Dew on the Breakfast Table

Yep, that's right.  This morning while we were having breakfast we noticed dew on the breakfast table!  It's been getting colder here at nights, around 12C or so, and since we don't have any heating in the house, and the humidity can still be pretty high, I guess that's what caused the dew to settle on our dining room table!  Tamara and I had a good laugh at it.

I've been playing around a bit with Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) just to get an idea of what is out there for a thin client environment besides Windows Terminal Server, which is what we currently use on base.  It looks promising; I just wish that there was some better documentation for it since I am a complete novice when it comes to administering and using Linux.  For a 10-client environment running normal office applications I have worked out that you would save around $2500 using LTSP instead of Windows Terminal Services.  That is based on academic pricing, if you look at regular pricing your savings would probably be three or four times that.  Since we are a non-profit organization a savings like that is quite significant, especially for our locations in the developing world where a normal person would have an income of less then $1.00 a day.  To show that sort of cost savings to a supporter of the organization would go a long way I think to showing how we are being good stewards of what we have been given.

Although the decision has already been made to continue to use Goldmine as our contact management system I have been looking at an open source product called SugarCRM, which is free, and looks to be an extremely competent program, especially given that it is free.  The program runs from an Apache/MySQL/PHP web server, and it can serve up an unlimited number of users, unlike Goldmine which is going to cost us about $800.00 per user when we go to upgrade to the new Corporate Edition.  Again though, because of my limited skill in this sort of thing, we are not even able to consider using the free package because I don't know enough to customize it to serve our needs as a registered training organization.  It's one of the many reasons why I am looking at doing more training in IT this year.

I finally got the final of our six webcams installed at work.  You can check them out at www.reeftooutback.com/library/multicamview.html.  The final one that was waiting to be installed was the prayer room, which was ocupied every time I went to install the camera.  Today though I finally managed to find a few minutes when it was empty and Sam and I got the camera up and running.

Well, this has turned into a pretty long entry, so I will stop here.  Thanks for reading.


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southernbookclub on Saturday, May 21, 2005
Hello Bill, I attempted to view your webcams but the link didn't work for me. I don't know anything about the technical information that you were talking about but I wish I did because I enjoy all things about computers. They just seem to be Greek to me. I attempted to set up my scanner onto my computer and I did the whole process and I have double checked everything but the scanner does not show up in my toolbar and I cannot get it to work no matter how many times I push the button. I get so frustrated! Oh well.
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