I just heard Kristh Lee Cook’s new single, and boy does she not sound the same as her American Idol time. Can you say “sound machine”. She came in 7th yet RCA gave her a record deal as the show was ending…
Well I guess good for her, I just wonder what I would sound like with effect processers?
I got the idea from a friend to post every Christmas and then look back a few years later to see what I was doing, so here goes the first post of many years to come. This was the first Christmas Eve I was not with my family. I also messed up times with church so I didn’t make it to Midnight Mass. Weather was crazy bad up to this day. It rained and snowed today. (Thats Michigan for you) I watch a salt truck not make it up a hill by my house. That kept me entertained as he smoked his tires and backed down the hill.
With the new TV and Windows Home Server, I had Christmas come early, so I didn’t ask for anything this year. We’ll see if Santa Brings anything.
Mario was Festive this year. (Santa Claws)
Look for another Christmas post, December 25, 2009 
Sitting at home…doing work….4 ft drift in front of garage…too lazy to shovel right now…. getting more work done here than being stressed driving…
Now i’m like chouse…..but I bet I’m doing more work
Carl, How you liking the snow today ?
The server went together without a hitch. Of course I ran into the stupid issue of being cheap on the case so I had to buy a adapter for 3.5 to 5.25.
(for some reason I’m missing the photo of the rail)
Then the power supply opened like an IPOD. The thing had a cloth bag around it…what’s up with that?
Another nice feature was a special adapter to plug all the HD LED , PW Switch, reset switch, ect into. You can see it’s white colored at the bottom of the Mother Board in this shot.
So we have all 2.5 TB loaded in. SATA DVD. Everything worked fine. I had to manual install the network drivers. That was the only hiccup in the install. I ended up getting a gigabit switch for the system to help with seep too.
So Far I really like the OS. Its simple. The key is JUST DON"T TOUCH IT. Now that they’ve come out with service packs and what not it runs pretty smooth. We’ll see how it goes over time. I think the next install I’ll use RAID on the system drive and leave the rest of the drives using Microsoft Extend. Its nice just being able to add another Terra Byte to the pool and not having to worry about drive letters. The server load balances everything nice too. So far 60 gigs up and about another 500 to go tonight.
Thats its for now. I’ll post more after I have it up and running for a bit. So far so good. I like it.
I wanted to share a multi part post about building a computer that backs up all your photo, music, files. It will store at least 2 copies of everything so if one hard drive fails, then I’ll have a second copy of it backed up. Not only will it back up files, it will make a nightly backup of my laptop so when its hard drive dies, I’ll be able to restore it very easily.
This can be all done with Windows Home Server. There are tons and tons of reasons why I’ve chosen this over RAID. If your interested throw me some comments and I’ll get back to you.
You can either buy a pre-built server, or build the parts. When you build it, you’ll end up getting much much more bang for your buck!!!
Here’s a list of what I got
Total price with Shipping:$418.53
- Rebates ($65)
TOTAL $353.53
2TB add on will cost me another $194.00
If you’re like me you already have a case laying around so that’s not needed unless you want to create some hot-swap thing.As soon as the parts come in I’ll get to Part 1, the actual setup.
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