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When is volunteer training a bad idea?

Alright! I fell off the radar for a few days there but with 3 teenage boys going back to school and a wife that is a teacher… well the obvious thing to abandon was blogging for a few days.

So we’re back with my latest revelation… When is volunteer training a bad idea?

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Spotlight: Likewise Open – The easy way to join Macs and Linux to Windows Domains

Sorry I missed a couple of days of blogging. We were busy getting ready to take in a new foster kid at home and my wife and I were trying to get things ready. Which is why I’m so glad Likewise Open is so easy to use. Adding a couple of new Macs to our network was so easy to do.

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Training 101 for the Internet Age

This week I began work on a new church website. This one is specifically for the production team and is modelled after a site that Buckhead Church (part of North Point) did for their production team. With all the social media tools at our disposal it only made sense that we should be using them for training purposes as well.

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Should the church offer public wifi?

Years ago they used to call it war driving; roaming the neighbourhoods with a laptop, a wifi card and sometimes a high gain antenna. All in the pursuit of a free internet connection.

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How to overhaul a video streaming computer in one easy step

Over the past few weeks we have been experiencing some issues with our Sunday video streaming. It was hard to put a finger on it, but the viewers we commenting that the stream would “pause” a lot. So when I did some digging in to it, I found something rather ugly.

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Review: Avast Antivirus

A couple of weeks ago we looked at FamilyShield as a great way to protect your home computers and family from the ugly stuff that lives on the internet. This week we are going to take a look at a high quality free Antivirus for your home computers.

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I Wish a was a Country Singer

I’ve always wondered how country singers come up with songs like “I Just Bought A Car From The Guy That Stole My Girl, But The Car Don’t Run So I Figure We Got An Even Deal”. Is this what passes for creativity when your feeling down in the dumps? How is a guy who writes a blog about technology and the church supposed to be creative when he’s feeling down?

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Technology was Never Intended to be Evil

I love technology, the good, the bad and the ugly, I love it all. But some days I look at how we have perverted some technology and I wonder why? We have all probably seen some movie were the scientist develops something so amazing with the intent of improving the human condition only to have the antagonist steal it and use it for evil. While this makes for great movie plots, it happens in the real world more often then we think.

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I will always have a Linux system on my desk

Despite the previous posts about my rekindled love for Apple products I will always have a Linux system on my desk. As the church IT guy this is probably one of my favorite, and most used tools. If you are the IT guy for your church here is why you should have one too.

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Copyright, Licensing and Paying for What You Use

This is part two of a series of posts that I will be doing on the issue of copyright and the church. As I have said before, I’m not a lawyer or a licensing guru, just a Church TechGuy who has taken the time to learn as much as I can on the issue. I encourage you do the same. If you’d like to start from the beginning, you can find my first post of this series here. Now lets jump into licensing and how to pay for what you use. Continue Reading…

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