Well, I finally did it.  I registered bamed.org and I’ve moved my blog there.  I’ve redirected the URL so you should have ended up here at bamed.org whether you intended to or not.  I’m not sure how this will effect feeds though.  I’ve been using FeedBurner for awhile, and it should still work, but anybody [...]

… well, mostly complete.  I still need to configure my Nagios VM.  But I have my Samba PDC configured w/ LDAP running flawlessly, and the move to a VM for my LAMP setup worked out well.  I’ve had to do some “funny” things with my subnetting over the past few weeks while everything was still [...]

Today I haven’t been doing much as a sysadmin, etc, I’ve mainly been playing the part of a Code Monkey, tweaking a few Apps we use.

This weekend I should be finishing up all our server upgrades.  For those who haven’t been following along this whole project began last November when I was trying to get a USB HDD to work with our SLES 8 to do backups to.  Not the prettiest solution, but it was what I came up with [...]

I know there’s many of you out there in blogland who can sympathize with me.  Sometimes being the ONLY geek around can be a little tiring.  Today alone I’ve had to be an expert in telephony (both PBX and VoIP), security (computer and physical), network architecture, TCP/IP, web design, web administration, database administration and general [...]

Well it looks like I’m going to PreakNIC 0×0b in Nashville this October.  For those of you who chose not to follow the link, “PhreakNIC is an annual gathering in Nashville, TN, for hackers, makers, security professionals, and general technology enthusiasts.”  (0×0b = 11)  And it looks like I may get 3 or 4 of [...]

So… what’s going on this week?
Tomorrow my sister moves to Russia.
Today and tomorrow we are having a staff retreat.  Two full days of meetings.  There’s a lot of changes coming up after the new worship center is finished, so there’s a lot to discuss.  I had trouble getting on the wi-fi the first part of [...]

This is an excerpt from the latest Space Wars series illustrating the proper way to run a Help Desk, if you’re a Sith Lord:

I remember many years ago when I first started to program, and began learning about databases, the first database server I tried was MySQL. What I read about it claimed that MySQL was the best performing database server available, plus it was multi-platform, free and Open Source. What could be better?
Last year MySQL [...]

A couple years ago I let my sisters babysit my three kids, and this is the result:
Here’s Episode 2:
These are the bloopers from Episode 2:
Now for the grand finale in Episode 3:
This is an Average Day in the Life of a Jedi: