Well the day is finally here and it comes at the perfect time. School starts Monday and I finished up today. All the classroom computers work, the network is 100% functional, and I have documentation of everything. Today has left me with the biggest feeling of success since I started the job. This means that I will go to work at 7:30 and be able to leave at 3:30 every day.. that is just wonderful. I thought many times that I wouldn’t be able to make the deadline with everything that kept getting added to my agenda.. but in the end everything worked out great!

Also, my T1 will be delivered very soon, and I go to finalize all my insurance needs on Monday so I am ready to start installing customers whenever the get the backbone put into place..

As far as notes about the servers I will be working on that.. I am going to try and setup a wiki for some public info or just so I can put tech stuff up that I don’t want to forget or search for/learn twice.. I got that idea from a great book. I recommend it for anyone that manages IT for a living.. “Time Management for System Administrators” by Thomas A. Limoncelli the tagline at the top of the cover is “Stop Working Late and Start Working Smart” and it’s perfect!

I am finally able to see an end to the madness I have been working on this summer.  It’s a good feeling, however it does little to help with the tiredness i have became accustomed to over the past two months.. This week I am going to try and post some install/config tips and things that I have figured out while setting up FreeBSD 6.2 for my server environment..  Also, I should be posting some tips on PPPoE and Radius authentication that might help some people out as well..

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 round one has started.. I ordered my equipment and started politicking around town and handing out my proposal (to the council members) for renting space on the city water tower today. I will go to the meeting next Monday at 7 to present the proposal and take questions.. I also went to the county water office today to find out who I’d need to talk with to get access to the area water towers.. So far things are looking great and the town is abuzz.. The good thing is while living here and working at the school and doing computer consulting for a few local businesses as well as the city and a few people who are involved I have been able to make relationships that are tending to be very good.. so stay tuned for further developments..

On Monday I plan on ordering my equipment to test out my area.  My plan is to establish a 5GHz backhaul link from my house to the water tower in town to feed off the T1 that I will have at my house or Basestation.  The link will be 3.787 miles which should so VERY good bandwidth rates.  Once the PtP link is setup I will be using 2.4GHz equipment for the PtMP links.  I’ll update on how it all works in a couple weeks hopefully.  Wish me luck!

Well so much for going to the beach this weekend.. I have been working like crazy since wednesday trying to get caught up on my job.  Things are going smoothly but it’s been insanely hot and being in the attic running cables isn’t exactly a great place to spend 95 degree days..  but i can’t complain im getting it done.. slowly but surely..

In other news once I get all the wiring and everything done i will be able to focus on some software projects to make my life easier as a network admin..  i am planning on doing a complete restructure of group policy and implementing a WDS server so that i can push out Windows OS installs to bare clients or messed up client workstations and then have GP install the needed software when the user first logs in.. we’ll see how all of that goes.. my goal is to have the bare minimal set of solutions in place by the end of September.. the networking/wiring/etc should be done by the first of august and then i’ll start on the software/management side of things.

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..

I have been playing with GarageBand since I got my Mac.. One of my friends has a band and we are going to try and create a somewhat decent EP for him on the cheap.. We recorded a solo song of his to test our skills.. So tell us what you think..

Jeremiah Clark – Romance and Adventure

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.