Weekly Twitter Roundup

This past weeks tweets filtered for mainly IT content for your viewing pleasure...

8/24/08

• 00:29 Checking into early termination fees of our 2 line Verizon contract and looking at ATT plans. The fruitPhone is bidding me come..I might
• 01:16 Booo..just learned the iPhone can't tether to your laptop for internet access..unless you hack it. What the? That's a HUGE negative 2 me.hmm
• 00:05 @churchmedic check these posts out..should be a couple good posts for getting your CITRT going..scroll away! bit.ly/4joGRO
• 00:06 @jeffhook Thou shalt not speak unfavorably towards the Great Fruit. Repent now!

8/25/08

• 00:46 @churchmedic yup, we're hoping to do something with subdomains of citrt.org ... I don't own it so trying to figure that piece out still
• 01:05 Friday is our first Elkhart campus onsite test run of our new checkin thins via Verizon broadband..assuming we can get them ready in time.
• 11:30 Dell came WAY down on MD3000i pricing after seeing my Promise VTM610i quote. w00t! Archival storage purchase decision coming shortly.
• 12:17 @davesacre We're using a ZyXEL broadband router and Proxim a/b/g PCI cards in the thins. We'll know soon if it works well :-)
• 13:30 Looking into travel options and hotel for the Fall Church IT Roundtable in Charleston. Wife says she IS coming with :-)
• 14:06 Major F1 checkin roadblock! Can't install .NET3 on our new HP XPe thins! Invalid 32bit app. Anyone got .Net3 running in XPe? Anyone???
• 14:37 @timlytle Yikes! They are talking about MS tools I've never heard of.
• 15:12 Color me IMPRESSED! Fellowship Tech has one of their IT dudes in our Church IT IRC chatroom to help with .net issue. Talk about service!
• 19:14 twitpic.com/91ir - Sonic is Ashlee approved! :)
• 23:41 More MD3000i research. Does it store the array configs on the drives or on the controllers..hoping the controllers

8/26/08

• 09:34 Just gave up my WSS site collection authority to @wantmoore..ahhh, passing the baton is good :-)
• 11:40 bit.ly/1nJGKn Using TreeSizePro to sift though user shares to figure out where all our storage space is being used/abused. Great tool
• 12:12 stopping backups of mp3,m4a,wma,wav,avi,mov,mpg,vob,mp4,wmv,aif files. These were taking up a ton of space we just don't have.
• 14:03 Retweet @wantmoore: twitpic.com/93ye -These HP t5730 thin clients are not so thin once you install the expansion module for PCI cards
• 14:14 Moving 22,000 jpgs out of 1 users 'my pictures' folder to a temp holding area.
• 16:35 Retweet @wantmoore: twitpic.com/94iq - F1 checkin working on XPe! Big thanks to @sidemory from FTech for hanging in IRC to help!
• 16:48 @curtissimmons just Windows for now ... though a linux version would be sweet ;-) Thanks for all the help.
• 17:12 Great way to end the work day. Checkin thins finally working! Next step - broadband router configs.
• 18:03 @kemmeyer yes, IT team rocked it today.
• 22:07 Rockband on XBOX live anyone? JudiciousJason is my tag

8/27/08

• 08:54 Off to Uptown Kitchen to meet with the Dell/EqualLogic storage guys. Hopefully I'll get some new NDA stuff :-)
• 10:50 twitpic.com/975o - A little new checkin hardware show N tell. Autocut printers rule!
• 23:35 Rockband anyone? JudiciousJason is me tag

8/28/08

• 09:15 @kjellnygren We use Service Desk Plus bit.ly/2Jd70H
• 09:52 Church Tech Biggest Loser 2 ends today. I didn't loose any, but a number of people did. Excited to see the final results at days end.
• 11:00 @dhannifin sweet! I think it's time for another Crowe IT tour for the GCC IT team
• 11:10 twitpic.com/9b36 - @kemmeyer is leading a meeting on data integrity and our continuing improvement of F1
• 11:42 twitpic.com/9b6h - @ebuford live and in HD .. Panasonic is demoing thier HD cams and goodies 2day
• 12:22 twitpic.com/9bb8 Overhead shot of the panasonic demo..courtesy the auditorium webcam that I forgot we had setup.
• 20:35 Just had family meet-n-eat at Uptown Kitchen with Alan Hunt (VR6systems.com) and family. Awesome food and fun conversation. I had waffles :)

8/29/08

• 00:22 Borrowed a Verizon PCMCIA card from IT Volunteer Tom Templin just now so we can test checkin at Elkhart campus tomorrow. Thanks Tom!
• 10:14 twitpic.com/9fhr - Truckload of AV and IT gear for Elkhart onsite testing this morning. Crossing fingers
• 11:59 Retweet @wantmoore: twitpic.com/9fu0 @JasonPowell competing in Syncronized Child Checkin
• 12:03 I'm so happy child checkin testing is working VERY well via our ZyXEL ZyWall Router and Verizon 595 AirCard. w00t!
• 14:20 @kemmeyer's new nickname is Starbuck..at least up here in the IT dept
• 15:01 My i760 phone batt just went flat..guess using it as wifi router for 3 laptops and 2 checkin PC's really takes it's toll. WMwifiRouter rocks
• 16:34 twitpic.com/9h8x - I am VERY impressed with this ZyXEL router. Lots of features,a/b/g radios,dual WAN including mobile
• 20:15 Church Tech Biggest Loser2 results! jpowell.blogs.com/ Congrats to all the big losers!
• 20:48 @BillGlick Here's the ZyXEL router I got bit.ly/2e5svb
• 21:13 What a busy day. Multisite testing, senior pastor minor IT emergency..now time for some Heroes with wifey to start the long weekend :-)

8/30/08

• 01:15 Had some good fun on Rockband with @cgreentx @mburleson @JBartowiak..they made me sing..not pretty, but it worked :-)
• 09:41 @deanlisenby Sadly console games are not cross platform online. So you can do rockband on Wii vs. Xbox users. Rats eh?
• 10:53 Kem Meyer is turning 40yrs! Go leave a comment on her blog kemmeyer.com - you can also watch my video message to her
• 11:37 After 9 month hiatus we're going to restart our IT Vol Team Night. Details are still being worked out, but Weds nights are looking probable.
• 13:32 twitpic.com/9lq8 I've discovered the date of the rapture! w00t!!
• 14:38 twitpic.com/9m5m - Wife brought me home a present :)
• 22:06 Noise from the fireplace. Investigation reveals a Raccoon! Hope it's not a she and that there are not babies. Googling Raccoons in chimney.
• 22:25 to clarify..raccoon is on the other side of the flue..flue opened 100% and we're can see it looking down into the fireplace.
• 23:21 Just filled up both cars with fuel..anticipating price going up due to hurricanes. We think raccoon has left chimney. Time to find a webcam

8/31/08

• 16:53 Fun afternoon at our home with @cyberentomology and the rest of the Ian Beyer clan, @wantmoore, @gotmoore, & @dhannifin