Last summer I signed up for a developer account with 3Tera in their AppLogic Cloud environment to begin testing it as a a place to move our current managed hosting environment. During that same time, we met with Oracle to discuss licensing Oracle in the 3Tera AppLogic cloud. The guys we spoke with could only [...]

This past weekend I went to the Urban Nights function in Downtown Dayton, Ohio. Local artists, musicians, restaurants and other vendors provide food, fun and entertainment throughout Downtown Dayton to celebrate all that Dayton has to offer. It is a very nice event which includes a lot of walking around with a map to get [...]

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The last time I posted about my home setup, I spoke about Virtual Iron. I went out and purchased a 4GB USB thumb drive and downloaded the Virtual Iron Standalone Edition and set up the USB drive to install.  And then it occured to me….Virtual Iron is great, but the server I was planning on [...]

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Does a linux systems engineer have a life? I’m up at 3am working. I was up from midnight to 1:30am working as well. I will get up at 6am to go to work for 10-12 hours. The rest of the time I’m monitoring system messages to make sure everything is working properly and responding to [...]

So the first thing you’ll notice about my Apple iPhone journey is that having the iPhone hasn’t made me a consistent blogger. This really isn’t the fault of the iPhone, however. Since I have an entire month to cover, the coverage will undoubtedly be wide rather than deep. But I will do my best not [...]

So I’m a little bit late getting to my Day Three update, but I don’t want anyone to miss out on the adventure so here it goes… When I last put my phone to bed on Saturday night, I left a couple of tasks in the queue for Sunday. They were: * Download useful applications [...]