We have been quiet, but not bored! The last couple weeks have been a roller coaster of excitement. We went from an internal IT strategic planning retreat (two days of food induced brainstorming) to a moving our facilities from NAR-6th floor to NAR-4th floor. Its been crazy!
With that, we needed to clean up one of CRT’s dirty little secrets, the CRT server room was a closet - seriously, the servers have all been stashed in a closet for the past 5+ years. Well, we have grown up. This week we finished rolling out 4 IBM Rackmount servers into the NAR Server Room - environmentally controlled, remote IP viewable - all the bells and whistles that an IT kid would love.
Keith handled the code server (code.crt.realtors.org) and the mail server (mail.crt.realtors.org). I handled the web server (www.crt.realtors.org) and our internal file server. Its always fun cleaning and rearranging the servers! All the servers got baselined with a nice fresh install of Centos5, and then we went from there. Maia is protecting our mail, WordPress is keeping us vocal, and Samba is storing our files.
The cost for Dunkin Donuts to help push us through this: $20
The cost for all the software to run the entire CRT IT shop: FREE
The cost of knowing this: Priceless
I promise to get back blogging better next week, as well as keeping up with the deep links!
P.S. - this was my test I didnt fudge up the blog! 
Re-organizing and re-structuring is always fun in IT isn’t it? Starting fresh reminds me of the days (I act like I still don’t do it) when I would get an insolvable bug in my PC and do a fresh format.
Ah, the joys of a clean, fresh install.
Glad to see you back - and with a nice clean server room.
Any news on the patch for Variman regarding search queries and the use of OFFSET and LIMIT - and the missing MAXROWS tags?