Oct
30
Mass production and performance
October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
So we (at last says Fearless Leader) have a CD/DVD duplicator up and running. However it’s cobbled together on a desktop box and needs some refinement. There’s a whole list of things that need to be done under this heading and I won’t go into it here, but some notables would be giving the duplicator […]
Oct
22
The Recurring Dream
October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Making DVDs has become a recurring dream - we get so far and then have to go back and restart. Some of this may be due to running XPP on hardware (DL380) intended for Windows Server, so this week we’ll explore putting the DVD system together on a desktop XPP install to see if that […]
Oct
16
Retreat!
October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The church’s Alpha programme has it’s retreat weekend starting tomorrow night and I’ve agreed to provide a computer with EasyWorship to provide lyrics and play the DVDs. So we have that to prep tonight as a priority. This is also the 3rd Thusday so we have desktop maintenance to do, including upgrades to the anti-virus […]
Oct
9
Publish this!
October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
While we had success last week, we’ve some tasks left over to look after tonight. We need to test out the duplicator client software in preparation for ThirdThursday (Desktop maintenance night) next week. We managed to rebuild one of the two power supplies last week and Kevin has accepted the challenge to repeat that task […]
Oct
1
Picture this…
October 1, 2008 | 1 Comment
Had a great CIOD meeting with staff yesterday - one of those “this should be short meetings” that ended being something that everyone was still interested in when the time came to leave. There are some things to relay this eve over Boston Cremes. In betweeen we have a few items to accomplish:
Video encoding […]