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Installing Windows Home Server

Its a long weekend this week and I thought I would finally get some time to install Windows Home Server on the home central storage server (Sun). Unfortunately, I hadn’t realised that the Cremax 3HDD enclosure had a problem with the 3rd channel and this caused the RAID-5 array to go CRITICAL! Gave me a scare and being a little silly, I rushed down to SLS to get a replacement 250GB hdd.

Upon getting back, I found out that directly connecting the IDE cable from the Promise Fastrack SX4000 to the 3rd hdd solved the issue. Good thing hdd are cheap nowadays so shall reserve the new drive for the MCE box which seem to be developing some problems.

Anyway, burnt the Beta 2 dvd of WHS and popped it into SUN and guess what? SUN has 2 x PC133 256MB ram in the slots but ONLY DIMM2 works! The AZZA U601BS Mainboard with P3 CPU now has 256MB instead! Sigh, I guess I’ll need to look into getting a new motherboard for this setup to work.

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TeamViewer Products

Just saw this over at LifeHacker and looks interesting. Have been using LogMeIn but still trying to find something that’s light-weight enough to ask a customer to install for remote desktop support. Shall give it a whirl later.

Desktop sharing has never been easier: With TeamViewer you will be able to connect to the desktop of a partner anywhere on the Internet.

Source: TeamViewer Products

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Application Virtualization with Microsoft SoftGrid (MSDN Connections 29th March 2007)

Attended last night’s Microsoft MSDN Connection and was rather amazed at the last session when Joeie Oon started his demo of application virtualization using SoftGrid. I’ve been using Virtual PC for most of development work as it helps especially with testing and development scenarios. But I think SoftGrid as a deployment solution for software that we develop could be pretty interesting? No more complaints about incompatibilities with different components etc since the applications are isolated. Also, licensing issues could be resolved since access seems tied to Active Directory. Very cool demo! Apparently the server is free? and each client agent at a fixed price.

Catch more from these links:

http://devs.sg/events/msdnce/29mar07/index.htm

http://www.softricity.com/

Chewy also did a quick demo of Windows Home Server which reminded me I’ll need to burn the copy of Windows Home Server sitting in the download folder and do an installation on the server box.

Chewy’s blog

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You have been approved to be in the Windows Home Server Beta program

Greetings from the Windows Home Server Team

You have been approved to be in the Windows Home Server Beta program.

Hoorah! I’ve been a little busy past couple of weeks and didn’t notice the invite till today! (the invite was in my inbox since 9th March!). Looks like my wish of getting into the program got fulfilled. Gotta find a box to try this out soon.

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Jason Langridge’s WebLog – MR Mobile! : Windows Mobile 5.0 vs Windows Mobile 6 comparison document

Was going through my daily rss feeds and noticed that Jason Langridge posted a very detailed comparison on Windows Mobile 5 vs 6. Looks like I’ll need to download the Mobile 6 SDK to give it a whirl.

 

Windows Mobile 5.0 vs Windows Mobile 6 comparison document

Source: Jason Langridge’s WebLog – MR Mobile! : Windows Mobile 5.0 vs Windows Mobile 6 comparison document

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nostalgia :: work :: thirteen23

Being a user of flickr, I’ve been following the apps that tie in to the service. Nostalgia is definitely interesting as it showcases the power of .Net WPF and a web api like Flickr.

Nostalgia allows you to search flickr remotely and create local sets from the photos you discover. It also supports local photo management and synchronizes to your flickr account, allowing you to update your online photos as well.

Source: nostalgia :: work :: thirteen23

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