Jan 22

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. Continue reading »

Jan 14

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. Continue reading »

Jan 11

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. Continue reading »

Jan 07

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. Continue reading »

Jan 05

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. Continue reading »

Jan 04

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. Continue reading »

Jan 01

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. Continue reading »