A month or so ago I retired my old VMware Server hardware when I brought the new ESXi server online. Since then it had been sitting in the rack, dark and dusty. A shameful thing to do with over a terabyte of storage, right? Sure, the server specs aren’t cutting edge (dual hyper-threaded 3.0
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I can never decide how long to keep server boxes around. For instance, I’m in the process of doing a few production build-outs and have a bunch of boxes stacked up. Typically, once the servers are racked at the data center I’d hide the boxes for a few months and then ultimately pitch ‘em once
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The home server flamed out last week eating its own boot and apps drive. I’ve used that as the starting point of simplifying the home network. No more domain controllers, simple profiles and sharing. My home PC will host the shared printer, music library and such.
However, the server’s death left a (relatively)
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Box.net, the on-line storage folks, announced today that they now have Zoho integration. Apparently they didn’t want to be outdone by the Omnidrive folks!
As I understand it, at the moment this is strictly for documents with the .doc extension. I’ve exchanged some emails with Aaron (presumably one of the two Aaron’s here?)
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