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 [...]
Posted in General on Apr 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Currently, I am hosting my email off of IIS and the Windows Server 2003 POP3 Service. This is rather limited. I have been looking at the Scalix Community Edition server. I am impressed with their product. Of course, there are some really nice features that are in the Small Business Edition that you have to [...]
Posted in General on Jan 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
Yesterday, I had DSL installed at my house. I have been tired with my Insight cable connection. Insight has given all residential users a free upgrade to 10Mbps/1Mbps. Since I am considered a business customer, I didn’t get the upgrade. That made me a little mad. I decided to try DSL. My first impressions are [...]
Posted in General on Aug 28th, 2006 4 Comments »
I bought Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements a couple of weeks ago. I was playing around with Elements by making our trip to STL with the Johnson’s a DVD. It is a really cool and versatile application. The biggest feature for me right now is that you can have full motion DVD menus. You can [...]
Posted in General on Aug 25th, 2006 3 Comments »
Eric and I have diagramed our network in Visio. Our one big network was made possible because of DD-WRT an open source firmware for Linksys access points. Our jouney can be read about here. Click on the images to view the full size images. The next project is to install Asterisk (an open source PBX) [...]
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