CITRT Fall 2008 look out! I am registered – finally.  I got final agreement from the co-CFO (Mrs. Bitbud) and filled out my registration.  The $50 fee is nothing compared to flights from Tampa and hotels… oh well. It was just a few months ago I stumbled upon Justin Moore’s website in a Google search ...Read More

I have been knee deep in encryption process documentation and implementation the last few months and have come to the (obvious) conclusion that in today’s technology age, encryption is a key IT responsibility, second only to backups.  And just as backups are something we take for granted (honestly – how often do you backup your ...Read More

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, unless you enjoy the spurious network outages or performance issues caused by a poor network card, by an INTEL NIC EVERY TIME. Even if your motherboard comes with another vendor’s NIC, get an Intel. Absolutely, if you are doing virtualization (any type of virtualization) use an ...Read More

It has been many, many months (years?) of hard work, but we have finally cut-over to our new Joomla based website, and I have to admit it looks good! (check it out at yesheritage.com)  All the credit for the good looks goes to Trent, who is the new “graphics master”.  My job has been pretty ...Read More

When you setup a network interface(s) for a Virtual Machine (VM) you must assign a MAC address to that interface.  Much like an IP address, you must insure that the MAC address you assign does not conflict with any MAC address on your network.  For a home network, it is simple enough to check the ...Read More

I read a blog today (Jason Lee – Exchange Storage Limits) and the question posed was what you think were good guidelines on storage limits for mailboxes when using Microsoft Exchange. Nothing is so simple in my mind… I think a new philosophy is needed regarding e-mail. The tools/ technology (Exchange in this case) should ...Read More

Get the new virtualization goodness at: http://kvm.qumranet.com   Details:

We use HP Proliant server which have iLO (Integrated Lights Out) which allow for remote management of the server, including power on/off and virtual media – as though you were in front of the system.  Anyway, the remote console require either IE for Active X (no thanks) or Java. The catch is that currently (July ...Read More

Using RAW virtual disks in KVM is my preferred method.  Granted QCOW2 has some more/ different features, but there is still currently an issue where you sometimes get corrupted data, at least when running a Windows Guest (attach link here).  

Interested in the technologies we use at church? Server OS: Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04 ServersVirtualization: KVM and KQEMU (bye-bye VMWare and Xen)Firewall: PFSenseWebsite: Drupal (Joomla coming soon)E-mail: ZimbraSwitches: cheap stuffWireless: cheap stuffInternet Bandwidth – 20mbps up/ 20 mbps down (yes – it is nice)NAS – FreeNAS and Ubuntu as NFS ServerEbox – Windows domain/ file ...Read More