Computers

Status Update!

Hello all, I know it’s been a while! I’m up on my feet here in Atlanta, and life is good! So much has been going on lately I almost don’t know where to start. Here’s a few big highlights:

Hosting news

Server was successfully migrated from Valdosta to Atlanta
After a Hard Drive failure the server was successfully [...]

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Batch Script for IE & Firefox proxies

So, in the many endeavors I pursue at work for needless reasons, here’s something I hope someone else benefits from. We tend to lock down access on machines that are in public places, or have more than a few users. As we’re not quite fully migrated over to Microsoft Active Directory, and can’t manage Group [...]

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MAC: Display Sleep Issues

Because I normally leave my machines running 24/7, i try to set the displays to sleep after 3 minutes (to save some power, prevent burn in, etc.). In my current home office setup I have 2 iMacs side by side. Lately I’ve noticed one of them has the display go to sleep, and stay asleep, [...]

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DHCP Lease…..Whooops!

So, if you’re like me and you love to mess around with all kinds of computer related things, you may have run into this scenario before:
You find some cool piece of software, and you spend a week or so fiddling around with it, but then you decide you like it, and later decide to use [...]

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Server Migration

This Friday, July 24 2009, at approximately 5:00pm will take the server that hosts this site, and all other sites (*.thephenixblue.com, *.phenixblue.com, *.jmsearcy.com, *.vsumug.com, *.vsumug.org, *.vsusinfonia.org, *.firehouseink.com, *.ceramicsdiva.com, *.thewebroot.com) will go offline. During the offline period all sites will be migrated to new server hardware, as well as additional upgrades to Apache, PHP, and MySQL. [...]

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