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I’m an ITPro and Welcome to Winter!
Until last year I had spent most of my life living in apartments, condominiums, and warmer climates.  Couple that with my travels and it is not so surprising that I had never really shovelled a driveway before.  Now that I am married and own...
Going Green
Theresa and I bought a new car recently.  It's Green .  To be specific, it is actually a colour called Aloe Green Metallic , which to me sounds like a pretentious way of saying it's green. The car was actually available in one of seven...
A Gotcha to Installing EBS in an Existing Environment
I encountered a problem this week-end that baffled me for a while… Here is the infrastructure, the problem, and the solution. This network diagram is a rough sketch of the relevant portions of the network. At present I have a server (HP DL585 G2) working...
Windows Home Server - How did I ever live without it?
In January last year I was introduced to a new product: Codename Q Server , or what would eventually become Windows Home Server. I joined the beta program, discussed it with other MVPs, but never got around to installing it. Well last week I did, and...
CONTEST! How would YOU do it?
So here I am, sitting at home, planning to plan.  Seeing as so many community members (most of whom are smarter than I am) read my blog, I have a challenge for you all: Help me build my home infrastructure. Here are the materials: ONE monster server...
A Secure, Well-Managed Disaster Zone
I owe a great debt to Microsoft Canada (Damir!) and Hewlett Packard Canada (Laurie!) who came through to supply me with a server for my last two projects.  If you happen to find yourself in the market for a server for a small to mid-sized company...
The end of a long day...
I tend to work a lot of late hours.  I am not entirely sure why, but it probably has to do with the fact that there are fewer distractions about at midnight than there are at noon.  The phone doesn't ring, there's really nowhere to go...
Posted: Jun 24 2008, 01:44 AM by Mitch | with 3 comment(s)
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