I had an extra hour of sleep from daylight savings time and I still got out late. What's up with that? I had an interesting day getting out quotes for servers and other parts. Paperwork is the part of the job I hate most.
I did get to have some fun though. Yes I did get in a short half hour of Halo, and yes I did score the winning flag in Blood Gulch. But the fun was looking for a program that can host web and voice chats for a customer. Microsoft makes a product called Communications server,...

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Today was a great day for installing a new server, but unfortunately it was on an older version of Linux Fedora 5 (current version is 7). I unpacked the new IBM 3250 server with 2 GB RAM, a XEON processor and dual SAS drives. IBM doesn't include a self starting install for anything other than Windows, which is shocking. They are already married to Suse and Redhat Linux but it wasn't even an option. I do like the IBM for the additional features you don't find on other servers, like Chipkill memory...

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Well yesterday we recorded another radio show. Our 110th episode of All Tech Radio. We had a guest on we have had a few times before, Lanny Reding to discuss physical security converging with network security.

Then the problems started.
I had to go to a business with four locations to install new site to site tunnels back to a main office. I had a tech in the three branch offices while I was at the main office. Integra, the ISP, ran late as usual. The tech from Integra had...

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Welcome to my Blog. I hope to use this space to tell everyone about my experiences in the IT industry with helpful information on technical items, and some interesting stories.

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