WordPress is an excellent open source web publishing platform.¬¨‚Ć One question I have been asked is why not simply sign up for a free wordpress website at wordpress.com rather then use a self hosted one.¬¨‚Ć The main reasons: cost and features. ¬¨‚Ć WordPress.com will provide a free website (like other web publishing services) but restricts […]
At Millikin Elementary there is a small stack of servers (4 Xserves and 1 Xserve Raid) that handle all Mac based student logins and home directories for school district. ¬¨‚ĆTheses servers replicate an Open Directory that has accounts for all students K-12 and connects them to a XServe Raid for mobile home syncing. ¬¨‚ĆOver the […]
Yesterday Apple released an Thunderbolt Update 1.2 which adds gigabit ethernet functionality to the Thunderbolt port. ¬¨‚ĆUnfortunately this update does not work on many MacBook Pro and iMac machines causing a kernel panic and preventing the machine from booting. ¬¨‚Ć Issue affects newer 2011 iMac and Macbook Pro models that have the thunderbolt / display […]
We have 3 proxy servers that run in District 228, they are all configured using Squid and are running on CentOS 6.2.¬¨‚Ć Last year I switched versions from a 2.6 stable release to a stable release of 3.1.¬¨‚Ć This move worked well although the performance of 2.6 and 2.7 was better then any release of […]