I was going over some to-do list stuff in my head the other day while I was driving, and I kept forgetting the first thing I thought of by the time I got to the next thing! Then when I got into the office, it all went away when I had to jump into whatever […]

Success! This past weekend was our first weekend providing free wireless internet access. I haven’t figured out the exact details that will let me log every access in the way I want to use for trending, but it appears it was used by several people on Sunday. The bigger test of the Indiana District Council […]

I’ve finally taken a little while to play with FreeMind. It’s a useful little open source tool for organizing disorganized thinking, planning, and brainstorming. It does take a while to get the “feel” for mind mapping, which is what FreeMind does is often called, but once you grasp the non-linear layout, it turns into a […]

We just released our Free Wi-Fi without much hurrah this week(end) (I’m out of town, so I hope no one needs help!). The big test will be Monday and Tuesday (when I will be in town) with us hosting our Indiana District Council. Right now, content filtering on the public wireless is being provided by […]

Is anyone else using 802.1x for wired authentication? I’ve got it working for wireless networking, which is pretty cool. But what about wired ports? I don’t necessarily want to go to the trouble of locking down every port on campus with 802.1x. Or do I? But public ports are what worry me. For now, the […]

Our server room’s battery backup consists of a couple of off-the-shelf APC battery backup units, running an ever-expanding collection of servers (about six, depending on what you term a “server”).  Not the optimal solution, but a cost-effective one that was good enough when the server count was lower. It’s been so good, in fact, that […]