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I have recently been working on a new website for a local church minister. The website is a little different as it is intended to be a self serve site for ministering to those people who just don’t have time to get to church from time to time. Like this site, church2go was built with Postnuke, allowing for all manner of modules to be integrated into the site. These include user registration, forums, galleries, calendars, and so on. As well as setting up the basic structure of the site, I was also responsible for the logos and other graphic that the site uses. The basic structure of the site is now finished, and while the content of the site has not been filled in yet, it can be viewed here;

Back in November of last year I had the opportunity to travel to the Brisbane area to work with three photographic models. Despite difficulties with weather, new locations, mosquitoes and unforseen circumstances, I think I managed to achieve a reasonable level of success with all three shoots.

All of the models were great to work with. They are all friendly, fun, easy going and very professional. I would recommend any and all of them to work with, and hope I get the chance to work with all of them again in the future.

As a thank you to the three lovely models, and to properly give recognition for their work, what follows is an introduction for each model with a link to my images of them and a link to an external portfolio for them as well.

MANDY:

This short shoot was done around Mandy’s grandparents place in Beenleigh. We played with hats, as Mandy loves hats, and also experimented with blue grease and her dad’s truck. It was a bit of fun, and landed us with some nice shots I think.

Mandy’s Ozmodel Portfolio can ge found here.

MEL:

This shoot was located in an Industrial area of Brisbane. It was a warehouse complex complete with office space and a yard containing shipping containers. My main aim in this shoot was to get some ‘dark glamour’ shots as I call them. Shots that are a bit punk or grunge but still a little glamourous.

Mel’s Ozmodel Portfolio can ge found here. Plus, Mel has her own site at Miss Meliss.

CANDICE:

Candice had asked to do some fantasy shots for this shoot, so that is what we did.

After much searching and avoiding of rain we finally found a good location for the fairy shots, and despite the mosquitoes, I think the location, wings, outfits and everything worked great for these pictures. Candice makes a beautiful fairy.

For the goth shots I wanted a bleak and dreary look, and with the cane and sugar mill in the background, I think we got it.

Candice’s Ozmodel Portfolio can ge found here.

I recently completed two projects that have been underway since around November last year. Both projects involved the installation of a new Server into an existing school networks.

The new servers were installed at Armidale City Public School and at Guyra Central School. Both servers are now running happily and the projects were completed with relative ease.

I would like to thank the Staff of both schools for giving me the opportunity to work for them, and also for the assistance and friendly atmospheres that they provided during the projects.

For those who are interested, the hardware specifications for the system used is as follows;

Optima Vizon II 4000 Hot-Swap
CPU Dual Xeon 2.4GHz, 533MHz, 512K L2 Cache
Suports: Dual Xeon 533/400MHz, 512K L2 or 1M L3 Cache. Supports HT

Chipset Intel E7501

Memory 1024MB (2x 512) DDR ECC Registered PC 2100
Supports up to 12GB. 6x 184pin DIMM sockets to be populated in pairs (Max. 12GB using 2GB modules).

PCI Dual PCI bus with 5 PCI slots. 2x PCI-X 64-bit/133MHz (3.3V), 2x PCI-X 64-bit/100MHz (3.3V), 1×32-bit/33MHz (5V)

CD-ROM/FDD 52X CDROM IDE + FDD included
LAN 2x Integrated Intel® Gigabit 10/100/1000 + 1x 10/100 Ethernet via 3x RJ45 sockets

Video Integrated ATI* Rage* XL with 8 MB memory

SCSI Controller Integrated Dual U320 Adaptec AIC-7902

Backup AIT-1 IDE Internal Tape Drive 35/90 GB. Transfer rate 4-8MB/s.

I/O 2-Ch ATA/100, 1x RS-232C serial port, 1x parallel port 2x PS/2, 2x rear and 2x front USB 1.1

RAID Adaptec 2100S U160 1-Ch SCSI RAID Controller with 32 MB onboard Memory
3x 73.5GB (10,000 RPM), ULTRA320 SCSI (SCA) Fujitsu MAP3735NC

Chassis Optima Full- Tower Server Case, Pedestal chassis with 3 cooling fans, LED indicators, mechanical locks and intrusion switch.

Drive Bays 3x ext. 5.25″ Bays, 1x FDD Bay, 5x SCSI Hot-swap Ultra-160 Bays + 2x fixed SCSI/IDE I” drives

PSU Single 460W SSI EPS12V with ball bearing fan, Active PFC Power Supply

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Both systems were set up with a UPS.
One system was rack mounted.

Windows 2003 Server (Standard Edition) was installed on both systems, which are running as;
- Primary Domain Controllers
- File Servers
- DNS Servers
- DHCP Servers

The RAID system provides redundancy in case of hardware failure, and the AIT Tape backup system provides off-site security of critical data.