Pictures of Garden of the Gods

April 24, 2016 0 Comments

Garden of the Gods

The Garden of the Gods is an incredibly beautiful 1,367 acre State park in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was designated as a National Landmark in 1971. Aside from the awesome beauty one of the cool thins is tourists are allowed to climb on the rocks, and with a permit, are even allowed to scale the rocks with harnessing gear. It’s extremely well kept and offers a lot of great paved walking paths. Because of this, the park is usually bustling with people, but I was fortunate enough to capture this…
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Photography

Pictures of Old Farms

April 21, 2016 0 Comments

Pictures of old farms

Although Colorado is synonymous with beautiful Mountain vistas, the Great Planes have their beauty as well. Many of the old farms, now worn down and in shambles, bring back a haunting simplicity to the way life use to be. Desolate, arduous and lonely, they are relics of a time long past, yet captivate the modern day imagination of how things used to be without cell phones, the internet and grocery stores. About 40 or so miles east of Colorado Springs on one those roads identified by just a number is…
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Photography

DIY Greenhouse in Colorado

April 11, 2016 0 Comments

Colorado greenhouse

Gardening in Colorado can prove quite challenging, especially during the spring months when temperatures can swing 50°F from one day to the next. To complicate matters, hail is quite common and can destroy a garden in seconds. Even pea-sized hail can shred through the green leaves and pit most vegetables and fruits. This has happened to us the last few years and ultimately resulted in us restarting from seeds in June. This knocked off a couple months from the growing season. That’s why a greenhouse is almost necessary when growing…
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Gardening

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Polycom RMX 2000 – Reset to Factory Default

March 30, 2016 0 Comments

RMX 2000 factory default

Resetting a Polycom RMX 2000 to factory defaults isn’t difficult, but it was quite a challenge figuring out the finer details of the process. For some reason, there isn’t a whole lot of easily available information on the Internet. In our particular case, we needed to reset the LAN settings (IP Address, gateway, subnet mask), because we couldn’t remember what they were. Instead of just resetting the LAN settings, we figured we’d just reset the unit to the factory defaults. Our RMX 2000 was installed at a remote site as…
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Polycom

Colorado Back-Country Motorcycle Ride

March 13, 2016 0 Comments

March is still a pretty cold month in Colorado backcountry, except as is typically the case, Mother Nature generously dishes out a few days where the temperatures are warm enough for a motorcycle ride. Fortunately for us, a couple of those days happened to fall on the weekend, so we decided to take a motorcycle route through the Rocky Mountains. The route we took was conservative, considering there was still a lot of snow in the mountains. Nonetheless, we did get a lot of off road riding in and didn’t…
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Hobbies, Motorcycle

Windows Server 2012 R2 Doesn’t Show Up In WSUS

March 11, 2016 0 Comments

wsus

We had a problem whereby new Windows Server 2012 R2 servers would not show up in WSUS, which by the way is on a disconnected network. The issue had to do with the deployment of a VMware OVA template for new Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual machines. What we discovered was the SusClientId registry entry was the same for each system. Therefore, all virtual machines created from this template shared the same authorization ID. This caused a situation whereby each new server would overwrite the other, such that the last…
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Information Technology, WSUS

Java Deployment Configuration and Properties

February 17, 2016

Java deployment has change with version 8, and for us, it changed how we deployed it to all our workstations. We operate 100+ Windows Clients and Servers on a classified closed network. By closed network, I mean it is not connected to the Internet and has point-to-point WAN connectivity to remote sites which first must pass through a TACLANE type-1 encryption device. This creates some problems when it comes to 3-party Java code and signing. Java version 8 is locked down quite a bit more as compared to previous versions….
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Information Technology, Microsoft Windows