Scott Alan Miller :: A Life Online
Overview I am the technology coordinator for a small, private K12 school in rural Upstate New York. One of our challenges is filtering Internet access so that the students may have access to the Internet as much as possible while not requiring constant, direct supervision. To meet these needs we decided that we were limited …
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Having been a Zimbra Administrator for some time and having always worked on the Zimbra Open Source platform I have found that documentation on the update process has been very much lacking. The process is actually quite simple and straightforward under most circumstances but for someone without direct experience with the process it can be …
Despite an inflamatory post title, I believe that SAN (Storage Area Networks) is a great technology with numerous scenarious where it is the exact right technology and several scenarios that only exist because of SAN’s availability. However, that being said, many enterprises today use SAN without doing any proper strategy, architecture or engineering. It is …
Two recent interviews with Prof. Robert Dewar of NYU, Who Killed the Software Engineer and The ‘Anti-Java’ Professor, have recently been popular on the web and I wanted to add my own commentary to the situation. These interviews arise from Dewar’s article in the Software Technology Support Center: Computer Science Education: Where are the Software …
If you are using Microsoft’s VirtualPC 2007 as a host for installing Red Hat’s Fedora 9 Linux (aka Sulphur) distribution you may have run into a few problems. The first problem that plagues just about anyone attempting to install the latest versions of Linux (not just Fedora) is that of auto-detected virtualization. To overcome this …