Welcome
Many people may be put off by the term PEBCAC - Problem Exists Between Computer And Chair. Well...it's usually the truth. Even among IT professionals, most of the problems are human error. The best way to remedy that is through education. The focus of this site is just that. The main area I want to focus on is security. I will focus on home and small office use, but many things will apply to enterprise level as well.
I've recently updated a lot of links and made sure almost all of my pages are W3C compliant. I am hoping people will find this a little cleaner and easier to navigate...not that anyone is really reading this :-) I might be changing the layout slightly in the near future. I just have several other things to setup that have a higher priority.
Free Software Alternatives for Windows
Probably the biggest complaint about a PC is that, out of the box, the applications are weak or non-existent. I recently had to redo my machine so I delved into finding as much free software as I could. $300 for Office, $30 for AV, $30 for anti-spyware, $60 for CD/DVD burning, etc. Not to mention the annual subscriptions for updates. I just want to pay for hardware and games (I'm looking into free games). How-to
Consulting
A new area I am venturing into is consulting. It's something I've been wanting to try for awhile. Now seems like a good time to try my hand in it. For more info click here: Consulting
Webmail
Yet another thing I added. MAIL! I am mainly setting this up to learn about email administration. This is about the only way to get experience without it being a part of your job. The next position I take (unless I go into consulting 100%) will be either a System or Network Administrator.
If you have an account, click the following link for access: Webmail
You may need to accept a lot of certificate stuff to get in.
Pebcac Forums
This was the latest addition to my site. I actually got it running in the summer of '05 on a virtual machine and later migrated it to my server after I finished moving (I have already had the privilege of migrating it to another server after the first one died). It was an interesting experience and I have a document on how I set it up: phpBB forum on Windows 2000 Server
I can't take all the credit for that as it shows. I used a document created by a couple of other guys and made a fair amount of changes and updates. It was quite a chore because it appears that most people setup phpBB on Apache. I hate to say it but Apache is a software that I am not familiar with, yet. Eventually I will get around to working with it.
Projects
- F/OSS Gamer Web Site - Site covering free/open source games & some other software
- Disk Maintenance Automation (Windows XP Pro, all Windows 2000, all Windows 2003, untested on other versions)
- Requests? Go to my feedback page.
