Today my parents took ownership of a child care center in Pensacola, FL. If you are looking for quality care in the Pensacola area, this is the place to go. We don’t have much of a website yet - www.thekidzacademy.com.
What do you think of the logo?
A few months ago I set about to setup printer and file sharing for my house. I reclaimed and old server and installed Linux/Samba. After wrestling with it for a weekend or two, I had printer sharing up and running, but was still trying to figure out how to make file sharing work the way I wanted to.
I haven’t really messed with it for a few months, so fast forward to this weekend. My dad called and needed a couple computers for a new business he is starting, so I figured I could give him the computer acting as a my server and my 4 year old Dell that hasn’t been getting much use since my wife and I both have Macbooks now. But do so this, I needed to replace the server with something that would do file and print sharing for me.
I searched around the Internet a bit and there are devices that seem to do really good file sharing, and devices geared toward printing. Very few that contain both features, and those that did were not getting good reviews. That led to be looking at Apple’s Time Capsule. Chris, one of the guys who works with me and self proclaimed Mac elitist, already had one. I consulted him, he didn’t have much bad to say about it. So I went to Best Buy (Which I hate myself for…but it is closer than the Apple store) and slapped down $300 for the 500G version of Time Capsule.
So I set about configuring the Time Capsule, which took maybe 30 minutes tops. I had it act as a wireless client on my network, not as my router. I have a router that is working just great. I plugged in my Lexmark laser printer via USB, went to the Printer’s and Fax control panel in OSX and added the printer. It figured out the correct driver and everything with no help. So it was setup and printing within 30 minutes. File sharing was equally as easy. I went to “Network” in finder and Time Capsule popped up, clicked on it, and was able to start copying files over to it. Everything was working from the Mac side.
Then I decided that if Time Capsule was wireless there was absolutely no reason for my printers to be upstairs in the office, considering most of the time Steph and I use the computers downstairs. So I moved the time capsule and my two printers downstairs.
The last thing I had to do was copy the data from my old XP machine out to the Time Capsule. For this I had to install Bonjour on the PC from a CD that came with the Time Capsule. This took about 3 minutes! Then I went into the Bounjour printer utility in about another minute I had the printer setup and working. The only thing left was to be able to file share from the PC. I went to the “Network Places” on XP hoping the Time Capsule would just show up….no dice. So I consulted the Internet, which seemed to say I needed to reboot my PC. I did that, and upon reboot it popped up and said it had found the Time Capsule and asked for the file sharing password. Then it automatically mapped a drive for me. Couldn’t have been easier!
I am very impressed with the Time Capsule. The only thing that I wish time capsule had was some form of redundant disk configuration. I don’t like the thought off all my data being on one disk. It would be cool if Apple made it possible to buy a second Time Capsule and set it up to mirror data. I know you can do this with a USB device, but something automatic would make this perfect.
Once I get the data copied off the old XP machine, I can make the final step to being a 100% Mac household. But even if you are a PC household Time Capsule works great! If you need file and print sharing, check out Time Capsule.
So my wife commented last night that my blog hadn’t been updated in a while. Which was true. So here is an update on why I have been so silent recently.
1. I have been stripping down my 1965 Mustang in my spare time as I am getting ready to put it in the shop to start the frame up re-build. I’m about 75% done…cars sure have a lot of parts!
2. Been burning the midnight oil. I can’t talk about it publicly yet. But I just haven’t felt like blogging after getting done with all that.
3. Gotten in some good road and mountain bike rides. The most I have done was 30 miles, but that was on the flat pavement of the Silver Comet Trail. I did 20 miles on the roads around my house, which are definitely not flat. I’m trying to work up to the 27 mile Beautiful Back Roads ride on Sept 20.
4. Relaxed on Labor Day weekend, I don’t think I really touched a computer for a few days, which was nice. We had some family in town and Steph, Stacy (Steph’s Sister), and Shane (my brother) ran the US 10K Classic on labor day.
That’s it until I have something more profound to say.
While reading the history of ICanHasCheezburger.com i found out that they run a site call engrishfunny.com. You know, all those funny foreign mis-used words. They have an RSS feed, which is great. I had tried to get one from engrish.com a few weeks back. I did eventually find one that some guy had built by doing screen scraping. But it is nice when a site actually plans for the RSS feed, or RSS Food as is the case with engrishfunny.com!
Check out the screen shots associated with this article: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2327429,00.asp
“New gOS”, so I guess if you rip off Mac OSX you can call it “New” now. Come on Google, I thought you were supposed to be an industry leader….give me something “New”.
At your typical .com office, you have a bunch of people who sit around and work on computers all day. Over the years this leads to many people carrying some extra baggage. InternetSafety.com is no exception.
So back in May the idea was hatched to run a “Biggest Loser” style competition at our office. We split up into teams of 3 (with an optional 4th person as a coach) and participation was 100% voluntary. Each person would set a goal weight, which would be combined into a team goal.
The winning team would be the one that came the closest to their goal or exceeded. The company put up $250 per person for the winning team, and $100 per person for the second place team. We ended up with 5 teams:
Fatty McButterPants.
Gut Busters.
Butter Halves (was supposed to be Better Halves, but there was a typo, this team is wives of some of the employees)
I Can See My Feet!
Interdimensionally Transcendental (supposedly means bigger on the inside than the out).
The competition ends on Tuesday. While the first and second place teams will take away cold hard cash, overall it has been a great success, with hundreds of pounds of weight lost across our office. Everyone who has lost weight, and gotten a little healthier is a winner. Or executive leadership is really excited about it. Everyone is so slim we can give them smaller cubes now!
I personally have lost about 25 pounds. I didn’t really consider myself “overweight” before the competition, but am very happy with the results.
This week was the 4th week I have spent in San Francisco so far this year. The amazing thing to me, is that there is still new stuff to find. Some cool stuff I found this time:
Taylor Street Coffee - A little hole in the wall breakfast place, really great food, and a unique charm to the place.
Taqueria La Cumbre - The birthplace of the “Mission” style burrito. Ate here on Wednesday since I wasn’t in town to BBG as usual.
ATT Park - Got to watch the Braves whoop up on the Giants.
Japan Town - Cool Japanese Shopping Mall, and a cool furniture store where I could have dropped a ton of money.
Ok, so I have a question to pose to my readers about blog spam. There is this guy named Luke Gilkerson, who is on the payroll at Covenant Eyes (a competitor to InternetSafety.com) who is paid to go around blogging about their products. As you know I started a new Internet Filtering Blog.
About a week ago Luke posts a comment on this post: Number of URL’s In An Internet Filter Database: Does It Matter?
Filtering is a great tool, but it’s not the only kind of software out there. Have you ever heard of accountability software? Accountability software is specifically for adults who want to guard where they go online without any blocking or filtering. Combined with filtering, it’s a great Internet safety solution for the whole family. If you want more info about it check out my post “Is Filtering All There Is?” - http://www.covenanteyes.com/blog/2008/06/12/is-filtering-all-the re-is-introducing-accountability-software/ Also, check out - http://www.blog.cantufind.com/2008/06/24/covenant-eyes/
The a week later he comes back and posts another comment on this post: New Consumer Internet Filter - Livia Web Protection
Filtering is a great tool, but it’s not the only kind of software out there. Have you ever heard of accountability software? Accountability software is specifically for adults who want to guard where they go online without any blocking or filtering. Combined with filtering, it’s a great Internet safety solution for the whole family. If you want more info about it check out my post “Is Filtering All There Is?” - http://www.covenanteyes.com/blog/2008/06/12/is-filtering-all-the re-is-introducing-accountability-software/ Also, check out - http://www.blog.cantufind.com/2008/06/24/covenant-eyes/
Same exact comment on two posts within a week. I had seen this same post on another blog, so I dug around online, and found the same post on these other sites. Sometimes he will add a sentence to the beginning of it.
Blog Mommas
Parental Tech
The Other Criminal
José María Gómez Hidalgo’s Blog
Yahoo! Anecdotal
Gowanus Lounge
Laura Earnest’s Blog
Christina Quick’s Blog
Keeping Kids Safe Today
Real Life Solutions
Topix
Ed Tech
Bill Mullins’ Blog
Your Fun Family
Ronald Daniar’s Blog
So my question for you all, is do you think this is blog spam? Please leave a comment and let me know what you think.
It blows.
I started a new blog at www.insideinternetfilteirng.com, it will be industry related stuff. If you use google reader, here is the feed url: http://www.insideinternetfiltering.com/feed/
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