Posted in General on Jul 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
Maybe some of you have noticed that my mail server is down. This weekend, the hard drive died and I haven’t received the replacements yet. I have ordered two new hard drives and a RAID card. That way if it happens again the server will still run. I am a little lost without my email.
Posted in General on May 20th, 2009 No Comments »
After “deciding” to use Asterisk yesterday, I was talking to a friend and he pointed me to Trixbox. Trixbox is based on Asterisk but has a lot of cool things and installs in appliance mode. Basically, it looks like you install the product and it installs Linux, PHP, MySQL, etc. Can’t wait to try it.
Posted in General on May 19th, 2009 No Comments »
I have started reading about Asterisk the open source PBX. I am installing it at my house. Since I have Vonage I can use Asterisk to connect directly via a SIP trunk. This way I will not have to use the Vonage adapter. Katherine doesn’t see the purpose of this project. I think I just [...]
Posted in General on Apr 14th, 2009 No Comments »
On our recordings at church there has been a very audible hum. Last night I spent a couple of hours trying to get rid of the hum. I discovered that when I connected the board to the new recording PC, the noise went away. A balanced connection is most likely the solution. This has been [...]
Posted in General on Apr 14th, 2009 No Comments »
I am a little tired of having my servers break. Lately, I have been having to do maintenance on my servers almost every night. My backups haven’t been running for a couple of weeks now. I have been trying to move everything off the old web server so it can be my dedicated backup server. [...]
Posted in General on Apr 10th, 2009 No Comments »
My current web server needs to be rebuilt so I have been trying to move everything to another server. I first tried to move my PHP apps to a Windows Server 2008 box. I must say I am not impressed with the FastCGI module in IIS 7. If could have been due to the OS [...]
Posted in General on Mar 30th, 2009 No Comments »
I finally got around to connecting our church piano to the MIDI controller. I must say I am impressed with the setup. I spent a couple of hours downloading a bunch of instruments. Most of them are not worth using, but I found some good grand piano and Fender Rhodes samples. I still have a [...]
Posted in General on Mar 27th, 2009 No Comments »
When we moved into our new house in August of 2008, I was in a hurry to get my servers and network back up so I tried putting everything in one closet. This turned out to be a bad idea because I have been fighting heat problems ever since. Mike, a friend from work, offered [...]
Posted in General on Jan 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Some of you may have noticed (probably not many) that my blog and other websites have been down since after New Years. I had to upgrade my servers to Windows Essential Business Server 2008. Like any major upgrade, it was difficult. Since I have never used this product before, there was a learning curve thrown [...]
Posted in General on Mar 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Our church recently wanted to purchase Internet access for streaming video from the house of prayer in Kansas City, MO and they asked me to help. In my search for a good provider, I came across Xanadoo. They have just recently started offering service in the Springfield area. I was a little skeptical at first. [...]
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