Today marks the day I got to declare my daughter, Erin J. Hurst, emancipated. Such a formal, due process that must be followed in RI Family Court. She is beyond 18-years of age, out of high school, and not disabled. While I can appreciate those guidelines, shouldn’t this process be managed by exception, rather than [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Emancipation
Aug 22
IBM BladeCenter POC
Aug 13
Today, I am scheduled to present our outcomes and recommendations to our Change Control Board for replacing HP/UX PA-RISC servers with IBM BladeCenter running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It was 6-weeks ago when the chassis arrived and we had our real, first-hand look at this well-engineered chassis. In my position, I am most concerned with [...]
I spent about 20-hours these past 2-weeks consolidating services here at RAH-CoCo’s from two old servers (dual PIII and P4 XEON) to a single server using an AMD Opteron. Those services include: DNS serving for two primary domains: hurst-ri.us and rah-cocos.com Email using sendmail for those domains, with MailScanner, ClamAV, and SpamAssassin Web sites using [...]
