The Shures Network

I now have the Sauk Valley Computer website back online. For just a brief moment in time, I kicked around if I should build a static or use a content management system. I decided to go with open source Drupal powered.

All the heavy lifting in done. DNS records are updated, database is setup, Drupal is installed, theme for the most part is finished. Now I need to add the goodies. While it is initially more difficult to setup, in the long run, a database driven website is easier to maintain and much more functional.

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Sauk Valley Computers is back online. Just as soon as I get through these latest jobs, I’ll have the website rebuilt and alive.

There is only one small problem I’ll eventually have to deal with. Some novice has been doing business using my name. I really don’t want to do it, but I’m going to have to rain on his parade. I am the local, state, and federal owner of that trademarked name. 10 years ago when I formed the company, I jumped through all the hoops which he didn’t bother to check. Last time I checked, I don’t ever remember putting him on the payroll under my FEIN. Doh…

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Even with how much I love working with computers, it has been my life’s ambition since 10 years old, this picture is from one of the most favorite jobs I ever had.

I was an Officer manning the Water Patrol unit of the City Water Light & Power security department. It was the very first job I landed when I came home from the Army. I basically got paid to drive a boat around all day on Lake Springfield making sure the public boaters were obeying the laws.

It’s too bad in only lasted 1 summer before I moved on to bigger and better things. I left this job to go to work at the State Capital for the House of Representatives on Speaker of the House Mike Madigan’s staff. I wonder if Lisa still remembers me?

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John & Joanna Konsor / Konsor Enterprises

One of the sites I develope for has grown into a new personal size record. 332 pages, all hand crafted by yours truly. There’s also 584 images. All together, the site’s around 30MB in size.

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I spent the weekend working in Milton WI upgrading a 20 workstation data entry facility. They went from 486 DOS terminals booting from a Novell 2.0 server to all Windows XP machines on a 2003 domain. I also installed the Cat5 Ethernet network to replace the BNC network.

The trickiest part was getting the 20 year old custom Gemidex database software moved from the “older” then dirt Novell server to the new server. The mission was accomplished.

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Jeff Witt introduces some pictures in the Photo Gallery. These are from my old job at Sewer Equipment Company of America.

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Additional pictures have been posted in the photo gallery. I finally hooked up the scanner I recieved as a Christmas gift and scanned in some old photos. These are from my old “Brag Book” album circa my 20 somethings.

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I had a side job this weekend at an engineering firm in Oakbrook. Configuring a network, servers, workstations, and such.

These engineers sure do have nice tools. Fat servers and fast Dells with big flat screens.

Here’s a new setup I was working on with dual 21″ monitors. That CAD is a pig of an application, but works great at this joint.

Sweet.

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