After a very extended absence, I have finally returned. There have been no updates to the site since before March because I have been caught up with real life. For the record, I am in the Army Reserve and I needed to attend training for my specific Miltary Occupational Specialty. It took a long time and during that time, I was not able to make any specific updates to the site. My impending absence was the original reason that I moved all my web sites and other items to a dedicated hosting provider rather than continue to host them from my location.
At any rate, it appears that moving to a hosting provider was probably the best move I could have made given my circumstances. Keeping servers up and running with a limited speed connection is simply too difficult to do for any type of service that you depend on . Given that I have some people depending on my mail servers, it was probably past time that I get things moved into a dedicated environment. The mail and web services have been flawless throughout my extended absence.

I am currently hosting with Hostmonster.com and I can not say enough good things about them. I have a very generous bandwidth limit, more than enough services provided, direct access to my servers to allow me to implement my hosting packages, and they have been more than forthcoming with whatever I needed them to do. On the other hand, I can't say enough bad things about 1and1 Internet. I opened an account with them, they immediately messed up the service, refused to give me access to work on my sites and finally refused to honor the money back guarantee that they used to entice me to create my account with. So, in short, I am paying them for basically nothing with my unused account set to expire in December. Well, consider it a lesson learned, I know never to do business with any company that hides behind multiple hidden pages of policies and next time, I will be sure to Google all complaint pages about a company before I do business with them.

At any rate, I am back but still catching up with Real Life. So, hopefully, I will have some more things to add to the site in the near future, some more news at least, and maybe more time to devote to the ever changing world of Technology. For now, at least we have happy news with in the SCO vs Linux saga.