Off to a big meeting about this years plan to take over the world…
Jan
27
So looking forward to lunch……
So looking forward to lunch… It’s like a macworld vibe…
Jan
22
The new Firefox 3.6 seems much…
The new Firefox 3.6 seems much snappier
Jan
04
First tweet in ages… 2010, i…
First tweet in ages… 2010, i’m only a decade late. Sorry Twitter, now that I’m using your your doomed.
Dec
29
Yast2 Terror
I have been living with PHP 5.0.4 on a SuSE 10.0 webservers I manage because of an installation of ISPConfig 2.2.1 with multiple sites that scares me to try an upgrade for fear of goobering any of the sites, or worse yet the main site manager. Well I have tried many CMS’s looking for one that doesn’t require an upgrade to PHP, and if you want any of the new Image rotaing goodness that is out there you have to have 5.1 or better. So back to the desperation, I found a reference to a guy that says he flawlessly upgrade his PHP by using the YAST2 (Yet Another Software Tool 2) and simply changing the install source to a 10.1 and selecting that module alone. Well after several failed manual upgrade attempts I finally followed suit, now all I can say is please work, or at least back out gracefully if bad things were going to occur due to some conflict. It’s 67% through what clearly is more than the single module I selected being installed, there were dependencies I allowed it to install to get it to say yeah it should work, so I hope it does…
UPDATE: It now says I have PHP 5.1.2 in the installed versions area of yast, yet my server seems to think I still have 5.0.4, something in the config files is still goobered, or I just need to restart the process to read the new config files… either way I’m going to bed while things are still working.
Nov
11
A reoccurring plague – Automatic updates grayed out in XP
Grayed out Automatic updates on a windows XP box answer
I manage an SBS 2003 server at my church, I currently do not host a WSUS service on it, this means all the machines on the network should get their updates from the Microsoft mothership.
Unfortunately the default group policy usually disables the users ability to edit or allow for the updates and I always have to turn to the web to relocate the correct registry entries to turn off that will allow the user to modify the settings for automatic updates to enable getting updates from Microsoft not the local server. I know, change the policy on the 2003 SBS, I have but the default user template I use has the wrong settings and I don’t add machines frequently enough to remember to change it.
So after another multisite, not quite my situation, the internet is impressive in it’s breadth of opinions even wrong ones search I finally found this page at the Technet site (I think, I closed the window prematurely after the screen shot, sorry if it was yours and not Bill’s answer) and decided to snag it for myself and possibly you if you are here after a search.
Click on the image to see it full size and be able to read it.
Nov
11
Hello NeoBudget
If your like me you struggle to make sure all your monthly bills are met in a manner that leaves you completely at ease and yet allows you to try and get rid of that debt you have in your life. I have been using a great application for the Mac called debtinator and it really was what got my monthly bills under control. But it had a single achilles heal, (It won’t import transactions from my bank) a flaw that I have high hopes the developer will eventually iron out. Until then I have moved on, going from app to web app to app until I had a friend introduce me to NeoBudget.
Neobudget is strongest where debtinator was weakest, it imports like a fiend and is easy to use allowing you to overdraw an envelope, but not the account while importing when needed. That doesn’t sound desirable but it is needed when you have an unexpected expense occur and want to classify it correctly. Once your done with the import any robbing from the peter envelope to pay the paul negative envelope can be performed. It takes a while to get all your expenses, debts and savings/goals figured out but once you do you can finally get to the paying down your debt. I have created an envelope for my credit cards that will all me to essentially once one is paid off continue to save the same amount from each check, using that amount to pay off the next one that much faster. Your probably familiar with the snowball method, it is basically just that. There is a worksheet on the website that you can use to estimate how soon your debt can be paid off if you basically do what I was referring to.
So how much does all this cost and is it secure? Well first it’s $2.50 a month or $25 a year, secondly you don’t enter any really sensitive info such as logins or account numbers into the site. You will enter or import transactional info and your pay info is there so it’s not wide open by any means, the whole site is accessed through an SSL secured website, so no snooping should occur. I have been using it for 2 weeks and so far so good. Debtinator really thought like I think, showing every transaction and bill when it would be paid, but those non planned items killed me entering them by hand daily. I hope debtinator adds the ability to import my transactions from the bank, but until it does I ‘ll be pretty happy with NeoBudget. Almost forgot there is a mobile version for the app that allows or checking and entry of transactions from your iphone or similar web enabled phone.
Oct
19
What's your view of the afterlife?
Have you ever wondered “how close is my view of Heaven and what’s going to happen when I die?”. I have thought about it all my life, the earliest view I can remember is literally the one of a place where we’re all sitting in church and singing hymns to God all the time. When I sought clarification, I think of my grandmother, she told me something I took to mean I would be made perfect so I would like just sitting and singing all eternity. That scared me almost as mush as the thought of just sitting around and singing all the time.
As an adult I have had more science and science fiction influence my views to the point of my thinking that when I die I won’t notice anything except that I am at the final judgment because I will have stepped outside of the constraint of time and be at the end. But what it’s like after I’m there is still way nebulous, is it a physical place where I have a new better physical body and I live eternally. I don’t know. I currently think that it must be something that someone 2000 years ago would have relayed to another person of that time as something so awesome that an abundance of all the greatest things to describe is used. Carry that to today’s time and I can think of a lot of really great stuff that might be used to describe what I would think of so it must be really great. More than I can imagine, most likely.
How long does it last. Eternity. That’s a really long time . Longer than I can actually imagine, I can try, but like infinity, we just aren’t equipped to really understand things that aren’t bound by time. I am embarking on a quest to better understand the end times with a couple of friends, I’ll try and post back what I find and hopefully it will be more than my current vague notions. Some of the content I’m starting with for my research…
An Evening of Eschatology – This is a discussion/debate by 3 proponants of differing views. Premillennialism, Amillennialism, Postmillennialism.
A Jewish view of the afterlife as presented by a gentile… ( I added the last portion.)
Christian Courier on “A study of Heaven”
UPDATE: More from Wayne Jackson “Will Heaven be on Earth”
I know internet based information is always suspect, and I agree, but I was looking for views that differed from my traditional one so it’s where I started. I have studied and read several times the book of Revelation and the other references to the afterlife in the Bible and will begin compiling them for a page on what I decide for myself here on my site.
If you have a source for me to review please leave it for me in the comments…
Oct
11
Dinner spots http://post.ly/82…
Dinner spots http://post.ly/82en
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