Abortion and Obama

On January 22, 2009, in Faith, by Paul Kortman

I aim to set the record straight. I am not a politician, just an average joe who has listened to the talk all over about Obama and abortion. I have heard some pretty negative comments. And today I got one that made me upset enough to research what the truth about Obama and Abortion is and was.

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Linux Find and Argument List Too Long

On January 14, 2009, in IT, by Paul Kortman

I have had a problem that has been plaguing me for eons, and today I finally stopped and dealt with it, I refused to let it plague me anymore. And to my surprise I was able to solve it pretty quickly.

I use the find command in Linux very often. I also use sendmail and support it. I have a few hundred users on my server and I occasionally need to help a user find a piece of information in their email. So I ssh into the server, grab my trusty find command and go to work, this is where the problems typically occur.

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Twitter Applications

On January 11, 2009, in Social Media, by Paul Kortman

I recently took my twitter activity to a whole new level. I have had a twitter account for a couple of years and never really used it much. I simply used it to follow a couple of friends whom I knew and worked with in a former life. Shout out to @slack @danielmorrison @jonpott @pablohart and @schaapy. Recently I found a more useful way to use twitter and I actually started tweeting.

I have found a few tools and resources which have made my twitter experience much better. This post is my mini-review of what I use, have used and would consider using. These are in no particular order.

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How to Make Money Selling Free Stuff

On January 7, 2009, in Social Media, by Paul Kortman

First off this blog is free, and I’m not selling it or anything on it (yet). It is Free as in speech. But I do sell free stuff which is not free, as in speech, or beer. But yet the stuff I sell is free. Confused yet? I think you’ll catch my drift quickly.

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Portfast and IP Default-Gateway

On January 5, 2009, in IT, by Paul Kortman

In a previous post I worked through enabling trunking and NIC teaming for my VMWare ESX server connected to my Cisco Switch. When I was complete I left behind a problem and the comments here, and here suggested I enabled portfast. Today I attempted to fix the problem and enable portfast.

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Truth be Told

On January 4, 2009, in Faith, by Paul Kortman

First off, I know many of you may not be Christians, or Disciples of Christ, or believers or whatever we want to call it. This is not a conversion post, just my reflections on a pretty earth shattering experience that I shared in this weekend.

I hosted a mens retreat for a few of my old college buddies, we had gotten together all 5 of us once since college, but that was with our wives and kids. This retreat, was different. This was a men only no girls allowed weekend.

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ESX and Vlan networking

On January 1, 2009, in IT, by Paul Kortman

For the past two days at work I have been attempting to setup more advanced networking for my test, almost production VMWare ESX server. The server hardware that I am using (IBM 3550) has two on board Gig Nics. With a current Internet connection of 3Mbps and an upgrade to 10Mbps coming in the spring I doubt I will ever reach the 1 Gbps limit of one of those Nics, but I am planning on running most if not all my infrastructure in a Virtual environment. So I need fail-over and redundancy. So I needed two things: NIC Teaming and Port Trunking.

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