Inspection mechanic convicted after passing car involved in fatal crash (VIA WPTZ)

Steven Jalbert to serve 90 days of house arrest UPDATED 1:30 PM EDT Jun 14, 2016 BARRE, Vt. —A Barre inspection mechanic is convicted of reckless endangerment after passing a car that crashed and killed a woman. Steven Jalbert was a certified inspection mechanic in May 2014 when he inspected Donald and Elizabeth Ibey’s 1992 Chevrolet Corsica. Elizabeth Ibey, 83, died in a crash two month later. …

CARDINAL Packages UPDATING (6/12/16 @10:57)

I noticed during a couple logins via the web-based system last week, that there were a lot of new packages that Debian wanted to update. It looks like it’s going to be a full update, so I am requesting that be done now. In lieu of these updates, and because these updates deal with the base files, I am forgoing all further backup maintenance activities until the packages are fully…

BBUS Maintenance Window Scheduled: Sunday May 29 @11AM

On Sunday May 29 at about 11 AM, Buddy will be doing maintenance on the BBUS Blog Systems to be sure that we have a working backup for V1. This will also give me a chance to be sure we have all the plugins mirrored in both setups. I estimate that the Maintenance Window will be about 1-1.5 hours. Buddy System Admin BBUS

One Wrong Click Could Get you Windows 10………

One wrong click could get you Windows 10 — whether you want it or not By Matt Weinberger 14 hours ago Microsoft’s aggressive campaign to get users to download and install the new Windows 10 operating system appears to be accelerating. Users on Windows 7 and 8.1 are getting pop-up windows, announcing that “Windows 10 is a Recommended Update for this PC,” alongside a time when it plans to do…

THRUSH: Power Management Adjusted (06:40 5/24/2016)

This morning, Thrush was in “Sleep Mode” and it has been harder and harder to bring her out of this mode when it has been sleeping. I therefore have adjusted the power and sleep function, so that the system will not sleep and will NOT turn off without Admin Intervention. Now, she appears normal as of 06:40 on 05/24/2016. Buddy System Admin BBUS

Backups for End of Month Scheduled

BBUS WordPress and DATABASE BACKUPS: UPDATE: (5/23/2016 @11:03): Buddy has completed the backup of the WordPress Blogs V1 and V2. He has also taken a Complete Database Backup of all System Databases. This is the first time we have taken Database Backups since Cardinal went online in late February 2016. All Databases have been backed up, and are archived for future use or in case of system issues. V1 of the blog has also…

SERVICES UPDATE: APACHE2 SSH and SFTP (5/15/2016)

Good Afternoon All: Just a quick update to let everyone know that as it stands now, SSH and SFTP seems to work well, without any problems, and as such, I have updated the status 0f these services to GREEN. I have also enabled the user directories for web pages in Apache 2, and have restarted the web server. For Now, we will be in a testing mode until we can…

BBUS Maintenance Window Schedule for May 2016

UPCOMING MAINTENANCE: BBUS Backups will be scheduled for the following Dates: Wednesday, May 4, 2016 (Beginning at 09:00 EDT) -Partial Backup: ======================== /var/www/html (full directory) /home (full directory) /home2 (full directory) /etc (full directory) BBUS Blog V2 (/var/www/html/blog) BBUS Blog V1 (/Var/www/html/blogold) XML Backup of posts and comments for both systems MySQL databases WordPress Updates to Plugins DropBox Full backup of WordPress directories ========================================= Wednesday, May 27, 2016 (Beginning at…

VNC Server Fix

VNC Black Screen fix

VNC Server Maintenance Scheduled: 4/19/2016

(UPDATE: (4/19/2016 @15:16): I have done a few updates to the system. I had to install a couple of desktop environments, and I had to edit a couple files. Then, I proceeded to update our compilers and some Perl Modules that were not installed inside webmin. Right Now, I have successfully connected to cardinal’s VNC server on Display 9. I will also attempt to connect a root desktop as well,…