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My I.T. Day

I spent some time today fine-tuning the firewall and content filter. It was a bit of a challenge to get it to do what I wanted, but in the end it turned out just the way I wanted it to. Brian sent the Quito office firewall/content filter machine down to me this morning. It hasn't been running for a while. I found that it had a bad power supply. That meant a trip up the junk pile in the attic. It's an older machine, with an AT power supply, something not sold new here in Ecuador. I found a working power supply in an old case, and it was soon in the Quito server. I still need to do a bit of tweaking on that machine, so it will go back up later this week. I did clean out the case while I had it open. Down here in Shell when I blow out a case, it's very dusty. The Quito server, on the other hand, wasn't that dusty, but it had a layer of black grime all over the inside--a combination of volcanic ash and abundant vehicle pollution. My hands were literally black when I was done. Wonder what five years of living in Quito does to your lungs? This evening I helped Denise with a PowerPoint presentation. She is with HCJB, and is making the transition from working visitor to career staff. She'll be going back to the States on Friday to engage in the missionary task of deputation, or fund raising. Finally, I got a note from the MAF office in the States that they may need me to go to Indonesia around January 20 to help with the communications system being installed to support the relief efforts. It's still up in the air, with quite a few variables, and I'm just standing by.