Archive for October, 2007
October 23rd, 2007 | 
Author: Windows 2008 comes only on DVD and today you’d think every computer has a DVD drive by default, unfortunately most servers are ordered without them and that causes a problem obviously. Your choices would be to break the DVD into CD-ROMs (not fun) install over the network (a little more work than I wanted to do) or find another means to get it up. My solution, USB Thumb drive
At home I’ve had a homebuilt P4 3.2GHz desktop for a while now, it’s done me well but new video cards, faster multi-core processors and ofcourse Vista… it was time to build a new box.
Recently Scott Hanselman posted about his new Ultimate Gaming Machine he had built up and I was inspired to build my own super quiet super-rig but couldn’t bring myself to drop the $2500 it was going to cost to build a box just for fun… So what does a cheapskate do?
Posted in Personal News, The Cool Stuff, Windows Media Center | 
Tags: 8800GTS, m8100y, Windows Media Center | 
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Ever since Bill Staples first blogged about the collaborative work Microsoft was doing with Zend to improve PHP stability and performance on IIS, I’ve been giddy as a school girl. Having run a core component of the AppliedI.net infrastructure that makes use of PHP and MySQL on IIS7 and making use of FastCGI and the new Windows CGI friendly DLLs/builds it’s made me even more giddy, PHP simply zips along these days on our windows servers and I can’t wait to move my blog to a box running FastCGI. This week at ZendCon Bill announced some more good news: SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP.
Posted in The Cool Stuff, Web Applications, Web Technologies, Windows Webhosting |
Tags: fastcgi, iis, php, sql2005 |
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I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out here that I was recently interviewed by HostSearch.com. HostSearch is an online hosting magazine that covers just about everything hosting related. You can see the Interview here.
