Scattered Home Backups

I spent some time today ensuring that all of my home machines are being backed up to another home machine for a bit of redundancy. I’ve been a bit too casual with the home stuff lately — and considering that most of my gear is someone else’s trash or “upgrade left-overs” that’s just no

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Lots of news and releases

I’ve been swamped at work this week and finally have had a couple hours to come up for air and skim some feeds. Wow! Lots of stuff going on this week.

What’s up with Google

Google announced some Docs & Spreadsheets updates today. The main excitement is that folks finally have the ability to

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Sunday Shorts

A list of tidbits from the last week or so.

Omnidrive enhanced their Zoho integration by adding support for Zoho Sheet. Good stuff and some more interesting tidbits listed in that article. I forget, did we ever see anymore on the hopes for a Netvibes widget for Omnidrive?

Speaking of Netvibes, they had their “Coriander

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Windows Home Server Beta

I just received word that I’ve been accepted into the Windows Home Server beta program. Based on what I’ve read, this seems like just the ticket for my family and our needs.

The timing stinks though! I had just talked myself into not needing a server at home anymore. Mostly because the old

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Profile Hell

My lone windows 2003 domain controller died today. The boot/OS/App drive appears to have decided it didn’t want to live anymore. No warning, just dead. Won’t power up, won’t even make a little whine.

Ok fine. I’ve mentioned enough times that 2k3 and Active Directory are rather overkill for the home office.

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