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I've started a page where I'm going to track my progress as I work out. Hopefully this will prevent me from backing down.

You can view my progress here

So here I am, sitting on my Windows machine at home, and I need to get something from a server at work. This server does not have a public-facing IP address, so I needed to tunnel into the network somehow to access the Samba shares.

My first thought was to use the SonicWall Global VPN client to connect through our SonicWall firewalls. But alas, the Global VPN client does not work in Vista - at least it didn't for me. So the next place I turned to was OpenVPN

At our school district, we try to be power smart. Part of this is turning off workstations at night, so they're not drawing power. I've been evolving various ways of doing this automatically.

We have several generic accounts for visitors and such. These accounts use fixed passwords, but some little joker keeps changing them. Unfortunately, preventing a user from changing their password is not so straightfoward in a Samba/LDAP network.

Finding a good way to deploy a Windows XP image to a bunch of workstations from your Samba file server in a timely fashion can be tricky. This is what I did to make the process a little smoother.

When I started working at the school district, in the summer of '04, backups were done using a Windows workstation running a program called PowerSync. Once a copy of the file server's data was replicated to the workstation, it was broken into manageable chunks, zipped up, and sent via FTP to the board office. There it was burned onto DVD-R and archived.

I have an on-again, off-again relationship with my local gym. I'll go for a few weeks, then something will come up that'll break my routine, and I'll take a break. A break which will stretch into months or more.

Due to my recent change in relationship status, I find myself both with the time, and the motivation, to get back into shape. So the next step is to determine how best to use the equipment to give me the results I want.

I have photos of last night's lunar eclipse, taken at various exposure settings. All in all, the pictures didn't turn out too bad for a PowerShot S3

You can see the pictures here

Ever since installing our Samba servers at work, I've noticed that printing performance varied widely from site to site, and from printer to printer. Some printers would print immediately after hitting the Print button, and others would sit for ages while the job spooled. It turns out that this is due to a misconfiguration between your printer drivers.

Introduction

Replacing a failed disk on hardware RAID is easy - you pull the disk with the blinking light, stuff in a new one, and the array rebuilds automatically. Software RAID is a little different.