Posted in General on Apr 14th, 2009 No Comments »
I am a little tired of having my servers break. Lately, I have been having to do maintenance on my servers almost every night. My backups haven’t been running for a couple of weeks now. I have been trying to move everything off the old web server so it can be my dedicated backup server. [...]
Posted in General on Apr 10th, 2009 No Comments »
My current web server needs to be rebuilt so I have been trying to move everything to another server. I first tried to move my PHP apps to a Windows Server 2008 box. I must say I am not impressed with the FastCGI module in IIS 7. If could have been due to the OS [...]
Posted in General on Mar 30th, 2009 No Comments »
I finally got around to connecting our church piano to the MIDI controller. I must say I am impressed with the setup. I spent a couple of hours downloading a bunch of instruments. Most of them are not worth using, but I found some good grand piano and Fender Rhodes samples. I still have a [...]
Posted in General on Mar 27th, 2009 No Comments »
When we moved into our new house in August of 2008, I was in a hurry to get my servers and network back up so I tried putting everything in one closet. This turned out to be a bad idea because I have been fighting heat problems ever since. Mike, a friend from work, offered [...]
Posted in General on Jan 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Some of you may have noticed (probably not many) that my blog and other websites have been down since after New Years. I had to upgrade my servers to Windows Essential Business Server 2008. Like any major upgrade, it was difficult. Since I have never used this product before, there was a learning curve thrown [...]
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 [...]
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