, since that’s what I have loaded on this computer. NOTE: Save early and often while [...]
Posted in Computing on Jun 13th, 2008
I’m beginning a series on using PowerPoint[11] to enable worship. This is the first post and will give a little background. My wife recently became the Pastor of English Ministries at a Korean Church in Cleveland, Ohio[1]. As she gets the ministry rolling, one of my jobs will be to get PowerPoint [...]
Posted in Computing on Apr 9th, 2008
I recently had need to try to recover a lost file from a USB (jump/zip/flash/micro) drive. Turns out that the drive probably had been reformated, so the data was gone. But I found some interesting applications that may be of use. I also found an article that suggested freezing the drive and [...]
Time to catch up on some long overdue updates. I tried to update this blog last weekend & didn’t have much luck. There were a couple of plugins that reduced the site to blank pages. Tried it again, and started activating plugins with Akismet. That went OK, to added slimstat, amazon [...]
Posted in Computing on Mar 6th, 2007
Vincent Danen has an interesting article about using WebDAV to back up data[1]. If you have an apache web server on your home cable modem/dsl connection, you can set it up provide access to your data from anywhere on the web. We’re assuming you have plenty of disk space and a reasonable fast [...]
Your mission: securely copy datafiles & logs to a central backup server without using a login/password. Can you do it?
Well, Justin Fielding may have the answer. And it doesn’t even require that you be Marshall[2] or Chloe[3]. He has a post in his TechRepublic networking blog about automating file transfer using SSH. [...]
Posted in Computing on Feb 13th, 2007
TechRepublic.com has an interesting article about using script[1] to record the “goings on” in a terminal session. A former co-worker had used Camtasia[2] to document some routine yet non-trivial website maintenance that we need to do at work and I found this very helpful. As I think about the things that need to [...]
Posted in Computing on Jan 10th, 2007
With the usual caveats about backing up your data (your better half will not be happy if the digi pix from that trip to Aruba are lost, you know that - right? You’re backing them up to CD - right?), here are the tools I use to keep my PC’s in as good a [...]
Posted in Computing on Sep 29th, 2006
Your PC cannot be a useful tool for Christian Ministry if it’s bogged down with adaware, pop-ups, virii & trojans. A regular regimen of cleaning your PC of these vermin helps maintain the health of your PC. I find the following tools helpful in maintaining my PCs.
This article[1] recommends trlokom’s spywall[2]. I’ve [...]
Posted in Computing on Aug 11th, 2006
TonyDye [1] reminds me of the importance of being able to “touch type”. I took typing in High School because I thought I’d need it to type my college english papers. Little did I know that I’d make my living in computers. Touch typing makes me more efficient. At one of my [...]
Posted in Computing on Aug 11th, 2006
Here’s two hosts that I’ve run across that are inexpensive. I think these both are lamp oriented (Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP). I’d like to hear people’s experiences with cheap hosting (lamp or .net) companies. Things to look out for, keep in mind when choosing.
[1] http://www.a2hosting.com/web_hosting.php
[2] http://www.dreamhost.com
Posted in Computing on Jun 28th, 2006
TechRepublic[1] has a good collection of introductory Linux Articles on it’s wiki. They cover things like setting up your security model, establishing user data quotas and installation.
If you’re really into geeking out your Linux server installation, check out the OpenNA[2] distribution and the attendent book[3]. It’s been about 18 months since [...]
Posted in Computing on Jun 16th, 2006
The GeeksAreSexy[1] blog has an interesting post on installing WordPress on your WinXP box. The benefits of having access to a local sandbox for your WordPress[2] (or other web related projects) are several. You can play with themes and plugins and test them without boogering up your live weblog. If [...]
Posted in Computing on Mar 14th, 2006
I recently ran across VS.PHP from JCX.Software[1]. It is a plug-in for Microsoft’s Visual Studio. I had a copy of Visual Studio that I got as part of a promotion [free]. I’ve downloaded the trial and have been using if for about a week now & have been very pleased.
I’ve been able to develop a [...]
Posted in Computing on Feb 8th, 2006
Sarah D. Scarlet writes an informative post about setting better passwords. Since it’s a good policy to change your passwords frequently, she also has a mechanism to help you remember them. She also suggests using different levels of passwords for different types of uses.
Posted in Computing on Sep 15th, 2005
Our friends at Microsoft have a security webpag…
