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Youthful Thinking (part 27/52)
March 17, 2010 |
Last week we had planned to focus on the Youth Area in the FLC, but ended up being distracted for most of the evening by the more immediate need of having the KidZone checkin station functional. The checkin situation was a combination of the change in security between IE6 and IE7 in Windows XPP, the fact that the SonBlest in a MS Access application run from the network and our strict policy about users elevated above the limited user role. By the end of the evening we solved this (turns out that somewhere the security policy for the SonBlest install on the local machine was modified to be too restrictive), but there was little time left for the planned task of the night.
During the week we have managed to switch Guitar Praise to the Youth Console. We’ll test it out tomorrow eve so that the youth group can give it a going over on Friday night and hopefully give it the thumbs-up. Thanks to the Digital praise support team who are always helpful and timely in getting things right for us (yay Sid and Jason!)
We should also see the test of an image backup system. We use an eternal 2Tb SATA drive formatted as ext3 with a USB connection and a Knoppix liveCD.The setup is to boot the Knoppix and from the command line:
% su sudo
% mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /mnt
% dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/mnt/.dd
If this works, then we’ll try some compression to speed up the transfer via USB.
There are no crises (at least so far) and so our plan will be to install all planned connectors and outstanding wiring in the Youth area on 3rd floor with the objective of having the console computer and the amplifier installed out-of-sight and all screens and inputs/outputs functional, including changing the AlbumPlayer song directory to be on the file server.
Carl reports that while it is ThirdThursday, the updates this month are relatively few and he’s been able to do most of them while he’s hung out waiting for the kids at junior choir/girls group and the like.
As an additional bonus to our evening, we’ll meet briefly with our new Board of Management representative. Having been assigned to our file he’s (wisely) decided to come and listen and see what we worry about and how we look after it. This is an unheard of idea and we’d like to encourage the interaction, so I’ll be sure to bring top-drawer donuts!