The Attack of the Clones

I’ve been having a lot of “fun” in the past few weeks with cloning a hard drive on a server. Let me tell you up front that I am a major penny pincher. You might remember my series on simple ways for the church to save money on operational expenditures. Some say that I’m cheap, but...

Installing WordPress Easier

I was watching a guy install WordPress a few days ago, and I couldn’t believe what I saw. He downloaded the zip file from WordPress.org, unzipped it, and uploaded all the files to his Web server by FTP. Sure, it works, but why do it that way when you can go SO much quicker? Let’s talk about...

Protecting young (and not so young) eyes

Yesterday I wrote about securing your network. While I know that it is by no means a complete discussion on firewalls, let’s move on to talk in a little more detail about content filtering. Our church has the highest grade of “business class” cable Internet available. It meets and even...

Protecting your network from outside invaders

For my inaugural post on my fancy new church IT blog, I want to talk about the necessity of protecting your church members’ information, your church-owned computers, and each network user. I was reading Nick Nicholaou’s post about Biometrics, and I was inspired to post on network security. He...