Interesting Discussion

I ran across this blog from a gentleman in the Dallas area.

There is quite a discussion that follow this particular post.

And now for the link: Headcheese Lane-Splitting discussion

Phew, glad thats over

We managed to make it through Registration. Now I have the fun task of catching up with everything that broke during registration and couldn't get it fixed.

Have I ever mentioned how annoying viruses are? They keep messing with our network.

Registration is not fun

This weekend is Registration. We started on Friday with all of the
new freshman and student workers. That was a nightmare to be sure.
Sunday everyone else registered, and it wasn't quite as bad but the
Student finance backed up quite a bit.

Monday is Sunday version 2. Not too bad but Stu Fin is backed out the
doors

At least Registration only happens twice in a school year.

Phone System

Well, it nearly registration time here and the 3Com NBX Phone system
took a day off today. About 2pm the phone system bit the dust and I
am still here trying to give it geeky CPR. So far its not working.

We have a replacement unit on the way, but it won't be here 'till
tomorrow morning at the earliest. So if we get on the ball well
enough and with a little luck thrown in, we might have the phone
system back up and running again by tomorrow afternoon. Thus a total
of something like 24+ hours with out phone service right before
registration. Arg.

Last year this time we were running around like chickens with our
heads chopped off trying to get this system in place since lightning
took out our old system just a few days before registration. I am
really hoping that this does not become a yearly chore.

LAN party was good

Saturday night we had our LAN party. Had a good time at Jonathan's
house (thanks Jonathan) We had quite a few people there this time and
even had an extra computer.

Pamela, Jennifer, Linda, Lori and another girl who's name I can't
remember, but should, came. I don't think that Pam enjoyed her self
much, but the others seemed to.

Darn AD part 2

I have managed to get the Xserve joined to the AD correctly, but it
still isn't working like we want it too. All of the user accounts
show up and can log into the machine, but their mail is disabled and
changing it does not stick. Apple Tech Support is going to require
that we pay for the expensive Cross-Platform support to work out the
bugs.

I think that we are going to scrap this idea and just go with a LDAP
bind on a Debian box, not as slick or as pretty as the XServe but
will do the job with (hopefully) less headache.

Update on Larry

I got an email from Larry the other day. It didn't really say anything.

Mom got a letter from Larry in the mail on Monday. It actually said
something.

Larry is out at the school where he is supposed to be, the A/C has
been fixed, and his fellow SM just arrived.

Larry is teaching 5th - 8th grades in all subjects. From what I
understand he is just getting over an ear infection.

I have set up a blog for Larry to post too, The link is on the Right
side of your screen, over there -->

Darn Active Directory

With Registration fast approaching, I have been attempting to get one
of our XServes running for the email solution. So far I have
succeeded in getting the server running but not making it work in the
fashion that we want.

[warning the following is bordering on geekyness]
I am attempting to make an email server out of a Mac XServe for all
of the user accounts on the Windows Active Directory, and so far its
not working really well.
[/geekyness]

I am going to attempt to reinstall it today and see what that does,
but if that doesn't work I am going to run in circles screaming and
pulling out my hair.

What happened today in history

I am sitting bored here at work so I looked up what all happened today.

• Napoleon Bonapart was born today in 1769
  
• India became independent in 1947
  
• Congo became independent in 1960
  
• South Korea was established in 1948
  
• The Panama Canal opened in 1914
  and the most interesting piece of history (in my opinion)
  
• World War Two ended 60 years ago today
  
  

Before you start thinking that I am some sort of history buff, why
don't you go download this widget from Apple

This Day In History
(Mac OS X 10.4 required)

Got His Guitar!!

Good news, Larry did get his guitar. The airline managed to not get
his guitar on the flight from Hawaii to Majuro and we were a little
worried that he may not get it at all. The guitar came in yesterday
and now he is on his way up to Laura where he will be staying.

Keep him in your prayers.

Update on the bro

We received an email from Larry yesterday. From the sounds of it he
is doing well. Larry will be teaching at the school at Laura on the
northern part of Majuro.

He will be able to have email access at the school so we should be
able to keep up-to-date with him.

I will attempt to keep you all updated on larry.

Trip to Austin

I spent the weekend (well Friday evening and Saturday) on the North
side of Austin, TX. I had a really good time.

I rode the motorcycle down the back route and had an absolute blast!!
It took me 4hrs and the speed limit plus a little ;) and still
managed to get 45mpg on the bike. These things are great.

Saturday morning I went to the Georgetown SDA church and had a great
time with those wonderful people.

Saturday afternoon Rachel and I rode the motorcycle out to Marble
Falls. (FM 1431 is a great road for motorcycle in case you were
wondering.)

Rachel had never been on a motorcycle before but said that she
enjoyed it. We made it back in one piece much to the relief of her
mom. It rained on us a little but I am not sugar and therefore don't
melt. Apparently Rachel didn't get very wet as she didn't melt
either. :)

All in all I/we had a good weekend!

LAN Party!!

Today we had a LAN party. It was great, my team never lost a team
match!!

Have a Mac? Want to play with us? let me know via email.

And He's Gone

Friday morning my family got up and took my brother to the Airport.
He left on the first leg of his trip to Majuro, Marshall Islands
where he will be spending the next 10 months as a Student Missionary.

We are still not sure which school he will be at (there are two on
the island) but I will post info once we find out.

Please keep him in your prayers