Jake Kappus.comCertified Geek, Dad, MMA fan, and ocassional Pro Wrestler

I thought I had read somewhere that BJ Penn attained black belt status in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in something like 18 months. I’ve been doing BJJ for a month and a half now and I should be at least a blue belt now right? Ha ha..maybe not.

It’s been over a month now and what everyone else said is right…It is more than just a sport. It’s a lifestyle, an addiction. I love it. Even though it’s much more physically demanding than pro wrestling ever was (but not nearly as satisfying to the ego) it completely replaces pro wrestling as an outlet. Freddie Jacobs was an outlet for me, where I could channel all of my frustrations, feelings and fears out into the world. Now that I’ve laid good ol’ FJ to rest, I’ve needed a new outlet for these things.

At practice on Wednesday I think I got a little frustrated with myself. For some reason I have not been able to remember the steps for each drill or maneuver. But after talking with Will (a blue belt) and the others in the class, maybe I should be proud of what I do know and work on what I don’t. One of the other guys (an experienced submission wrestler who damn near broke my ankle with a simple leg lock) said that the only thing I should be good at right now is tapping out

He’s probably right…

I got my Gi yesterday from Fuji and I plan on making a go at this… I wonder if there is a way to bring Freddie back from the grave doing BJJ?

Man, could I go places with that headline…

According to my employer, I’m a Cisco engineer. That’s fine, I’m cool with that, and I’m always up for learning new things. But my first techno love was the Microsoft side of things. (I wonder if I should turn comments off now) For some reason, I’ve taken a big interest in the new Microsoft technologies like Exchange 2007, Office Communicator Server 2007, and System Center. Being a Cisco weenie now, I have fallen behind in the Microsoft world and I think I’ve forgotten a lot of the idiosyncrasies about Active Directory and Exchange. Time to fire up the test servers again and re-learn.

At least with MS products, I can re-learn this stuff in my home lab while with Cisco it gets more difficult to get my hands on specific equipment (like a Wireless LAN Controller). I dunno why but learning new MS technologies has always been easy for me. Cisco just plain confuses me sometimes. Maybe it’s because new Cisco products are usually purchased and repackaged while MS does a lot of their own stuff.

I love what I see with Server 2008 “Longhorn”. I love the new Server Manager module based install. I didn’t install Core just yet (I wanted to see it all in it’s glory), but I’ll be playing with it some more when I get time. I think the module based install will serve small business customers well. I deal with overbloated Windows servers it seems like on a daily basis now. It’d be great to just install what’s needed and that’s it.

I do have one question…what is the real reason Exchange 2007 is only supported in a production environment on a 64bit OS? I understand the reasoning for more processing power to handle the additional databases that Exchange 2007 supports, but if you only use one or two stores, (say for a small business), why not offer a 32 bit version?  Maybe SBS 2008 has this?

Someone please enlighten me…

My first post on the new version 2.0 of jakekappus.com.  Please, hold your excitement.  Really…

 I’m going to try and keep this thing somewhat relevant and noteworthy.  Hopefully someone will read it.