Alexander Hamilton

Richard J. Payne on Alexander Hamilton ~

”Hamilton focused on one thing. He devoted his whole life to one thing, and that was creating the United States. Whether it's financial, whether it's constitutional, whether it's the army, you name it, its Hamilton's. He doesn't need a monument. We live in Hamilton's monument -- this United States. This is Hamilton's monument. And when we talk about the American dream, we're talking about Hamilton's dream.”

Client Portal

Client Portal

Our SPC-INTRANET site which is installed on an on-site Ubuntu web server offers a great feature for you to offer your clients, and also save you time and money on services like yousendit.com.

• Instead of waiting hours to upload large files to a yousendit.com account, you can upload files and folders for your clients to download on your own system
• The uploads are extremely fast since the system is on your local network
• Your clients can search, zip, and download large file packages
• No monthly charges!

Clients can upload and download files and folders

The CSS sheet can be customized to match your corporate website

BigBlueButton on a Big Blue Server

The server is an IBM xSeries 346 and the OS is Ubuntu 10.04 

What is BigBlueButton?
BigBlueButton is free open source software that enables universities and colleges to deliver a high-quality learning experience to remote students, but wait, BigBlueButton is not just for universities and colleges. Your business can use this wonderful software too, It’s not hard to get started!

The chat feature has language translation for easy communication with your foreign clients.

The server shown above is an IBM xSeries 346 refurbished server from renewcomputer.com. It is equipped with dual core 3.0GHz XEON processors with 2G RAM, and three 36.4 GIG SCSI hot swappable hard drives. Since this a dedicated BigBlueButton server you don’t need a lot of storage space.

See http://bigbluebutton.org for more information on BigBlueButton
See http://renewcomputer.com and http://serversupply.com for refursbished IBM servers
See http://ubuntu.com for more information on Ubuntu



North State Communication customers with real high-speed Internet.
This is a great tool for your business!

Backing Up MySQL Databases to Amazon S3

Here is a pretty straight forward method for backing up MySQL databases to Amazon S3.

I use webmin to backup MySQL databases on a Linux system. I use a simple backup that runs every day at midnight. I backup the databases to a databases folder on the same machine.

See http://webmin.com for more info on webmin. Note: we install webmin on all our systems.

I use a backup script setup in crontab to run every morning at 6:00 AM. The s3fs file is a shell script that uses rsync to make incremental backups to my Amazon S3 account. See This blog by John Eberly on creating a backup script to Amazon S3.


This is my Amazon S3 account with my backup databases.

See Amazon’s S3 pricing. You get 5 Gigabytes of free storage.

For implementing your own Ubuntu system with all kinds of options for your business, i.e. SugarCRM, vTigerCRM, BigBlueButton, MediaWiki, SPC-INTRANET, Drupal, or something you would like to use like a scheduling software, contact us for a free consultation.

S P C Intranet Slideshare

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

S P C Intranet Slideshare

View more presentations from SPC-INTRANET.

SPC-INTRANET My Files Directory

I like the My Files feature of our intranet site. Our clients can access their files over the Internet, and our search feature is excellent for locating files and directories quickly. You can search, zip and download a directory with sub-folders. You can also setup a customer or vendor account for sharing files too.