The dry-run live streaming event that happened on the 10th went well. With very little in the way of advance publicity, we peaked at about 40 clients and I’m not sure we ever handed any clients off to any of the other servers. Next up is something on May 13th, hopefully.
It’s not my job anymore, but I can’t pass up the opportunity to comment on KC’s post about Exchange 2000 and Windows Server 2003.
I’ll count myself as one of those customers, though I never got a chance to comment directly to KC or anyone else at Microsoft. But, it’s good to know that MS isn’t always just a looking for another way to make a quick buck or using forced obsolescence. Also, I can only imagine what happens when someone two or three levels above you tells someone else two or three levels above them that you said it can’t be done.
I was going through some old mail archives and I found this:
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 01:02:01 -0500
Subject: Auto Reset of ipfwadm stats
Tue Apr 29 01:02:01 CDT 1997
Stats for yesterday:
IP accounting rules
pkts bytes dir prot source destination ports
144 28693 i/o all ppp01.hoopeston.k12.il.us anywhere n/a
7336 2332K i/o all ppp02.hoopeston.k12.il.us anywhere n/a
0 0 i/o all ppp03.hoopeston.k12.il.us anywhere n/a
0 0 i/o all ppp04.hoopeston.k12.il.us anywhere n/a
That’s just the earliest mail I can find, it was running before April. Hard to believe we’ve had dialup running in Hoopeston for more than 10 years.
Robin is walking much more freely than he’s done before. There are several videos posted over on the albums. If you are on dialup, be content to look at the pictures, the videos are not small.
Mentioned more than 2 years ago, we’ve finally started to use it. Jim and I are migrating as many of our physical machines to VMware Server virtual machines hosted on very nice Dell PowerEdge servers running CentOS 4.4 as we can.
I kind of thought I was getting away from this kind of stuff when I left Housing, but obviously not.
One of the “services” I’m responsible for has been floating adrift for a couple of years without any real users. When it was handed to me, it came with a directive to support the campus Multimedia Users Group, and we are starting to ramp up. There will be a dry-run, proof-of-concept event streamed live April 10th at 4:00 pm. You’ll need Real Player or Real Alternative (preferred) to watch it. Hopefully I’ll have a URL posted here later today…