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Archive for April, 2008

My new setup

author Posted by: din100 on date Apr 22nd, 2008 | filed Filed under: general

This my plan , may be not best for home computer but gone give it a go,  Upgrade the  RAM  to 4 gig and set the hard drive on RAID 5 with 3X 500 gig drives and gone install windows 2008 with hyper-V as a base unit on that gone install xp, Vista,  server 2003 and 2008  gone set vista as main pc for me to use every day rest I start as  I need them. I don’t know how good pc for gaming on hyper-V  I don’t think it will be any good but will see

No internet at home

author Posted by: din100 on date Apr 14th, 2008 | filed Filed under: general

Moving house so no internet at home so my updates  to blogs will be limited

Don’t buy Belkin Linkstation pro drives

author Posted by: din100 on date Apr 10th, 2008 | filed Filed under: rant

God the worse network drive ever,  every one I know having trouble with it. I bought 2 and 1 dead.   My work place  bought 8 drives 2 of them are dead now. kind a shows how good they are :(

their older ver of linkststions are great. I still have the 250 gig ones it’s this new ones that having trouble , (which have drive to drive backup and AD integration etc,)  may be they try to do more than what it can do.

Captcha

author Posted by: din100 on date Apr 9th, 2008 | filed Filed under: general

I kind a disable it now It’s causing lot of issue with new WordPress we’ll see how the this blog get along with out it, If the spamming is too much then I will have to enable it

PowerGUI

author Posted by: din100 on date Apr 8th, 2008 | filed Filed under: general

Another cool tool I found to manage exchange 2007 , local system, even active directory  network etc powergui.org it’s giving a power shell a gui interface so can do many things on 1 interface kind a cool give it a try

Swindon Museum of Computing gone be closed :(

author Posted by: din100 on date Apr 3rd, 2008 | filed Filed under: general

I haven’t been their but apparently they gone be closed in a year some thing to do with the university closing the Swindon campus so they have to to move out to some where else  more on zdnet

I have to go and see before it closed down http://www.museum-of-computing.org.uk/