Posted in General on Mar 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Our church recently wanted to purchase Internet access for streaming video from the house of prayer in Kansas City, MO and they asked me to help. In my search for a good provider, I came across Xanadoo. They have just recently started offering service in the Springfield area. I was a little skeptical at first. [...]
Posted in General on Mar 19th, 2008 No Comments »
I am currently in our Connecticut office waiting for a installer from the cable company. The cable company gave the usual specific time they would show up, between 8 am and 12 pm. I have probably had at least 15 of these installed in my life. I would think that statistically one of the installers [...]
Posted in General on Mar 19th, 2008 No Comments »
I just purchased and installed a DMA2100. I must say I am impressed. I was a little nervous since I shelled out $230 for this thing. The playback is smooth and it is very cool to be able to watch recorded TV and my movies in our bedroom. I had to disable the Vista firewall [...]
Posted in General on Mar 11th, 2008 No Comments »
When I first started my Media Center project I had setup a Windows dynamic volume to store all the movies. As I have previously posted, I purchased a 500GB MyBook to expand my space. After the USB/eSATA debacle, I discovered that Western Digital had designed the MyBook to spin down after 10 minutes of inactivity. [...]
Posted in General on Jan 9th, 2008 1 Comment »
Recently I needed to add more storage to my movie drive on my Media Center. I purchased a MyBook Home edition instead of an internal drive. I first tried to connect the drive via USB. I then discovered that Windows doesn’t let USB drives be converted to dynamic disks which are necessary for a [...]
Posted in General on Dec 26th, 2007 No Comments »
I have been watching Jericho on DVD and I love it. Like most shows, their lack of technological knowledge is baffling sometimes. I was watching the episode “Federal Response” when the power is restored and Skylar tries to check her email. Allison Hawkins comes up to assist her and tries to type a “Straight IP [...]
Posted in General on Nov 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
This month we made a few new purchases. We have been wanting a new couch for a while now. About a month ago, we ordered a sectional and it finally showed up. I also found a plasma TV that I couldn’t live without, so we decided to get both!! The TV was a complete spur [...]
Posted in General on Oct 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Since Katherine and I moved out on our own, we have amassed many paper bills and documents (bills, statements, etc). I am tired of finding places to store these documents and protecting them from water and other possible damages. I think I am going to start scanning these documents so I can destroy the paper [...]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2007 No Comments »
The conversion is complete. Over the last week I have upgraded to Exchange 2007 and swapped servers. Exchange 2007 requires 64-bit and I only had one 64-bit enabled server, which was the web server. I am very impressed with Exchange 2007. After using a couple of products designed to emulate Exchange, it is nice to [...]
Posted in General on Aug 24th, 2007 No Comments »
This week I am in Schaumburg, IL for a Windows Server 2003 Security class. I am really enjoying the class. I was also able to spend a couple of evenings with Ryan and Abby. It has rained here every day. Last night there was a tornado watch. A funnel cloud was spotted over Schaumburg. It [...]
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