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A Time for Everything

A Time for Everything

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3 There is a time for everything,
    and a season for every activity under the heavens:

2     a time to be born and a time to die,
    a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3     a time to kill and a time to heal,
    a time to tear down and a time to build,
4     a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5     a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6     a time to search and a time to give up,
    a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7     a time to tear and a time to mend,
    a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8     a time to love and a time to hate,
    a time for war and a time for peace.

Ecclesiastes 3 : 1- 8 NIV

I want to do great things with this life. But, I miss the mark.  I know I shouldn’t, but I compare myself with others. I’m my biggest critic.

I heard on a podcast with Ricardo Semler that everyone lives in a different environment and there are many different species. That’s why you can’t always take blanket advice from people. But you have to modify that advice to fit and work for you.

But you have to modify that advice to fit and work for you.

I would love to hustle like Gary Vaynerchuk – but the stage in my life is very different from his. My daily life right now is challenging.

I have to remember to take care of my wife, three daughters, and all of the other variables in my life that are different than Mr. Crush It.

That doesn’t mean I should just give up and not make an effort to change the variables that are given to me.

I’ve been feeling guilty because I decreased the amount of productive/self-development and I’ve been severely lacking in the taking action department.

I need to remember that’s okay and live one day at a time.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that I need to cut myself some slack.

I’m sure if you’re reading this you do too.

Remember God loves you.

If you happen to have some tips please feel free to share it with me.

Be Wise Like Solomon: Ask for Wisdom not Wealth or Long Life

Be Wise Like Solomon: Ask for Wisdom not Wealth or Long Life

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1-kings-3-9I’ve forgotten to only ask for wisdom.

I’ve been asking for health, wealth, happiness, and an abundance of the Fruits of the Spirit.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. – Galatians 5:22-23

Today’s Quiet Time was a good reminder.

Not sure if God blesses in the same way or in the same magnitude.

Might as well imitate the good from Solomon.

5 At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.”
6 Solomon answered, “You have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David, because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to sit on his throne this very day.
7“Now, Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties. 8 Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number. 9 So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?”
10 The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this. 11 So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice, 12 I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be. 13 Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for—both wealth and honor—so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings. 14 And if you walk in obedience to me and keep my decrees and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life.” – 1 Kings 3:5-14
How to Setup Google Apps for Education Email with PowerSchool

How to Setup Google Apps for Education Email with PowerSchool

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I wanted to write this up so people can figure out how to do it quickly and move on with their work.

It’s too much work trying to find where all of the information is and debugging it when I could have done it once before and just do it again.

This is my third time setting it up and I would have finished a lot faster if I just had written it down the first time.

  1. Step One: create a school Google Apps for Education Email address for PowerSchool for example: [email protected]
  2. Step Two: Login to the new email address you created and go through all of the security features and introductory Google emails.
    1. Optional Step Two A: For good customer service. Setup a Vacation Responder saying that you don’t check this email. You don’t want parents, students, or teachers emailing you here. I wrote something along the lines of:

      If you need help with PowerSchool please contact Mr. Paul Kang at [email protected]

    2. Click Save Changes. Log Out.
  3. Log into your PowerSchool Instance or for quick access add this to your web address (admin/systemsettings/emailsetup.html)
  4. Click on “System” on the menu under Setup
  5. Click on “System Settings” under Server
  6. Click on “Email”
  7. Fill it out like below:GAFE Email PowerSchool Setup
  8. Click “Submit”
  9. Send out a test email to yourself in the “Test Email Tab” and see if it works. Hopefully it does for you as it did for me.

How to Activate Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard from the Evaluation Version

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We purchased a new server from our vendor.

I asked them to install Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard and update everything and setup RAID before delivering it to us.

However when I went to activate Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard it didn’t work.

The vendor installed the evaluation version which made it a little complicated.

I had to do some light Googling to find out how to get it to work.

I wanted to consolidate all of that information in one location so its easier for me to find the next time I need to do this.

Naturally, I already purchased a legitimate education version from our volume licensing partner.

Here it is:

Try an SKUUPGRADE – the eval issue can as such not be activated.

To determine the installed edition, run:

DISM /online /Get-CurrentEdition

To check the possible target editions, run:

DISM /online /Get-TargetEditions

Finally, to initiate an upgrade, run:

DISM /online /Set-Edition:<edition> /AcceptEula /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

For me  I used: DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /AcceptEula /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

I hope this post was useful.

Thanks to Andrew Schulman, TomTom, user282317 from Serverfault.com.

GoFlex Driver for Mac

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I purchased a 1TB GoFlex Drive several years ago. It said it was supposed to work with both Mac OS X and Windows PCs. Unfortunately, I forgot that you need to install a piece of software to get it to work simply on a Mac.

Or reformat into a format that works for both platforms seamlessly.

If you’re looking for it. It’s called Paragon Driver for Mac you can find it here.

Hopefully this will save some time and heart ache for you.