2007/03/12: WHS
A few weeks since my last Weakly; went to the New York Comic Convention ( read about it here ). I’ve also been running the Microsoft Home Server Beta 2 ( WHS ) and have found it quite useful. For…
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2007/02/19: DPM Beta 2
At home I run a Small Business Server ( SBS ) 2003 domain and connect my PCs to it. I’m in a corporate setting and am used to a Microsoft domain setup, so when SBS 4.5 was released many years…
SearchLoad Options Add-On
An amazingly simple and effective Firefox 2 plug in that does two things really well; clears your search box after a specified time, and opens your search in a new tab. Brilliant! SearchLoad Options
2007/02/12: TechNet
With the high cost of Vista looming on the horizon I thought it best to sign up for a Microsoft subscription package and get all their software for one year for one price. I wanted to screw around with a…
Converting a volume to NTFS
I have that wonderful WD Passport drive and use it for shuffling files between work and home. I was copying a directory over and it was telling me the destination was full and couldn’t copy a 6 GB ISO image. …
HP SureStore DAT40
Tape backup; boring, uneventful, necessary. Nothing splashy or exciting about the oldest backup medium. Why is it still in use? Tape is reliable, relatively inexpensive and gets the job done. Most businesses running a server use a tape drive for…
APC Line-R 1250
Power protection is something that comes up, oh, never. You have the PC, monitor, printer and whatever else plugged into a $10 power bar you bought at Radio Shack. This is bad. Regardless of what’s passed before as acceptable, every…
MSI MS-6103
Let’s take a look at the MicroStar MS-6103 Socket 8 motherboard. I know the first thing you’re going to say; why bother with a motherboard from 1995? My main reason is the number of search hits I get looking for…
Asus A7Pro
Motherboards are a difficult item to review, for good reason. After listing the features from the manufacturer’s web site, what do you discuss? Installation is pretty well the same for all boards, depending on form factor. Benchmarks are difficult unless…