by wwarren | Oct 14, 2010 | Church, Linux, NPO's, Open Source
Well i got the servers in and really didn’t want to wait for the 12u rack…mainly because it’s not int he budget right now. I took one of the servers and have installed untangle on it. I now have 4 network cards in the thing. One is red(internet),...
by wwarren | Oct 12, 2010 | Vendors
Sprint just plain sucks. We’ve been customers for over 10 years..yet they say we’ve only been there for 8. That’s not what irks me. What really irks me is the constant threat of account suicide I have to face anytime i call sprint for anything and...
by wwarren | Sep 30, 2010 | Vendors
*IMPORTANT NOTE TO ECC CLIENTS* ECC is currently embroiled in a dispute with my phone provider Sprint-Nextel. ECC may loose phone service during this time. If you try to call and cannot get through please use the contact form on this site to reach me. My internet...
by wwarren | Sep 28, 2010 | Hardware
Ars Technica has a good system build series going for a long time. It’s been on vacation but it’s back and as good as ever. Take a gander. The Ars System Guide: September 2010 Edition.
by wwarren | Sep 22, 2010 | Microsoft, Security
I have severals tweaks with group policy that combined with a decent a/v malware is reduced to a small chance. Now that this is now true as soon as they open up the partner branding I have one client that uses avg, another that uses Kaspersky(which is currently...
by wwarren | Sep 15, 2010 | Church, Linux, NPO's, Open Source
I just need to get the final list of current mailboxses and get the DNS switched over. Staff meeting this Monday to see if they’ll give the green light. I have found several extensions(called zimlets) that really extend the featureset of the Zimbra platform....
by wwarren | Sep 15, 2010 | Church, Linux, Microsoft, NPO's, Open Source
Well I have gotten one of the donated servers fired up. It’s a dual Xeon 2.0 GHZ HT with dual 36 gig 10 SCSI hdd’s in raid 1. This is now running Untangle as the firewall. This frees up the Dell server (which is a Xeon 3.0 GHZ HT 2 gig dual 250 gigs...
by wwarren | Sep 14, 2010 | Hardware, Intel, Microsoft, Vendors, Windows
Ok folks. Here it comes. MS and Intel(Wintel is NOT dead) wants to have everything signed by it so that there’s no more bad or malicious code. Of course this would put an end to the open source movement and several other industries in the software arena(which...
by wwarren | Sep 8, 2010 | Vendors
Given the fact that verizon’s total debt nearly matches it’s market cap(not it’s actual income which is lower) I’m betting Verizon either sells off all it’s landlines AND fios lines and then buys out voda here in the us or they get bought...
by wwarren | Aug 31, 2010 | Cloud Computing, Hardware, Intel
They are jumping right into virtualization. Their biggest concern is they are hitting the limits of their colos power envelope before they start getting charged. They are going to reduce their server footprint by about half and hopefully save some power as well....
