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Its amazing what you can do with some duct tape, an old 12volt fan from a power supply and 30 minutes of time. Felt like I got back to the basics today when our Unity Voice Mail server died.
The internal fan in the Proliant Server that runs the County voice mail system went bad and it [...]

Spent most of Sunday  night back and forth to our microwave/radio hop up in Mule Mountain updating some routers and testing some new connections with ‘topher. The weather came in really strong and we went from about a quarter inch of snow, to nearly four inches in just a few hours. Driving was exciting to say the [...]

Friday was a mix of good and bad.
Good = Arizona Sonora Desert Museum with my girls….
Good = Movie with my girls at our favorite theater in Tucson…
Bad = The movie was “2012″… BLECH!!!
Bad = Exchange Server  crashed at work…
Good = Got it back up and running in an hour after returning from Tucson…
So, that was [...]

Last day of the conference and last videoblog from Orlando. Again, you will need Quicktime to view.
Last Post from FL
Looking forward to getting home to the AZ!

Trying a video blog from Florida… lets see how it works! Its in Quicktime so you will need that to view. Click on the link below.
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First week back from vacation. Things at work are good if you ignore the almost fist-fight at the office while I was gone… Jeeze people, relax and behave like pros would ya?
Anyway, held my full staff meeting this week and we are doing good as a group. Still a lot of concern over the State’s [...]

At the County we work a “Flex-Schedule”. This means that we have every-other Friday off. Its great not only because of the long weekend every other week, but also because the Fridays we are here, the HelpDesk traffic drops to almost nothing.
Therefore we have scheduled all day on the work Fridays as “Engineering Day” its [...]

Seems to have been a long few weeks of Mondays. Addressing other department’s problems because of their lack of communication and poor planning. It’s difficult and I often find my patience wearing thin with the whole thing these days.
I really think I need a vacation… any one have any great suggestions?

I spent part of the day upgrading the netbook to Ubuntu 9.04 and I must say, it is an amazing distro. The upgrade from 8.10 was painless and it looks and runs great on the Lenovo even without the netbook remix.
If you haven’t played with it, I encourage you to give it a try. You [...]

Working on a large VMWare install this week. This popped up today while configuring the iSCSI subsystem.
I mean, I knew it was all magic to begin with, but to blow an “invocation” like that I must have rolled a “1″!