The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them;
he delivers them from all their troubles. Psalm 34:17
When you need help, call on the Lord through prayer. If the Lord sees your trouble beyond what you can bear, He will deliver you from it.
Father, thank you that you strengthen our faith daily by exercising our faith muscle! Lord, help us to remember. Amen
The Wifi saga had another story to tell. The WEP security did lock out the Orinoco clients. I guess I should have thoroughly checked it out. I got a call Wednesday morning with complaints of not getting access. Not much I can do while at home shaving! So when I got in I had swapped him with the D-Link card. All is well with him now. Next is the far back users… he is using a Linksys card but Windows 98. After switching to WEP, I again failed to follow through and reboot his to test. Now his card doesn’t authenticate until after logging in. So he can’t authenticate with the domain server and map network drives until after the initial logging in. I still need to do some research. So I wanted to improve the signal strength by using a booster. Low and behold… Linksys doesn’t sell the signal booster any longer due to FCC restrictions. The remainder of them were pulled off the retail shelves probably two months ago. 
The good thing is we have two! Since we ended up hooking up our bridge outside the buildings, both were not needed. This did increase the signal strength indeed by about 25%. Unfortunately it didn’t help the Win98 login issue.
Well with the increase in spam these days, I decided to reevaluate the spamassassin scores. I have dropped the high filter from 8 to 6 and the minimum filter from 5 to 4. Also found some settings to enhance the RBL blacklists. Changing this from 5 to 2 will create a better hit and deny more of them at the door.
More phone troubles. Been getting lots of calls that lag at the start of the conversation and causing the receptionists to hang up on ppl too fast. They are trained to wait longer however now but now we need to figure out what it’s coming from. We have 8 lines and it seems to be happening just on our main line for incoming calls. Learning more about our phone system almost daily now!
Seems to have been a rather slow week in some ways here at work. Got time to answer some backlog in the Gallery forums. This brought my status back up to #8 but not by much; something like a 7 post lead over #9.
Got to meet with both mentors this week for lunch! Even got a call from the men’s mentor ministry leader Wednesday night! It sure is wonderful to have great friends watching out for me. Laying all my troubles out for them on the table seems to help tremendously. Some troubles just can’t be fought alone. Having a group of friends praying for you helps fend off the evil one. On the flip side I find that I am not alone when it comes to the same kinds of struggles. Nothing worse than getting advice from someone who hasn’t been in your shoes before. This new toolbox is going to help me help others.
