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IT Joe

I’ve been waiting more than a year for this to fit into normal conversation and it finally did! Conversation after showing someone at work how to do something on our system. … Me: “Well, now you know.” Co-Worker: “And knowing … Continue reading

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Firewood cord calculator

The State of Maine website has a great little calculator for figuring out how much wood is in your woodpile.  Now, it’s not like the math is hard, but this is real handy.  It’s especially handy if you are trying … Continue reading

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Loving Lubuntu

A few weeks ago we decided it was time to replace our aging Athlon XP based desktop with something a little more agile and a lot more efficient.  We chose to build an AMD Zacate e-350 based system utilizing our … Continue reading

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Making things more secure

I’ve been making changes to secure my network at work recently.  The most recent change is that users logging into our ftp server now have a safe drop box to use that only we have read access to.  Once they … Continue reading

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Feeling Good

Today just feels like a good day…and I’m liking it.

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