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Aug

19

SharePoint Server 2007

Filed Under Administration, Work

In my previous jobs, we have used SharePoint Server randomly at some point here or there. The product boasts that it is “a suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing.” To be honest, it has been quite useful as a document repository. Other than that, it’s pretty difficult for a small business to make use of a lot of the other features.

Over the last couple of weeks I have been setting up a new SharePoint server for my most recent company that I am working with. I took a little bit more time with this install than I did with our previous ones and actually set up several sub-sites in advance. I am hoping that this site will be utilized well, but only time will tell.

About this Post: August 19, 2008
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Aug

16

Doctor Who: Season 2

Filed Under Entertainment, Television

Doctor WHoA few weeks ago I caught one of those afternoon marathons of Doctor Who (2005) on the Sci-Fi channel. I was able to catch a small episode streak of about 4 episodes. The show was good enough to catch my eye to the point that I picked up Season 1 of Doctor Who last weekend.

The more I watched of Season 1 the more I really liked Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor. By the time the season was towards the end, I was not sure I would even like Season 2 anymore! However, they did a good job wrapping up Season 1 with the transition to the newest Doctor, and Season 2 turned out to be very good.

This afternoon Sonja and I wrapped up our viewing of Season 2 of the series. I have to admit, seeing the show from the beginning made a few scenes make a lot more sense, although overall nearly any episode can be watched pretty easily without seeing any previous episodes. Season 2 was a lot more sad than Season 1 though.

This week I may need to pick up Season 3. If we time this out right, it might work out perfectly as I heard Season 4 is to be released in September of this year.

About this Post: August 16, 2008
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Aug

13

Potential WHS Parts List: Continued

Filed Under Computers, Home Server

In reference to my previous post about a potential Windows Home Server build, here is my current parts list I am looking at:

In an effort to keep my costs down, I am electing to temporarily use one of my spare Power Supply’s until a later point when I would wish to upgrade.

I had also considered switching to a standard Intel Pentium 2.2GHz dual-core, but I do not think there is much merit in leaving the Core2 product line to save $40.

In sad news, yesterday the 750GB hard drive I wanted was $10 off, I should have bought it right away. It is back up to 110$ again today.

Also, if you are wondering why I have such an expensive motherboard, it is the 8 sata ports. A 4-port SATAII Controller Card is $59.99. So, in essence, it is like buying a $70 (129.99-59.99) motherboard with a 4-port controller card. Since I already know I will need the extra ports initially, it saves me both money and expansion ports on the motherboard for later.

It looks like I over-estimated the capabilities of the Antec Nine Hundred case. I assumed the drive-bays in the front were all functional drive bays. It appears this is not the case, and I will be unable to use them for the 5-in-3 SATA Back Planes like I wanted. This limits me to 9 drives instead of 15. Considering I am starting with 5 drives, and that will be near 100% full, this leaves me an undesired amount of expandability.

Grand Total for this build: $589.90 $529.95

About this Post: August 13, 2008
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