Andrew, I'm glad you mentioned this. Thanks. I haven't really been active on this list in a while but the website is there for anyone to use. www.blindsysadmins.com If you would like to change it, go absolutely crazy! I don't care how it's used. I registered the name and I host it but I want it to be of use to the community of blind system admininstrators. Read the introduction on the home page. It will show you what my aims were for the site. I still think these aims are the right direction to take but I will be led by the majority on this list. I kind of stepped away from system administration back in June. I'm now working for a really small software development company that make some really large finance applications. When I got here though, they had no network, no DNS, no domain controller, no secured file shares, no IT policies and absolutely no infrastructure to speak of at all. Now, they have a DC running Windows 2008R2, an Exchange 2011 mail server, DNS, DHCP, file shares, a 1GB LAN and all for a few thousand Euro. It's amazing what kind of network you can set up when you put your mind to it. Like Catherine was saying, I have had networks in my house for years. In fact, when I bought my house six years ago, I flooded it with Cat5 before decorating it. Because of my experience with setting up a very cool but very cheap network in my house, I was able to source and implement a network and servers for this company. We are in a very old georgin building so there are preservation orders all over the place. Still, I've managed to get connectivity to where we need it most. I am now in a position where the network is up and stable. The owner of the company is so impressed with the VPN that I've implemented that he has employed a developer in Romania. I used VMware workstation to build a VM for him and I sent it over on a 32GB USB3 pen drive. This is a little sluggish when running from USB but it's workable. The drive is encrypted using Truecrypt and it has the VPN software already configured. I was able to send it over there by currior, enable his account when I got the call that it had been received, give him the decryption key over the phone and let him work away as if he was sitting at a desk in this office. This extra flexability has been so well received by the company that I now have permission to employ a contracted and part time sys admin. I only need one for a few hours a week to maintain things here so that I can get on with my real job but it just goes to show you how things can so easily change. I am a manager in this company. At the moment, I manage the support and project teams. I handle their escalations as well so it keeps me really busy. I took this job origionally for two reasons. Firstly, the money is brilliant but secondly, I found system administration was getting too difficult. Far too many applications and systems were becoming inaccessible to me. My aim here is to get their support running really well by documenting absolutely everything and putting really solid structures and procedures in place and formalizing their project life cycles and work flows so that they are more careful at what they promise to deliver. Almost all their projects are delivered late. I need to fix this. When I've done that and things start to run more smoothly, my aim is to then move into development full time. I'm doing a little at the moment but not as much as I want. So there you have it. I was a sys admin, I took a job as a manager only to do more sys admin stuff and now I'm going to be managing a sys admin. It's funny how things happen. In the middle of all that, my wife had our first child and we christened her last Sunday! It's been a busy few months! Regards Darragh -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: 19 November 2013 07:27 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Blind Admin web site. Hi, That would be: http://www.blindsysadmins.com/ Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Sean Murphy Sent: 19 November 2013 00:09 To: Blind sysadmins list list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Blind Admin web site. Hi all. I have been kicking around an idea for a while now. I think we need a web site that we can share articles, how to's, best practises, knowledge articles, etc for people with vision impairment for admin on any area of IT. Also we could provide a section for programming. Utilising resources that are already out there would be good. any thoughts people? Sean _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins