Monthly Archives: February 2008

Adding Disk to Windows Home Server

One of the benefits of Windows Home Server is the ease at which disk space can be expanded. There’s no need to set up partitions, just pop the drives in and add them to the storage pool. The HP EX475 makes it easy to add disk on the hardware side of things by using [...]

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iPhoto 7.1.3 Released

Apple has released iPhoto 7.1.3. It’s a 16.9MB download through software update on my Intel Macs and a 16.9MB standalone download. This update:
…addresses issues with wire-bound books and cards.

No apparent problems installing it on my iMac or MacBook although don’t use books or cards. No reboot was required.
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Leopard Can Time Travel

Leopard may have a backup solution called Time Machine due to its ability to go back in time, but as the screenshot below shows it can also go into the future.

According to the time stamps it was modified 19 hours before it existed. Actually, the file (a VMware VM) was created at 10PM the day [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #25: WHS Edition

It was a week of Windows and Windows Home Server. I set up the UPS on the WHS. Then I did a factory reset due to some problems I was experiencing. After the factory reset things improved. No more sever power-offs and access from my Macs was problem free. So I then took the [...]

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HP EX475 Windows Home Server Memory Upgrade

HP & Microsoft say that the 512MB of RAM delivered with HP server is enough to deliver 5 media streams at one time. It’s been streaming and copying files fine for me, although there’s rarely even 2 active connections and never more so I can’t say if the 5 streams is reasonable. But when [...]

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Windows Home Server Recovery

I’ve been having sporadic problems with my Windows Home Server for the last week or so. The WHS was powering itself off for no reason and according to the logs it wasn’t a clean shutdown. It’s been sporadic, but happened twice on Saturday.
I was also having connectivity problems from my Macs. These were also [...]

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