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Windows Home Server

I run Microsoft Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2005 for our home entertainment system. A P3 on Windows XP equipped with Raid-5 500GB storage takes care of the backup requirements for all the important files in the house.

Thus when Windows Home Server was announced, I was definitely interested to join in the beta since it would allow me to run a single box to backup data and have remote access capabilities. Am a bit late (apparently there’s a queue of 25,000!) but have just signed up and awaiting an invite to test Beta 2 of WHS.

 

Windows Home Server Beta 2

Source: Windows Home Server

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OpenDNS

Discovered a nice service for DNS that not only provides a faster DNS lookup but also corrects spelling errors. It even offers anti-phishing at the DNS level!

What is OpenDNS? OpenDNS is a better DNS, free to all. OpenDNS uses its distributed network of DNS servers to speed up your Internet experience, increase reliability, improve security and make DNS smarter for users all over the world.

Source: OpenDNS

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Completed Projects – 85 and counting

Finally managed to compile a list of past projects that I’ve worked on since 1998. Doing this made me realise that 2005 was a really busy year (39 projects/customers) and probably also why it felt like I was working 24 hours a day!

2006 with 20 projects and 2007 (7 projects as of Feb’07) seems like just the right amount. This year should be pretty interesting since I’m managing a small development team of 4 (German, Vietnamese, Singaporeans). Feels quite like a multinational company (super-micro level) at times.

There’s still a couple more things to do for the site, like adding in a few major projects that I’ve handled that would require a bit of write-up and getting screenshots of all the projects (30% complete). Hope to get this done before the end of March.

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Startupping – A Community for Entrepreneurs

Got a heads up on a new blog for Entrepreneur. I did a quick browse and came across an interesting entry with some thoughts from various Internet entrepreneurs on lessons learnt from starting their business. Good read.

Lesson learned – once you decide what it is you are going to do, don’t pursue efforts that distract from the vision. One of the hardest lessons an entrepreneur has to learn is what revenue to turn down.

Source: Startupping – A Community for Entrepreneurs

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