Although I still do quite a bit of computer and technology consulting I decided to shut down the Wireless ISP this past October.  I had a side business that turned into a full time business and I have recently moved it to a larger city.  The name of that business is SignEx.  I provide signs, screen printing, digital printing, embroidery, banners, and other graphic design items.  I specialize in offering full color banners and signs as well as traditional print work such as business cards and brochures.  Feel free to check out our site here and if you ever need anything don’t hesitate to contact me.

Well.. things are starting to fall into place.

I signed and faxed my contract back to AT&T yesterday for my T1 service so I should be getting it within 30-45 days.

I have all of my servers and network equipment in and properly configured (so far).

I chose to use 3 rack mount servers and two of them will provide Radius and MySQL services with redundancy (still have to figure out that redundant part) It seems MySQL only likes one way replication with the use of two servers. I need to do some reading about the clustering ability of version 5.

One of the servers will serve as the PPPoE concentrator which will bridge the clients onto the network and provide a way to throttle/shape bandwidth with the usage of Radius for authentication which will all be stored in a MySQL database.

Lastly I have an old tower server that I’ll be using for Web and Email services. I had originally planned on using my current webhost to do all of the web/email but since they could not upgrade me to VPS when I called I decided I might as well do it in house.

In the struggle of setting all of these FreeBSD boxes up I learned that I have been out of touch with *nix for are too long. However, with this new venture I can surely see that it will be easy to stay on top of things from now on.. heh.. or more like it will be required that i stay on top of things from now on.

Over the next few weeks I am finishing up my network overhaul at work and will be trying to build a website presence for my new company as well as create a few internal sites to aid in the management of the new venture..

Well it’s late again and it seems i haven’t been asleep before 2am in the past 7 days hopefully tomorrow will be easier now that I finally got my PPPoE server working earlier tonight.

Well.. lots of things have changed recently.. I have been working since May as a Technology Consultant for the school I used to work for..  This week I decided to stay on for the next year as the new Technology Coordinator.. When I was first offered the position I was against it but then a few other things fell into place and it is the best decision for me.  I doubt that I’ll ever go back to school full time, however I do plan on completing a degree at some point.

On to more important things..  after three years of my minitruck sitting at the shop out in the yard I am finally starting to work on it again.. I plan on starting in a few weeks..  So watch out for the pictures of the re-working of the suspension as well as the bodydrop, etc.

Next weekend I’m headed to Biloxi for Scrapin` the Coast so im looking forward to a good time on the beach and i’ll prolly have some pictures from there as well.

well I just got back from Nashville and I absolutely loved it.. I can’t wait to go again.. we hit up downtown most of the nights and that was pretty fun.. got to hear a few good live bands.. even caught a glimpse of Kid Rock one night at Tootsie’s.. We also decided to travel a little bit one day and went to Lynchburg and toured the Jack Daniel’s Distillery which was awesome.. I start school in about 2 weeks and I’m pretty ready for it.. but until then I’ll still be working like none other..

Welcome to my site, this will be the central location of my thoughts from now on.. well atleast until I change my mind again. I might update Xanga and MySpace occaisionally but don’t count on it. I will mostly use those sites for commenting. With that aside.. be looking for some real content sometime soon.