So this is how the budget turned out:
We are starting the Staff Training program!!
No new server.
No new backup, unless it’s donated.
We should be able to replace all the old Windows 98 machines!!!
We’re sticking with Samba/LDAP!
Exchange is no-go.
No new Church Management System, unless we go open source, and i don’t know of an OSS [...]
It’s that time of year again. The time of year when I have to figure out all the goals I have for the next year and then figure out how much it will cost to meet those goals. At least I have help this year. With some of the restructuring we’ve been [...]
This morning I stopped by the gas station to get some gas, and on the other side of the pump I parked at was a woman from our congregation who I helped with some computer problems a few months ago. She said hi, I said hi, and we continued pumping. She went in [...]
This week we’re ditching our old Mail Server and letting Google host our email for us. This is a brief history of our e-mail service.
Originally a member of our congregation, Darrin Stratton of 3000toys.com, donated mail hosting for chcchurch.org. All was well and good, but then we decided we needed some kind of [...]
I finally came to a conclusion why I could not get everything on my HackLab to work. It’s because I’m using spare parts out of my garage that don’t work. I’ve gone through two hard drives already. The PS/2 ports on my motherboard don’t work. I’m sure there’s got to be [...]
For the past two weeks I’ve been trying to get on here an blog some more about the hack lab, but I keep getting interrupted and never finish. I haven’t had any really big projects going on, it just seems all the little things keep me running around in circles.
Anyway, here’s a quick update [...]
Well, I managed to come up with enough hardware to put something together to use as a hacklab for testing penetration testing techniques on. The only problem is RAM. The motherboard I came up with only had 2 slot for RAM, and I don’t have any extra DDR laying around larger than 256MB. For those [...]
Well, I just finished typing a long post about putting together a Root War and I ended up getting some kind of database error and I lost it all. So I’m trying again, thought this one may not be as detailed:
We need a good Root War(RW)! I haven’t participated in one in a [...]