http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Tue, 12 May 2009 12:35:01 +0000 wallstreetforex [Visitor] c7953@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ The technical ministry is perhaps the one ministry area where it’s easy to hide from spiritual discussions. Yet this is robbing them of personal growth, a closer relationship with the God who loves them and a stronger sense of mission and purpose for the tech team.I would like to thank you for the efforts you have made in writing this article. I am hoping the same best work from you in the future as well http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=ministry_burn_out&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7953 Mon, 11 May 2009 22:59:43 +0000 Patrick Sullivan Jr. [Visitor] c7952@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ > I don’t know where we’re going, but I’m learning that’s OK. Anthony, I personally gained quite a bit of insight from this article. http://skipmoen.com/2009/04/21/row-your-boat/ Shalom, Patrick Skip's Tech Geek I don’t know where we’re going, but I’m learning that’s OK.

Anthony, I personally gained quite a bit of insight from this article.
http://skipmoen.com/2009/04/21/row-your-boat/

Shalom,
Patrick
Skip's Tech Geek]]> http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=change_who_me_an_honest_conversation&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7952 Mon, 11 May 2009 19:32:45 +0000 Tanny Santamaria [Visitor] c7951@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ Thanks for posting this. This is exactly my journey for a year now. Wow, what a great reminder. Thank you http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=change_who_me_an_honest_conversation&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7951 Mon, 11 May 2009 18:58:47 +0000 Tobey [Visitor] c7950@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ Change is hard Anthony, however the journey can be so rewarding. Just trust that you are not on the journey alone. Not only is God with you, but friends will be there praying for you as well. http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=change_who_me_an_honest_conversation&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7950 Mon, 11 May 2009 18:39:58 +0000 ARJWright [Visitor] c7949@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ Wow; I just ned to say wow. I'll be praying for you, but man if you didn't throw a boulder my way as well. Thank you for your honesty and transparency. Change requires trust and humility. Thank you.
Thank you for your honesty and transparency. Change requires trust and humility. Thank you.]]> http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=change_who_me_an_honest_conversation&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7949 Sun, 10 May 2009 02:33:53 +0000 Steve [Visitor] c7948@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ I have used CCC for many years now. I regularly change computers (now laptops) from year to year. Oftentimes I decide I'd rather build my new laptop from scratch rather than keep all the old garbage that might be laying around that would get copied with a migration. So I use CCC to build a copy of the drive and then I'm happy to blow away the old machine, sell it, build the new one from scratch. And if I find that I forgot anything I can just boot up from the old hard drive and grab it. Its a great program and always useful! Steve
Its a great program and always useful!

Steve]]> http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=how_carbon_copy_cloner_saved_my_mac&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7948 Sat, 09 May 2009 23:38:47 +0000 Anthony D. Coppedge [Member] c7947@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ Patrick, If I'm wrong, I'll accept that, but my experience and understanding is that I can't take a Ghost of my PC (like the one in my office) and run it on the PC in our homeschool room due to hardware differences. Because Apple has more-or-less similar hardware in their computers, going from Mac to Mac is a very different experience than from going from PC to PC since there are literally millions of possible hardware configurations (sound cards, video cards, motherboards, BIOS, etc.). I can make BACKUPS of my PC (and I do) but I can't run my one of my PC's backup drive as the boot drive from another PC with different hardware and expect it to work. That's why I made the statement about Carbon Copy Cloner being so effective on the Mac platform. - Anthony
If I'm wrong, I'll accept that, but my experience and understanding is that I can't take a Ghost of my PC (like the one in my office) and run it on the PC in our homeschool room due to hardware differences.

Because Apple has more-or-less similar hardware in their computers, going from Mac to Mac is a very different experience than from going from PC to PC since there are literally millions of possible hardware configurations (sound cards, video cards, motherboards, BIOS, etc.). I can make BACKUPS of my PC (and I do) but I can't run my one of my PC's backup drive as the boot drive from another PC with different hardware and expect it to work.

That's why I made the statement about Carbon Copy Cloner being so effective on the Mac platform.

- Anthony]]> http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=how_carbon_copy_cloner_saved_my_mac&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7947 Sat, 09 May 2009 14:37:17 +0000 Patrick Fowler [Visitor] c7946@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ Dear Anthony...another incorrect PC v. Mac comparison. I use the built in windows backup utility to save my system to an external drive all the time...and just cloned my harddrive to a larger disc to add a few 100gb's to my current Laptop. The only difference? I used a utility provided by Microsoft as part of their operating systems since Windows Me, and if I didn't like the Windows option, I could have used 100 other free options, like DriveImage XML, which can run without installing onto your operating system, thanks to Daily Cup of Tech. http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=how_carbon_copy_cloner_saved_my_mac&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7946 Sat, 09 May 2009 13:47:46 +0000 Mike Sessler [Visitor] c7945@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ I'll second (third?) the recommendation for CCC. I've been using it for 8-9 months now, and having a cloned backup of my server drive saved me 2 days of server rebuild when the main drive went south. I have been using CCC to clone the iMac we use for ProPresenter for some time as well. I kick it up a notch, though. I partitioned a 750 Gig drive into 2 roughly equal partitions. The first is used for Time Machine--this gives me incremental backups in case someone deletes a file during Sunday's build. The second is for CCC. The entire iMac is cloned so if it dies, I can connect the drive to my MacBookPro, boot from that and be back up in just a few minutes. I also use CCC on my server to create incremental, complete clones of my boot drives. Because CCC can create and clone to disk images, you can save several copies of your drive on an external. I wrote about it here: http://www.churchtecharts.org/Blog/archives/900 Glad you're able to keep working--hopefully the new MBP arrives soon!
I have been using CCC to clone the iMac we use for ProPresenter for some time as well. I kick it up a notch, though. I partitioned a 750 Gig drive into 2 roughly equal partitions. The first is used for Time Machine--this gives me incremental backups in case someone deletes a file during Sunday's build. The second is for CCC. The entire iMac is cloned so if it dies, I can connect the drive to my MacBookPro, boot from that and be back up in just a few minutes.

I also use CCC on my server to create incremental, complete clones of my boot drives. Because CCC can create and clone to disk images, you can save several copies of your drive on an external. I wrote about it here: http://www.churchtecharts.org/Blog/archives/900

Glad you're able to keep working--hopefully the new MBP arrives soon!]]> http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=how_carbon_copy_cloner_saved_my_mac&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7945 Fri, 08 May 2009 21:55:34 +0000 Zak Mussig [Visitor] c7944@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ Carbon Copy Cloner is a great app, and I've been using it for a couple years as a video editor before moving into a video production staff slot at The Journey. Mike Bombich (who makes CCC) is a fellow St. Louisan, so if you find the app useful, please throw him a bone (and by bone I mean monetary compensation) via his website. http://www.bombich.com/software/tipjar.html Good recommendation Anthony!
Mike Bombich (who makes CCC) is a fellow St. Louisan, so if you find the app useful, please throw him a bone (and by bone I mean monetary compensation) via his website. http://www.bombich.com/software/tipjar.html

Good recommendation Anthony!
]]> http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=how_carbon_copy_cloner_saved_my_mac&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7944 Fri, 08 May 2009 15:15:40 +0000 Anthony D. Coppedge [Visitor] c7943@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ Yeah, I said that in the second-to-last paragraph. :) http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=twitter_and_yammer&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7943 Thu, 07 May 2009 19:58:40 +0000 Greg Johnson [Visitor] c7941@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ That is rough! I was looking forward to your session at WFX. I'll stop by and see how things turned out. http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=even_apple_gets_it_wrong_sometimes&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7941 Thu, 07 May 2009 01:02:29 +0000 wvpv [Visitor] c7940@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ you should submit your very well-written post to consumerist.com and see what happens. Or do an executive e-mail carpet bomb as described on the site. http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=even_apple_gets_it_wrong_sometimes&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7940 Wed, 06 May 2009 22:15:00 +0000 Anthony D. Coppedge [Member] c7939@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ Sean, If it were only one person! I had three (including a supervisor) in Apple Care assure me that the shipment would be this week and here by today or tomorrow (at this point). The problem, I think, is simple to solve: if there's a customization (CTO), their software should put up a flag that says "ship date extended" or something of that nature. Yes, each person does impact the whole. I didn't share the full series of events and multiple conversations that were sometimes at odds with what other employees were telling me. I shared as briefly as I could about the overall experience and left out some more of the headaches since they were not necessary for this blog post. I'm hoping there's a good ending to this disappointing situation!
If it were only one person! I had three (including a supervisor) in Apple Care assure me that the shipment would be this week and here by today or tomorrow (at this point). The problem, I think, is simple to solve: if there's a customization (CTO), their software should put up a flag that says "ship date extended" or something of that nature.

Yes, each person does impact the whole. I didn't share the full series of events and multiple conversations that were sometimes at odds with what other employees were telling me. I shared as briefly as I could about the overall experience and left out some more of the headaches since they were not necessary for this blog post.

I'm hoping there's a good ending to this disappointing situation!]]> http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=even_apple_gets_it_wrong_sometimes&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7939 Wed, 06 May 2009 22:05:01 +0000 Sean Sperte [Visitor] c7938@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ Sounds like a simple oversight by a low-level Apple Care support agent that you're projecting onto the whole of the company. (They, obviously, failed to recognize the fact that a BTO replacement "part" does indeed ship from China, not the center in California or Texas.) It's a reminder of how everyone single person in an organization represented the rest of the organization as a whole. Perhaps we should all audit our usher, greeter and guest relation ministries more often than we do.
It's a reminder of how everyone single person in an organization represented the rest of the organization as a whole. Perhaps we should all audit our usher, greeter and guest relation ministries more often than we do.]]> http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=even_apple_gets_it_wrong_sometimes&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7938 Wed, 06 May 2009 20:45:30 +0000 Kevin Purcell [Visitor] c7937@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ Ouch! I feel for you. Sadly for consumers Apple is not the only company to fail in the area of customer service. It seems the norm rather than the exception these days. Hope it comes early! http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=even_apple_gets_it_wrong_sometimes&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7937 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:50:51 +0000 Phillip Gibb [Visitor] c7936@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ I am beginning to promote social media at our church, and leading the charge so to speak. But there are only a select few that feel they need to use twitter and even some that do don't see the benefit. hmmm, but getting there - and my community group is setting the example :-) hmmm, but getting there - and my community group is setting the example :-)]]> http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=free_easter_viral_marketing_for_your_chu&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7936 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:36:26 +0000 Rob Connelly [Visitor] c7934@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ It is so vital the tech-types not be neglected spiritually. and they (I) do like to hide. Modeling a connected tech-E lifestyle helps too- showing them that technology is way more fun when we do it together and more importantly as a part of the overall life of the Church. Not in a tech-cave!! http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=techies_that_hide&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7934 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:30:11 +0000 Rob Connelly [Visitor] c7933@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ Its always difficult to know what the balance should be with training. Since excellence is our goal to honor God, the more training the better. But if we keep volunteers away from their families or have them coming home from 10 hour workdays and not spending family time in favor of improving their tech skills, then we are not being consistent with our family based values as The Church. Each local Church probably should prayerfully seek the right balance for the unique situation. One great tool I've used (for those of us below the digidesign live poverty line) is a digital multi-track recorder that allows multi-track playback of actual (sometimes edited) service audio for mixing practice when the stress factor is not there. Works great for teaching mixing to beginners as the "traffic control" (cues) part of the job is not something that must be worried about.
One great tool I've used (for those of us below the digidesign live poverty line) is a digital multi-track recorder that allows multi-track playback of actual (sometimes edited) service audio for mixing practice when the stress factor is not there. Works great for teaching mixing to beginners as the "traffic control" (cues) part of the job is not something that must be worried about.]]> http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=music_and_tech_training_in_churches&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7933 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:01:56 +0000 anthony thompson [Visitor] c7932@http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/ great insight and communication is so necessary. saw your twitter post about social media/church ... how much you wanna unload that bad boy for? keep it up, good on yah. http://iHateChurch.com/blog
keep it up, good on yah. http://iHateChurch.com/blog]]> http://anthonycoppedge.com/blogs/index.php?title=free_easter_viral_marketing_for_your_chu&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7932