This is THE perfect server for a small business, this Dell unit works great and has become excess for our current needs. Comes with CD , Iomega backup 35G tape drive, and 3.5 floppy drive. Does not include keyboard, mouse or monitor. 2.4GHz 512K processer with dual Seagate hard drives totalling 80G....

Since it launched in 1998, Google has become one of the true giants of the Internet. These days, Google has data centers all around the world and hundreds of thousands of servers. The sheer size of Google today makes it very interesting to look back at its humble beginnings as a small research proje...

In my previous post Partition and Disk Management: Part I – Dancing with Diskpart, I mentioned that I prefer to use Microsoft’s DiskPart Command-Line Options as my primary tool. I do this for a number of reasons, As I use WinPE 2.0 boot disks for primary system maintenance it is always at hand, ...

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:-  p2pnet’s surfer yesterday launched the second part of his P2P File sharing series and in it, among other things, he gets down to what to use and what to avoid like the plague. p2pnet reader Robert peppered surfer with questions and as surfer pointed out, R...

This blog discusses the proper way to make a configuration change to a highly available virtual machine in a Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster. I will demonstrate how to add a Pass-through disk to a highly available virtual machine by attaching it to a SCSI Controller. You can also use an IDE con...

Or for the time being, at least. Gates of Vienna can send out mail but we can’t receive any right now. Our ISP is up to its gluteus maximus in catastrophes and cataclysms; only heaven knows when things will be repaired. Here’s the story from the ISP owner/manager, who calls himself the server mo...

Once a month in the managed newsgroups these recap posts are posted.  I love them. And if you are Microsoft partner and don't know what I'm talking about when I say "managed newsgroups" ...shame on you for not using a great resource! Partner Online Technical Support Communitie...

Posted by Soulskill (71% noise) View Skip Ian Lamont writes “Last year, there was a lot of hopeful discussion surrounding an initiative to have the consumer electronics industry standardize their products on a USB-based universal power adapter devised by Green Plug. Eight months later, the eff...

I've been around UNIX and UNIX-Like operating systems for more years than I want to count. I've installed Linux on some rather odd machines, even got Mandrake 7 to load on an IBM Thinkpad without any difficulty. NEVER did I EVER have as much trouble as I did with this last and first go-round since t...

Posted by samzenpus (52% noise) View Skip Hugh Pickens writes “Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is going back to work as chief scientist at Fusion-io, a start-up company that tweaks computers to let them tap vast amounts of storage at very quick rates. In the early days of Apple, Wozniak stood o...