Posts made in October, 2007

links for 2007-10-23

Levitated | Combinatoric Critters, a computational sketch (tags: monsterid) Don Park’s Daily Habit – Identicon: Third-Party Implementations (tags: monsterid) Sean Kearney’s (CarKnee) Blog (tags:...

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Installing Windows 2008 via USB thumbdrive

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 Since Vista and...

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My New SuperRig (AKA the gaming/media beast)

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...

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There’s a new database option available for PHP, It’s called SQL2005

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...

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Interviewed on HostSearch.com

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...

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