so…what topics would make you go, ” Wow, I really have to go read that right now!”?
Tithing Rap
This is an amazing video from 12 Stone Church that my buddy Dean Lisenby shared on Facebook. Since I wanted to make sure you could see this I found the YouTube version to share with you. As the economy around the country is having difficulties don’t forget the priority of giving back to God first.
Using your phone during church?!?
I recently twittered a thought I was having about impressions during a church service. For those of you who may have forgotten, missed, or not cared about that I’ll share it again:
Would your church be accepting of me using my mobile device as my bible? Or would I be looked down on for texting and not paying attention?
The week before posting this while at church I was using my Blackberry Curve and my favorite bible app Youversion. No one said anything and I doubt anyone even noticed but it still started me thinking. The use of smartphones is becoming more prevalent and people are used to being able to do everything on the go. They’ve got email, texting, social networking, calendars, to do lists, websurfing and everything else, of course there will come a time they want a bible application as well. Now as culture changes in regards to the way we connect with others, do technology, and think of church how will the church respond?
So what are your thoughts? Would your church be okay with me using my phone openly during a service? would the pastor? Should we have a tech service where you can use your laptop, phones, etc?
64 bit guest on a 32 bit host
The rumor was that with using VMware virtualization software you could run a 64 bit host on a 32 bit host as long as you had the right processor. I’ve done pretty much nothing with any type of VM other than downloading them and letting them sit. After deciding that it might be worthwhile to be able to have Exchange at Woodland I wanted to get a VM installed to play with to see if it would meet our needs. Our new server runs Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 32 bit, which was great except for the fact that Exchange 2007 will only run in 64 bit. Because of this I tried to do Exchange 2003 which also wouldn’t work on Server 2008 32 bit. After much googling and talking with some other church IT guys, I realized that you can’t run any Exchange on 2008 server bit. So this is where the search began for running a 64 bit guest on a 32 bit host. It wasn’t possible with Microsofts virtualization product but it WAS possible with the VMware product.
There are a few requirements of your processor to allow it to able to handle 64 bit operating systesm. It has to have Intel VT and also have EMT64. You may have to update the bios to enable the Intel Vt before VMware will allow you to install the 64 bit OS. VMware has a free utility that will check your hardware to see if it can handle the 64 big guest, this is the easiest way versus looking up processor specs and such, there is a utility for both windows and linux.
After everything is setup the installation was quite straight forward, nothing came up out of the ordinary.