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Computers

Computer-related rants and ramblings

02 Feb

When simple upgrades go very, very wrong

Today’s upgrade to the Windows Home Server was supposed to be very simple. It wasn’t really even an upgrade, all I needed to do was install the multi-drive racks in the case, and move one existing hard drive into one rack, to prepare for future upgrades. Since I was moving one hard drive, and I [...]

24 Jan

AppleTV and Vista Media Center

As some of you know, I love entertainment. Music, movies, TV shows, books, I love them all. I have no problem finding ways to entertain myself.
A while ago, I started the process of digitizing my DVD movie collection, along with setting up a home theater PC. A few months ago, I went through the [...]

24 Jan

Windows Home Server

Microsoft recently released a new product called Windows Home Server. It is built on the core of Windows Server 2003, with some functions removed and others added. WHS is meant to serve as a central hub in your home for photos, music, and documents, and includes the ability to back up Windows XP and [...]

11 Sep

Koolaid

Well, I resisted for a while, but I finally “drank the koolaid” as the saying goes, and I bought an iPhone. (The koolaid saying is a reference to the Jonestown-I think it was Jonestown-cult that knowingly drank poisoned koolaid because their leader said so.) I have been in the market for a new phone for [...]

27 Mar

iWeb

A little note on iWeb: When you’re used to hand-coding everything, a drag-and-drop editor is really nice and easy. Until you need to add some actual code because iWeb can’t handle what you want the page to do. Then it becomes very annoying, because there is no built-in way to add code within iWeb, so [...]

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