Since the I started documenting some of my projects on my website, I think it important to give an overview of everything done so far, and try to describe how my thoughts and priorities are changing based on the results of my experience so far.
Website
Traffic to the website is light, but gaining ground steadily. I am hopeful that as I continue to write more, traffic will increase as people of like interests discover the website. In what free time I have, I am studying WordPress as much as possible. There are a lot of great articles written on the subject, but my greatest like and dislike of the software is the “WordPressyness” of it. More on that later…
ChuckBox (Camp Kitchen)
Although I haven’t posted photos yet, this is done. It meats my goals in the short term and I look forward to taking it on a camping trip in the near future.
Phone Server
This is mostly done, but not yet complete. This is sad for me as the Nevada Presidential caucuses are just around the corner and will not be deployed in time for all the robo calls telling me for whom to vote or caucus. The only remaining task is to record the voicemail setup.
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camping, ham radio, irlp
As a network administrator I have the opportunities to work with a lot of networking equipment. Long ago I lost track of all the firewalls and routers that I configured. The list would read as a laundry list of equipment and include Cisco, Sonicwall, custom-built Linux servers and IPCop. The cost of this hardware can be intimidating, especially for the home user.
For my home network, for years I would buy a reasonably priced wireless routers which could be purchased and Fry’s, Best Buy or any of the retail stores in the area. I don’t recall ever purchasing a router online as typically you need it to replace the previous router which just failed.
I would buy ”all in one” wireless routers which would be highly recommend by friends or coworkers. Once installed, they would work great for about 6 months and then fail. I would RMA the routers, and when the replacement arrived I would give it away, simply because I can’t do my job without my internet connection. The last router I purchased was a dual channel wireless N router, and sure enough, after about 6 months, it again failed. I noticed on this failure, that they way it failed was the key to my problem.
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IPCop, Router
For a variety of reasons, I am in the process of updating my website. Originally, it started as a site dedicated to my photography. As I continue to grow and develop, I realized that I need to reorganize my site to better reflect my interests. I will no longer use the site as a promotion for my photography. Rather, I am going to move the photography site to a new URL, and utilize this site to post articles on a variety of subjects, including but not limited to camping, hiking, photography, radio, ‘wheelin’ and computers to name a few.
As such, I am starting a blog, which will allow me to more easily post updates on a variety of subjects, and not be limited to just photography. I have decided to use wordpress to power this new site, and have rededicated myself to updating the site often.
My first order of business is to get wordpress up and running with all the various plugins, which make life easier. Once done with that, I am going to overhaul a custom theme to make the site look great, and continue to move forward.
Please be sure to come back and visit to learn more as more features come online.
-Jim
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